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

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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

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Published: Wildside Press - March 1st, 2016

Chesapeake: A Novel (Paperback)

By James A. Michener, Steve Berry (Introduction by)

$21.00

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)

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ISBN: 9780764350009

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Published: Schiffer Publishing - February 28th, 2016

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 (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)

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ISBN: 9781608872060

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Published: Insight Editions - July 2nd, 2013

Chesapeake Bay Skipjacks (Hardcover)

By Pat Vojtech

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ISBN: 9780870334511

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Published: Schiffer Publishing - July 30th, 2009

Death at the Lighthouse (Paperback)

By John Reisinger

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ISBN: 9780983881834

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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

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ISBN: 9780764327087

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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

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ISBN: 9781617731389

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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

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ISBN: 9781617731402

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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

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ISBN: 9780316923354

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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

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ISBN: 9781626198258

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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

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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

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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

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ISBN: 9781493001538

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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 (Paperback)

By Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson

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ISBN: 9780801883385

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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)

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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

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ISBN: 9780801874352

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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 (Paperback)

By Christopher Tilghman

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ISBN: 9781250016072

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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

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ISBN: 9781421404981

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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

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ISBN: 9780870336072

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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

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ISBN: 9781591931225

Availability: Out of Print

Published: Adventure Publications - May 1st, 2005

The Tidewater Tales (American Literature) Cover Image

The Tidewater Tales (American Literature) (Paperback)

By John Barth

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ISBN: 9781564788504

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Published: Dalkey Archive Press - June 22nd, 2016

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

By Neal Patterson, Kathryn Wielech Patterson

$21.95

ISBN: 9781493017911

Availability: Backordered

Published: Globe Pequot Press - August 1st, 2016

Chesapeake 1 2 3 (Hardcover)

By Priscilla Cummings

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ISBN: 9780870335426

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Published: Schiffer Publishing - June 30th, 2009