Molly Masters Mystery Books in Order

Cartoonist Molly Masters is furious when a rival’s husband submits her drawing to an adult magazine without permission. His subsequent murder draws her into an investigation that requires juggling disguises, family responsibilities and the dangers behind an apparently respectable community.

After a bitter confrontation, Molly’s troublesome neighbor is shot dead on her property. Investigating the killing uncovers a hidden secret, while threatening faxes warn Molly that her questions may place her next in the murderer’s sights.

Molly Masters leads a creative-writing retreat in the mountains, expecting to guide a group of ordinary suburban women. Instead, a murder forces the greeting-card entrepreneur to identify the danger concealed among her workshop’s seemingly unremarkable participants.

A school board’s battle over funding turns deadly when its domineering president is poisoned. With Molly Masters’s father becoming the prime suspect, she must uncover the board’s secrets and identify the murderer before her own investigation ends in tragedy.

A PTA fundraiser’s director is shot by someone wearing the same clown costume as several performers, including Molly Masters. Identifying the disguised killer draws Molly into school scandals and private relationships that someone is willing to protect through murder.

A seemingly perfect PTA president leads her organization toward a prestigious award, but an embarrassing video exposes the board’s failings. When Patty is murdered, the contrast between public achievement and private tensions becomes central to the mystery surrounding her death.

Returning to her childhood community, e-card creator Molly Masters receives a letter from a former teacher who dies that same day. An anonymous threat and mounting gossip pull the newly resettled mother into an unexpectedly dangerous murder investigation.