Haunted Haven Mysteries Books in Order

The Haunted Haven Mysteries take Carol J Perry's fondness for spooky cozies and move it from Salem to Florida's Gulf Coast. The series begins with Be My Ghost, when Maureen Doherty, a Massachusetts woman whose career has suddenly fallen apart, inherits Haven House Inn in the town of Haven, Florida, from a benefactor she has never met. She heads south hoping for a reset and finds a charming old property that comes with plenty of history, local opinion, and more than a few permanent residents who are technically dead.

Maureen is a good lead for this kind of story because she stays practical. She worries about repairs, staffing, guests, and money before she worries about ghosts, and that grounded streak keeps the books from floating away into pure fantasy.

Haven House is the center of everything. It is an old inn with personality, secrets, and a collection of resident spirits who are sometimes helpful, sometimes inconvenient, and never entirely ignorable. Maureen's golden retriever, Finn, adds warmth and comic energy, while the inn itself keeps giving her fresh reasons to stay invested, whether that means making the place profitable, protecting its reputation, or figuring out why Penelope Josephine Gray chose her as an heir in the first place.

The setting matters a lot here. Haven is not theme-park Florida. It is a quieter coastal town with beaches, fishing culture, small businesses, old buildings, and the kind of locals who know everybody's history. That makes the mysteries feel rooted in community. High Spirits leans into holiday atmosphere and a haunted movie theater, Haunting License brings in a revived fishing tournament and a murder on the beach, and The Spirit Moves mixes a local bookshop with a possibly staged ghostly appearance.

There is more going on than the murder of the week, too. Maureen is building a new life from scratch, learning which people in town can be trusted, and trying to understand the strange inheritance that dropped her into Haven. The books also keep a nice balance between everyday innkeeping problems and paranormal complications. Ghosts are real in this world, but so are bills, gossip, and bad business decisions.

Expect cozy mysteries with a gentle supernatural thread rather than full horror. These stories are warm, breezy, and lightly eerie, with hidden pasts, local festivals, stubborn murders, and a heroine who would probably prefer a quiet day at work but never gets one. If you like small-town mysteries where the inn is as important as the investigation, this series has an easy charm all its own.