Jenn McKinlay

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  • Bibliography:
    51 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2010
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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About the Author

Lucy Lawrence (a pseudonym for Jenn McKinlay) took her first decoupage class when she was twelve years old. Since then, cutting and pasting have become a way of life. With two small children at home, she finds decoupage a fun craft as well as a very handy tool, especially when used to cover up doodles made in permanent marker on otherwise lovely furniture. And yes, they know her by name at her local Michael's Craft Store. She is the author of three previous novels under the name Jennifer McKinlay and lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her musician husband Chris, their two sons, two cats, one dog and one fish.

Full Series List in Order

Bluff Point

1 - About a Dog (Jun-2017)
2 - Barking Up the Wrong Tree (Oct-2017)
3 - Every Dog Has His Day (Jan-2018)

A Cupcake Bakery Mystery

1 - Sprinkle with Murder (Mar-2010)
2 - Buttercream Bump Off (Jan-2011)
3 - Death by the Dozen (Oct-2011)
4 - Red Velvet Revenge (Jul-2012)
5 - Going, Going, Ganache (Apr-2013)
6 - Sugar and Iced (Apr-2014)
7 - Dark Chocolate Demise (Apr-2015)
8 - Vanilla Beaned (Apr-2016)
9 - Caramel Crush (Apr-2017)
10 - Wedding Cake Crumble (Apr-2018)
11 - Dying for Devil's Food (May-2019)
12 - Pumpkin Spice Peril (May-2020)
13 - For Batter or Worse (May-2021)
14 - Strawberried Alive (May-2022)
15 - Sugar Plum Poisoned (Oct-2023)
16 - Fondant Fumble (Jun-2024)

Happy Ever After

1 - The Good Ones (Feb-2019)
2 - The Christmas Keeper (Nov-2019)

A Hat Shop Mystery

1 - Cloche and Dagger (Aug-2013)
2 - Death of a Mad Hatter (May-2014)
3 - At the Drop of a Hat (Mar-2015)
4 - Copy Cap Murder (Jan-2016)
5 - Assault and Beret (Jan-2017)
6 - Buried to the Brim (Feb-2020)
7 - Fatal Fascinator (Jan-2023)

A Library Lover's Mystery

1 - Books Can Be Deceiving (Jul-2011)
2 - Due or Die (Mar-2012)
3 - Book, Line and Sinker (Dec-2012)
4 - Read It and Weep (Nov-2013)
5 - On Borrowed Time (Nov-2014)
6 - A Likely Story (Nov-2015)
7 - Better Late Than Never (Nov-2016)
8 - Death in the Stacks (Nov-2017)
9 - Hitting the Books (Sep-2018)
10 - Word to the Wise (Sep-2019)
11 - One for the Books (Sep-2020)
12 - Killer Research (Nov-2021)
13 - The Plot and the Pendulum (Oct-2022)
14 - Fatal First Edition (Feb-2024)
15 - A Merry Little Murder Plot (Oct-2024)

A Museum of Literature Romance

1 - Royal Valentine (Jan-2022)
2 - The Attraction Distraction (Jun-2022)
3 - It Happened One Christmas Eve (Dec-2022)

Book List in Order: 51 titles

  • Sprinkle with Murder

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 1

    Cupcakes to Die For Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Their first big order is a sweet deal, too -- five hundred cupcakes for a fashion designer's wedding. The ...

  • Buttercream Bump Off

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 2

    A heartless murder for Valentine's Day Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura must be doing something right with their Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Their business rival, Olivia Puckett, is parading up and down the sidewalk dressed as a giant cupcake to ste...

  • Books Can Be Deceiving

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 1

    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,...

  • Death by the Dozen

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 3

    Death of a chef Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are determined to win the challenge to the chefs at this year's Scottsdale Food Festival. Taking home first prize will be great publicity for their Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery -- and beating rival Ol...

  • Due or Die

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 2

    Answering tricky reference questions is excitement enough for library director Lindsey Norris. Until a murder is committed in her cozy hometown of Briar Creek, Connecticut, and the question of who did it must be answered before someone else is checke...

  • Red Velvet Revenge

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 4

    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 J...

