Jenn McKinlay Books in Order

This two-story collection pairs a coffee-bar romance with Jenn McKinlay's cafe caper To Catch a Latte. Small-town coffee chaos, attraction, and trouble brew in both halves of the book.

A two-story romance collection that includes Jenn McKinlay's Thick as Thieves, a road-trip caper with forbidden attraction and unexpected danger. It is built for readers who want quick, lively romantic suspense.

Hailey Fitzwilly has let her mother believe her life is far more polished than it really is. When a fund-raiser throws her together with a mechanic and her lies start to wobble, romance arrives at exactly the wrong moment.

Brenna Miller is trying to settle into life in Morse Point by teaching decoupage at Vintage Papers. But when the mayor turns up dead and suspicion lands on her landlord, Brenna has to peel back the town's secrets fast.

Brenna Miller walks into a wedding nightmare when a bride-to-be is found beside her fiance's dead best friend, still holding the weapon. To save the wedding and the woman accused, Brenna starts asking dangerous questions.

Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura have finally opened Fairy Tale Cupcakes in Scottsdale, then their nightmare bride client turns up dead. With Mel suddenly a suspect, the friends have to save their bakery and solve the murder.

Library director Lindsey Norris is just settling into Briar Creek when a visiting editor stirs up local ambition. Then a famous author is murdered and Lindsey's friend Beth becomes the prime suspect.

Valentine's Day should be good for business at Fairy Tale Cupcakes, until Baxter Malloy is poisoned on his first date with Mel's mother. Mel and Angie have to dig into his past before Mel's mom gets blamed for murder.

Mel and Angie enter a cooking contest to promote their bakery, but the event turns deadly when Mel's old mentor is found in a freezer truck. Winning suddenly matters less than staying alive and finding the killer.

Autumn tourists descend on Morse Point, and Brenna Miller ends up guiding a leaf-peeping tour she never wanted. Then the route leads straight to a corpse, and the scenic season gets a lot more complicated.

Maggie Gerber's quiet life in St. Stanley is already rattled by the return of her old flame, now the new sheriff. Then she finds a body in the library and one of the Good Buy Girls lands under suspicion.

A big vintage clothing sale should be a win for Maggie Gerber and her resale shop. Instead, the bargains turn deadly, and Maggie and the Good Buy Girls have to sort through rivalry, greed, and lies to catch a killer.

Treasure hunters arrive in Briar Creek to search Pirate Island, and the town quickly splits over the attention. When a local woman is murdered at the dig site, Lindsey has to clear a friend before the truth is buried for good.

A nor'easter traps Briar Creek under snow just as Carrie Rushton is accused of killing her husband. With the police stretched thin, Lindsey Norris and the crafternoon club start digging for the truth.

Hoping to boost slow sales, Mel and Angie take Fairy Tale Cupcakes to the Juniper Pass rodeo. When a hotheaded bull rider winds up dead in the hay, the rodeo becomes one more place where they have to hunt a killer.

The Good Buy Girls are preparing for a holiday thrift sale when Maggie finds her friend's husband unconscious and his young employee dead. The worst part, the dead woman seems to have no history at all.

After an embarrassing breakup goes viral, Scarlett Parker escapes to London to help at her cousin Viv's hat shop. Then a client is found dead in one of Viv's hats and Scarlett wonders whether her cousin is missing or hiding.

After a magazine photo shoot goes wrong, Mel and Angie agree to host a cupcake boot camp for a lifestyle magazine staff. Then the creative director is found murdered outside the bakery and team building takes a dark turn.

Lindsey Norris wants no part of community theater chaos, but Briar Creek's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream pulls her in anyway. When one of the cast is poisoned, she has to solve the case before opening night closes for good.

Scarlett and Viv are making hats for an Alice in Wonderland charity tea when the Grisby heir is poisoned. When traces of poison turn up on one of their hats, the cousins have to clear their own names.

Maggie heads to her romantic rival's house ready to stop some matchmaking nonsense and finds the woman standing over a dead body. Much as Maggie dislikes Summer, she cannot shake the feeling that someone is framing her.

Lindsey's world-traveling brother Jack vanishes, and a coffee clue is one of the few trails he leaves behind. As she follows the case into stranger territory, Lindsey risks much more than her holiday plans.

