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The Abigail Dixon Mysteries (Nancy Warren) Paris, 1925. Women’s pages reporter Abigail Dixon is seeking her big break in hard news. When the dowdy reporter is sent to interview a famous fashion designer she wonders if she’s made a terrible mistake.
The Agatha Bright Mysteries (Elise Sax)
The Allie Cobb Mysteries (J. C. Kenney) Allie Cobb left home for the literary circles of Manhattan to make her name out from under the shadow of her legendary father. Now his death brings her and her rescue cat Ursula back to the southern Indiana town of Rushing Creek, population: 3,216.
The Amy Kate Mysteries (Bonita Y. McCoy) Book shop owner, Amy Kate Anderson, thought she was having the worse day ever … until they wheeled a body out of the coffee shop next door and her friend, Matt Murphy, co-owner of the Beans and Leaves, became the number one suspect for the DA.
The Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mysteries (Lois Winston) Anastasia is crafts editor at American Woman magazine when she discovers a dead body glued to her desk chair, and Anastasia becomes the prime suspect. Now she’s in a race to find the killer, not only to clear her name but before he strikes again.
The Angie Prouty Nantucket Mysteries (Miranda Sweet)
The Annie Ryan Mysteries (Marianne Spitzer) Annie Ryan was born and raised in the quaint town of Heavenly Corners. She owns the local bookstore and is an upstanding and civic-minded resident. A widow with a daughter away at college for the first time gives Annie time to relax and enjoy life on the lake she dearly loves.
The Antique Bookshop Mysteries (Laura Gail Black)
The Antiques & Collectibles Mysteries (Ellery Adams) In the world of antiques and collectibles, it helps to have a sharp eye for quality, a good ear for gossip, and a nose for murder. The Antiques & Collectibles Mysteries are co-written by Ellery Adams and Parker Riggs.
The Aretha Moon Mysteries (Linda Ross)
The Aunt Alice’s Bookshop Mysteries (Julie Ecker)
The Aurora North Exposé Mysteries (Jordaina Sydney Robinson) When Aurora North’s editor asks her to check out an alleged vampire attack, Aurora is absolutely certain it’s nothing but a stunt for the university theatre production of Dracula… until she discovers a dead body with vampire-fang-like puncture wounds.
The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries (Charlaine Harris)
The Avery Shaw Mysteries (Amanda M. Lee) Avery Shaw, reporter, is hot on the trail of the latest story, even if it means tangling with her hot ex-boyfriend — the county sheriff — and the equally hot, if slightly shadier pawnshop owner down the street. Getting the story is going to be totally worth it — if Avery can survive the week.
The Back Room Bookstore Mysteries (Susan Harper)
The Bad Luck Cat Mysteries (Kay Finch) Sabrina Tate, aspiring mystery author, has never been the superstitious type. Still, when she moves to Texas to write her first novel and help her Aunt Rowe manage her vacation rental business, Sabrina can’t avoid listening to the rumors that a local black cat is a jinx.
The Beach Reads Mysteries (Maggie Blackburn) When Summer Merriweather’s mother, Hildy, dies from an apparent heart attack, Summer returns to North Carolina for the funeral. She is impatient to settle the estate, sell her mom’s bookstore, and go home.
The Beachside Books Mysteries (Paula Lester) When Paige Murphy’s beloved aunt falls ill, she must leave Italy behind and fly back home to Texas. In a blink, she finds herself with a failing beachside bookstore and jealous cousins out to get her. As if that wasn’t enough, buried treasure and hidden secrets could prove to be deadly!
The Bewitching Books Mysteries (Sherry Soule)
The Beyond the Page Bookstore Mysteries (Lauren Elliott) After an unexpected inheritance from a great aunt, Addie Greyborne has moved to Greyborne Harbor, a small New England town founded by her ancestors back in colonial times. Best of all, her aunt also left her countless first editions and other treasures—providing an inventory to start her own store.
The Bibliophile Mysteries (Kate Carlisle) Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch.
The Big Mike Mysteries (Garrison Allen) Penelope Warren and Big Mike, the cat who presides over the Mycroft & Co. bookstore, discover the dead body of Louise Fletcher on their doorstep, and they search for a cunning killer with nine lives.
