Summer Prescott Books in Order

Groomer Amber Vellman faces a missing poodle and a rival threatening her reputation. Elsewhere, Nancy Joseph suspects her husband of stealing cookies, but his denials and a troubling discovery suggest a holiday mystery larger than household mischief.

A hike with Iberden's mayor leads tea-room owner Laney Powers to a discovery tied to a decades-old case. Learning that the mystery is personal for her friend Babby, she investigates the secrets beneath their Vermont town's familiar faces.

Elsa Garner’s orderly routine is disrupted by an elderly woman searching for a missing cat in the winter cold. When Elsa finds the animal and tries to return it, she encounters a murder that demands her attention.

After a breakup, artist Delaney Powers inherits her grandmother's Vermont tea room and sees a chance to start again. Finding a body in the parlor makes her a suspect, threatening both her new home and her plans to reopen.

A phone call forces Spencer Bengal to confront a past he has kept from his fiancée. As tragedy threatens his career and personal relationships, he takes leave to investigate a case that could determine a family's future.

After losing an academic opportunity, Paige Palmer starts work at a New Hampshire coffee shop. A body discovered in a hidden room draws her, the difficult owner and an aspiring novelist into an amateur investigation before the killer strikes again.

Pastry chef Mallory asks Paige and Rohan to help welcome her new neighbors with coffee during a snowstorm. When a body and accusatory letters unsettle the building, the friends must discover which resident may be a killer.

A bestselling novelist confesses to murder after being arrested at a coffee-shop reading. Barista Paige Palmer doubts the apparent solution and joins her boss and Rohan to investigate the death of a woman found holding snapdragons.

A stranger’s cryptic remark draws barista Paige Palmer toward a decades-old disappearance. When the missing person’s body is discovered, Paige suspects the visitor is manipulating her and investigates with her employer and novelist Rohan Chowdhury.

A missing-person case draws barista Paige Palmer back into sleuthing despite her boss's determination to stop. A retreat at a Christmas-themed riverside lodge offers little relief as the friends investigate a vanished patriarch and face rising tensions.

While her boss prepares for a lifelong rival’s visit, Paige Palmer investigates a socialite’s suspicious death and stolen antiques. Evidence points toward a relative selling dubious weight-loss coffee, but Paige must determine how the clues fit.

A gunshot interrupts Margaret, Rohan and Paige’s movie outing, leaving a man dead and few useful witnesses. With a missing bullet and signs of a wider pattern, the coffee-shop sleuths investigate before another attack occurs.

After inheriting a Florida boardwalk café from her murdered boss, Rita Masnik prepares to reopen with her former coworkers. A regular customer’s death makes her new acquaintance a suspect, leaving Rita determined to find the killer.

A lottery-winning trucker dies after drinking coffee on a live television show. The beans came from Paige Palmer’s employer, drawing the barista and Rohan into a case that threatens their roastery’s reputation as well as its owner.

Laney Powers prepares for a magazine interview celebrating her tea room, only for a patron to be found dead in its rose garden. Questions about the property's ownership and a reporter's mysterious object threaten everything she has built.

Melissa Beckett faces a demanding bride who threatens to damage her bakery’s reputation if a Halloween wedding cake disappoints. When a body appears at the reception venue, suspicion turns toward Missy, giving her another urgent problem.

Rita’s café is thriving, but an offended competitor confronts her over its Elvis-inspired menu. When his business burns and he is found dead, suspicion falls on her chef, and Rita investigates to protect her friend and livelihood.

Interior decorator Sari Samson reports seeing someone flee a murder scene, only to become a suspect herself. Determined to clear her name, she investigates despite her friends’ warnings and the disruption to her carefully organized life.

Rita Masnik’s fresh start at a Florida boardwalk café is shattered by her boss’s murder. Inheriting the business brings unexpected responsibility, and she must find her footing as a café owner while confronting the violence that changed her life.

Macy Garson’s truck breaks down while neighborhood tensions boil over. When a body is discovered behind the Happy Paws shelter and its maintenance man becomes a suspect, Macy investigates to protect a friend and the animals’ home.

Bookstore employee Chloe Marshal fosters dogs and befriends a homeless reader, often overlooking warnings about her generous impulses. When demolition threatens a historic assisted living center, she confronts a powerful businessman and a landlord determined to discourage her campaign.

