Series Reading Order
Where to start. What to read next. The complete guide to all three Roxie Maxx mystery series.
Where to start. What to read next. The complete guide to all three Roxie Maxx mystery series.
Each Roxie Maxx series stands on its own. You can start with any of them, depending on what kind of cozy mystery you're in the mood for. Whether you start with a community of women on the Lake Michigan shore, the dusty corners of Whiskey Pines, or a Prohibition-era past, you're never lost for long.
If you want the full picture, the recommended order is below. If you just want to dive in, pick the world that calls you.
Roxie Maxx founds a women-only crafting colony on the Lake Michigan shore. Twenty cottages, one common house, and a community of women who've earned the right to a quieter chapter. Then someone starts moving inside her sanctuary. Eight novellas, each a self-contained mystery, woven through the slow build of a place worth protecting.
Roxie Maxx returns to Whiskey Pines, Michigan, to inherit the family home, the family secrets, and the family dog — Kenzie, a Bichon Frise with the soul of a 1920s speakeasy waitress. Eight books unraveling Prohibition-era tunnels, present-day intrigue, and the mysteries Roxie's family has been protecting for generations.
When Roxie's emerald pendant vibrates, she is displaced into 1923, where her grandmother Roxanne reigned as the queen of the Great Lakes during Prohibition. The only series with time travel. The only series with romance. A different reading experience from the cozies — but the same Whiskey Pines, a generation earlier.
Pines & Needles and Whiskey Pines Mysteries share the town of Whiskey Pines and several supporting characters, but they're set in different eras and read independently. The Pines & Needles novellas take place in the 1980s, when Roxie founds the Colony. The Whiskey Pines Mysteries are present-day. Reading either first is fine.
Roxanne's World is the only series with supernatural elements. The pendant that drives the time travel exists as an inherited object in the cozy series, but only displaces its wearer in the Romantasy series. Cozy readers can skip it; romance readers can start there.