Maya Corrigan Books in Order

Maya Corrigan has written 9 books, published between 2014 and 2023. The first book is By Cook or by Crook (2014) and the newest is A Parfait Crime (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
9
Published
2014–2023
Pages on record
2,143 in 7 of 9 books
Reading time
36–54 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,143 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 9 titles with a page count on record.

Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries, a run of 9 books published between 2014 and 2023. By Cook or by Crook (2014) opens the series and A Parfait Crime (2023) is the latest entry. Women cooks, grandfathers, restaurants and dinner tables fill the subjects, alongside murder and investigation in Maryland and Virginia. Food puns title almost every book: Scam Chowder, Final Fondue, The Tell-Tale Tarte, S'more Murders and Gingerdead Man among them. No new title has appeared since 2023.

How many Maya Corrigan books are there?

Maya Corrigan has 9 books, released between 2014 and 2023.

Maya Corrigan Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Maya Corrigan books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. 1
    By Cook or by CrookA Five-Ingredient Mystery #12014 · 310 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2014310
  2. 2
    Scam ChowderA Five-Ingredient Mystery #22015 · 313 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015313
  3. 3
    Final FondueA Five-Ingredient Mystery #32016 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016304
  4. 4
    The Tell-Tale TarteA Five-Ingredient Mystery #42017 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2017304
  5. 5
    S'more MurdersA Five-Ingredient Mystery #52018 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2018304
  6. 6
    Crypt SuzetteA Five-Ingredient Mystery #62019 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2019304
  7. 7
    Gingerdead ManA Five-Ingredient Mystery #72020 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2020304
  8. 8
    Bake OffedA Five-Ingredient Mystery #82022 · confirmed 2/4
    2022
  9. 9
    A Parfait CrimeA Five-Ingredient Mystery #92023 · confirmed 2/4
    2023

Maya Corrigan characters in order

The character linked below has its own reading-order page.

Maya Corrigan books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Do you have to read Maya Corrigan books in order?

You only need to read Maya Corrigan books in order within the A Five-Ingredient Mystery series, which holds 9 of the 9 Maya Corrigan books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Maya Corrigan

Start with By Cook or by Crook (2014), the first Five-Ingredient Mystery book. It is also the earliest catalogued title.

What is the newest Maya Corrigan book?

A Parfait Crime (2023) is the newest Maya Corrigan book released so far.

Is there a new Maya Corrigan book coming?

No next Maya Corrigan book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Maya Corrigan at a glance

Paused
No new Maya Corrigan title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Maya Corrigan books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
2,143 pages across the 7 of 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 304 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Maya Corrigan books, 6 of 9, were published in the 2010s.

What the Maya Corrigan books are about

6 of the 9 Maya Corrigan books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 5 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.