Seaside Café Mystery Books in Order

The Seaside Café Mysteries are Julie Anne Lindsey's coastal cozies, written as Bree Baker. The series centers on Everly Swan, who comes back to Charm, North Carolina, hoping to rebuild her life by opening Sun, Sand, and Tea, an iced tea shop and café on the beach.

That sounds peaceful. It never is for long.

Everly quickly becomes the kind of accidental sleuth who cannot let a bad answer stand, especially when the wrong person is blamed or her own family and friends get pulled into suspicion. Around her are the people who give the series its personality: her lively great-aunts, the residents of Charm, and Detective Grady Hays, who would really prefer that Everly stop solving his cases for him.

The setting does a lot of the heavy lifting here. Charm is full of local history, seasonal events, island politics, and old stories that keep bubbling into the present. One book may lean into a beach wedding gone wrong, another into Christmas on the coast, another into Halloween legends and buried treasure. The café gives Everly a natural place to hear news, serve half the town, and get tangled in whatever trouble is brewing.

These are classic comfort reads with strong small-town energy. You get recipes, romance, recurring neighbors, and a heroine who is warm but stubborn enough to keep pushing once something feels off. If you want cozy mysteries with ocean air, family banter, and a little more sunshine than the average whodunit, this is a very easy series to settle into.