Jenn McKinlay
All Books By Jenn McKinlay
A Cupcake Bakery Mystery Bundle, Books 4-6
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 21 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 25, 2023
- Language: English
This bundle includes books four, five, and six of the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series. Book Four: Red Velvet Revenge When local legend Slim Hazard offers Mel and Angie the chance to sell cupcakes at the annual Juniper Pass rodeo, they’re determined to rope in a pretty payday! But when a dead body is found face down in the hay, it’s a whole different rodeo. Book Five: Going, Going, Ganache When Mel and Angie host a weeklong corporate boot camp at Fairy Tale Cupcakes, it’s clear that the staff would rather be doing just about anything other than frosting baked goods. But when the magazine’s creative director is found murdered outside, Mel and Angie have a new team-building exercise: finding the killer before their business goes AWOL. Book Six: Sugar and Iced When Mel’s mom asks Mel and Angie to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annual Sweet Tiara contest as a favor for her best friend, they can’t say no. But when one of the judges shows up dead beneath their cupcake display, they have to find the killer before the wrong person goes to jail.
... Read moreA Likely Story
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
A new audiobook in the Library Lover’s mystery series from the New York Times bestselling author of On Borrowed Time. Small-town librarian Lindsey Norris must solve a murder and a missing person’s case involving two reclusive brothers.
NOT HIS BROTHER’S KEEPER
Delivering books to the housebound residents of the Thumb Islands, just a short boat ride from the town of Briar Creek, library director Lindsey Norris has befriended two elderly brothers, Stewart and Peter Rosen. She enjoys visiting them in their treasure-filled, ramshackle Victorian on Star Island until she discovers that Peter has been killed and Stewart is missing. Now she’s determined to solve a murder and find Stewart before he suffers his brother’s fate.
**Includes bonus short story AN UNLIKELY MEETING.
... Read moreAbout a Dog
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 30, 2017
- Language: English
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3.8(1624 ratings)
Mackenzie Mac Harris fled her hometown of Bluff Point, Maine after being left at the altar and seeking solace in the arms of her best-friend’s off-limits brother, Gavin. Seven years later, she’s back to attend her best-friend’s wedding, and she figures she’s safe now from the mistakes of her youth. But Gavin, the town’s veterinarian, has never forgotten the woman who has always held his heart. And when Mac rescues a stray puppy named Tulip, only Gavin can help. With a little assistance from Tulip, Gavin vows to make Mac realize that their feelings are more than just puppy love…
... Read moreAssault and Beret
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 03, 2017
- Language: English
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4.08(2454 ratings)
London milliner Vivian Tremont and her American cousin and partner, Scarlett Parker, tip their caps to their beloved shop on Portobello Road in Notting Hill and set off for Paris, where Viv can’t wait to teach a hat-making class. But she has another reason to travel to the City of Light: to find the man she impulsively eloped with years ago and have their marriage annulled.
William Graham is not only handsome and charming, but he also has a glamorous job as an insurance investigator who works with priceless pieces of art, most recently a small Renoir that has been discovered in a junk shop. But when both Will and the masterpiece suddenly disappear, it’s up to the ladies from London to follow the trail of clues. They’ll need to hold on to their chapeaus, however, because someone is a master in the art of deception . . .
... Read moreAt the Drop of a Hat
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: August 30, 2016
- Language: English
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4.04(2861 ratings)
Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont’s fashionable London hat shop, Mim’s Whims, is visited by a new customer bearing an old hat box. Ariana Jackson is getting married and wants to restore her mother’s bridal hat and veil for the occasion. The elegant item was made by Scarlett and Vivian’s grandmother over thirty years ago, so Viv is delighted to take the job.
When Scarlett goes to Ariana’s office to consult about the restoration cost, she finds her outside, standing over her boss’s dead body. Though Ariana claims to know nothing about his demise, the investigation unveils a motive for murder. Now, with the bride-to-be in custody and the wedding on hold, Scarlett and Viv must find the real killer before Ariana’s future is boxed up for good.
... Read moreBarking Up the Wrong Tree
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 11 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 26, 2017
- Language: English
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3.87(915 ratings)
In the second Bluff Point romance, Carly DeCusati returns home with her tail between her legs, but she’s determined to get her life back on track-which means finding homes for the elderly golden retriever and the overly talkative parrot she inherited before her old life fell apart. But then physical therapist and hot one-night stand James Sinclair enters her life. He doesn’t care that Carly isn’t interested in a relationship. He’s determined to win her heart, promising to help her with the pets if she’ll just give him the time of day. So Carly agrees to date the irresistible James, and, for the first time in years, she begins dreaming of happily ever after. But James has secrets, and if he can’t open up to Carly, their future could go to the dogs…
... Read moreBetter Late Than Never
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 17, 2017
- Language: English
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3.98(3079 ratings)
When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its first overdue book amnesty day the volume of incoming materials is more than Lindsey and her staff can handle. In a bind, Lindsey drafts the crafternoon ladies to help check in and sort the stacks of books. But one tardy tome catches her attention-a copy of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, twenty years past due. When Lindsey looks up the borrower, she’s shocked to discover it was a murdered school teacher named Candice Whitley, whose killer was never found. Now Lindsey wonders if it could provide a clue to the decades-old cold case. Lindsey is determined to catch the culprit one way or another, because justice for Candice Whitley is long overdue.
