Sunny Side Up Books in Order

The Sunny Side Up series begins with a heroine who has already had a terrible run of luck. Sunny Charles arrives in Parfait, Florida after a vicious divorce, the loss of her savings, and the rather awkward problem of having dangerous people on her trail. Then she gets a note from her aunt telling her to take over the Sunny Side Up Cafe. In Murder Over Easy, that fresh start lasts about five minutes before a customer dies after eating at the cafe and Sunny finds herself at the center of yet another disaster.

This is one of Rosie A Point's more high-energy setups.

Sunny works because she comes in frazzled, broke, and not at all prepared for the life she is being handed. She is not a natural domestic goddess stepping into a cute business. She is scrambling. That gives the series a slightly more comic, messy feel than some of Point's other culinary cozies. Sunny wants the cafe to work because she needs something stable to hold onto, but every case makes stability feel almost impossible.

Parfait, Florida helps with that tone. It is sunny, food-focused, and full of people who can be charming one minute and suspicious the next. The setting keeps the books bright on the surface, while Sunny's backstory adds a little chase energy underneath. Books like Muffin But Murder, Chicken Murder Soup, and Lemon Murder Pie keep the pattern going, with Sunny trying to manage kitchen problems, romantic distractions, and murders that will not politely happen somewhere else.

The series also leans into food service chaos in a fun way. Cafes are public places, which means Sunny is always working under pressure, under observation, and one bad rumor away from losing everything. That makes each mystery feel personal very quickly. A dead body is not just shocking. It is bad for business, bad for trust, and very bad for a woman trying to rebuild her life from scratch.

If you like your cozies with a bit more comic panic, a warm-weather setting, and a heroine who keeps improvising her way through impossible days, Sunny's books are a lively place to start.