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Gayle Leeson Books in Order

Discover Gayle Leeson books by Gayle Trent in order, with summaries, series guides, and help choosing between her cozy mysteries and women's fiction.

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Hightail It to Kinsey Falls

by Gayle Trent

2012

Jade Burt would rather avoid her grandmother's matchmaking, but an abandoned baby possum leads Millie straight to Caleb Young. What follows is a sweet, funny story about mistrust, family meddling, and unexpected romance.

The Calamity Café

by Gayle Trent

2016

Amy Flowers quits waitressing and makes a bold play to buy the restaurant where she works, only to find her hard-nosed boss murdered before the deal is done. Suddenly her dream café comes with a murder charge attached.

Honey-Baked Homicide

by Gayle Trent

2017

Amy is happy to sell a struggling beekeeper's honey at the café, until she finds him dead outside the building. To make sense of the murder, she has to dig into a growing list of angry suspects.

Silence of the Jams

by Gayle Trent

2017

Independence Day brings crowds, pies, and business worries to Winter Garden, where Amy Flowers is trying to protect her café from local pressure. Then the holiday bustle turns deadly, and she has another case on her hands.

Joanne Faraday comes to Kinsey Falls searching for her birth parents, but instead finds herself under the watch of Greta Parker and the Silver Sleuths. Their meddling is comic at first, then unexpectedly life changing.

Christmas stirs up big feelings in Kinsey Falls as widow Millie faces matchmaking friends and Jade worries about a long-distance future. It is a warm holiday story about second chances, family, and opening your heart.

Apples and Alibis

by Gayle Trent

2019

Hosting Winter Garden's first farmers' market has Amy Flowers buried in apples when a desperate delivery request drags her into trouble. A simple favor turns into another small-town mystery with plenty of hidden motives.

Designs On Murder

by Gayle Trent

2019

Amanda Tucker opens her retro fashion design studio in Abingdon, Virginia, and discovers the building comes with a chatty ghost from 1930. When another tenant is shot, her fresh start quickly turns into a murder case.

When several residents at Max's nephew's nursing home die under suspicious circumstances, Amanda agrees to help keep watch. Then a cake she brings is drugged, and she is pushed even closer to the center of the mystery.

Amy is already juggling a Christmas parade float and mountains of holiday baking when one of Roger's employees is murdered. Clearing a friend pulls her into a festive case with far more danger than expected.

Perils and Lace

by Gayle Trent

2020

Amanda Tucker is thrilled to design costumes for a high school production of Beauty and the Beast, until the director is poisoned. With students and friends at risk, she and Max start following the deadly pattern.

Buttons and Blows

by Gayle Trent

2021

Amanda Tucker's visit to an antique button seller takes a dark turn when the woman is murdered and a second ghost demands justice. Between family visits and spectral interference, Amanda has no quiet way out of the case.

Truffles and Tragedy

by Gayle Trent

2021

Amy Flowers expects an ordinary online class presentation for her cousin Jackie, until the professor collapses and dies. With Jackie looking like the obvious suspect, Amy has to sort rumor from reality to save her.

An Eyre of Mystery

by Gayle Trent

2022

Gia takes a job as a library archivist in North Carolina and accidentally steps through a portal into Jane Eyre. When Edward Rochester is framed for murder, she has to save both the man and the book itself.

A Tale of Two Enemies

by Gayle Trent

2023

Gia's next trip into Literatia lands her inside A Tale of Two Cities, where Dr. Manette has been murdered and the story is starting to come apart. Fixing the book may be the only way to get home.

Cake and I Scream

by Gayle Trent

2023

A catering job at a Beech Mountain ski lodge turns grim when a body is found in the kitchen, killed with a cast-iron skillet. Amy, Scott, and Aunt Bess get snowed into another messy case.

Secrets and Sequins

by Gayle Trent

2023

Amanda Tucker is designing gowns for a masquerade ball when the caterer is murdered and her assistant Zoe's mother becomes the prime suspect. To save her friend's family, Amanda has to follow a trail of lies behind the glitter.

Corsets and Casualties

by Gayle Trent

2025

An estate sale, an antique Bible tied to Max's family, and a shooting at an auction house send Amanda Tucker into one of her most personal cases. The deeper she digs, the more dangerous the past becomes.

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A Recipe for Death

by Gayle Trent

2026

A flashy new food truck rolls into Winter Garden, then its owner drops dead after sampling pastries from the Down South Café. Amy has to clear the café's name before the whispers do real damage.

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Dressed to Grill

by Gayle Trent

2026

Amy Flowers and Amanda Tucker cross paths at an estate sale while hunting vintage buttons for a wedding gown. When someone connected to the sale turns up dead, old scandal and fresh danger come boiling up together.

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