Kaye George Books in Order

Waitress and aspiring investigator Imogene Duckworthy dreams of leaving her routine in small-town Texas. When Uncle Huey is murdered in his diner, she gets an unexpected opportunity to test her detective instincts on a real and very personal case.

PI assistant Imogene finds a rental house that welcomes her daughter and their pet pig, despite rumors of haunting. A corpse in the bathtub creates a more immediate problem, especially when her long-lost Uncle Dewey becomes the obvious murder suspect.

While buying a pot-bellied pig for her daughter's birthday, Imogene Duckworthy discovers the owner of Jerry's Jerky dead in the smokeroom. Newly employed as a private investigator's assistant, she must turn her ambitions into practical detective work to solve the murder.

Enga Dancing Flower's Neanderthal tribe faces worsening cold and disappearing mammoth herds when its leader is murdered. The new leader suspects her, leaving Enga to identify the killer before expulsion places her life and the tribe's future in greater danger.

Aspiring conductor Cressa visits her grandmother's Illinois lake cabin to finish a symphony, only to find her grandmother dead. A second drowning in the same place makes her doubt the official accident explanation and investigate the resort's uneasy community.

Dessert-shop owner Chase Oliver follows her escaped cat Quincy into a neighbor's kitchen and discovers a murdered business rival. Their earlier quarrel makes Chase the leading suspect, forcing her to seek the killer with help from friends and her food-loving feline.

Chase and Anna take their bakery to a harvest fair, where Quincy wanders away in search of snacks. The cat's adventure leads to a murdered butter-sculpting contestant, and Chase investigates when his veterinarian becomes the police's suspect.

Enga Dancing Flower's tribe travels south to escape an advancing glacier, struggling with distance and scarce food. When an elder drowns while crossing a flooded river, Enga suspects the death was deliberate and that a killer accompanies their desperate migration.

A reunion revives uncomfortable memories for Chase Oliver's friend Julie before Quincy leads Chase to a former classmate's body in a park. With Julie suspected of murder, Chase investigates the old connections and grievances surrounding the gathering.

Cressa's new conducting job in Minnesota brings additional work playing a church organ, where she encounters troubling discoveries and bodies. Investigating her fellow musicians and new acquaintances also uncovers unexpected information about the suspicious deaths of her own parents.

Tally Holt hosts a party for her traveling-performer parents, hoping to promote her growing sweet shop. The celebration turns deadly when a local theater director collapses after confronting Tally's mother, drawing family tensions into another Fredericksburg murder investigation.

Tally's new vintage sweet shop faces disaster when a handyman is found dead in her kitchen, killed with her neighbor Yolanda's scissors. Protecting her friend and their businesses requires investigating the victim's romantic entanglements, borrowed money, and powerful family connections.

Tally Holt is puzzled when replicas of vintage sweets disappear from her friend's broken shop window. As apparently unrelated burglaries spread through Fredericksburg, she searches for the unexpected value of the fake candies and the dangers behind their theft.

Enga Dancing Flower's tribe reaches a promising settlement, but neighboring groups resent their arrival. A murdered tribesman and a kidnapped baby threaten the community's hoped-for security, forcing Enga and her people to identify a killer and recover the missing child.