Beauty Queen Mysteries Books in Order

Happy Pennington competes for the national Ms America title in Hawaii, where her fiercest rival dies during the televised finale. Becoming a prime suspect, Happy investigates her fellow contestants and the pageant’s other personalities to clear her name.

Happy Pennington travels to Las Vegas as a bridesmaid, only for the wedding’s best man to die and the groom to fall under suspicion. Investigating the killing draws her into casino secrets, colorful suspects, and renewed complications with Mario Suave.

Happy Pennington judges the Teen Princess of the Everglades pageant, hosted by Mario Suave and featuring his daughter. When another judge is strangled with a string bikini, Happy must untangle the rivalries and secrets surrounding the competition.

Happy Pennington and her beauty-queen friends visit Winona for a Christmas ribbon-cutting, but their host’s death spoils the celebration. Family feuds, a Victorian mansion, and devotees of Norse goddesses complicate an investigation that also brings Mario Suave back into her life.

While consulting on a Broadway musical, Happy Pennington witnesses a death onstage during a preview performance. The victim’s many enemies provide suspects, while a publicity-hungry producer and Mario Suave’s new romance add complications to Happy’s investigation.

Happy Pennington arrives in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, where an elite krewe’s king is killed during a parade. Amid the French Quarter’s stories of ghosts, vampires, and voodoo, she investigates a crime whose consequences threaten someone she loves.