Paige Shelton

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2007
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

An Alaska Wild Mystery

1 - Thin Ice (Dec-2019)
2 - Cold Wind (Dec-2020)
3 - Dark Night (Dec-2021)
4 - Winter's End (Dec-2022)
5 - Lost Hours (Dec-2023)
6 - Perfect Storm (Dec-2024)

A Country Cooking School Mystery

1 - If Fried Chicken Could Fly (Jan-2012)
2 - If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance (Oct-2012)
3 - If Bread Could Rise to the Occasion (Aug-2013)
4 - If Catfish Had Nine Lives (Aug-2014)
5 - If Onions Could Spring Leeks (Aug-2015)

A Dangerous Type

1 - To Helvetica and Back (Jan-2016)
2 - Bookman Dead Style (Jan-2017)
3 - Comic Sans Murder (Dec-2017)

A Farmer's Market Mystery

1 - Farm Fresh Murder (Apr-2010)
2 - Fruit of All Evil (Mar-2011)
3 - Crops and Robbers (Dec-2011)
3.5 - Red Hot Deadly Peppers (Sep-2012)
4 - A Killer Maize (Dec-2012)
5 - Merry Market Murder (Dec-2013)
6 - Bushel Full of Murder (Jun-2015)

A Scottish Bookshop Mystery

1 - The Cracked Spine (Apr-2016)
2 - Of Books and Bagpipes (Apr-2017)
3 - Lost Books and Old Bones (Apr-2018)
4 - The Loch Ness Papers (Apr-2019)
5 - The Stolen Letter (Apr-2020)
6 - Deadly Editions (Apr-2021)
7 - The Burning Pages (Apr-2022)
8 - Fateful Words (Apr-2023)
9 - The Poison Pen (Apr-2024)
10 - Written in Stone (Apr-2025)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • Chewy Moon

    Cats and baseball don’t usually mix, but everything in Josie Abernathy’s life turns upside down when she meets her new friend Sanana. With Sanana around, strange things start to happen. Baseballs glow in the dark. Cats dive for catches in the out...

  • Farm Fresh Murder

    A Farmer's Market Mystery - 1

    Becca Robins leads a simple life, making jams and preserves on her very own farm. But when there's a murder in her quaint little town, she goes from making jam to being in one... Becca is late for her stall time at Bailey's Farmers' Market. By the t...

  • Fruit of All Evil

    A Farmer's Market Mystery - 2

    Becca Robins sells her farm-made jams and preserves at the local farmers' market to make a living. But when a local lovely decides to tie the knot at the same market, someone else decides to make a killing... With all the sweet spreads she turns out...

  • Crops and Robbers

    A Farmer's Market Mystery - 3

    Bailey's Farmer's Market is all abuzz with the impending visit of the Central South Carolina Restaurant Association. Becca is quite excited, especially since her parents are visiting. But when the president of the Association vetoes Becca's strawberr...

  • If Fried Chicken Could Fly

    A Country Cooking School Mystery - 1

    At Gram's Country Cooking School, Betts and Gram are helping students prepare the perfect dishes for the Southern Missouri Show-Down, the cook-off that draws the first of the summer visitors. Everything is going smoothly until they discover the body ...

  • Red Hot Deadly Peppers

    A Farmer's Market Mystery - 3.5

    Becca Robbins is happy to help research a large farmers' market and tourist trading post--until she has to switch her focus to finding a killer... Becca is in Arizona, spending some time at Chief Buffalo's Trading Post and its neighboring farmers...

  • If Mashed Potatoes Could Dance

    A Country Cooking School Mystery - 2

    At Gram’s Country Cooking School in Broken Rope, Missouri, Isabelle “Betts” Winston and her grandmother share the secrets of delicious home-style recipes. But there’s one secret they keep from their classes -- their ability to talk to ghosts...

  • A Killer Maize

    A Farmer's Market Mystery - 4

    Becca Robbins is selling her farm-made jams and preserves at a county fair where business is not the only thing that’s dead… The last person Becca expects to run into at the Swayton County Fall Festival is her ex-husband, Scott Triplett, who...

  • Clockwork

    In 2184 New Chicago, Kally Bright lives in a world where the government controls everything from love to time. She, like those around her, has never known personal freedom.Her one bit of freedom is a secret from most. Obsessed with time and trying to...



  • If Bread Could Rise to the Occasion

    A Country Cooking School Mystery - 3

    At Gram’s Country Cooking School, Isabelle "Betts” Winston and her grandmother share their home-style culinary secrets. But what they keep to themselves are the secrets of Broken Rope, a quiet little Missouri town, that isn't nearly as quiet as i...

  • Merry Market Murder

    A Farmer's Market Mystery - 5

    Bailey's Farmers' Market is this season's go-to holiday destination, but not all the vendors are feeling the Christmas spirit... Jam and preserve maker Becca Robins is excited about the extra business that the Ridgeway Christmas Tree Farm is bring...

  • If Catfish Had Nine Lives

    A Country Cooking School Mystery - 4

    Betts Winston has inherited more than her cooking skills from her grandmother--she can also see and talk to ghosts of people that once roamed the streets of Broken Rope, Missouri, in the days of the Old West... With Gram's Country Cooking School ...

  • Bushel Full of Murder

    A Farmer's Market Mystery - 6

    The New York Times bestselling author of Merry Market Murder returns to Bailey’s Farmers’ Market where Becca Robins must get her cousin out of a jam… This summer, Becca is looking forward to selling her delicious jams and preserves, but thi...

