Linda Wiken

(aka Erika Chase & Essie Lang – see list below)

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Linda Wiken    (aka Erika Chase & Essie Lang)  Linda Wiken writes the Dinner Club Mystery Series which features J.J. Tanner, an event planner. J.J. is a member of the Culinary Capers Dinner Club which is a club for “foodies”. This series also contains recipes! As Erika Chase she writes the Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery Series, which features Lizzie Turner and her five friends in a mystery book club in Alabama. Chase previously owned a mystery bookstore, as well as held jobs as a journalist, producer of radio shows, and a copywriter for advertising. As Essie Lang she writes the Castle Bookshop Mystery Series which takes place in New York. Shelby Cox is an ex-editor and current bookstore owner of one bookstore in Alexandria Bay, New York and manager/owner of another bookstore in a castle on an island.

DINNER CLUB MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: J.J. Tanner, Event Planner, Culinary Capers Dinner Club Member

1. Toasting Up Trouble    ’16 
2. Roux the Day    ’17
3. Marinating in Murder    ’18

Written as Erika Chase:
ASHTON CORNERS BOOK CLUB MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Lizzie Turner, Reading Specialist, Her Two Siamese Cats (Edam & Brie), & Her Five Mystery Book Club Friends, Alabama

1. A Killer Read    ’12
2. Read and Buried    ’12
3. Cover Story    ’13
4. Book Fair and Foul    ’14
5. Law and Author    ’15

Written as Essie Lang:
CASTLE BOOKSHOP MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Shelby Cox is an ex-editor and current bookstore owner of one bookstore in Alexandria Bay, New York and manager of another bookstore in a castle on an island.

1. Trouble on the Books   ’19
2. Death on the Page   ’20