Chesapeake Books and Mysteries

There are some amazing and talented authors that live in and write about the Chesapeake Bay region that our store calls home. You'll find mysteries both fictional and non-fictional, novels, short-stories, kids books, books about the Bay's flora and fauna, and appreciations of the joys of living here. These books may even entice you to spend more time exploring our beautiful region.

Maryland's Chesapeake: How the Bay and Its Bounty Shaped a Cuisine Cover Image

Maryland's Chesapeake: How the Bay and Its Bounty Shaped a Cuisine (Paperback)

By Neal Patterson, Kathryn Wielech Patterson
$21.95
ISBN: 9781493017911
Availability: Special Order
Published: Globe Pequot Press - August 1st, 2016
Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning Cover Image

Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning (Paperback)

By Donna Andrews (Editor), Barb Goffman (Editor), Talley Marcia (Editor)
$14.99
ISBN: 9781479420513
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Wildside Press - March 1st, 2016
Chesapeake: A Novel Cover Image

Chesapeake: A Novel (Paperback)

By James A. Michener, Steve Berry (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780812970432
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Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - September 9th, 2003
Choptank Odyssey: Celebrating a Great Chesapeake River Cover Image

Choptank Odyssey: Celebrating a Great Chesapeake River (Hardcover)

By Tom Horton, David W. Harp (Photographer)
$34.99
ISBN: 9780764350009
Availability: Special Order
Published: Schiffer Publishing - February 28th, 2016
Painted Silver Cover Image

Painted Silver (Paperback)

By Susan Reiss
$13.95
ISBN: 9780989360746
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Published: Ink & Imagination - July 15th, 2014
Daughter of Ashes: A Hannah Ives Murder Mystery. (Hannah Ives Mystery #14) Cover Image

Daughter of Ashes: A Hannah Ives Murder Mystery. (Hannah Ives Mystery #14) (Paperback)

By Marcia Talley
$17.95
ISBN: 9781847516008
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Published: Severn House Publishers - May 1st, 2016
Jacob Have I Loved Cover Image

Jacob Have I Loved (Paperback)

By Katherine Paterson
$7.99
ISBN: 9780064403689
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Published: HarperCollins - May 5th, 2020
Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen Cover Image

Skipjack: The Story of America's Last Sailing Oystermen (Paperback)

By Christopher White
$17.95
ISBN: 9781442210882
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Published: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - December 16th, 2011
Maryland's Skipjacks (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Cover Image

Maryland's Skipjacks (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback)

By David Berry
$21.99
ISBN: 9780738553634
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Published: Arcadia Publishing (SC) - May 26th, 2008
Sailing on the Edge: America's Cup Cover Image

Sailing on the Edge: America's Cup (Hardcover)

By Bob Fisher, Kimball Livingston, Roger Vaughan (With)
$75.00
ISBN: 9781608872060
Availability: Special Order
Published: Insight Editions - July 2nd, 2013
Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks Cover Image

Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks (Hardcover)

By Pat Vojtech
$29.95
ISBN: 9780870334511
Availability: Special Order
Published: Schiffer Publishing - July 30th, 2009
Death at the Lighthouse Cover Image

Death at the Lighthouse (Paperback)

By John Reisinger
$14.95
ISBN: 9780983881834
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Glyphworks Publishing - August 1st, 2012
St. Michaels, Oxford, and the Talbot County Bayside (Schiffer Books) Cover Image

St. Michaels, Oxford, and the Talbot County Bayside (Schiffer Books) (Hardcover)

By James Tigner
$39.95
ISBN: 9780764327087
Availability: Special Order
Published: Schiffer Publishing - June 20th, 2007
Lost Chester River Steamboats: From Chestertown to Baltimore (Transportation) Cover Image

Lost Chester River Steamboats: From Chestertown to Baltimore (Transportation) (Paperback)

By Jack Shaum
$21.99
ISBN: 9781467117593
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Published: History Press - October 19th, 2015
By Cook or by Crook (A Five-Ingredient Mystery #1) Cover Image

By Cook or by Crook (A Five-Ingredient Mystery #1) (Mass Market)

By Maya Corrigan
$7.99
ISBN: 9781617731389
Availability: Backordered
Published: Kensington - November 4th, 2014
Scam Chowder (A Five-Ingredient Mystery #2) Cover Image

Scam Chowder (A Five-Ingredient Mystery #2) (Paperback)

By Maya Corrigan
$7.99
ISBN: 9781617731402
Availability: Hard to Find
Published: Kensington - June 30th, 2015
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay Cover Image

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (Paperback)

By William W. Warner (Afterword by), John Barth (Introduction by), William W. Warner
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316923354
Availability: Backordered
Published: Back Bay Books - March 21st, 1994
Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future Cover Image

Chesapeake Oysters: The Bay's Foundation and Future (Paperback)

By Kate Livie
$21.99
ISBN: 9781626198258
Availability: Special Order
Published: History Press - October 26th, 2015
Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales from East of the Chesapeake (Haunted America) Cover Image

