Series by State

Barbara Hamilton (aka Barbara Hambly) writes the Abigail Adams Mystery Series which started in 2009 and is set in 1770's Boston. It features Abigail Adams. In the Massachusetts Colony, political upheaval turns murderous...

Tempa Pagel writes the Andy Gammon Mystery Series which started in 2006 and is set in Massachusetts. It features Andy Gammon,a former history teacher and transplanted Detroiter, now living in a New England coastal town with her dyed-in-the-wool…

Lauren Elliott writes the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery Series which started in October 2018 and is set in Massachusetts. It features Addie Greyborne who loved working with rare books at the Boston Public Library. Addie left some painful…

The Black Sheep Knitters — Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne, and Phoebe — meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating an intricate, durable…

Cynthia Gallant Simpson writes the Cape Cod Cozy Mystery series which started in 2011 and takes place in Massachusetts. It features Liz Ogilvie-Smythe, a Provincetown innkeeper and amateur sleuth and James Finneran, newly installed Police Chief…

Amy Pershing writes the Cape Cod Foodie Mystery Series which started in February 2021 and is set in Massachusetts.   It features foodie & Chef Samantha Barnes. Sam inherits her Great-Aunt Ida’s house on the Cape and lands a job writing…

Cate Conte writes the Cat Cafe Mystery Series which is set on an Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts. Maddie James has arrived in Daybreak Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts, eager to settle down and start her own business—and…

JA Whiting writes the Claire Rollins Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Boston, Massachusetts.  It features Claire Rollins who moves to Boston, Massachusetts to start a new life. After living in the city for a year…

Julianne Holmes writes the Clock Shop Mystery series which started in October 2015 and is set in Massachusetts. It features expert clockmaker, Ruth Clagan. After her divorce Ruth moves to the small town of Orchard, MA after she has been named the…

Maddie Day writes the Cozy Capers Book Group Mystery Series which started in December 2019 and is set in Massachusetts. Mac (Mackenzie) Almeida runs a bicycle repair and rental shop in the fictional Cape Cod village of Westham, and also hosts a…

Arlene Kay writes the Creature Comforts Mystery Series which started in March 2019 and is set in Massachusetts. It features army vet Persephone “Perri” Morgan who has big plans, as her custom leather leashes, saddles, and other pet accessories…

The Decoupage Mysteries takes place in a small Massachusetts town. The main character Brenna Miller moves to Morse Point and works at Vintage Papers, a scrap booking store.

Clea Simon writes the Dulcie Schwartz Mystery Series which started in 2009 and is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features graduate student, Dulcie Schwartz and her deceased cat Mr. Grey. Twentysomething Dulcie Schwartz is a doctoral student…

Carol Verburg writes the Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery Series which is set in Yarmouth MA on Cape Cod. It features reclusive artist Edgar Rowdey. In the first book you'll question whether the charming seaside town of Quansett a sanctuary or a…

Auralee Wallace writes the Evenfall Witches B&B Mystery Series which started in October 2021 and is set in Massachusetts.  For four hundred years, the Warren witches have used their magic to quietly help the citizens of the…

It's 1990, and Faith Sibley is a single young woman leading a glamorous life in New York City. She has good friends, a cozy apartment, and her own flourishing catering business, Have Faith. Then, at a catering event, she meets the handsome,…

Julia Henry (aka Julianne Holmes) writes the Garden Squad Mystery series which started in January 2019. It's set in Massachusetts. It features Lilly Jayne and the rest of the Garden Squad who live in the picturesque town of Goosebush where a…

Gin Jones writes the Garlic Farm Mystery Series which is set in Massachusetts and started in April 2020. It features App developer Mabel Skinner who inherits her aunt, Peggy Skinner's garlic farm.

The Gourmet Girl Mystery Series started in 2007 and takes place in Boston, Massachusetts. It features Chloe Carter, food connoisseur, aimless grad student, and resilient survivor of failed romances . . . Chloe Carter is forever on a quest for the…

This series started in 2010 and is set in Massachusetts. It features Rose McNichols who is a reporter for the Granite Cove Gazette. This series gives you a glimpse into a small New England town. There is plenty of humor and interesting characters…

Jenna Mattison writes the Liza Radley Housewife Detective Chronicles which started in 2013 and is set in Boston, Massachusetts. It features housewife turned private eye Liza Radley. She teams up with detective Jack Parella to form the Crimes of…

Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day) writes the Local Foods Mysteries which started in May 2013 and is set in Massachusetts. It features organic farmer Cam Flaherty who has to deal not only with eager locavores but also murder on the farm.

The Lucy St. Elmo Antiques Mystery series takes place in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and started in 2011. It features Lucy St. Elmo who owns an antique shop and uses her amateur sleuth skills to solve murders.

This series takes place in Boston and started in 2010. It features Lucy Valentine who takes over her parents matchmaking business. She comes from a long line of psychics who can see someone's auras and make a match. Lucy was caught in an…

Cynthia Riggs writes the Martha's Vineyard Mystery Series which started in and is set in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. It features amateur sleuth Victoria Trumbull, a feisty ninety-two-year-old who refuses to let the aches and pains of age…

Francine Mathews (aka Stephanie Barron) writes the Merry Folger Nantucket Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Nantucket, MA.  It features thirty-two-year-old detective Merry Folger who is the daughter of the local…

Christin Brecher writes the Nantucket Candle Maker Mystery Series which started in June 2019 and is set on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. Stella Wright, owner of the Wick & Flame candle store on Nantucket Island, is an accidental sleuth…

This series started in 2008 and is set in Massachusetts. When Boston investment banker Meg Corey moves to Granford, Massachusetts, things don't go exactly smoothly. She has left behind a Boston job that was swallowed up in a bank merger, and ex…

Jean Flowers writes the Postmistress Mystery series which starts in November 2015 and is set in Massachusetts. It features Cassie Miller who decides to return to her small hometown in the Berkshires to lick her wounds and live in the house where…

Traci Wilton (aka Patrice Wilton) writes the Salem B&B MysterySeries which started in July 2019 and is set in Massachusetts. Charlene Morris knew Salem, Massachusetts had a spooky reputation…