Peg Cochran Books in Order
Browse Peg Cochran books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple advice on where to start with her cozy and historical mysteries.
Last updated: July 7, 2026
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Publication Order
26 books
Allergic to Death
by Peg Cochran
2012
Health-food caterer Gigi Fitzgerald lands a powerful restaurant reviewer as a client, then watches her die from a peanut allergy after one of Gigi's meals. To save her business, she must prove someone tampered with the food.
Confession is Murder
by Peg Cochran
2012
Lucille Mazzarella finds her brother-in-law's body tumbling out of a church confessional and soon sees her husband accused of the crime. Between family drama and fast talking, Lucille sets out to save them both.
Oh, Brother!
by Peg Cochran
2012
Mac Daly agrees to write the lovelorn advice column for her high school paper and bets she can win over Travis Cooper, one of the most popular boys in school. Then she learns he is about to become her stepbrother.
Truth or Dare
by Peg Cochran
2012
This early young adult standalone shifts away from Peg Cochran's later mystery series into teen drama. It centers on high school friendships, attraction, and the fallout from one risky choice.
Steamed to Death
by Peg Cochran
2013
Aging soap star Felicity Davenport could be great publicity for Gigi's business, until she is found murdered in her sauna. When Gigi's best friend becomes a prime suspect, Gigi starts asking dangerous questions.
Iced to Death
by Peg Cochran
2014
Gigi's sister arrives unannounced and falls for Declan McQuaid just as he asks Gigi to help with a big engagement party. When the host is stabbed behind the pub, Gigi has to clear him before the cold trail turns deadly.
Unholy Matrimony
by Peg Cochran
2014
Lucille is determined to get her pregnant daughter down the aisle before the baby arrives, until the groom's mother is murdered. When Lucille herself becomes a suspect, wedding planning turns into a race to solve the case.
A Room with a Pew
by Peg Cochran
2015
Lucille's cousin Louis is found shot in a church parking lot, and the discovery of a hidden pile of cash opens the door to gambling, mob trouble, and bad decisions. Lucille and Flo chase the money trail.
Berried Secrets
by Peg Cochran
2015
Monica Albertson comes to Cranberry Cove to help her half-brother save the family cranberry farm, only to find the former farm manager dead. With Jeff under suspicion and the farm in trouble, Monica starts digging.
Hit and Nun
by Peg Cochran
2015
When the owner of Lucille's favorite pizzeria dies at her feet, she goes undercover at a rival restaurant to sniff out the truth. Old grudges, business jealousy, and a silent nun make the case even messier.
Berry the Hatchet
by Peg Cochran
2016
Winter Walk should help Cranberry Cove through the slow season, until the mayor arrives in a horse-drawn sleigh, dead. Monica has to clear her mother and stepmother before the killer freezes them out for good.
No Farm, No Foul
by Peg Cochran
2016
Shelby McDonald runs Love Blossom Farm, raises two kids, and writes a popular lifestyle blog. When the minister's wife is killed during a church fundraiser on her property, Shelby digs in to save her friend from a murder charge.
Cannoli to Die For
by Peg Cochran
2017
Trying to slim down before Flo's wedding, Lucille joins a weight-loss program run by a bossy diet guru. When the woman turns up murdered with a cannoli in her mouth, Lucille bites into the case.
Dead and Berried
by Peg Cochran
2017
As Monica's cranberry products take off, pollination season ends in murder when a beekeeper's assistant dies from a fatal sting. To clear her friend Rick, Monica follows a swarm of grudges and suspects.
Sowed to Death
by Peg Cochran
2017
The county fair turns grisly when a Jaws of Life demo reveals a real corpse instead of a dummy. With neighbor Jake under suspicion, Shelby has to sort through small-town rivalries before the killer strikes again.
Berried at Sea
by Peg Cochran
2018
Monica and Greg's wedding should be the happiest part of harvest season, until one of their guests is found stabbed on a boat. When Monica's old friend comes under suspicion, newlywed bliss has to wait.
Bought the Farm
by Peg Cochran
2018
Wedding preparations at Love Blossom Farm go sideways when the band's lead singer is found drowned in a trough and posed like a scarecrow. Shelby has a barn full of suspects and not much time to sort them out.
Murder, She Reported
by Peg Cochran
2018
In 1938 Manhattan, socialite Elizabeth Biz Adams grabs a chance to work as a photographer for the Daily Trumpet. A society woman's murder at the Waldorf gives her first real shot at a front-page story.
Murder, She Encountered
by Peg Cochran
2019
At the 1939 World's Fair, Biz Adams goes to cover a robbery and finds a murdered woman in the Aquacade pool. As she digs deeper, the case exposes darker secrets hiding beneath the fair's bright promises.
