Kate Kingsbury

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1993
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Manor House Mystery

1 - A Bicycle Built for Murder (Feb-2001)
2 - Death Is in the Air (Aug-2001)
3 - For Whom Death Tolls (Feb-2002)
4 - Dig Deep for Murder (Dec-2002)
5 - Paint by Murder (Sep-2003)
6 - Berried Alive (Apr-2004)
7 - Fire When Ready (Dec-2004)
8 - Wedding Rows (Jan-2006)
9 - An Unmentionable Murder (Aug-2006)

Merry Ghost Inn

1 - Dead and Breakfast (Jan-2017)
2 - Doom with a View (Sep-2017)
3 - Be Our Ghost (Oct-2018)

A Pennyfoot Mystery

1 - Room With a Clue (Sep-1993)
2 - Do Not Disturb (Jan-1994)
3 - Service for Two (May-1994)
4 - Eat, Drink, and Be Buried (Sep-1994)
5 - Check-Out Time (Mar-1995)
6 - Grounds for Murder (Aug-1995)
7 - Pay the Piper (Mar-1996)
8 - Chivalry Is Dead (Oct-1996)
9 - Ring for Tomb Service (May-1997)
10 - Death With Reservations (Jan-1998)
11 - Dying Room Only (Oct-1998)
12 - Maid to Murder (Jul-1999)
13 - No Clue at the Inn (Nov-2003)
14 - Slay Bells (Nov-2006)
15 - Shrouds of Holly (Nov-2007)
16 - Ringing In Murder (Nov-2008)
17 - Decked with Folly (Nov-2009)
18 - Mistletoe and Mayhem (Nov-2010)
19 - Herald of Death (Nov-2011)
20 - The Clue Is in the Pudding (Nov-2012)
21 - Mulled Murder (Nov-2013)
21.5 - A Perilous Promise (Dec-2016)
22 - A Merry Murder (Oct-2019)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Room With a Clue

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 1

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not part ...

  • Do Not Disturb

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 2

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair'.s job to keep them comfortable and entertained as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel. Detective work is not part...

  • Service for Two

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 3

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job to keep them comfortable and entertained as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel. Detective work is not part ...

  • Eat, Drink, and Be Buried

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 4

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job to keep them comfortable and entertained as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel. Detective work is not part ...

  • Check-Out Time

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 5

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job to keep them comfortable and entertained as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel. Detective work is not part ...

  • Grounds for Murder

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 6

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not part ...

  • Pay the Piper

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 7

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not par...

  • Chivalry Is Dead

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 8

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not part ...

  • Ring for Tomb Service

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 9

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not par...



  • Death With Reservations

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 10

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not par...

  • Dying Room Only

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 11

    The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not part of her duties--but Cecily ...

  • Maid to Murder

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 12

    WELCOME TO THE PENNYFOOT The London aristocracy has discovered the pleasures of seaside holidays in Badgers End, and it's Cecily Sinclair's job as the owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel to keep them comfortable and entertained. Detective work is not part ...

  • A Bicycle Built for Murder

    A Manor House Mystery - 1

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...

  • Death Is in the Air

    A Manor House Mystery - 2

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...

  • For Whom Death Tolls

    A Manor House Mystery - 3

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...

  • Dig Deep for Murder

    A Manor House Mystery - 4

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Co...

  • Paint by Murder

    A Manor House Mystery - 5

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...

  • No Clue at the Inn

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 13

    WELCOME BACK TO THE PENNYFOOT Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her husband, Hugh, haven't been back to Badgers End in two years--not since they sold the Pennyfoot Hotel and the new owner turned it into a country club. But when Cecily receives a letter a...

  • Berried Alive

    A Manor House Mystery - 6

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...



  • Fire When Ready

    A Manor House Mystery - 7

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In World War II England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartle...

  • Wedding Rows

    A Manor House Mystery - 8

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON, SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR -- AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Co...

  • An Unmentionable Murder

    A Manor House Mystery - 9

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...

  • Slay Bells

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 14

    WELCOME BACK TO THE PENNYFOOT To ring in the holiday season, Cecily Sinclair Baxter is hosting a party at the Pennyfoot Hotel for the children of Badgers End to meet Father Christmas. Unfortunately, the jolly old man fails to appear. Instead, his ...

