Karen MacInerney Books in Order

Natalie Barnes trades Texas for Maine and buys the Gray Whale Inn, only to end up battling a resort developer who threatens the island. When the developer turns up dead, Natalie becomes the obvious suspect.

Former stateswoman Kitzi Camden is dealing with family trust trouble when her cousin's business partner turns up dead in a dumpster. Clearing her cousin means untangling money, family history, and a very Texas mess.

Natalie finds her part-time helper Polly shot dead, and that is only the start of her problems. Strange footsteps in the attic and the return of an ex-fiancé make island life even messier.

Accountant Sophie Garou has a great job, a great boyfriend, and one major problem, she is a werewolf. When a sexy wolf strolls into town and her mother is accused of selling a poison potion, hiding stops being easy.

A weight-loss retreat brings handsome trainer Dirk De Leon to the Gray Whale Inn, then leaves him dead. Add a skeleton hidden in the lighthouse, and Natalie has a very Maine tangle of secrets to unravel.

Sophie is balancing a promotion, a possible engagement, and two very tempting suitors when the Houston pack threatens her life. Werewolf politics and human romance collide, and the next full moon may be her last.

Sophie Garou is pulled deeper into werewolf politics as dangerous loyalties and a tangled love life close in around her. To protect the life she wants, she finally has to face the side of herself she has tried to outrun.

Another season on Cranberry Island turns deadly when Natalie is pulled into a local murder and the grudges behind it. Between innkeeping, island gossip, and mounting danger, she has to find the truth fast.

Natalie volunteers to host the Cranberry Island clambake and expects good food and good press. Instead several islanders fall ill, and her blueberry pies become the prime suspects in a poisoning scare.

Stay-at-home mom Margie Peterson takes a part-time PI job to help pay the bills and immediately crashes into chaos. On day one she totals her minivan, lands in a drag contest, and finds a body in the bathroom.

An influx of artists should make the holiday season brighter, but then Natalie's niece Gwen is drawn into a case involving a gallery owner and a suspicious death staged as suicide. Natalie has to spot the forgery before the killer strikes again.

With her wedding approaching, Natalie is already stretched thin when she finds a young man shot dead in a dinghy. A secret note and a shaky suspect send her into another tangled Cranberry Island mystery.

Former Houston reporter Lucy Resnick buys her grandmother's farm in Buttercup, Texas, hoping for a simpler life. Instead she gets an oil-drilling fight and a murder that leaves one of her jam jars beside the body.

The Cranberry Island Harvest Festival should be all pies and pumpkins, but sabotage, ghostly lights, and a blazing corn maze say otherwise. Natalie has to decide whether she is facing a prankster or something deadlier.

Lucy's orchard is being dug up, her boyfriend's glamorous ex is in town, and then she is attacked and a friend is arrested for murder. An injured puppy, a missing necklace, and poison-pen letters lead her deeper into trouble.

Margie Peterson is already juggling family chaos when a bizarre murder case tied to her daughter's fancy new school lands in her lap. The victim is the headmaster, and the path to the truth is as messy as Margie's life.

A cookbook drawn from Natalie's kitchen, this collection gathers recipes from the first six Gray Whale Inn books and the early short stories. It is a tasty extra for readers who want a bit more Cranberry Island.

Halloween in Buttercup brings ghost rumors, a tarot reading, and a ranch owner dead from bee venom. When suspicion lands on a local witch and winery owner, Lucy starts stirring up a dangerous batch of secrets.

Lucy is selling at the Buttercup Christmas Market and enjoying the season until a local man is found stabbed with mistletoe in his hair. The sheriff thinks he has an easy answer, but Lucy is not buying it.

PI and single mom Margie Peterson is hired to look into missing PTA money, only to find the PTA president and a personal trainer dead at the gym. Her undercover work quickly turns as wild as the case.

A whale-watching week at the inn goes dark when a schooner captain is found dead underwater, tied to the anchor. Natalie dives into island intrigue, sabotage, and a second killing that puts the whole community on edge.

Summer on Cranberry Island brings lighthouse drama, wandering goats, a yoga retreat, and then murder. Natalie has to sort through local feuds and romantic complications before another visitor, or islander, gets hurt.

