Mary Ellen Hughes Books in Order

Burned-out mathematics teacher Maggie Olenski hopes a Maryland mountain resort will provide a relaxing holiday. Finding a murdered former student instead, she investigates suspicious deaths at the hotel while trying to avoid becoming another victim.

Jo McAllister's craft shop opening ends disastrously when the clown she hired is murdered in her storeroom. With a craft item used as the weapon, Jo becomes a suspect and must investigate to clear her name.

Worried about her craft shop's future, Jo McAllister visits property buyer Parker Holt and finds him killed by an electrical trap. When police suspect her friend's construction crew, Jo and her beading students begin investigating.

At a craft festival, Jo McAllister argues publicly with rival Linda Weeks before Linda dies from candy Jo delivered. With her reputation and shop threatened, Jo must unravel the murder while her friends help examine possible motives.

Ordinary commuter Martin begins writing a mystery in a blue notebook to escape his uneventful routine. A conversation with an attractive woman on the train unexpectedly changes his story, drawing him toward the kind of intrigue he had only imagined.

Maggie Olenski visits a New Hampshire town to write a mathematics puzzle book, only to encounter a dispute over its ski resort. When a developer is poisoned and her childhood friend becomes a suspect, Maggie investigates.

Piper Lamb opens a pickle shop in Cloverdale and promotes it at the local fair. When a quarrelsome council member is found dead in her brine barrel, she investigates to help clear her assistant's boyfriend.

An Italian soccer team's visit to Cloverdale ends with its manager dead in a local farmer's field. Pickle-shop owner Piper Lamb investigates to clear her supplier while an ex-fiancé's return complicates her developing romantic life.

Piper Lamb investigates a poisoned accountant when suspicion falls on her friend Sugar's son. The wealthy Porter family's determination to avoid scandal complicates her inquiries, and poisoned cherries from Piper's own shop create a further threat.

Callie Reed visits her aunt Melodie in Keepsake Cove, only to find herself inheriting a music box shop after Melodie's sudden death. Doubting the official explanation, Callie investigates secrets and puzzling signals from a family music box.

Music box shop owner Callie Reed helps organize autumn festivities and a visiting author's appearance in Keepsake Cove. When a B&B owner is killed with vintage scissors, she investigates to clear his estranged wife of suspicion.

Callie Reed hopes to avoid her ex-boyfriend Hank during Keepsake Cove's spring festival. When a band's manager is murdered with a music box Hank bought, she must investigate the town's secrets to help prove his innocence.