Kate Dyer Seeley Books in Order

In this memoir, Alexander writes about loss, memory, and the long work of living through tragedy. It is intimate, reflective, and centered on what remains when life has been burned down to essentials.

Pastry chef Juliet Capshaw returns to Ashland to help at her family's bakeshop, Torte, and finds a customer dead outside. With the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in full swing, Jules has to balance new beginnings, old feelings, and a very real murder.

Journalism grad Meg Reed bluffs her way into an outdoor magazine job and ends up witnessing a deadly fall during an adventure race in the Columbia River Gorge. To save her new career, she has to prove it was murder.

Jules enters a televised baking competition to promote Torte, only to find a fellow contestant dead on set. The reality-show fun turns sour fast, and she has to sort through jealous bakers, pressure, and hidden motives.

A snowy trip to Lake of the Woods should be a welcome winter break, but a storm traps Jules with a growing list of suspects. As tensions rise inside the mountain lodge, she has to work out who turned the retreat deadly.

Meg heads to remote Silcox Hut to cover winter training with an elite rescue team, then gets snowed in when one of the climbers is killed. Trapped by a blizzard, she has to find the murderer before cabin fever turns deadly.

Winter brings Jules back into Ashland's restaurant scene just as a local business owner turns up dead. Between pressure at Torte and complicated feelings about Carlos, she has to figure out which grudge turned fatal.

Back home in Portland, Meg signs up with a brutal mud-run training team to research her next story. When the hard-driving coach is found dead, she has to slog through secrets, grudges, and a killer willing to play dirty.

Meg travels to Hood River to cover a windsurfing competition and discovers a superstar athlete dead on the rocks. With rumors swirling through the tight-knit surf scene, she dives in to find who wanted him gone.

Another Ashland case drops Jules into a tangle of culinary rivalries, personal secrets, and a death that threatens Torte's hard-won calm. She has to keep the bakery running while following clues that only get messier.

Ashland's chocolate festival should be sweet publicity for Torte until a famous chocolatier dies after sampling Jules's cake. With suspicion falling close to home, she has to clear her name and catch the killer.

Claustrophobic reporter Meg joins an expedition into Oregon's lava caves and finds a murdered Forest Service employee underground. The case pulls her into a fight over public lands and closer to long-buried questions about her own family.

A beer festival brings craft brewer Sloan Krause to Ashland, where she teams up with Jules from Torte after a keg goes missing. This crossover novella pairs baking, brewing, and a light mystery with plenty of charm.

With the Shakespeare Festival back in season, Torte is catering opening night and Jules hopes for a smooth launch. Instead, a young actor ends up dead and someone close to her lands in the spotlight.

After catching her husband cheating, brewer Sloan Krause leaves the family brewery to work at Nitro, Leavenworth's hip new nano-brewery. When a competitor is found dead in the fermenting tub, she jumps into the investigation.

Jules uncovers human remains during a lakeside picnic, then faces a second death tied to local grudges and old missing-person questions. While Carlos waits at sea and Ashland buzzes with gossip, she has to piece two mysteries together.

Britta Johnston returns to Portland to help at her aunt Elin's floral boutique and finally start over. When a pushy developer is found murdered in the shop, she races to clear her aunt before the police close in.

Oktoberfest week in Leavenworth turns deadly when an obnoxious beer-documentary host is murdered. Sloan has to navigate festival chaos, hometown politics, and brewery rivalries to work out who wanted him out of the picture.

A wedding should be all celebration, but Jules soon discovers that love and murder can share the same guest list. As emotions run high around the big day, she has to protect the people she cares about and find the killer.

Britta and Elin are busy building a float for Portland's Rose Festival when protestors crash the celebration. After the group's leader is found strangled with a garland of violets, Britta has to untangle motives before the case gets even messier.

Christmas in Ashland should mean festive menus and packed pastry cases, but a new death chills the season. Jules juggles holiday baking, family plans, and a mystery that refuses to stay wrapped up.

As Leavenworth gears up for its winter lights and holiday crowds, Sloan and Garrett are busy brewing at Nitro. Then a dry-town politician turns up dead, and nearly every business owner in town has a reason to cheer.

A warm Ashland season should mean happy crowds and sweet treats, but Jules ends up facing another cold-blooded case. Between Torte's busy kitchen and a fresh list of suspects, she has to keep another mystery from spinning out.

A forgotten file in her late father's belongings pulls Jules into a controversial Ashland hit-and-run from the 1980s. To understand a new threat in the present, she has to dig through old tapes, old grudges, and family history.

Nitro's new guest rooms fill up during winter festival season, and Sloan expects ordinary small-town drama. Instead, one guest vanishes after a threatening run-in, leaving her snowed in with a house full of possible suspects.

Torte is catering a museum gala for the unveiling of a supposedly lost Shakespeare manuscript when the document disappears and a guard is killed. Jules has to sort through academic ambition, theft, and murder under one roof.

Ashland hosts a high-stakes barista competition, and Torte's Andy is finally getting his shot to shine. When a notoriously cruel judge dies clutching Andy's drink, Jules has to prove her friend isn't a killer.

Spring festivals arrive in Leavenworth just as Sloan and Garrett prepare to launch a bright new beer. The season turns darker when a murder drags Sloan back toward painful pieces of her own past.

Thomas and Kerry's wedding day should be perfect, but an unwelcome guest and a murdered musician change everything. With emotions already running high, Jules has to slice through wedding-day chaos to find the truth.

Sloan's first real date with Garrett should be simple fun, but a brewery opening is derailed by deceit. In novella length, Alexander mixes romance, beer-town charm, and a brisk mystery.

Jules and the Torte crew head to the Rogue River to cater a corporate adventure retreat. When one of the guests is found floating face down, the getaway becomes a fast-moving hunt for the truth.