  • If Onions Could Spring Leeks

    A Country Cooking School Mystery - 5

    The New York Times bestselling author of If Catfish Had Nine Lives returns to Broken Rope, Missouri, where ghosts of the Old West seek assistance from country cooks and amateur sleuths Betts Winston and her grandmother. With summer tourists flock...

  • To Helvetica and Back

    A Dangerous Type - 1

    The New York Times bestselling author of the Farmers’ Market Mysteries and the Country Cooking School Mysteries introduces readers to Star City, Utah, and a little shop called the Rescued Word... Star City is known for its slopes and its powder....

  • The Cracked Spine

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 1

    Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book and rare manuscript shop seeks a keenly intelligent investigator to...

  • Bookman Dead Style

    A Dangerous Type - 2

    A movie star is typecast as a killer in the second Dangerous Type Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of To Helvetica and Back. It’s January, and the Star City Film Festival has taken the Utah ski resort town by storm. Movie star...

  • Of Books and Bagpipes

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 2

    Delaney Nichols has settled so comfortably into her new life in Edinburgh that she truly feels it’s become more home than her once beloved Kansas. Her job at the Cracked Spine, a bookshop that specializes in rare manuscripts as well as other sundry...

  • Comic Sans Murder

    A Dangerous Type - 3

    Clare Henry’s snowy Star City, Utah, oasis turns deadly in the third Dangerous Type Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Bookman Dead Style and To Helvetica and Back. SOMETHING’S AFOOT.... The visit of quirky world-famous...



  • Lost Books and Old Bones

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 3

    Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at the Cracked Spine in the heart of town. The shop is a place filled with curiosities and surprises tucked into every shelf, and it’s ...

  • The Loch Ness Papers

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 4

    Bookseller Delaney Nichols befriends a Loch Ness monster enthusiast; when he stands accused of murder she'll do whatever it takes to learn who the killer is―and whether Nessie herself is really lurking in the Scottish waters. Delaney Nichols...

  • Thin Ice

    An Alaska Wild Mystery - 1

    First in a new series set in Alaska from beloved author Paige Shelton, Thin Ice will chill your bones. Beth Rivers is on the run -- she’s doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. Known to the world as thriller author Elizabe...

  • The Stolen Letter

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 5

    Delaney Nichols is confident she’s doing what she loves―case in point, just one day after returning from her fabulous European honeymoon, she’s eager to get back to the Cracked Spine, the bookstore where she works. But as she disembarks her bus...

  • Cold Wind

    An Alaska Wild Mystery - 2

    Second in a new series set in Alaska from beloved cozy author Paige Shelton, Cold Wind will chill your bones. Beth Rivers is still in Alaska. The unidentified man who kidnapped her in her home of St. Louis hasn't been found yet, so she's n...

  • Deadly Editions

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 6

    A treasure hunt through Edinburgh gives way to a search for a villain terrorizing the city in the sixth Scottish Bookshop Mystery.It’s a quiet, snowy morning at The Cracked Spine bookshop, when bookseller Delaney Nichols receives a mysterious visit...

  • Dark Night

    An Alaska Wild Mystery - 3

    The third book in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series, in which Benedict, Alaska is met with some unexpected visitors…and then disappearances. Winter is falling in the remote town of Benedict, Alaska, and with the cold comes a mysteriou...

  • The Burning Pages

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 7

    Delaney Nichols faces off against an elusive arsonist in the seventh Scottish Bookshop Mystery, The Burning Pages, from beloved author Paige Shelton....One winter's night, bookseller Delaney Nichols and her coworker Hamlet are invited to a Burns Nigh...

  • Winter's End

    An Alaska Wild Mystery - 4

    The fourth installment in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series, Paige Shelton's Winter's End.It’s springtime in Benedict, Alaska, and with the warmer weather comes an unseasonably somber local tradition...the annual Death Walk. At the end o...

  • Fateful Words

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 8

    In Fateful Words, the eighth Scottish Bookshop Mystery from beloved author Paige Shelton, bookseller Delaney Nichols stakes her reputation -- and her life -- when a literary tour turns deadly...When Edwin, Delaney’s boss at the Cracked Spine bookst...



  • Lost Hours

    An Alaska Wild Mystery - 5

    Lost Hours is the fifth instalment in Paige Shelton's gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series.A year after arriving in Benedict, Beth Rivers is feeling very at home in Alaska, even as outsiders are starting to return to enjoy the brief summer perfec...

  • The Poison Pen

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 9

    The Poison Pen, the ninth installment in the Scottish Bookshop series by Paige Shelton, set in a specialty bookstore in Edinburgh called The Cracked Spine.Edinburgh is mourning recent the death of Queen Elizabeth II when Bookseller Delaney Nichols's ...

  • Perfect Storm

    An Alaska Wild Mystery - 6

    The next installment in Paige Shelton's Alaska Wild series, a gripping, atmospheric, traditional mystery series with a great wilderness hook.Beth Rivers needs to disappear. Her one-time kidnapper, Travis, is on his way to her town in Alaska, and she'...

  • Written in Stone

    A Scottish Bookshop Mystery - 10

    Written in Stone, the tenth installment in the Scottish Bookshop series by Paige Shelton, set in a specialty bookstore in Edinburgh called The Cracked Spine.When Delaney wins a special Hidden Door Festival invitation to artist Ryory Bennigan's studio...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Paige Shelton has published 33 books.

The next book by Paige Shelton, Written in Stone, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Paige Shelton, Chewy Moon, was published in August 2007.

Yes. Paige Shelton has 5 series.
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