Maggie Sefton Books in Order

Years after her first case, Kelly is enjoying life as a busy mother and part of Fort Connor’s tight knit community when beloved waitress Julie is shot in her car. While her friends reminisce about past investigations, Kelly throws herself into one more murder inquiry, determined to learn whether Julie was targeted or tragically in the way.

Kelly and her partner Steve are counting down to the birth of their first child when a glamorous young golfer married to a local banking heir is found dead on the country club greens. As Kelly’s friends gossip about affairs and rivalries, she looks past the social swirl to find who decided the new wife had to be removed from the game.

A shy young woman named Nancy Marsted arrives at Lambspun eager to knit for the baby she is expecting, but not so eager to discuss the unreliable father. After a speeding car mows down Nancy’s ex and seriously injures a cyclist, Kelly and her friends must decide whether the hit and run was random or a carefully planned act of revenge.

This companion volume from the Cozy Chicks authors celebrates tea with recipes, themed menus, essays, quotes, and hosting tips. It invites readers to brew a pot, sample treats, and enjoy stories and tidbits that connect their favorite cozy heroines to real life tea tables.

Summer in Fort Connor finds Kelly struggling with advanced knitting techniques while her friend Barb beams over her son Tommy’s medical career. When a woman who accused Tommy of assault is found dead and he becomes the prime suspect, Kelly has to separate rumor from fact before the whole town convicts him.

Widely feared wildfires sweep through the Colorado canyons, forcing Kelly and her friends to race alpacas to safety on a neighboring ranch. After a bitter quarrel there, the ranch owner is found dead and a beloved Lambspun employee is blamed, leaving Kelly to untangle a knot of jealousy, old marriages, and land disputes in the fire’s smoky aftermath.

This short companion volume steps away from murder to focus on the everyday lives of Kelly Flynn and the Lambspun regulars, offering character sketches, backstory, and quiet moments that show who these knitters are when they are not chasing suspects.

In 1890s Washington, DC, corrupt senator Horace Chester is stabbed in a Murder Bay brothel, and police quickly fix on a ruined investor as their suspect. Clairvoyant young widow Amanda Duncan and English businessman Devlin Burke are not convinced, and their hunt for the real killer leads from Capitol Hill salons into the city’s most dangerous streets.

An e-short set around Halloween, this story drops back into Fort Connor as Kelly and her friends juggle costumes, candy, and an unnerving scare that tests just how well they really know the people in their cozy community.

Molly’s morning run turns into horror when she recognizes a friend’s neon running shoe on a stretcher and learns the jogger has been murdered. The victim was bringing her explosive research on an international banking bill to Molly, and as more people connected to the dossier die, Molly must outmaneuver powerful players who are willing to rewrite history by force.

In the wake of her niece’s murder, Molly Malone tries to keep her head down in Congress until scandalous photos of her best friend, fundraiser Samantha Calhoun, and a married representative start circulating. When the congressman turns up dead and the trail leads back to the same secretive financial cabal, Molly realizes the people who killed Karen are still tidying up loose ends.

A notorious con man who once fleeced many Fort Connor residents strolls back into town, claiming he has changed. When he is found dead in his car outside Lambspun and gentle knitter Barbara is treated as the obvious suspect, Kelly must sort through a long list of angry victims to discover who finally took revenge.

This collaborative cookbook from the Cozy Chicks authors invites readers into their fictional kitchens with recipes, anecdotes, and glimpses of beloved characters. It is packed with mains, soups, salads, desserts, and drinks that capture the warmth and comfort of their cozy mystery worlds.

After losing her savings in the market crash, Molly Malone reluctantly returns to Washington, DC, to work as a consultant in a freshman senator’s office. When her niece Karen is shot and the evidence points toward a powerful chief of staff and a shadowy political group, Molly dives into the city’s darkest corners to find who ordered the hit.

Wedding plans for Kelly’s friend Megan are humming along, thanks to gifted seamstress Zoe Yeager and her stunning bridesmaid dresses. When Zoe leaves her abusive husband and is shot soon after, suspicion settles on the man she escaped and a jealous rival designer, forcing Kelly and the Lambspun crew to stitch together what really happened.

Spring brings new listings for Kelly’s realtor friends, including a promising client who never lives to enjoy his next home. After the man is murdered, Kelly follows a tangle of financial secrets, family tensions, and property deals, trying to spot the one loose thread that ties the killer to the crime.

Kelly has been keeping an eye on troubled student Holly Kaiser, who finds some peace in Lambspun’s knitting classes. When Holly is found dead on the river trail near Kelly’s home, everyone assumes an overdose, but Kelly’s doubts about the drugs, dealers, and party scene push her into a dangerous search for whoever really supplied the fatal pills.

To help her friend Jennifer heal after a brutal assault, Kelly joins a women’s retreat at a mountain ranch that promises rest, knitting, and self-defense classes. The group is horrified to discover the ranch owner is Jennifer’s attacker, and when he is soon found dead, Jennifer becomes the obvious suspect unless Kelly can prove otherwise.

Christmas knitting fills Lambspun, and Kelly helps the town librarian teach children to purl between carols and cocoa. When the librarian is found dead in her festive cape, suspicion falls on a mysterious newcomer with a murky past, and Kelly has to decide whether the widow is victim, villain, or something in between.

Kelly’s latest project is rehabbing the alpaca ranch she has just bought, but vandalism and threatening pranks soon make it clear someone wants her plans destroyed. After the Lambspun shop is trashed and a young woman is found drowned in a vat of dye, Kelly must connect seemingly random attacks before the culprit strikes closer to home.

When a womanizing alpaca rancher is found murdered in Bellevue Canyon, shy spinning instructor Lucy Adair is devastated to realize he was engaged to her. As gossip swirls and an ex-lover becomes the police favorite, Kelly races to clear her friends by untangling the victim’s complicated romantic history.

Kelly and her friend Megan are thrilled that young artist Allison Dubois has been invited to join a New York design studio, but their airport run turns into a nightmare when they find Allison dead from an apparent overdose. Convinced it was murder, Kelly sifts through jealous classmates, a toxic boyfriend, and a mysterious stranger before the truth unravels.

Comfortably settled in Fort Connor, Kelly escorts a group of knitters to an alpaca ranch and instead finds the owner murdered on a bloodstained handwoven rug. When the police focus on the wrong suspects, she follows the trail of land disputes and old grudges herself.

Accountant Kelly Flynn returns to Colorado for her aunt’s funeral and quickly suspects the death was no simple burglary gone wrong. As she learns to knit at the cozy House of Lambspun, she starts pulling at financial loose ends that could expose a killer.

Colorado realtor Kate Doyle thinks she is just selling a house for friends locked in a nasty divorce, until she discovers their lawyer’s body in his elegant study. With her closest friend branded the prime suspect, Kate probes the victim’s affairs, uncovering jealous ex-lovers, ruined developers, and someone willing to kill again.

Set just after the Civil War, Abilene Gambler follows Southern widow Samantha Winchester as she leaves her ruined home for a bookkeeping job in rough Abilene, Kansas, and crosses paths with a disgraced Union soldier whose secrets may cost her everything.