Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery Books in Order

Caterer Madeline Bean's major Hollywood Halloween party turns deadly when producer Bruno Huntley is poisoned. After her business partner Wesley is arrested, Madeline investigates the victim's enemies and family secrets while facing threats to her own safety.

Madeline Bean prepares a Los Angeles breakfast reception for the Pope when a priest's death complicates the festivities. A mysterious Latin document and the return of the man who abandoned her at the altar add further problems before the distinguished guest arrives.

At a lavish wedding in a museum's dinosaur hall, Madeline Bean discovers a corpse suspended from a skeleton. Disappearances and clues involving smuggled gems draw the event planner into an investigation that threatens more than the celebration.

Madeline Bean and Wesley Westcott organize a Chinese New Year banquet where a mahjong player is found dead. An antique game set discovered during Wesley's restoration work may connect the killing to secrets hidden in an old celebrity mansion.

With her catering business quiet, Madeline Bean takes a writing job on a culinary game show whose head writer has vanished. Disappearing staff, a hidden room, and strange clues suggest that the production's troubles extend well beyond television deadlines.

A valuable silver saxophone disappears after a charity auction catered by Madeline Bean, who later discovers a body in her bedroom. Romantic complications and a suspicious stranger add to the danger surrounding the missing instrument and the murder.

Madeline Bean arranges a Hawaiian bachelorette weekend for employee Holly Nichols, but a corpse disrupts the festivities. Holly's possible existing marriage creates another problem, leaving Madeline to search for a missing husband while pursuing an island killer.

Madeline Bean hopes to persuade an elderly landlady to permit renovations on the top floor of an old Hollywood building. Two real estate sharks and an attractive talent agent create additional complications for the gourmet cook and amateur sleuth.