Below is the complete list of Ellie Alexander books in order. For each series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of Bakeshop Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Half Moon Bay Books
Publication Order of Meg Reed Investigates Books
as Kate Dyer-Seeley
Publication Order of Novel Detectives Mystery Books
Publication Order of Secret Bookcase Mysteries Books
Publication Order of Sloan Krause Mystery Shorts Books
Publication Order of Sloan Krause Books
Publication Order of Standalone Books
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler Books
- Cozy Case Files Volume 1 (2017)
Cozy Case Files Volume 1 was published in 2017 and is listed as book #1 in the Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler series. 
- Cozy Case Files Volume 4 (2018)
In the Cozy Case Files Mystery Sampler series, Cozy Case Files Volume 4 is book #4 and was published in 2018. 
About Ellie Alexander
Ellie Alexander is an American mystery writer whose fiction is closely associated with inviting small towns, distinctive Pacific Northwest settings, food and drink culture, and amateur sleuths whose professional lives place them near an improbable number of murders. She also publishes as Kate Dyer-Seeley, a name originally used for mysteries built around outdoor adventure and journalism. Across both identities, she has written more than forty novels, developing several separate series while maintaining a recognizable interest in community, chosen family, creative work, and the pleasures of returning to a familiar place.
Alexander is a native of the Pacific Northwest, and geography gives much of her bibliography its character. Her mysteries move through Oregon and Washington communities shaped by theatre, tourism, brewing, restaurants, bookstores, hiking, and local festivals. She treats setting as more than picturesque background: the businesses and traditions sustaining each town also create rivalries, financial pressures, old relationships, and the close social networks through which crimes must be investigated.
Her best-known work is the Bakeshop Mystery series, which began with Meet Your Baker. The books follow pastry chef Juliet “Jules” Capshaw after she returns to Ashland, Oregon, and becomes increasingly involved in her family’s artisan bakery, Torte. Ashland’s Shakespeare festival, theatre community, cafés, and culinary culture provide an unusually rich environment for a long-running cozy series. Recipes, menu planning, staff relationships, and the practical work of operating Torte are woven into the investigations rather than serving merely as decorative details. The series has grown beyond twenty novels, allowing Jules’s professional ambitions, family ties, friendships, and romantic life to develop alongside the individual murder cases.
The Sloan Krause mysteries shift from baking to craft beer. Set in Leavenworth, Washington, a town known for its Bavarian identity, the series follows a brewer rebuilding her life after upheaval in her marriage and family. Brewing technique, seasonal celebrations, tourism, and competition among local businesses give the books their own atmosphere, while Sloan’s questions about her origins create a continuing personal mystery beneath the separate crimes.
Alexander’s newer Secret Bookcase mysteries center on Annie Murray and an Agatha Christie-themed bookstore in the fictional California town of Redwood Grove. The series reflects her affection for classic detective fiction while developing a contemporary community of booksellers, readers, authors, and festival visitors. The related Novel Detectives books extend Annie’s role from informal sleuthing into investigative work, allowing the bookstore world to support another stage of her character’s development.
Under the Kate Dyer-Seeley name, she created the outdoor-oriented mysteries now known as Meg Reed Investigates, formerly the Pacific Northwest Mysteries. Meg is an aspiring journalist who exaggerates her athletic confidence to secure work at an adventure magazine, despite being uncomfortable with many of the assignments she must cover. The resulting stories combine regional landscapes with a gently comic contrast between Meg’s investigative determination and her limited enthusiasm for physical danger. Updated editions have brought these books into closer alignment with the wider Ellie Alexander bibliography.
Alexander has also written romantic comedies, stand-alone fiction, novellas, and collaborative projects. In addition to writing novels, she works as a teacher and coach for writers, focusing on storytelling craft and the practical paths available to publication. Her books are best organized by series rather than treated as one connected world: Jules Capshaw, Sloan Krause, Annie Murray, and Meg Reed each inhabit distinct communities with their own supporting casts and continuing histories.
Across those series, Alexander favors accessible mysteries with strong local texture and substantial attention to the protagonists’ work. Baking, brewing, bookselling, journalism, and outdoor culture become ways of understanding character as well as sources of clues. The murders provide structure and suspense, but the lasting appeal of her fiction lies in the communities built around them—places readers can revisit for evolving friendships, family relationships, seasonal traditions, and the sense that every shop, trail, festival, or neighbourhood contains another story.