Lexy Baker Cozy Mystery

When millionaire Regis Banks drops dead at his own party, everyone assumes it was from natural causes - after all, the man was celebrating his one-hundredth birthday.... Everyone except Lexy Baker's amateur sleuth grandmother, Nans, and her three friends, that is. When it turns out that Regis' death might have been caused by more than just old age, Nans refuses to let the trail grow cold - especially after a local reporter trying to get a scoop threatens to write an article blaming the death on Lexy.It doesn't take long before Nans and Lexy are up to their eyeballs in suspects. And when those suspects start dropping like flies, Lexy and Nans have to step up their game before the killer claims their next victim.

When a retired mobster ends up murdered and one of her grandmother's best friends is the last one to see him alive, Lexy Baker can kiss her plans to spend an uneventful summer dreaming about her upcoming wedding to detective Jack Perillo good-bye.Lexy agrees to help her grandmother's octogenarian Ladies' Detective Club solve the murder. But she doesn't count on sneaking into crime scenes, interviewing kooky relatives, and following thugs around town.But while Lexy is busy juggling her bakery, her grandmother, and the hunky F.B.I. agent sent to investigate the murder, Jack seems to be spending a lot of time with his shapely, blonde ex-girlfriend who suddenly arrives in town.Will Lexy be able to catch the killers and discover the real secret about Jack's ex before it's too late?

When Lexy Baker temporarily fills in for the pastry chef at a lakeside resort it seems like a great way to combine business and pleasure. ... until the head chef ends up with a knife through his chest and Lexy is found bending over the body.Suddenly, she finds herself in a race against time and battling a quirky dessert devouring detective to find the real killer in a long line of suspects.Was it the extravagant spouse? The suspiciously acting sous-chef? The mysterious motorcycle gang? Luckily Lexy's iPad toting grandma and three octogenarian friends have turned their cottage into a crime lab in order to help her sift through the sea of suspects.Will Lexy be able to find the real killer and clear her name or will she find that she's up the creek without a paddle?

When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad-toting grandmas find a dead body under Ruth's late model Oldsmobile, it opens an investigation into a decades-old crime. It seems Ruth's reformed crime-boss boyfriend stashed something of immense value away before he died. Too bad word is out in the criminal underworld and a dangerous killer has come to town to find it.Armed with only their iPads, gigantic patent leather purses and a box of baked goods, the ladies must use their wit and cunning to unmask the killer before he hits too close to home.

Brook Ridge Falls favorite bakery owner, Lexy Baker, has everything she ever wanted. A new husband she adores. A thriving bakery business. Everything is going great.... Until a new bakery springs up across the street and tries every trick in the book to put her out of business!Lexy smells something rotten about the bakery and it isn't just their stale brownies. When her own bakery is broken into she knows who did it ... but what she can't figure out is why.Could the new baker be after her great-grandmothers prize winning scone recipe, or is there another more sinister reason?Meanwhile ...A grizzly discovery in the sewer system sends her and her gang of iPad toting grandmas off to solve a decades old crime under the streets of brook ridge falls.Could a seventy year old crime be related to the new bakery?

When the president of the Brook Ridge Falls Senior Center Book Club is found dead, facedown in one of the pies meant for the club's pie-eating contest, Lexy and her posse of iPad-toting grandmothers take it upon themselves to find the killer. Too bad the only potential clue might be buried inside one of the many pies taken by the police for evidence.That's no problem. Lexy, Nans, and the ladies will use their uncanny methods of deduction to ferret out the killer. They waste no time filling their suspect list.Was it the crusty old author?The flaky antiques dealer?The cheating husband with his half-baked grief act?They all had means, motive, and opportunity and seem to be harboring secrets. But what has Lexy really worried is that someone in her group seems to have a secret of her own. Just when the case seems impossible to solve, they come across another clue. Will Lexy and her posse realize its hidden meaning before it's too late?

The Brook Ridge Falls Retirement Center is still reeling over the death of one of their own when Lexy and her senior detective friends are asked to investigate another murder. Muriel Maguire insists that her grandson, Henry, has been framed for the murder of his wife, but the clues all point to Henry, and the police already have him in custody.