The Black Cat Bookshop Mysteries (Ali Brandon) Darla Pettistone left Texas for New York after unexpectedly inheriting her Great-Aunt Dee’s Brooklyn bookstore. She didn’t know that the store’s mascot—Hamlet, an oversize black cat with a personality to match—was also part of the deal. And he may be more trouble than Darla bargained for…
The Bobwhite Mountain Mysteries (Jamie Rutland Gillespie)
The Book & Mug Mysteries (Michelle L. Levigne) Saundra Bailey has a rough few first days after moving to Cadburn Township to be the new children’s librarian. As Saundra settles into her new job and home, she learns about the political and social feuds and alliances in town.
The Book Store Mysteries (Lucinda Race) In a small town like Pembroke Cove, Maine, everyone has something to hide. But when bookstore owner Lily Michaels hits her head, and her cat Milo starts talking to her, she discovers she has something to hide, too. She’s a witch, and Milo is her familiar.
The Bookbinding Mysteries (Harper Kincaid) Quinn Victoria Caine is back in her quirky town of Vienna, Virginia, starting her new life as a bookbinder in her family-owned, charm-for-days bookshop, Prose & Scones. With her trusty German Shephard, RBG—‘Ruff Barker’ Ginsburg—by her side, what can go wrong?
The Bookish Adventures in Witch-Lit (Rachael Stapleton) Bohemian Lake’s bookstore regularly spotlights a 19th-century author. This month it just happens to be a duo—the Brothers Grimm—and the Gaslamp Literary adventure book club is off to explore the medieval magic of the Black Forest in South Western Germany.
The Bookmobile Mysteries (Nora Page) Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins won’t be shushed when an upstart young mayor threatens to permanently shelve her tiny town’s storm-damaged library. She takes to her bookmobile, Words on Wheels, to collect allies and rally library support throughout Catalpa Springs, Georgia.
The Bookmobile Cat Mysteries (Laurie Cass) With the help of her rescue cat, Eddie, librarian Minnie Hamilton is driving a bookmobile based in the resort town of Chilson, Michigan. Minnie and Eddie’s first day visiting readers around the county seems to pass without trouble—until Eddie darts outside at the last stop and leads her to the body of a local man who’s reached his final chapter.
The Books & Biscuits Mysteries (Abby Collette) When Koby Hill and Keaton Rutledge were orphaned at age two, they were separated, but their unbreakable connection lingered. Years later, they decide to make up for lost time by opening up a well-stocked bookstore and cozy soul-food café, Books & Biscuits.
The Books by the Bay Mysteries (Ellery Adams) Ever since Olivia Limoges came back to town – a return as mysterious as her departure – she has kept to herself, her dog, and her unfinished novel. With a little cajoling from charming writer Camden Ford, she agrees to join the Bayside Book Writers, break her writer’s block, and make a few friends.
The Bookshop Kitties Mysteries (Ruth J. Hartman) When children’s book author, Christy Bailey, receives a call from her aunt Betty to help out at her bookshop, she drops everything to go. Christy packs up her two cats—Milton and Pearl, the stars of her children’s mystery books—and leaves busy Philadelphia for tiny Green Meadow, Indiana.
The Booksmart Witch Mysteries (Constance Barker)
The Bookstore at Holiday Bay Mysteries (Kathi Daley) Lou Prescott, a Minnesota native, finds herself at loose ends after the death of her husband. When her niece decides to sell the quaint seaside bookstore she owns in Holiday Bay Maine, Lou decides to buy it, renovate it, and make it her own.
The Booktown Mysteries (Lorna Barrett) When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial.
The Bourbon Tour Mysteries (Mary Ellis)
The Brimful Coffers Mysteries (Marian Babson) A number of mystery authors, including Lorinda Lucas, call the village of Brimful Coffers home. Occasionally, there is a violent death… for example, the demise of a hapless rat, done in by Lorinda’s two kitties. But when the victims are book critic Plantagenet Sutton and a visiting writer, Lorinda finds the case much more difficult to solve.
The Britton Bay Mysteries (Jody Holford)
The Brooklyn Murder Mysteries (Olivia Blacke) Bayou transplant Odessa Dean has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. She’s scored a rent free apartment and has a new job at Untapped Books & Café. Hand-selling books and craft beers is easy, even walking Huckleberry the shop dog, but making new friends and learning how to ride the subway might take a little extra time.
The Broomsticks & Books Mysteries (Sara Bourgeois) Daphne Alcott and her familiar, Dolly, return home to Shadow Woods after four exciting years at the Havenwood Academy. Her grandmother, Arabella, is excited to receive them and thrilled to finally get some help at the family’s bookstore.
