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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2016
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Down South Cafe Mystery

1 - The Calamity Cafe (Jun-2016)
2 - Silence of the Jams (Apr-2017)
3 - Honey-Baked Homicide (Dec-2017)
4 - Apples and Alibis (Aug-2019)
5 - Fruit Baskets and Holiday Caskets (Sep-2020)
6 - Truffles and Tragedy (Mar-2021)
7 - Pickled to Death (Oct-2022)
8 - Cake and I Scream (Nov-2023)

A Ghostly Fashionista Mystery

1 - Designs On Murder (Mar-2019)
2 - Perils and Lace (Apr-2020)
3 - Christmas Cloches and Corpses (Nov-2020)
4 - Buttons and Blows (May-2021)
5 - Secrets and Sequins (May-2023)

Kinsey Falls

1 - Hightail It to Kinsey Falls (May-2018)
2 - Putting Down Roots in Kinsey Falls (Sep-2018)

Literatia

1 - An Eyre of Mystery (Jun-2022)
2 - A Tale of Two Enemies (Jan-2023)
2.5 - The Legend of Creepy Hollow (Oct-2023)

A Movie Memorabilia Mystery

1 - We'll Always Have Murder (Aug-2023)

Book List in Order: 23 titles



  • Aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native Amy Flowers is ready to open her own café offering old-fashioned Southern food. But her dream may go up in smoke when someone kills the competition... Tired of waiting tables at Lou’s Joint, Amy Flow...



  • In the latest Southern cozy from the author of The Calamity Café, small-town chef Amy Flowers can’t take her freedom for granted when she’s served up as a murder suspect... It's Independence Day in Winter Garden, Virginia, and the residents ...



  • The owner of a delightful Southern café tastes the sharp sting of suspicion in this delectable comfort food mystery . . . It’s fall in Winter Garden, Virginia, and business at Amy Flowers’ Down South Café has never been better. So when stru...



  • Jade Burt can do without her grandmother, Millie, meddling in her love life. But when Millie finds an abandoned baby possum, it leads her to Caleb Young. Caleb would be perfect for Jade! When Jade meets Caleb, it's hard to argue with her grandmother'...



  • Joanne Faraday comes to Kinsey Falls to find her birth parents. What she doesn’t expect to find is eccentric Greta Parker and her band of Silver Sleuths. The amateur “detectives” mistakenly think that Joanne is hiding something and start follow...



  • What if you discovered your lively new friend wasn't really...alive? Amanda Tucker is excited about opening her fashion design studio in Shops On Main, a charming old building in historic Abingdon, Virginia. She didn't realize a ghost came wi...



  • That's the last time Amy agrees to do a favor for a stranger...Down South Cafe owner, Amy Flowers is in over her head. Operating a cafe while hosting the first Farmers' Market in Winter Garden has her swimming in apples. And when an elderly woman ca...



  • A murderer outwitting a quirky flapper ghost? Seams unlikely!Budding retro fashion designer and entrepreneur Amanda Tucker is thrilled about making costumes for Winter Garden High School's production of Beauty and the Beast. But when the play's direc...



  • Christmas comes with chaos-and a murder-in the fifth book in the Down South Café cozy mystery series! Amy Flowers thinks her biggest problem is going to be creating an enormous cake dummy to mount atop her car for Winter Garden's upcoming Chri...






  • Bodies are dropping like gumdrops off a gingerbread house!Max's nephew, Dwight, is in a nursing home; but instead of the holiday season being a time of goodwill, several of Dwight's friends have died under mysterious circumstances. Is the facility me...



  • Down South Cafe owner Amy Flowers learns her chocolate truffles might not be the only things her patrons find out of this world. When her cousin, Jackie, asks her to give a presentation to her online class, Amy thinks all she has to worry about ...



  • FIND OUT WHO KILLED VIOLET. I WON'T REST UNTIL I KNOW...AND NEITHER WILL YOU.The note, typed on a manual typewriter, is Amanda Tucker's first introduction to the second ghost she's ever met. When retro fashion designer Amanda learns that Violet, the ...



  • Classic literature is at risk of disappearing from the world… When Gia accepts a job as a library archivist at a manor house in North Carolina, she has no idea what she's in for. On day one, she finds herself outside her comfort zone when ...



  • Have yourself a DEADLY little Christmas.Celebrate the holidays with mistletoe, mayhem, and murder. Join your favorite authors as they cozy up by the fire with twelve festive short mysteries that feature treasured holiday traditions. Serve up a slice ...



  • The fair would have been a lot more fun if Aunt Bess hadn't been accused of murder...and if the streaker hadn't been such a disappointment! (Aunt Bess has her priorities straight!)​​When Aunt Bess enters the county fair's pickle competiti...



  • Have you ever wished you could be in two places at once? Gia's second trip into the fantasy portal of Literatia involves the murder of Dr. Manette, a key character from the classic book, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, by Charles Dickens. Gia's goal is to...



  • The masquerade may be over, but a deadly mystery still looms. Amanda Tucker, a masterful retro fashion designer, jumps at the chance to showcase her skills by designing stunning gowns for an upcoming masquerade ball. Her talented assistant, Zoe,...



  • The art of deception takes center stage.Dina and Patty, two sisters with a shared love for the arts, find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery that mirrors the intrigue of the stage. Dina, the proud owner of a quaint movie memorabilia shop, an...



  • In a world where literary realms collide with reality, Cooper Wellingham embarks on a perilous journey from his tranquil North Carolina home into the enigmatic realm of Literatia. But his quest quickly takes a nightmarish turn as he comes face-to-fac...






  • In the snowy retreat of Beech Mountain, the grand opening of a ski lodge becomes the backdrop for a chilling crime when a cast-iron skillet attack shatters the festivities, drawing Amy, Scott, and Aunt Bess into an icy puzzle.Join Amy, the owner of t...



  • Dive down the rabbit hole with Gia as she embarks on her most perplexing adventure yet!Transported into the whimsical world of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Gia is thrust into a precarious mystery: the Queen of Hearts has been brutally murdered. ...



  • The upcoming birth of a child is usually celebrated by all concerned, but not this time…Katie Bonner loses her lunch—literally—when her social media account serves up a shocking announcement. Her boyfriend Andy Rust's attractive as...



  • Katie's been dealt the Dead Man's Hand…It's all fun and games when Katie Bonner and her friends play poker for chocolate-covered peanuts, but the very next day Jamie Seifert collapses and dies after visiting Katie's tearoom on Victoria Square....


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gayle Leeson has published 23 books.

The next book by Gayle Leeson, Dead Man's Hand, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Gayle Leeson, The Calamity Cafe, was published in June 2016.

Yes. Gayle Leeson has 5 series.