When The Fat Ladies Sing Books in Order

Beauty shop partners Lovita and Sue Jan discover a fortune-cookie message claiming Lovita’s father was murdered. Their investigation takes the two Texas friends beyond ordinary salon gossip and into a dangerous mystery involving an international spy ring.

A cooking-school prize brings Lovita and Sue Jan to Paris, Texas, where a family death interrupts their trip. Searching for a missing engagement ring, they uncover an art-theft operation that puts their own lives at risk.

Lovita’s wedding preparations are disrupted when a contractor is murdered and Sue Jan’s husband becomes a suspect. The friends must investigate while facing salon competition, a questionable political campaign and the disappearance of a school band’s fundraising money.

A Christmas party at the beauty salon turns into an investigation when local ladies’ man Bubba Bustalet is struck with a fruitcake. Sue Jan pursues the culprit while contending with a new sheriff and Bubba’s devoted admirers.

Pregnant Lovita and busy mother Sue Jan investigate a law intern’s disappearance after an argument implicates their stylist’s son. Their efforts to clear him lead toward suspicious activity at a popular new barbecue restaurant in town.

A visiting circus brings a murderous clown to Wachita, sending Sue Jan and heavily pregnant Lovita on another investigation. Reports of a Sasquatch add television crews and outside investigators to the town’s already chaotic situation.