Catherine Bruns Books in Order

Shoe designer Maddie Springer lives for fashion until her boyfriend disappears with millions and murder enters the picture. Helped by her outrageous friends and hounded by a sexy cop, she steps straight into danger.

A desperate message from her long-lost father sends Maddie Springer racing to Las Vegas in stilettos. There she finds showgirls, fake designer shoes, organized crime, and a killer who will not back off.

Maddie takes a job on a hit TV set and stumbles into a deadly mix of starlets, secrets, and scandal. With a corpse on the scene and a curious detective nearby, playing it safe is not really an option.

Paris Fashion Week should be a dream assignment for Maddie Springer, until a top model is killed on the runway with a stiletto heel. To clear her name, Maddie dives into blackmail, couture egos, and missing jewels.

A week before her wedding, Maddie finds her wedding planner dead in a cake. If she wants to make it to the altar on time, she and her friends will have to help solve the case before more plans collapse.

Pregnancy does not slow Maddie Springer down for long. When another murder cuts through her hectic life, she has to protect the people she loves while proving that motherhood has not dulled her sleuthing instincts.

Maddie gets a backstage look at a celebrity dance show when her friend's actor boyfriend joins the cast. Then his partner is found dead, and Maddie steps into a glittery mess of jealousy, gossip, and murder.

Maddie Springer juggles work, family, and another murder that refuses to stay out of her life. As rumors spread and the suspect list grows, she has to think fast to keep the next body from dropping.

A Hawaiian beauty pageant sounds like a fun change of pace for Maddie Springer, until death crashes the event. Between jealousy, glamour, and too many suspects, paradise becomes another very risky place to investigate.

Cindy York wants the listing she was promised, not a murder charge. But when her scheming coworker is found dead, Cindy and her friend Jacques have to dig through office grudges and family gossip to prove she is not the killer.

After a divorce, Sally Muccio returns home to open a novelty cookie shop and start over. Then her ex-husband's mistress drops dead on her porch, and Sally's fresh start turns into a race to save her business and herself.

Sally Muccio's bakery is thriving and a baking show appearance should be good news, until her ex-husband barges back in. Hours later he is dead, her boyfriend is arrested, and Sally has to sort through enemies, debts, and bad blood.

Just before her wedding, Sally loses her bakery in a fire and finds a dead man in the ruins. With her sister missing and family chaos at full volume, she has to figure out who is lying before everything falls apart again.

A high school reunion and the possible sale of an old house force Cindy York to revisit the death of a childhood friend. When new clues suggest it was murder, she digs into a cold case that still hurts.

New to Hawaii and the Aloha Lagoon Resort, Carrie Jorgenson is still finding her footing when her awful boss turns up dead. Suddenly the waitress with movie-star dreams has to play amateur sleuth in paradise.

Carrie Jorgenson is settling into island life when a famous food critic dies after she delivers his coffee. With the cafe under suspicion and trouble piling up, she follows the clues through the resort's sunny, messy underbelly.

Sally should be thinking about wedding cake and happily ever after, not gunfire. When a last-minute cake tasting turns violent and a fortune cookie suggests the attack was no accident, she has to catch a killer before her big day.

Sally rents the apartment over her bakery to a difficult friend of Grandma Rosa, then watches the woman die in an apparent hit and run. A sudden Vegas trip, missing jewelry, and family shocks make this one of Sal's messiest cases.

Desperate for a big commission, Cindy York jumps at the chance to list a mansion for a man just out of prison for murdering his wife. Then another body appears in the house, and the deal turns into a tangle of old secrets and fresh danger.

A TV cooking show could be great publicity for Sally and Josie, until an old rivalry explodes on camera. Then a body turns up on set, Josie becomes the obvious suspect, and Sal has to untangle murder and a troubling case from the past.

Very pregnant and ready for Christmas, Sally Muccio gets carjacked by a fake Santa and then tied to a murder from her past. With her bakery's cookies near the body and suspicion swirling, clearing her name becomes urgent.

Widowed chef Tessa Esposito learns her husband's fatal accident was murder, not bad luck. To find out who he really was mixed up with, she slips into a local pizza parlor and follows a trail of family business secrets.

A family birthday dinner ends in armed robbery and grief, and the damage to Sally's life is only beginning. As money troubles and hidden motives pile up, she has to find the link before her family loses even more.

When suspicion falls close to home, Maddie Springer cannot resist poking into yet another fashionable murder case. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that glittery surfaces hide dangerous people.

New mom Sally Muccio wants no more murder cases, but that plan dies when a mortician family friend is found in his own casket. With Josie beside her and suspects everywhere, she digs into funeral home secrets before the killer buries the truth.