Newly widowed Macy Garson volunteers at an animal shelter as she settles into a Florida town. A disturbing discovery during a dog walk draws police suspicion toward the newcomer, forcing her to investigate a murder herself.

A shelter fundraiser and a burst pipe leave Macy juggling volunteer work and urgent expenses. When a neighbor disappears and suspicion falls on her coworker Polly, Macy must find answers while keeping her own fresh start afloat.

As Macy’s resale business grows, she looks for an assistant and helps organize a pet parade. A death involving someone in a client’s circle pulls her into another investigation alongside the demands of shelter work and romance.

Macy attends a national convention for resellers and finds unexpected guidance from an eccentric older woman. When a body disrupts the event, she follows the clues through a business gathering where appearances offer little protection against murder.

Widow Macy Garson starts selling secondhand finds online to help pay her mortgage. An intriguing jewelry box leads her toward a murdered woman’s secrets, and police suspicion threatens the new life she is building in Florida.

Shea Beaumont hopes a visit from her college-aged twins will help their family reconnect after her divorce. A nearby murder draws all three into an investigation, revealing unexpected sides of her children while their relationships remain delicate.

After a painful divorce, Shea Beaumont buys an Oklahoma farm hoping to start over. Finding a body in her cornfield makes the newcomer a suspect, leaving her to learn farming while trying to clear her name.

Shea Beaumont is beginning to manage farm life when a restaurant-owning customer is suspected of killing a food critic. Doubting his guilt, Shea and her friend Trish investigate while spring planting keeps the farm busy.

A celebrity customer demands a refund for a vintage necklace but refuses to return it. After Macy visits the woman’s home and encounters her hostile husband, a murder makes Macy a suspect with her business and freedom at stake.

Farmer Shea Beaumont's argument with a veterinary technician looks incriminating when the technician is found dead. Already struggling to fit into her close-knit community, Shea investigates to clear her name and protect her reputation.

After losing her newspaper job, Eugenia Barkley visits the Ozarks cabin unexpectedly left to her by her estranged mother. Becoming a murder suspect forces her to investigate, while the property reveals unfamiliar aspects of her mother's life.

Assistant ballet teacher Charlotte Simmer helps prepare a Connecticut studio’s annual Nutcracker performance with a celebrated guest dancer. When murder strikes, the studio’s owner insists the charity show continue, and Charlotte investigates to protect her community.

Shea Beaumont’s Oklahoma farm is flourishing despite hard work and a hostile market vendor. When a nearby tragedy demands her attention, she investigates a killing that may require risking her progress to help someone deeply ungrateful.

Shea Beaumont is expanding her farm when a body found near the lake brings her past back into view. Determined to protect her family, she investigates a killing whose personal connections may cloud her judgment.

An ordinary grocery trip connects Macy’s assistant to an unresolved murder and a painful past. Macy must decide how deeply to investigate when pursuing justice could expose old wounds and threaten a friendship she values.

As Shea Beaumont prepares her Oklahoma farm for a second winter, she hopes to turn the farmstand into a year-round business. An unsettling discovery draws her into dangerous dealings that threaten both her livelihood and her future.

Eugenia Barkley welcomes her best friend Fran to the Ozarks for Christmas, hoping for company during a difficult winter. A disastrous journey, a holiday death, and hostile deputies leave Eugenia racing to clear Fran of suspicion.

Missy Beckett returns to LaChance, Louisiana, hoping for a quiet retirement with Chas. When her daughter Kaylee’s police-academy instructor is murdered and Kaylee becomes a suspect, Missy resumes sleuthing to protect her family.

Eugenia Barkley stays alone at her inherited Ozarks cabin through winter, determined to understand the mother she never knew. A murder near her fishing spot brings police suspicion, forcing her to investigate while struggling with isolation.

Daisy Allerton returns to Golden Gulch to help her grandmother save the family café, hoping to escape big-city troubles. A death at the saloon draws suspicion toward them, forcing Daisy to examine local grudges before their fresh start is destroyed.

A Christmas gala in LaChance turns deadly after Missy Beckett helps arrange its last-minute Santa. With festive gossip concealing dangerous secrets, she follows clues through her Louisiana hometown to discover who has turned the celebration into a murder scene.

