Becky Clark Books in Order
Explore Becky Clark books in order, with quick summaries, cozy mystery series guides, background on recurring characters, and easy places to start.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
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Becky Clark books in publication order
19 books
How To Lose Weight and Get Healthy Even If You're Lazy - 115 Painless Weight Loss Tips
by Becky Clark
2010
A lighthearted collection of 115 practical tips for making healthier choices without treating weight loss like punishment. Clark emphasizes small, manageable changes for readers who want a less complicated approach.
Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle Complete Cookbook
by Becky Clark
2011
This low-calorie cookbook offers simple, budget-friendly recipes with portion and calorie information. It covers main dishes, meatless meals, sides, snacks, and sweets, using familiar ingredients and straightforward instructions.
Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle Just Desserts Cookbook
by Becky Clark
2011
A short collection of lower-calorie dessert recipes for readers who do not want to give up sweets. The recipes aim to make treats like brownies and other favorites feel more manageable in daily eating.
Reading Maniac - Fun Ways To Encourage Reading Success
by Becky Clark
2011
A practical, upbeat guide packed with ideas for helping young readers build stronger reading habits. It focuses on making reading feel approachable, enjoyable, and part of everyday life rather than another chore.
Banana Bamboozle
by Becky Clark
2013
After a few too many cocktails, Cassidy Dunne spots a teenage girl she believes is her niece, despite the niece having died years ago. Her insistence on uncovering the truth risks exposing secrets and hurting people she loves.
Marshmallow Mayhem
by Becky Clark
2015
Cassidy Dunne expects a winter RV trip filled with family, friends, and campfire treats. Instead, creepy locals, old feuds, and a dead body leave her facing clues that point dangerously close to home.
Whoever Reads the Most Books Wins
by Becky Clark
2016
A compact reading journal with space to record thoughts on thirty books and keep a future reading list. It is made for individual readers, book clubs, and classrooms that want to remember each literary stop.
Fiction Can Be Murder
by Becky Clark
2018
Mystery writer Charlee Russo becomes the chief suspect when her agent is murdered exactly as described in Charlee's unpublished novel. To save her career and freedom, she must investigate the people closest to her.
Foul Play on Words
by Becky Clark
2019
At a Portland writers' conference, Charlee Russo learns her friend's daughter may have been kidnapped. A double-booked dog show and a tangle of secrets leave Charlee scrambling to find the truth before it is too late.
Eight Weeks to a Complete Novel
by Becky Clark
2020
This practical guide helps writers build a flexible plan for drafting, revising, and polishing a novel in eight weeks. Clark focuses on outlines, time management, workable routines, and ways around common writing roadblocks.
Puzzling Ink
by Becky Clark
2020
Crossword creator and diner waitress Quinn Carr finds a customer dead in biscuits and gravy. With a reluctant police chief and a diner full of suspects, Quinn must think beyond the grid to catch a killer.
Fatal Solutions
by Becky Clark
2021
A deed hidden in her grandfather's desk sends Quinn Carr to land near a former World War II Japanese internment camp. There she finds a doll, a skeleton, and a mystery tied to her own family.
Metaphor for Murder
by Becky Clark
2021
Charlee Russo's make-or-break literary event collapses when its bestselling guest vanishes. Then her neighbor's pug is kidnapped, and the demand is simple, find the missing author before time runs out.
Police Navidad
by Becky Clark
2021
Charlee Russo only wants quiet time to finish her manuscript, but she is drafted to direct a Christmas pageant fundraiser. When the actor playing Santa dies at rehearsal, sabotage and suspects take center stage.
Punning with Scissors
by Becky Clark
2021
Crossword constructor Quinn Carr investigates when retired tailor Hugh Pugh is accused of stabbing his husband with fabric shears. A cryptic clue at the crime scene suggests the case is not as neatly sewn up as police believe.
Booked at the Sugar Mill Marketplace
by Becky Clark
2023
Dena Russo is preparing to open her used bookstore in Sugar Springs' renovated sugar mill when the hated landlord is found dead. With the marketplace's future at risk, she starts sorting through secrets, lies, and suspects.
Bound at the Sugar Mill Marketplace
by Becky Clark
2023
A midnight visitor and a brutal blizzard leave Dena Russo abducted and cut off from help. Back at the marketplace, her fellow tenants face their own emergencies while trying to uncover what has happened to her.
Plotted at the Sugar Mill Marketplace
by Becky Clark
2023
Dena's former bookstore owner returns, accuses her of breaking their contract, and then disappears after a public argument. As suspicion and online outrage close in, Dena must find him before her new business is ruined.
Mystery Most Humorous
by Becky Clark
2025
This anthology gathers original traditional mysteries with a comic edge from a wide range of crime writers. It includes Melinda Mullet's story Corpse of the Month Club alongside plenty of clever, lightly mischievous whodunits.
