Beth Kennedy Books in Order

Wisconsin bookstore owner and single mother Beth Kennedy begins investigating after the principal of her children's elementary school is murdered. Looking into the victim's apparently respectable life reveals unexpected secrets and a growing list of suspects, testing Beth's anxious nature.

A heated meeting at Tarver Elementary's PTA is followed by the strangling of parent Sam Helmstetter in his car. Secretary Beth Kennedy and her friend Marina investigate, increasingly concerned that someone within their own school community may be a killer.

While organizing a PTA storytelling fundraiser, Beth Kennedy learns that a bookstore customer has died from bee stings unusually early in Wisconsin's spring. Doubting the apparent accident, she investigates the circumstances while balancing school responsibilities, her business, and family life.

New PTA president Beth Kennedy hires a financial consultant to help decide how to spend successful fundraising proceeds. When he is shot inside the school, his secrets and the building's unsecured doors complicate her search for the killer.

Overextended PTA president Beth Kennedy agrees to let others organize the association's anniversary celebration. When speaker Cookie Van Doorne dies under suspicious circumstances, Beth abandons her intended break and investigates a poisoning linked to the event.