About

Hi, I'm Maggie!

Hi, I'm Maggie! I write cozy mysteries and contemporary romances with funny, warm-hearted characters who feel like friends you'd happily split a pastry with.

I've loved reading for as long as I can remember, and I write for the same reason I read: to slip into a playful world where a mystery gets solved or a love story begins. I've been sketching out books for years (dozens of them, if I'm being honest), and I'm so happy to finally be sharing them with you. My Spilled Beans Mysteries are set in a small-town Ohio coffee shop where the gossip is hot and the regulars are nosy, and I hope you'll want to pull up a chair.

I live in suburban New Jersey with my husband, my son, and our cavapoo. Our yard is full of bunnies and chipmunks who help themselves to my vegetable garden. I should mind, but they're just too cute. When I'm not writing, you'll find me solving Murdle puzzles.

Illustrated portrait of author Maggie Parberger at her writing desk with a steaming coffee mug, notebook, and her cavapoo beside her
Maggie at her desk, assistant cavapoo on supervision duty.

Maggie's Favorites

  • Coffee order

    A latte with an extra shot — inspiration runs on caffeine.

  • Mystery to crack

    A fresh Murdle puzzle, solved before bedtime.

  • Favorite eavesdropping

    The regulars at a small-town coffee shop. Pure gold.

  • Yard regulars

    The bunnies and chipmunks who keep raiding my garden.

Curious about the books?

Meet the series

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