Wendy Meadows

When Wendy’s not writing about female detectives and their tactful crime solving, she can be found tending to her hobby farm, coloring in her growing collection of adult coloring books, playing video games, tend to her flower garden, boss her husband around, or just relaxing on her back porch. Wendy also enjoys spending quality time with her two sons, her husband, two cats, and an adorable Labradoodle. And if there is not any chocolate in her home, she drops everything and runs to the closest store, since a girl can never have enough chocolate.

The best place to start is the Maple Hills series, the earliest of Wendy Meadows's multi-book series: it opens with Raspberry Truffle Murder (2016) and runs to 12 books across 2016–2019, ending with Wedlock Cake Murder (2019). Wendy Meadows's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Wendy Meadows has 155 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2016 and 2026. 153 of them belong to 20 named series — the largest being the Sweetfern Harbor series with 24 books — and 2 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. Wendy Meadows's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Maple Hills (2016–2019, 12 books), Nether Edge (2016–2018, 5 books) and Sweetfern Harbor (2017–2021, 24 books), plus 17 more.

This guide splits Wendy Meadows's 155 books into 20 named series and 2 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Sweetfern Harbor (24 books, 2017–2021); Alaska (16 books, 2017–2020); Maple Hills (12 books, 2016–2019); Sweet Peach Bakery (12 books, 2017–2020); Twin Berry Bakery (12 books, 2020–2024), plus 15 further series.