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  • Bibliography:
    75 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2012
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Bull Rider

1 - The Bull Rider's Brother (Jun-2012)
2 - The Bull Rider's Manager (Nov-2012)
2.5 - Shawnee Holiday (Jan-2014)
3 - The Bull Rider's Keeper (May-2014)

Castle View

1 - Wild Hearts (Dec-2015)
2 - Roadside Attraction (Mar-2016)
3 - Project Detour (Aug-2016)

A Cat Latimer Mystery

1 - A Story to Kill (Sep-2016)
2 - Fatality by Firelight (Mar-2017)
3 - Of Murder and Men (Dec-2017)
4 - Slay in Character (Nov-2018)
5 - Sconed to Death (May-2019)
6 - A Field Guide to Homicide (Feb-2020)
6.5 - Body in the Book Drop (May-2021)
7 - A Killer Christmas Wish (Sep-2021)
8 - Caught Dead to Write (Oct-2022)
9 - Murder on a Snowy Evening (Dec-2023)

Council

1 - A Member of the Council (Nov-2012)
2 - Return of the Fae (Jul-2013)
3 - The Salem Gathering (Sep-2015)

A Farm-to-Fork Mystery

1 - Who Moved My Goat Cheese? (Mar-2018)
2 - Killer Green Tomatoes (Jul-2018)
3 - One Potato, Two Potato, Dead (Mar-2019)
3.5 - Have a Deadly New Year (Dec-2019)
4 - Deep Fried Revenge (Apr-2020)
4.5 - Penned In (Aug-2020)
5 - Killer Comfort Food (Jan-2021)
5.5 - A Pumpkin Spice Killing (Jan-2021)
6 - Fatal Family Feast (Jan-2022)
7 - A Basketful of Murder (Mar-2023)

A Haunted Life Cozy Mystery

1 - A Medium Fate (Oct-2022)
2 - A Medium Homecoming (Mar-2023)
3 - A Medium Life (Apr-2023)
4 - A Medium Gift (Oct-2023)

A Kitchen Witch Mystery

0.5 - Chili Cauldron Curse (Aug-2020)
1 - One Poison Pie (Jan-2021)
1.5 - Murder 101 (Apr-2021)
2 - Two Wicked Desserts (Aug-2021)
2.5 - Have a Holly, Haunted Christmas (Nov-2021)
3 - Three Tainted Teas (May-2022)
4 - Four Charming Spells (Apr-2023)
5 - Five Furry Familiars (Feb-2024)
6 - Six Stunning Sirens (Sep-2024)

A Survivors' Book Club Mystery

1 - The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club (Jun-2022)
2 - Secrets in the Stacks (Nov-2022)
3 - Death in the Romance Aisle (Sep-2023)
4 - Reading Between the Lies (Aug-2024)

A Tourist Trap Mystery

1 - Guidebook to Murder (Apr-2014)
2 - Mission to Murder (Jul-2014)
3 - If the Shoe Kills (Nov-2014)
4 - Dressed To Kill (Jun-2015)
4.5 - Rockets' Dead Glare (Jun-2018)
5 - Killer Run (Aug-2015)
5.25 - A Deadly Brew (Sep-2018)
5.5 - Santa Puppy (Nov-2018)
6 - Murder on Wheels (Feb-2016)
6.25 - Corned Beef and Casualties (Feb-2019)
6.5 - Mother's Day Mayhem (Apr-2019)
7 - Tea Cups and Carnage (Jun-2016)
7.5 - A Very Mummy Holiday (Oct-2019)
8 - Hospitality and Homicide (May-2017)
9 - Killer Party (Jul-2017)
10 - Memories and Murder (Nov-2019)
11 - Murder in Waiting (Jul-2020)
11.5 - A Stocking Full of Murder (Oct-2020)
12 - Picture Perfect Frame (Mar-2021)
13 - Wedding Bell Blues (Mar-2022)
14 - A Vacation to Die For (Sep-2022)
15 - Songs of Wine and Murder (Jun-2023)
15.5 - Murder in a Tourist Town (Apr-2024)
16 - Olive You to Death (Jun-2024)

Book List in Order: 75 titles



  • Rodeo weekend is the start of the summer for the entire town of Riggins, Idaho. On a girl’s night out, Lizzie Hudson finds herself comparing her life as a single mom with her best friend's successful career when James Sullivan, the cowboy who got a...



