Massachusetts
The Abigail Adams Mysteries (Barbara Hamilton) Massachusetts, 1773. The Massachusetts colony is torn between patriots who want independence from British rule and loyalists who support the King. At the center is the educated and beautiful Abigail Adams.
The Andy Gammon Mysteries (Tempa Pagel)
The Angie Prouty Nantucket Mysteries (Miranda Sweet)
The Bellamy Cove Mysteries (Priscilla Baker) Penny Bowden has arrived in Bellamy Cove, a small beach town on the outer edge of Cape Cod. She’s purchased a run-down horse farm – complete with horses and a farm hand – and plans to make her living by offering riding lessons to townsfolk and tourists alike.
The Berkshires Mysteries (Andrea Kress) Massachusetts, 1931. Nurse Aggie Burnside moves to her best friend’s hometown. The small town turns out to be less than a quiet community as Aggie becomes entangled in solving a series of murders.
The Black Sheep Knitting Mysteries (Anne Canadeo) The Black Sheep Knitters—Maggie, Lucy, Dana, Suzanne, and Phoebe—meet once a week without fail, sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips, recipes, and small-town gossip, and creating an intricate, durable pattern of friendship.
The Boston Bobble Yarn Shop Mysteries (Tanya D. Brown) Josephine Washington finds her roommate dead in their apartment and she has to rely on her friends and knitting to keep her sane while they try and figure out who the killer is.
The Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries (Harper Lin)
The Cape Cod Foodie Mysteries (Amy Pershing) Samantha Barnes was always a foodie. And when the Culinary Institute of America came calling, she happily traded in Cape Cod for the Big Apple. But then Sam inherits a house on the Cape and lands a job writing restaurant reviews, so she returns home.
The Capers Book Group Mysteries (Maddie Day) Summer is busy season for Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida’s bicycle shop, nestled in the quaint, seaside hamlet of Westham, Massachusetts.
The Cat Cafe Mysteries (Cate Conte) Maddie James has arrived in Daybreak Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts, eager to settle down and start her own business. When a stray orange tabby pounces into her life, she’s inspired to open a cat café.
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 Charles Bentley Mysteries (Glen Ebisch)
The Chloe Cook Mysteries (Kayla Michelle)
The Claire Rollins Mysteries (J. A. Whiting)
The Cozy Zoo Mysteries (Lisa Shea) Rosalinda Alameda adores zoos. When the “Free Friday” promotion features the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Rosalinda grabs her camera and heads east. A full day amongst lions and tigers is about the best outing she can possibly imagine.
The Dog Lover’s Mysteries (Susan Conant) Holly Winter, a writer and amateur sleuth, and her adopted Alaskan malamute, Rowdy, team up to track down a killer lurking at a dog show
The Dr. Hallie Malone Mysteries (Liz Turner) With World War II just ended, Dr. Hallie Malone is looking forward to a simpler life in her old hometown of Warrenton, MA.
The Duxbridge Mysteries (Annie DeMoranville)
The Emily Dickinson Mysteries (Amanda Flower) Massachusetts, January 1855. Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, investigate the “accidental death” of Willa’s brother, Henry. Viewing it first as a puzzle to piece together, Emily soon realizes that she and Willa are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
The Faith Fairchild Mysteries (Katherine Hall Page)
The Garden Cove Library Mysteries (Penny Brooke) Elly Hockette returns to her hometown of Garden Cove, Massachusetts, just in time to help her librarian grandmother with preparations for the library’s Halloween festivities. Determined to forget her recent past, she spends her free time doing something that always brought her joy—gardening.
The Garden Squad Mysteries (Julia Henry) Post-retirement aches and pains can’t prevent sixty-five-year-old Lilly Jayne from keeping the most manicured garden in Goosebush, Massachusetts. But as a murder mystery blooms in the sleepy New England town, can a green thumb weed out a killer?
The Garlic Farm Mysteries (Gin Jones) Mabel Skinner doesn’t know a stinkin’ thing about garlic farming. She knows how to develop an app and how to code. But when her aunt, Peggy Skinner, dies suddenly, Mabel inherits her Stinkin’ Stuff Farm in western Massachusetts.
The Geeks and Things Mysteries (S. E. Biglow)
The Gourmet Girl Mysteries (Jessica Conant-Park)
The Harriet Rose Mysteries (Eleanor Calder)
The Higgins & Hawke Mysteries (Lee Strauss) Dr. Haley Higgins, the city pathologist’s assistant, and Samantha Hawke, investigative reporter, team together to solve murders in Boston.
The Homer Kelly Mysteries (Jane Langton)
The Irish Bed & Breakfast Mysteries (Lisa Q. Mathews) Single-mom and police chief’s daughter Kate Buckley is all about family. After she receives an urgent text from her younger sister Colleen, she rushes to her Irish-themed hometown of Shamrock, Massachusetts. With two daughters in tow, she’s ready to fight to help her charming but hapless sibling.
The Jane Darrowfield Mysteries (Barbara Ross) After Jane Darrowfield helps a friend with a sticky personal problem, word starts to spread around her bridge club that she’s the go-to girl for situations that need discreet fixing.
