Jenn McKinlay
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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...
22) Vanilla beaned
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura look to Las Vegas for their first franchise of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, but things blow up when they meet former showgirl Holly Hartzmark.
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English
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"It's Christmastime, and this holiday season, things are heating up for the bakers at Fairy Tale Cupcakes, in the newest Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay. When up-and-coming singing sensation Shelby Vaughn arrives in town for two weeks of concert dates, she hires her old friend Angie and the rest of the bakery crew to supply cupcakes for the VIP guest lounge every night. After overhearing Shelby in a heated...
24) Sugar and iced
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
Normally Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura wouldn't be caught dead at a beauty pageant, but when Mel's mom asks them to provide cupcakes for the seventy-fifth annual Sweet Tiara contest as a favor for her best friend, they can't say no .... But the world of pageants is even hotter than Mel's kitchen. A high-strung judge and a pushy stage mom target Lupe, a young friend of Mel and Angie's, at the competition and aim to take her out -- by any means necessary....
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It may be summertime, but sales at Fairy Tale Cupcakes are below zero -- and owners Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are willing to try anything to heat things up. So when local legend Slim Hazard offers them the chance to sell cupcakes at the annual Juniper Pass Rodeo, they're determined to rope in a pretty payday! But not everyone at Juniper Pass is as sweet for Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Slim -- including star bull rider Ty Stokes. Mel and Angie try...
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Series
Publisher
Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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. 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...
Author
Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Halloween is approaching in Briar Creek, and things get spooky when a skeleton is found and connected to a decades-old cold case. 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,...
29) Killer research
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Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Spring has sprung in Briar Creek, but it is not all sunshine and roses. . . . 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Scottsdale, Arizona, may not be the liveliest place on earth, but it has never been as dead as this. Hundreds of fans have gathered together for the first annual Old Town Zombie Walk, 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.
31) Due or die
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Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Carrie Rushton, president of the Friends of the Library, has been accused of murdering her husband. Lindsey Norris, director of the Briar Creek Public Library, with help from the women of the crafternoon club, work to solve the crime before the killer closes the book on Carrie. Includes crochet pattern and recipes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Melanie and Angie host a corporate boot camp at Fairy Tale Cupcakes at the request of Ian Hannigan, the new owner of Southwest Style magazine. His staff, however, would rather be doing just about anything else, and whjen Hannigan is found murdered outside the bakery, Melanie and Angie investigate.
Author
Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When one of the judges at this year's Scottsdale Food Festival is murdered, Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura, the owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, must beat a clever killer at his own game, while whipping up some delicious treats.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
London is getting ready for the Pets and Wellness Society's annual dog show. Scarlett and milliner cousin Vivian are designing hats for competitors, and get drawn in further when the dog-food sponsor of the event is found dead.
37) The good ones
Author
Series
Happily ever after (Jenn McKinlay) volume 1
Publisher
Jove, published by Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck of a father...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...
38) Fatal fascinator
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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 cań09t 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.
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 post-college 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,...