Ellery Adams

(aka Jennifer Stanley, J. B. Stanley, & 1/2 of Lucy Arlington)

Click here for a post I’ve written about Ellery Adams’ Books by the Bay Mystery Series.

BOOK RETREAT MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Jane Stewart, Storyton Hall Book Resort Manager, Virginia

1. Murder in the Mystery Suite    ’14
2. Murder in the Paperback Parlor    ’15
3. Murder in the Secret Garden    ’16
4. Murder in the Locked Library    ’18
5. Murder in the Reading Room    ’19
6. Murder in the Storybook Cottage   ’20
7. Murder in the Cookbook Nook   ’21
8. Murder on the Poet’s Walk   ’22
9. Murder in the Book Lover’s Loft   ’23

SECRET, BOOK & SCONE SOCIETY MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Nora Pennington, Owner of Miracle Books, Nora can pick books for those who are in pain – to help them feel better, Miracle Springs, North Carolina

1. The Secret, Book & Scone Society    ’17
2. The Whispered Word    ’18 
3. The Book of Candlelight   ’20
4. Ink and Shadows   ’21
5. The Vanishing Type   ’22
6. Paper Cuts   ’23
7. The Little Lost Library   ’24

BOOKS BY THE BAY MYSTERY Series:

Main Characters: Olivia Limoges, Captain Haviland (Her Standard Poodle) & the Bayside Book Writers Club, Oyster Bay, North Carolina

1. A Killer Plot    ’10
2. A Deadly Cliché     ’11
3. The Last Word    ’11
4. Written in Stone     ’12
5. Poisoned Prose    ’13
6. Lethal Letters    ’14
7. Writing All Wrongs    ’15
8. Killer Characters    ’17

CHARMED PIE SHOPPE MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Ella Mae LaFaye, Owner of Charmed Pie Bakery, Georgia (Her pies are charmed.)

1. Pies and Prejudice    ’12
2. Peach Pies and Alibis    ’13
3. Pecan Pies and Homicides    ’14
4. Lemon Pies and Little White Lies    ’15
5. Breach of Crust    ’16

SUPPER CLUB MYSTERY Series:

Originally released as J.B. Stanley
James Henry, “Retired” English Literature Professor, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

1. Carbs and Cadavers   ’06
2. Fit To Die   ’07
3. Chili Con Corpses   ’08
4. Stiffs and Swine    ’08
5. The Battered Body    ’09
6. Black Beans & Vice    ’10
7. Pasta Mortem     ’18 (w/ Rosemary Stevens)

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES MYSTERY Series:

Originally released as J.B. Stanley
Main Character: Molly Appleby, Reporter for Antique/Collectibles Magazine

1. A Killer Collection   ’06
2. A Fatal Appraisal   ’06
3. A Deadly Dealer   ’07
4. A Treacherous Trader   ’15 (w/ Parker Riggs)
5. A Devious Lot    ’16 (w/ Parker Riggs)
6. A Killer Keepsake    ’17 (w/ Parker Riggs)
7. A Bidder End   ’19 (w/ Parker Riggs)
8. A Fatal Faberge   ’20 (w/ Parker Riggs)
9. Mint Condition Murder   ’21 (w/ Parker Riggs)

HOPE STREET CHURCH MYSTERY Series:

(originally written as Jennifer Stanley – rewritten as Ellery Adams – basic plots of the books are unchanged, however Adams’ intent was to make the books “crisper, cleaner, more engaging”)

1. The Path of the Crooked    ’14
2. The Way of the Wicked    ’14
3. The Graves of the Guilty    ’14
4. The Root of All Evil     ’14 (w/ Elizabeth Lockard)
5. Fate of the Fallen    ’16 (w/ Elizabeth Lockard)
6. The Deeds of the Deceitful   ’20 (w/ Tina Radcliffe)

STAND ALONES:

The Cozy Cookbook: More than 100 Recipes from Today’s Bestselling Mystery Authors    ’15 (w/ Avery Aames, Connie Archer, Leslie Budewitz, Laura Childs, Cleo Coyle, Victoria Hamilton, B.B. Haywood, Julie Hyzy, Jenn McKinlay, & Paige Shelton)

COZY CHICKS KITCHEN SERIES:

The Cozy Chicks Kitchen   ’12 (by Leann Sweeney, Ellery Adams, Maggie Sefton, Lorraine Bartlett, Kate Collins, Heather Webber, & Deb Baker)

Tea Time with the Cozy Chicks   ’15 (by Ellery Adams, Lorraine Bartlett, Duffy Brown, Kate Collins, Mary Kennedy, Mary Jane Maffini, Maggie Sefton, & Leann Sweeney)

Written as Lucy Arlington with Sylvia May:

A NOVEL IDEA MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Lila Wilkins, Middle Age Ex-Journalist, Literary Agency Intern, North Carolina

1. Buried in a Book   ’12
2. Every Trick in the Book    ’13
3. Books, Cooks, and Crooks    ’14

Taken over by Susan Furlong at book #4

Here is an entry I wrote when Ellery Adams re-released the three Cozy Mystery series she initially wrote as Jennifer Stanley and J.B. Stanley:
Ellery Adams aka Jennifer Stanley & J.B. Stanley