The Knitting Mysteries (Mary Kruger)
The Lainie Lovett Mysteries (Judith Arnold)
The Lin Coffin Mysteries (J. A. Whiting)
The Local Foods Mysteries (Edith Maxwell) Just when Cameron Flaherty’s CSA is beginning to flourish, thanks to a colorful group of subscribers led by Lucinda DaSilva, an enthusiastic volunteer who’s vowed to eat nothing but locally produced food for one year, murder threatens to spoil her success.
The Louisa May Alcott Mysteries (Anna Maclean)
The Lucy St. Elmo Antiques Mysteries (Mary Moody)
The Mackenzie & Mackenzie PI Mysteries (Jennifer L. Hart) Mackenzie Elizabeth Taylor inherits half of an apartment building in Boston from her uncle Al, along with his P.I. business. So what if she doesn’t know the first thing about investigation? Her daughter, Mac the computer whiz, has her back.
The Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries (Philip R. Craig)
The Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries (Cynthia Riggs)
The Massachusetts Mysteries (Andrea Kress) Boston, 1933. Amanda Burnside yearns for more. But she wasn’t expecting a stroll on Boston Common with her beau to end with the discovery of a dead body.
The Murder on the Vine Mysteries (Krista Lockheart) Heather Moore, and her charming chihuahua, Anthurium, aka “Ant” live in a massive estate with expansive gardens and is the director of the horticultural department at the prestigious Shellesby College.
The Nantucket Candle Maker Mysteries (Christin Brecher)
The Orchard Mysteries (Sheila Connolly)
The Paxton Park Mysteries (J. A. Whiting)
The Periodic Table Mysteries (Camille Minichino) Meet retired physicist Gloria Lamerino, an intrepid sleuth who signs on as a consultant with the Revere, Massachusetts police department. Gloria uncovers scientific fraud, solves a murder, and engages in her first physical combat, all in the same week.
The Peter Shandy Mysteries (Charlotte MacLeod) Each December, the faculty of Balaclava Agricultural College goes wild with holiday decorations. The entire campus glitters with Christmas lights, save for one dark spot: the home of professor Peter Shandy.
The Postmistress Mysteries (Jean Flowers)
The Professor Sophie Knowles Mysteries (Ada Madison) Dr. Sophie Knowles teaches math at Henley College in Massachusetts, but when a colleague turns up dead, it’s up to her to find the killer before someone else gets subtracted.
The Provincetown Mysteries (Cynthia Gallant-Simpson) When a late-spring snowfall buries the little seaside village of Provincetown and the town curmudgeon is found dead at the foot of the world-famous Pilgrim Monument, the police are sure he committed suicide. But British newcomer, innkeeper and avid reader of cozies Liz Ogilvie-Smyth thinks otherwise.
The Provincetown Mysteries (Jeannette de Beauvoir)
The Rabbi Small Mysteries (Harry Kemelman)
The Salem B&B Mysteries (Traci Wilton) Charlene Morris knew Salem, Massachusetts had a spooky reputation. But when she decided to open her B&B there, she expected guests—not ghosts.
The Salem Massachusetts Mysteries (Lisa Shea) Kathy Taylor had weathered eight rough years as a black female police officer in Boston – but enough was enough. She moved up north and set up shop as a private investigator in historic Salem, Massachusetts. Now she’s surrounded by Wiccans and herbalists, by crystal shops and psychic pizza-deliverymen.
The Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mysteries (Charlotte MacLeod) Sarah Kelling’s Great-Uncle Frederick has passed, and in his will, he demands to be buried inside the ancient family tomb at Boston Common, which hasn’t admitted a new member in over a century.
The Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mysteries (Sherry Harris) Starting over at 38 isn’t easy, but that’s what Sarah Winston faces when her husband runs off with a 19-year-old. Sarah’s self-prescribed therapy involves hitting all the garage sales in her town of Ellington, Massachusetts. If only she could turn bargain hunting into a full-time career.
The Seaside Ice Cream Shop Mysteries (Angela K. Ryan) Anna McBride needed a change, so she closed her counseling practice in Boston to embark on a new adventure as an ice cream shop owner.
The Seaside Knitters Mysteries (Sally Goldenbaum)
The Seaside Knitters Society Mysteries (Sally Goldenbaum)
The Shipwreck Cafe Mysteries (Donna Walo Clancy)
The Shipwreck Point Mysteries (Elise M. Stone)
The Sundae Afternoon Mysteries (Gretchen Allen) Life isn’t always ice cream and sunshine in the quaint and picturesque town of Heritage, Massachusetts. Sundae Afternoon ice cream shop manager, and inquisitive amateur sleuth, Yvette Lockhart, is responsible for dishing up some of the sweetest treats in town.
The Sutton Massachusetts Mysteries (Lisa Shea)
The Sweeney St. George Mysteries (Sarah Stewart Taylor) Sweeney St. George is an art historian in Boston with a special interest in the art of death.
The Sweet Cove Mysteries (J. A. Whiting) Angie Roseland runs The Sweet Dreams Bake Shop in the seacoast town of Sweet Cove, Massachusetts. The building’s new owners are not renewing the bake shop’s lease and Angie is running out of time to find a new location.
The Torrey Tunet Mysteries (Dicey Deere)
The Wishcraft Mysteries (Heather Blake)
The Witch City Mysteries (Carol J. Perry) Lee Barrett has returned to Salem, Massachusetts—where her beloved Aunt Ibby still lives—to interview for a job as a reporter at WICH-TV. But the only opening is for a call-in psychic to host the late night horror movies.