Theo Bogart is the main character in Susan Cox’s cozy mystery series. Her full name is Theophania Bogart, though she goes by Theo. She is British by birth but fled to San Francisco and changed her name to escape a family scandal that made tabloid headlines back in England.
In San Francisco, Theo runs a soap shop called Aromas in a tight-knit neighborhood. She has built a new life for herself, but each book in the series pulls her into a murder investigation that threatens to expose who she really is. The tension between her hidden past and her present community ties gives the series its backbone.
The first book, The Man on the Washing Machine, won the Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur Books First Crime Novel Competition in 2014.
Reading Order
See the complete Theo Bogart Mysteries reading order for all books in the series.