Maine
Why is Maine so popular with cozy mystery writers? My guess is that everyone loves the idea of sitting in a warm, cozy house reading and writing and thinking about mysteries.
The Admiral Inn Mysteries (A. J. Alanson)
The Antique Print Mysteries (Lea Wait) Recently widowed Maggie Summer, owner of Shadows Antiques, arrives at the prestigious Rensselaer County Spring Antiques Fair. Unfortunately, a string of deaths among her fellow antiques dealers has everyone looking at each other with suspicious eyes.
The Apple Blossom Bay Mysteries (Molly Maple) When Hannah Hart moves to the small town of Apple Blossom Bay to look after her eccentric aunt, she doesn’t expect the first thing she finds to be a murder.
The Apron Shop Mysteries (Elizabeth Penney) Iris Buckley is sew ready for a change. After the death of her beloved grandfather, Iris decides to stay in her Maine hometown to help out her widowed grandmother, Anne—and bring her online hand-made apron designs to real-time retail life.
The Barbara Dubois Musical Mysteries (S. R. Stevenson)
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 Bistro at Holiday Bay Mysteries (Kathi Daley) Shelby Morris came to Holiday Bay, Maine, after receiving a huge inheritance from a woman she’d never met. When she found out a hangout catering to locals was for sale, she decided to take a chance and invest in her own future.
The Bite-sized Bakery Mysteries (Rosie A. Point)
The Blackmoore Sisters Mysteries (Leighann Dobbs)
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 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 Candy Holliday Mysteries (B. B. Haywood)
The Cheese Shop Mysteries (Ally Roberts) Colby Jackson is supposed to be a reporter. But after losing her job and moving halfway across the country to live with her wealthy half-sister, she finds herself running a cheese shop in a small town on the coast of Maine.
The Christmas Tree Farm Mysteries (Jacqueline Frost) When Holly White’s fiancé cancels their Christmas Eve wedding with less than two weeks to go, Holly heads home with a broken heart. Lucky for her, home in historic Mistletoe, Maine is magical during Christmastime.
The Country Cottage Mysteries (Addison Moore) Bizzy Baker runs the Country Cottage Inn, has the ability to pry into the darkest recesses of both the human and animal mind, and has just stumbled upon a body. Written by Addison Moore and her partner in cozy crime, Bellamy Bloom.
The Country Gift Shop Mysteries (Vivian Conroy)
The Mysteries of Cozy Cove (Virginia K. Bennett)
The Dark And Stormy Night Mysteries (Sara Bourgeois)
The Do-It-Yourself Mysteries (Jennie Bentley)
The Dulcie Chambers Mysteries (Kerry J. Charles)
The Flower of Scotland Mysteries (Juliet MacLeod)
The Freshly Baked Mysteries (Kathleen Suzette) Welcome to Sandy Harbor, Maine a place where everyone knows everyone, as well as everyone else’s business. It’s a small town with a big problem when local businessman Henry Hoffer turns up dead.
The Frosted Misfortunes Mysteries (Lisa Siefert) Ava Decker longs to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning her own bakery. But her hopes crumble when her mean boss turns up dead in the back of the delivery truck Ava was driving.
The Good Harbor Witches Mysteries (J. A. Whiting) Carly Cooper and her sister, Dana, live in the coastal town of Good Harbor, Maine where they belong to a small community quilting club. Only their “community” is a group of witches, warlocks, and a vampire who are terrible at magic. This series is written by J. A. Whiting and Ariel Slick.
The Gray Whale Inn Mysteries (Karen MacInerney)
The Haunted Everly After Mysteries (ReGina Welling) You might not believe in ghosts, but sometimes they believe in you… Everly Dupree is having a bad day. The kick you in the teeth, set your pants on fire, make you question everything kind of bad day.
The Haunted Housekeeping Mysteries (R. A. Muth)
The Hayley Powell Food and Cocktail Mysteries (Lee Hollis)
The Home Repair Is Homicide Mysteries (Sarah Graves)
The Hooked & Cooked Mysteries (Lyndsey Cole)
The Ice Cream Truck Mysteries (Virginia K. Bennett) Katie Thorne decides to give up her apartment and her car in exchange for an ice cream truck.
The Inn at Holiday Bay Mysteries (Kathi Daley) After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus.
The Jams, Jellies and Murder Mysteries (Donna Walo Clancy) Tabitha Moon, the owner of a local shop, Jellies, Jams, and Weddings, is a bit bewildered to find herself smack dab in the middle of a real life mystery when Richard Wells disappears, and she vows to do her best to help solve it.
