Sue Hollowell Books in Order
Explore Sue Hollowell's books in order, with short summaries and publication details to help you find the series and choose where to start reading.
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Sue Hollowell books in publication order
70 books
Buttercups and Betrayal
by Sue Hollowell
2020
Chloe Carson balances a hotel expansion and a possible romance when a museum curator dies under suspicious circumstances. Investigating with her spaniel Max reveals stolen treasures, missing bingo scholarship funds, and family connections that make finding the killer increasingly urgent.
Mistletoe and Misfortune
by Sue Hollowell
2020
The treehouse hotel's reopening is threatened when its celebrated but unscrupulous chef dies during preparations. Chloe and her spaniel Max investigate his associates and suspiciously unmoved wife, discovering connections that put her family and the hotel's future at risk.
Peonies and Peril
by Sue Hollowell
2020
Widowed Chloe Carson returns home to prepare her family's treehouse hotel for sale. A garden club president's death in a peony patch leaves Chloe's mother and friend under suspicion, prompting Chloe and her rescued spaniel to investigate small-town gossip and blackmail.
Violets and Vengeance
by Sue Hollowell
2020
While renovating the family treehouse hotel, Chloe learns that a local environmentalist has died at a dog spa. With her sister among the suspects, Chloe and spaniel Max follow disputes over protests and a pet parade before the hotel's future is threatened.
Birthday Cake and Burglary
by Sue Hollowell
2021
While planning her uncle’s birthday celebration, Tilly learns that a local business owner has died suspiciously. Rumors threaten Belle Harbor’s annual Arts Walk, drawing her into a tangle of rivalries, blackmail, and shopkeepers with reasons to hide the truth.
Bonbons and Bodies
by Sue Hollowell
2021
During her brother’s baseball game, Tilly watches the coach collapse and die on the pitcher’s mound. Rivalries among players threaten her brother’s career, drawing her away from her new bakery and into another complicated murder investigation.
Coffee Cake and Calamities
by Sue Hollowell
2021
A scenic train excursion turns unsettling when Tilly overhears a conversation about disposing of a body. After passengers disappear during a wine-tasting stop, she must determine what happened before a killer brings the journey to a disastrous end.
Crocuses and Corpses
by Sue Hollowell
2021
Chloe takes a cruise with her mother and spaniel Max before the hotel's busy season begins. A charming hairstylist's murder exposes hidden schemes behind his polished appearance, drawing them into an investigation with consequences for their family and business.
Cupcakes and Catastrophe
by Sue Hollowell
2021
Tilly Griffin moves to Belle Harbor to open a bakery and start again after her marriage fails. A kite contest judge’s murder in a neighboring bookstore draws her and her uncle into an investigation threatening her fresh start.
Lavender and Larceny
by Sue Hollowell
2021
Cedarbrook's lavender festival turns troubling when a death occurs at Chloe's sister's farm and a prized lotion formula disappears. Chloe and spaniel Max investigate business rivals and secret relationships, uncovering a blackmail scheme behind the pursuit of a supposed fountain of youth.
Muffins and Misdeeds
by Sue Hollowell
2021
Settling into Belle Harbor, Tilly discovers clues to an old mystery while searching her uncle’s antique shop. A distillery owner’s murder brings a family feud into the present, placing a new friend under suspicion and her future at risk.
Pies and Pandemonium
by Sue Hollowell
2021
Tilly enters a berry-pie competition while welcoming her parents to Belle Harbor, only to encounter another death. Investigating alongside her mother, she uncovers rivalries and deception behind the contest and a prominent pie-plate business.
Sherbet and Shenanigans
by Sue Hollowell
2021
A charity auction ends before bidding begins when its auctioneer is stabbed with a knife donated by Tilly’s uncle. With him under arrest and his wedding threatened, she investigates jealousies and old town secrets to clear his name.