Tessa Esposito caters a bookstore event to help launch her restaurant, but old grudges boil over when a publicist from her past shows up. After the woman is found dead beside a stray cannolo, Tessa must clear both her cousin and herself.

Maddie Springer heads into game show chaos when a contestant dies after a celebrity trivia taping. With her stepfather under suspicion and secrets spilling everywhere, she has to solve the case before the final round turns deadly.

Another stylish case sends Maddie Springer from fashion fun to murder and suspicion in a hurry. With danger closing in, she has to trust her instincts and outmaneuver a killer before the case turns personal.

Maddie Springer is pulled into another glossy Los Angeles murder, where charm and glamour hide plenty of lies. To protect the people around her, she has to sort real clues from celebrity smoke and mirrors.

Halloween gets ugly when a flashy rival bakery opens across from Sally's shop. After the new owner dies in an explosion and Josie becomes a suspect, Sally has to move fast before the whole case blows up.

Sally Muccio spots Officer Brian Jenkins with an old flame and tries to stay out of it. By the end of the night the woman is dead, Brian's gun points straight at him, and Sal is back in the middle of murder.

Christmas in Harvest Park should mean food, lights, and community spirit for chef Tessa Esposito. Instead, a disliked espresso bar owner dies in public, and Tessa has to investigate before one of her friends takes the blame.

Leila Khoury returns to Sugar Ridge, Vermont after her beloved father is murdered and the family farm is left reeling. Running the maple business is hard enough, but solving his killing may be the only way to save what is left.

Years before Sally owned a bakery, she was just a teenager trying to survive prom season. When money trouble and a shady scheme spoil the fun, she gets an early crash course in mystery.

Cindy York comes out of stay-at-home life to help an old college roommate sell her house during a nasty divorce. Then the roommate's husband turns up dead in the pool, and Cindy has to clear her friend before the case sinks them both.

On her first cruise, Sally Muccio expects sun and dessert catering, not a body in the freezer. When an irritable older woman is blamed after a public fight, Sal and Josie race around the ship to catch the real killer.

On Cindy York's first day in real estate, she is threatened with a gun and stumbles onto a chilling old case. Teaming up with fellow agent Jacques, she learns the housing market can be deadly.

Sally never expected to see Grandma Rosa on a senior dating show, much less find the host murdered in her bakery. Between cranky contestants and shaky alibis, this reality TV case is a real mess.

Before Sally opens her bakery, her grandmother asks one favor in exchange for financial help, find out who killed Aunt Luisa. A missing teapot and a supposedly accidental death send Sally into her first real mystery.

Spring brings wedding plans to Sugar Ridge, and Leila wants her best friend's big day to go smoothly. Instead the bridal shower ends with murder, and the victim's wealthy aunt leaves behind a long list of enemies.

Cindy is planning her husband's birthday when his long-estranged sister Annette shows up asking for help with a rental. When Annette's past leaves an innocent bystander dead, Cindy has to dig fast to protect her family.

Sal is already overworked when her mother enters a local beauty pageant and a nasty rival starts making trouble. After the rival turns up dead and Maria is caught on camera near the scene, family loyalty sends Sal hunting for the truth.

Leila Khoury plans a Thanksgiving pie contest to bring business to her family's Vermont farm. Then a poisoned pumpkin pie kills a neighbor, and it soon becomes clear the real target may have been much closer to Leila.

Cindy helps her daughter shop for a first home and ends up face to face with her husband's old flame, the listing agent. When that agent is found dead in the house, Cindy must solve the murder before the dream deal falls apart.

On Christmas Eve, Sally heads to the airport expecting a quick pickup for her father. Instead he vanishes with a mysterious companion, and the search threatens to wreck the family's holiday.

Back in Aloha Lagoon and happy to be home, Carrie Jorgenson watches her boyfriend's glamorous ex collapse after a luau performance. With Keanu near the top of the suspect list, Carrie has to uncover the secret Tammy was keeping.

A cozy night at a newly renovated inn turns dark when Sally finds the owner dead after a winter storm kills the power. When her father's life is suddenly at risk too, she cannot leave the case alone.

Ready for a quiet fall and a second honeymoon, Cindy York instead gets dragged into murder when an agent showing a house for her ends up dead. A second killing and threatening notes make the case even more personal.

Christmas cheer vanishes when a bungled luxury home closing ends with a dead attorney and video that seems to implicate Jacques in a Santa suit. Cindy has to clear her friend before the holidays turn grim.

Sally takes a baby shower catering job that should be easy money, until the wealthy grandmother-to-be offers her a fortune to expose would-be killers. When the woman dies that same night, Sally has to sort through a house full of lies.