The Jelly Shop Mysteries (Donna Walo Clancy)
The Lacey Casket Mysteries (R. M. Wild) Dark Haven, Maine, 1957. An impossibly beautiful mannequin stands in the shop window of a boutique bridal shop. A mannequin that looks all too real.
The Libby Foster Mysteries (Ana Bisset)
The Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries (Kaitlyn Dunnett) Liss MacCrimmon was a professional Scottish dancer until a knee injury ended her career. Now she’s back in her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, helping her aunt run a local Scottish emporium.
The Lucy Stone Mysteries (Leslie Meier) As if baking holiday cookies, knitting a sweater for her husband’s gift, and making her daughter’s angel costume for the church pageant weren’t enough things for Lucy Stone’s busy Christmas schedule, she’s also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins.
The Mag and Clara Balefire Mysteries (ReGina Welling) When sister witches Mag and Clara Balefire moved to the sleepy town of Harmony, Maine, to take over leadership of the coven there, they thought they’d have chance at a new life. Fate had other plans. Written by mother and daughter team ReGina Welling and Erin Lynn.
The Magpie Cove Mysteries (C. Farren) Bea Goldfrapp runs her own magical greetings card business in the small town of Magpie Cove, Maine. She lives with her familiar, Widdershins, and a talking magpie that’s lived for a thousand years. Then someone poisons her tea and she dies.
The Maine Clambake Mysteries (Barbara Ross) Summer has come to Busman’s Harbor, Maine, and tourists are lining up for a taste of authentic New England seafood, courtesy of the Snowden Family Clambake Company. But there’s something sinister on the boil this season.
The Maine Murder Mysteries (Cornelia Kidd)
The Mainely Needlepoint Mysteries (Lea Wait) Returning to the quaint coastal town she once called home, Angie Curtis finds her memories aren’t all pleasant ones. She has been called back by her grandmother, Charlotte, who has started her own needlepointing business with a group called Mainely Needlepointers.
The Marshmallow Hollow Mysteries (Dakota Cassidy)
The Mysteries of Moonlight Manor (Molly Fitz) Sydney Coleman has it all—until she doesn’t. Fate turns her world upside down and sends her running to a tiny town in Maine. She hopes to make the best of her fresh start, but the powers that be aren’t quite finished… A series written by Molly Fitz and Trixie Silvertale.
The Moosamuck Island Mysteries (Leighann Dobbs)
Murder She Wrote (Donald Bain) Based on the famous television series, the books were first written by Donald Bain and recently taken over by Jon Land and Terrie Farley Moran.
Murder She Wrote (Jessica Fletcher) Based on the famous television series, the books were first written by Donald Bain and recently taken over by Jon Land and Terrie Farley Moran.
Papa Pacelli’s Pizzeria (Patti Benning) Newly jobless and recently dumped by her fiancé, Eleanora Pacelli moves back to her childhood hometown to take care of her grandmother after her grandfather’s unexpected death.
The Ponderosa Pines Mysteries (ReGina Welling) Nothing bad ever happens in Ponderosa Pines. That’s what anonymous gossip columnist Chloe LaRue and her best friend, town matriarch EV Torrence thought. But then, Luther Plunkett, a handyman with aspirations, raises a stink over building regulations, and promptly turns up dead. Written by mother and daughter team ReGina Welling and Erin Lynn.
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 Rose Hollow Mysteries (E. Z. Pennington)
The Rosie Casket Mysteries (R. M. Wild) When Rosie Casket learns of a mysterious inheritance, she returns home to Dark Haven, a tiny lobster village in Maine.
The Second Chance Cat Mysteries (Sofie Ryan) Sarah Grayson is the happy proprietor of Second Chance, a charming shop in the oceanfront town of North Harbor, Maine. At the shop, she sells used items that she has lovingly refurbished and repurposed. But her favorite pet project so far has been adopting a stray cat she names Elvis.
The Snug Harbor Mysteries (Karen MacInerney)
The Sunny & Shadow Mysteries (Claire Donally)
The Sweetfern Harbor Mysteries (Wendy Meadows) Brenda Sheffield can’t believe her luck when she finds out that the family business, The Sheffield Bed and Breakfast, has been handed down to her upon the death of a relative.
The Tea and a Read Mysteries (Joy Avon)
The Trash to Treasure Mysteries (Donna Walo Clancy)
The Witch of Wickrock Bay Mysteries (Wendy Meadows) In the sleepy tourist town of Wickrock Bay, Maine, Mimi’s artifact and antique shop is a hit with customers far and wide. But when her crotchety next-door cafe owner turns up mysteriously dead, and an artifact from her shop is the murder weapon, Mimi is determined to find the real killer.
The Witches of Crystal Cove (Emma Watts)