The By the Book Mysteries (Tamara Berry) Bestselling thriller writer Tess Harrow is almost at the end of her rope when she arrives with her teenage daughter at her grandfather’s rustic cabin in the woods. She hopes this will be a time for them to heal and bond after Tess’s recent divorce.
The Calamity Corners Mysteries (Constance Barker) When Nann (that’s with 2 nn’s please) moves to her late Aunt Nancy’s home in Calamity Corners, she wonders why there’s a little pig running amok with a toilet seat in its mouth. But that’s the least of her worries. She has a bookstore to open.
The Cambridge Bookshop Mysteries (Elizabeth Penney)
The Carolyn Neville Mysteries (John Duckworth)
The Castle Bookshop Mysteries (Essie Lang)
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries (Miranda James) Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a rescued Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. He’s returned to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon enough he’s entangled in a real-life thriller.
The Cat Lover’s Mysteries (Susan Conant) The author of a popular series of cat mysteries, Felicity Pride, turns sleuth when she finds a cat and a corpse on her doorstep. She investigates a host of suspects–and potential victims–that range from an avid pet-hater and a highbrow professor to her number-one rival in the field.
The Charming Little Bookshop Mysteries (Andrew Thomas) Ava Charming runs her newly opened bookshop and helps people to understand dangerous secrets, peculiar disappearances, and shocking murders.
The Chocolate Covered Mysteries (Kathy Aarons) Whether it’s to satisfy a craving for chocolate or pick up the hottest new bestseller, the locals in charming West Riverdale, Maryland, are heading to Chocolates and Chapters, where everything sold is to die for…
The Claire Malloy Mysteries (Joan Hess) Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiller–a.k.a. Azalea Twilight–isn’t the kind of book Claire Malloy likes to hock at her bookstore, but Claire agrees to host a book party for her friend’s trashy tale. As torrid as the novel is, it’s nothing compared to the evening.
The Cobble Cove Mysteries (Debbie De Louise)
The Coffee House Sleuths Mysteries (T. Lockhaven) Michael West’s new life in Lana Cove seems perfect. He just purchased an amazing home facing the ocean in a small North Carolina town, and has finally won over the hearts of the locals. And he is finally living his dream, writing his first mystery novel.
The Cookbook Nook Mysteries (Daryl Wood Gerber) Jenna Hart helps her aunt, Vera, open a culinary bookshop and café called The Cookbook Nook.
The Cozy Corgi Mysteries (Mildred Abbott) Winifred “Fred” Page and her corgi, Watson, move to Estes Park to hit the reset button on life. Fred is about to open her dream bookshop, and her challenges are adjusting to small-town life, tourists, and living close to her mother, Phyllis, and hippy stepfather, Barry.
The Crime of Fashion Mysteries (Ellen Byerrum) Home of the helmet hairdo and congressional comb-over, Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of fashion faux pas. If anyone should know, it’s “Crimes of Fashion” columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-clueless.
The Crochet Mysteries (Betty Hechtman) For Molly Pink, the weekly crochet group at Shedd & Royal Books and More was just another event to manage.
The Crystal Beach Mysteries (Karen McSpade) A young writer living in Boston, Sidney Grace is far from the small wacky town of Crystal Beach, Florida, where her spell-happy grandmother retired. She is perfectly happy with her career and her four cats.
The Curious Bookstore Mysteries (Sophie Love)
The Darcy Sweet Mysteries (K. J. Emrick) Darcy Sweet would like to think that she is just an ordinary woman, happy in her life running the Sweet Read bookstore. But she isn’t ordinary. She has a connection to the other side that seems to draw her into mysterious situations more often than not.
The Darkly Southern Mysteries (Tam Lumière) Windsor Ebonwood moves to Darkly Island off the coast of Louisiana, where she’s been bequeathed an unusual bookshop and a charming home on the edge of a dark swamp.
The Deadly Mysteries (Kate Parker) London, 1937. Olivia Denis is the carefree young wife of a Foreign Office dignitary when her world is shattered. Police discover her husband fatally shot near the German embassy and declare it suicide. Olivia knows better.
The Deadly Edits Mysteries (Kaitlyn Dunnett)
Death on Demand (Carolyn Hart) At Annie Laurance’s Death On Demand bookstore, murder most foul suddenly isn’t confined to the well-stocked shelves.
The Dixie Days Mysteries (Christy Breedlove) Sabine has settled into with her constant companion, Dingo, her Australian Shepherd. While living in rural Jaemore County, Georgia writing for the “Everything Southern” Dixie Days magazine, Sabine is able to make new friends and explore her new home.