Mel and Angie agree to cater a beauty pageant as a favor, even though the whole scene is not their style. When a judge ends up dead beneath their cupcake display, they have to save an innocent friend from taking the fall.

On a routine book run to a remote island, Lindsey and Sully find one reclusive brother shot dead and the other missing. To untangle what happened, Lindsey has to work through years of secrets and suspicion.

Maggie and Sam's dream home in old St. Stanley feels more eerie than charming, then Maggie discovers a skeleton in the root cellar. Digging into the house's history may expose a cold case someone still wants buried.

A bride asks Viv and Scarlett to restore her mother's vintage bridal hat and veil, a sweet job tied to family history. Then Scarlett finds the bride outside her office standing over her boss's dead body.

The Fairy Tale Cupcakes crew plans to cash in on Scottsdale's zombie walk with themed treats and undead costumes. Then Mel finds a real body in a prop casket and realizes someone close to her may be the true target.

An overdue book amnesty day seems harmless until Lindsey notices one copy of The Catcher in the Rye was checked out by a teacher murdered twenty years earlier. The returned book may be the clue that finally breaks the cold case.

Bonfire Night should be a chance for Scarlett and Viv to show off their hats at a fancy London party. Instead, the Guy Fawkes effigy on the fire turns out to be a murdered man, and Harrison becomes a prime suspect.

Mel and Angie head to Las Vegas to explore a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise deal. But when the potential bakery site is blown up, they trade business plans for a race to find out who wants the venture stopped.

Mac Harris returns to Bluff Point years after being left at the altar, hoping only to survive her best friend's wedding weekend. Then a stray puppy pushes her back toward veterinarian Gavin Tolliver and an old attraction she never really lost.

Scarlett and Viv head to Paris for a hat-making class and what should be a tidy annulment for Viv. Then a missing Renoir, a vanished husband, and a trail of deception turn the trip into a stylish mystery.

Carly DeCusati comes home to Bluff Point with an inherited golden retriever, a talkative parrot, and no interest in romance. Physical therapist James Sinclair has other ideas, but his secrets could wreck their shot at something real.

Mel agrees to deliver a batch of breakup cupcakes for a friend who is dumping her gold-digging fiance. Instead of heartbreak, she finds a corpse, and the woman who sent the cupcakes becomes the obvious suspect.

Briar Creek Library's big annual fund-raiser should be Lindsey's easiest night of the year. But when the difficult board president ends up dead and a new employee is found beside the body, Lindsey has another case on her hands.

Commitment-shy brewery owner Zach Caine does not expect a foster kitten and two little girls to change his life. Their mother Jessie wants nothing to do with men like him, until a hard winter pushes them closer.

A hit and run appears to be linked to borrowed library materials, pulling Lindsey into another Briar Creek investigation. When the victim is attacked again and the stolen car's driver turns up dead, the case gets far more dangerous.

Cafe owner Annie Talbot is horrified when her business is suspected of being a money-laundering front. The FBI agent renting from her is supposed to find the truth, but their chemistry makes the job a mess.

As Angie and Tate's wedding approaches, the cupcake crew lands a high-profile baking job at a scandal-soaked author event. Then wedding helpers start dying, and Mel has to figure out how the crimes connect before the big day is ruined.

Mel reluctantly agrees to cater her high school reunion and immediately runs into old grudges and old bullies. When her longtime nemesis is found dead beside a lipstick note pointing at Mel, she has to clear her own name.

Savannah Wilson wants a career comeback, not a holiday romance, but Joaquin Solis is determined to show her both are possible. A North Carolina ranch, Christmas cheer, and serious chemistry keep getting in the way of her escape plan.

Maisy Kelly inherits a Victorian house and plans to turn it into a romance bookstore. Architect and single dad Ryder Copeland seems like the perfect hero, except he is determined to leave town when the job is done.

Lindsey should be focused on wedding plans, but a pushy newcomer named Aaron Grady will not leave her alone. When he is found dead outside the library and the evidence points to Sully, Lindsey goes all in on the case.

Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont are pulled into another elegant London murder case after a high-profile hat job goes wrong. Between social secrets and rising suspicion, Mim's Whims once again sits much too close to the crime.

Lindsey and Sully are finally getting married, until a trip to scout a wedding site leads to a body washed up on Bell Island. The dead man was meant to officiate the ceremony, which makes the mystery feel uncomfortably personal.

