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Cozy Mystery Series that Take Place In: PA


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Amish Mystery Series

Laura Bradford aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey writes the Amish Mystery Series which started in 2012 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features newly divorced, Amish Specialty shop owner Claire Weatherly. She lives with her aunt Diane who runs Sleep…

Amish Seamstress Mystery Series

Patricia Johns writes the Amish Seamstress Mystery Series which started in December 2023 and is set in Pennsylvania.  It features seamstress Petunia Yoder who is Blueberry, Pennsylvania’s youngest old maid, at twenty-two years of age, and…

Bess Bullock Mystery Series

Allen Boyer writes the Bess Bullock Mystery Series which started in 2011 and takes place in Pennsylvania. It features retired policewoman, 80-year-old Bess Bullock who resides at the Honey Hills Retirement Center. Bess Bullock has every intention…

Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series

The Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series started in 2002 and is set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It features three sisters, Nora, Libby and Emma Blackbird. They are Philadelphia heiresses whose parents have run off with their trust fund. Now they…

Braxton Campus Mystery Series

James J. Cudney writes the Braxton Campus Mystery Series which started in 2018 and is set in Pennsylvania.  It features amateur sleuth, Kellan Ayrwick, an early-thirties single father who solves crimes in his Pennsylvania hometown…

Brewing Trouble Mystery Series

Joyce Tremel writes the Brewing Trouble Mystery Series which starts in December 2015 and is set in Pennsylvania. Set in a Pittsburgh craft brew pub, featuring a brewmaster with a head for sleuthing. The Allegheny Brew House is a dream come true…

Caprice De Luca Mystery Series

Karen Rose Smith writes the Caprice De Luca Mystery series which started in December 2013 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features Interior Decorator and now Home Stager Caprice De Caprice. DeLuca stages houses for high-end clients. This cozy…

Cattarina Mystery Series

Monica Shaughnessy writes the Cattarina Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in Philadelphia in the 1800s. It features Poe's cat, Cattarina. This series is full of Victorian witticisms and rich, historical detail, this cozy novella is…

Cider House Mystery Series

Joyce Tremel writes the Cider House Mystery Series which started in January 2024 and is set in Pennsylvania.  It features Kate whose husband dies in a car accident. She has inherited a fruit orchard in a small town just outside Gettysburg,…

Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery Series

Karen Rose Smith writes the Daisy's Tea Garden Mystery Series which started in December 2017 and is set in Pennsylvania. In an old Victorian in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country, Daisy Swanson and her aunt Iris serve soups, scones, and…

Deadly Notions Mysteries Series

Cate Price writes the Deadly Notions Mysteries series which started in September 2013 and takes place in Pennsylvania. It features retired schoolteacher—and yes, daughter of an F. Scott Fitzgerald fan—Daisy Buchanan. She has finally found her…

Detective Parrott Mystery Series

Saralyn Richard writes the Detective Parrott Mystery Series and is set in Pennsylvania. It features Dectective Oliver Parrott. In the first novel he is called to a country estate the morning after an elaborate birthday party where a murder…

Flamingo Realty Mystery Series

CeeCee James writes the Flamingo Realty Mystery Series which started in December 2018 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features Stella O'Neil, retired FBI agent and Oscar O'Neil's granddaughter. Stella moves from Seatlle to Pennsylvania where she…

Greenhouse Mystery Series

Wendy Tyson writes the Greenhouse Mystery Series which started in 2016 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features Megan Sawyer who gives up her big-city law career to care for her grandmother and run the family’s organic farm and cafe in her scenic…

Italian Restaurant Mystery Series

Shelley Costa writes the Italian Restaurant Mystery Series which started in May 2013 and takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It features thirty-two year old Eve Angelotta who is the head chef at Miracoloher, her family's Italian restaurant…

Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery Series

Bethany Blake writes the Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery Series which is set in Pennsylvania and started in February 2017. It features Pet sitter Daphne Templeton. She has a soft spot for every stray and misfit who wanders into the quaint, lakeside…

Museum Series

Sheila Connolly writes the Museum Mystery Series which is set in Pennsylvania. Eleanor Nell Pratt is the fundraiser for the Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques in Philadelphia.


Owl & Crescent Mystery

 Bethany Blake writes the Owl & Crescent Mystery Series which started in October 2020 and is set in Pennsylvania.  It features Willow Bellamy who has converted an old barn into an art school--though the place…

Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series with Recipes

Tamar Myers writes the Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series with Recipes which started in 1994 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features Amish Magdalena Yoder, prim, proper, and persnickety proprietor of the PennDutch Inn, where guests luxuriate in…

Stamping Sisters Mystery Series

This series is set in Pennsylvania and started in 2008. It features April Buchert, a professional rubber stamper who creates intricate patterns on walls. She is recently divorced and her interior decoration career is crumbling. April returns to…

Style & Error Mystery Series

Diane Vallere writes the Style & Error Mystery series which is set in Pennsylvania and started in 2012. It features Samantha Kidd, ex-buyer turned Trend Specialist. When Samantha Kidd reports for work at her new job as a trend specialist at…

Threadville Mystery Series

Willow Vanderling leaves New York City behind and has joined good friend Haylee in a tour bus destination town Threadville. Nicknamed for the abundance of fiber art and fabric stores, Elderberry Bay, PA, looks like a perfect setting for Willow's…

Wedding Planner Mystery Series

Stephanie Blackmoore writes the Wedding Planner Mystery Series which started in June 2016 and is set in Pennsylvania. It features B&B owner Mallory Shepard. After dumping her cheating fiancé and cancelling the wedding, Mallory Shepard can't…

Zoe Chambers Mystery Series

Annette Dashofy writes the Zoe Chambers Mystery series which started in March 2014 and is set in Pennsylvania. Zoe is a paramedic and deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township and has been privy to a number of local secrets…