C.A. Phipps

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2018
  • Latest Book:
    April 2026
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Full Series List in Order

A Beagle Diner Cozy Mystery

1 - Beagles Love Cupcake Crimes (Sep-2021)
2 - Beagles Love Steak Secrets (Jun-2022)
3 - Beagles Love Muffin But Murder (Jun-2022)
4 - Beagles Love Layer cake Lies (Feb-2024)

A Cozy Cafe Mystery

1 - Sweet Saboteur (Apr-2020)
2 - Candy Corruption (May-2020)
3 - Mocha Mayhem (Jun-2020)
4 - Berry Betrayal (Oct-2022)
5 - Deadly Desserts (Nov-2023)

A Maple Lane Mystery

0.5 - Sugar and Sliced (Jul-2022)
1 - Apple Pie and Arsenic (May-2018)
2 - Bagels and Blackmail (Jul-2018)
3 - Cookies and Chaos (Sep-2018)
4 - Doughnuts and Disaster (Mar-2019)
5 - Eclairs and Extortion (May-2022)
6 - Fudge and Frenemies (May-2022)
7 - Gingerbread and Gunshots (Dec-2022)
8 - Honey Cake and Homicide (Nov-2024)

A Midlife Potions Mystery

1 - Witchy Awakening (May-2023)
2 - Witchy Hot Spells (Jun-2023)
3 - Witchy Flash Back (Aug-2023)
4 - Witchy Bad Blood (Jun-2024)
5 - Witchy Coffee Crime (May-2025)
6 - Witchy Family Familiar (Apr-2026)

A Witches and Wishes Cozy Mystery

1 - A Wish To Die For (Feb-2025)
2 - A Wish In Time (Aug-2025)

Multi-Author Series List

The Celebrity Corgi Romances

4 - Her Forever Home (Aug-2019)

Books in Order: 30 titles

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  • Witchy Family Familiar

    A Midlife Potions Mystery - 6

    Some secrets are better left buried... especially when they're magically booby-trapped.Baker Jess just wanted to perfect her enchanted lemon tart recipe and keep a low magical profile—but fate (and familiars) have other plans. Her sarcastic cat...

  • A Wish Too Late

    One wish, one woman in hiding, and one witch racing the clock.I'm Patience O'Reilly—white witch, amateur sleuth, and ex-private investigator. My specialty? Granting heartfelt wishes with a touch of magic and a nose for secrets.When a terrified ...

  • Tinsel, Toffee and Trouble

    What starts as a simple job soon turns into a sleuthing adventure when Ellie stumbles upon murder, mayhem, and more small-town secrets than Christmas cookies.After a messy divorce, fifty-something Ellie Prescott is starting over—one house-sitti...

  • A Wish In Time

    A Witches and Wishes Cozy Mystery - 2

    One wish, one woman in hiding, and one witch racing the clock.I'm Patience O'Reilly—white witch, amateur sleuth, and ex-private investigator. My specialty? Granting heartfelt wishes with a touch of magic and a nose for secrets.When a terrified ...

  • Witchy Coffee Crime

    A Midlife Potions Mystery - 5

    A Witchy Bakery, a Coffee Curse, and Revenge Too Sweet to Ignore!Jess finally has it all—a new bakery, a thriving business with her sister, and her cat familiar, Maestro, by her side. But someone is determined to ruin her success.  But whe...

  • A Wish To Die For

    A Witches and Wishes Cozy Mystery - 1

    Wishes, lies, and a touch of magic—what could possibly go wrong?My name is Patience O'Reilly, and I make wishes come true.But trust me—it's not as easy as it sounds. People lie, mostly to themselves, about what will truly make them happy....

  • Honey Cake and Homicide

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 8

    A wedding singer. A mysterious death. And a cake catastrophe.Maddie Flynn has dreamed of this day forever—finally marrying her childhood sweetheart. But before the vows can be spoken, a body is discovered in the unlikeliest of places, turning h...

  • Witchy Bad Blood

    A Midlife Potions Mystery - 4

    Family fueds, ghostly interference, and fatal lies!No one, including Jess, had any idea she was an exceptional witch. Until she began solving crimes using her senses.The trouble is, she'd rather be waving a spatula than a wand and her snarky cat fami...

  • Beagles Love Layer cake Lies

    A Beagle Diner Cozy Mystery - 4

    8 Bakers. Extra Quirky Pets. And… Another Murder?How many amateur sleuths does one small town need?When ex-celebrity chef Lyra St. Claire takes on the challenge of planning a high-stakes wedding, she makes a bold move—hosting a baking com...



  • Deadly Desserts

    A Cozy Cafe Mystery - 5

    A plea from the past can't be ignored!While her sisters fought hard to keep the cafe alive, Ruby Finch had her eye on becoming the town librarian. It took a death for that to come about which wasn't ideal. Now she's helping her fiancé with his n...

  • Witchy Flash Back

    A Midlife Potions Mystery - 3

    A neighborhood nightmare, a deadly discovery, and a grim ghost!Learning to harness her gifts, Jessica Lavender is growing more powerful. Only something is missing. Her familiar insists she's a witch first, but her passion for baking can't be denied a...

  • Witchy Hot Spells

    A Midlife Potions Mystery - 2

    Murder, Magic & Mayhem in Good Fortune!Jessica Lavender never wanted to be a witch, but fate—and her sassy cat familiar—had other plans. Running a potion shop is challenging enough when you can barely brew a proper potion.Add in a spirite...