Sugar Cookies and Scandal
by Sue Hollowell
2021
Tilly’s plans to expand her bakery and hire an assistant become tangled with a local veterinary assistant’s death. Strained relationships around the neighboring businesses complicate her search for space, staff, and answers to another Belle Harbor murder.
Tiramisu and Turmoil
by Sue Hollowell
2021
A celebrity wedding offers Tilly a catering opportunity that could transform her bakery, until a murder disrupts the event. With family tensions, professional rivalry, and convincing performances obscuring the clues, she and her best friend investigate.
Biscotti and Betrayal
by Sue Hollowell
2022
A hilltop hike with her boyfriend turns frightening when Tilly sees a vehicle plunge from a cliff. Rushing to help puts them in the path of a dangerous driver whose secrets and old grudges may explain the attack.
Candy and Cowardice
by Sue Hollowell
2022
After attending an uncle’s memorial service, Tilly prepares to return to an unhappy life in Boston. Witnessing a crime while saying goodbye to Belle Harbor draws her and her remaining uncle into an unexpected effort to put things right.
Daffodils and Deadbeats
by Sue Hollowell
2022
After her husband's death, Chloe considers adopting a dog and finding a new purpose in retirement. Visits from a neighbor's canine companion lead her to suspicious activity, drawing her into an investigation that could reshape the life she is beginning again.
Deck the Santa
by Sue Hollowell
2022
Chloe Carson gathers with family in a snowy village to plan her mother's restaurant venture. Discovering a dead Santa at the nutcracker museum interrupts the reunion, sending Chloe and her cocker spaniel through a growing list of holiday suspects.
Mousse and Mayhem
by Sue Hollowell
2022
Planning her uncle’s wedding, Tilly also investigates a series of increasingly bold thefts from local businesses. When someone is killed with frozen ravioli, she must untangle a growing suspect list before the celebration becomes another casualty.
Pedicures and Perpetrators
by Sue Hollowell
2022
Tilly accepts a friend’s invitation to a luxurious spa, hoping to leave her troubles behind. Their weekend of pampering turns into a murder investigation involving difficult staff, suspicious guests, and a celebrity who may help them avoid arrest.
Trust Gnome One
by Sue Hollowell
2022
Escaped reindeer threaten Chloe Carson's romantic sleigh ride, and searching for them leads her and her spaniel to a body in a barn. When clues implicate a local celebrity, her mother's dreams of television fame complicate the hunt for the killer.
Twitch Upon a Star
by Sue Hollowell
2022
A body beneath the Christmas tree disrupts Chloe Carson's family holiday just as her sisters arrive to discuss a business venture. With one sister threatening to leave and the mayor among her suspects, Chloe and her spaniel investigate before their plans collapse.
Cotton Candy and Chaos
by Sue Hollowell
2023
Watching her uncle’s antique shop during his honeymoon, Tilly discovers that rare books intended for a collector have disappeared. Conflicting claims from a neighboring bookseller and suspicions surrounding a cotton-candy vendor complicate her effort to recover them.
Eggnog and Evil
by Sue Hollowell
2023
A holiday gala at Belle Mountain Lodge becomes a murder scene when actress Victoria Van Der Woodsen is found dead. Tilly searches the lodge’s secluded corners and complicated guest list as another death threatens the Christmas celebrations.
Fruitcake and Felonies
by Sue Hollowell
2023
Tilly secures a major catering contract at a gaming convention, where fierce competition turns deadly when a leading player dies. With suspects chasing the grand prize, she must solve the murder before the event ruins her bakery’s opportunity.
Hayrides and Homicide
by Sue Hollowell
2023
Chloe and her fiance Paul look forward to Cedarbrook's Halloween hayride until opening night brings murder and stolen jewelry. Investigating with her spaniel Max exposes old rivalries and hidden motives, putting familiar relationships under strain as they search for the culprit.
Ladyfingers and Lies
by Sue Hollowell
2023
Belle Harbor’s garden tour turns grim when visitors discover a body in the town council president’s backyard. Tilly searches beneath the rivalries and cultivated appearances of local gardeners for a killer whose secrets could endanger her next.