The Eerie Falls Mysteries (Alyn Troy) Librarian Sammi Cupertino thought her Klutz Curse was the most perilous thing about living in Eerie Falls, Ontario… At least until the annual gathering of the Puffin Rescue Society comes to their town.
The Elinore Dullard Mysteries (Renae Janecek)
The Ellie Baye Mysteries (Christine Roney)
The Elmwood Confidential Mysteries (Janis Thornton)
The Emma Lord Mysteries (Mary Daheim)
The Emma Lord Returns Mysteries (Mary Daheim)
The Enchanting Inquiries Mysteries (Sam Cheever) Naida Griffith, a sorceress, was approached by a group to become Keeper of the Artifacts. A magical librarian. A magically superior cat, a snarky sprite, a naughty hobgoblin, and a talking frog who likes to read the Encyclopedia Magica….
The Fairy Tale Retelling Mysteries (Amorette Anderson) Bridget is a manager at Glitter Cup Cafe, a successful chain of bookstores. The CEO of the chain wants to retire, but he’s not sure that his son, Sebastian, is ready for such responsibility. Sebastian needs to change the way he treats people first. Can Bridget help Sebastian change his attitude?
The Far Wychwood Mysteries (Patricia Harwin) “You’re a librarian, not a detective,” Catherine Penny’s daughter reminds her. But Catherine, suddenly single in her sixties, finds it easy to slip into sleuthing mode when she leaves New York City for a lovely 17th century cottage in the idyllic English village of Far Wychwood.
The First Edition Library Mysteries (Marty Wingate) Hayley Burke has landed a dream job. She is the new curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling’s First Edition library. The library is kept at Middlebank House, a lovely Georgian home in Bath, England.
The Flora Steele Mysteries (Merryn Allingham) Sussex, 1955. When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she finds the body of a young man. Determined to save her beloved bookshop’s reputation and solve the baffling mystery, Flora enlists the help of Jack Carrington: crime writer, recluse and her most reliable customer.
The Food and Wine Club Mysteries (Cat Chandler) Nicki Connors loves living near a town famous for its wine. She keeps busy with her job as a food and wine writer, her good friends, and cooking in her new, gourmet kitchen. Finding a dead body at one of her favorite wineries was definitely not on her “to-do” list!
The Garance Prévost Mysteries (Audrey Woodberry) Garance Prévost is about to leave to join the editorial staff of her local newspaper, when she makes an unfortunate discovery in the garage of her apartment building.
The GhostWriter Mysteries (Mallory Pierce) Brought back from the other side by a séance, Gwendolyn Frink has been roaming the halls of her family’s Victorian house for more than a century. She can’t communicate with the living, she can’t leave the premises, and she can’t stand feeling useless.
The Grace Pointe Mysteries (Meghan Carver) MacKenzie Baker is an impetuous, eavesdropping small-town librarian who lives in the apartment above the parsonage garage and refuses to be defined as the pastor’s single sister. As she turns forty, she suddenly struggles to figure out what more to do with her life.
The Granite Cove Mysteries (Sharon Love Cook)
The Hang Ten Australian Mysteries (Stacey Alabaster) Claire is an up-and-coming movie exec who inherited her grandma’s book store in the quiet beach community of Eden Bay, Australia. Alyson is a surf-bum who embraces the small-town, beach lifestyle.
The Haunted Bookshop Mysteries (Cleo Coyle) The Haunted Bookshop was originally written under the pen name Alice Kimberly, but has since been brought under the pen name Cleo Coyle.
The Haunted Library Mysteries (Allison Brook) Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she’s offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost.
The Haunted Tour Guide Mysteries (Rose Pressey Betancourt) Librarian by day, and ghost tour guide by night, Ripley Van Raden is ready to take on the ghosts following her around and the mysterious residents who show up for more than the tour in the Devil’s Moon Cemetery.
The Hayley Powell Food and Cocktail Mysteries (Lee Hollis)
The Hazel Martin Mysteries (Leighann Dobbs) When mystery novelist Hazel Martin receives a secretive letter from an old friend who suspects her relatives have murderous intentions, she packs her bags and heads to the country.
The Headline Hero Mysteries (Peter Bartram)
The Holiday Hills Witch Mysteries (Carolyn Ridder Aspenson) Abby Odell has a perfect life. She recently rented the most adorable little apartment on top of her favorite bookstore coffee shop on Main Street in Holiday Hills, the charmingest of charming small southern towns.
