McBlack's Treats Cafe Cozy Mysteries Books in Order

McBlack's Treats Cafe Cozy Mysteries follows Tiffany Black and her friend Rosie as a new business brings them into the life of a small town. A R Winters takes characters familiar from Tiffany's other mysteries and gives them a different everyday focus: running a café. Cakes and coffee may be the plan, but crime soon begins competing for their attention.

A fresh start doesn't mean leaving every mystery behind.

In New Beginnings and Grand Openings, Tiffany moves to a small town with the expectation that her days will revolve around the café she and Rosie own. Instead, sabotage threatens the business, and a murder makes their arrival more complicated still. The dream of a quieter life runs into the discovery that a charming community can have serious secrets. Protecting the café means paying attention to things that go well beyond the kitchen.

The business gives the friends a practical stake in their surroundings. They aren't simply visitors passing through a crime scene; they are trying to build something that depends on the people around them. Trouble at the café can affect their plans, their reputation and their sense of safety. That connection between work and investigation makes the setting an active part of the series rather than just a pleasant background.

Masterminds and Deadly Finds broadens their work when they take a catering assignment after a local chef disappears. The gathering brings together a group of highly intelligent, eccentric people, but intelligence doesn't prevent one of them from ending up dead. Tiffany and Rosie must make sense of a room full of possible suspects while trying to understand how the missing caterer fits into what has happened.

Stone, Jan and Nanna remain part of the surrounding circle. Their involvement connects this new chapter with Tiffany's earlier life, while the café and local encounters create reasons to meet different people. The series combines the familiar comfort of returning characters with the uncertainty of a new venture. Readers can follow the work of establishing a business alongside the separate puzzles that keep drawing the friends back into detection.

The tone is lighthearted cozy mystery, with food, friendship and humour around cases involving real danger. The books avoid graphic gore, explicit romantic scenes and strong language. Start with New Beginnings and Grand Openings to see the café's beginnings, then continue with Masterminds and Deadly Finds and the later books in publication order. Individual cases can be read as standalone mysteries, while reading from the start lets the changing business and the friends' place in the town unfold naturally.