Lynn Messina Books in Order

Vig Morgan survives life at a ruthless fashion magazine by keeping her head down and her opinions sharp. Then office politics turn ugly, and she is pulled into a plot against the terrifying editor in chief.

After losing her job, Tallulah West follows a surprising lead tied to property her late mother owned in North Carolina. The trip offers a chance to rethink family, work, and the future she really wants.

When trend forecaster Mim Warner makes a disastrous prediction on live television, her employee Megan starts digging for the reason. What begins as workplace worry soon tangles with an ex-boyfriend and a possible crime scene.

Seventeen-year-old Chrissy lands a dream internship at her favorite magazine and gets swept into parties, glamour, and newsroom politics. To make the most of it, she has to figure out what she actually wants to say.

This playful mashup gives the March sisters fangs without taking away the family drama. It turns *Little Women* into a bloodier, sillier, and very knowing parody.

Ricki Carstone heads to Hollywood when her first novel appears to be turning into a movie. The dream quickly becomes a comedy of options, egos, and the gap between industry promises and reality.

With nearly all men turned into zombies by a virus, Hattie Cross writes a guide for women trying to date in the apocalypse. It is funny, messy, and more romantic than the premise should allow.

Jamie makes trouble for a living, designing small problems that help clients test their businesses. When her dream wedding venue is slipping away, she tries to create a little romantic chaos of her own.

In a world where a virus has turned most men into zombies, ambitious twenty-three-year-old Hattie Cross still has work, desire, and a sense of humor. The result is a romantic apocalypse with a sly contemporary edge.

Catherine Fellingham is trying to save her family from scandal when she overhears a plan to push her into fashion by having the Marquess of Deverill flirt with her. She means to outwit him, not fall for him.

Evelyn Fellingham knows men admire her looks, but that does not help when she tries to speak to the Earl of Halsey. A chance change in circumstances gives him a closer look at the woman behind the pretty face.

Emma Harlow is caught stealing an orchid and promptly decides the Duke of Trent should help save her sister from a dreadful engagement. It is a reckless plan, but Emma has never let that stop her.

Lavinia Harlow only wants to be left alone with her plants, not nominated to the British Horticultural Society by an infuriating marquess. Her determination to refuse him turns into a much more personal contest.

This modern, gender-swapped take on *Pride and Prejudice* moves the story to New York and has fun with what readers think they know. Familiar characters and tensions return in fresh, clever form.

Lady Agatha Bolingbroke acts disagreeable on purpose so she can spend more time painting, and mocking society in secret caricatures. Then blackmail forces her to trust the one man she has publicly dismissed as a fool.

At a Lake District house party, overlooked spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare finds a corpse in the library. When the Duke of Kesgrave calls it suicide, Bea does the unladylike thing and starts investigating.

A London dandy drops dead at Bea's feet outside the Daily Gazette just as she is trying to manage a foolish lie gone far too far. A familiar dagger sends her toward the British Museum and the Duke of Kesgrave.

Trying not to dwell on Kesgrave, Bea welcomes a new mystery when an old acquaintance begs her to look into a suspicious poisoning. Solving it would be simpler if the duke would stop appearing at every turn.

Tuppence Templeton wants nothing to do with another reckless scheme, especially one that puts her near the Earl of Gage again. But a delicate problem involving an invention and a patent office proves hard to resist.

Teen intern Violet is suddenly mistaken for the artist behind her late grandmother's paintings, and the lie spirals into a gallery show. Keeping up the act may cost her more than the truth would.

Bea's engagement to the Duke of Kesgrave should be all anyone wants to discuss, but she would much rather solve a mystery. The case she finds reaches back to her own family and raises new doubts about her parents' deaths.

Determined to marry Kesgrave quickly, Bea swears nothing will distract her this time. Then an old rival appears with a dead grandfather, a missing jewel, and a puzzle Bea cannot resist.

Flora Hyde-Clare refuses to believe Theodore Davies died in a simple carriage accident. Certain Bea is hiding something, she chases the truth into danger and tries very hard to become the heroine of her own story.

Life as Duchess of Kesgrave is proving awkward enough before Bea is pulled into another death. A grisly mystery close to her new home gives her a perfect excuse to ignore etiquette and start asking questions.

Lady Abercrombie stages a murder mystery dinner to help the new Duchess of Kesgrave shine in society. Then a guest is killed exactly as the fake victim was meant to die, and Bea has a very real puzzle on her hands.

Bea learns that a dangerous member of Kesgrave's family may be plotting against her. Before she can make sense of the threat, the man turns up dead and her husband looks terribly, alarmingly involved.

Verity Lark runs London's sharpest gossip column through disguises, spies, and a pen name that should not exist in real life. When someone starts impersonating Mr. Twaddle-Thum, murder and chaos follow.

A steam engine explodes and kills its inventor, and everyone around Bea is ready to call it a tragic accident. Bea is not so sure, especially once the evidence suggests someone wanted Peter Huzza dead.

Verity refuses to play assistant to Colson Hardwicke and starts investigating his interest in a radical reformer instead. A corpse in a shabby boarding house reveals a much larger political tangle.

Bea is horrified to find her husband embracing his former mistress, but the woman needs help, not reconciliation. Her friend has been murdered in her bed, and everyone seems ready to blame the wrong suspect.

Now settled into married life, Bea is distracted by the unsettling prospect of motherhood when a vain young viscount insists his grandfather was murdered in bed. Dismissing him proves harder once the clues start lining up against a convenient natural death.

Still smarting from Hardwicke's abrupt treatment, Verity catches a nighttime intruder in her room. Letting him escape on purpose seems like a good plan, until the trail leads to kidnapping, murder, and fresh confusion.

Verity is short on sleep and long on worries when a trip to the British Museum uncovers a forged antiquities ring. Then violence strikes close to home and the case becomes painfully personal.

Bea expects an awkward family introduction and instead finds Verity Lark in Newgate, accused of murder. The case looks obvious until Bea notices just how neatly every piece has been arranged.

Flora visits Sebastian Holcroft's family home determined to survive the awkwardness and make a good impression. Then a young land steward is murdered, and Flora cannot stop herself from asking dangerous questions.

A rival scandal writer seizes on one of Twaddle-Thum's mistakes and starts painting the Duchess of Kesgrave as a killer. Verity has to stop the smear campaign before gossip turns into something far more dangerous.

Bea has no interest in helping a London crime lord solve the murder of an associate, until she learns the victim is connected to Kesgrave's family. The deeper they look, the uglier the scheme becomes.

When Verity captures a would-be kidnapper in her room, she decides the best plan is to let him go and follow him. The gamble pulls her into espionage, murder, and another maddening run-in with Hardwicke.

A trip to the Matlock estate is meant to give Bea distance from recent trouble, and perhaps a chance to settle old scores with the pinery. Instead, she finds yet another corpse almost as soon as she arrives.