Mary Daheim

Mary Daheim started to develop her bond for the love of books along with the playing of the words in the vocabulary collection just at the age of 5. She also at one point of life disdained from becoming a writer. The secret is that she never liked attending school as she did not keep up well during her child hood days.

The best place to start is the Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries series, the earliest of Mary Daheim's multi-book series: it opens with Just Desserts (1991) and runs to 32 books across 1991–2020, ending with Lady MacDeath (2020). Mary Daheim's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Mary Daheim has 88 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1983 and 2020. 80 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries series with 32 books — and 8 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. Mary Daheim's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Frasers (1983–1988, 2 books), Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries (1991–2020, 32 books) and Emma Lord (1992–2020, 28 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Mary Daheim's 88 books into 4 named series and 8 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries (32 books, 1991–2020); Emma Lord (28 books, 1992–2020); Love At Stake (18 books, 2005–2014); Frasers (2 books, 1983–1988).