... Read moreBook, Line, and Sinker
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING LIBRARY LOVER’S MYSTERY FROM THE AUTHOR OF DUE OR DIE
“Avast” in pirate speak means what?*
Answering tricky reference questions like this one provides plenty of excitement for library director Lindsey Norris. But when a shocking murder is committed in her cozy coastal town of Briar Creek, Connecticut, the question of who did it must be answered before an innocent man gets the book thrown at him…
Lindsey is enjoying her second year in Briar Creek as the library director, meeting with the crafternoon club, and happily dating tour boat captain Mike Sullivan. But when a salvage company arrives in town to dig up treasure buried on Pirate Island over three hundred years ago, the locals are torn between protecting the island and welcoming the publicity.
In spite of the squabbling, Charlie Peyton, Lindsey’s downstairs neighbor, takes a job with the salvage company. But when Trudi Hargrave, the local tourism director who hired the company, is found murdered at the excavation site, Charlie becomes the chief suspect. To help him, Lindsey must do some digging of her own before the real killer buries the truth for good…
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... Read moreBooked
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Sara Young
- Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 17, 2023
- Language: English
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3.95(4738 ratings)
This bundle edition includes three standalone romantic-comedy novellas in Jenn McKinlay’s Museum of Literature series: Royal Valentine, The Attraction Distraction, and It Happened One Christmas Eve. Book One, Royal Valentine: At a Valentine’s Day gala, registrar Molly Graham falls in love with fellow academic introvert Albert George…only to discover he’s a viscount in line to be an earl. Book Two, The Attraction Distraction: One thing stands between single-minded Classics scholar Sarah Novak and the discovery of a lifetime: her heart. Book Three, It Happened One Christmas: It’s going to take a Christmas miracle for museum-director-turned-runaway-would-be-fiance Claire Macintosh and Sam Carpenter, a reporter dressed up as Santa, to find their happily ever after.
... Read moreBooks Can Be Deceiving
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cupcake Bakery Mysteries comes the start of a series about a library where the mysteries refuse to stay in the fiction section…
Lindsey is getting into her groove as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library when a New York editor visits town, creating quite a buzz. Lindsey’s friend Beth wants to sell the editor her children’s book, but Beth’s boyfriend, a famous author, gets in the way. When they go to confront him, he’s found murdered—and Beth is the prime suspect. Lindsey has to act fast—before they throw the book at the wrong person.
... Read moreBuried to the Brim
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 20, 2020
- Language: English
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4.09(1932 ratings)
New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s beloved Hat Shop duo Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont return to don their sleuthing caps and solve a murder that’s death in show.
London’s most refined canines and their humans are gearing up for the Pets and Wellness Society’s annual dog show-and Betty Wentworth, favorite aunt to Scarlett’s fiance Harrison and proud owner of corgi front-runner Freddy, knows that this could be their year with the right edge. Never one to turn away a corgi in need, Scarlett convinces her milliner cousin, Vivian, to design matching hats for dream team Betty and Freddy as they compete for Best in Show.
It’s a tail wagging good time until the dog-food sponsor of the event is found dead and Betty is the prime suspect. Vivian and Scarlett agree to enter the competition in Betty’s place and help Harrison catch the real killer before Betty is collared for a crime she didn’t commit.
Buttercream Bump Off
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 6 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 27, 2016
- Language: English
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3.95(5433 ratings)
Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura’s Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery is gearing up for Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately someone has iced Baxter Malloy on his first date with Mel’s mother. Now Mom’s a suspect, and Mel and Angie need to find time around frosting to dig into the man’s shady past and discover who served him his just desserts. This is the 2nd book in the Cupcake Bakery Mystery series.
