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Cozy Mystery Series that Take Place In: ME


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A Death by Chocolate Mystery Series

Sarah Graves writes the Death by Chocolate Mystery Series which started in January 2018 and is set in Maine. It features Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree and her best friend Ellie who open a waterfront bake shop, The Chocolate Moose. Sarah wrote the Home…

Apron Shop Mystery Series

Elizabeth Penney writes the Apron Shop Mystery Series which is set in Maine and started in December 2019.  Iris Buckley is sew ready for a change. After the death of her beloved grandfather, Iris decides to stay in her Maine hometown…

Bistro at Holiday Bay Mystery Series

Kathi Daley writes the Bistro at Holiday Bay Mystery Series which sstarted in July 2022 and is set in Maine.  It features Shelby Morris who came to Holiday Bay after receiving a huge inheritance from a woman she'd never met…

Blackmoore Sisters Mystery Series

Leighann Dobbs writes the Blackmoore Sisters Romantic Cozy Mystery Series which started in 2013 and is set in Maine. It features four sisters who offer herbal remedies and crystal healing for locals and tourists alike. Add in the mix a sleuthing…

Candy Holliday Series

In the seaside village of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has an idyllic life tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father. She's an amateur sleuth who solves murders. The fourth book in this series, Town in a Pumpkin Bash…

Christmas Tree Farm Mystery Series

Jacqueline Frost writes the Christmas Tree Farm Mystery Series which started in October 2017 and is set in Maine. It features Holly White who works at her family's tree farm.


Darby Farr Mystery Series

Vicki Doudera writes the Darby Farr Mystery series which started in 2010 and takes place on Hurricane Harbor, Maine. It features real estate agent Darby Farrr. Darby moved to California to forget her controlling aunt who raised her after her…

Do-It-Yourself Mystery Series

This series started in 2008 and is set in Maine. Inheriting her aunt’s old Maine cottage has led Avery Baker down a new career path—home renovation. Finding a property’s hidden potential has rewards and challenges—not to mention certain…

Emma Fielding Mystery Series

Dana Cameron writes the Emma Fielding Mystery Series which is set in various states on the East Coast and in England. Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years -- and she'…

Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series

This series is set off the coast of Maine on quaint Cranberry Island. The main character, Natalie Barnes quit her job and sold her house and purchased the Gray Whale Inn. This was an Agatha-nominated series. Each book contains several delicious…

Hayley Powell Food and Cocktail Mysteries

This series started in 2012 and takes place in Bar Harbor, Maine. It features single mom, Hayley Powell. Hayley is the new food writer at the Island Times... the only problem is she's an office manager, not a writer. Hayley needs the money so…

Home Repair is Homicide Series

Amateur sleuth Jacobia Tiptree lives in Eastport, Maine after leaving her job as a financial adviser in New York. She has purchased an old home that needs repair and lives there with her teenage son Sam. Jake, as she is known to her friends, also…

Inn at Holiday Bay Mystery Series

Kathy Daley writes the Inn at Holiday Bay Mystery Series which is set in Maine. After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay…

Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series

Kaitlyn Dunnett aka Kathy Lynn Emerson writes the Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series which started in 2007 and is set in Maine. It features professional Scottish dancer Liss MacCrimmon. Liss suffers a career-ending knee injury and returns to her…

Lobster Shack Mystery Series

Shari Randall writes the Lobster Shack Mystery Series which is set in Maine and started in January 2018. It features Allie Larkin who was living her dream as a ballet dancer when a bad fall put her out of business. Now she’s back home in Mystic…

Lucy Stone Mysteries

Lucy Stone, is a reporter in the fictional town of Tinker’s Cove, Maine, where she lives in an old farmhouse (quite similar to mine on Cape Cod!) with her restoration carpenter husband Bill and four children. These books are holiday-based.


Madeline's Teahouse Series

Leslie Matthews Stansfield writes Madeline's Teahouse Series which started in 2012 and is set in Maine. The series features two sisters who start a teahouse. After the death of their mother, sisters Terry and Karen Sutter, turn their childhood…

Maine Clambake Mystery Series

Barbara Ross writes the Maine Clambake Mystery series which started in September 2013 and takes place in Maine. It features Julia Snowden who returns to her hometown of Busman’s Harbor, Maine to rescue her family’s struggling clambake business.…

Maine Murder Mystery Series

Cornelia Kidd (aka Lea Wait) writes the Maine Murder Mystery Series which started in June 2018 and is set in Maine. It features Anna Winslow, her husband Burt and their teenage son who have deep roots on Quarry Island, Maine. Burt and his brother…

Mainely Murder Mystery Series

Sherry Lynn writes the Mainely Murder Mystery Series which started in April 2023 and is set in Maine.  It features twenty-nine year old Kinsley Clark who is living the dream life she always envisioned for herself. She’s the proud owner of…

Mainely Needlepoint Mystery

Lea Wait writes the Mainely Needlepoint Mystery series which started in January 2015 and is set in Maine. It features Angie Curtis who left Haven Harbor, Maine when she was 18 to escape her mother’s legacy. Now it’s ten years later, her mother’s…

Mara Tusconi Mystery Series

Charlene DAvanzo writes the Mara Tusconi Mystery Series which started in May 2016 and is set in Maine. It features oceanographer Mara Tusconi. In the first book Mara investigates something much hotter than the ocean’s temperature––a potential…

Mooseamuck Island Cozy Mystery Series

Leighann Dobbs writes the Mooseamuck Island Cozy Mystery Series which started in November 2014 and is set in Maine. It features retired police consultants Dominic Benedetti and Claire Watkins who are forced to team up to catch the killer. Too bad…

Raven's Nest Bookstore Mystery Series

Cousins and best friends, Clara and Stephanie Quinn run The Raven's Nest Bookstore, where people go to find their most coveted reads. But they have no idea it's the psychically-gifted Clara who's reading them... Set in Finn's Harbor, Maine,…

Rocky Cove Mystery Series

Summer Prescott writes the Rocky Cove Mystery series - which is set in Maine and started in 2015. It features Divorced caterer Becca Rogers. As she caters some high end events, she finds herself well out of her comfort zone, and well above her…

Second Chance Cat Mystery Series

Sofie Ryan, (aka Darlene Ryan and Sofie Kelly) writes the Second Chance Cat Mystery Series which started in April 2014 and is set in Maine. It features Sarah Grayson who is the happy proprietor of Second Chance, a charming shop in the oceanfront…

Snug Harbor Mystery Series

 Karen MacInerney writes the Snug Harbor Mystery Series which started in June 2020 and is set in Maine.  It features Bookseller and recent divorcée Max Sayers who has risked her life savings to start a fresh chapter with the purchase…

Sunny & Shadow Mystery Series

This series started in May 2012 and takes place in Maine. It features Sunny Coolidge who returns to Maine after leaving her job at a New York City newspaper to take care of her ailing father.


Tea and a Read Mystery Series

Joy Avon writes the Tea and a Read Mystery Series which started in November 2018 and is set in Maine. It features Callie Aspen who returns to her childhood hideout Heart's Harbor, Maine where her great aunt runs Book Tea, a vintage tearoom where…

The Bookstore at Holiday Bay Mystery Series

Kathi Daley writes the The Bookstore at Holiday Bay Mystery Series which started in June 2023 and is set in Maine. It features Lou Prescott whose husband dies and she moves to Holiday Bay, Maine.  She and her rescue cat Toby own a quaint…