Nancy Coco Books in Order
Explore Nancy Coco books in order, with series guides, quick summaries, background on each mystery world, and easy advice on where to start.
Last updated: June 10, 2026
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Publication Order
20 books
All Fudged Up
by Nancy Coco
2013
Allie McMurphy returns to Mackinac Island to restore her family hotel and fudge shop, then finds a body hidden on the property. With suspicion falling on her family, she has to untangle old grudges before the business is ruined.
To Fudge or Not to Fudge
by Nancy Coco
2014
During Lilac Festival, Allie's dog digs up human remains, and her stint on a cooking show leads into a fresh trail of danger. To protect her sweet new life on Mackinac Island, she has to outthink a killer.
All I Want for Christmas is Fudge
by Nancy Coco
2015
Jenn Christensen comes back to snowy Mackinac Island for the Santa Fun Run, hoping to reconnect with Shane, and instead finds a dead Santa in the snow. With suspicion falling on her, Jenn and Allie hunt for the killer before Christmas is spoiled.
Oh Say Can You Fudge
by Nancy Coco
2015
Preparing for the Fourth of July, Allie hires a star pyrotechnician for Mackinac Island's fireworks, only to find him murdered before the warehouse explodes. With the holiday and her reputation on the line, she starts chasing answers.
All You Need is Fudge
by Nancy Coco
2016
As Allie creates chocolate centerpieces for the annual yacht race, she and Mal pull a body from the marina. When someone close to Rex becomes a suspect, Allie digs into feuds and buried secrets around the island.
Deck the Halls with Fudge
by Nancy Coco
2017
Newlywed seniors Frances and Douglas Devaney spot a horse-drawn sleigh carrying a corpse through the snow. What should be a postcard-perfect Mackinac Christmas quickly turns into a chilly little murder puzzle.
Oh, Fudge!
by Nancy Coco
2017
Allie's estranged cousin Tori returns to Mackinac Island just in time to be found beside a corpse in the butterfly house. Family tension and old resentments collide as Allie tries to clear her cousin's name.
Forever Fudge
by Nancy Coco
2018
Over Labor Day weekend, a TV crew descends on Mackinac Island, and Allie's dog finds a real murder behind the hotel. A taunting note makes the case personal and pushes Allie into a dangerous game with the killer.
Fudge Bites
by Nancy Coco
2019
During Mackinac Island's annual zombie walk, Allie's cat leads her to a body in the alley behind the hotel and fudge shop. To expose the killer, Allie and Rex have to look past costumes, tricks, and local secrets.
Have Yourself a Fudgy Little Christmas
by Nancy Coco
2020
While waiting for renovations to end, Allie spends Christmas baking fudge and staying with a friend, then answers a mysterious note and finds a woman dead in a snowdrift. Holiday cheer quickly gives way to another icy investigation.
Death Bee Comes Her
by Nancy Coco
2021
On the Oregon coast, honey shop owner Wren Johnson finds a dead woman on the beach with one of Wren's lip balm labels in her hand. Now Wren, helped by her cat Everett, must clear her name and find the killer.
Here Comes the Fudge
by Nancy Coco
2021
As Jenn's wedding approaches, Allie and Jenn find Shane standing over a body with a bloody knife. To keep the ceremony from turning into a jailhouse disaster, Allie has to clear the groom.
A Matter of Hive and Death
by Nancy Coco
2022
Wren heads out to meet a local bee wrangler for honey, only to find him murdered among smashed hives. With Oceanview buzzing over its UFO festival, she and Aunt Eloise set a trap for the killer.
A Midsummer Night's Fudge
by Nancy Coco
2022
After the queen of Mackinac Island's midsummer celebration turns up dead in the lake, Allie is pulled into the case while juggling festival duties and fudge making. Rumors, pranks, and threats make the summer event anything but charming.
Give Fudge a Chance
by Nancy Coco
2023
At the Mackinac County Fair, Allie is focused on the fudge competition until she finds a body inside the haunted house. When a second suspicious death hits close to home, she realizes the fairground mystery is bigger than it first looked.
Having a Fudgy Christmas Time
by Nancy Coco
2023
Carol Tunisian is busy with the senior center Christmas Ball when she finds a dead man inside the building. Breaking her promise to stay out of it, she teams up with her silver-haired friends and leans on Allie to solve the case.
