Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries Books in Order

Judith and cousin Renie slip away to a Vancouver hotel for a pre-Thanksgiving break, then a popcorn vendor and his parakeet wind up dead. Surrounded by eccentric showbiz guests, the cousins have to spot the killer before suspicion settles on them.

Judith McMonigle's Hillside Manor is upended when flamboyant tycoon Otto Brodie arrives with a noisy entourage and a talent for trouble. What should have been a wild house party turns into Judith's first very personal murder case.

Judith is already stressed by Hillside Manor's Easter brunch when a killer in a bunny suit strikes. With Renie and Joe helping, she follows a very crowded trail of suspects through one of her messiest holiday cases.

An obnoxious opera star checks into Hillside Manor with his entourage and soon dies of poison. Judith must save her inn's reputation by untangling backstage grudges, oversized egos, and a very public murder.

Newly married Judith and Joe head to Buccaneer Beach for a honeymoon, only for Joe to land in traction and their landlady to turn up dead. Pirate gold rumors make the seaside mystery even messier for Judith and Renie.

Judith accepts a painting from a nervous neighbor, then heads to the family cottage with Renie for a break. When the artist is found strangled, the cousins realize the odd gift may be the key to the killing.

Judith and Renie reluctantly cater their billionaire uncle's seventy-fifth birthday party, expecting fuss, not homicide. When the guest of honor dies amid competing wills, family greed turns the celebration poisonous.

Fleeing gossip and stress at Hillside Manor, Judith visits Renie at a ski resort. The same poisonous columnist they hoped to avoid is due to arrive, unless the killer reaches the slopes first.

Judith and Renie look forward to a weekend at an English country manor, but their elderly hostess dies after eating poisoned chocolates. The trip quickly becomes a classic closed-circle puzzle with a very bitter center.

Christmas spirit is thin on Judith's cul-de-sac, especially for prickly Enid Goodrich. When Enid is murdered, Judith and Renie dig into neighborhood grudges that prove far less merry than the decorations suggest.

While helping manage a friend's inn on a remote island, Judith and Renie clash with a difficult guest who later dies in a fall. Renie fears she caused it, but Judith suspects island secrets and a far more deliberate shove.

One of Judith's guests dies at Hillside Manor, and the victim turns out to be mob hit man Legs Benedict hiding under another name. Almost everyone under Judith's roof has a reason to be glad he's gone.

Judith and Renie help cater a corporate winter retreat at a remote mountain lodge, then a storm traps them with a corpse and ten suspects. Cut off from help, the cousins have to sort grudges from panic before the snow closes in.

On the eve of her son's wedding, Judith sees a man in a tuxedo throw a woman in white from a roof. Family celebrations have to compete with a fresh murder as Judith races to learn who staged the deadly scene.

Worn down by family chaos and Joe's retirement, Judith joins Renie at the estate of elderly Leota Burgess, who fears her relatives want her dead. One battered body, one very dead man, and a creepy household prove she may be right.

Renovation next door uncovers a body sealed inside an old building, then Judith finds much fresher remains on the same property. She starts linking past and present murders even as everyone else thinks she's overbuilding the case.

Judith goes into the hospital for hip replacement already worried that recent patient deaths were no accident. When another patient dies, she starts investigating from her room, which may make her a target before she's back on her feet.

A film producer brings Hollywood vanity and a preview party to Hillside Manor, hoping his latest movie will be a triumph. Instead, Judith gets a front-row seat to murder among actors, egos, and expensive illusions.

After a fire forces Judith out of Hillside Manor, Renie talks her into a stay at a Native American casino resort. Their attempt at escape ends when death crashes the getaway and the cousins are back to sleuthing.

A creepy old house from Renie's youth turns out to be occupied by a secretive family with a very strange routine. When a corpse lands in Judith's car trunk, curiosity becomes a murder investigation with decades of buried secrets.

Judith and Renie cannot resist a luxury cruise to the South Pacific, but the ship never leaves port after the CEO is found stuffed in a piano. Stranded in San Francisco and under suspicion, they join the hunt for a killer.

A nude violinist and his impossible circle make Judith's neighborhood even more chaotic than usual. Then a music mentor dies by poisoning, and the case turns into a comic tangle of debts, thefts, and badly tuned secrets.

Judith and Renie head to Scotland for a vacation and wind up stranded in an old castle after an explosion kills a young heir. Ghost stories, missing husbands, and Highland family tensions make this one of their trickier trips.

Joe's ex-wife Vivian moves back into Judith's neighborhood with a younger husband and big plans for a condo project. When a mysterious body appears in Vivian's yard, old resentments and new money collide.

Hillside Manor fills with odd guests, including a stuntman who barely survives a rooftop mishap, and Judith hopes a train trip to Boston will bring relief. Instead, the same trouble follows her aboard the Empire Builder.

Judith gets tangled in a case involving insurance fraud, suspicious food, and yet another Hillside Manor uproar. What starts as local chaos turns into a sharp, funny mystery with real danger underneath the jokes.

After state inspectors start eyeing Judith's inn, she volunteers at an Oktoberfest bed-and-breakfast booth for a change of scene. A body appears before the beer really gets flowing, and Renie ends up posing as the sleuth.

A guest calling herself Mary Smith turns out to be Ruby Tooms, a woman Judith met earlier, and she arrives with an old murder in tow. Judith is pulled into a twenty-year-old cold case that refuses to stay buried.

Judith and Renie house-sit at a retirement community on Whoopee Island, expecting a quiet off-season break. A stabbing among the residents forces them to sort through cheerful surfaces, private grudges, and a very unlikely victim.

A guest at Hillside Manor claims Judith is the mother who abandoned him and backs it up with a birth certificate. Before she can untangle the blackmail and identity mess, one of the inn's guests turns up dead.

Joe surprises Judith with a trip to the Canadian Rockies, but the remote getaway is packed with guests waiting to stage a relative's burial. Judith soon realizes the intended corpse is still alive and may not stay that way.

Vivian and her latest husband, Lord Plumbsley, arrive at Hillside Manor with a shady entourage and designs on the property. When their real estate agent is murdered, Judith and Joe have to clear their names and save the inn.