Series by State

This new series started in 2012 and takes place in North Carolina. It features Lila Wilkins who is a former newspaper journalist. After losing her job she accepts an internship at A Novel Idea, a thriving literary agency in the utopian town of…

Laura Gail Black writes the Antique Bookshop Mystery Series which started in August 2020 and is set in North Carolina.  It features  Jenna Quinn.  Fleeing some unsavory doings in her hometown of Charlotte, Jenna accepts her uncle's…

Maggie Blackburn (aka Mollie Cox Bryan) writes the Beach Reads Mystery Series which started in July 2020 and is set in North Carolina.  Summer Merriweather's career as a Shakespeare professor hangs by a bookbinder's thread. Academic…

Victoria Gilbert writes the Book Lover's B&B Mystery Series which is set in North Carolina and started in August 2020. Nestled in the historic waterfront town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Chapters Bed-and-…

In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells. Olivia Limoges has returned to the hometown she left as a young girl. She is rich, stunning, suffering from a case of writers block and…

T.C. LoTempio writes the Cat Rescue Mystery Series which started in March 2017 and is set in North Carolina. It features Sydney McCall who left behind an ex-fiancé and a New York advertising job to return home to Deer Park, North Carolina and…

Jessica Beck writes the Classic Diner Mystery series which started in 2012 and is set in North Carolina. It features husband and wife team Greg and Victoria who run The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, along with the rest of…

Lee Mims writes the Cleo Cooper Mystery series which is set in North Carolina and started in 2013. It features geologist, Cleo Cooper. Cleo discovers a large granite deposit. Not only will she be famous for discovering the easternmost deposit in…

Kathryn O'Sullivan writes the Colleen McCabe Mystery Series which started in June 2013 and is set in North Carolina. It features fire chief Colleen McCabe and the Spanish mustangs of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. In the 1st book in this series,…

Mollie Cox Bryan writes the Cora Crafts Mystery Series which started in August 2016 and is set in North Carolina. It features thirty-something blogger Cora Chevalier, who moves to small-town Indigo Gap, North Carolina. It seems like the perfect…

Ruth Moose writes the Dixie Dew Bed & Breakfast series which started in May 2014 and is set in North Carolina. It features Beth McKenzie who attempts to turn an old Southern mansion into a Bed and Breakfast called The Dixie Dew. In the first…

This series takes place in a small town in North Carolina. It features Suzanne Hart who owns a donut shop, Donut Hearts. Suzanne is recently divorced and cashed in her settlement to move back to her hometown and open this shop.

Esme Addison writes the Enchanted Bay Mystery Series which is set in North Carolina and started in July 2020.  Aleksandra Daniels hasn't set foot in the quiet seaside town of Bellamy Bay, North Carolina in over twenty years. Ever…

Molly MacRae writes the Haunted Shell Shop Mystery Series which started in June 2024 and is set in North Carolina.  It features widowed folklorist Maureen Nash who visits a legendary North Carolina barrier island shell shop, and discovers…

Callie Carpenter writes the Home Renovation Mystery Series which started in December 2023 and is set in North Carolina.  It features home renovator Jamie who is recently divorced and receives a run down historic house as her only settlement…

J.A. Whiting and Nell McCarthy write the Hope Herring Mystery Series which started in 2020 and is set in North Carolina.  After unexpectedly losing her husband, Hope Herring and her daughter, Cori, leave their home and move away to start…

Eva Gates writes the Lighthouse Library Mystery series which started in February 2015 and is set in North Carolina. It features ex-Harvard Librarian Lucy who moves to the Outer Banks after her engagement comes to an end. Lucy moves in with her…

Daryl Gerber writes the Literary Dining Mystery Series which started in October 2024 and is set in North Carolina. It features Allie Catt, caterer and personal chef in the beautiful mountain community of Asheville, North Carolina. She has…

Ellen Elizabeth Hunter writes the Magnolia Mystery series which is set in Wilmington, North Carolina and started in 2003. It features historic preservationist Ashley Wilkes and her sister Melanie Wilkes who is a realtor. The author writes, If you…

As Casey, Tim writes the Math Puzzle Mystery Series which started in 2010. It features Math whiz Savannah Stone and Zach, her retired police chief husband. It takes place in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in a small town in North…

Ann B Ross writes the Miss Julia Mystery Series which is set in North Carolina. It features wealthy widow Julia Springer. In the first book Hazel Marie Puckett and her nine-year-old son, Little Lloyd, show up on Julia's doorstep and Miss Julia…

This series started in 2010 and takes place in North Carolina. This is a seaside-set paranormal mystery. It features Dae O'Donnell, a woman with a gift for finding lost things-and the stories behind lost lives. Dae O'Donnell is the mayor of Duck…

Alicia Bessette writes the Outer Banks Bookshop Mystery Series which started in May 2022 and is set in North Carolina.  It features Callie Padget, a former reporter turned bookshop clerk in the Outer Banks. When Callie is laid off…

Ellie Grant (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene) write the Pie in the Sky Mystery series which started in September 2013 and is set in North Carolina. It features Maggie Grady who works in her Aunt Clara's Pie Shop. Maggie is forced to retreat from her…

Melissa Bourbon and Wendy Lyn Watson write the Pippin Lane Hawthorne Mystery Series which is set in Oregon and North Carolina.  Cousins Pippin Lane Hawthorne and Cora Lane live on opposite coasts (Pippin in Devil’s Cove, North…

As Chris, Tim Myers writes the Pizza Mystery Series which started in 2009. It features Eleanor Swift, Owner of Slice of Delight Pizzeria and takes place at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.

Joyce and Jim Lavene write The Retired Witches Spellbook Mystery series which started in December 2014 and is set in North Carolina. Three middle-aged witches who live in Wilmington, North Carolina are ready to retire to Boca Raton, Florida.…

Ellery Adams writes the Secret, Book & Scone Society Series which starts in October 2017 and is set in North Carolina. Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is a place of healing. Strangers flock here hoping the natural hot springs, five-star…

Tim started a new series in 2011. The Slow Cooker Mystery series which takes place in North Carolina. It features Sarah Jacobs and her cat.

The sleepy town of Bradley, North Carolina, might not be as quiet as it seems. Murders happen at a steady rate and octogenarian amateur sleuth Myrtle Clover is determined to solve them before her police chief son.