  • Barb Carico's life is all about business. Now that her best friend has tied the knot with her high school sweetheart and Barb's new partner, she's busier than ever. Managing Jesse Sullivan's career and public persona can be a handful. Add in an ag...




  • Annie Baxter has her dream job. Now, all she needs is a cheap apartment close to the hospital. Troy Saunders knows his life as an intern is all about the long hours. He doesn't have time to play doctor to some Nurse Barbie. So when his sister finds a...



  • A witch in training, a hunter on the prowl, and a world in jeopardy. Learning the rules of being a witch takes years, but Parris McCall needs to master them in only weeks. Knowing how to wield her magic is the one thing she has to keep her grandm...



  • Cash Dillon, former pro-football player and owner of The Pancake House, is hours away from paradise. A week on a Mexican beachâ€"no responsibility, no worries, and no schedule. When his delivery driver is stuck on another run, Cash takes one last del...



  • Lauren is headed back to school, this time not as a fun-loving coed but to achieve her dream of turning the family farm into Idaho's first Heritage Seed Center. Selling organic produce at the local farmers market, she meets Miles. After an unexpected...



  • In the gentle coastal town of South Cove, California, all Jill Gardner wants is to keep her store--Coffee, Books, and More--open and running. So why is she caught up in the business of murder? When Jill's elderly friend, Miss Emily, calls in a fit...



  • Jesse Sullivan isn’t afraid of any thing, any man, or any bull. But when he decides to take a chance and carve out a life outside his rodeo career, he feels like he’s walking on shaky ground. In typical Jesse style, he jumps at a chance to purcha...






  • In the California coastal town of South Cove, history is one of its many tourist attractions -- until it becomes deadly… Jill Gardner, proprietor of Coffee, Books, and More, has discovered that the old stone wall on her property might be a centu...



  • The tourist town of South Cove, California, is a lovely place to spend the holidays. But this year, shop owner Jill Gardner discovers there's no place like home for homicide. . . As owner of Coffee, Books, and More, Jill Gardner looks forward to t...



  • Jill Gardner, the owner of Coffee, Books, and More, has been suckered into playing a twenties flapper in murder/dinner theater. Though it is for charity... Of course everyone is expecting a "dead" body at the dress rehearsal...but this one isn't a...



  • When a determined nurse and a hot intern find the perfect apartment, the same perfect apartment, they must find a way to share it for ninety days, without killing each other.Blurb - Annie Baxter has her dream job. Now, all she needs is a cheap apart...



  • Jill Gardner owner of Coffee, Books, and More has somehow been talked into sponsoring a 5k race along the beautiful California coast. The race is a fundraiser for the local preservation society but not everyone is feeling so charitable. The day of...



  • A babe in jeopardy, a coven on the loose, and only one witch hunter team can save them.Parris McCall knows her best friend’s life in in danger, but when Parris gets orders from The Council to track down Coven X, she has no choice but to follow orde...



  • A reunion Romance - Abigail Johnson just nabbed her dream job, running Castle View’s Big Cat Sanctuary. However, after she moves with her daughter from Seattle back to her hometown, Mark Castle drops the bombshell. The sanctuary is on life support ...



  • The food truck craze has reached the charming coastal town of South Cove, California, but before Jill Gardner-owner of Coffee, Books, and More-can sample the eats, she has to shift gears and put the brakes on a killer . . . Now that Kacey Austin has ...



  • A One Night Stand romance. One is tied to home by commitment and responsibility, the other is running from those same ties. Can they find common ground or will their attraction be just one more memory from the road?When he walked into her bar, Maggie...



  • The quaint coastal town of South Cove, California, is all abuzz about the opening of a new specialty shop, Tea Hee. But as Coffee, Books, and More owner Jill Gardner is about to find out, there's nothing cozy about murder . . . Shop owner Kathi Co...