... Read moreCaramel Crush
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 04, 2017
- Language: English
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4.03(2314 ratings)
Love is in the air at FairyTale Cupcakes as Angie prepares for her wedding, but, at the same time, her co-owner, Mel, is about to help with a breakup. Mel’s old friend Diane has decided to dump her fiance after discovering he’s only marrying her for her money. She wants Mel to personally deliver a batch of caramel breakup cupcakes to the louse and give her a play-by-play of his reaction. But when Mel finally tracks the man down, the look on his face isn’t what she expected: he’s dead. After the police arrive and see the incriminating cupcakes, Diane becomes their prime suspect. If Diane hopes to taste freedom again, Mel and Angie must make sure the real killer gets their just desserts.
... Read moreCloche and Dagger
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: November 19, 2013
- Language: English
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3.86(5046 ratings)
Not only is Scarlett Parker’s love life in the loo-as her British cousin Vivian Tremont would say-it’s also gone viral with an embarrassing video. So when Viv suggests Scarlett leave Florida to lay low in London, she hops on the next plane across the pond. Viv is the proprietor of Mims’s Whims, a ladies’ hat shop on Portobello Road bequeathed to both cousins by their beloved grandmother, and she wants Scarlett to finally join her in the millinery business.
But a few surprises await Scarlett in London. First, she is met at the airport not by Viv, but by her handsome business manager, Harrison Wentworth. Second, Viv-who has some whims of her own-seems to be missing. No one is too concerned about the unpredictable Viv until one of her posh clients is found dead wearing the cloche hat Viv made for her-and nothing else. Is Scarlett’s cousin in trouble? Or is she in hiding?
Copy Cap Murder
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: September 27, 2016
- Language: English
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4.09(2639 ratings)
For Scarlett Parker, part of the fun of living in London is celebrating the British holidays, and she’s excited to share her first Bonfire Night with her cousin Vivian Tremont. Invited to a posh party by their friend Harrison Wentworth, Scarlett and Viv decide to promote their hat shop, Mim’s Whims, by donning a few of their more outrageous creations. The hats prove to be quite the conversation starters as the girls mix and mingle with the guests-never suspecting that one of them is a killer.
It’s a cold, clear night, perfect for the British tradition of tossing a straw stuffed effigy of Guy Fawkes, traitor to the crown, onto the bonfire. But instead of a straw man, they realize in the heat of the moment that the would-be Guy Fawkes is actually Harrison’s office rival and he’s been murdered. Before the smoke has cleared, Harrison is the Metropolitan Police’s prime suspect, and Scarlett and Vivian must find the real homicidal hothead before their dear friend’s life goes up in flames.
Dark Chocolate Demise
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 07, 2017
- Language: English
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4.03(2730 ratings)
Scottsdale, Arizona, may not be the liveliest place on earth, but it’s never been as dead as this. The first annual Old Town Zombie Walk is announced, and Mel, Angie, and the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew are donning their best undead attire to sell some horror-themed desserts to the hungry hordes. But fun turns to fright when Mel finds a real dead body in a prop casket outside of the bakery’s truck-and the corpse looks alarmingly like a zombie of their own. Mel worries that someone near and dear was the real target. To keep any of her friends from winding up six feet under, Mel will do whatever it takes to find a killer-no matter how scary things get…
... Read moreDeath by the Dozen
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 10, 2017
- Language: English
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4.06(4298 ratings)
Melanie and Angie are determined to win the Challenge to the Chef cooking competition to promote their Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Mel’s mentor from culinary school, Vic Mazzotta, may be one of the judges, but Mel and Angie will have to bake their best to win fair and square. But when Vic’s dead body is found inside a freezer truck, Mel and Angie will need to use their best judgment to find the cold-blooded killer or they may lose more than the contest; they may lose their lives.
... Read moreDeath in the Stacks
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 14, 2017
- Language: English
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4.03(3223 ratings)
Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for the Briar Creek Library’s annual Dinner in the Stacks fundraiser. The night of dinner and dancing is not only a booklover’s dream – it’s the library’s biggest moneymaker of the year. But instead of raising funds, Olive Boyle, the new library board president, is busy raising a stink and making the staff miserable. Although Olive acts like a storybook villain, Lindsey is determined to work with her and make the event a success. But when Olive publicly threatens Paula, the library’s newest hire, Lindsey cracks like an old book spine and throws Olive out of the library. The night of the fundraiser, Lindsey dreads another altercation with Olive – but instead she finds Paula crouched over Olive’s dead body. Paula may have secrets, but Lindsey and the rest of the crafternooners know she’s not the one who took Olive out of circulation. As the plot thickens, Lindsey must catch the real killer before the book closes on Paula’s future…
... Read moreDeath of a Mad Hatter
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 13, 2015
- Language: English
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3.96(3301 ratings)
Scarlett Parker and her British cousin, Vivian Tremont, are hard at work at Mim’s Whims-their ladies’ hat shop on London’s chic Portobello Road-to create hats for an Alice in Wonderland-themed afternoon tea, a fund-raiser for a local children’s hospital. It seems like a wonderfully whimsical way to pass the hat, and Scarlett and Viv are delighted to outfit the Grisby family, the hosts who are hoping to raise enough money to name a new hospital wing after their patriarch.