  • Shrouds of Holly

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 15

    WELCOME BACK TO THE PENNYFOOT While preparing the Pennyfoot for Christmas, Cecily Sinclair Baxter sends her husband and her stable manager into the woods for some fresh boughs of holly. When their horse-drawn carriage returns unmanned, it bears the ...

  • Ringing In Murder

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 16

    A merry hustle-and-bustle always heralds the holidays at the Pennyfoot. Even as she prepares for the holiday meal, Cecily Sinclair Baxter is also helping her friend Madeline plan her wedding. And this year, Cecily has a cracking surprise for her gues...

  • Decked with Folly

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 17

    Make room for murder with all the trimmings in the latest of the Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery series. It's the holiday season and the Pennyfoot staff is brimming with anticipation. The scents of the season overflow from the kitchen and the co...

  • Mistletoe and Mayhem

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 18

    This holiday season there'll be murder under the mistletoe at the Pennyfoot Hotel... As friends, family, and guests gather at the Pennyfoot Hotel to share the joys of the season, Cecily Sinclair Baxter and her staff are hustling and bustling more ...

  • Herald of Death

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 19

    A dark spirit threatens the Pennyfoot's shiny and bright Christmas... The Christmas Angel is a welcome sight during the winter season-but not this year. A killer is afoot in Badger's End, cutting a lock of hair from his victims and sticking a gold...

  • The Clue Is in the Pudding

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 20

    The kitchen staff of the Pennyfoot Hotel is toiling away to prepare the finest meal for the guests on Christmas. And the plum pudding may very well be to die for… Cecily Sinclair Baxter could use a Christmas miracle. Mrs. Chubb, the Pennyfoot’...



  • Mulled Murder

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 21

    This holiday season at the Pennyfoot, the head count is down--but the body count is up... With one of her housemaids leaving to get married, Cecily Sinclair Baxter wants nothing more for Christmas than some good help. Instead of visions of sugar p...

  • A Perilous Promise

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 21.5

    “The author draws as much from Fawlty Towers as she does from Agatha Christie, crafting a charming…cozy delicately flavored with period details of pre-World War 1 rural England."-- Publisher’s Weekly"Kingsbury’s books are lighthearted and ser...

  • Dead and Breakfast

    Merry Ghost Inn - 1

    Melanie West is getting her life back on track after a messy divorce when her grandmother, Liza Harris, asks her to open a B&B with her. Together, Liza and Melanie purchase a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast and jump right into clearin...

  • Doom with a View

    Merry Ghost Inn - 2

    When a guest mysteriously dies at the Merry Ghost Inn, Melanie and her grandmother fear that their professional reputations -- and their lives -- are on the line With the arrival of six senior reading group members at the Merry Ghost Inn, the lo...

  • Be Our Ghost

    Merry Ghost Inn - 3

    When mayhem breaks out in Melanie’s seaside Oregon town, she must race save the ones she loves with the help of her B&B’s resident friendly ghostThe Merry Ghost Inn is well and truly open for business. Melanie West, her grandmother, Liza, and...

  • A Merry Murder

    A Pennyfoot Mystery - 22

    It is an Edwardian Christmas, and the Pennyfoot Hotel is all dressed up. But when one of the guests turns up dead, owner Cecily Sinclair Baxter realizes it is not only the Pennyfoot that is back in business -- the hotel's Christmas curse is, too....

  • In Hot Water

    In bestselling author Kate Kingsbury's Misty Bay Tea Room series debut, the proprietress of a British-style tea shop must draw on her love for mystery novels to sleuth a murder.Vivian Wainwright is living her dream. The middle-aged widow owns the Mis...

  • In Too Steep

    The peace and tranquility of the Misty Bay Tearoom is rocked by murder and a long-buried secret hidden in a most unlikely place in bestselling author Kate Kingsbury’s second charming book for fans of Cleo Coyle and Laura Childs.It seemed like a sim...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kate Kingsbury has published 37 books.

Kate Kingsbury does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In Too Steep, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Kate Kingsbury, Room With a Clue, was published in September 1993.

Yes. Kate Kingsbury has 3 series.
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