Murder, She Uncovered
by Peg Cochran
2019
Sent to Westhampton after the Long Island Express, Biz Adams and reporter Ralph Kaminsky expect storm coverage, not murder. A dead maid, a hidden pregnancy, and a wealthy household full of secrets deepen the story.
Berried in the Past
by Peg Cochran
2020
During a brutal snowstorm, Monica and Greg take in a confused woman who says someone is trying to kill her. The next morning leads to a dead sister, buried family secrets, and a fight over valuable land.
Berried Motives
by Peg Cochran
2020
A local TV personality comes to Sassamanash Farm for a harvest segment and winds up bludgeoned to death on a back road. With Jeff high on the suspect list, Monica has to look past the cameras and find the real killer.
Berry the Evidence
by Peg Cochran
2022
Monica's stepmother shows up terrified after a realtor is shot dead while she is in his car. As the clues keep circling back to her, Monica races to clear her name before a second murder closes the case.
Berried Grievances
by Peg Cochran
2023
A Fourth of July visit with Monica's old college roommate turns deadly when the family matriarch collapses during the fireworks and is later found to have been poisoned. Monica steps into a tense inheritance fight.
A Berry Suspicious Death
by Peg Cochran
2024
Jeff's wedding at Sassamanash Farm ends in murder when a reception guest is found dead and one of Monica's employees is blamed. Family money, bad blood, and wedding fallout give Monica plenty to untangle.
Where the Bodies Are Berried
by Peg Cochran
2025
A Christmas fundraiser with Santa pet photos should be a bright winter event for Sassamanash Farm. Instead, Monica finds one of the animal shelter's biggest donors dead by the barn and has to protect the farm's name.
Where should I start?
If you want a small-town farm cozy: Berried Secrets → Berry the Hatchet → Dead and Berried
If you like food mysteries: Allergic to Death → Steamed to Death → Iced to Death
If you want funny family chaos: Confession is Murder → Unholy Matrimony → Hit and Nun
If you want rural Michigan mysteries: No Farm, No Foul → Sowed to Death → Bought the Farm
If you want a historical mystery: Murder, She Reported → Murder, She Uncovered → Murder, She Encountered
Author bio
Peg Cochran grew up in a New Jersey suburb about twenty-five miles outside New York City, and that mix of suburban life and city pull still shows up in her fiction. Her books tend to love close communities, quick talkers, good food, and the kind of local secrets that do not stay buried for long.
After college, she moved into New York and worked in the art world, managing a gallery owned by Henri Matisse's son. It is a great detail because it feels so far from cranberry farms and small-town church gossip, yet it helps explain the sharp eye for setting that readers find in her stories. She later moved back to the New Jersey suburbs after the birth of her first daughter, Francesca, and her second daughter, Annabelle, was born there.
She wanted to write early.
Cochran has said she was already putting on homemade productions at seven, writing plays and roping her cousins into performing them at Christmas dinner. She also fell hard for mystery stories young. After reading Nancy Drew, getting her hands on a used manual typewriter, and spotting what she thought was the perfect place to hide a body near her home, she had pretty much found her lane.
That lane turned into cozy mysteries with a strong sense of place. Allergic to Death introduced Gigi Fitzgerald, a Connecticut caterer who prepares healthy meals and then has to clear her own name when a client dies. Steamed to Death and Iced to Death kept that mix of food, business headaches, and murder going, which is a good snapshot of what Cochran does well. She likes practical women, busy jobs, and trouble that arrives right in the middle of everyday life.
She also knows how to shift tone without losing her footing. In Confession Is Murder, Lucille Mazzarella brings a louder, funnier, more family-driven energy, with church life, New Jersey humor, and a heroine who solves crimes with prayer, nerve, and plenty of talking. Then Berried Secrets and No Farm, No Foul moved into Michigan farm country, where cranberry bogs, county fairs, bloggers, bakers, and rural communities all become part of the mystery machinery.
She can do historical mysteries, too.
With Murder, She Reported, Cochran heads to Manhattan in 1938 and follows Elizabeth Biz Adams, a young socialite trying to make it as a newspaper photographer. That series shows another side of her writing. The stakes are still personal, but the backdrop opens out to hotels, storms on Long Island, and the 1939 World's Fair. Readers who like period detail, newsroom energy, and women making room for themselves in a world that expects them to stay put usually start there.
Cochran has also written under the names Meg London and Margaret Loudon, which makes sense once you see how comfortably she moves between slightly different cozy setups. Even so, the thread running through the books is familiar: smart women, strong local color, food, families, and secrets that always cost someone more than they expected.
A former Jersey girl, she now lives in Michigan. When she is not writing, she has said she likes reading, cooking, and spoiling her granddaughter, which feels exactly right for the author of books where people are always talking, eating, worrying, and trying to solve one more murder before dinner.
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