Unfortunately, the Grisby heir will not live to see it-he’s been poisoned. When traces of the poison are found on the hat that Scarlett and Viv made for him, the police become curiouser and curiouser about their involvement. Now the ladies need to don their thinking caps and find the tea party crasher who’s mad enough to kill at the drop of a hat.
Due or Die
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.97(6801 ratings)
Library director Lindsey Norris must solve a murder in her cozy Connecticut hometown before anyone else is checked out for good in this Library Lover’s mystery.
Carrie Rushton, the president of the Friends of the Library, has been accused of murdering her husband. The evidence is stacking up against Carrie, but neither Lindsey nor the Briar Creek crafternoon club is buying it.
When a nor’easter buries the small coastal town, the police are too busy digging out the locals to investigate the murder. With the help of her crafternoon friends and an abandoned puppy they name Heathcliff, Lindsey has to solve the question of who murdered Mr. Rushton before the killer closes the book on Carrie…
Dying for Devil’s Food
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 07, 2019
- Language: English
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4.11(1955 ratings)
Melanie Cooper has zero interest in catering her fifteen-year high-school reunion, but Angie insists it’s only right that they bask in the success of Fairy Tale Cupcakes–and Mel’s engagement to the delicious Joe DeLaura is the cherry on top! Everything is going better than expected until Cassidy Havers, resident mean girl and Mel’s high-school nemesis, picks a fight. No longer willing to put up with Cassidy’s bullying, Mel is ready to tell the former homecoming queen to shut her piehole and call it a night. But as Mel and Joe prepare to depart, Cassidy is found dead in the girl’s bathroom, next to a note written in lipstick that points right to Mel–making her the prime suspect. Now, Mel must follow the clues to find the real killer and keep her reputation from being frosted for a crime she didn’t commit.
... Read moreEvery Dog Has His Day
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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3.97(943 ratings)
Bluff Point brewery owner Zachary Caine enjoys his wild bachelor lifestyle-that is, until he rescues a kitten from his roof and meets his new neighbors. Single mother Jessie Connelly isn’t his type at all, but when a blizzard traps Zachary, Jessie, and her daughters together, he learns that behind her reserved demeanor is a charming, beautiful woman. Jessie’s wary of falling for a man like Zach. He’s sexy and charismatic, but after her relationship with her ex, she’s only interested in commitment. But Zach is determined to win over Jessie, her daughters, and even Chaos the kitten, so soon Jessie believes that her bad boy may actually be a good man. But then just when it seems like Zach and Jessie have found their forever home together, secrets from the past put both of their hearts in need of rescue…
... Read moreFatal Fascinator
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: January 10, 2023
- Language: English
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4.2(1046 ratings)
Hip hip beret! Hatmakers Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont return and must collar a killer when a castle wedding goes awry in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s new Hat Shop Mystery.
It’s wedding season and Viv’s longtime frenemy Piper May is getting married. She convinces Viv and Scarlett to take on the job of designing the headpieces for her “wedding of the year.” The well-to-do bride and her entourage are delighted to have Viv and Scarlett as their famous hat designer guests, but the hat-making pair are really just looking forward to a getaway at a castle in Sussex. It is to be a weekend full of events, culminating in the big ceremony.
Unfortunately, on the first night of the festivities, the groom is found murdered, and the joyous holiday becomes the stuff of nightmares as no one is allowed to leave the castle until the investigation is complete. Although Scarlett assures Harrison Wentworth, her fiance, that she and Viv will stay out of harm’s way, circumstances force them to step in when a secret affair between the deceased groom and a bridesmaid comes to light, and the murderer takes another life. Scarlett and Viv vow to unveil the killer’s identity before the wedding adds another to its death toll.
... Read moreFor Batter or Worse
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 17, 2021
- Language: English
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4.23(1477 ratings)
Life is sweet and business is booming at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery–and the fact that Mel and Joe are getting married is the icing on the cake. Their reception will be held at the swanky resort where Oz works as the pastry chef. The wedding planning is all fun-fetti and games until Mel and Joe meet the head chef at the resort who has been making Oz’s life miserable. When the eccentric chef insults Mel’s bakery, Oz gets into a blowout argument with the culinary prima donna. Things turn extra sour when the chef is murdered, and Oz is the police’s main suspect. As the countdown to the wedding day begins, Mel, Joe, and the rest of the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew must sift through clues to catch the real killer and clear Oz’s name before their wedding plans are totally battered and baked.
