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Cozy Mystery Series that Take Place In: VA


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Ballroom Dance Mystery Series

Ella Barrick (aka Laura DiSilverio & Lila Dare) writes the Ballroom Dance Mystery Series which started in 2011 and takes place in Alexandria, Virginia. It features Stacy Graysin who is the co-owner of Ballroom Dance Studio... that is until…

Blue Ridge Library Mystery Series

Victoria Gilbert writes the Blue Ridge Library Mystery Series which started in December 2017 and is set in Virginia. It features thirty-something librarian Amy Webber who moves in with her aunt in a quiet, historic mountain town in Virginia. She…

Book Group Mystery Series

Maggie King writes the Book Group Mystery series which started in December 2014 and is set in Virginia. It features 'Murder on Tour' Book Group member Hazel Rose. She never dreamed that the murder mystery book group she and her friend Carlene…

Book Retreat Mystery Series

Ellery Adams writes the Book Retreat Mystery series which started in August 2014 and is set in Virginia. It features Jane Steward who manages the storybook resort of Storyton Hall that caters to book lovers who want to get away from it all. In…

Bookbinding Mystery Series

Harper Kincaid writes the Bookbinding Mystery Series which is set in Virginia and started in May 2020.  Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her quirky town of Vienna, Virginia, starting her new life as a bookbinder in her family-owned,…

Bridal Bouquet Shop Mystery Series

Beverly Allen (aka Barbara Early) writes the Bridal Bouquet Shop Mystery series which started in April 2014 and is set in Virginia. It features co-owner of The Rose in Bloom, Audrey Bloom who creates magnificent flower arrangements for brides to…

Buttermilk Creek Mystery Series

Mollie Cox Bryan writes the Buttermilk Creek Mystery Series which started in September 2019 and is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. It features Brynn MacAlister who takes the gouda with the bad. With her three Red Devon cows, she…

Cumberland Creek Mystery Series

Mollie Cox Bryan writes the Cumberland Creek Mystery Series which started in 2012 and takes place in Virginia. It features ex-investigative journalist and now stay-at-home mom, Annie who also cooks. Annie belongs to the Cumberland Creek Scrapbook…

Custer's Mill Mystery Series

Mary Fulk Larson is... * Mary M. Smith, Ed.D., who enjoyed a thirty-year career as a public school teacher, university professor, and curriculum developer, and now offers her services to community and church organizations; * Tammy Fulk Cullers, M…

Dabbling Detective Mystery Series

Stephen Kaminski writes the Damon Lassard Dabbling Detective Mystery series which started in 2012 and takes place in Virginia. It features Damon Lassard, head of the citizens association who solves murders.


Daphne Martin Cozy Mystery Series

This series was started in 2008 and takes place in Virginia. It features newly divorced Daphne Martin who moves back to her hometown and opens up a cake decorating company, Daphne's Delectable Cakes.


Domestic Diva Series

Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva Series which started in 2008 and takes place in Virginia. It features event planner Sophie Winston. She constantly encounters her rival, lifestyle columnist, TV celebrity Natasha Smith who have been rivals…

Down South Cafe Mystery Series

Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent) writes the Down South Cafe Mystery Series which starts in June 2016 and is set in Virginia. It features aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers. She is ready to open her own café offering old-…

Elizabeth Parker Mystery Series

This series started in 2009 and is set in Virginia. It features young, amateur sleuth Elizabeth Parker who has just broken up with her cheating boyfriend. Elizabeth also loves Jane Austen novels. This series intertwines Jane Austen and Agatha…

Five-Ingredient Mystery Series

Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mystery series which started in November 2014 and is set in Virginia. It features Val Deniston who is haunted by the car accident that ended her career as a cookbook publicist. She trades in the chaos of…

Garden Society Mystery Series

Roanoke, Virginia, is home to some of the country’s most exquisite gardens, and it’s Camellia Harris’ job to promote them. But when an out of towner turns up dead, she discovers there’s no good way to spin murder…


Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series

Gayle Leeson (aka Gayle Trent) writes the Ghostly Fashionista Mystery Series which started in March 2019 and is set in Virginia.  It features Amanda Tucker who is excited about opening her fashion design studio in Shops On Main, a…

Good Buy Girls Mysteries

This series started in April 2012 and is set in Virginia. Maggie Gerber runs the Good Buy Girls, made up of four women who are master shoppers and coupon clippers. That...premise launches an engaging mystery full of humor, a layered plot, and…

Headlines in High Heels Mystery Series

LynDee Walker writes the Headlines in High Heels Mystery series which is set in Richmond, Virginia and started in 2013. It features Crime reporter Nichelle Clarke’s days can flip from macabre to comical with a beep of her police scanner. The…

Hope Street Church Mystery Series

This series started in 2009 and is set in Virginia. It features Cooper Lee who repairs office machines in Richmond, Virginia. Cooper is looking for life's answers after breaking up with her boyfriend of 5 years. She joins a church bible study…

Mall Cop Mystery Series

Mall Cop Mystery Series started in 2011 and set in Virginia. It features security officer and war vet EJ Ferris.


Meg Langslow Series

This is an award-winning New York Times bestselling series which started in 1998 and is set in Virginia. It features blacksmith, Meg Langslow who lives in a small town and is always running into murders. You'll find plenty of quirky plots and…

Midnight Magic Mystery Series

Jennifer Harlow writes the Midnight Magic Mystery series which started in 2013 and is set in Virginia. It features Mona MacGregor who is the manager of the Midnight Magic Shop in Goodnight, VA, and High Priestess of the local coven. On top of…

Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series

This series takes place in a small town in Virginia and centers around a tiger cat (Mrs. Murphy), a Welsh corgi named Tucker and her human companion, Mary Minor Harry Haristeen. Harry is postmistress in her small town and solves murders. This is…

Old Town Antique Mystery Series

Cordy Abbott writes the Old Town Antique Mystery Series which started in November 2022 and is set in Virginia.  Roberto Fratelli, proprietor of the antiques store Waited4You, is the meanest man in Marthasville, Virginia. So when he puts the…

Paws and Claws Mystery Series

Krista Davis writes the Paws and Claws Mystery series which starts in December 2013 and is set in Virginia. It features Holly Miller who returns home to her family-run inn on Wagtail Mountain after receiving a troubling phone call about her…

Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series

Joyce and Jim Lavene write the Pumpkin Patch Mystery Series which started in 2015 and is set in Virginia. It features Richmond attorney Sarah Tucker who returns to sell her family’s abandoned farm in Misty River, Virginia despite unanswered…

Supper Club Series

J.B. Stanely aka Ellery Adams writes the Supper Club Mystery series. James Professor Puff Henry may as well have loser stamped on his forehead. Divorced, overweight, shy, and living at home, he relies on books and his favorite snack -- cheese…

The Sister Jane Foxhunting Mysteries

This series started in 2000 and takes place in Virginia. It features Jane Sister Arnold, an expert hunter and master of foxhounds for the Jefferson Hunt Club. Jane is seventy and now has to plan for her club's future and nominate a joint-master.…

Victoria Town Mystery Series

Mollie Cox Bryan writes the Victoria Town Mystery Series which started in July 2020 and is set in Virginia.  It features Viv Barton and her aunt who run the Sweet Victoria B & B.