Gayle Trent Books in Order

Adria Simms is beautiful, rich, and spoiled, but she is in real danger when photos tied to a crime surface after a photographer friend's blackout. A teen mystery setup quickly turns into high-stakes trouble.

One of Trent's early standalones, this contemporary story mixes romance with financial pressure and hard choices. The promise of easy money pulls the characters into complications that cost more than expected.

This collective novel opens the door to quirky Mossy Creek, Georgia, where gossip, family tangles, and small-town kindness fill every porch and café. Each linked story adds another voice to the town's warm, funny world.

A class reunion brings old memories, old resentments, and fresh gossip back to Mossy Creek. As always, the town turns one shared occasion into a whole chorus of funny, tangled stories.

This nonfiction parenting book pairs family stories with practical perspective and humor. It is a light, conversational look at the mess, surprise, and affection that come with raising kids.

Summer heats up Mossy Creek with celebrations, family friction, and the sort of townwide commotion that spreads from porch to porch. These linked stories capture the season at its most lively and meddlesome.

A black clutch purse from a consignment shop comes with a note accusing Jim Adams of murder, and Myrtle Crumb cannot let that rest. Her curiosity turns a simple purchase into a full-blown investigation.

Autumn settles over Mossy Creek with weddings, babies, church life, and gratitude, but the town is never too peaceful for trouble. This entry mixes warmth, humor, and many overlapping lives.

One ordinary day in Mossy Creek turns out to hold more than enough talk, tension, and tenderness for a whole book. The town's many voices make even a short span feel full and connected.

Rachel Hollins buys a ring at a flea market and discovers it once belonged to a woman murdered in 1920. The old piece of jewelry pulls her into a mystery that refuses to stay buried.

This return visit to Mossy Creek centers on home, family, and the small upheavals that ripple through a close community. The stories are nosy, affectionate, and unmistakably rooted in place.

After a fatal accident, Sunny lingers in Mossy Creek as a ghost, watching over her twins and worrying about the family meant to raise them. It is a tender, unusual novella about grief, motherhood, and learning to let go.

A routine cake delivery becomes a culinary nightmare when a small-town baker discovers her first client’s dead body in this irresistible new mystery series. It’ll take more than a little sugar to convince folks Daphne Martin’s freshly baked spice cake was not to blame for the mysterious death of town gossip Yodel Watson. Getting her new cake decorating business, Daphne’s Delectable Cakes, off the ground is hard enough now that Daphne’s moved back to her southern Virginia hometown, but orders have been even slower since she found Yodel’s body. She soon realizes, however, that just about everybody in town had a reason to poison the cantankerous busybody, from the philandering pet shop owner, to Yodel’s church potluck nemesis, to the Save-A-Buck’s cranky produce manager-turned-bagger. Now, to help prove she’s no confectionary killer, Daphne recruits her old flame, Ben Jacobs, editor of the local newspaper, and quickly stirs up a long-hidden family scandal that just might hold the secret ingredient she needs to solve the case. All she’s got to do is roll up her sleeves and get her hands a little dirty before the real culprit decides that taking sweet revenge on Daphne will be icing on the cake.

Pets and other animals take a starring role in this Mossy Creek collection, but the people are every bit as unruly. It is another funny, warm ensemble visit to a town where everybody notices everything.

After a holiday party cake delivery, much of Brea Ridge falls ill and one man dies, leaving Daphne Martin under suspicion again. She is convinced her cake was not the cause, and sets out to prove it.

Marcy Singer opens her embroidery shop, the Seven-Year Stitch, in Tallulah Falls, Oregon, only to find the previous tenant dead in the storeroom. With suspicion turning toward her, she has to unravel the case fast.

This standalone leans into broken trust, old secrets, and the fallout of promises that were never safe to make. It balances relationship drama with steadily mounting suspense.

Homecoming season brings old classmates, old grudges, and fresh stories to Mossy Creek. The town's shared history gives this anthology extra nostalgia, without losing the humor and neighborly fuss that define the series.

Daphne finds herself mixed up in a dentist's murder just as an Elvis impersonator convention rolls into town with a pink Cadillac cake order. Between odd new clients and a growing suspect list, she has to move fast.

When an elderly customer brings an antique piece of embroidery into Marcy Singer's shop and then dies under suspicious circumstances, Marcy is pulled into another dangerous puzzle. The clues are as tangled as the stitching.

Romance is in the air in Tallulah Falls, but Marcy Singer soon finds that wedding season can turn deadly. A bridal project draws her into a murder case with too many secrets stitched into it.

