Food Book Series for Thanksgiving

So today I'm grumpy because my house is a wreck and I still have to clean it up before hosting our first Thanksgiving at the new place!  It's exciting, but cleaning - or doing... anything, really - with an adorable and very much attention-craving seven month old baby is... Difficult.  To say the least! 


But I'll find a way to make it work - you do what you gotta do!  But it made me think about all the delicious Thanksgiving foods: what I want to eat, what I want to cook, and that inevitably led me to think about another of my great loves (besides eating): books!  Especially mystery books.  There are so many great books featuring recipes and food, so why not pick one to curl up with after - or instead of, if you don't or can't do Thanksgiving - a big meal?

1. Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
First book in the Goldy Bear Catering series

2. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
First book in the Hannah Swensen series

3. A Catered Murder by Isis Crawford
First book in the A Mystery with Recipes series

4. Sprinkle With Murder by Jenn McKinlay
First book in the Cupcake Bakery series

5. The Chocolate Cat Caper by Joanna Carl
First book in the Chocoholic series

6. Flipped for Murder by Maddie Day
First book in the Country Store Mystery series

7. Meet Your Baker by Ellie Alexander
First book in the Bakeshop Mystery series

8. Pies and Prejudice by Ellery Adams
First in the Charmed Pie Shoppe series

9. Do or Diner by Christine Wenger
First in the Comfort Food Mystery series

10. Death of a Kitchen Diva by Lee Hollis
First in the Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery series

I believe all of these series have at least three books, and many of them have a lot more.  (The Hannah Swensen series, for instance, is pretty extensive.)  Many of these have recipes, as well, so if you'd like a treat to make along with your cozy mystery, check one of those out!  My favorite on the list would probably have to be the Goldy Bear series.  I haven't read all of them, but I've read several, and I've enjoyed them.  I like the Cupcake Bakery series, too, though that may be because of how much I like cupcakes.

(And this is by no means an extensive list.  Just off the top of my head I can think of a few more series!  If you like cozy mysteries, definitely poke around your local library or bookshop and you might find a few more.)

So pull up a chair, a blanket, a cup of tea, and read off that turkey belly!  Have you read any of these?  Which is your favorite?