  • Sometimes fate resets the work/life balance scales. Brad Castle had a plan for his life. A plan that crashed when a car accident stole his ability to do even the most basic tasks. On the verge of watching his Castle View Winery fail, he finally agree...



  • Former English professor Cat Latimer is back in Colorado, hosting writers’ retreats in the big blue Victorian she’s inherited, much to her surprise, from none other than her carousing ex-husband! Now it’s an authors’ getaway -- but Cat wonâ...



  • Cat Latimer’s Colorado bed-and-breakfast plays host to writers from all over. But murder is distinctly unwelcome . . . To kick off a winter writing retreat, Cat and her handyman boyfriend, Seth, escort the aspiring authors to a nearby ski resort...



  • A visit to the serene coastal town of South Cove, California, could make anybody feel refreshed and inspired. But as Jill Gardner -- owner of Coffee, Books, and More -- discovers, some folks won’t live to tell about it . . . Mystery author Natha...



  • For a gang of old college buddies, the quaint resort town of South Cove, California, is the perfect spot for a no-holds-barred bachelor party. But for Jill Gardner -- owner of Coffee, Books and More -- this stag party is going to be murder . . . A...



  • Love is in the air in Aspen Hills, and it’s making a terrible mess of Cat Latimer’s writers’ retreat -- especially when blood stains the plot... Ever since her business partner, Shauna, fell for a wealthy landowner in town, Cat has been work...



  • Angie Turner hopes her new farm-to-table restaurant can be a fresh start in her old hometown in rural Idaho. But when a goat dairy farmer is murdered, Angie must turn the tables on a bleating black sheep... With three weeks until opening night fo...



  • A novella by theNew York Times-bestselling author:As a sunny California town gears up for Fourth of July, a lesson in fireworks safety turns fatal…   South Cove’s local businesses are up in arms after volunteer fire chief Barry Gleason thre...



  • The time seems ripe for success as Angie Turner opens her farm-to-table restaurant in her Idaho hometown-until her new tomato supplier is accused of murder and Angie has to pick the real killer... To Angie, nothing tastes more like summer than her...



  • A Halloween short story by the New York Times-bestselling author:Four couples spend a weekend in an abandoned house -- and have an unexpected ghost…   The house has sat empty for fifteen years, taking up prime real estate along the picturesque...






  • In this novella by the New York Times-bestselling author, a mystery must be solved in time for a merry -- and furry -- Christmas…   Jill Gardner has volunteered her shop, Coffee, Books, and More, to host a Christmas adopt-a-pet party. Among th...



  • Staying in character can be murder when Cat Latimer and the members of her writers’ retreat head for a ghost town... Cat and the members of her writers’ retreat have just arrived in Outlaw, Colorado, an “Old West” tourist town complete w...



  • St. Patrick’s Day shenanigans turn sinister in this California cozy mystery novella by the New York Timesbestselling author.  Jill Gardner’s charming bookstore cafĂ© is raking in the green as tourists flock to South Cove,...



  • Angie Turner’s restaurant, The County Seat, is conveniently located near a first-class farmers market -- so her menu is full of fresh ingredients. But a visiting culinary professor has just had a taste of something very unhealthy . . . Angie fi...



  • Picturesque South Cove, California, is the perfect place to celebrate Mother’s Day, but not everyone is feeling motherly in bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s latest Tourist Trap mystery, perfect for fans of Ellery Adams, Kathi Daley, and Lauren El...



  • Cat Latimer pursues a scone-cold killer who iced a top chef in a local bakery . . . Cat has a full plate at her Aspen Hills Warm Springs Resort, as a group of aspiring cozy mystery authors arrives for a writers retreat. So when baker Dee Dee Meyer...



  • Jill Gardner has left her book-and-coffee shop behind to spend Thanksgiving week in coastal Oregon with her cop boyfriend, her golden retriever Emma, and a crowd of friends and family. But before the feast can start, foul play interrupts their vacati...



  • It’s October in South Cove, California, and the locals in the quaint resort seem to be happily pairing off in the lull before the holidays. Everyone, that is, except for Jill Gardner’s elderly aunt, who just dumped her besotted fiancĂ© -- and she...



