The Coffeehouse Mystery Series Books in Order: How to read Cleo Coyle’s series?

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American cozy mystery authors Alice Alfonsi and her husband Marc Cerasini collaborated as the creative team known as Cleo Coyle to produce the well-known Coffeehouse Mystery Series.

The Village Blend, a made-up coffee shop located in New York City’s Greenwich Village district, serves as the setting for the whole television series. The manager of this famous coffee shop is Clare Cosi, a divorcee with one adult daughter who has a penchant for becoming involved in homicide.

How to read The Coffeehouse Mystery Book Books in Order?

Within the pages of the Coffeehouse Mysteries, the rich aroma of freshly brewed coffee mingles with the subtle, yet unmistakable scent of crime.

Readers of the Coffeehouse Mystery book series can pick up any book in the series and start reading it right away to get a good tale without having to read the prior books beforehand. There is an additional layer of delight for those who start the series at the beginning and follow the adventures of the unique residents of the Village Blend.

  1. On What Grounds – Before choosing quieter pastures and a more suburban lifestyle, Clare Cosi served as manager of the renowned Village Blend coffeehouse in New York City. She’s back in the game and back to the grind, pouring out scalding hot coffee one cup at a time, albeit, after a ten-year absence. Clare is excited to get back to work because she has a large rent-free apartment immediately above the coffee shop, her cat Java, and lots of design ideas. However, when she gets there, she finds the assistant manager dead in the back of the shop with coffee grounds all over the place. No evidence of forced entry or criminal activity is found, and NYPD Detective Mike Quinn calls the entire incident an accident. Clare isn’t persuaded despite the gorgeous investigator’s conviction.
  2. Through the Grinder – Prior to the deaths of Clare Cosi’s female clients, business at her Village Blend was soaring. Sadly, Lieutenant Quinn’s top suspect is the new man in Clare’s life. He is certain that someone has something against him. Now Clare will put her love and life in danger in order to pursue the killer’s trail to its logical conclusion.
  3. Latte Trouble – Clare Cosi must learn some shocking facts in order to salvage her business after one of her baristas accidentally delivers a toxic latte to a well-known figure in the fashion world.
  4. Murder Most Frothy – Millionaire David Mintzer, Clare Cosi’s new buddy, has an offer that no New York barista could refuse: a summer trip free of the sticky city’s expenditures. She will unwind, enjoy the sunshine, and, yes, teach the employees of his new restaurant at his estate in the Hamptons. Clare packs up her kid, her ex-mom-in-law, and her secret iced coffee recipe in anticipation of what she thinks would be a delightful summer. Soon, Clare will be working at her first Hamptons gala’s coffee shop. However, a failed assassination attempt on the millionaire’s life results in a staff member turning up dead in David’s toilet, putting a stop to the festivities. Clare starts looking into it since she worries about everyone’s safety. What she discovers will keep her up at night, and it’s not the jitters from the coffee.
  1. Decaffeinated Corpse – Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, thinks it’s a commercial opportunity she has to look into when an old friend of her ex-husband creates the first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the nation…at least until the first dead corpse turns up.
  2. French Pressed – Joy Cosi, the daughter of Clare Cosi, is a top New York chef’s intern until his kitchen gets competitive and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Even if it puts her in the scorchingest water of her life, Clare knows she must find the true culprit.
  3. Espresso Shot – For her ex-husband’s wedding, Clare Cosi, manager of a coffee shop, has been recruited to set up a gourmet coffee and dessert bar. However, Breanne Summour, the bridezilla, is her biggest issue. Clare could flame when individuals close to Breanne start dying in tragic accidents.
  4. Holiday Grind – Alfred Glockner, the truly cheery charity Santa who has been using Clare Cosi’s Village Blend to warm his mitts, has won Clare Cosi’s undying affection. When she discovers him brutally killed down in an adjacent alley, a few little details persuade her that Alfred’s murder was not just the unfortunate outcome of an unprovoked mugging, as the police had concluded. Clare works alone to investigate her beloved Santa’s murder since ex-husband Matt is looking into this year’s holiday lingerie catalogs and NYPD Detective Mike Quinn is preoccupied with a cold case of his own.
  1. Roast Mortem – After local firemen pull Clare out of a smoldering café, she cheerfully comes to their rescue by teaching them the finer points of running their freshly donated espresso machine. But when someone starts setting downtown cafés on fire and firefighters start passing away in strange ways, things become pretty heated. Clare investigates, scoping out a five-borough baking fair and looking for evidence in the Brooklyn pizza ovens because she thinks the two incidents are connected. Clare is anxious to douse the flames when her detective lover Mike Quinn gets drawn into the inferno of a fabricated charge. Will she, however, be able to save Mike before being put out of commission?
  2. Murder by Mocha – A Mocha Magic Coffee that contains a herbal aphrodisiac is being made using Clare’s Village Blend coffee beans as a new java love potion. The product will only be offered on Aphrodite’s Village, one of the most well-liked online communities for ladies, and is predicted to bring in millions of dollars. But one of the website’s editors is killed at the product’s launch party. Clare is certain that someone is prepared to kill in order to gain possession of the coffee’s recipe. Can she produce proof against this vengeful murderer? Or will she be the next victim?
