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Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series, Hotel Mystery Series and Boarding House Mystery Series:

This Bed & Breakfast Cozy Mystery Theme also includes mystery series that take place in boarding houses and hotels:

Annie’s Amish Inn Mystery Series Liz Eckardt is an ex-lawyer who now owns a Bed & Breakfast in Pleasant Creek, Indiana.

Claudia Bishop: The Hemlock Falls Mystery Series features Sarah Quilliam, the owner of an inn and Meg Quilliam, the chef at the inn, and is set in New York.

Stephanie Blackmoore: The Wedding Planner Mystery Series stars Mallory Shepard, a wedding planner who hopes to open a B & B in Port Quincy, Pennsylvania.

Ellen Byron: The Cajun Country Mystery Series stars Maggie Crozat, owner of a plantation-turned bed and breakfast in Louisiana.

Bill Crider & Willard Scott: The Stanley Waters Mystery Series features an ex-weatherman who now operates a B & B in Virginia.

Jill Churchill: The Grace & Favor Mystery Series is set in 1930s New York and features Robert and Lily Brewster, a brother and sister who live in the boarding mansion of that name.

E. J. Copperman: Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Series… New guesthouse owner on the Jersey shore has two “uninvited” (ghostly) guests.

Tina Czarnota: Country Inn, Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series… Trina runs the Tudor Grove Inn while sleuthing.

Mary Daheim: The Hillside Manor Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series features the owner of the Seattle B&B.

K.J. Emrick: the Pine Lake Inn Mystery Series features the owner of an inn.

Janet Finsilver: the Redwood Cove Mystery Series, starring the manager of a B&B.

Cynthia Gallant-Simpson writes the Deadly Mystery Series, which features a British expatriate who inherits an inn in Provincetown, Cape Cod.

Victoria Gilbert: Book Lover’s B&B Mystery Series, starring the owner of a B&B in Beaufort, North Carolina.

Jean Hager: The Iris House Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series is set in Missouri and features the owner of that B&B.

Heather Horrocks: The Who-Dun-Him-Inn Mystery Series stars the owner of a mystery-themed hotel.

Kate Kingsbury: The Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series takes place in the very early 1900s, is set in England, and features the hotel owner.

Kylie Logan: The League of Literary Ladies Mystery Series takes place on an island in Lake Erie and features a bed and breakfast.

Karen MacInerney: The Gray Whale Inn Mystery Series takes place in Maine and features the inn’s owner, an ex-Texan.

Charlotte MacLeod:  The Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn Mystery Series features Sarah, the owner of a boardinghouse in Boston.

Emma Miller: The Amish Mystery Series stars a former Amish woman in an Amish town in Pennsylvania.

Ruth Moose: The Beth McKenzie Mystery Series, starring the owner-operator of the Dixie Dew Bed and Breakfast.

Tamar Myers:  The Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series features the owner of a Mennonite Inn.

Tim Myers: The Lighthouse Inn Series features the owner of the inn in North Carolina.

Rose Pressey: The Trash to Treasure Crafting Mystery Series features the owner of a hotel in Kentucky.

Kirsten Weiss: Doyle Mystery Series – Susan Witsend is the owner of a UFO themed bed and breakfast.

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  3. E.J. Copperman has a new series about a haunted guest house. The first book in the series, “Night of the Living Deed,” will be out in June.

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  5. Author – Maeve Binchy is not necessarily a cozy writer, but definitely produces good stories and wonderfully drawn characters without resorting to explicit sex and profanity.

    Some of her books: Tara Road, Evening Class, Quentins, Scarlett Feather, The Copper Beech, Whitethorn Woods, Night of Rain and Stars, Silver Wedding, The Lilac Bus, Light a Penny Candle, Heart and Soul and many others.

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  9. Hi. I know this is a long shot, but I’m trying to find a series of mysteries that I read a few years back. I remember that the lead character ran her own bread and breakfast. There was also a guy that lived on her property who helped her solve her cases.

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    • Leslie, I believe its the ” Gray Whale Inn” Series By Karen MacInerney. they take place at a bed and breakfast called the “Gray Whale Inn” in Maine and the guy lives in the guest house out back – who is a police officer and her maintenance man.