  • Witchy Awakening

    A Midlife Potions Mystery - 1

    Who knew a talking cat would be the least surprising thing about your midlife crisis?Jessica Lavender thought her life as a baker was bland, but losing her mother changes everything. Inheriting her childhood home and her mom's quirky little shop, she...

  • Gingerbread and Gunshots

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 7

    A bride-to-be. A killer on the loose. And a deadly connection.When Maddie Flynn's old friend-the one who helped Maddie get her very first baking job-returns to Maple Falls, she brings more than wedding plans. She brings danger.Even Big Red, Maddie's ...

  • Berry Betrayal

    A Cozy Cafe Mystery - 4

    Something scary has come to Cozy Hollow!Tasked with cataloging an important citizen's family treasures, Violet Finch is finally following her dreams of assessing antiques and books--until items go missing.Her mentor's training ensures that Violet can...

  • Sugar and Sliced

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 0.5

    A Manhattan bakery. A deadly competition. And a murder too close for comfort.When a body literally drops at her feet, baker Maddie Flynn knows this isn't a tragic accident—it's murder. With her sharp instincts, a dash of courage, and a few secr...

  • Beagles Love Muffin But Murder

    A Beagle Diner Cozy Mystery - 3

    Muffin but clues!When the unthinkable happens--another murder, ex-celebrity chef Lyra St. Claire is once more hounded by the paparazzi. The sheriff doesn't appreciate her help, but how can she carry on as if nothing's happened? To make matters worse,...

  • Beagles Love Steak Secrets

    A Beagle Diner Cozy Mystery - 2

    Will this small town kill the diner?Back in her hometown with a new-look diner proving popular, everything is going great for ex-celebrity chef Lyra St. Claire and her beagle, Cinnamon. Until the sudden death of a friend. As sad as they are, a dark c...

  • Eclairs and Extortion

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 5

    Marriage, Menace... and Murder!The same day Maddie's mother unexpectedly arrives in Maple Falls, a body is found in the park. Coincidence? Maddie isn't so sure. And to make things even more unsettling, a mysterious stranger has been spotted roaming t...



  • Fudge and Frenemies

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 6

    A castle of secrets. A stubborn detective. And a mystery Maddie can't resist.When baker Maddie Flynn joins her Gran on a dream trip to London, she expects tea, scones, and sightseeing-not murder. But trouble seems to follow her everywhere, even acros...

  • Beagles Love Cupcake Crimes

    A Beagle Diner Cozy Mystery - 1

    Book 1 in The Beagle Diner Cozy MysteriesIs this Murder, She Baked? If you love cooking wrapped around a mystery, then this is the series for you!Cooking is all celebrity chef Lyra St. Claire ever wanted to do. Plucked from school and being thrown in...

  • Mocha Mayhem

    A Cozy Cafe Mystery - 3

    A Seaside Wedding. A Dream Catering Gig. A Dead Body?!Scarlett swore this last-minute wedding job would put The Cozy Café on the map—but she never expected murder to be on the menu!With her sisters by her side, Scarlett finds herself tangl...

  • Candy Corruption

    A Cozy Cafe Mystery - 2

    A deadly hit-and-run, a café in chaos, and a cat with a nose for clues!Scarlett Finch has enough on her plate-running the Cozy Café, managing a mountain of baking orders, and keeping her family from bickering like rival chefs. The last thin...

  • Sweet Saboteur

    A Cozy Cafe Mystery - 1

    Deadly gossip, a café in trouble, and sisters determined to keep a promise. Scarlett and her sisters have different aspirations, but the one thing they agree on is that the café must survive. The trouble is, someone else is just as determin...

  • Her Forever Home

    The Celebrity Corgi Romances - 4

    Culinary student Lyra St. Claire can't believe her luck when she becomes the face of America's hottest new cooking show and an overnight sensation. For now, she's loving the lime light and with her faithful corgi, Cinnamon, by her side she knows she'...

  • Doughnuts and Disaster

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 4

    A canceled doughnut order. A deadly secret. And Maddie's best friend in the crosshairs.Baker Madeline Maddie Flynn has been delivering jelly doughnuts to her best friend Angel's salon for a year-so when the order is suddenly canceled, Maddie knows so...

  • Cookies and Chaos

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 3

    A puzzling death. A cruel scam. And cookie sales that turn criminal.Baker Madeline Maddie Flynn thought helping the sheriff's twin nephews with their cookie fundraiser would be sweet and simple. But when strange vandalism and a shocking death rattle ...

  • Bagels and Blackmail

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 2

    Maddie’s beloved cat is missing! 

    Why would someone steal Big Red?

    More than a pet… 

    … so much more, it turns out that he’s not the only one taken. It’s a catastrophe for the owners who, like Maddie, conside...

  • Adam and Eve

    Sycamore Springs isn’t Eden Eve Conroy I’ve come home to Sycamore Springs, which is something I thought I’d never do. Right now, with my big fat divorce pending, the soul-destroying taste of failure in my mouth, no job, little money and two kid...



  • Apple Pie and Arsenic

    A Maple Lane Mystery - 1

    Who knew pie could be deadly? 


    Spring Festival and murder.


    Can Maddie clear her name?


    Finding the body was a shock. Accused of putting it there pushes Maddie over the edge and into the Sheriffâ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

C.A. Phipps has published 30 books.

The next book by C.A. Phipps, Witchy Family Familiar, will be published in April 2026.

The first book by C.A. Phipps, Adam and Eve, was published in May 2018.

Yes. C.A. Phipps has 5 series.
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