Five-Ingredient Mystery Books in Order

Five-Ingredient Mystery by Maya Corrigan contains 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.

Subject headings for Five-Ingredient Mystery name women cooks, grandfathers, restaurants, dinners and dining, and murder investigations set in Maryland and Virginia. Maya Corrigan is credited on all nine books, which run from By Cook or by Crook (2014) to A Parfait Crime (2023). Food runs through the titles: Scam Chowder, Final Fondue, The Tell-Tale Tarte, S'more Murders, Gingerdead Man and Bake Offed. The novels reach a median of 304 pages, and nothing has been listed since 2023.

How many Five-Ingredient Mystery books are there?

Five-Ingredient Mystery has 9 books, released between 2014 and 2023.

Five-Ingredient Mystery Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 9 Five-Ingredient Mystery 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

Do you have to read Five-Ingredient Mystery books in order?

You should read the Five-Ingredient Mystery books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Five-Ingredient Mystery book also stands alone.

Where to start with Five-Ingredient Mystery

Start with By Cook or by Crook (2014), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Five-Ingredient Mystery book?

A Parfait Crime (2023) is the newest Five-Ingredient Mystery book released so far.

Is there a new Five-Ingredient Mystery book coming?

No next Five-Ingredient Mystery book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Five-Ingredient Mystery at a glance

Paused
No new Five-Ingredient Mystery title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Five-Ingredient Mystery 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 Five-Ingredient Mystery books, 6 of 9, were published in the 2010s.

What the Five-Ingredient Mystery books are about

6 of the 9 Five-Ingredient Mystery 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.

More books by Maya Corrigan

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.