Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries (AR Winters) Books in Order
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Last updated: June 29, 2026
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Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries (AR Winters) books in publication order
13 books
Beauty Queens and Cruises
by AR Winters
2019
A beauty pageant cruise gives Adrienne a ship full of dramatic contestants and judges, then a murdered headliner. She, Sam, Cece, and Ethan have to look past perfect smiles to find the killer.
Cooks, Crooks and Cruises
by AR Winters
2019
The kitchen is only one source of heat when Adrienne faces another murder at sea. Food, feuds, and a ship full of suspects keep the pressure on until she and her friends can expose the culprit.
Cruise Catastrophe
by AR Winters
2019
What should be a routine voyage spirals into full catastrophe once murder enters the picture. Adrienne and her friends scramble through false leads and shipboard drama to stop the damage from spreading.
Cruise Chaos
by AR Winters
2019
Adrienne is put in charge of a murder mystery event, which stops being pretend when a passenger turns up dead. Suddenly the cruise's staged clues are mixed with a real crime and real danger.
Cruise Conundrum
by AR Winters
2019
Another voyage brings Adrienne a tightly wound puzzle, a crowd of suspects, and no easy answers. On a ship where everyone is underfoot, every clue feels both urgent and personal.
Cruise Millions
by AR Winters
2019
Big money, big personalities, and murder make for rough sailing in this brisk cruise-ship mystery. Adrienne has to figure out who wanted a fortune, or someone tied to it, badly enough to kill.
Deadly Cruise
by AR Winters
2019
A fresh sailing gives Adrienne another closed-circle mystery with danger never far away. As secrets pile up among crew and passengers, solving the case becomes the only way to keep the trip from turning worse.
Killer Cruise
by AR Winters
2019
Adrienne's exciting new job on a cruise ship goes sideways when her best friend becomes the prime suspect in a passenger's murder. Trapped at sea with too many egos and too few answers, she starts sleuthing fast.
Bed and Breakfast and Cruises
by AR Winters
2020
A bed-and-breakfast conference at sea sounds fun until the former head of the association is murdered. Adrienne and her friends have to sift through vendors, guests, and grudges before the ship reaches port.
Cruise Control
by AR Winters
2020
Adrienne hopes for smoother sailing, but another murder makes that impossible. With nowhere for suspects to go and pressure building by the hour, she and her crew have to regain control of the chaos.
Lethal Cruise
by AR Winters
2020
A beauty-and-pampering cruise turns deadly when one passenger dies after a cosmetic treatment. Adrienne, Sam, and Cece have to dig through vanity, rivalry, and shipboard gossip before the killer strikes again.
Calmer Cruises
by AR Winters
2021
A supposedly calmer voyage gives Adrienne exactly the opposite once danger boards with the passengers. With suspects trapped at sea and nerves fraying, she and her friends have to steady the ship and solve the case.
Cupcake Chaos and Cruises
by AR Winters
2022
A cupcake-themed voyage should be sweet fun for Adrienne and the crew. Instead, another murder turns dessert, gossip, and shipboard chaos into a race to catch the killer before the cruise ends.
Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries (AR Winters) books in chronological order

Killer Cruise
by AR Winters
2019Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 1
Cooks, Crooks and Cruises
by AR Winters
2019Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 2
Cruise Chaos
by AR Winters
2019Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 3
Beauty Queens and Cruises
by AR Winters
2019Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 4
Cruise Conundrum
by AR Winters
2019Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 5
Cruise Millions
by AR Winters
2019Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 6
Deadly Cruise
by AR Winters
2019Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 7
Cruise Catastrophe
by AR Winters
2019Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 8
Lethal Cruise
by AR Winters
2020Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 9
Bed and Breakfast and Cruises
by AR Winters
2020Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 10
Cruise Control
by AR Winters
2020Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 11
Calmer Cruises
by AR Winters
2021Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 12
Cupcake Chaos and Cruises
by AR Winters
2022Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries, Book 13
Series background & context
If you like your mysteries with a closed-circle setup and a breezy pace, this is one of A.R. Winters's most inviting series. It begins with Killer Cruise, where Adrienne takes a new job on a cruise ship and quickly learns that shipboard life comes with demanding passengers, themed events, and the occasional murder.
Adrienne, often called Addi, is the center of the series, but she is never carrying the whole thing alone. Her best friend Sam is part of the core group from the start, Cece brings extra comic energy, and First Officer Ethan Lee gives the books a steady source of competence, tension, and slow-burn warmth. That regular cast is what makes the series easy to binge.
The setting does a lot of the work here. A cruise ship is basically a floating village, except the village cannot scatter when something goes wrong. Every sailing brings a new theme, from beauty pageants and cooking events to comedians, pampering weekends, bed and breakfast conferences, and cupcake chaos. That gives each book its own flavor while keeping the same useful pressure cooker around the suspects.
That trapped-at-sea feeling matters. When somebody dies, Addi and her friends cannot just wander off and reset. The killer is still on board. The wrong person can be blamed before the ship reaches port. Jobs, friendships, and reputations are usually on the line, so even the lighter books still have some real urgency under the jokes.
These books move fast.
The tone is firmly cozy, clean, funny, and built around personalities as much as clues. Winters gets a lot of mileage out of oddball passengers, difficult bosses, ship gossip, and the small frictions that come from people being stuck together on a voyage that has suddenly gone very wrong. Even titles like Beauty Queens and Cruises, Lethal Cruise, and Cupcake Chaos and Cruises tell you exactly what kind of series this is trying to be.
If you want dark, gritty crime fiction, this is not that. If you want a dependable lineup of humorous shipboard mysteries with a likable team at the center, this series is easy to settle into and hard to quit once you are on board.
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