Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murder is Binding | 2008 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 2 | Bookmarked for Death | 2009 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 3 | Bookplate Special | 2009 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 4 | Chapter and Hearse | 2010 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 5 | Sentenced to Death | 2011 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 6 | Murder on the Half Shelf | 2012 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 7 | Not the Killing Type | 2013 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 8 | Book Clubbed | 2014 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 9 | A Fatal Chapter | 2015 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 10 | Title Wave | 2016 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 11 | A Just Clause | 2017 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 12 | Poisoned Pages | 2018 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 13 | A Killer Edition | 2019 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 14 | Handbook for Homicide | 2020 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 15 | A Deadly Deletion | 2021 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 16 | Clause of Death | 2022 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
| 17 | A Questionable Character | 2023 | Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett | Buy |
The Booktown Mystery series by Lorraine Bartlett / Lorna Barrett (writing as Lorna Barrett) is set in Stoneham, New Hampshire, a small town that has reinvented itself as a vacation destination for book lovers. Protagonist Tricia Miles owns Haven’t Got a Clue, a mystery bookstore, and has a recurring problem: people in Stoneham keep turning up dead.
The series ran for 17 books from Murder is Binding (2008) through A Questionable Character (2023). It became a New York Times bestseller and earned Bartlett an Agatha Award nomination. The books combine cozy mystery conventions, from small-town settings to amateur sleuthing, with the specific world of independent bookselling and the tight-knit community around it.