  • Book, Line and Sinker

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 3

    “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, Connec...

  • Going, Going, Ganache

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 5

    A new Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay is icing on the cupcake! 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 w...

  • Cloche and Dagger

    A Hat Shop Mystery - 1

    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 t...



  • Read It and Weep

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 4

    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...

  • Sugar and Iced

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 6

    Sugar and spice and murderous vice. That's what pageants are made of... 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 Ti...

  • Death of a Mad Hatter

    A Hat Shop Mystery - 2

    ONE IN A MILLINER 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 ...

  • On Borrowed Time

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 5

    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 p...

  • At the Drop of a Hat

    A Hat Shop Mystery - 3

    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Library Lover’s Mysteries and Death of a Mad Hatter comes a tale of hat shop owners who put a cap on crime. MURDER CAN BE SO OLD HAT Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont’s fashionabl...

  • Dark Chocolate Demise

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 7

    The New York Times bestselling Cupcake Bakery Mysteries bake up sweet surprises, but as the series continues, Mel and Angie are in for a fresh batch of trouble… Scottsdale, Arizona, may not be the liveliest place on earth, but it’s never been ...

  • A Likely Story

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 6

    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 to...

  • Copy Cap Murder

    A Hat Shop Mystery - 4

    The New York Times bestselling author of At the Drop of a Hat returns to her London hat shop with a fresh tale of milliners and murder. For Scarlett Parker, part of the fun of living in London is celebrating the British holidays, and she’s excit...

  • Vanilla Beaned

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 8

    In the eighth in the New York Times bestselling series by the author of Dark Chocolate Demise, the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew goes double or nothing in Vegas... Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are taking a gamble by opening their first franchise of...

  • Better Late Than Never

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 7

    In the latest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Likely Story, a decades overdue book puts library director Lindsey Norris hot on the trail of a cold case... When the Briar Creek Public Library holds its fir...



  • Assault and Beret

    A Hat Shop Mystery - 5

    Allons-y to Paris for more hats and homicide from the New York Times bestselling author of Copy Cap Murder! London milliner Vivian Tremont and her American cousin and partner, Scarlett Parker, tip their caps to their beloved shop on Portobello Roa...

  • Caramel Crush

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 9

    When a breakup via cupcake threatens to crumble their friend's life for good, Mel and Angie race to solve the murder as this New York Times bestselling series continues... Love is in the air at Fairy Tale Cupcakes as Angie prepares for her weddin...

  • About a Dog

    Bluff Point - 1

    Fall in love with a little help from man’s best friend in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay’s contemporary romance debut. Mackenzie “Mac” Harris fled her hometown of Bluff Point, Maine, after being left at the altar -- and se...

  • Barking Up the Wrong Tree

    Bluff Point - 2

    New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay returns to Bluff Point, Maine, where one woman finds love with the help of an adorable golden retriever. LOVE IS A FOUR-LEGGED WORD. Carly DeCusati returned home to Bluff Point, Maine, with her ta...

  • Death in the Stacks

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 8

    In the latest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Better Late Than Never, the library’s big fund-raiser leaves director Lindsey Norris booked for trouble . . . Lindsey Norris and her staff are gearing up for ...

  • Every Dog Has His Day

    Bluff Point - 3

    A stray kitten and a rambunctious poodle bring together a small-town bachelor and a single mother in the latest romance set in Bluff Point, Maine. Bluff Point brewery owner Zachary Caine wants nothing to do with commitment. His wild bachelor lifes...

  • Wedding Cake Crumble

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 10

    For the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew, wedding bells turn to death knells in this latest mystery in the New York Times bestselling series. With Angie and Tate's wedding just around the corner, it's a happy time for Melanie Cooper and the bakery crew. No...

  • Hitting the Books

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 9

    It's murder by the book in the latest hit Library Lover's mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Death in the Stacks. When a stack of library materials is found at the scene of a hit and run, library director Lindsey Norris ...

  • The Good Ones

    Happy Ever After - 1

    A romance bookstore owner finds her own happily ever after with a single dad in a new romance series from the New York Times bestselling author of Every Dog Has His Day. Ryder Copeland is an accomplished architect and one heck of a father...not to...