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      • Amanda, thank you for the information about the Gray Whale Inn. I love it when someone comes up with answers…

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  10. I am looking for a series of books about an innkeeper in Scotland. They are very similar to the Goodhind series but the locale is different and the ghost is more active.

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    • mk, I sure hope that someone is able to come up with the Scottish innkeeper ghost-themed mystery series you are looking for…

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  11. Hi Danna and all I keep looking at your site every day now and thought I would tell you about a GREAT TRILOGY [not mysteries but DEFINITELY COZY] called LADYBUG FARM. 3 BOOKS IN ALL BY DONNA BALL AND I HAVE READ THEM ALL SEVERAL TIMES – about 3 friends who buy a decrepit old house and restore it. A FANTASTIC SERIES and because I LOVE OLD HOUSES IT WAS PERFECT so give them a try – well worth it. I WILL KEEP CHECKING regularly for new authors. take care judy

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    • Thanks, Judy, for telling us about Donna Ball‘s non-mystery cozy, the Ladybug Farm trilogy. When I was looking this up (to see if the two Donna Balls are one and the same – which “they” are), I found that she released her fourth Raine Stockton Dog Mystery in e-form a few months ago…

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  13. There is a series set at an inn (Rose something). The owner is a widow, male friend is a gardener/handyman with whom she is at odds most of the time. Think it’s set in NW, but not sure. Can’t remember characters or author’s names.

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  14. does anyone know the name of a book about a lady who opens up a B&B and has problems with a couple of the neighbors and a judge makes the form a bookclub and they end up solving the murder of a Chinese cook who loved his chicken plus they become friends? I loved this book but i cant remember the name

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  15. I’m trying to remember an author whose books are set in an old monastery. The small group of residents have relocated to another site nearby and sometimes visit the new owners of their former home.
    New owners are former professionals in the business world back east, (a man and wife).
    In the front lawn of the house, someone places a goose, dresses it in various costumes. One book featured a big celebratory hot air balloon episode.
    Not much to go on but maybe I didn’t dream the whole thing.

    Thanks,
    Peggy

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  16. Does anyone know the author of the book series with a single mom of 2 young boys (I believe that the boys are twins) and she is the
    manager of a book themed resort?

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  17. Kate Kingsbury also has a bed-and-breakfast series called Merry Ghost Inn. I didn’t see it on this post but found it on Kingsbury’s page on this site.

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  18. Victoria Gilbert’s Booklover’s B&B series — Booked for Death (2020) and Reserved for Murder (2021) — take place at a bed-and-breakfast in Beaufort, NC.

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  19. Hoping you can help me remember a series, I believe is set in a mansion turned into a hotel and museum owned by an elderly gentleman with a stepdaughter who visits when she needs money. In the first book the manager is murdered and his young female assistant is promoted to the position, she solves the murders in the series. There is a long-time assistant to the owner who doesn’t get along with the new manager until much later in the series after they work together solving the various murders. I can’t remember any of the characters’ names or the author, just that I enjoyed the series several years ago and would like to find out if there are additional books.

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  20. Please help me find a series. I believe it is a grandmother that owns a B and B and her granddaughter runs a tea room next to it. They are on a cliff next to the ocean and in the first book a man falls over the gate to the stairs that go down to the beach. There is also a spa nearby that has been there for years for the rich and famous. The owner of the spa keeps trying to buy the grandmother’s land and she won’t sell.
    Thank you.

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  21. I have a question about the GRACE CHAPEL iNN series. Has anyone written any more books on this subject? I have collected almost all of the ones that were listed. And I can’t seem to find any more of them anywhere? Is there any authors that are writing new books on this subject? There are still a few books that I have never been able to find anywhere, and I presume that they are out of print by now. Thanks for any information.

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  22. Looking for a series, I don’t remember very much. A lady is renovating a big inn or mansion, it has a set of servant stairs in an unrenovated section that guests are not supposed to use and are separated by a locked door, but some one gets killed on them. Maybe a dog or cat clues the owner to the body. In another book in the series, someone doing renovation to a room (I want to say a ballroom type room) finds an old skeleton in a wall…I think it’s on a bluff, near a river or lake or ocean.
    Thank you

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