ACF Bookens Books in Order
Browse ACF Bookens books in order, with quick summaries, series guides for St. Marin's, Stitches In Crime, and Poe Baxter, plus easy where-to-start help.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
25 books
Publishable By Death
by ACF Bookens
2019
On the opening day of her new bookstore, Harvey finds a body in the storeroom instead of a quiet start. With the Harriet Tubman Festival filling town, she starts asking questions that a killer would rather avoid.
Bound To Execute
by ACF Bookens
2020
Spring in St. Marin's should be quiet, but Harvey and Mayhem stumble onto the murder of a hated local bank manager. Following the clues means pulling at neighborly secrets that were never meant to surface.
Entitled To Kill
by ACF Bookens
2020
A quick stop at the farm-to-table shop leaves Harvey staring at the body of the town's most disliked dairy farmer. The case exposes a messy family scandal and puts Harvey and her mother in real danger.
Plotted For Murder
by ACF Bookens
2020
Harvey is ready for autumn, parade plans, and pumpkin everything until her best friend finds a body behind the bleachers. Digging into the victim's past reveals hard truths that make the whole town feel less safe.
Tome To Tomb
by ACF Bookens
2020
Harvey revives the bookstore's Santa tradition, then watches a dying man collapse into Santa's lap. Her holiday season turns into a fast-moving mystery filled with unanswered questions, worried friends, and real danger.
Bobbins And Bodies
by ACF Bookens
2021
Paisley enters an old farmhouse hoping to rescue a beautiful mantel and finds a dead young man instead. The deeper she digs, the more she uncovers fears and secrets that were supposed to stay buried with the past.
Counted Corpse
by ACF Bookens
2021
Paisley goes to salvage fixtures from an old church building and uncovers much more than vintage cabinets. The women around her are determined to expose long-hidden secrets, but the truth could get them all killed.
Crossed By Death
by ACF Bookens
2021
Salvage expert Paisley Sutton finds a body in an abandoned store and house she thought held only forgotten history. Her search for answers links the fresh murder to an older one someone still wants hidden.
Epilogue Of An Epitaph
by ACF Bookens
2021
The murdered postmistress leaves behind gossip, secrets, and a trail Harvey cannot ignore. With her father helping sort truth from tall tales, Harvey digs into a case that quickly becomes more dangerous than it first looks.
Hanged By A Thread
by ACF Bookens
2021
A demolition job promises vintage printer's trays and an old press, then shocks Paisley with a body at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Saving history suddenly means solving another murder before the wreckage claims more.
Hardcover Homicide
by ACF Bookens
2021
Harvey's peaceful bookstore parking lot becomes a crime scene when a customer turns up dead outside the hardware store. Trying to clear the owners only pushes Harvey and her best friend closer to real danger.
Proof Of Death
by ACF Bookens
2021
When the local librarian is found dead among the stacks, Harvey Beckett cannot leave the rumors alone. Protecting a fellow book lover's name means following dangerous clues into a case that refuses to stay quiet.
Scripted To Slay
by ACF Bookens
2021
A snowy evening in St. Marin's ends with the town's new bartender dead behind the bar. Harvey's questions about the victim's alias lead her into deeper secrets and put her uncomfortably close to the killer.
Stitch X For Murder
by ACF Bookens
2021
While salvaging timbers from an old barn, Paisley and her friends uncover the bones of a decades-old murder victim. Chasing the truth means prying into secrets a small town has managed to live with for far too long.
Blood and Back Stitches
by ACF Bookens
2022
A job involving an old log cabin sends Paisley into another mystery with roots deep in the past. What should have been a simple salvage project becomes a tense search for the story someone wants hidden.
Butchery and Bindings
by ACF Bookens
2022
A hunt for a rare South African novel takes Poe Baxter to Cape Town and into fresh trouble. The closer she gets to the book, the more she realizes someone will risk lives to keep it out of reach.
Fatal Floss
by ACF Bookens
2022
Paisley expects rotten eggs when she goes to salvage barn board from an old chicken coop. Instead she uncovers a decades-old mystery that pulls her toward truths some people would rather see buried again.
Fatalities and Folios
by ACF Bookens
2022
New antiquarian book dealer Poe Baxter heads to Edinburgh expecting a career-making find, not trouble. As she investigates a rare book's provenance, she and Beattie draw the wrong kind of attention from people guarding deadly secrets.
Massacre and Margins
by ACF Bookens
2022
Poe comes north for rare books and the Northern Lights, but the trip turns far more dangerous than planned. Another literary mystery pulls her and Beattie into hidden motives, shifting loyalties, and a fight to uncover the truth.