Where to start with Becky Clark
For writerly cozy mysteries: Fiction Can Be Murder → Foul Play on Words → Metaphor for Murder → Police Navidad
For puzzle-centered small-town mysteries: Puzzling Ink → Punning with Scissors → Fatal Solutions
For a linked bookstore mystery arc: Rat Race → Booked at the Sugar Mill Marketplace → Plotted at the Sugar Mill Marketplace → Bound at the Sugar Mill Marketplace
For comic mysteries with longtime friends: Banana Bamboozle → Marshmallow Mayhem
Becky Clark sub-series and character series
Crossword Puzzle Mystery books in order
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Explore this seriesMystery Writer's Mystery books in order
Explore this series
Fiction Can Be Murder
by Becky Clark
2018Mystery Writer's Mystery, Book 1
Foul Play on Words
by Becky Clark
2019Mystery Writer's Mystery, Book 2
Metaphor for Murder
by Becky Clark
2021Mystery Writer's Mystery, Book 3
Police Navidad
by Becky Clark
2021Mystery Writer's Mystery, Book 4
Mystery Writer's Mystery books in chronological order
Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries books in order
Explore this series
Booked at the Sugar Mill Marketplace
by Becky Clark
2023Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries, Book 1
Bound at the Sugar Mill Marketplace
by Becky Clark
2023Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries, Book 3
Plotted at the Sugar Mill Marketplace
by Becky Clark
2023Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries, Book 2
Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries books in chronological order
Becky Clark collections, short stories, and related book types
Non-Fiction Books

Reading Maniac - Fun Ways To Encourage Reading Success
by Becky Clark
2011
Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle Just Desserts Cookbook
by Becky Clark
2011
Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle Complete Cookbook
by Becky Clark
2011
Whoever Reads the Most Books Wins
by Becky Clark
2016A Journal for Readers
Eight Weeks to a Complete Novel
by Becky Clark
2020Write Faster, Write Better, Be More Organized
Standalone Becky Clark books
Author bio
Becky Clark writes cozy mysteries with jokes, oddball situations, and ordinary people who would really rather not be dealing with a murder. Her books include the Mystery Writer's Mysteries, the Crossword Puzzle Mysteries, the Dunne Diehl novels written with Ted Hardwick, and the Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries. She has also written books about finishing a novel, encouraging reading, and making low-calorie meals without making life harder.
She is the seventh of eight children, and she has said that growing up in a large, funny family helped set the tone for her sense of humor. It also seems to have given her a lasting interest in the comic possibilities of everyday life, from family chaos to pets with strong opinions.
Clark was writing for young readers by the late 1990s. She later made an unexpected move into electronic nonfiction, producing the Lazy Low Cal Lifestyle cookbooks and How To Lose Weight and Get Healthy Even If You're Lazy. Her practical writing guide, Eight Weeks to a Complete Novel, grew from the systems she uses to plan, draft, revise, and finish fiction.
Then came adult mysteries.
Her first two cozy novels, Banana Bamboozle and Marshmallow Mayhem, were written with her longtime friend Ted Hardwick. They center on Cassidy Dunne, a fifty-something woman with a candy habit, a complicated ex-husband, and a gift for finding trouble. Cassidy's longtime college friend Dan Diehl is usually nearby, whether he wants to be or not.
Clark's solo mystery work began with Fiction Can Be Murder. Its heroine, Charlemagne "Charlee" Russo, is a midlist mystery writer who only wants to work on her books. Instead, a murder mirrors the plot of her unpublished manuscript, and Charlee becomes a suspect. The later books, including Foul Play on Words, Metaphor for Murder, and Police Navidad, keep the focus on the funny, stressful business of writers, conferences, performances, deadlines, and amateur sleuthing.
The Crossword Puzzle Mysteries take a more personal starting point. In Puzzling Ink, Quinn Carr has returned to her Colorado hometown after an OCD diagnosis and a difficult period of depression. She makes puzzles for the local paper, waits tables at a diner, and hopes to build a steadier life. Naturally, murders keep getting in the way. Punning with Scissors and Fatal Solutions combine clue-solving with Quinn's family history, her workplace regulars, and a police chief who would often prefer that crime stay out of sight.
Her mysteries make room for serious problems, but they don't linger in gloom.
Clark's more recent Sugar Mill Marketplace books move to Sugar Springs, Colorado, where Charlee's mother, Dena Russo, opens a used bookstore in a renovated sugar mill full of small businesses. Booked at the Sugar Mill Marketplace, Plotted at the Sugar Mill Marketplace, and Bound at the Sugar Mill Marketplace follow Dena and the other shopkeepers through fresh starts, local feuds, and crimes that threaten the whole community.
Clark lives in Colorado with her husband in an empty nest shaped by the memories of raising three children. Away from the keyboard, she enjoys Broadway shows, crime fiction, stand-up comedy, and making purses from rescued hardcover books. She also needs quiet to write, though she has admitted that occasional dance breaks and hula hooping are part of the routine.
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