Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Farm, No Foul | 2016 | Peg Cochran | Buy |
| 2 | Sowed to Death | 2017 | Peg Cochran | Buy |
| 3 | Bought the Farm | 2018 | Peg Cochran | Buy |
The Farmer’s Daughter Mysteries follow Shelby McDonald, a young woman who gives up a career in New York to return to Lovett’s Farm, her family’s property in rural Michigan. The series plays on the fish-out-of-water setup – a protagonist readjusting to small-town and agricultural life – while delivering the cozy mystery formula of an amateur sleuth drawn into local crime.
No Farm, No Foul (2016) opens the series with Shelby settling back into farm life and immediately finding a body. Sowed to Death (2017) and Bought the Farm (2018) continue her investigations, each rooted in the agricultural community she is reconnecting with. The farming setting gives the series a specific flavor within the crowded cozy market, and Cochran draws on the details of farm life to ground the stories.
The series is relatively short at three books, making it easy to read in full. Readers who enjoy Cochran’s other work, particularly the Cranberry Cove Mysteries with their similar rural Michigan setting, will find familiar pleasures here.