  3. A Brew to a Kill – Clare Cosi is propelled into action by a frightening hit-and-run that occurs in front of her Village Blend coffee shop. In her forties, divorced and a single mother, Clare is a devoted investigator who is desperate to find the vicious motorist who struck an innocent friend and client. Her ex-husband Matt, the shop’s world-traveling coffee buyer, gets some incredible new beans from Brazil in the interim. Clare could have been the true target of that murderous motorist, he quickly learns, and he may be importing more than just coffee. Can the ex-husband and ex-wife collaborate to find the answer? Or will their latest concoction result in murder?
  4. Holiday Buzz – In New York City, the holidays are a time for celebration, but when a festive gathering ends in murder, manager of Village Blend Coffeehouse Clare Cosi swears to catch the murderer.
  1. Billionaire Blend – Clare Cosi, a single mother and manager at Village Blend, rescues an unidentified client who later turns out to be millionaire software genius Eric Thorner when a vehicle bomb goes off outside the establishment. Eric asks Clare to develop the world’s most costly coffee blend as a token of appreciation for saving his life. But as Clare is drawn further into Eric’s world, she starts to question: Is this charming young CEO on the verge of being fired? Or is he the one becoming rich? Clare will have to devise a “billionaire’s potluck” food, restore her daughter’s love life, stop a Slayer while collaborating with one, and remain alive all the while in order to solve this case.
  2. Once Upon a Grind – Clare Cosi, a former coffee shop manager turned amateur sleuth, brews up a vision while serving “magic” beans for a Fairy Tale Fall event that leads to a sleeping beauty in Central Park, a big, bad wolf of Wall Street, and an East Side neighborhood with secretive pasts.
  3. Dead to the Last Drop – Clare is having a pleasant time at the nation’s capital so far. She is sharing a cozy Georgetown house with her elderly boss, and she has been asked to collaborate with a renowned curator on the Smithsonian’s culinary tribute to American coffee. Unfortunately, Clare’s brand-new Village Blend DC is having trouble turning a profit until the college-age daughter of the American President becomes a notable admirer of the jazz club on the second level. As the First Lady becomes friends with Clare, her reputation grows, but she soon discovers a sobering lesson: Washington can be murder.
  4. Dead Cold Brew – Clare and her NYPD detective lover deserve a little bit of happy ever after after everything they’ve gone through. While Mike’s marriage proposal to Clare is flawless, their brief engagement party is short-lived. First, a glum-faced lawyer enters their gathering and leaves Clare’s daughter a mystery letter containing a hidden treasure. The renowned jeweler who created Clare’s ring is afterwards discovered poisoned in his store. Both incidents seem to be related to an unsolved murder involving a sunken ship, an Italian curse, a beautiful jewel thief, and a startling family secret. Before a long-standing grudge results in more corpses, Clare must find clues in some of New York’s most remote locations.
  1. Shot In the Dark – The ex-husband of Village Blend manager Clare Cosi develops an addiction to finding matches via smartphone swipes as she works to set a date for her wedding. But because of the expanding company, Clare puts forth a lot of effort to keep the espresso shots coming. Then, on a dark night, she discovers a dead corpse caused by a different type of shooting. The deceased is a successful businessman who made a name for himself by engaging in “hit it and quit it” behavior, which involved stalking women on dating apps and insulting them the next day. Even when the NYPD immediately apprehends one of his most recent victims, Clare has grounds to think that she was set up.
  2. Brewed Awakening – Clare Cosi doesn’t realize she has been absent for days when she wakes up on a seat in Washington Square Park. Everyone is ecstatic that she is returned, even a dashing NYPD cop who is her alleged fiancé. However, Clare doesn’t remember him or much of anything from the previous fifteen years of her life, much to Mike Quinn’s devastating grief. Clare’s lost memory is connected to a crime she saw. Clare was invited to a beautiful hotel by a friend of her stylish boss to taste delicious wedding cakes. Following their decadent taste, they made their way to the parking garage, where a video caught a masked man brandishing a revolver at the hotel heiress while Clare stood by.
  3. Honey Roasted – Clare Cosi prepares a coffee beverage with honey processing. The incredible honey that Clare was fortunate enough to get for her shop’s new latte is also making waves in the food world. The prize-winning honey from “Queen” Bea Hastings’ rooftop hives, produced by Madame’s longtime friend, fetches a premium price, and renowned chefs fight for the opportunity to utilize it in their distinctive seasonal meals. One night, a swarm of escaping bees covers the chimney of the Village Blend, and Clare finds Bea’s lifeless corpse after she appears to have fallen from her rooftop hive erected in a tall building. Clare does not accept any of the police’s proposed explanations, which include a sad accident or a probable suicide attempt.
  4. Bulletproof Barista – The wildly popular streaming series Only Murders in Gotham is well known for employing real New Yorkers as extras and filming in actual New York City locales. They decided to highlight the century-old Village Blend and its eccentric staff for their most recent edition. However, café manager and master roaster Clare Cosi and her team find themselves at the site of a real crime when the film crew’s week of filming results in an actual gunshot.

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