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Church Choir Mystery Book Series List of Books…

I have received several letters asking that I find more Cozy mystery books that are “faith-based.” With this in mind, I posted the

Heartsong Presents Mystery Book Series

Mystery and the Minister’s Wife Mystery Book Series a while back,

and today I just posted the Church Choir Mystery Book Series.

I believe that both the Heartsong Presents and the Church Choir mystery book series were types of book clubs in the past. Since I was not a member of either of these series, I don’t know exactly how they worked… I don’t know whether they sent out a given number of books each month, or if you picked and chose which books you wanted each month. Either way, the mystery books appealed (and still do!) to many.

Here is an update: I have added the Hope Haven Book Series (not mysteries)

and the Home to Heather Creek Book Series (not mysteries) to the site. Both series are published by Guideposts.

Also, I have added Tales from Grace Chapel Inn (not mysteries) to the site.

If you want lists, I’ve got them!!! I also have a list of mystery book authors who do not use profanity in their books…

I hope that those of you who have requested these mystery book lists can use them as starting points…

Comments

  1. Thanks for the list. I know there are some who prefer to have mysteries with no profanity in them. I do not remember if Cindy Daniel’s Death Warmed Over mystery series had profanity in them or not.

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  2. I don’t know if this has already been suggested, but as a musician I’m enjoying the mysteries of Mark Schweizer, Liturgical Detective. He somehow combines a Chief of Police with most of the other major roles in the usual small town who-dunnit. Those roles not played by our hero are often written in as part of a noirish Raymond Chandler pastiche he somehow manages write alongside his regular story. To anyone in music, or associated with churches or small towns the book is very, very funny.

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  4. Do you have a list of the Grace Chapel Inn books, the Home to Heather Creek books and the Hope Haven books. I would appreciate it if you could send them to me.

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    • This is the list I have of the Grace Chapel Inn books:
      1. Back Home Again
      2. Going to the Chapel
      3. Recipes and Wooden Spoons
      4. Hidden History
      5. Portraits of the Past
      6. Winter Wonders
      7. Home for the Holidays
      8. Slices of Live
      9. Mid Summer Melody
      10. Something Old, Something New
      11. We Have This Moment
      12. All in the Timing
      13. Promises to Keep
      14. The Price of Fame
      15. Pipe Organ
      16. Prayers, Paws & Providence
      17. Tempest in a Teapot
      18. Life is a Three Ring Circus
      19. Mystery at the Inn
      20. Rally Round the Flag
      21. The Spirit of the Season
      22. Small Town Reality
      23. Kindness of Strangers
      24. The Start of Something Big
      25. Going, Going, Gone
      26. Spring is in the Air
      27. Amazing Gracie
      28. Rosemary for Remembrance
      29. Autumn Tales
      30. The Time of Their Lives
      31. Never Give Up
      32. Fond Memories, Fresh Beginnings
      33. Summer Breezes
      34. Reading, Writing and Riddles
      35. They Also Serve
      36. Sing a New Song
      37. Saints Among Us
      38. In Her Sister’s Footsteps
      39. Ready to Wed
      40. Building Bridges
      41 Talk of the Town
      42 The Way We Were
      43. Eyes on the Prize
      44 Empty Nest
      45 Steady and Slow
      46 As Time Goes By
      47 Keeping the Faith

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  5. Please send me a list of the Church Choir Mysteries, I do not need a description of each book, just a list. And if there is an order to them, please put them in the correct order to read. Thanking you in advance for this information. If you have correct reading order for the Grace Chapel Inn Series I would appreciate this, or tell me how to get this information.

    Have a good Sunday, I’m off to Sunday School, and thank you sooooo much for your help.

    Happy reading, Freda

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    • please send me a list of the church choir mysteries and in the order of which they are to be read. I have four of them so far
      no.1 the comatose cat
      no.2 suspicious halo
      no.3 missing hydrangeas
      no.4 wicked step-twister
      please send list to my e-mail address and thank you
      jean

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  7. Hello,

    Could someone send me the list of the Home to Heather Creek series. I am trying to acquire them one at a time but I haven’t had a job since December and I don’t have the money to pay regular price. I love the books I bought the first 3 through Guideposts and then I lost my job and had to quit. Thanks so much. I love the Christian based books because you don’t have to worry about bad language or explicit love stories.
    God Bless,

    Linda

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  9. Hello,
    I am new to this site but appreciate the means to ask a question. I have just started reading cozy mystery type books and really enjoy them immensely from the start with my first book of the Patchwork Mysteries, Family Patterns by Kristin Eckhardt. I see other series that look to be along the same line of story content and clean reading with spiritual theme woven through that I feel would also appeal to me. Problem is they do seem to be sent out as preview and pay then continue to receive every couple months another automatically to preview and pay on a regular basis. Question: How do I find out how many are intending to be in the series ahead of committing to having them sent and risking also a need to send back and pay postage? At nearly $20.00 plus it gets pricey and when one starts to read a vol. in the series and wants to stay with it not knowing how many more to pay for it is a little hard to budget for it and avoid breaking up the continuity of the series to have in the collection. Why are not the different series of books listed with the entire amount one can expect to be getting shipped on approval so we can know if we can start accepting them or if it will be to expensive and reject the book club offers. Your thoughts would be appreciated. By the way books from series do show up on ebay sporatically but it is still hard to know when you have all the books in the series without having prior information about it. Thank you

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    • Sharon, some of these mystery book series have finished putting out more books. As for finding out about the amount of books a current/new series is going to have, all I can suggest is that you contact Guidepost and see if someone there might be able to tell you how many books there will be in the series. I rely on Cozy Mystery site readers to let me know when a new book is released in the series. For example, I just updated the Patchwork Mystery Series page, thanks to a site reader who let me know about the new books she had just received.

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  10. Greetings,
    Just stumbled onto your blog. I enjoy reading mysteries and fiction based on the Anglican/Episcopal church, especially in 19th century UK. Kate Charles is a current favorite as well as John Meade Falkner, Evelyn Waugh and Susan Howatch. I look forward to perusing your other lists down the line. Many thanks.

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    • Welcome to the site, Bruce!

      I am so glad you mentioned Kate Charles. I had totally forgotten to add her to my Lady Ministers in Cozy Mystery Books theme.

      Also, thank you for telling us about John Meade Falkner, Evelyn Waugh, and Susan Howatch.

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  11. Thank you for the lists of books, especially all the Guideposts series. I know this is a lot of work, but God sure blesses you for helping all the rest of us out.

    God be with you!

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