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Agent to the Paws Mystery Series

E.J. Copperman write the Agent to the Paws Mystery Series which started in August 2017 and is set in New York. It features Kay Powell who is the Agent to the Paws, representing showbiz clients who aren’t exactly people. In fact: they're dogs.


Algonquin Round Table Mystery Series

J.J. Murphy writes the Algonquin Round Table Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in 1920s Manhattan New York. It features Dorothy Parker and a circle of writers who regularly meets for lunch in a hotel dining room. The Algonquin Round…

Avery Ayers Antique Mystery Series

Tracy Gardner writes the Avery Ayers Antique Mystery Series which started in June 2021 and is set in New York. After her parents' deaths, Avery Ayers takes over the family business, Antiquities & Artifacts Appraised, from the…

Bay Island Psychic Mystery Series

Lena Gregory writes the Bay Island Psychic Mystery Series which starts in November 2016 and is set in New York. It features psychic Cass Donovan. Cass left her psychiatric practice in New York City to open up a psychic shop in her hometown on…

Belfast McGrath Mystery Series

Maggie McConnon (aka Maggie Barbieri) writes the Belfast McGrath Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in New York. It features chef Belfast McGrath who has spent the last fifteen years avoiding her big, bustling, brash Irish family.…

Black Cat Bookshop Mystery Series

Ali Brandon aka Anna Gerard aka Diane A.S. Stuckart writes the Black Cat Bookshop Series. This series started in 2011 and is set in New York. It features Darla Pettistone who has just inherited her late aunt's bookstore, Pettistone's Fine Books.…

Book Collectors Mystery Series

Victoria Abbott are mother and daughter authors Mary Jane and Victoria Maffini. Mary Jane Maffini's latest Charlotte Adams book The Busy Woman’s Guide to Murder won the 2012 RT Award for Best Amateur Sleuth. Together they write the Book…

Bread & Batter Mystery Series

Karoline Barrett writes the Bread & Batter Mystery series which started in November 2015 and is set in New York. It features co-owners of Bread and Batter Bakery, Molly Tyler and Olivia Williams. Molly is recently divorced and looking for a…

Brooklyn Murder Mystery Series

Olivia Blacke writes the Brooklyn Murder Mystery Series which started in February 2021 and is set in Brooklyn, New York.  It features Bayou transplant Odessa Dean who has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. So far she's scored a…

Castle Bookshop Mystery Series

Essie Land (aka Erica Chase) writes the Castle Bookshop Mystery Series which is started in March 2019 and is set in New York. It features rookie bookstore owner Shelby Cox who must hit the books to learn the ropes before she loses a killer in the…

Catering Hall Mystery Series

Maria DiRico (aka Ellen Byron) writes the Catering Hall Mystery Series which is set in Queens, NY and started in February 2020. After her philandering husband’s boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens…

Catskill Summer Resort Mystery Series

Vicki Delany writes the Catskill Summer Resort Mystery Series which started in August 2021 and is set in the Catskills in New York in 1953. It’s the summer of 1953, and Elizabeth Grady is settling into Haggerman’s Catskills Resort.…

Celebration Bay Mystery Series

This series started in September 2012 and takes place in New York. It features Liv Montgomery who leaves a busy career as an event planner in New York City to move to a small town-- Celebration Bay, NY on Lake Champlain. She takes a job as event…

Cindy York Mystery Series

Catherine Bruns writes the Cindy York Mystery Series which is set in New York and starts in November 2015. It features struggling real estate agent Cindy York. In the first book Cindy stumbles upon her deceitful co-worker, Tiffany Robert's…

Cobble Cove Mystery Series

Debbie De Louise writes the Cobble Cove Mystery Series which started in 2017 and is set in New York.   It features widowed librarian Alicia Fairmont. After her husband is killed in a hit and run accident, Alicia travels upstate to his hometown of…

Coffee & Cream Café Mystery Series

Lena Gregory writes the Coffee & Cream Café Mystery Series which started in August 2023 and is set in New York.  When twenty-five-year-old Danika Delaney, black sheep of the Delaney clan, returns home to Long Island to take over Jimmie'…

Coffee House Mystery Series

This series is set in Greenwich Village, New York and was started in 2003. It features Clare Cosi. For ten years Clare lived in New Jersey while raising her daughter but now returns to the Village Blend coffeehouse in Greenwich where she worked…

Comfort Food Mystery Series

Christine Wenger writes the Comfort Food Mystery series which started in August 2013 and is set in New York. It features Trixie Matkowski who agrees to take over her aunt’s diner in upstate New York. Trixie is looking forward to the small town…

Cookies & Chance Mystery Series

Catherine Bruns writes the Cookies & Chance Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in New York. It features recently divorced Sally Muccio. Sally had her crosses to bear: a cheating ex-boyfriend, crazy Italian parents, and an…

Courtney Archer Mystery Series

Rosemarie Ross is a pseudonym of multi-published in multi-genres author, Rose Ross Zediker. She writes the Courtney Archer Mystery Series which is set in New York and started in November 2019. It features Courtney Archer who is known for hosting…

Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery Series

Maia Chance writes the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery Series which is set in Prohibition-era New York city. It features 31-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective…

Dog Walker Mystery Series

This delightful paranormal series takes place in Manhattan on the Upper East Side and started in 2009. It features Ellie Englema and Rudy, her Yorkie. She is recently divorced and opens a dog walking business. To her surprise she realizes she can…

Dr. McKenzie Series

Meet the McKenzies. On their farm nestled in upstate Trumansburg, New York, veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife Madeline keep themselves busy looking after a variety of ailing farm animals and pets in poor health. But while they may be able…

Eliza Gordon Mystery Series

Amy Beth Arkawy writes the Eliza Gordon Mystery Series which started in 2011 and is set in New York. It features former soap opera star, Eliza Gordon who has moved to a small town and now owns, Soup Opera, where Eliza Gordon is serving up more…

Fortune Teller Mystery Series

Kari Lee Townsend writes the Fortune Teller Mystery Series which started in 2011 and takes place in New York. It features Sunshine Meadows (Sunny), who is an authentic fortune teller. Sunny is a big city psychic who moves to the quaint town of…

Gaslight Mystery Series

Victoria Thompson is the Edgar(r) Award-nominated author of the Gaslight Mystery series which started in 1999 and is set in turn-of-the-century New York. It features Midwife, Sarah Brandt and Police Detective, Frank Malloy. Sarah is estranged…

Golden Age of Mystery Book Club Series

Marilyn Levinson writes the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club series which started in 2014 and is set in New York. It features Professor Lexie Driscoll has taken on the role of leader of the Golden Age of Mystery book club. In the first book, the…

Greek to Me Mystery Series

Susannah Hardy (AKA Jane Haertel) writes the Greek to Me Mysteries series which started in January 2015 and is set in New York. Georgie Nikolopatos manages the Bonaparte House, a Greek restaurant and historic landmark in beautiful upstate New…

Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery Series

Kathleen Bridge writes the Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery series which started in August 2015 and is set in New York. It features Meg Barrett who found her fiancé still had designs on his ex-wife. Meg decides it is time to refurbish her life…

Hamptons Murder Mystery Series

Carrie Doyle (Carrie Doyle Karasyov) writes the Hamptons Murder Mystery Series which is set in the Hamptons in New York. It features renowned chef and Inn owner Antonia Bingham. In this series Carrie brings readers behind the scenes for an…