... Read moreGoing, Going, Ganache
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 07, 2017
- Language: English
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4.03(3442 ratings)
After a cupcake-flinging fiasco at a photo shoot for a local magazine, Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura agree to make amends by hosting a week-long corporate boot camp at Fairy Tale Cupcakes. The idea is the brainchild of billionaire Ian Hannigan, new owner of SWS (Southwest Style), a lifestyle magazine that chronicles the lives of Scottsdale’s rich and famous. He’s assigned his staff to a team-building week of making cupcakes for charity. It’s clear that the staff would rather be doing just about anything other than frosting baked goods. But when the magazine’s creative director is found murdered outside the bakery, Mel and Angie have a new team-building exercise-find the killer before their business goes AWOL.
... Read moreHitting the Books
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 11, 2018
- Language: English
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4.03(2660 ratings)
When a stack of library materials is found at the scene of a hit and run, library director Lindsey Norris finds herself dragged into the investigation as the police try to link the driver of the stolen car to the person who borrowed the books. Before Lindsey can delve into the library’s records, the victim of the hit and run, Theresa Houston, suffers another accident, and the investigation shifts from driver negligence to attempted homicide. A clue surfaces in the confiscated library materials that could crack open the case, and it’s up to Lindsey to piece it all together. But things are not as they seem in the sleepy town of Briar Creek. When the driver of the stolen car turns up dead, Lindsey, her staff, and her library friends have to hit the books before the murderer gets the last word…
... Read moreIt Happened One Christmas Eve
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Sara Young
- Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 06, 2022
- Language: English
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3.58(1269 ratings)
Claire Macintosh is about to get engaged to a man she doesn’t love at the holiday gala she is hosting as director of the Museum of Literature. Her mother, Hildy Macintosh, has made it clear that if the museum is to continue to receive the enormous donations from the family trust that Hildy has approved all these years, then Claire must marry the man Hildy has chosen for her and start to produce some grandbabies. At forty and single, Claire feels she has no choice. But when the horse and carriage arrive at the gala with the driver dressed as Santa to deliver Claire’s engagement ring, she just can’t go through with it. She hijacks the horse and carriage with Santa still on board and escapes! Reporter Sam Carpenter thought he was being so clever convincing his friend to let him step in as Santa so he could get up close and personal to the subject of his upcoming magazine expose. He is completely unprepared for the events that unfold and finds himself dashing through Central Park with a runaway would-be fiance. Now the only way to save his story is to broker a deal with Claire Macintosh. In exchange for his help in getting her to her cottage in Maine by Christmas Eve, she’ll grant him an exclusive interview. As their journey takes a series of unexpected twists, turns, and misadventures, both Claire and Sam realize that there’s more than their careers on the line. And it’s going to take a Christmas miracle to find their happily ever after.
... Read moreKiller Research
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.16(1535 ratings)
Spring is livening up Briar Creek after a long, cold winter, and newlyweds Lindsey and Sully could not be happier. Even though the upcoming mayoral election is getting heated, everything else in town is coming up daffodils… until a body is found. Ms. Cole, a librarian and current candidate for town mayor, is shocked when she opens her trunk to discover a murder victim who just so happens to be a guy she dated forty years ago and the founder of the baking empire Nana’s Cookies. As the town gossip mill turns, a batch of rumors begins to circulate about Ms. Cole’s rebellious youth, which–along with being a murder suspect–threatens to ruin her life and her budding political career. But Ms. Cole is one tough cookie who will not go down without a fight. Has the campaign for mayor turned deadly? It is up to Lindsey, Sully, and the rest of the crafternoon pals to see how the cookie crumbles and figure out who is trying to frame Ms. Cole for murder and why.
... Read moreOn Borrowed Time
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
The New York Times bestselling Library Lover’s mysteries continue with a hot new case…
Loving a good cup of coffee runs in the family for Briar Creek library director Lindsey Norris. But when her brother, Jack, a consultant for a coffee company, goes missing, her favorite beverage becomes a key clue in a dangerous mystery.
Between preparing the library for the holidays and juggling the affections of ex-boyfriend, Captain Mike Sullivan, and her new crush, actor Robbie Vine, Lindsey has her hands full. But the mysterious disappearance of her world-traveling playboy brother takes precedence over all.
Afraid that involving the police could brew trouble for Jack, Lindsey takes matters into her own hands. But as her quest for her brother embroils her in a strange case involving South American business dealings and an enigmatic and exotic woman, it’ll take the help of both her library book club—the crafternooners—and her eager-to-please suitors to keep Jack from ending up in hot water…
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... Read moreOne for the Books
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 19, 2021
- Language: English
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4.07(2359 ratings)
Love is in the air in Briar Creek as library director Lindsey Norris and boat captain Mike “Sully” Sullivan are finally tying the knot. The entire town is excited for the happy day, and Lindsey and Sully’s plan for a small wedding evaporates as more and more people insist upon attending the event of the year.