The Hollywood Headlines Mysteries (Gemma Halliday)
The Ivy Bloom Mysteries (Caryn Thomas Mitchell)
The Jae Lovejoy Mysteries (Lucey Phillips)
The Jaine Austen Mysteries (Laura Levine) Smarmy personals ads. Daring declarations of love. Freelance writer Jaine Austen has penned them all. But no one needs her help more than geeky, gawky Howard Murdoch.
The Jan Christopher Mysteries (Helen Hollick) A series of quick read cosy mysteries set in the 1970s, featuring Library Assistant Jan Christopher and her boyfriend, police detective Laurie Walker.
The Jane Austen Society Mysteries (Elizabeth Blake)
The Jennifer Marsh Mysteries (Judy Fitzwater)
The Jordan Poteet Mysteries (Jeff Abbott) After a few good years of city life, Jordan Poteet returns to his small hometown of Mirabeau, Texas, to work as a librarian.
The Juliet Page Mysteries (Audrey Shine) Juliet has always loved mystery novels, but she never thought she’d be in the middle of one.
The Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries (Helen Cox) It’s a perfectly normal day for Kitt Hartley at her job at the University of the Vale of York library, until Detective Inspector Halloran arrives at her desk to tell her that her best friend, Evie Bowes, is under suspicion of murder.
The Knit & Nibble Mysteries (Peggy Ehrhart) Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in quaint Arborville, New Jersey. Now, she’s trying out a new hobby—solving murders!
The Larkspur Library Mysteries (Leah Dobrinska) Greta Plank, resident librarian in the small, lakeside town of Larkspur, Wisconsin, prefers her rose-tinted glasses extra rosy, thank you very much. Ever since a family tragedy landed her in Larkspur, she’s kept a happy-or-bust outlook.
The Larue Donavan Mysteries (Rose Pressey Betancourt) By day, Larue Donavan is a down-to-earth bookstore owner. By night, she’s a psychic investigator dedicated to helping lost spirits find peace. Dead people won’t leave her alone and Abraham Lincoln thinks he’s in charge of her lovelife.
The Library Lover’s Mysteries (Jenn McKinlay) Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey’s friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children’s book, but Beth’s boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way.
The Lilly Pilly Creek Mysteries (Abbie L. Martin)
The Lizzie Hart Mysteries (Caroline Fardig)
The Lucky Lexie Mysteries (Shanna Swendson) Alexa “Lucky Lexie” Lincoln has always had a nose for news and a knack for being first on the scene whenever there’s a big story. Now her luck seems to have run out.
The Main Street Book Club Mysteries (Amy Lillard)
The Main Street Mysteries (Diane E. Tatum)
The Marjorie Trumaine Mysteries (Larry D. Sweazy) 1964. Life on the North Dakota farm hasn’t always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the bills—which have only gotten worse since the accident that left her husband, Hank, blind and paralyzed.
The Maycroft Mysteries (Lisa B. Thomas)
The Meadowfield Bookshop Mysteries (Agatha Frost)
The Meg Booker Librarian Mysteries (Dale Ivan)
The MenoPaws Mysteries (Morgana Best) When Nell Darling moves to a small Aussie mountain town she decides her life will be purrfect. But life has decided to be no such thing! Nell discovers a body, inherits a gloomy bookstore, and starts to suspect she is losing her mind–all because a local cat, JenniFur, begins stopping by for a chat.
The Midwest Mysteries (Dianne Harman)
The Miss Dimont Mysteries (T. P. Fielden) It’s the late 1950s in Temple Regis, Devon. For holidaymakers it’s a time of breathtaking scenery, picnics on beaches, and flocks of tourists on their summer holidays. But for Miss Judy Dimont, it is all a trifle dull. As a reporter for local rag, The Riviera Express, she needs scandal and intrigue.
The Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet Mysteries (Anita Davison) Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale.
The Molly Brewster Mysteries (Pam Moll) Molly Brewster’s new café bookshop is the go-to spot for strong coffee, flaky pastries, and juicy gossip. But everything changes when the tide washes a dead body up on shore… practically on the shop’s doorstep.
The Monster Hunter Mysteries (Annelise Ryan)
The Most Unusual Mysteries (Katherine Black) Retired librarian and bookshop owner May Morrigan lives in the affluent village of Blackheath with Fletcher, her best friend since they met decades ago, and May’s two dogs. What could be more normal?
