Kylie Logan Books in Order

Chicago button expert Josie Giancola is delighted when a Hollywood bride visits her shop for one-of-a-kind wedding details. Then the shop is ransacked and the actress is murdered, leaving Josie to untangle glamour, jealousy, and a killer with sharp tools.

Josie is already stretched thin running an international button collectors conference when the guest of honor turns up dead. With a famous Geronimo button missing, the case pulls her deep into grudges and collector rivalries.

A rare Victorian charm string lands in Josie Giancola's shop with whispers of bad luck attached. When the owner is strangled with the very item she wanted gone, Josie has to decide whether the curse is nonsense, or cover.

When Josie Giancola brings the final button to artist Forbis Parmenter's latest exhibit, she expects drama, not murder. After the eccentric artist is found dead with buttons sealing his face, Josie has to pick apart art-world secrets fast.

With her father missing, Maxie Pierce is trying to keep the family chili business afloat at a showdown in Taos. Then her ex Roberto is found dead in a chef's trailer, and Maxie becomes far too interesting to the police.

A court-ordered book club on South Bass Island is odd enough before the women find a real corpse. When the owner of the island's new Chinese restaurant is murdered, Bea and the others take their Agatha Christie reading a little too literally.

Another season on South Bass Island brings fresh grudges, sharp tongues, and a murder the Literary Ladies cannot ignore. Bea and her friends have to read between the lines of old rivalries before the island claims another victim.

Las Vegas is hosting a fiery Devil's Breath chili showdown, and Maxie Pierce is already juggling too much. When a comedian drops dead from poison in the middle of the spectacle, she has to sift through a loud, crowded field of suspects.

A local bootlegger legend and a team of overeager ghost hunters should make for a silly Halloween on South Bass Island. Instead, one hunter turns up dead, Kate becomes a suspect, and the Literary Ladies have a real mystery on their hands.

Maxie and Sylvia dress as San Antonio's Chili Queens for a fundraiser that should be fun and harmless. Then a troubadour is murdered and their friend Nick becomes the prime suspect, forcing the sisters back into the heat of another public mess.

A quiet religious retreat on South Bass Island turns grim when one nun is found murdered by the water. After a second death, Bea and the Literary Ladies start seeing frightening patterns, and they may be next if they read the clues wrong.

After her Hollywood plans fall apart, Laurel Inwood returns to Hubbard, Ohio, to help her aunt revive a rundown restaurant. Her new start gets messy fast when a TV reporter is found dead in a booth with a receipt spike in his back.

Laurel and Aunt Sophie hope French week will bring customers to their Ohio restaurant, not trouble. But when the chef helping them out is poisoned, Laurel has to sort through old resentments, local grudges, and a very bitter final course.

South Bass Island gets a burst of celebrity attention when famous twins open an over-the-top rival inn. Then a local realtor is murdered, Chandra becomes a suspect, and the Literary Ladies have to save a friend before island gossip turns deadly.

Laurel Inwood is preparing an Italian menu at Terminal at the Tracks when she finds her former Hollywood boss dead in the freezer. In a town full of questions, Laurel has to learn why a movie star came to Hubbard, and who wanted her gone.

Jazz Ramsey is training cadaver dog Luther at an abandoned building when he finds a real body instead of a practice target. The victim is a former student, and Jazz cannot stop digging once she recognizes her.

A school demonstration with a cadaver dog turns grim when Jazz Ramsey uncovers the body of a former teacher hidden on campus. Clearing her boss's name means reopening a past everyone thought was closed.

Nick's troubled mother claims there was a dead man in her yard, and at first Jazz Ramsey thinks it is another drunken panic. Then a body turns up nearby, and the lies around his death start spreading fast.