Orchard Mysteries Books in Order

Late winter restlessness ends for Meg and Seth when a single gunshot shatters the quiet and they find a woman's body on their land. Learning the victim was an undercover reporter investigating local drug trafficking, Meg refuses to stay on the sidelines while criminals endanger Granford.

Granford is quiet in winter until energetic newcomer Monica Whitman organizes a local foods festival called WinterFare and then collapses and dies. When tests show food was not to blame, Meg investigates the woman’s complicated new ties in town to learn who turned a community celebration into murder.

Meg and Seth finally take a delayed honeymoon to Thomas Jefferson's orchards at Monticello, only to have their trip disrupted when Meg’s parents’ handyman is found dead. With a hostile police chief eager to blame her father, Meg must uncover what really happened in the deceptively peaceful Virginia setting.

As Meg Corey plans her wedding to Seth, ex con Aaron Eastman returns to Granford determined to learn the truth about the fire that sent him to prison decades earlier. When fresh violence suggests someone will kill to keep the past buried, Meg investigates to clear Aaron and protect her town.

Harvest season is in full swing when Seth uncovers a skeleton during a renovation project in town and a relative of one of Meg's apple pickers is stabbed behind the feed store. With suspicion spilling over onto migrant workers and townspeople alike, Meg races to connect the two deaths before tempers boil over.

Drought forces Meg Corey to lug irrigation hoses through her Granford orchard, while her boyfriend Seth works on restoring a historic house. A trip to a sawmill’s forest reserve leads to the discovery of a body and a mysterious insect infestation that could devastate local woodlands, pulling Meg into environmental and financial motives for murder.

Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is settling into Granford when an old Boston coworker barrels into town to run a Congressional campaign. After a neighboring dairy farmer is found dead and her husband is accused of murder, Meg has to navigate local politics and farm rivalries to uncover who really wanted the victim silenced.

Flat broke, sick with the flu, and alone in her drafty colonial, Meg Corey is feeling sorry for herself when a woman named Deborah Warren appears in her bedroom. Convinced Deborah is a ghost who has lingered for two centuries, Meg sets out to learn why the spirit is still trapped and how to send her home.

With her first apple crop sold, Meg hopes for a quiet winter, until small accidents and pranks around the house start to escalate. An antique sampler she found in a corner and an attack that leaves her trapped in the cold push her to uncover how an old mystery connects to a present day enemy.

Three young chefs come to Granford determined to launch a restaurant that showcases local food, and Meg agrees to help them connect with farmers. When one of them is murdered and left in a pig wallow, she uncovers old town resentments and secrets that threaten both the restaurant and her friends.

Meg’s mother arrives unannounced in Granford just as harvest work is peaking, claiming she wants to visit an old friend who is speaking nearby. When that professor is found dead on the cider house floor and suspicion falls on her mother, Meg must untangle academic grudges and family history to find the killer.

Spring has barely arrived when the body of a young organic farming activist is found in Meg Corey's springhouse, apparently killed by pesticide poisoning. Branded a suspect and worried about her orchard’s reputation, Meg digs into local environmental battles and rivalries to find the real culprit.

After losing her Boston banking job, Meg Corey retreats to a rundown colonial house with an attached apple orchard in Granford, Massachusetts. When her ex boyfriend turns up dead in her septic tank and she becomes the main suspect, Meg has to clear her name and decide whether this small town could be home.