When Lindsey and her crafternoon pals head out to Bell Island to see if it can accommodate the ever-expanding guest list, they are horrified to discover a body washed up on the rocky shore. Even worse, Lindsey recognizes the man as the justice of the peace who was supposed to officiate her wedding ceremony. When it becomes clear he was murdered, Lindsey can’t help but wonder if it had to do with the wedding. Now she has to book it to solve the mystery before it ends her happily ever after before it’s even begun…
... Read moreParis Is Always a Good Idea
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
One of Popsugar’s Best New Books for Summer 2020
A thirty-year-old woman retraces her gap year through Ireland, France, and Italy to find love—and herself—in this hilarious and heartfelt novel.
It’s been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong postcollege European adventure. Since then, she’s lost her mother to cancer and watched her sister marry twice, while Chelsea’s thrown herself into work, becoming one of the most talented fundraisers for the American Cancer Coalition, and with the exception of one annoyingly competent coworker, Jason Knightley, her status as most successful moneymaker is unquestioned.
When her introverted mathematician father announces he’s getting remarried, Chelsea is forced to acknowledge that her life stopped after her mother died and that the last time she can remember being happy, in love, or enjoying her life was on her year abroad. Inspired to retrace her steps—to find Colin in Ireland, Jean Claude in France, and Marcelino in Italy—Chelsea hopes that one of these three men who stole her heart so many years ago can help her find it again.
From the start of her journey nothing goes as planned, but as Chelsea reconnects with her old self, she also finds love in the very last place she expected.
... Read morePumpkin Spice Peril
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: June 09, 2020
- Language: English
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4.05(1888 ratings)
Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale Cupcake bakers–Melanie Cooper is engaged to the delectable Joe DeLaura, Angie Harper and her husband Tate are savoring married life, and the bakery is bustling with happy customers…until one of their most valued cupcake connoisseurs ends up dead.
Local glass artist and cupcake lover Rene Fischer-Klein has always suffered from a wide variety of health issues. In an effort to cheer her up, her doting husband Peter brings her a four-pack of her favorite cupcakes every week. But when the police discover that Rene has been poisoned, there’s no sugarcoating the fact that the last things she ate were the bakery’s signature pumpkin-spice cupcakes! With their lives and bakery at stake, it’s up to Mel and Angie to find out who poisoned their artist friend and why…before their future is frosted for good.
... Read moreRead It and Weep
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
William Shakespeare is credited with inventing how many words?*
Answering Shakespeare trivia comes with the job description for library director Lindsey Norris. But when the Briar Creek Community Theater mounts their newest production of the Bard, she has no intention of leaving the stacks for the stage. Unfortunately a villain is waiting in the wings…
Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night’s Dream—and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey’s youthful library pages are trying out for parts. Brought in to play the mischievous Puck is the flirtatious professional actor Robbie Vine, who seems to have eyes for Lindsey. Before her blush has faded, the Bard’s dream turns into a nightmare—when one of the cast is poisoned. Now Lindsey and her crafternooners must take center stage to unmask the culprit before the final curtain call…
*Over 17,000
... Read moreRed Velvet Revenge
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 31, 2017
- Language: English
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4.03(3936 ratings)
It’s summertime, but sales at their bakery are below zero, so Mel and Angie are willing to try anything to heat things up! When local legend Slim Hazard offers them a chance to sell cupcakes at the annual Juniper Pass rodeo, they’re determined to rope in a pretty payday! But not everyone at the Juniper Pass is as sweet for Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Slim–including star bull-rider Ty Stokes. The girls try to steer clear of the cowboy’s short fuse, but when Ty is found dead, face down in the hay, it’s a whole different rodeo. With a murderer on the loose, the ladies know that while they came to save their business, they may have to save themselves–and that’s no bull.
... Read moreRoyal Valentine
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Sara Young
- Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: January 21, 2022
- Language: English
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3.37(1850 ratings)
Molly Graham doesn’t believe in love at first sight or fairy tales. She’s been burned too many times before. But when she stumbles across a very handsome British professor, Albert George, seeking refuge in her office during the Museum of Literature’s Valentine’s Day gala for the opening of their Austen exhibit, she can’t help but be drawn to the fellow introverted academic. Together, they ghost out of the event and embark upon a month-long love affair. Just as she’s rethinking her stance on happily ever afters, he disappears. Afraid something bad has happened, she searches for him only to discover there is no Albert George affiliated with the university. She’s been played for a fool. But when she travels to England to return the Jane Austen exhibition materials on loan from the Whitmore Estate, Molly is introduced to Earl Whitmore and his grandson Lord Insley–or, as she knows him, Albert George. She is shocked and dismayed to discover she’s fallen in love with a viscount in line to be an earl. Although he had to leave her unexpectedly, he hasn’t been able to forget her, and he wants to win her back. But she refuses to be taken in twice. He’ll have to channel his inner Fitzwilliam Darcy to prove to her that love conquers all.
