New York
The 42nd Street Library Mysteries (Con Lehane) Librarian and reluctant sleuth Raymond Ambler is a doggedly curious fellow who uncovers murderous secrets hidden behind the majestic marble façade of New York City’s landmark 42nd Street Library.
The Abracadabra Mysteries (Sharon Pape)
The Agent to the Paws Mysteries (E. J. Copperman) Kay Powell is the Agent to the Paws, representing showbiz clients who aren’t exactly people. In fact: they’re dogs. You can kill any people you want, but you’d better leave Kay’s clients alone.
The Alice Nestleton Mysteries (Lydia Adamson) Off-Off Broadway actress-turned-sleuth Alice Nestleton is just crazy about cats. Now she’s hoping for a merry little Christmas peacefully cat-sitting at a sprawling Long Island estate, where she expects to be greeted by eight howling Himalayans.
The Bartender Brian McNulty Mysteries (Con Lehane) Brian McNulty, veteran bartender at Oscar’s on the Upper West Side, respects his customers’ privacy. And their space.
The Bay Island Psychic Mysteries (Lena Gregory)
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 Bread and Batter Mysteries (Karoline Barrett)
The Broken Vows Mysteries (Lisa Bork) Jolene Asdale is one sale away from becoming a successful Finger Lakes businesswoman.
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 Brooklyn Murder Mysteries (Carol Graham)
The Buttercup Bend Mysteries (Debbie De Louise)
The Carolyn Neville Mysteries (John Duckworth)
The Casebook of Dr. McKenzie (Claudia Bishop) On their farm nestled in upstate Trumansburg, New York, veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife Madeline keep themselves busy looking after a variety of ailing farm animals and pets in poor health. While they may be able to mend creatures great and small, they have yet to find a cure for murder.
The Castle Bookshop Mysteries (Essie Lang)
The Catering Hall Mysteries (Maria DiRico) After her philandering husband’s boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she’s got a whole new life—including some amateur sleuthing.
The Catskill Summer Resort Mysteries (Vicki Delany) It’s the summer of 1953, and Elizabeth Grady is settling into Haggerman’s Catskills Resort. As a vacation getaway, Haggerman’s is ideal, and although Elizabeth’s well-meaning mother is new to running the resort, Elizabeth is eager to help her organize the guests and the entertainment acts.
The Charlotte Adams Professional Organizer Mysteries (Mary Jane Maffini) Charlotte Adams moves back to her hometown in Upstate New York to make a fresh start as a professional organizer. But she’s about to learn that foul play can creep into even the most well-ordered life.
The Cobble Cove Mysteries (Debbie De Louise)
The Coffee & Cream Café Mysteries (Lena Gregory)
The Coffeehouse Mysteries (Cleo Coyle) Clare Cosi is serving up steaming hot caffeine one cup at a time. With a sprawling rent-free apartment directly above the coffeehouse, her cat Java by her side, and plenty of redecorating ideas, Clare is thrilled to return to work.
The Comfort Food Mysteries (Christine Wenger)
The Cookies & Chance Mysteries (Catherine Bruns)
The Deadly Edits Mysteries (Kaitlyn Dunnett)
The Decoupage Mysteries (Lucy Lawrence) The picturesque town of Morse Point may be a small dot on the New England landscape, but the decoupage class at Vintage Papers is larger than life. With cutouts, glue, and varnish, members create eye-catching projects—and uncover clues to a killing.
The Dog Walker Mysteries (Judi McCoy) Meet Ellie Engleman, psychic dog-walker The newest dog-walker on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has a talent – she can hear what her canine clientele is thinking. So when a dog’s owner turns up dead, Ellie must bone up on her sleuthing, and perk up her ears to find a killer.
The Drury Lane Mysteries (Ellery Queen)
The Eliza Gordon Mysteries (Amy Beth Arkawy)
The Ellie Stone Mysteries (James W. Ziskin) Ellie Stone is a professed modern girl in 1960s’ New York City, playing by her own rules and breaking boundaries while searching for a killer among the renowned scholars at Columbia University.
The Ethel Dinwiddie Mysteries (Linda Pohl) Sunday night bingo at St. Angela’s Church can be deadly. Priscilla Hatfield needs just one number to win! Bursting with excitement when I-17 is called, Priscilla suddenly grabs her chest and slumps over dead.