  • Chef Angie Turner of The County Seat -- Idaho’s finest farm-to-table restaurant -- is preparing a private dinner in the mountains during ski season, but the trip’s about to go downhill . . .   It’s a rockin’ New Year for Angie and her cr...



  • Cat Latimer and her writer’s retreat group go on a hiking trip -- but a murderer has been lurking off the beaten path . . . Cat’s sweetheart, Seth, is going all out on an outing into the local mountains -- for the benefit of the writing group...






  • Angie Turner is all prepped to face Boise’s culinary best when she enters her restaurant, The County Seat, into a big State Fair challenge. Instead, she gets dunked into a new murder investigation after a killer starts scrapping her competition . ....



  • In the latest Tourist Trap mystery from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Lynn Cahoon, bookshop cafĂ© owner Jill Gardner contends with a best friend-turned-bridezilla while trying to solve a local historian’s untimely date with death...



  • Meet a new cozy star with her own special brand of culinary magic in this first story in New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s Kitchen Witch series.   When Mia Malone’s grandmother asks her to take a week away from her restaurant j...



  • Angie Turner, chef at Idaho’s finest farm-to-table restaurant, has organized a team-building event at a haunted prison, only to find a real-life murderer in their midst. . . .   Contented employees make for a successful restaurant, which is wh...



  • Sunny South Cove, California, is the perfect spot for Jill Gardner and her store, Coffee, Books, and More -- except when “more” turns out to be murder . . . Corned Beef and Casualties Sunny South Cove is all abuzz preparing for their annua...



  • Angie Turner’s Idaho restaurant, the County Seat, is known and loved for its fresh food. For Angie, it’s also meant a fresh start. But when big agriculture comes to town -- along with whispers of foul play -- Angie could lose more than the farm ....



  • Featured on Buzzfeed Books! In the first in New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s Kitchen Witch series, Mia Malone is starting over in Magic Springs, Idaho -- where murder is on the menu . . .   What’s a kitchen witch to do when he...



  • Angie Turner’s Idaho restaurant, the County Seat, owes its success not only to its farm-fresh fare, but also to its devoted and passionate staff. But a team-building retreat turns into much more than they bargained for . . . Angie and her County Se...



  • In the newest cozy caper in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Tourist Trap series, a new art studio has opened in the coastal California town of South Cove -- but it’s about to turn into a crime scene. . . As the owner of Coffee, Books, ...



  • Mia Malone has opened a catering business in Magic Springs, Idaho, putting both her culinary expertise and her gift for spellcasting to good use. But it’ll take more than witchcraft to make a murderer disappear behind bars…   Mia Malone has ...






  • In this Cat Latimer mystery prequel - Cat's just starting her graduate degree program that will set her up as a Covington professor. Her mom is working at the local public library, but if a board member has his cost cutting way, not for long. When he...



  • Mia Malone conjures up delicacies while casting about for clues in New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s Two Wicked Desserts, continuing her Kitchen Witch Mystery series . . .   Magic Springs, Idaho, may be a small town, but Mia Malo...



  • Cat Latimer and the Aspen Hills gang are back. This time the writers are all about the non-fiction side of writing. And so is the murder. From NYT bestselling author, Lynn Cahoon, comes a new Cat Latimer mystery. Santa's on his way, but the house Cat...



  • Mia Malone is planning a holiday party to promote her catering and cooking school business -- but she’s got a Christmas spirit to deal with first, in this new Kitchen Witch Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon . . .   For...



  • Angie Turner’s Idaho restaurant, the County Seat, is the perfect site for a picturesque country wedding, but the party planning skids to a halt when the groom-to-be is implicated in a murder investigation…  When Angie’s best friend and bus...



  • In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, becomes more engaged in sleuthing than wedding preparations when there’s a murder in a dress shop . . . Jill couldn’t love police chief Greg King more ...



  • Aspiring witch and culinary entrepreneur, Mia Malone, must dispel a deadly plot to wreck her clients’ wedding in this charming continuation of New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s Kitchen Witch Mystery series.   Business is bubbli...



  • The New York Times bestselling author of the Tourist Trap mysteries launches a new series perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club. New-age Sedona, Arizona seemed like the perfect place to open up a bookstore devoted to healing. But when a member...