The Murder, She Reported Mysteries (Peg Cochran) Manhattan, 1938. Tired of being trapped in the gilded cage of her family’s expectations, Elizabeth Adams has done what no self-respecting socialite would think to do: She’s gotten herself a job.
The Murder-by-Month Mysteries (Jess Lourey) Mira James jumps at the chance for a fresh start in rural Battle Lake. When she immediately lands a librarian job, she wonders if she’s finally made a good life decision.
The Myrtle Beach Mysteries (Caleb Wygal) Myrtle Beach Boardwalk and recently widowed bookstore owner Clark Thomas finds himself somehow getting involved in murder investigations throughout the Grand Strand of South Carolina.
The Mysterious Ink Bookstore Mysteries (Leeann Betts) Margie Hansen, librarian and now bookstore owner, solves mysteries, catches bad guys, and explores the possibility of a romantic interest in a certain cute Edgewater, Colorado police officer.
The Mystery Bookshop (Valerie Burns)
The Mystery Writer’s Mysteries (Becky Clark) Mystery author Charlemagne “Charlee” Russo thinks the twisty plots and peculiar murders in her books are only the product of her imagination―until her agent is found dead exactly as described in Charlee’s new, unpublished manuscript.
The Nikki Bryant Mysteries (Lauren Carr) Folks in the small town of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, claim that where Nikki Bryant goes, trouble is not far behind. Her refusal to back down from a challenge has made Nikki Bryant a top investigative journalist.
The Nora Jones Mysteries (Heather Huffman)
The Old Bookstore Mysteries (Isabella Bassett) Follow Anne, a recent American transplant to the town, and an even more recent employee of the bookstore, on her escapades through picturesque Southern Switzerland while she solves murder mysteries, aided, she suspects but is not quite sure, by the old bookstore and its black cat.
The Open Book Mysteries (Margaret Loudon)
The Ophelia & Abby Mysteries (Shirley Damsgaard) Thirty something Ophelia Jensen wants to live a quiet life as a small town librarian. She’s created a comfortable existence with her kooky, colorful grandmother Abby, and if it were up to her, they could live out their days—along with Ophelia’s dog Lady and cat Queenie—in peace and quiet.
The Outer Banks Bookshop Mysteries (Alicia Bessette) When Callie Padget is laid off from her reporting job, she returns to her hometown of Cattail Island and lands a gig at the local bookstore—the same one where she found comfort after her mother died.
The Pacific Northwest Mysteries (Kate Dyer-Seeley) Portland, Oregon, is the perfect fit for someone like Meg Reed. It’s a city with a small town feel, where she can crash on the couch of her best friend Jill, now that she’s graduated from journalism school.
The Paris Ghost Writer Chronicles (Corinne LaBalme) Ghost-writer Melody Layne is stranded in Paris when the French movie star who hired her to produce his memoir accidentally drowns before the interviews begin.
The Parkwood Mysteries (Jennifer Brown) Hollis Bisbee used to be a big-city crime reporter. Now, she’s a small-town journalist, and she’s bored. She and a young mom, talented baker Daisy Mueller, start the Knock ‘Em Dead podcast – “Where murder and muffins meet!”
The Peach Coast Library Mysteries (Olivia Matthews)
The Peachtree Point Mysteries (J. A. Whiting) Heather Redding is the library director in the seaside town of Peachtree Point, New Hampshire. This series was written by J. A. Whiting and Amanda Diamond, which is a pen name used by several writers collaborating with Whiting.
The Pen & Ink Mysteries (Krista Davis)
The Pies and Pages Mysteries (Carolyn Q. Hunter) Bertha Hannah’s two passions in life are books and piping hot homemade pies, and when an opportunity arises for her to open her own pie and book shop, she jumps in headfirst.
The Portland Bookmobile Mysteries (B. B. Cantwell) Go retro aboard the lumbering magenta bookmobile in 1990s Portland, Oregon.
The Pratford-upon-Avon Bookshop Mysteries (Hannah Clemson) Shakespeare lover, bookshop owner and now amateur sleuth, Beatrice Hathaway finds herself searching for answers to life’s great questions when she accidentally buys a bookshop in England.
The Rare Books Mysteries (Daphne Silver) Rare books librarian Juniper Blume knows this much… an ancient Celtic manuscript shouldn’t be in a Maryland cemetery. But that’s exactly what her brother-in-law claims.