A winter wedding at the Gray Whale Inn turns chaotic when feuding families, thefts, and a storm crash into the holiday plans. Natalie has to keep the peace and solve the mystery before the big day falls apart.

A tornado tears through Dewberry Farm, and while Lucy searches for missing children, she finds a home health aide murdered. Then a second body turns up in a vat of dye, and Buttercup starts to look much less neighborly.

This cookbook brings together recipes inspired by Lucy Resnick's life on Dewberry Farm. It is a cozy companion for readers who want the food and homey flavor of the series as much as the mysteries.

Natalie Barnes is enjoying a peaceful Cranberry Island summer until she finds a body tucked under the blueberry bushes. With guests, neighbors, and old tensions in the mix, the killer may be much closer than she wants to believe.

Oktoberfest in Buttercup should mean bratwurst and craft beer, not murder. When a brewery owner is killed by a crashing sack of barley, Lucy starts digging into rivalries that are rotting the town from the inside.

Max Sayers opens her dream bookstore in Snug Harbor, Maine, only for her rescue dog Winston to find a dead man on the beach behind it. Suddenly her fresh start looks a lot more dangerous than charming.

A recovered German U-boat turns the Gray Whale Inn into the center of a local frenzy, then a woman missing for twenty years is found tied to a stolen anchor. Natalie Barnes has to untangle old island secrets before history repeats itself.

This collection gathers Gray Whale Inn short fiction and seasonal mysteries into one cozy volume. It is a relaxed way to revisit Natalie, the inn, and Cranberry Island between the full-length novels.

This Gray Whale Inn short mystery gives Natalie Barnes another brisk Cranberry Island puzzle to solve. It is a quick visit filled with island atmosphere, local complications, and the series' familiar cozy charm.

This holiday Dewberry Farm mystery drops Lucy into Christmas-season trouble, where festive plans and small-town tensions turn deadly. It is a brisk seasonal visit to Buttercup with murder under the mistletoe.

Lucy heads into a living history museum adventure filled with honey, beeswax, a touch of magic, and murder. It is another busy Buttercup case where small-town charm hides sharper secrets.

When a local author accuses Max's assistant Bethany of plagiarism at Seaside Cottage Books, things get ugly fast. The next morning the author is dead in the store, and the murder echoes an unsolved crime from a century earlier.

Lucy Resnick is drawn into murder at a struggling peach orchard, where a love triangle and family secrets are already causing trouble. Old bones and a decades-old disappearance make the case even knottier.

Bookstore owner Max Sayers is trying to keep her new life on track when a local playboy dies and her friend Denise becomes the prime suspect. Then a second body turns the case into something much more dangerous.

Natalie hosts a Lithuanian egg-decorating workshop at the Gray Whale Inn, and one of the guests dies after drinking a peanut-laced beverage. With motives cracking open all around her, Easter on Cranberry Island gets dangerous fast.

Lucy wakes to a chickennapping at Dewberry Farm, then finds her renter dead in the cottage. As she investigates, long-buried connections and an old unsolved murder start clawing their way back to the surface.

Max helps turn the empty shop next door into a coffee house and uncovers a buried skeleton by the front walk. Then a librarian is strangled, a bequest vanishes, and Bethany's boyfriend becomes the leading suspect.

A film crew descends on the Gray Whale Inn, bringing celebrity egos and plenty of headaches for Natalie Barnes. Then a crewmember turns up floating behind the inn, and a cast member is poisoned on set.

The grand opening of Buttercup's new winery should be a celebration, until the winemaker ends up dead in the barn after a disastrous dinner. Lucy has to uncork the lies before the harvest turns deadly.

Amanda Blackthorne is stranded in Misty Hollow, Vermont, while moving to Portland, with her ghost Aunt Matilda riding shotgun. What looks like bad luck starts feeling like fate in a town full of magic and secrets.

A controversial cruise ship deal has Snug Harbor in an uproar when Max's boyfriend Nicholas is arrested after his law partner is found dead. Max has to cut through old grudges and hidden partnerships to clear his name.

Another visit to Cranberry Island brings Natalie Barnes into a new tangle of local secrets and coastal danger. With the Gray Whale Inn caught in the middle, she will need to read the room fast to stop a killer.