Picture Book Peril
by ACF Bookens
2022
A reclusive clockmaker asks Harvey Beckett for help, and she ends up tangled in lore, half-truths, and a very real body. As the clues pile up, Harvey has to decide who the villain really is before the story turns on her.
Sewn At The Crime
by ACF Bookens
2022
Paisley finally gets inside an old two-room schoolhouse and finds bones instead of old textbooks. Solving the mystery means digging into decades of secrets, and someone is willing to fight hard to keep the past buried.
Strangled Skein
by ACF Bookens
2022
An old plantation house attic gives Paisley far more than holiday boxes and old letters. As she untangles the property's history, she finds ties to nearly everyone she knows, including her own family.
Aida Time
by ACF Bookens
2023
While converting her summer kitchen into an office, Paisley discovers a skeleton hidden in the walls. The find pulls her into a decades-old murder and another mystery the past was never meant to give up.
Monograph and Murder
by ACF Bookens
2023
Poe Baxter follows the trail of a rare codex to Syria and walks straight into danger. What starts as a book hunt becomes a tense mystery about history, secrets, and who is willing to kill to control the story.
Spines and Slaughter
by ACF Bookens
2023
In Lima, Poe and Beattie hunt a rare collection of Peruvian folktales and find themselves trapped in a web of deceit. Legends blur with real danger as the search for a book turns into a fight to stay alive.
Where should I start?
If you want a bookshop cozy: Publishable By Death → Entitled To Kill → Bound To Execute
If you want salvage, history, and a small-town sleuth: Crossed By Death → Bobbins And Bodies → Hanged By A Thread
If you want international book hunting: Fatalities and Folios → Massacre And Margins → Butchery and Bindings
If you want more of Harvey's world: Plotted For Murder → Tome To Tomb → Scripted To Slay
Author bio
ACF Bookens is the cozy mystery pen name of writer, editor, and teacher Andi Cumbo-Floyd. Her fiction feels built from the things she clearly loves most, books, old stories, small communities, and the quiet places where history still hangs around. If you have ever wanted a mystery with a bookstore, a salvage yard, or a stack of rare books at the center, you are in the right corner of her work.
Home is Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, a landscape of back roads and long views that fits her fiction well. She has said she loves a good mystery, a quaint bookshop, and a good cup of coffee. That combination, along with a real affection for animals, runs straight through her series.
Cumbo-Floyd did not start out in just one lane. She writes and edits, has published work outside mystery, and also writes romantic comedies as Andrea Cumbo. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Literature, and she has taught at George Mason University, Cecil College, Stevenson University, Santa Clara University, and Solano College. There is a teacher's habit in her books too, a sense that stories can entertain while still asking readers to notice the world around them.
When she decided to write cozy mysteries, she gave that part of her work its own name. ACF Bookens became the shelf for stories that mix murder with community, humor, and a strong sense of place. The pen name let her separate these books from her other work while leaning all the way into a genre she clearly enjoys.
The mysteries came fast once that door opened.
Publishable By Death introduced Harvey Beckett, a bookseller in St. Marin's on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and set the tone for a series full of local festivals, loyal friends, and dead bodies in inconvenient places. Crossed By Death moved into different territory with Paisley Sutton, a salvage expert and historian whose work in old buildings keeps uncovering buried crimes. Then Fatalities and Folios launched Poe Baxter, a former English professor turned antiquarian book dealer, sending the mysteries onto an international track. Readers who like bookish settings often land on Tome To Tomb or Picture Book Peril. Readers who like restoration, family history, and small-town secrets tend to drift toward Bobbins And Bodies or Sewn At The Crime.
What ties these books together is not just murder. Bookens returns again and again to questions of justice, memory, and who gets remembered accurately. Old houses matter. Archives matter. Local legends matter. So do the people a town overlooks. She has also been direct about not treating white characters as the default on the page, and that choice gives her fiction a broader, more grounded social world than some cozy series aim for.
She also seems to enjoy giving pets excellent supporting roles.
These days, along with writing fiction, she edits manuscripts, coaches other writers, and helps run Mountain Ash Press with Caroline Topperman. She has written about cross stitching, walking, gardening, and spending time with friends in Charlottesville or Richmond when she gets the chance. That mix of writerly work and ordinary life suits her books. They are warm, busy, curious stories, made by someone who loves reading, loves place, and knows that even the quietest town usually has a secret or two.
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