Bakeshop Mysteries (Ellie Alexander) Books in Order

Pastry chef Juliet Capshaw returns to Ashland to help at her family's bakeshop, Torte, and finds a customer dead outside. With the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in full swing, Jules has to balance new beginnings, old feelings, and a very real murder.

Jules enters a televised baking competition to promote Torte, only to find a fellow contestant dead on set. The reality-show fun turns sour fast, and she has to sort through jealous bakers, pressure, and hidden motives.

A snowy trip to Lake of the Woods should be a welcome winter break, but a storm traps Jules with a growing list of suspects. As tensions rise inside the mountain lodge, she has to work out who turned the retreat deadly.

Winter brings Jules back into Ashland's restaurant scene just as a local business owner turns up dead. Between pressure at Torte and complicated feelings about Carlos, she has to figure out which grudge turned fatal.

Another Ashland case drops Jules into a tangle of culinary rivalries, personal secrets, and a death that threatens Torte's hard-won calm. She has to keep the bakery running while following clues that only get messier.

Ashland's chocolate festival should be sweet publicity for Torte until a famous chocolatier dies after sampling Jules's cake. With suspicion falling close to home, she has to clear her name and catch the killer.

A beer festival brings craft brewer Sloan Krause to Ashland, where she teams up with Jules from Torte after a keg goes missing. This crossover novella pairs baking, brewing, and a light mystery with plenty of charm.

With the Shakespeare Festival back in season, Torte is catering opening night and Jules hopes for a smooth launch. Instead, a young actor ends up dead and someone close to her lands in the spotlight.

Jules uncovers human remains during a lakeside picnic, then faces a second death tied to local grudges and old missing-person questions. While Carlos waits at sea and Ashland buzzes with gossip, she has to piece two mysteries together.

A wedding should be all celebration, but Jules soon discovers that love and murder can share the same guest list. As emotions run high around the big day, she has to protect the people she cares about and find the killer.

Christmas in Ashland should mean festive menus and packed pastry cases, but a new death chills the season. Jules juggles holiday baking, family plans, and a mystery that refuses to stay wrapped up.

A warm Ashland season should mean happy crowds and sweet treats, but Jules ends up facing another cold-blooded case. Between Torte's busy kitchen and a fresh list of suspects, she has to keep another mystery from spinning out.

A forgotten file in her late father's belongings pulls Jules into a controversial Ashland hit-and-run from the 1980s. To understand a new threat in the present, she has to dig through old tapes, old grudges, and family history.

Torte is catering a museum gala for the unveiling of a supposedly lost Shakespeare manuscript when the document disappears and a guard is killed. Jules has to sort through academic ambition, theft, and murder under one roof.

Ashland hosts a high-stakes barista competition, and Torte's Andy is finally getting his shot to shine. When a notoriously cruel judge dies clutching Andy's drink, Jules has to prove her friend isn't a killer.

Thomas and Kerry's wedding day should be perfect, but an unwelcome guest and a murdered musician change everything. With emotions already running high, Jules has to slice through wedding-day chaos to find the truth.

Jules and the Torte crew head to the Rogue River to cater a corporate adventure retreat. When one of the guests is found floating face down, the getaway becomes a fast-moving hunt for the truth.

Halloween brings a parade, costumes, and plenty of treats to Ashland, until Jules finds a dead man in a dragon suit outside Torte. An old warning note suggests the case began before the festivities did.

Jules heads up Mount A for a winter outing and the town's wild Downhill Dummy competition, expecting snow-day fun. Instead, one dummy takes a deadly detour, and the mountain lodge becomes the center of another case.

Lance's new theater troupe stages a modern production in a vineyard, and Jules is there with Torte's spring menu. When the leading actor dies, backstage tensions turn into a full-blown murder investigation.

Sterling and Stephanie take over a cliffside restaurant on the Oregon coast and invite Jules and Carlos for opening weekend. Their big chance turns grim when the manager dies on the dangerous trail to the beach.

Jules, Carlos, and Andy travel to Costa Rica for a coffee-farm getaway that should be pure inspiration. When a worker is found dead in the pulping machine, the trip becomes anything but restful.

Autumn crowds, spicy lattes, and baby-shower plans keep Torte busy as Jules nears her due date. Then a high-end wedding planner is found dead in Ashland Creek, and Lance's wedding preparations turn into another investigation.

Ashland's fall theater season sets the stage for Lance's production of Perfect Crime, and Torte is handling the cast party. After an actor is found dead in his dressing room, Jules wonders whether art just became murder.

Back at Torte after time away with the twins, Jules is preparing Lance and Arlo's elaborate wedding feast. When a stag-party guest plunges from a balcony, she realizes the celebration has a killer in it.