The Raven Hollow Mysteries (Deanne Marcus-Rupert) It’s October, and for the residents of Raven Hollow, Pennsylvania that means the annual town Halloween party. But this year, not all the dead bodies are simply decorations.
The Raven’s Nest Bookstore Mysteries (Allison Kingsley) 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.
The Razzy Cat Mysteries (Courtney McFarlin) Hannah Murphy yearns for a real news story. When a strange migraine results in an unexpected ability to talk to her cat, she’s shocked to discover her feline companion is the best partner to help when she literally trips over a slain body.
The Read Wine Bookstore Mysteries (L. C. Turner)
The Riley Morgan Mysteries (Ryan Hoffman)
The Rooftop Garden Mysteries (Thea Cambert) Blue Valley, Tennessee—a cozy town nestled snugly into the Great Smoky Mountains—buzzes with excitement every October with the return of colorful autumn leaves, chilly air, and the wave of tourists who arrive for the annual Fall Festival.
The Saguaro Bookshop Mysteries (Jenna Hendricks) Maisy Bransky’s life takes an unexpected turn when she inherits a quirky bookshop from her beloved Great-Aunt Jo. The giant saguaro cactus out front named Siggy, shelves filled with rare books, and the possibility of a small coffee shop inside seem like the perfect recipe for a peaceful life. With the help of a rescued Frenchie named Ollie, a mysterious old cowboy, and unexpected allies, Maisy discovers cryptic messages, hidden compartments, and a secret diary that hints at Aunt Jo’s enigmatic past.
The Salem Bookstore Mysteries (Lisa Shea)
The Scottish Bookshop Mysteries (Paige Shelton) Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a safe spot behind a desk that has seen kings and queens, paupers and princes. A book and rare manuscript shop seeks an intelligent investigator to assist the search for things thought lost, and to return items to their rightful owners.
The Scrappy Librarian Mysteries (Marion Moore Hill) Juanita Wills, intrepid (aka nosy) public librarian in the small town of Wyndham, Oklahoma, tries to get to the bottom of a hate crime that takes place in a local church.
The Seabreeze Bookshop Mysteries (Penny Brooke)
The Season of the Witch Mysteries (Shea MacLeod)
The Secondhand Witch Mysteries (Fiona Snyckers)
The Secret, Book, and Scone Society Mysteries (Ellery Adams) Strangers flock to Miracle Springs hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. They find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked “comfort” scone, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book.
The Secrets and Scrabble Mysteries (Josh Lanyon) Ellery Page, aspiring screenwriter, Scrabble champion and guy-with-worst-luck-in-the-world-when-it-comes-to-dating, inherits both a failing bookstore and a falling-down mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate’s Cove on Buck Island, Rhode Island.
The Shelf Indulgence Mysteries (S. E. Babin) Dakota Adair owns Tattered Pages, a bookstore specializing in cool and quirky books. She inherited a grumpy Persian cat named Poppy who loves to make her displeasure known around the store … loudly.
The Snug Harbor Mysteries (Karen MacInerney)
The Sophie Strong Mysteries (Amy Renshaw) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 1912. A notorious woman is murdered, and reporter Sophie Strong stumbles onto the story. Does she have what it takes to find the killer before it’s too late?
The Southern Shenanigans Mysteries (Winnie Reed)
The Spark & Joy Mysteries (Nancy McGovern) Joy Russo and Aurora Sparks have somehow ended up as roommates in the small Upstate New York town of Bent River, and the old adage that says “opposite attract” couldn’t be further from the truth!
The St. Marin’s Mysteries (A. C. F. Bookens) All Harvey Beckett wants to do is read books, help the residents of St. Marin’s find the perfect book for that moment, and snuggle with her hound dog Mayhem.
The Story Tree Mysteries (Lori Woods) Clary St. James is content with her life in Valley Springs and her flourishing bookstore. She’s content, not bored. And if she keeps repeating that to herself, one day it might just be true.
The Sugar & Spice Mysteries (Mary Lee Ashford) When Rosetta Sugarbaker Calloway-aka “Sugar” to friends-has an opportunity to launch a community cookbook business with blue-ribbon baker Dixie Spicer in peaceful St. Ignatius, Iowa, she jumps at the chance.
The Sullivan Sisters Mysteries (Jenna St. James)
The Survivors’ Book Club (Lynn Cahoon) New-age Sedona, Arizona seemed like the perfect place to open up a bookstore devoted to healing. But when a member of a local cancer survivor support book club goes missing, will this group’s sleuthing skills be enough to find her?