  • Dying for Devil's Food

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 11

    As the New York Times bestselling series continues, it's going to take every recipe the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew has to whip up a quick defense for Mel Cooper when her high school reunion goes from a cake walk to a car wreck... Melanie Cooper h...



  • Word to the Wise

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 10

    It's no-holds-barred murder… 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 town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term "book lover" a...

  • The Christmas Keeper

    Happy Ever After - 2

    True love and holiday cheer combine for an unforgettable romance in this second Happily Ever After novel featuring a North Carolina bookstore from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Ones. All he wants for Christmas… The second ...

  • Buried to the Brim

    A Hat Shop Mystery - 6

    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 ge...

  • Pumpkin Spice Peril

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 12

    In the twelfth Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay, the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew follows the clever crumb trail of a killer who's anything but cookie-cutter. Life is all sugar and spice for the Fairy Tale...

  • Paris is Always a Good Idea

    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 from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay. It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin ...

  • One for the Books

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 11

    Wedding bells are ringing in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Word to the Wise. Love is in the air in Briar Creek as library director Lindsey Norris and boat captain Mike (Sully) Sul...

  • For Batter or Worse

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 13

    The Fairy Tale Cupcake crew must discover the truth behind a death sprinkled with suspicion before Mel and Joe can say "I do”, in the thirteenth Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay. Life is sweet an...

  • Wait For It

    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 ...

  • Killer Research

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 12

    Spring has sprung in Briar Creek, but it is not all sunshine and roses, in the newest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of One for the Books. Spring is livening up Briar Creek after a long, cold winter,...

  • Royal Valentine

    A Museum of Literature Romance - 1

    Molly Graham doesn't believe in love at first sight or fairy tales. She's been burned too many times before. When her best friend, Brianna Cho, challenges her to aim high and go for men who are out of her league, Molly can't imagine a wor...



  • Strawberried Alive

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 14

    The crew from the Fairy Tale Cupcakes shop risks getting burned when they set out to find a murderer who is terrorizing their town   Life is smooth as buttercream at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery, and newlyweds Mel and Joe are stopping to smell...

  • The Attraction Distraction

    A Museum of Literature Romance - 2

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Royal Valentine, a second novella in the Museum of Literature romcom series, in which the only thing standing between a single-minded Classics scholar and the literary discovery of a lifetime is her heart...

  • The Plot and the Pendulum

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 13

    Halloween is approaching in Briar Creek, and things get spooky when a skeleton is found and connected to a decades-old cold case, in the newest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Killer Research.Library director Lin...

  • It Happened One Christmas Eve

    A Museum of Literature Romance - 3

    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 enormou...

  • Booked

    From New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay comes the Museum of Literature RomCom Omnibus. For the first time all three novellas are in one volume.Royal ValentineThe Attraction DistractionIt Happened One Christmas EveCome join the fun--with ...

  • Fatal Fascinator

    A Hat Shop Mystery - 7

    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 f...

  • Summer Reading

    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 fa...

  • Sugar Plum Poisoned

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 15

    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 a...

  • Fatal First Edition

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 14

    People are dying to get their hands on a rare, valuable book in the newest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot and the Pendulum.Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a ...

  • Love at First Book

    When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sum...



  • Fondant Fumble

    A Cupcake Bakery Mystery - 16

    The Fairy Tale Cupcakes crew helps two professional football players in knead when the athletes are suspected of murder and their dream of opening a bakery is crushed, from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.Professional football players...

  • A Merry Little Murder Plot

    A Library Lover's Mystery - 15

    ‘Tis the season in Briar Creek, and this year festivities become fatalities in the newest Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Fatal First Edition.During the most wonderful time of the year, famous author Hel...

Award-Winning Books by Jenn McKinlay

Barking Up the Wrong Tree
2017 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Contemporary Love & Laughter


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Jenn McKinlay has published 51 books.

Jenn McKinlay does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Merry Little Murder Plot, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Jenn McKinlay, Sprinkle with Murder, was published in March 2010.

Yes. Jenn McKinlay has 6 series.
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