Cackleberry Club Series Books in Order

In a converted train depot café, widows Suzanne, Toni, and Petra serve eggs and comfort to their small town. When Suzanne’s lawyer is found shot behind the Cackleberry Club, clues point toward her late husband’s secrets and a sinister religious sect.

Delivering a pie to the local funeral home, Suzanne finds mortician Ozzie Driesden dead on his own embalming table and is knocked out with chloroform. Shaken but stubborn, she and her friends dig into small town grudges and buried scandals.

Getting ready for Halloween, the Cackleberry Club ladies host a candidate meet and greet that ends with an arrow between the mayoral hopeful’s eyes. A second killing on the town’s Quilt Trail pushes Suzanne to untangle politics, secrets, and revenge.

A blizzard morning turns grisly when a snowmobile crashes behind the Cackleberry Club and the town’s most hated banker is found beheaded by a wire. Suzanne’s investigation uncovers land deals, grudges, and a runaway girl who knows more than she says.

Helping decorate the town cemetery for a historic anniversary, Suzanne and Toni instead uncover the body of a former prison warden sprawled in an open grave. Their search for answers leads back to old inmates, simmering feuds, and prison town politics.

While getting her hair done, Suzanne watches the building next door erupt in flames, killing longtime clerk Hannah Venable. When investigators find accelerant, she follows a trail of insurance angles and casino secrets to expose an arsonist turned killer.

On a routine cheese pickup at a local dairy farm, Suzanne instead finds the owner dead in his barn while distressed cows bellow nearby. Shocked and angry, she investigates family rifts, money troubles, and land disputes that might have turned lethal.

At a rehearsal of A Christmas Carol, the actor playing Scrooge is stabbed by a costumed Ghost of Christmas Past in front of the whole cast. Suzanne chases the killer through the theater and then through a maze of grudges and holiday stress.

Stopping by the hospital with dinner for her fiancé, Suzanne walks into a gunman’s rampage in the emergency room and knocks him down with a thermos of chili. When he disappears, she and her friends scramble to identify him before he strikes again.