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Cozy Mystery Series that Take Place In: OR


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A Bakeshop Mystery Series

Ellie Alexander writes A Bakeshop Mystery series the which started in December 2014 and is set in Oregon. Welcome to Torte—a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the treats are so good that, sometimes, it’s criminal… After graduating from…

By the Book Mysteries Series

Tamara Berry writes the By the Book Mysteries Series which started in May 2022 and is set in Oregon. Bestselling thriller writer Tess Harrow is almost at the end of her rope when she arrives with her teenage daughter at her grandfather's…

Callie Stone Mystery Series

Lisa Fortin writes the Callie Stone Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in Oregon. It features event planner Callie Stone who was fired from her job in New York. She returns to her quirky home town in Oregon. Come visit the quirky…

Cedar Bay Mystery Series

Dianne Harmon writes the Cedar Bay Mystery series which is set in Oregon. It features widower Kelly who owns Kelly's Koffee Shop. Follow Kelly, her boxer dog, Rebel, and her boyfriend, Mike, the county sheriff as they solve murders in the small…

Christmas River Mystery Series

Meg Muldoon writes the Christmas River Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in Oregon. It features pie baker extraordinaire Cinnamon Peters. Cinnamon owns a bakery in the charming town of Christmas River and they celebrate Christmas…

Designer Mystery Series

Kathleen Hering writes the Designer Mystery Series which started in 2012 and is set in Oregon. It features interior designer Laura Howard. In the first book Laura is receiving messages from her husband on her telephone answering machine. It’s his…

Dog Town USA Mystery Series

Meg Muldoon writes the Dog Town USA Mystery Series. It's set in Oregon and started in 2015. It features reporter Freddie Wolf who returns to Dog Mountain, Oregon, to take a job as a reporter for the local newspaper. She left her crime reporter…

Embroidery Mystery Series

This series is set on the Oregon Coast and was started in 2010. It features Marcy Singer who leaves San Francisco with her Irish Wolfhound, Angus to follow her dream of opening an embroidery specialty store on the Oregon Coast called the The…

Georgiana Neverall Series

This series started in 2009 and takes place in Oregon. It features Georgiana who used to own her own computer security business. Now she has moved back home to Oregon and works as an apprentice plumber.


Ground Rules Mystery Series

Emmeline Duncan writes the Ground Rules Mystery Series which started in March 2021 and is set in Oregon.  It features Master barista Sage Caplin is opening a new coffee cart in Portland, Oregon.


Hometown Hardware Mystery Series

Paula Charles writes the Hometown Hardware Mystery Series which started in January 2024 and is set in Oregon. It features recent sexagenarian widow Dawna Carpenter who thought running her own hardware store after the death of…

Kite Shop Mystery Series

Clover Tate writes the Kite Shop Mystery Series which starts in February 2017 and is set in Oregon. It features kite shop owner Emmy Adler. Emmy is finally living her dream. She’s moved to the coastal town of Rock Point, Oregon, and is starting a…

Maya and Sandra Mystery Series

Lee Hollis writes the Maya and Sandra Mystery Series which started in September 2020 and is set in Portland, Oregon.  It features newly elected PTA president Sandra Wallage and private investigator Maya Kendrick.  Together they solve…

Merry Ghost Inn Mystery Series

Kate Kingsbury (aka Doreen Roberts) writes the Merry Ghost Inn Mystery Series which starts in January 2017 and is set in Oregon. It features Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza Harris. They open a B&B together on the Oregon coast and find…

Misty Bay Tea Room Mystery Series

Kate Kingsbury aka Doreen Roberts writes the Misty Bay Tea Room Mystery Series which started in October 2021 and is set in Oregon.  It features Vivian Wainwright who is living her dream. The middle-aged widow owns the Misty Bay Tearoom, a quaint…

Oregon Honeycomb Mystery Series

Nancy Coco (AKA Nancy Parra) writes the Oregon Honeycomb Mystery Series which started in January 2021 and is set in Oregon.  It features Wren Johnson who owns the 'Let It Bee' honey boutique.  It also features her Havana Brown cat,…

Pacific Northwest Mysteries Series

Kate Dyer-Seeley (AKA Ellie Alexander) writes the Pacific Northwest Mysteries series which started in June 2014 and is set in Oregon. Portland, Oregon, is the perfect fit for someone like Meg Reed. It’s a city with a small town feel, where she…

Piney Falls Mystery Series

Joann Keder writes the Piney Falls Mystery Series which is set in Oregon and started in 2020.  Lanie Anders has the perfectly-ordered life. From her half-foam latte to her marketing executive job to the creative writing course she …

Portland Bookmobile Mystery Series

B.B. Cantwell writes the Portland Bookmobile Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in 1990s Portland, Oregon. It features female sleuth and librarian Hester Freelove McGarrigle, her fuzzy Maine Coon cat, and her neighbor, Detective Nate…

Ravenwood Cove Mystery Series

Carolyn L. Dean writes the Ravenwood Cove Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Oregon. It features Amanda Graham who moves from L.A. to Ravenwood Cove, Oregon after she inherited a rundown bed and breakfast, a starving cat, and some…

Rose City Mystery Series

Kate Dyer-Seeley writes the Rose City Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in Oregon. It features Britta Johnston who might be a late bloomer, but after leaving her deadbeat husband and dead-end job, she’s finally pursuing her…

Sadie Sunshine Cozy Mystery Series

Cheryl Zelenka writes the Sadie Sunshine Cozy Mystery Series which started in February 2016 and is set in Oregon. It features retired school teacher Sadie Sunshine lives in Rogue Valley, a small picturesque city in the Pacific Northwest. Her dogs…

Seacliff High Teen Mystery Series

Kathi Daley writes the Seacliff High Teen Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in Oregon. Alyson Prescott moves to Cutters Cove, Oregon, after being placed, along with her mother, in the witness protection program. In her previous life…

Shake Shop Mystery Series

Dana Mentink writes the Shake Shop Mystery Series which started in 2021 and is set in Oregon.  It features recently divorced Trinidad Jones who is finally ready for a fresh start. So when she's left one of her ex's businesses in…

Sweet Fiction Bookshop Mystery Series

Kitt Crowe writes the Sweet Fiction Bookshop Mystery series which started in October 2021 and is set in Oregon. Dissatisfied with corporate life, Lexi and her dog Cookie, return to her hometown Confection, Oregon to mind her parents…

Wayside Bay Mystery Series

Reida Kenzington writes the Wayside Bay Mystery Series which started in 2020 and is set in the Pacific Northwest.  It features Charlie who leads a busy life with her house call dog grooming business, her canine family, and keeping up…

Willow Bay Witches Mystery Series

Samantha Silver writes the Willow Bay Witches Mystery Series which is set in the Oregon. It features veterinarian Angie who is also a witch who can talk to animals! Angie lives In the small town of Willow Bay on the west coast in the house that…

Witch Way Librarian Mystery Series

Angela Sanders (aka Clover Tate) writes the Witch Way Librarian Mystery Series which started in December 2020 and is set in Oregon.  It features Librarian Josie Way who has moved to a small town in Oregon to lay low where discovers…