The Finger Lakes Wine Mysteries (Don Stevens)
The Florence Winters Mysteries (May Bridges) New York City, 1925. Florence Winters is ready to escape small-town Ohio, so when her wealthy Aunt Julia requests Florence’s companionship in New York City, she knows it’s an offer she can’t refuse.
The Garden Witch Mysteries (L. B. Holding)
The Gaslight Mysteries (Victoria Thompson)
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 Glenmyre Whim Mysteries (Sarah E. Burr) Welcome to Crucible, a small town with a storied history. Crucible has been tucked away for centuries under the protection of a shield enchantment. The enchanted barrier is meant to protect Crucible from anything bad ever happening to the town.
The Gourd Craft Mysteries (Maggie Bruce) In lieu of payment for six months’ work, Brooklyn girl Lili Marino was given a cottage in the tiny village of Walden Corners, where she has the time and space to cultivate her love of gourd craft.
The Grace & Favor Mysteries (Jill Churchill) The crash of 1929 has ended the party for high-living New Yorkers Lily Brewster and her brother Robert. Rescue arrives in the form of their recently deceased great-uncle Horatio who bequeaths to them Grace and Favor “Cottage” which is really a great sprawling mansion.
The Grace Holliday Mysteries (Elisabeth Crabtree) It’s Halloween night and the normally unhappy co-workers of the Straker Toy Company are eagerly looking forward to the celebration of their tyrannical boss’ fiftieth birthday.
The Greek to Me Mysteries (Susannah Hardy)
The Hamptons Home & Garden Mysteries (Kathleen Bridge) Meg Barrett decides to leave her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine, and flee to Montauk. In between scouring estate sales for her new interior design business, Meg visits the swanky East Hampton home of her old college roommate.
The Harlem Renaissance Mysteries (Nekesa Afia) Harlem, 1926. Louise spends her days working at Maggie’s Café and her nights at the Zodiac, Harlem’s hottest speakeasy.
The Hemlock Falls Mysteries (Claudia Bishop)
The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries (Stuart Palmer)
The HoneyBun Shop Mysteries (M. E. Harmon) Ali Daniels loves baking sweet goodies for customers in her Manhattan bakery, HoneyBun Sweets and Sandwiches. When she gets an invite for a chance to cater the hottest event in NYC, she can’t resist.
The Imperfect Psychic Mysteries (Ashley King)
The Irina Curtius Mysteries (Susan Bernhardt)
The Jake O’Hara Mysteries (Noreen Wald) Jake O’Hara works as a ghostwriter. She didn’t expect it to involve actual murder.
The Josie La Strega Mysteries (Anne Marie Beretta)
The Lauren Kaye Mysteries (Dale Kesterson)
The Lickety Splits Mysteries (Cynthia Baxter) After leaving her high-powered Manhattan life behind, Kate McKay is indulging her dream of opening an ice cream shop in her Upstate New York hometown of Wolfert’s Roost.
The Lucy Wayles Mysteries (Lydia Adamson) Amateur sleuth Lucy Wayles and her bird-watching group are surprised by the sudden announcement that one of their members is getting married, but when the bride is shot down before the ceremony, Lucy hatches a plan to catch the killer herself.
The Maggie Dove Mysteries (Susan Breen)
The Merry Muffin Mysteries (Victoria Hamilton)
The Molly Masters Mysteries (Leslie O’Kane)
The Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries (Frances and Richard Lockridge)
The Murder 101 Mysteries (Maggie Barbieri)
The Murder Packs a Suitcase Mysteries (Cynthia Baxter)
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 Music Mysteries (Danielle Palli)
The Mysteries of Max (Nic Saint) There’s something special about Max. He may look like your regular ginger flabby tabby, but unlike most tabbies he can actually communicate with his human, reporter for the Hampton Cove Gazette Odelia Poole.
The Mysteries With Recipes (Isis Crawford) Bernadette Simmons wasn’t sure what to expect when she moved back in with her family in New York. And her sister Libby had no idea what she was in for when she hired Bernie to work for her catering business.
The Nero Wolfe Mysteries (Rex Stout) Nero Wolfe is one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time.
The Nightingale Mysteries (Katharine Schellman) New York, 1924. Vivian Kelly’s days are filled with drudgery, from the tenement lodging she shares with her sister to the dress shop where she sews for hours every day. But at night, she escapes to The Nightingale, an underground dance hall where illegal liquor flows.