  • Fans of female sleuth cozies will delight in New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s latest installment in her long-running Tourist Trap Mystery series. In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and...



  • I see ghosts, but I do my best to ignore them.When Eddie Cayce turned home to New Orleans from her carefully built Seattle life, it's not just for her grandmother's funeral. She's home to stay. More to the point, now that she's broken it off with the...



  • From New York Times bestselling author, Lynn Cahoon, comes another Cat Latimer cozy mystery. Cat Latimer found her author career and her love of writing in a paranormal academy series so when the writers retreat gets a group of all paranormal authors...



  • Book shop owner Rarity Cole got a second chance at life, unfortunately not everyone is so lucky… after a body is found and an ominous Tarot reading spells disaster she must keep her friend safe from a killer -- even if the cards are stacked against...



  • Angie Turner's Idaho restaurant, the County Seat, owes its success not only to its farm-fresh fare, but also to its devoted and passionate staff. And while murder is never on the menu, it often shows up as an uninvited guest . . . A Pumpkin Spice Kil...



  • Eddie Cayce has come home to New Orleans. Good or bad, she's made her bed and now she has to sleep in it, like her mama always said. Even though she loves the town where she grew up, the gift she'd been given from her late grandmother was causing pro...



  • In this spellbinding continuation of the Kitchen Witch Mystery series by New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon, witchcraft trainee Mia Malone summons tasty dishes and unearthly murder suspects . . .   Before Mia Malone can sip tea at Tim...



  • Eddie Cayce was on the edge of setting up her new life in Seattle - including marriage, kids, and a house with a white picket fence. Instead, she found out that her almost fiancé was cheating on her, so she quit her design job over one too man...



  • Fans of female sleuth cozies will delight in New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon’s latest installment in her long-running Tourist Trap Mystery series. With the Moonstone Beach Festival coming up, Jill is touching base with her fellow smal...



  • Rarity Cole is taking full advantage of her second chance at life after recovering from breast cancer -- running a bookstore in Sedona and a support group for fellow survivors. She’s also discovered a knack for defeating other kinds of deadly threa...



  • In A MEDIUM GIFT, the fourth episode of Eddie Cayce's return home to New Orleans, Eddie's dealing with her murderous aunt along with trying to finish up Uncle Arthur's love nest before Nic finds out due to a stray thought Eddie forgets to control. An...



  • Lee Hollis headlines a new Christmas collection alongside New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon and Agatha Award-winning author Maddie Day, with three cozy mysteries featuring handknit mittens made for murder…DEATH OF A CHRISTMAS MITTE...



  • Change is in the air for New Year's Resolutions!Cat Latimer and her friends have made some changes at the Warm Springs Writers' Retreat. The new retreat will be a joint session with new attendees and return visitors. The theme? Goal setting for the n...



  • In the latest enchanting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon, kitchen witch Mia Malone is working as a catering director at a ski lodge, but when her roommate’s ex checks in, everything starts going downhill . . . To keep her...



  • In this delightful prequel to the beloved Tourist Trap mystery series, lawyer Jill Gardner flees job burnout to take a vacation -- and finds a brand-new life on the California coast. Jill’s family law career is in a rut. Watching a client go back t...



  • In the coastal town of South Cove, June is tourist season -- and wedding season. Unfortunately, Jill Gardner’s own wedding has been delayed. But that just gives her more time to search for a missing bride -- and a killer . . . Things are looking up...



  • Prolific New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon pens a new episode in the Tuesday Night Survivors Club Mystery series set in a cozy bookstore cafĂ© in Sedona, Arizona. Rarity is grateful for many things and people in her new life, including he...



  • New York Times bestselling author Lynn Cahoon continues her enchanting Kitchen Witch Mystery series featuring everyone’s favorite, spellbinding kitchen witch Mia Malone. In a triumph for Mia’s catering business and cooking school, Mia’s Morsels...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lynn Cahoon has published 75 books.

The next book by Lynn Cahoon, Six Stunning Sirens, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Lynn Cahoon, The Bull Rider's Brother, was published in June 2012.

Yes. Lynn Cahoon has 9 series.