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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2006
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Marjorie McClelland Mystery

1 - Million Dollar Baby (Apr-2006)
2 - Ghost of a Chance (Jan-2007)
3 - Shadow Waltz (Apr-2008)

A Pret' Near Perfect Mystery

1 - Well Offed in Vermont (Nov-2011)
2 - Short-Circuited in Charlotte (Jan-2017)

Rosie the Riveter

1 - Don't Die Under the Apple Tree (May-2012)

A Tish Tarragon Mystery

1 - Cookin' the Books (Mar-2019)
2 - The Garden Club Murder (Sep-2019)
3 - The Christmas Fair Killer (Aug-2020)
4 - The Curse of the Cherry Pie (May-2021)
5 - From Ladle to Grave (Dec-2021)
6 - Of Mushrooms and Matrimony (Jan-2023)
7 - Cold Turkey (Oct-2023)

A Vermont Country Living Mystery

1 - Well Offed in Vermont (Nov-2011)

Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • Successful young writer Marjorie McClelland leads a solitary, comfortable life in the quiet, post-prohibition town of Ridgebury, CT. Her tranquil life is disrupted when Creighton Ashcroft, a British heir with time and money to burn, purchases a deser...



  • When a man goes up the Ferris wheel very much alive, but comes down dead, local small-town police suspect a heart attack. But one person is calling it foul play, a Miss Marjorie McClelland, full-time mystery writer/part-time sleuth. In 1935, Depressi...



  • To the relief of her new fiancé, Marjorie McClelland has hung up her sleuthing sign in favor of dress patterns and cake tiers. But murder has other plans, and when a young mother shows up on Marjorie's doorstep worried about her missing husband, Mar...



  • It’s 1935 -- mystery writer Marjorie McClelland and her new husband, millionaire Creighton Ashcroft, have sailed to a secluded island near Bermuda for a romantic getaway. Instead they find the Ashcroft vacation home filled -- to Creighton’s horro...



  • In bucolic small-town Vermont, tapestries expert Stella Thornton Buckley feels out of her element -- and not just because she's fresh from Manhattan. Mere hours after moving to maple syrup country, she and her husband, Nick, find a dead man, Allen We...



  • Life is definitely not easy for 32-year old Rosie O'Doyle Keefe, but she can handle working in New York City's World War II shipyards -- until her foreman winds up dead -- right after she rebuffed his "requirements" for a promotion... Never one to...



  • The next installment in Amy Patricia Meade’s Vermont series takes classic mystery high-tech! When US Forest Ranger, Nick Buckley, is invited to the Creator’s Cavalcade to present his employer’s environmental initiatives, his wife, Stella, sees ...



  • Literary caterer Letitia ‘Tish’ Tarragon fights to save her reputation and catch a killer when a murder occurs during a fundraising dinner for the local library. Letitia ‘Tish’ Tarragon has just moved to Hobson Glen and opened a new resta...



  • Tish Tarragon’s preparations for Coleton Creek’s annual garden club awards luncheon are threatened when one of the prime contenders is murdered. Literary caterer Letitia ‘Tish’ Tarragon is preparing her English Secret Garden-themed luncheo...






  • Christmas, cookies and a corpse: Tish Tarragon is drawn into a deadly puzzle when a young actress is murdered at the Hobson Glen Holiday Fair. Literary caterer Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon has pulled out all the stops for her booth at the Hobso...



  • A sharp and tangy culinary mystery featuring Tish Tarragon. Can Tish beat the curse of the cherry pie to win first prize at the Virginia Commonwealth Bake-Off? When literary caterer Letitia 'Tish' Tarragon's friend and star baker at Cookin' the Bo...



  • Could a body found in a graveyard be linked to a tragic murder twenty-five years ago? Tish Tarragon is plunged into a new case when a fundraising dinner in the local church hall leads to a dark discovery. Literary caterer Tish Tarragon’s ‘heroin...



  • "A charming cozy with plenty of suspects for the romantically inclined sleuths to winnow out'" Kirkus Reviews Starred ReviewTish Tarragon is catering for a wedding, but the weekend goes from sweet to sour when a guest at the venue is poisoned.Literar...



  • Tish Tarragon is catering for Hobson Glen's annual Turkey Trot, and soon finds herself embroiled in a deadly race to the finish line . . .Literary caterer Tish Tarragon is looking forward to opening the new Cookin' the Books cafe the day after Thanks...



  • It's game on when the longtime organizer of the annual Game Supper is murdered right in front of the diners. Readers who enjoy mysteries set in colorful rural settings will love Game Over at Guild Hall. -Sue Ann Jaffarian, author of the Odelia Grey a...



  • Be careful what you wish for . . . Introducing Hollywood script supervisor Evelyn Galloway, who's drawn into a murder investigation after landing her dream job on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca.1939, Los Angeles. Evelyn Galloway can't believe her lu...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Amy Patricia Meade has published 16 books.

The next book by Amy Patricia Meade, Death Upon a Star, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by Amy Patricia Meade, Million Dollar Baby, was published in April 2006.

Yes. Amy Patricia Meade has 5 series.