Colette London Books in Order

Colette London is the mystery-writing name used by novelist Lisa Plumley. Under the Plumley name, she has written more than three dozen novels, while the London byline is home to the Chocolate Whisperer mysteries. The split gives readers a clear signal: these books mix chocolate expertise, travel, and amateur sleuthing.

Plumley's wider career includes contemporary romance, paranormal romance, western historical romance, and stories written for anthologies. Her work has appeared in multiple languages and editions. That range matters because it shows up in the way the Colette London books move easily between food, friendship, romance, workplace pressure, and crime.

That is a wide shelf.

As Colette London, Plumley launched Criminal Confections in 2015. It introduced Hayden Mundy Moore, a chocolate consultant with an unusually sharp palate and a job that takes her around the world. Hayden helps high-end chocolate businesses improve products, solve quiet internal problems, and stay ahead of trouble. Trouble, naturally, has a way of finding her first.

The central idea is simple and fun. Hayden knows ingredients, techniques, tasting notes, and the people behind a business well enough to spot when something is off. When a suspicious death interrupts an assignment, those same skills make her hard to fool, even if the police would prefer that she stay out of the investigation.

Chocolate is never just a prop here.

The five-book series takes Hayden from San Francisco to Portland, London, Brittany, and snowy New England. Dangerously Dark puts her in Portland after a friend's fiancé dies. In Semi-Sweet Hereafter, she is working with a London chocolaterie when a celebrity chef is murdered. Dead and Ganache brings her to France, and The Peppermint Mocha Murder gives the series a holiday setting and a theatrical crime to untangle.

Hayden's friendships help tie those changing locations together. Danny Jamieson, her longtime friend and security-minded ally, is often there when a case turns dangerous. Her financial advisor, Travis Turner, begins as a voice on the phone and becomes another important part of her orbit. Their presence gives the books ongoing personal threads without taking attention away from the main mystery.

Readers who like food-centered cozies will find plenty of detail about chocolate-making and desserts, along with recipes in the books. The stories are built around contained groups of suspects, professional rivalries, family tensions, and settings where everyone has a reason to protect a secret. The mood stays light on its feet, even when Hayden has put herself in a difficult spot.

Colette London's Chocolate Whisperer books are a focused corner of Plumley's larger career. They offer a traveling detective setup without leaving the cozy-mystery feel behind, and they give Hayden a different chocolate-filled workplace to explore in every case.