Lizzie Turner is the central character in Linda Wiken’s Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery series, written under the pen name Erika Chase. She lives in the small town of Ashton Corners, Alabama, where she belongs to the Cheese Straws and Mystery Book Club. The group meets to talk about crime novels, share homemade food, and enjoy each other’s company. None of them expected that their knowledge of fictional murders would ever come in handy.
That changes when real crimes start happening in Ashton Corners. Lizzie finds herself drawn into investigations, partly because of her curiosity and partly because the cases keep touching the lives of people she cares about. She is not a trained detective, and the local police are not always thrilled about her involvement. But she has a sharp eye for detail, a stubborn streak, and a book club full of friends willing to help her work through the clues.
Across six books, starting with A Killer Read, Lizzie and her fellow club members prove that reading all those mysteries has taught them something useful after all. The series blends cozy small-town life with genuine whodunit puzzles, and Lizzie holds it together with her warmth, her loyalty to her friends, and her inability to leave a mystery unsolved.
Reading Order
See the complete Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery reading order for all books in the series.