Brownies and Bones
by Sue Hollowell
2024
A blogger known for exposing Belle Harbor scandals dies during the Halloween Trick-or-Treat Walk. With a costume ball approaching, Tilly investigates old town secrets and concealed grudges before the killer can turn another celebration into tragedy.
Chapters and Charms
by Sue Hollowell
2024
Arabella's ghostly grandmother reveals that someone has stolen her bones and that she will soon disappear without them. With authorities dismissing the claim, Arabella must investigate her family's cemetery and coven history before the fading spirit is lost forever.
Hardbacks and Hexes
by Sue Hollowell
2024
Arabella Blackwood has avoided magic since a childhood disaster, preferring vegetables and coffee to spells. When a stranger publicly identifies her as a witch and then dies, Arabella joins an unusually perceptive French bulldog to investigate and clear her name.
Kettle Korn and Kerfuffle
by Sue Hollowell
2024
Tilly and Justin’s romantic trip to Cedarbrook is interrupted by a death at a lively cowboy saloon. Their stay at the Treehouse Hotel becomes another investigation as hidden motives threaten the town and Tilly’s safety.
Murder at the Bee Farm
by Sue Hollowell
2024
Returning to her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast, Moxie Rayburn hopes for a fresh start until a death at a bee farm implicates someone from her past. With the Honey Festival approaching, she reluctantly investigates with her grandmother and mischievous new cat.
Prologues and Potions
by Sue Hollowell
2024
A murder involving her grandmother's bones makes novice witch Arabella the leading suspect. Unable to reveal her strange alibi, she investigates dark magic, coven history, and competing motives, discovering that the secrets threatening her freedom reach back through generations.
Blurbs and Brews
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Arabella is ready to begin magical training when her mentor is murdered before their first lesson. Ritual markings point toward dark magic, and her investigation implicates even her grandmother, forcing Arabella to question who she can trust as her abilities become known.
Dasher Dachshund Drama
by Sue Hollowell
2025
An antique firework lighter disappears during Belldrift Cove's New Year celebration, and baker Isla Northgate's foster dachshund runs off with a vital clue. Isla must unravel doctored photographs and sabotage before the festivities end in disaster.
Death Becomes Her Bracelet
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Jewelry maker Maggie Bellamy becomes involved in a murder when a rival dies wearing an enchanted bracelet at Cedarvale's market. With dangerous magic close at hand and a blogger pursuing scandal, she follows clues that reach beyond a dispute over stolen designs.
Death in the Dedication
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Bookseller and former forensic linguist Marina Ellis receives a bottle containing a single word before author Marius Vale collapses during a reading. With her friends and golden retriever helping, she searches books and schedules for the messages concealing a killer.
Escape the Scare Barn
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Rusty Redmond volunteers at a festival scare barn to support rescue dogs, but a fatal safety test turns the attraction into a crime scene. With spaniel Boo, she investigates hurried repairs and concealed favors to distinguish theatrical tricks from deliberate sabotage.
Face Time With Murder
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Maggie Bellamy hopes her jewelry shop will provide a quiet retirement from teaching magic. A cursed key, a clock tower mystery, and a body behind a hidden panel instead send her and her perceptive pets searching through Cedarvale's carefully guarded secrets.
Footnotes and Familiars
by Sue Hollowell
2025
An ancient artifact disappears from beneath Port Havenwood as a rival coven threatens the town's magical balance. Arabella must embrace her family's guardian legacy, working with her familiar Marcel and trusted allies to uncover buried secrets before the gathering danger overwhelms them.
Maze of Mixed Signals
by Sue Hollowell
2025
A murder inside an augmented reality corn maze pulls retired festival director Rusty Redmond back into investigating. With her spaniel Boo guiding the way, she must separate misleading illusions from clues among rival organizers, politicians, influencers, and a suspiciously polished sponsor.