Chelsea Martin retraces the gap-year trip that once made her feel alive, hoping Ireland, France, and Italy might also help her find love again. The trip goes badly, beautifully off plan in all the right ways.

When a loyal cupcake customer is poisoned, the last thing she ate seems to point straight back to Fairy Tale Cupcakes. Mel and Angie have to find out who turned their signature fall flavor into a murder weapon.

Mel and Joe are nearly at the altar when a horrible head chef at their resort venue is murdered after clashing with Oz. Saving the wedding means proving their friend is innocent before everything falls apart.

Spring in Briar Creek looks peaceful until librarian Ms. Cole opens her trunk and finds a dead man from her past inside. Lindsey, Sully, and the crafternoon crew have to solve the case before the mayoral race is destroyed.

Annabelle Martin escapes a Boston rut for a dream job in Phoenix and a guest house with a mysterious landlord. Nick Daire is not the cranky old recluse she expected, and both of them are nursing wounds they cannot ignore forever.

This companion cookbook brings the Cupcake Bakery world into your kitchen with recipes inspired by Fairy Tale Cupcakes. It is a fun extra for readers who want the sweets, the style, and a little more bakery charm.

Museum director Claire Macintosh is supposed to accept an engagement she does not want at a holiday gala. Instead she hijacks a horse and carriage with a reporter dressed as Santa, and the wild ride changes everything.

Museum registrar Molly Graham falls for a shy British academic after a Valentine's gala, then learns he is no ordinary professor. A trip to England turns her literary romance into a much messier real-life one.

Life feels sweet for Mel and Joe until an unknown gunman takes a shot at Mel. As more local business owners are attacked and one case turns fatal, the whole town starts to fear someone is hunting from within.

Classics expert Sarah Novak heads to a Greek island to hunt a rare literary artifact and runs straight into the ex who broke her heart. When the scholars around them start having suspicious accidents, the treasure hunt turns dangerous.

A donation pickup at an old Victorian estate reveals a secret room, a skeleton, and a copy of Poe. Lindsey quickly connects the remains to a decades-old Briar Creek disappearance and starts reopening a very cold case.

Scarlett and Viv head to a Sussex castle to design headpieces for a society wedding, then the groom is murdered before the ceremony. Trapped with the suspects, they have to stop the killer before the weekend claims another victim.

Holiday work turns high-profile when singer Shelby Vaughn hires the bakery crew for her concert run. Then her manager is found dead clutching a Santa suit scrap and a cupcake, and Shelby becomes the obvious suspect.

Chef Samantha Gale heads to Martha's Vineyard to regroup, only to get stuck chaperoning her teenage half-brother at the library. There she collides with bookish Bennett Reynolds, who is using the island to search for the father he never knew.

Briar Creek's holiday season grows tense when famous writer Helen Monroe arrives as writer in residence with a bad attitude and a secretive fan nearby. When the fan turns up dead, Lindsey has to defend the very last person anyone expected.

A rare inscribed Patricia Highsmith first edition falls into Lindsey's hands at a Chicago library conference, then the conference director is murdered on the train ride home. Soon Lindsey and Sully are carrying the evidence and the suspicion.

Two pro football players want to open a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise and spend the offseason learning the business in Scottsdale. When their team owner is found dead in the new bakery, Mel has to save their dream from ending before it starts.

Librarian Emily Allen jumps at the chance to work for her favorite novelist in Ireland and help finish a long-stalled series. The only real problem is the author's prickly son, who becomes harder and harder to resist.

Julia Blumer rushes home to coastal California as her difficult mother nears the end of her life. Back in her old room, she looks across the way and finds the first love she left behind staring right back at her.

Librarian Zoe Ziakas receives a strange locked black book and learns she is the last in a line of witches. To understand her family magic and what happened to her mother and grandmother, she must survive a parade of very determined supernatural threats.

Lindsey launches a new book-boat service to bring library books to the small islands off Briar Creek. Then she and Sully find a body on the rocks and get caught in a family feud full of buried secrets.

Hannah Spencer and Simon O'Malley discover they have inherited opposite halves of the same battered beach house in North Carolina. One summer of repairs, old love stories, and new sparks forces them to decide what home really means.