Laura Lake Books in Order

Laura Lake is a light, funny mystery series set in the world of glossy magazines, society gossip, and people who care a bit too much about appearances. Laura wants to be a serious journalist, but when the series begins she is an unpaid intern at Society, sleeping in the fashion cupboard and hanging on to her dream by pure nerve. That gap between what Laura hopes for and what the world gives her powers the whole series.

The first book, Three Weddings and a Scandal, also published as Laura Lake and the Hipster Weddings, throws her into high society at once. Instead of quiet reporting or proper training, she is sent to infiltrate elite weddings and come back with a story. Holden mixes office politics, fashion-world absurdity, class comedy, and a genuine mystery plot, so Laura is not just chasing celebrity sparkle. She is trying to stay employed, prove herself, and figure out whom she can trust.

Laura is not the smoothest person in the room, and that is part of the fun.

As the series goes on, her job gets better but her assignments get stranger. Laura Lake and Luxury Press Trip sends her to Coconut Cay, a billionaire's private island retreat, where the luxury is real and the secrecy is even more real. In Last of the Summer Moët, she goes undercover to investigate an ultra-posh English village hidden from ordinary visitors. By A View to a Kilt, she is editor of Society and heading to a Highland castle, where fashion, money, and danger once again turn a work trip into something much more complicated.

The settings are a big part of the appeal. Holden moves Laura from London magazine offices to lavish weddings, private hideaways, secretive villages, and remote Scottish estates. Each place gives the books fresh comic energy, but the atmosphere stays consistent. These are breezy, stylish stories with a little romance, a little satire, and enough sleuthing to keep the plot moving.

What holds the series together is Laura herself. She is ambitious without being hard, observant without being cynical, and brave in the slightly panicked way many real people are brave. She notices the gaps between polished surfaces and messy truth, which makes her a believable guide to worlds built on spin. Around her are glamorous friends, impossible colleagues, rich eccentrics, and men who may or may not be helpful.

If you want mysteries that lean toward wit rather than darkness, Laura Lake is easy to settle into. The books work as comic capers, but they also chart Laura's climb from overlooked intern to editor, one improbable scoop at a time.