Jenn McKinlay
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey's friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children's book, but Beth's boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he's found murdered-and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast before they throw the book at the wrong person.
2) Due or die
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Answering tricky reference questions is excitement enough for library director Lindsey Norris, until a murder is committed in her cozy hometown of Briar Creek, Connecticut. The question of who did it must be answered before someone else is checked out--for good.
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Their first big order is a sweet deal, too--five hundred cupcakes for a fashion designer's wedding. The only sour note is the demanding bridezilla who insists on original recipes for the cupcakes. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she immediately becomes the prime suspect. The police believe that a secret...
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams--but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as gardening enthusiast and town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term "book lover" a whole new meaning. Inappropriate looks and unwelcome late-night visits to Lindsey's house have everyone--from the crafternooners to Lindsey's fiancé, Sully--on edge. When Grady's dead body is found staged outside the library and all...
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 15
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When up-and-coming singing sensation Shelby Vaughn arrives in town for two weeks of concert dates, she hires her old friend Angie and the rest of the bakery crew to supply cupcakes for the VIP guest lounge every night. After overhearing Shelby in a heated argument with her manager, Mel is concerned, but she and the crew decide to make the best of their time working with the star. Just as the bakers fall into the rhythm of the job, Shelby's manager...
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library's annual Dinner in the Stacks fund-raiser. The night of dinner and dancing is not only a booklover's dream--it's the library's biggest moneymaker of the year. But instead of raisingfunds, the new library board president is busy raising a stink and making the staff miserable. Although Olive Boyle acts like a storybook villain, Lindsey is determined to work with her and make the...
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lindsey is enjoying her second year in Briar Creek as the library director, meeting with the crafternoon club, and happily dating tour boat captain Mike Sullivan. But when a salvage company arrives in town to dig up treasure buried on Pirate Island over three hundred years ago, the locals are torn between protecting the island and welcoming the publicity.
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her brother, Jack, a world-traveling consultant for a coffee company, goes missing, Briar Creek library director Lindsey Norris gets mixed up in a strange case involving South American business dealings and an exotic woman.
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings. Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful...
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overdue book amnesty day--no fines for late returns--the volume of incoming materials is more than Lindsey and her staff can handle. In a bind, Lindsey drafts the crafternoon ladies to help check in and sort the stacks of books. But one tardy tome catches her attention, a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, twenty years past due. When Lindsey looks up the borrower, she's shocked to discover...
11) Fatal fascinator
Author
Series
Hat shop mystery volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's wedding season and Viv's longtime frenemy Piper May is getting married. She convinces Viv and Scarlett to take on the job of designing the headpieces for her wedding of the year. The well-to-do bride and her entourage are delighted to have Viv and Scarlett as their famous hat designer guests, but the hat-making pair are really just looking forward to a getaway at a castle in Sussex. It is to be a weekend full of events, culminating in the big...
Author
Series
Hat shop mystery volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When one of their customers is accused of killing her boss, London hat-shop owners Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont investigate in order to find the real murderer.
13) Copy cap murder
Author
Series
Hat shop mystery volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
For Scarlett Parker, part of the fun of living in London is celebrating the British holidays, and shes excited to share her first Bonfire Night with her cousin Vivian Tremont. Invited to a posh party by their friend Harrison Wentworth, Scarlett and Viv decide to promote their hat shop, Mims Whims, by donning a few of their more outrageous creations. The hats prove to be quite the conversation starters as the girls mix and mingle with the guests--never...
14) Vanilla beaned
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura look to Las Vegas for their first franchise of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, but things blow up when they meet former showgirl Holly Hartzmark.
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 14
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Life is smooth as buttercream at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, and newlyweds Mel and Joe are stopping to smell the flours. But things start to crumble one night when an unknown gunman takes a shot at Mel. Though the bullets miss their mark, the cupcake crew goes on high alert to figure out who would want to kill a small-town baker, and why. When more business owners are attacked, things turn fatal, and locals begin to wonder if the killer could...
16) A likely story
Author
Series
Library lover's mystery volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jenn McKinlay returns to coastal Connecticut, where librarian Lindsey Norris must solve a shooting and a missing person's case involving two reclusive brothers.
Author
Series
Bluff Point volume 3
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A stray kitten and a rambunctious poodle bring together a small-town bachelor and a single mother in Bluff Point, Maine.
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
With Angie and Tate's wedding just around the corner, it's a happy time for Melanie Cooper and the bakery crew. Not only are they finessing the last minute details of the big day, but their bakery, Fairy Tale Cupcakes, has just been hired to bake cupcakes for the blockbuster book signing of a controversial author who wrote a steamy bestseller filled with juicy local gossip.
Author
Series
Cupcake bakery mystery volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Life is sweet and business is booming at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery--and the fact that Mel and Joe are getting married is the icing on the cake. Their reception will be held at the swanky resort where Oz works as the pastry chef. The wedding planning is all fun-fetti and games until Mel and Joe meet the head chef at the resort who has been making Oz's life miserable. When the eccentric chef insults Mel's bakery, Oz gets into a blowout argument...
Author
Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Wedding bells are ringing in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Word to the Wise. Love is in the air in Briar Creek as library director Lindsey Norris and boat captain Mike (Sully) Sullivan are finally tying the knot. The entire town is excited for the happy day, and Lindsey and Sully's plan for a small wedding evaporates as more and more people insist upon attending the event of the year....