Fudgy Christmas Murders
by Nancy Coco
2024
This collection gathers the Mackinac Island holiday novellas, following Allie and her friends through snowy murders, Christmas parties, and seasonal trouble. It is a handy way to read the festive side of the series in one volume.
Three Fudges and a Baby
by Nancy Coco
2024
Jenn is overdue, the island's busy season is starting, and Allie's hands are full before a doula is found holding a gun over her fiance's body. With time running short before the baby arrives, Allie races to prove the woman innocent.
Fudge and Marriage
by Nancy Coco
2025
Two weeks before her wedding to Rex, Allie is already dealing with family chaos when she finds a woman dead and another woman weeping nearby. She wants a quiet June ceremony, but first she has to solve one more dangerous case.
Some Like It Fudgy
by Nancy Coco
2026
Newly married Allie brings fudge to Rex's ex-wife as a peace offering and instead finds her dead in the studio mid-photo shoot. With gossip swirling and several people fleeing the scene, she has to sort out old grudges and hidden secrets.
Where should I start?
If you want the Mackinac Island series from the beginning: All Fudged Up → To Fudge or Not to Fudge → Oh Say Can You Fudge
If you want a shorter coastal mystery run: Death Bee Comes Her → A Matter of Hive and Death
If you want her gluten-free Kansas cozies under Nancy J. Parra: Gluten for Punishment → Murder Gone A-Rye → Flourless to Stop Him
If you want weddings, planners, and lighter romantic chaos: Engaged in Murder → Bodice of Evidence → Newlywed Dead
Author bio
Nancy Coco writes cozy mysteries under more than one name, and that split tells you a lot about the range of her work. As Nancy Coco she writes the Candy-Coated and Oregon Honeycomb books. As Nancy J. Parra and Nell Hampton, she has also written mysteries about bakers, wedding planners, wine tours, and a royal chef.
She grew up in Michigan, along Lake Michigan. In one reminiscence she describes sand dunes behind the house, a blueberry farm nearby, bees, gardens, and long days outdoors. Her mother grew up near Mackinac Island, and family visits there later helped shape the world of All Fudged Up and the books that followed.
Place matters in her books.
Her path to authorship was not especially neat or narrow. She studied engineering and journalism, later earned a master's degree in writing popular fiction, and served in the Air Force, rising to the rank of sergeant. That mix of practical training and discipline sits underneath stories that feel warm and easy to read.
Under the name Nancy J. Parra, she built several cozy series with very specific hooks. Gluten for Punishment introduced Toni Holmes, a gluten-free baker trying to make it work in Kansas wheat country. Engaged in Murder launched the Perfect Proposals books, centered on Pepper Pomeroy and the chaos of weddings. A Case of Syrah, Syrah moved into Sonoma wine country with Taylor O'Brian and her offbeat tour business.
Some of those ideas came from life close to home. Parra has said the Baker's Treat series grew out of her own celiac diagnosis and her efforts to make food she could still enjoy. That feels typical of her fiction overall. She often starts with a job, a place, and a community that has real texture, then lets the murder upset everything.
All Fudged Up, the first Candy-Coated mystery, became a national bestseller and helped define her Nancy Coco byline. Those Mackinac Island books follow Allie McMurphy as she runs a family hotel and fudge shop while local festivals, tourists, family tensions, and dead bodies keep colliding. Readers who stay with the series tend to come back for the setting, the food, the pets, and the feeling that the town itself is part of the cast.
She has said she likes to set stories in places she knows. That shows up again in the Oregon Honeycomb books, which begin with Death Bee Comes Her. She has lived and worked in Portland and traveled the Oregon coast, and those books use that experience to build a small tourist town full of honey, craft fairs, local growers, and one very useful cat named Everett.
The work stays busy, grounded, and readable.
Today she continues to write across several pen names and has published more than thirty-five novels. She also mentors writers through her coaching business and appears at mystery conventions and panels. Recent author listings place her near Dallas, Texas, and she remains active in groups such as Sisters in Crime. For all the different series and settings, her books keep circling back to the same pleasures: tight communities, working lives, good food, animals, and trouble arriving where it is least welcome.
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