Hayley Powell Food and Cocktails Mystery Books in Order

In this collection, Lucy Stone visits Provence, Hayley Powell faces a reporter’s death mid‑meal at her restaurant, and knitters Pamela and Bettina find a body after a town egg hunt. Each pastel egg hides motives as sharp as any murder weapon.

Thanksgiving season turns deadly when bad‑tempered turkey farmer Tom Farley is shot at a local turkey shoot and later dies. With neighbors feuding over valuable land and development money, Hayley juggles holiday prep and a barnyard full of suspects.

This Easter anthology features Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell, and Julia Snowden tackling crimes tied to a golden prize egg, a deadly community egg hunt, and a vanished body. Cheerful spring traditions hide secrets that only these three Maine sleuths can unravel.

Christmas in Bar Harbor is already tense when Hayley’s long‑absent father returns. After a sore loser from the town’s gingerbread house contest is murdered and her father becomes the top suspect, Hayley must piece together a tangled family and community history.

At Hayley’s movie‑monster‑themed Halloween party, guests arrive dressed as everything from killer clowns to classic creatures. The fun ends when a teacher costumed as a clown is found bludgeoned, forcing Hayley to look past masks and martinis to uncover a deadly grudge.

A decades‑old rivalry between Hayley’s best friend Mona’s seafood shack and the powerful Leighton clan boils over when patriarch Lonnie Leighton is found dead in the clam flats. With accusations flying and young lovers caught in the middle, Hayley wades into dangerous waters.

Gourmet ice cream shop owner Lynette Partridge fears her professor husband is cheating, but instead finds a young employee’s body in her freezer truck. With Lynette’s marriage and business on the line, Hayley digs into campus gossip and summer romances before the trail melts away.

Hayley, Mona, and Rosana receive a taunting Christmas card from town flirt Carol Waterman, who hints she may steal one of their husbands. When Carol is later found dead beneath her tree, Hayley must sort jealousy from genuine malice in a very personal case.

Hayley’s holidays sour when a local troublemaker dies with traces of her signature Yule log cake on his body and her daughter’s new boyfriend becomes the prime suspect. To save both her dessert and her family, Hayley has to find who really spiked the sweets.

Hayley’s neighbor Danny is obsessed with the creepy abandoned house next door. When a secretive new family moves in and the realtor who sold them the property vanishes after a public argument, Hayley must decide whether the real horror is ghosts or a human killer.

This anthology gathers three Halloween mysteries set in coastal Maine, starring Lucy Stone, Hayley Powell, and Julia Snowden. Haunted houses, costume parties, and a chaotic sleepover all turn deadly, forcing each sleuth to unmask a killer behind the holiday fun.

A flashy new Italian restaurant run by temperamental Chef Romeo spices up Bar Harbor’s dining scene. After Romeo dies in the hospital and Hayley’s brother swears he witnessed foul play, Hayley juggles running the restaurant and uncovering who had a deadly grudge.

Off-season Bar Harbor quiets down until new minister Ted Lancaster and his food-truck‑owning wife, Trudy, roll into town. When Trudy dies in her Wicked ’Wiches truck at a Halloween party, Hayley must look past costumes and rumors to find a very real killer.

Hayley’s honeymoon cruise is derailed when her mother shows up in Bar Harbor and quickly feuds with an old high school rival famous for blueberry pies and flirting. After the rival is murdered at a local inn, mother and daughter need Hayley’s sleuthing to stay out of jail.

As matron of honor for her best friend Liddy’s wedding, Hayley is horrified when the quarrelsome cake baker, Liddy’s cousin Lisa, is poisoned and left face down in a towering confection. Wedding jitters turn lethal as Hayley hunts a killer among the guests.

Invited to a Fourth of July cook-off at her culinary idol’s seaside estate, Hayley is thrilled to cook alongside celebrity chefs. Food poisoning, whispered threats, and a body at the bottom of a cliff soon turn the weekend into a cliffhanger she must solve.

A girls’ getaway to Salmon Cove should give Hayley and her friends Liddy and Mona a break, especially when Liddy meets a charming travel writer. After he is found strangled on the beach during the town’s lobster bake, Hayley’s vacation turns into a dangerous investigation.

Hayley’s ex-husband Danny blows back into Bar Harbor just in time for Halloween, bringing trouble and a moonshine‑making uncle. When the uncle is found dead in a cemetery and Danny becomes the prime suspect, Hayley must carve through family secrets to find the truth.

A daytime TV cooking appearance turns Hayley into a minor celebrity and earns her a lucrative gig with bacon heiress Olivia Redmond. When Olivia is found dead with her pet pig squealing beside her, Hayley trims a long list of enemies to expose the killer.

Dreading her high school reunion, Hayley must face the trio of mean girls who tormented her, including now‑famous cupcake queen Ivy Foster. When Ivy is murdered amid scattered cupcakes, Hayley uncovers old grudges and sweet revenge baked into every alibi.

Hayley hires prickly chef Garth Rawlings to cater the Island Times office Christmas party, then finds him dead on his own kitchen floor. With a buffet of disgruntled clients and staff to investigate, she has to serve up justice before the holidays are ruined.

Valentine’s Day turns bittersweet when beloved chocolatier Bessie Winthrop dies in her kitchen and only Hayley suspects foul play. Digging into Bessie’s tangled love life and business rivalries, she discovers motives as layered and tempting as a box of handmade truffles.

To ease her money troubles, Hayley joins an extreme couponing reality show and clashes with ruthless nurse Candace Culpepper. When Candace is found dead with scissors in her back, Hayley must sort showbiz drama from small-town grudges to find who really cashed in.

Single mom Hayley Powell reluctantly takes over the Island Times food column, only to have her rival critic found dead in a bowl of her clam chowder. To clear her name, she and her best friends stir through secrets simmering in Bar Harbor.

Hayley lands a dream side job cooking for country music star Wade Springer’s tour, but the gig sours when a roadie turns up dead with her fried chicken as a calling card. Protecting Wade means uncovering jealousies, bad habits, and a killer on the road.