Cupcake Bakery Mysteries Books in Order

Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura have finally opened Fairy Tale Cupcakes in Scottsdale, then their nightmare bride client turns up dead. With Mel suddenly a suspect, the friends have to save their bakery and solve the murder.

Valentine's Day should be good for business at Fairy Tale Cupcakes, until Baxter Malloy is poisoned on his first date with Mel's mother. Mel and Angie have to dig into his past before Mel's mom gets blamed for murder.

Mel and Angie enter a cooking contest to promote their bakery, but the event turns deadly when Mel's old mentor is found in a freezer truck. Winning suddenly matters less than staying alive and finding the killer.

Hoping to boost slow sales, Mel and Angie take Fairy Tale Cupcakes to the Juniper Pass rodeo. When a hotheaded bull rider winds up dead in the hay, the rodeo becomes one more place where they have to hunt a killer.

After a magazine photo shoot goes wrong, Mel and Angie agree to host a cupcake boot camp for a lifestyle magazine staff. Then the creative director is found murdered outside the bakery and team building takes a dark turn.

Mel and Angie agree to cater a beauty pageant as a favor, even though the whole scene is not their style. When a judge ends up dead beneath their cupcake display, they have to save an innocent friend from taking the fall.

The Fairy Tale Cupcakes crew plans to cash in on Scottsdale's zombie walk with themed treats and undead costumes. Then Mel finds a real body in a prop casket and realizes someone close to her may be the true target.

Mel and Angie head to Las Vegas to explore a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise deal. But when the potential bakery site is blown up, they trade business plans for a race to find out who wants the venture stopped.

Mel agrees to deliver a batch of breakup cupcakes for a friend who is dumping her gold-digging fiance. Instead of heartbreak, she finds a corpse, and the woman who sent the cupcakes becomes the obvious suspect.

As Angie and Tate's wedding approaches, the cupcake crew lands a high-profile baking job at a scandal-soaked author event. Then wedding helpers start dying, and Mel has to figure out how the crimes connect before the big day is ruined.

Mel reluctantly agrees to cater her high school reunion and immediately runs into old grudges and old bullies. When her longtime nemesis is found dead beside a lipstick note pointing at Mel, she has to clear her own name.

When a loyal cupcake customer is poisoned, the last thing she ate seems to point straight back to Fairy Tale Cupcakes. Mel and Angie have to find out who turned their signature fall flavor into a murder weapon.

Mel and Joe are nearly at the altar when a horrible head chef at their resort venue is murdered after clashing with Oz. Saving the wedding means proving their friend is innocent before everything falls apart.

Life feels sweet for Mel and Joe until an unknown gunman takes a shot at Mel. As more local business owners are attacked and one case turns fatal, the whole town starts to fear someone is hunting from within.

Holiday work turns high-profile when singer Shelby Vaughn hires the bakery crew for her concert run. Then her manager is found dead clutching a Santa suit scrap and a cupcake, and Shelby becomes the obvious suspect.

Two pro football players want to open a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise and spend the offseason learning the business in Scottsdale. When their team owner is found dead in the new bakery, Mel has to save their dream from ending before it starts.