Haunted Eastern Shore: Ghostly Tales from East of the Chesapeake (Haunted America) (Paperback)

By Mindie Burgoyne
$17.99
ISBN: 9781596297203
Availability: Special Order
Published: History Press (SC) - September 1st, 2009
The Haunted Mid-Shore: Spirits of Caroline, Dorchester and Talbot Counties Cover Image

The Haunted Mid-Shore: Spirits of Caroline, Dorchester and Talbot Counties (Paperback)

By Mindie Burgoyne, Ian Fleming (Foreword by)
$19.99
ISBN: 9781626198135
Availability: Special Order
Published: History Press - August 24th, 2015
Seafood Lover's Chesapeake Bay: Restaurants, Markets, Recipes & Traditions Cover Image

Seafood Lover's Chesapeake Bay: Restaurants, Markets, Recipes & Traditions (Paperback)

By Mary Lou Baker, Holly Smith
$19.95
ISBN: 9781493001538
Availability: Hard to Find
Published: Globe Pequot Press - December 2nd, 2014
Dishing Up® Maryland: 150 Recipes from the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake Bay Cover Image

Dishing Up® Maryland: 150 Recipes from the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake Bay (Paperback)

By Lucie Snodgrass, John Shields (Foreword by), Edwin Remsberg (Photographs by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9781603425278
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Published: Storey Publishing, LLC - April 17th, 2010
An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake Cover Image

An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake (Paperback)

By Tom Horton
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393331462
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 28th, 2008
Life in the Chesapeake Bay Cover Image

Life in the Chesapeake Bay (Paperback)

By Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson
$33.50
ISBN: 9780801883385
Availability: Special Order
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press - March 1st, 2006
Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay Cover Image

Field Guide to Fishes of the Chesapeake Bay (Paperback)

By Edward O. Murdy, John A. Musick, Valerie A. Kells (Illustrator)
$26.95
ISBN: 9781421407685
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press - May 1st, 2013
The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake Cover Image

The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake (Hardcover)

By William B. Cronin
$40.00
ISBN: 9780801874352
Availability: Special Order
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press - June 17th, 2005
Oakley the Oyster: A Chesapeake Bay Adventure Cover Image

Oakley the Oyster: A Chesapeake Bay Adventure (Hardcover)

By Cindy Freland
$18.00
ISBN: 9780692564684
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Published: Maryland Secretarial Services, Inc. - October 25th, 2015
Mason's Retreat: A Novel Cover Image

Mason's Retreat: A Novel (Paperback)

By Christopher Tilghman
$16.00
ISBN: 9781250016072
Availability: Special Order
Published: Picador - April 24th, 2012
The Right-Hand Shore: A Novel Cover Image

The Right-Hand Shore: A Novel (Paperback)

By Christopher Tilghman
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250033284
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Published: Picador - April 30th, 2013
Plants of the Chesapeake Bay: A Guide to Wildflowers, Grasses, Aquatic Vegetation, Trees, Shrubs, & Other Flora Cover Image

Plants of the Chesapeake Bay: A Guide to Wildflowers, Grasses, Aquatic Vegetation, Trees, Shrubs, & Other Flora (Paperback)

By Lytton John Musselman, David A. Knepper
$27.95
ISBN: 9781421404981
Availability: Special Order
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press - May 30th, 2012
Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807 Cover Image

Pirates on the Chesapeake: Being a True History of Pirates, Picaroons, and Raiders on Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1807 (Paperback)

By Donald G. Shomette
$22.99
ISBN: 9780870336072
Availability: Special Order
Published: Tidewater Publishers - April 1st, 2008
Birds of Maryland & Delaware Field Guide and Audio Set [With Leather Carrying Case and CDs] (Bird Identification Guides) Cover Image

Birds of Maryland & Delaware Field Guide and Audio Set [With Leather Carrying Case and CDs] (Bird Identification Guides) (Paperback)

By Stan Tekiela
$31.95
ISBN: 9781591931225
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Published: Adventure Publications - May 1st, 2005
The Tidewater Tales (American Literature) Cover Image

The Tidewater Tales (American Literature) (Paperback)

By John Barth
$21.00
ISBN: 9781564788504
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Dalkey Archive Press - June 22nd, 2016
Maryland's Chesapeake: How the Bay and Its Bounty Shaped a Cuisine Cover Image

Maryland's Chesapeake: How the Bay and Its Bounty Shaped a Cuisine (Paperback)

By Neal Patterson, Kathryn Wielech Patterson
$21.95
ISBN: 9781493017911
Availability: Special Order
Published: Globe Pequot Press - August 1st, 2016
Chesapeake 1 2 3 Cover Image

Chesapeake 1 2 3 (Hardcover)

By Priscilla Cummings
$11.95
ISBN: 9780870335426
Availability: Special Order
Published: Schiffer Publishing - June 30th, 2009