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Penelope Cress

3 Series • 17 Books

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🎯 Where Should I Start?

Best Starting Point
Publication Order of The Isle of Wesberrey Books
Start with: Holy Homicide (2022)
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Publication Order of Mike Atwell Mysteries Books
Start with: Death by Dickens (2024)
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Start with: Once Upon a Halloween (2021)

ⓘ About Penelope Cress

A lover of murder mystery and cups of tea (which is served with a stack of digestive biscuits), she writes these quaint little cozy mysteries and other feel good stories from this corner table found in the vintage tea shop located on the high street. She loves all things retro and nostalgia. Her taste in music is also very last century. Penelope loves a good murder. There is nothing she likes more than snuggling up, watching “Midsomer Murders” and Agatha Christie on TV. Or even better watching reading a recent cozy mystery on the train at the end of another hard day. In her mind, she imagined the nostalgic world of G.K. Chesterton’s “Father Brown” with the modern day humor of the Vicar of Dibley. What if there was this place where there weren’t any cars but cats just roamed free?

All Book Series by Penelope Cress

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Holy Homicide

Series opener · book 1 of 9 · published 2022

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2022
2
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Mausoleum Madness

Book 2 of 9 · published 2022

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2022
3
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Pious Poison

Book 3 of 9 · published 2022

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2022
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Divine Death

Book 4 of 9 · published 2022

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2022
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Consecrated Crime

Book 5 of 9 · published 2023

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2023
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Vestry Vice

Book 6 of 9 · published 2023

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2023
7
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A String of Perils

Book 7 of 9 · published 2023

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2023
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Sacred Slaying

Book 8 of 9 · published 2023

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2023
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Enshrined Evil

Latest in the series · book 9 of 9 · published 2023

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2023
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Death by Dickens

Series opener · book 1 of 6 · published 2024

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2024
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Death of an Ice Cream Salesman

Book 2 of 6 · published 2024

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2024
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Death on the Nineteenth

Book 3 of 6 · published 2024

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2024
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Death Stage Left

Book 4 of 6 · published 2025

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2025
5
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Death by Degrees

Book 5 of 6 · published 2026

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2026
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Death by a Thousand Crumbs

Latest in the series · book 6 of 6 · published 2026

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2026
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Once Upon a Halloween

Series opener · book 1 of 2 · published 2021

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2021
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Hellhounds

Latest in the series · book 2 of 2 · published 2021

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2021

? Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Penelope Cress?

A lover of murder mystery and cups of tea (which is served with a stack of digestive biscuits), she writes these quaint little cozy mysteries and other feel good stories from this corner table found in the vintage tea shop located on the high street. She loves all things retro and nostalgia. Her taste in music is also very last century.

Which Penelope Cress series should I start with?

The best place to start is The Isle of Wesberrey series, the earliest of Penelope Cress's multi-book series: it opens with Holy Homicide (2022) and runs to 9 books across 2022–2023, ending with Enshrined Evil (2023). Penelope Cress's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

How many books has Penelope Cress written?

Penelope Cress has 17 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2021 and 2026. 15 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being The Isle of Wesberrey series with 9 books — and 2 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

In what order should Penelope Cress's series be read?

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Penelope Cress's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are The Isle of Wesberrey (2022–2023, 9 books) and Mike Atwell Mysteries (2024–2026, 6 books).

How are Penelope Cress's books organised into series?

This guide splits Penelope Cress's 17 books into 2 named series and 2 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Isle of Wesberrey (9 books, 2022–2023); Mike Atwell Mysteries (6 books, 2024–2026).