Murder at the B&B
by Sue Hollowell
2025
A body at the Sunny Honey bed-and-breakfast has troubling connections to Moxie Rayburn's grandmother Iris. Joining forces with a local detective, Moxie follows cryptic notes and complicated relationships to clear Iris's name and keep the family business from unraveling.
Murder at the Beehive Bistro
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Ruby Dalton disappears from the Beehive Bistro, leaving Moxie Rayburn searching through Honeyridge Falls's gossip and guarded relationships. A volatile boyfriend, a jealous friend, and an unusually knowledgeable bartender all draw scrutiny as Moxie risks becoming the next person to vanish.
Muttcracker Mayhem
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Baker Isla Northgate expects to sell dog-friendly treats at Belldrift Cove's holiday Muttcracker performance. A valuable bracelet and a jewel thief instead draw her into backstage sabotage, where her foster greyhound Ginger helps search for clues before the midnight show unravels.
Peppermint Paws Plot
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Baker Isla Northgate's holiday preparations become a race to protect her reputation when Belldrift Cove's Christmas topper falls from the town spruce. With her dog Fizz helping, she follows the trail of sabotage beneath the season's cheerful celebrations.
Pumpkins and Pixels
by Sue Hollowell
2025
Retired festival director Rusty Redmond returns to action when a drone-carving competition ends in an on-air murder. Given until the Giant Pumpkin Festival finale to help solve it, she and spaniel Boo investigate sabotage among growers, coders, influencers, and sponsors.
Shadows at Low Tide
by Sue Hollowell
2025
A golden retriever delivers a bottle containing a cryptic scrap to Marina Ellis's bookstore before festival chaos makes it disappear. The former forensic linguist follows planted messages toward a hidden coastal cove, with only one tide cycle to unravel the mystery.
Shoreline Deception
by Sue Hollowell
2025
When a sandcastle competition judge dies, bookseller Marina Ellis suspects more than an accident. A bottled message reading RETRACTION sends her and her golden retriever following the language of clues through the contest and into Seabridge Cove's closely protected secrets.
The Greatest Waffle Show
by Sue Hollowell
2025
A traveling circus brings crowds to Maple Winslow's waffle wagon, but the ringmaster's signature illusion ends in murder. With telepathic dog Pecan and mechanic Jake helping, she investigates jealous performers, cursed props, and a mysterious medallion before another deadly act.
Waffle You Were Here
by Sue Hollowell
2025
An antique waffle iron sparks rumors of pirate treasure during Maple Winslow's workshop. As fortune hunters descend and equipment begins failing, she turns to her psychic dog and grandfather's cryptic recipes to unravel a mystery that threatens more than hidden gold.
Bites and Bad Blood
by Sue Hollowell
2026
Belle Harbor’s new food and music festival brings suspicious contracts and an ambitious promoter to town. When backstage trouble turns deadly, baker Tilly investigates the deals and rivalries threatening her community and her grandmother’s legacy.
Blizzard Basset Betrayal
by Sue Hollowell
2026
A blizzard traps baker Isla Northgate and other gala guests inside a museum, where a valuable relic, a missing cookie mold, and a hostile donor become entangled with murder. Her basset hound Barley helps her investigate before the storm conceals the truth.
Epilogues and Echoes
by Sue Hollowell
2026
A murder on the Port Havenwood docks bears the magical signature of an artifact supposedly sealed away. Arabella follows clues through old books and smuggled relics, discovering a threat to the founding families whose descendants sustain the town's protective wards.
Food Truck Fright Night
by Sue Hollowell
2026
A food vlogger dies after tasting allergen-laced hot sauce at the Halloween food truck rodeo. Rusty Redmond and her spaniel Boo investigate vendors and rivals with reasons to resent the critic, racing to find the killer before the final tasting.