The suspect list is long, including members of the victim's family who have a very unusual and suspicious profession. Too bad the husband had motive and his alibi is flimsy. Is he guilty, or is he being framed? 

When the investigation leads them to a mysterious woman, the case takes a curious twist, and a contact inside the prison reveals stunning information that turns the case on its head. Plus, there is one odd clue the police have overlooked-a corn muffin.

*** USA Today Bestseller *** Murder hits a little too close to home for bakery owner Lexy Baker when a grim discovery is made in her homicide detective husband, Jack's, basement.With Jack as the main suspect, Lexy has to turn up the heat and find the real killer while still trying to whip up the perfect meringue cookie recipe for the Brook Ridge Falls Desserts Contest. Normally, she would enlist the aid of her amateur detective grandmother, Nans. Except ...Nans has a secret and is uncustomarily disinterested in investigating. Not to be daunted, Lexy turns to her iPad-toting posse of grandma sleuths who help her sift through the clues in an investigation that keeps dishing up the most unlikely suspects. When a surprising twist causes Lexy to suspect those closest to her, it makes her wonder if some things from the past aren't better left alone.

A creepy haunted mansion that has been abandoned for decades, a cat that appears out of nowhere and a murder in a locked room are just par for the course for bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of amateur sleuth grandmas. Lexy takes a working vacation to help her grandmother's friend launch her new bed and breakfast and she ends up in the middle of a mysterious murder investigation. Her homicide detective husband, Jack, finds himself playing amateur sleuth beside Lexy and the iPad toting grandmas while they sift through a cast of secretive suspects to prove the killer was no ghost.In the tradition of the old-fashioned mysteries, this Lexy Baker novella is a real puzzler that will keep you guessing until the end.Recipes Included!

Lexy Baker is finally tying the knot with hunky homicide detective Jack Perillo. She's planned the perfect wedding right down to her custom designed gown. Nothing can go wrong.... Until Lexy stumbles across a double murder and one of the victims is a Bridezilla that Lexy had a major fight with just hours before. This time Jack can't help her because he's been taken off the case and the gum chewing ditzy rookie that's replaced him has put Lexy at the top of the suspect list.Lexy calls on her amateur detective grandmother to help her find the real killer while she's juggling wedding plans, trying to run her bakery and entertaining her parents who are in town for the wedding.Will Lexy end up with handcuffs slapped on her wrist instead of a wedding ring slid on her finger?

There's a serial killer on the loose. And Lexy Baker's grandmother, Nans, could be the next victim.The bodies are piling up at the Brook Ridge Falls Retirement Center. Healthy people are dropping like flies. And yet no one believes a murderer is on the loose… except for Lexy Baker and the troupe of iPad-toting grandmothers who live at the center.When Lexy's detective boyfriend, Jack, refuses to believe that foul play is involved, Lexy has no choice but to find the killer on her own. Along with Nans and her gang of iPad-toting, mystery-solving grandmas, they use everything from hypnosis to high-tech gadgets to track down the killer.Meanwhile, Jack is acting strange. People are snickering mysteriously behind Lexy's back. And Lexy discovers eating all those sweets is finally catching up with her. Soon she finds herself in a race against time as she juggles dropping a few pounds, preparing for a surprise wedding, patching up her relationship with Jack, and finding the killer. Will Lexy uncover the killer's shocking identity before their next victim dies?

Why did someone kill Olive Pendleton and hide her body?When bakery owner Lexy Baker and her posse of iPad toting grandmas witness a murder remotely through the camera of a drone, they go straight to Lexy's homicide detective husband, Jack, to report the crime. But with no body and no crime reported, Jack can't do a thing, leaving Lexy and her grandmother no alternative than to solve the murder themselves.Armed with nothing but their gigantic patent leather purses and a dogged determination to see justice done, the ladies dodge a pack of overzealous Pekeapoos, nosey neighbors and an ornery husband in order to flush out Olive's killer before he kills again.