... Read moreSprinkle With Murder
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 06, 2016
- Language: English
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3.88(8530 ratings)
Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. But their first big client is a nightmare. She’s a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead – by cupcake – Mel becomes the prime suspect. To save themselves and their business, the ladies need to find the real murderer, before the cupcake killer ices someone else.
... Read moreStrawberried Alive
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 03, 2022
- Language: English
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4.17(1226 ratings)
Life is smooth as buttercream at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, and newlyweds Mel and Joe are stopping to smell the flours. But things start to crumble one night when an unknown gunman takes a shot at Mel. Even though the bullets miss their mark, the cupcake crew goes on high alert to figure out who would want to kill a small-town baker–and why. When more business owners are attacked, things turn fatal, and locals begin to wonder if the killer could be one of their own. Every shop owner in town starts to fear it’s only a matter of time before they too become victims of the mystery murderer. Despite the cupcake crew’s superb baking skills, it will be anything but a piece of cake to catch the killer, as they try to prevent anyone else from being berried.
... Read moreSugar and Iced
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 28, 2017
- Language: English
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4.07(2980 ratings)
Normally Mel and Angie wouldn’t be caught dead at a beauty pageant, but when their bakery is asked to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annual Sweet Tiara contest, they can’t say no. Between cooking up a daily display for the three-day event and sponsoring a cupcake creation challenge for the participants, Fairy Tale Cupcakes will get great publicity. A high-strung judge targets Lupe, a young friend of Mel and Angie’s, at the competition and aims to take her out-by any means necessary. When the same judge shows up dead underneath Mel and Angie’s cupcake display, Lupe is crowned the lead suspect. Now Mel and Angie will have to find the real killer quickly or Lupe may be strutting the catwalk in prison pinstripes…
... Read moreSummer Reading
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Kelsey Navarro Foster
- Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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3.65(2491 ratings)
When a woman who’d rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s new rom-com.
For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha’s Vineyard at her family’s tiny cottage was supposed to be about resurrecting her career as a chef, until she’s tasked with chaperoning her half-brother, Tyler. The teenage brainiac is spending his summer at the local library in a robotics competition, and there’s no place Sam, who has dyslexia, likes less than the library. And because the universe hates her, the library’s interim director turns out to be the hot-reader guy whose book she accidentally destroyed on the ferry ride to the island.
Bennett Reynolds is on a quest to find his father, whose identity he’s never known. He’s taken the temporary job on the island to research the summer his mother spent there when she got pregnant with him. Ben tells himself he isn’t interested in a relationship right now. Yet as soon as Sam knocks his book into the ocean, he can’t stop thinking about her.
An irresistible attraction blossoms when Ben inspires Sam to create the cookbook she’s always dreamed about and she jumps all in on helping him find his father, and soon they realize their summer fling may heat up into a happily ever after.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF that contains recipes from the book.
... Read moreThe Christmas Keeper
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Tara Sands
- Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 19, 2019
- Language: English
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4.02(544 ratings)
The second Joaquin Solis sees Savannah Wilson, he knows she’s destined to be his wife. Unfortunately, Savannah’s sights are set on a happily-ever-after of another kind: skewering the boss who got her fired. Until then, she won’t act on the scorching sexual chemistry that is brewing between them, leaving Joaquin scrambling to find a way to capture her heart.
When the opportunity arises to use his ranch to boost Savannah’s publicity career, Joaquin doesn’t hesitate to invite her into his world at Shadow Pines and woo her with all of his Christmas loving mojo. It’s a gamble since the holidays aren’t really Savannah’s thing and since helping her might also mean losing her, as she plans to shake the dust off of their quaint town in North Carolina and head back to New York City the first chance she gets.
But Joaquin believes in the magic of Christmas and he knows with a little help from his friends at the Happily Ever After Bookstore, he can convince the woman of his dreams that he’s a keeper…
... Read moreThe Good Ones
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Tara Sands
- Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 05, 2019
- Language: English
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3.88(402 ratings)
Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect…not to mention tall and sexy. He’s everything a hero should be, and Lord knows Maisy Kelly has read enough of her great-aunt Eloise’s romance novels to recognize one when she sees one. But like all fairy tales, Maisy can’t help but wonder if this Prince Charming is too good to be true. Ryder is drawn to the shy, curly-haired professor who hires him to convert the Victorian house she’s inherited into a bookstore. Attracted to a woman for the first time since his divorce, Ryder finds himself wishing for a future with Maisy that he knows is impossible. And the closer he gets to her, the harder it’s going to be to walk away.