Locket Room Gossip
by Sue Hollowell
2026
A vintage locket and a message from a late friend make Maggie Bellamy Cedarvale's reluctant new magical protector. When a picnic leads to a stolen basket and an enchanted puzzle box, she must solve the riddles before the town's protective spells fail.
Opal Season on the Tracks
by Sue Hollowell
2026
A friend's death draws jewelry maker Maggie Bellamy into a mystery involving a hidden flash drive and a ghostly podcast. With her cat and clue-sniffing dog helping, she follows evidence that suggests Cedarvale's supposed accidents conceal something far more deliberate.
Purl of Death
by Sue Hollowell
2026
Yarn shop owner Ellie Weaver discovers a body tangled in a festival display and begins investigating blackmail and neighborhood secrets. The story invites readers to solve word-search puzzles between chapters, collecting hidden clues alongside Ellie and her canine companion.
Tales and Talismans
by Sue Hollowell
2026
Sabotage and murder disrupt Port Havenwood's Winter Festival, leading Arabella toward a magical talisman missing for thirty years. Literary riddles and family secrets guide her search, but a killer is following the same clues and closing in on the hidden treasure.
The Cross-Stitch Corpse
by Sue Hollowell
2026
A blizzard traps Ellie Weaver and fellow craft vendors at a mountain inn, where an antique quilt appraiser is murdered. With her friend suspected and an heirloom missing, Ellie investigates through a story paired with word-search clues.
The Hammer Always Rings Twice
by Sue Hollowell
2026
Preparing jewelry for a train depot celebration, Maggie Bellamy discovers that a ceremonial hammer has disappeared. Suspicious restoration workers, old rivalries, and evidence of deeper deception draw her and her pets into an investigation that threatens to turn deadly.
The Masked Bauble
by Sue Hollowell
2026
A death at Cedarvale's charity ball is dismissed as a heart attack, but Maggie Bellamy senses magic connected to a silver mask. Investigating cursed heirlooms and society secrets puts her at odds with a sheriff eager to close the case.
Manuscripts and Magic
by Sue Hollowell
2027
A retired records clerk dies after investigating Port Havenwood's forgotten history. Arabella follows a missing page, a strange map, and traces of magic toward a legendary archive, while someone else pursues the same discovery and the secrets it could reveal.
Murder at the Honeyridge Museum
by Sue Hollowell
2027
Moxie Rayburn's estranged mother arrives at a museum preview just before a valuable pendant vanishes during a blackout. Trying to clear her name leads Moxie through altered security records and old rivalries, until another discovery turns the theft investigation into murder.
The Sound of Waffles
by Sue Hollowell
2027
A Waffle Lot of Trouble
by Sue Hollowell
Maple Winslow inherits a vintage waffle wagon, then finds her friend Lucky accused of murder. With an unusually intuitive Tibetan terrier helping, she searches for the real killer while suspicious accidents suggest someone wants her to stop uncovering the town's secrets.
Sentences and Spells
by Sue Hollowell
Detective Derek Reed asks Arabella to help find his missing brother, drawing the novice witch into a cult's hidden world. Strange symbols connect the case to her family history, forcing her to develop her powers while uncovering what her grandmother knows.
The Batter Witch Project
by Sue Hollowell
A notorious food critic makes his final judgment at Maple Winslow's waffle wagon during the town festival. With police suspicion falling on her, Maple and telepathic terrier Pecan must sort through the critic's enemies before she is blamed for his death.
The Brie-Witching Hour
by Sue Hollowell
A cryptic message in a dead author's book draws Maple Winslow into a mystery linked to her grandfather's magical waffle recipes. With a food festival approaching, her telepathic dog Pecan and helpful mechanic Jake complicate the search for dangerous hidden secrets.
Wordsmiths and Wands
by Sue Hollowell
Arabella's quiet coastal life becomes more dangerous when her new magical mentor is implicated in murder. With French bulldog Marcel helping, she investigates the secrets around the crime while trying to develop her powers without drawing attention she cannot control.
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