Daisy Allerton’s restoration of Golden Gulch is attracting visitors when work at the old saloon and smoke shop exposes a decades-old mystery. Historic photographs help her investigate secrets that may threaten the town’s hoped-for revival.

Eugenia Barkley hears a scream and finds blood in the woods after her friend’s sister disappears. Returning tourists complicate the suspect list while new discoveries about Eu’s estranged mother distract her from the immediate danger.

A discovery in Golden Gulch suggests an old account of a prominent man’s death may be true. Daisy Allerton investigates longstanding family feuds and the ownership of a valuable historic object while her grandmother’s business expands.

A body at an investment property puts Melissa Beckett’s realtor friend and a recently displaced single mother under suspicion. As Missy investigates, ominous objects left in her yard suggest that someone wants her to stop.

A celebrity chili champion is poisoned at a Texas cookoff, and the fatal meal was served in Melissa Beckett’s bowl. Facing suspicion, Missy investigates culinary rivalries and old betrayals to uncover who wanted the champion dead.

Dress shopping with her police-officer daughter leads Missy Beckett to a boutique where a body is discovered. Despite Kaylee’s warning to stay out, Missy investigates the victim’s many enemies as anonymous threats complicate the case.

A camping trip with her husband and son turns into an investigation when Missy Beckett’s family discovers a root beer maker’s body. A missing recipe and old rivalries lead her into the local craft brewing community.

A couple’s plans to open a taco stand bring unexpected trouble to LaChance. When an apparent accident becomes suspicious, Missy Beckett follows swamp clues while risking conflict with a detective and her daughter’s new police career.

A museum fundraiser turns deadly, and a dinosaur bone points suspicion toward someone Missy Beckett knows. Missing artifacts and vandalism suggest a wider campaign against the museum, drawing her into an investigation of carefully concealed grudges.

Renovating her former cupcake shop, Missy Beckett finds a missing wedding ring. Returning it introduces her to an endangered possum and its absent caretaker, prompting an investigation into a husband’s disappearance and the secrets surrounding his home.

Missy Beckett and her husband Chas investigate a murder involving glamorous stars and suspicious agents. Their search takes them beyond Louisiana, where unfamiliar surroundings and concealed motives make identifying the killer an increasingly dangerous undertaking for the couple.

A movie outing ends with a former theatre employee dead in the back row. Missy Beckett investigates the theft accusations that shadowed Darcy LeMoyne, seeking whoever wanted to stop the young woman from clearing her name.

Marilyn’s former husband arrives in Key West and takes a fishing trip with a friend who subsequently disappears. Persuaded by their daughter to help him, Marilyn investigates despite her reluctance to become involved with her ex again.

Three years after her parents’ murder, Sunny returns to Idaho to help her sister save their failing family business. Revisiting the unresolved crime exposes an old secret and puts the family she still has in danger.

A secret admirer’s attention puts Marilyn’s assistant Kelcie in danger. When official help falls short, Marilyn and Tiara search for a stalker and a killer amid unsettling behavior from people close to their Key West lives.

A national blogger threatens Marilyn’s pie shop with a damaging review unless she supplies free pies. Their dispute moves online, and when the blogger vanishes, Marilyn must explain their feud while searching for the truth.

Reporter Christina Moss travels to Nevada to spend Christmas with her boyfriend’s parents in a town devoted to the holiday year-round. A murder turns the visit into an investigation that threatens both her relationships and her career.

A competing pie shop makes trouble for Marilyn’s Key West business, then begins selling rival key lime products. When its owner is found dead, Marilyn becomes a suspect and must investigate the rivalry’s deadly turn.

After winning an international pie competition, Marilyn considers an offer to sell her shop while Tiara plans a move to Denver. An old boyfriend’s return and a dangerous obsession complicate decisions about their family’s future.

A shortage of limes threatens Marilyn’s pie shop, prompting a purchase from an illicit supplier. When the smuggler is murdered, she must untangle the circumstances of his death before her effort to save the business makes her a suspect.

Cat rescuer Olivia Wright’s kitten pickup at a Vermont roadhouse leads to the discovery of a body. When a former contractor is arrested, she takes in his teenage son and investigates with her friend Ethan during the holidays.

A reality television contestant is found dead in Marilyn’s Key West pie shop. With the case attracting public attention, Marilyn investigates the people competing for money and recognition while trying to protect her own reputation.