Below is the complete list of Paige Shelton books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Alaska Wild Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Broken Rope Books
Publication Order of Country Cooking School Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Dangerous Type Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Farmers’ Market Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Scottish Bookshop Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler Books
- Cozy Case Files Volume 4 (2018)
Cozy Case Files Volume 4 was published in 2018 and is listed as book #1 in the Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler series. 
About Paige Shelton
Paige Shelton is an American mystery author best known for several cozy and traditional mystery series built around distinctive professions, strong settings, and recurring communities. Her work includes the Farmers’ Market Mysteries, Country Cooking School Mysteries, Dangerous Type Mysteries, Scottish Bookshop Mysteries, Alaska Wild Mysteries, and the contemporary mystery series featuring booksellers, writers, cooks, and other protagonists whose everyday work places them close to unusual crimes.
Shelton grew up in Nevada and later lived in several parts of the United States, including Utah and Arizona, before settling in Arizona. Her fiction reflects a strong interest in place, and many of her series are defined as much by their settings as by their amateur sleuths. Small towns, bookstores, markets, kitchens, isolated communities, and remote landscapes become active parts of the mystery rather than simple backgrounds.
Her first major series was the Farmers’ Market Mysteries, beginning with Farm Fresh Murder in 2010. The books follow Becca Robins, who sells farm-grown goods at Bailey’s Farmers’ Market. The series combines food, local commerce, and small-community relationships with murder investigations, establishing a pattern Shelton would continue throughout her career: a specialized setting populated by recurring characters, with the protagonist drawn into crimes because of her connections to the people involved.
Shelton followed with the Country Cooking School Mysteries, centered on Isabelle “Betts” Winston and her grandmother Miz in Broken Rope, Missouri. Beginning with If Fried Chicken Could Fly, the series adds a supernatural element to the traditional cozy formula. The town has a strong connection to its Old West past, and ghostly appearances become part of the mysteries Betts encounters. The series blends culinary themes, historical secrets, and paranormal touches without losing its focus on investigation.
The Dangerous Type Mysteries move into the world of printing, typography, and book arts. Beginning with To Helvetica and Back, the series follows Clare Henry, who works at her family’s shop, The Rescued Word, in Star City, Utah. The business restores old typewriters, printing presses, and books, giving Shelton another specialized craft around which to build clues and motives.
Her Scottish Bookshop Mysteries became one of her most recognizable series. They begin with The Cracked Spine and follow Delaney Nichols, an American who moves to Edinburgh after accepting a job at The Cracked Spine, an unusual bookshop dealing in rare books, manuscripts, and antiquities. The Scottish setting, literary history, hidden collections, and eccentric shop staff give the series a more atmospheric character than many conventional cozies.
Shelton later turned toward darker traditional suspense with the Alaska Wild Mysteries. The series begins with Thin Ice and follows thriller writer Beth Rivers, who flees to the remote Alaskan town of Benedict after surviving a kidnapping and attack. Beth is physically injured, emotionally shaken, and uncertain whether her attacker may still be looking for her. The series therefore combines individual murder investigations with a larger continuing mystery surrounding Beth’s own past and identity.
The Alaska books marked a notable shift in tone. They retain Shelton’s interest in close-knit communities and memorable settings, but the atmosphere is more isolated and threatening. Benedict is difficult to reach, populated by people who may have reasons for disappearing from ordinary life, and surrounded by wilderness that can be as dangerous as any human suspect.
Across her series, Shelton frequently gives her protagonists professions or interests that contribute directly to the investigation. Farming, cooking, printing, bookselling, writing, and local history are not merely decorative themes. They determine what the protagonists notice, whom they meet, and why they have access to information that police may overlook.
Her mysteries also tend to emphasize community over lone-wolf detection. Friends, relatives, coworkers, shop owners, neighbors, and local officials recur from book to book, allowing personal relationships to develop alongside the crimes. That continuity makes publication order worthwhile even when the central mystery in each installment can usually stand on its own.
Paige Shelton’s career is notable for its range within the mystery genre. She has moved from food-centered cozies to literary mysteries, craft-based investigations, paranormal elements, and more suspenseful stories set in remote Alaska while retaining a consistent interest in ordinary people forced to look more closely at the communities around them. Whether the setting is a farmers’ market, an Edinburgh bookshop, or an isolated Alaskan town, her fiction repeatedly shows how familiar places can become unsettling once their hidden histories begin to surface.