Maria Grazia Swan

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2013
  • Latest Book:
    November 2022
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Full Series List in Order

A Baker Girls Cozy Mystery

1 - Cooks, Crooks and a Corpse (Feb-2017)
2 - Food, Fools, and a Dead Psychic (Mar-2018)
3 - Wine, Dine and Christmas Crimes (Aug-2019)
3.5 - Pies, Lies and a Last Goodbye (Dec-2019)
4 - Apples, Appaloosa and Alibis (Mar-2021)

A Lella York Mystery

1 - Gemini Moon // Murder Under the Italian Moon (Nov-2013)
2 - Venetian Moon // Death Under the Venice Moon (Aug-2016)
3 - Desert Moon // Murder Under the Desert Moon (Sep-2016)

Mina's Aventures

1 - Love Thy Sister (Feb-2013)
2 - Bosom Bodies (Jan-2013)
3 - Italian Summer (Nov-2013)
4 - Ashes of Autumn (Apr-2015)
4.5 - Cats, Gondolas and Valentines (Feb-2016)
5 - A Cat to Die For (Oct-2017)
6 - Best in Show (Oct-2017)
7 - Sniffing Out Murder (Jul-2017)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • Bosom Bodies

    Mina's Aventures - 2

    Italian-born Mina Calvi has a way of finding trouble, but when she offers to help a friend by moonlighting at Bosom Bodies restaurant, it’s trouble that finds her. The body of the restaurant manager is discovered on the beach, a hit and run victim,...

  • Love Thy Sister

    Mina's Aventures - 1

    Italian-born Mina Calvi lives in a mansion in idyllic Orange County, California with her protective older sister, Paola. Unemployed again and aimless, Mina can’t seem to find her niche in her adopted country, but confusion and restlessness soon bec...

  • Mating Dance

    Mating Dance is not a step-by-step manual on how to disco or merengue. It’s a chronicle filled with tales of love in unexpected places, stories of women with secret pasts, and yarns about men who don't know what’s good for them or even what they ...

  • Gemini Moon // Murder Under the Italian Moon

    A Lella York Mystery - 1

    Italian-born Lella York leads a very predictable life as an average housewife in Southern California... until a strange encounter on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy predicts a very different future. Upon returning from her vacation, Lella is sho...

  • Italian Summer

    Mina's Aventures - 3

    When they say, “you can’t go home again,” they’re talking about Mina Calvi, twenty-something Italian transplant to California. Still nursing a broken heart, desperate to discover her place in the world, Mina arrives in the town of her birth i...

  • Ashes of Autumn

    Mina's Aventures - 4

    On the eve of the final sale of her mother’s business, Italian import Mina Calvi faces a crossroads. The road she dreams of foretells a life of rosy bliss in a quaint Laguna Canyon cottage, sipping cappuccino with her lover, Diego. When a chance de...

  • Cats, Gondolas and Valentines

    Mina's Aventures - 4.5

    It’s Valentine’s Day Eve and Mina is in Las Vegas for a conference about shelters and refuges for abandoned cats. And the conference is at The Venetian Hotel. Love is in the air. Unfortunately so is the love of her life, Diego, who is flying to a...

  • #one #two #three

    #one Love Thy Sister: Italian-born Mina Calvi lives in a mansion in idyllic Orange County, California with her protective older sister, Paola. Unemployed again and aimless, Mina can't seem to find her niche in her adopted country, but confusion and r...

  • Venetian Moon // Death Under the Venice Moon

    A Lella York Mystery - 2

    When she felt her new life falling apart, she fled to Venice, and watched her life go to pieces... An Italian in California, Lella York proves that you can take the woman out of Italy, but you can't take Italy out of the woman. Convinced he...



  • Desert Moon // Murder Under the Desert Moon

    A Lella York Mystery - 3

    When her cat hitched a ride without her, she had no choice but to tail the furry creature... From award winning author Maria Grazia Swan comes a story of suspense, romance, and one mischievous cat... How does a domestic black cat from South...