... Read moreThe Plot and the Pendulum
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 11, 2022
- Language: English
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4.14(1015 ratings)
Library director Lindsey Norris is happy to learn the Briar Creek Public Library is the beneficiary of the Dorchester family’s vast book collection. However, when Lindsey and the library staff arrive at the old Victorian estate to gather the books, things take a sinister turn. One of the bookcases reveals a secret passage, leading to a room where a skeleton is found, clutching an old copy of The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Lindsey does a quick check of missing persons, using the distinctive 80s era clothing worn by the deceased to determine a time frame, and discovers that Briar Creek has an unsolved missing-person case from 1989. A runaway bride went missing just weeks after her wedding. No suspects were ever arrested, and the cold case remains unsolved. Lindsey and the crafternoon crew decide that justice is overdue and set about solving the old murder mystery, using some novel ideas to crack the case.
... Read moreVanilla Beaned
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 11, 2017
- Language: English
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4.09(2493 ratings)
Melanie and Angie are taking a gamble by opening their first franchise of the bakery, and where better to hit the jackpot than Vegas? Holly Hartzmark is a former showgirl who’s looking to bring Mel and Angie’s sweet treats to Sin City, but Mel isn’t so sure she’s ready to hand her recipes over to a complete stranger-especially one as brash as Holly. But after the potential bakery location gets blown up, Mel begins seeing another side to Holly. Determined to help a kindred spirit, Mel sets out to discover who is trying to keep the bakery from cashing in. But with a murderous mischief maker on the loose, the odds are stacking up against a happy ending for Mel and her friends…
... Read moreWait For It
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
A woman looking for a new lease on life moves to Arizona where she rents a guest house on a gorgeous property with a mysterious owner—a man who teaches her about resilience, courage, and ultimately true love, in this funny, bighearted novel about hope and healing from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.
Stuck in a dreary Boston winter, Annabelle Martin would like nothing more than to run away from her current life. She’s not even thirty years old, twice-divorced, and has just dodged a marriage proposal… from her ex-husband. When she’s offered her dream job as creative director at a cutting-edge graphic design studio in Phoenix, she jumps at the opportunity to start over.
When she arrives in the Valley of the Sun, Annabelle is instantly intrigued by her anonymous landlord. Based on the cranky, handwritten notes Nick Daire leaves her, she assumes he is an old, rich curmudgeon. Annabelle is shocked when she finally meets Nick and discovers that he’s her age and uses a wheelchair. Nick suffered from a stroke a year ago, and while there’s no physical reason for him not to recover, he is struggling to overcome the paralyzing fear that has kept him a prisoner in his own home.
Despite her promise to herself not to get involved, Annabelle finds herself irresistibly drawn to Nick. And soon she wonders if she and Nick might help each other find the courage to embrace life, happiness, and true love.
Wedding Cake Crumble
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Susan Boyce
- Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 03, 2018
- Language: English
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4.06(2200 ratings)
With Angie and Tate’s wedding just around the corner, it’s a happy time for Melanie Cooper and the bakery crew. Not only are they finessing the last-minute details of the big day, but their bakery, Fairy Tale Cupcakes, has just been hired to bake cupcakes for the blockbuster book signing of a controversial author who wrote a steamy bestseller filled with juicy local gossip. But one by one, the people Angie has hired to work the wedding begin turning up dead. As the body count rises, the bestselling author is the next to bite the dust. Mel quickly realizes she needs to figure out how the murders are connected and why-before the killer brings the entire cupcake crew crumbling down. After all, Angie and Tate deserve their sweet happily ever after.
... Read moreWord to the Wise
- By: Jenn McKinlay
- Narrator: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 03, 2019
- Language: English
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4.13(1292 ratings)
Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams–but it’s not all roses for Briar Creek’s beloved library director, as gardening enthusiast and town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term book lover a whole new meaning. Inappropriate looks and unwelcome late-night visits to Lindsey’s house have everyone from the crafternooners to Lindsey’s fiance, Sully, on edge. When Grady’s dead body is found staged outside the library and all the clues point to Sully, Lindsey knows it’s up to her to dig through the hidden chapters of Grady’s previous life to find the real culprit and clear Sully’s name. But becoming a thorn in the killer’s side is not without its consequences, and the closer Lindsey gets to the truth, the more determined the murderer is to make her just a footnote.
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