The Sweet Fiction Bookshop Mysteries (Kitt Crowe)
The Tabitha Clive Mysteries (Sharon Michaels) When the citizens of her hometown of Kornville, Nebraska, are shocked by a murder, amateur sleuth and part time reporter Tabitha Clive takes it upon herself to investigate.
The Taylor Browning Mysteries (G. G. Collins) Taylor Browning is the new mystery editor at a Santa Fe book publishing house, when the owner turns up dead in his locked office.
The Three Tomes Bookshop Mysteries (Colleen Gleason) At forty-eight, Jacqueline Finch has a nice, easy life: she’s been a librarian for twenty-five years, she doesn’t have a husband, children, or pets, and she’s just coasting along, enjoying her books and a small flower garden now that she’s over the hill.
The Tomes & Tea Mysteries (Karen Rose Smith) Jazzi Swanson has opened her own book and tea shop, providing a variety of literature and flavored beverages for a rural New York community.
The Tori Miracle Mysteries (Valerie S. Malmont) Lickin Creek, Pennsylvania, is light-years from New York City, where Tori Miracle earned her first fifteen minutes of fame as a novelist. Now Tori and her two cats have come to Lickin Creek to visit her friend Alice-Ann.
The Tourist Trap Mysteries (Lynn Cahoon) In the gentle coastal town of South Cove, California, all Jill Gardner wants is to keep her store—Coffee, Books, and More—open and running. So why is she caught up in the business of murder?
The Travel Writer Mysteries (Wendy Meadows) Patricia always viewed the world from the end of her pen. Her feet hop from place to place; her exotic experiences are filling the pages faster than stamps on her passport. Someday, she aspires to land a big-time publishing deal.
The Vampire Book Club Mysteries (Nancy Warren) Quinn Callahan, a practicing witch, suddenly she finds herself thousands of miles away in Ireland, and proprietress of a charming little bookshop. Surely, there’s no chance for a middle aged witch to get into any trouble here….right? Uh……
The Victorian Book Club Mysteries (Callie Hutton) Bath, England, 1890. Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell receives an anonymous letter containing shocking news: her fiancé, Mr. Ronald St. Vincent, has been dabbling in something illegal, which causes her to promptly break their engagement.
The Victorian Bookshop Mysteries (Kate Parker) Georgia Fenchurch is a demure Victorian spinster and part of the secretive investigative group the Archivist Society. She is both a quiet antiquarian bookseller and adventurous hunter of killers and thieves.
The Viola Roberts Mysteries (Shea MacLeod) Successful author Viola Roberts may have a book to write, but she is not about to let anyone get away with murder.
The Wayward Witch Chronicles (Melinda Craig)
The Wicked Witches of the Midwest (Amanda M. Lee) Bay Winchester happens to be present when a body is found in an area corn maze. The police believe the murder may have something to do with the occult. This wouldn’t be a problem for a normal reporter, but since Bay is descended from a well-known line of actual witches, the town is on edge.
The Wine Trail Mysteries (J. C. Eaton) Norrie Ellington is a successful screenwriter living in New York City. She’s also been a silent partner for her family’s winery upstate—until her sister and brother-in-law take a year-long sabbatical.
The Winters Sisters Mysteries (K. G. Croston)
The Witch Way Mysteries (Jane Hinchey)
The Witch Way Librarian Mysteries (Angela M. Sanders) Josie Way loved working among the Library of Congress’s leather-scented stacks—until she uncovered corruption and made herself a target. She moved to Oregon to stay undercover until the case goes to court. But when Josie learns that she’s descended from a long line of witches, life in this little town isn’t as subdued as she expected.
The Witches’ Brew Mysteries (Gretchen Rue) Phoebe Winchester’s beloved aunt Eudora has a taste for adventure—and a knack for making magical tea. It’s even rumored that she just might be a witch. So when Eudora passes away and leaves everything to her niece—her Victorian mansion, her bookshop/tea store, The Earl’s Study, and one very chubby orange cat named Bob—Phoebe gets more than she bargained for.
The Writer for Hire Mysteries (Betty Hechtman) Veronica Blackstone is a writer for hire. Be it love letters, biographies, resumes or wedding vows, Veronica has you covered. Her latest assignment is writing a celebration of life book for the funeral of one-time client Rachel Ross.
The Writer’s Apprentice Mysteries (Julia Buckley)
The Writer’s Retreat Mysteries (Kathi Daley)