  • Christmas in Venice

    Amanda finds she has to do more than pet-sitting over the Christmas holidays when Matilda the tortoise goes missing. Soon the whole neighborhood rush to help, but no one with more enthusiasm than the mysterious body guard of the recluse romance write...

  • Cooks, Crooks and a Corpse

    A Baker Girls Cozy Mystery - 1

    Can't resist lighthearted comedy dressed with a little mystery that never takes you down a dark road?Good, because that’s what you get when you put two hot Italian imports together. Meet the hot pink Fiat 500 and its owner, real estate agent Monica...

  • Sniffing Out Murder

    Mina's Aventures - 7

    One dog with two names, twice lost, yet always found. Two newly orphaned boys who love their dog and love each other so much they vow to stick together against all odds. Enter super sleuth Mina Calvi, the quasi-grown up Italian import who likes cats ...

  • Best in Show

    Mina's Aventures - 6

    Mina Calvi, Italian transplant to Southern California, thinks her love life might finally come together, just as her professional life has. Her Furry Friends Foundation, a no-kill shelter for rescued cats and dogs, is a success, and Mina hopes she ma...

  • A Cat to Die For

    Mina's Aventures - 5

    Mina Calvi's new Furry Friends Foundation is a dream come true for the formerly footloose young woman. Her no-kill shelter rescues and places dogs and cats into new forever homes, and it gives Mina a purpose in life.But changes are looming on a perfe...

  • Food, Fools, and a Dead Psychic

    A Baker Girls Cozy Mystery - 2

    The Psychic Fair is in town, with Mediums and Psychics, Astrologers galore. And a lone murderer!Believers and skeptics stroll the booths, nooks and crannies, along with the wise and the fools, all searching for answers to life’s dilemmas. Some of t...

  • Weeping Moon

    Lella York has a way of getting herself into trouble, even when she’s doing volunteer work. Who is the mysterious storyteller, and what is going on at the senior living center? And will Lella find out before it’s too late?...

  • Bohemian Rhapsody

  • Wine, Dine and Christmas Crimes

    A Baker Girls Cozy Mystery - 3

    Some Christmas surprises don’t come from Santa. At a gathering atop the tallest building in Phoenix, Arizona, to celebrate Monica Baker’s newest listing, the body of a mysterious young woman is found floating in the pool. But why do fingers point...



  • Pies, Lies and a Last Goodbye

    A Baker Girls Cozy Mystery - 3.5

    A missing horse. An absent heartthrob's disappearing wife. A catering gig making pie for highflying gamblers. Monica's got her fingers in too many pies, all of them leading to trouble. Tristan Dumont, the hunky millionaire and very married ...

  • From Italy with Love

    3 books — the first of each of the3 Series3 Sassy Italian imports chasing bad people while hoping to land a good catch2 cats, maybe 31 dogA few graves…. but a lot more laughter.Book 1 in The Baker Girls Cozy Mystery series, Cooks, Crooks...

  • Apples, Appaloosa and Alibis

    A Baker Girls Cozy Mystery - 4

    A good deed, a sexy French millionaire, and a deadly mystery. Just a typical day for Monica Baker… Monica thought her luck was finally improving… until she found herself caught up in a murder investigation. Again. And running the r...

  • Pizza, Paws and a Kidnapped Dog

    No matter what she does, mysteries seem to dog her every step… With her sexy millionaire boyfriend out of town, Monica Baker is sure she'll have an uneventful week. She doesn't. Because it's not long before she finds herself dra...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Maria Grazia Swan has published 23 books.

Maria Grazia Swan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Pizza, Paws and a Kidnapped Dog, was published in November 2022.

The first book by Maria Grazia Swan, Bosom Bodies, was published in January 2013.

Yes. Maria Grazia Swan has 3 series.
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