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When a retired mobster ends up murdered and one of her grandmother's best friends is the last one to see him alive, Lexy Baker can kiss her plans to spend an uneventful summer dreaming about her upcoming wedding to detective Jack Perillo good-bye.Lexy agrees to help her grandmother's octogenarian Ladies' Detective Club solve the murder. But she doesn't count on sneaking into crime scenes, interviewing kooky relatives, and following thugs around town.But...
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When Lexy Baker temporarily fills in for the pastry chef at a lakeside resort it seems like a great way to combine business and pleasure. ... until the head chef ends up with a knife through his chest and Lexy is found bending over the body.Suddenly, she finds herself in a race against time and battling a quirky dessert devouring detective to find the real killer in a long line of suspects.Was it the extravagant spouse? The suspiciously acting sous-chef?...
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There's a serial killer on the loose. And Lexy Baker's grandmother, Nans, could be the next victim.The bodies are piling up at the Brook Ridge Falls Retirement Center. Healthy people are dropping like flies. And yet no one believes a murderer is on the loose… except for Lexy Baker and the troupe of iPad-toting grandmothers who live at the center.When Lexy's detective boyfriend, Jack, refuses to believe that foul play is involved, Lexy has no choice...
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Lexy Baker is finally tying the knot with hunky homicide detective Jack Perillo. She's planned the perfect wedding right down to her custom designed gown. Nothing can go wrong.... Until Lexy stumbles across a double murder and one of the victims is a Bridezilla that Lexy had a major fight with just hours before. This time Jack can't help her because he's been taken off the case and the gum chewing ditzy rookie that's replaced him has put Lexy at the...
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Juniper Holiday's annual Valentines Day party is all about love and romance... and this year, it's also about murder. When the grand prize winner is found dead in the bathroom, there are very few clues as to who did it. With a house full of guests, there are plenty who had means and opportunity, but who had motive? Detective Mallard is already in trouble with his boss, so he needs to solve this one fast... even if that means getting some help from...
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Brook Ridge Falls favorite bakery owner, Lexy Baker, has everything she ever wanted. A new husband she adores. A thriving bakery business. Everything is going great.... Until a new bakery springs up across the street and tries every trick in the book to put her out of business!Lexy smells something rotten about the bakery and it isn't just their stale brownies. When her own bakery is broken into she knows who did it ... but what she can't figure out...
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Why did someone kill Olive Pendleton and hide her body?When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad toting grandmas witness a murder remotely through the camera of a drone, they go straight to Lexy's homicide detective husband, Jack, to report the crime. But with no body and no crime reported, Jack can't do a thing, leaving Lexy and her grandmother no alternative than to solve the murder themselves.Armed with nothing but their gigantic patent...
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When the president of the Brook Ridge Falls Senior Center Book Club is found dead, facedown in one of the pies meant for the club's pie-eating contest, Lexy and her posse of iPad-toting grandmothers take it upon themselves to find the killer. Too bad the only potential clue might be buried inside one of the many pies taken by the police for evidence.That's no problem. Lexy, Nans, and the ladies will use their uncanny methods of deduction to ferret...
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When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad-toting grandmas find a dead body under Ruth's late model Oldsmobile, it opens an investigation into a decades-old crime. It seems Ruth's reformed crime-boss boyfriend stashed something of immense value away before he died. Too bad word is out in the criminal underworld and a dangerous killer has come to town to find it.Armed with only their iPads, gigantic patent leather purses and a box of baked...
10) Ice Cream Murder
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When millionaire Regis Banks drops dead at his own party, everyone assumes it was from natural causes - after all, the man was celebrating his one-hundredth birthday.... Everyone except Lexy Baker's amateur sleuth grandmother, Nans, and her three friends, that is. When it turns out that Regis' death might have been caused by more than just old age, Nans refuses to let the trail grow cold - especially after a local reporter trying to get a scoop threatens...
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The butler did it.... or did he?A classic whodunit with a clever senior sleuth and mystery solving cats set in a manor house. When the patriarch of Moorecliff Manor drops dead at dinner, it's up to Aunt Araminta and her Siamese cats Arun and Sasha to uncover the identity of the killer. It will be no easy task, as there is no shortage of suspects... including the butler.But Araminta soon finds herself with more questions than answers. What was the...
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*** USA Today Bestseller *** Murder hits a little too close to home for bakery owner Lexy Baker when a grim discovery is made in her homicide detective husband, Jack's, basement.With Jack as the main suspect, Lexy has to turn up the heat and find the real killer while still trying to whip up the perfect meringue cookie recipe for the Brook Ridge Falls Desserts Contest. Normally, she would enlist the aid of her amateur detective grandmother, Nans....
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When the Moorecliff clan gathers at Moorecliff mansion for Archie's memorial service, no one expects gossipy aunt Shirley to end up stabbed in the solarium. It's not really a big surprise though, pretty much everyone in the family had reason to want her dead. With those closest to her at the top of the suspect list, Araminta and her mystery solving cats Arun and Sasha vow to find the answers to the questions that could lead them straight to the killer....
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When a body is found in the hydrangeas at Moorecliff manor, certain members of the family fall under suspicion. Inspector Ivan Hershey is starting to wonder why dead bodies keep cropping up at the mansion. Especially since this particular body belongs to a member of a local organized crime gang and there are a lot of unanswered questions.Who is Daisy's secret admirer? Why did the victim have a picture of Daisy? Why have people been lurking around...
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Murder strikes again at Moorecliff Manor and this time the stakes are higher than they have ever been. Araminta's good friend, the famous jeweler Bertie Belamie, has been murdered in the mudroom and Jacob is the prime suspect. Why was Bertie in the mudroom with his case of jewels and why is Jacob so close-mouthed about it? Why is Bertie's assistant, Stella, so vague about which pieces of jewelry are missing? And is it any coincidence that the neighborhood...
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Araminta Moorecliff and her mystery solving siamese cats, Arun and Sasha, are at it again when the Moorecliff Manor annual charity cat show turns deadly. With a house full of finicky felines and cat fanciers, it's not going to be easy to figure out who done it. At least this time we know it's not the butler.
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The Brook Ridge Falls Retirement Center is still reeling over the death of one of their own when Lexy and her senior detective friends are asked to investigate another murder. Muriel Maguire insists that her grandson, Henry, has been framed for the murder of his wife, but the clues all point to Henry, and the police already have him in custody.
The suspect list is long, including members of the victim's family who have a very unusual and suspicious...
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When retired postmaster Albert Schumer is found dead on the steps of the post office, the whole town of Mystic Notch is disappointed he won’t be able to play in the annual checkers tournament.
But when his ghost informs middle-aged bookstore owner Willa Chance that he died trying to deliver an old letter, which has mysteriously gone missing, Willa realizes Albert didn’t just slip and fall. Someone killed him. Even worse, it turns out the letter...
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