Elizabeth Adams

Elizabeth Adams is an American inspirational fiction author from New York best known for her contributions to several series published by Guideposts Books and Inspirational Media. Among the series she has contributed to include; the “Secrets of Mary's Bookshop,” “Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries,” and the “Tearoom Mysteries.” Adams who is a New Yorker has asserted that she loves a good book, sunshine, and hopes to one day own and live in a Mediterranean villa. Given her love for mysteries, she has said that her best movie of all time is “Casablanca” though she can watch anything by Cary Grant.

The best place to start is the Secrets Of Mary's Bookshop series, the earliest of Elizabeth Adams's multi-book series: it opens with The Writing on the Wall (2012) and runs to 25 books across 2012–2014, ending with Mixed Motives (2014). Elizabeth Adams's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Elizabeth Adams has 95 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2012 and 2025. 85 of them belong to 6 named series — the largest being the Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries series with 27 books — and 10 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Elizabeth Adams's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Secrets Of Mary's Bookshop (2012–2014, 25 books), Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries (2015–2025, 27 books) and Jane Austen Variation: The Quill Collective Anthology (2017–2020, 5 books), plus 2 more.

This guide splits Elizabeth Adams's 95 books into 6 named series and 10 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries (27 books, 2015–2025); Secrets Of Mary's Bookshop (25 books, 2012–2014); A Collection of Unusual Tails (5 books, 2022–2023); Jane Austen Variation: The Quill Collective Anthology (5 books, 2017–2020); The Elopement Project (3 books, 2021), plus 1 further series.