The Paint by Murder Mysteries (Bailee Abbott) For Chloe Abbington, the transition from fine art painter in New York City to painting-event business owner in charming Whisper Cove is more than a little jarring.
The Penelope Banks Mysteries (Colette Clark) The Penelope Banks Murder Mysteries books are set in 1920s New York, with a spirited heroine, witty banter, and twists and turns that will leave you guessing. Perfect for readers who enjoy the feel of a cozy mystery with the excitement, daring, and thrill of Prohibition and the Jazz Age.
The Pickled and Preserved Mysteries (Mary Ellen Hughes) Piper Lamb decides to pursue her dream of opening her own shop of pickles and preserves, called Piper’s Picklings, in the idyllic small town of Cloverdale. But she isn’t in town long before she encounters a barrelful of trouble.
The Pizza Parlor Mysteries (Rosie A. Point) Gina Romano returns to her hometown of Lake Basil, New York to take over her uncle’s pizza parlor. The newly fired head chef, who refused to do things the “authentic” way, is found dead outside the pizza parlor.
The Proverbial Crime Mysteries (Dane McCaslin)
The Red Door Speakeasy Mysteries (Emily Queen) New York City, 1920s. Imogene knows a lot about life, love, and liquor–bootleg liquor, that is. The Red Door used to be just an antiquities shop, and she used to be a just regular woman. That was before she started running a speakeasy–and running rum.
The Reigning Cats and Dogs Mysteries (Cynthia Baxter) As a veterinarian, she’s more experienced with paw prints than fingerprints. But thanks to her dogged persistence and her knack for landing on her feet, Dr. Jessica Popper’s got murder on a very short leash.
The Robyn Cavanagh Mysteries (Jeanne Quigley) Robyn Cavanagh enjoys a thriving second career as a portrait photographer in her beloved suburban hometown of Garland, New York.
The Romano’s Family Restaurant Mysteries (Rosie A. Point)
The Rosie the Riveter Mysteries (Amy Patricia Meade)
The Sadie Savoy Mysteries (T. L. Flowers)
The Samantha Davies Mysteries (S. A. Kazlo) Samantha Davies enjoys her hobby of hooking — rug hooking, that is — and is fulfilling a lifelong dream by writing her first children’s book, featuring her dachshund, Porkchop.
The Shakespeare in the Catskills Mysteries (Elizabeth J. Duncan)
The Sliver Lake Mysteries (Rodney Strong)
The Snapshot of NYC Mysteries (Christin Brecher)
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 Stained-Glass Mysteries (Jennifer McAndrews)
The Sunny Meadows Mysteries (Kari Lee Townsend)
The Sunset Lodge Mysteries (Diana Xarissa) Abigail and Amanda (Mandy) Clark decide to give up life in the big city and buy a historic lodge in New York’s picturesque Finger Lakes Region. Sunset Lodge has seen better days, but the sisters have big plans.
The Teapot Collector Mysteries (Amanda Cooper) When her fashionable Manhattan restaurant goes under, Sophie Taylor retreats to her grandmother’s cozy shop, Auntie Rose’s Victorian Teahouse, where serenity is steeped to perfection in one of her many antique teapots.
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 Twin Lakes Mysteries (Marilyn Levinson)
Valerie Inkerman Investigates (A. R. Winters)
A Very Murder Christmas (Rosie A. Point) Holly loves the small town life in Full Fork, New York, especially since she gets to spend most of her time walking the adorable dogs of the town’s elite.
The Victoria Square Mysteries (Lorraine Bartlett) The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner, is found bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. Written by Lorraine Bartlett with Laurie Cass and Gayle Leeson.
The Victoria Square Mysteries (Laurie Cass) The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner is found bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. Written by Lorraine Bartlett with Laurie Cass and Gayle Leeson.
The Victoria Square Mysteries (Gayle Leeson) The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner is found bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. Written by Lorraine Bartlett with Laurie Cass and Gayle Leeson.
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 Witch in Time: Vee Mysteries (Stephanie Damore)
The Year-Round Christmas Mysteries (Vicki Delany) In Rudolph, New York, it’s Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone’s holiday cheer in the first Year-Round Christmas mystery.