Deany Ray Books in Order

Someone wants Becky to surrender the Blue Bay Café, and unsettling events begin threatening her life in Ouna Bay. With her friend Rosalie helping, she investigates the pressure on her business and questions whether a new romantic interest is involved.

Ouna Bay’s annual cake contest is disrupted when an unpopular local woman dies during the event. Becky and Rosalie investigate the killing, trying to protect the Blue Bay Café while restoring some order to a celebration transformed by murder.

Boston police secretary Charlie Cooper gets a chance to prove herself through an undercover assignment in her hometown. Returning to her eccentric family is only the beginning as a drug investigation brings threatening messages, damaged tires and an increasing number of bodies.

A guest dies at a country-club celebration with one of Becky’s cupcakes nearby, making her a suspect. She and her friends must discover how the pastry reached the party and who benefits from connecting her café to the killing.

Rosalie’s discovery of a dying bank director leaves her entangled in a murder investigation just as she prepares to join Becky’s café. The friends search for the killer together, hoping to clear Rosalie and recover the ordinary lives the crime has disrupted.

Charlie Cooper’s surveillance of a possibly unfaithful husband turns into a search for a missing man after a body appears. With her friends and business partners helping, she must untangle the case while family demands and romantic complications compete for attention.

A request to recover an escaped red panda gives Charlie Cooper’s new investigative venture an apparently simple first case. Finding a severed body part changes that expectation, drawing Charlie and her friends into a mystery closely watched by a local detective.

When Celeste’s nephew is suspected of attempted bank robbery, Charlie and her partners investigate his possible connection to a wider crime wave. Another murder raises the stakes, leaving Charlie to find the killer while managing increasingly chaotic personal distractions.

A birthday trip to Las Vegas places Charlie and her friends in possession of diamonds and near an unexpected corpse. Pursued by dangerous strangers, they must discover how to escape the trouble rather than enjoy the celebration they planned.

A difficult client gives Charlie Cooper a confusing set of clues, followed by a body in his backyard. Investigating alongside her friends brings professional friction with her detective boyfriend, while domestic upheaval adds to the pressure of finding the killer.

Starting over at her hometown newspaper, Hailey Webb discovers a dead treasure hunter on her first day. Her unfaithful former fiancé’s connection to the treasure business makes the mystery personal, while a friend and an attractive reporter help her investigate.

Marge’s promising online date ends in disaster and leaves Charlie’s investigative business with a murder case. Car dealerships, pubs and a growing suspect list complicate the search, while her detective boyfriend objects to her involvement in his work.

An actor accused of killing his costar drains Hailey Webb’s bank account before disappearing. To recover her money, she enters the film world in search of the fugitive, taking on the additional problem of proving whether someone else committed the murder.

An attack during a bachelorette party leaves Hailey Webb wondering whether she was mistaken for a bride who resembles her. Finding a body while investigating deepens the danger, forcing her to identify the intended victim and the person hunting them.

A house sitter is found dead in Hailey’s mother’s pool, leaving the family demanding answers. Hailey recruits her friend and reporter colleague to investigate, navigating a confusing case while trying to satisfy her mother’s urgent need to feel safe at home.

Charlie Cooper anticipates a comfortable Christmas Eve surrounded by family, friends and her mother’s cooking. A gunpoint confrontation and a series of ruined festivities turn the gathering into an unexpectedly dangerous holiday that no one is likely to forget.

Charlie and her partners are hired to recover an extraordinarily valuable white truffle stolen by people dressed as clowns. Discovering a body links the theft to a possible murder, adding a deadly deadline to the search for a rapidly spoiling prize.

Piper Harris finds a murdered bar patron after threatening him during her new bartending job. A note naming her witness-protection identity makes remaining uninvolved impossible, forcing her to investigate without revealing the life she and her grandmother are hiding.

A young woman’s body falls from a dentist’s casket, bringing Piper Harris another investigation with possible links to her former motorcycle club. Her grandmother and neighbor insist on helping, while a retirement-community prom threatens to put the family in the spotlight.

Former biker Piper Harris and her grandmother enter witness protection in a Florida retirement community. Adjusting to unfamiliar rules is difficult enough before a neighbor’s murder draws them into an investigation that threatens to expose the identities they must protect.

An investment fraud leaves retirement-community residents without their money, one financial adviser dead and another missing. Piper Harris joins the search for answers, risking her witness-protection cover as loyalty to her new neighbors outweighs instructions to remain inconspicuous.

Covering a beauty pageant gives Hailey Webb access to backstage drama until the director is found murdered. A long suspect list and an approaching final show put pressure on her investigation, while her mother pursues an unwelcome matchmaking campaign.

Valentine’s festivities at Piper’s retirement complex turn deadly when the person playing Cupid is killed with a crossbow. Her new security role requires an investigation, but competing inquiries and her attraction to a private investigator complicate keeping her protected identity concealed.

A murdered investor and missing funds put the retirement complex’s director under suspicion before he disappears. Piper’s permission to remain with her grandmother depends on his position, giving her a personal reason to clear him while community competitions stubbornly continue.

A shooting leaves private investigator Ryker unconscious just before his first date with Piper Harris. Piper, her grandmother and their neighbor follow leads through Bitter End’s criminal circles, racing to protect him from another attack without exposing their witness-protection identities.

An Elvis convention brings a stolen jeweled belt and a dead impersonator to Bitter End. Piper suspects her grandmother knows more than she admits, while investigating alongside her new boyfriend creates further opportunities to compromise the identity witness protection requires her to maintain.