Series by State

Lois Winston writes the Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery Series which started in 2011 and is set in New Jersey. It features Anastasia Pollack who is recently widowed and left with her husband's gambling debt. She has two teenage sons and a…

Lea Wait writes the Antique Print Mysteries which started in 2002 and takes place in New Jersey. It features recently widowed Maggie Summer who is the owner of Shadow Antiques. Maggie is also a history professor at the local junior college... she…

Phyllis Entis writes the Damien Dickens Mystery series which started in 2015 and is set in New Jersey. It features P.I. Damien Dickens.

Kaitlyn Dunnett writes the Deadly Edits Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in New Jersey. After splurging to buy her childhood home in the Catskills, recently widowed Mikki Lincoln emerges from retirement as a freelance editor. With…

J.D. Griffo writes the Ferrara Family Mystery Series which started in July 2018 and is set in New Jersey. It features Alberta Scaglione whose spinster aunt left her a secret lake house in Tranquility, New Jersey. Alberta, a widow, is no spring…

This series started in 2010 and takes place in New Jersey. It features newly divorced Alison Kerby and her nine-year-old daughter. She is looking for a second chance so she returns to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian…

Rosie Genova writes the Italian Kitchen Mystery series which starts in October 2013 and is set in New Jersey. It features whodunit writer Victoria Rienzi. She is getting back to her roots by working at her family’s Italian restaurant. But in…

Laura Bradford writes the Jenkins & Burns Mystery series which takes place in New Jersey and started in 2005. There are three books in this series and they have now been re-issued under new names as e-books. The series features reporter Elise…

Jo-Ann Recoppa writes the Jersey Girl Cozy Mystery series which is set in New Jersey. It features reporter Colleen Caruso who was just a lowly stringer at her local newspaper until she tripped over a dead body while out on her morning jog. Now…

Elaine L. Orr writes the Jolie Gentil Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in New Jersey. It features real estate appraiser Jolie Gentil who returns to the New Jersey beach town where she spent 11th grade and moves into her Aunt Madge’…

Tina Kashian writes the Kebab Kitchen Mystery Series which started in February 2018 and is set in New Jersey. It features Lucy Berberian who quits her Philadelphia law firm and heads home to Ocean Crest, New Jersey. She knows what she’s getting—…

Peggy Ehrhart writes the Knit & Nibble Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in New Jersey. Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of…

This series started in 2008 and is set in New Jersey. It features recently divorced A.J. Alexander who is a freelance publicist and amateur-sleuth. Her wealthy and beloved Aunt Diantha is found dead and A.J. inherits her eighteen million dollar…

Mary Jane Clark writes the Wedding Cake Mystery Series (Piper Donovan) which started in 2011 and takes place in New Jersey. It features Piper Donovan, a struggling actress and professional Cake decorator in her family's bakery business.

Libby Klein writes the Poppy McAllister Mystery Series which started in January 2018 and is set in New Jersey. It features newly widowed and stuck in a middle-aged funk, Poppy McAllister who has been running on cookies, infomercials, and one-…

Clea Simon writes the Pru Marlowe, Pet Noir Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in the Berkshires in New Jersey. It features Animal Behaviorist and Animal Psychic, Pru Marlowe.

Janet Evanovich writes the Stephanie Plum Mystery series which started in 1995 and is set in New Jersey. It features Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and…

Valerie Horowitz writes the The Village Cooks Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in New Jersey. It features Bonnie Emerson, daughter of a former U.S. president who owns the Village Cooks cookbook/cookware shop.