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.

Marcy's plans to focus on Irish embroidery are sidelined when local brewer Todd is accused of murder. With two men tied to the weapon and neither talking, she starts piecing together the truth herself.

An advertising campaign built around finding the perfect woman sounds clever until the women involved begin facing real danger. This standalone blends workplace ambition, secrecy, and a steadily rising murder threat.

A tapestry said to point to pirate treasure lands Marcy in the middle of trouble after an elderly man is found murdered and his house ransacked. What begins as a favor quickly turns into a race for answers.

Myrtle Crumb goes undercover in her granddaughter Sunny's middle school cafeteria after a string of thefts makes Sunny look suspicious. Solving the case means untangling friendship, betrayal, and what Sunny is not saying.

Celebrity chef Jordan Richards arrives in Brea Ridge for a cake competition and leaves as a murder victim, bludgeoned and drowned in batter. With suspicion circling her again, Daphne must protect both her business and her future with Ben.

When the mall Santa is found dead on the Santa Land throne, Myrtle Crumb refuses to believe the easy explanation. Going undercover, she pokes around the holiday chaos looking for the truth.

A glamorous movie production comes to Tallulah Falls, and Marcy's mother is designing the costumes. When the film's difficult star is murdered, Marcy has to clear her mother's name before the spotlight turns dangerous.

This Mossy Creek side story offers another close look at the town's people, problems, and unexpectedly touching moments. Even brief visits here come packed with gossip, humor, and the comfort of familiar faces.

While volunteering at a soup kitchen and food bank, Myrtle Crumb stumbles onto signs of identity theft in the community. Her nosy kindness sends her digging for the crook before more vulnerable people get hurt.

A museum exhibit on antique textiles should be a treat for Marcy Singer, until a visiting professor turns up dead behind her shop. To solve it, she has to pull at a very intricate weave of lies.

With her mother in prison for killing her stepfather, Alexandra turns her college research paper toward a chilling question, can violence run in families? The answer threatens to become much more than academic.

Daphne Martin should be focused on her wedding to Ben Jacobs, not her ex-husband's sudden reappearance. When Todd turns up murdered, the countdown to the ceremony becomes another tense fight to clear her name.

As Sunny prepares for the next stage of her life, Myrtle Crumb senses that trouble is closing in around her granddaughter. Family worry and small-town secrets pull Myrtle into another fast, funny investigation.

This Myrtle Crumb prequel shows how her sleuthing began, with gossip traveling over a telephone party line. When another woman turns up dead, Myrtle cannot resist digging into the scandal.

As Marcy celebrates her shop's first anniversary, a haunted house next door and a Halloween crowd make things lively. Then a waitress is found dead with one of Marcy's key rings nearby, and the party turns grim.

The local Renaissance Faire brings business to Tallulah Falls, and rivalry to Marcy Singer's booth. When a competitor is found strangled by her own knitting, Marcy becomes the easiest person to blame.

Holiday cheer turns sour when Marcy helps a friend play Santa at a children's hospital and the administrator is found murdered. With evidence pointing at someone she trusts, she starts stitching the clues together herself.

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.

Beryl Madison plays a costumed superhero on a local children's show, which makes her nephew's wild claims sound almost believable. When she crosses paths with teacher Terry Goodson and a shady attorney, sparks and trouble both fly.

Christmas lights up Mossy Creek with gift disasters, family reunions, good deeds, and comic mishaps. It is a festive ensemble visit, warm at heart and lively with the town's usual chatter.

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.

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.

Christmas in Victoria Square turns dark when Vonne Barnett is found dead and Katie Bonner is pulled into the investigation. The suspects are many, the clues are thin, and someone does not want Katie asking questions.

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.

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.

A proposed tattoo parlor divides the merchants of Victoria Square, then the owner of the building is electrocuted with his own saw. Katie Bonner has to sort through business grudges before the fallout destroys the district.

Katie Bonner's life spins out when social media announces that her boyfriend's assistant is pregnant with his child. When the woman is murdered and the claim proves false, Katie and Andy both land under suspicion.

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.

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.

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.

A friendly poker game turns serious when Jamie Seifert collapses after visiting Katie Bonner's tearoom. To clear her business and find the truth, Katie goes undercover in a nearby poker club.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dina Merrill's movie memorabilia shop and her sister Patty's theater life collide when an older actress is murdered. A script from Casablanca points toward secrets from the victim's past, and Dina starts digging.

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.

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.

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.