Key West Food Critic Mystery Books in Order

After moving to Key West, Hayley Snow applies for a food critic job and discovers her prospective boss is the woman who stole her boyfriend. When that boss dies from poisoned key lime pie and Hayley becomes a suspect, she has to find the real killer.

A splashy Key West conference brings celebrity food writers, sharp egos, and plenty of gossip to town. When superstar critic Jonah Barrows is found dead, Hayley Snow has to sort through grudges, secrets, and hungry ambition.

Hayley is drafted onto the judging panel for a televised cooking contest, where rivalries are already boiling over. When one of the judges is murdered, she starts digging before the killer cuts the competition down again.

Christmas in Key West turns messy when chef Edel Waugh confides that someone is sabotaging her new restaurant. After a fire and a body in the ruins, Hayley has to untangle arson, ambition, and holiday stress.

While baking cupcakes for a friend's wedding, Hayley is pulled into family chaos when her teenage stepbrother vanishes into the Key West party scene. A dead girl and a stolen jet ski turn the search into a murder case.

A new floating restaurant stirs up local fights, and Hayley heads to a city meeting expecting arguments, not murder. When her tarot-reading friend Lorenzo is blamed for killing a longtime rival, she sets out to clear his name.

Fantasy Fest fills Key West with costumes, street food, and trouble. While covering the island's grab-and-go eats, Hayley investigates a killing that could ruin her friend Danielle's turn as Queen of Fantasy Fest.

Working a high-profile conference at the Truman Little White House, Hayley expects food, politics, and literary chatter. Instead she gets a stolen Hemingway medal, a missing busboy, and a murder that touches people she cares about.

Days before Thanksgiving and her wedding, Hayley joins a seafood tasting tour for an article. When a guest drops dead and her friend's business is on the line, she has to squeeze a murder investigation into an already impossible week.

A much-hyped Key lime pie contest brings fierce bakers and big egos to Key West. When a pastry chef ends up dead, Hayley has to cut through family tension and culinary rivalry to find the killer.

Hayley and Nathan head to Scotland for their delayed honeymoon, only to pick up a crowd of relatives and fresh trouble. A suspected poisoning and a shocking death turn the trip into a very unromantic investigation.

An afternoon off turns ugly when Hayley follows a barking dog and finds a body half buried near the beach. The victim had plenty of enemies, and an old Key West cookbook may hold clues to the truth.

The Scottish Scone Sisters arrive in Key West to launch a baking competition, and Hayley is ready for fun, not arson. When a bed-and-breakfast burns and a body is found, the clues start pointing in dangerous directions.

A writer researching Hemingway's wives draws Hayley into the decades-old disappearance of a young woman on Big Pine Key. As they question old residents and revisit 1970s secrets, the past starts feeling far too alive.

A mango themed cocktail cruise for Key Zest should be a glittering Key West showcase. Instead an explosion kills a local culinary entrepreneur, and Hayley has to navigate politics, grudges, and fierce competition on shore.

Nine months pregnant and supposed to be taking it easy, Hayley agrees to help with a custody exchange at the sheriff's office. When the mother vanishes and a body turns up, she is pulled into a desperate search.