Order of Jenn McKinlay Books
Jenn McKinlay is an American novelist of cozy mystery novels. She has also written as Jennifer McKinlay, Josie Belle and Lucy Lawrence. Jenn writes the Decoupage Murder Mysteries, Cupcake Bakery Mysteries, Library Lover’s Mysteries, Good Buy Girls Mysteries and Hat Shop Mysteries series. Jenn spent years dreaming of becoming a romance author, then went to Southern Connecticut State University where she studied English Literature and Library Science. After working full-time as a librarian, she realized she couldn’t get any writing done while working full-time, so she packed up and moved all the way to Arizona to write romance novels. After a while, she realized she was better at killing people than making them fall in love, so she moved to mystery novels, which she continues to write to this day.
Jenn McKinlay became a published author in 2002 with the romantic comedy To Catch a Latte. Her first novel as Jenn McKinlay was in 2010, which was the Cupcake Bakery Mystery novel Sprinkle with Murder. Below is a list of Jenn McKinlay’s books in order of when they were first published (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Bluff Point Romance Books
About a Dog | (2017) | |
Barking Up the Wrong Tree | (2017) | |
Every Dog Has His Day | (2018) |
Publication Order of Cupcake Bakery Mystery Books
Sprinkle with Murder | (2010) | |
Buttercream Bump Off | (2011) | |
Death by the Dozen | (2011) | |
Red Velvet Revenge | (2012) | |
Going, Going, Ganache | (2013) | |
Sugar and Iced | (2014) | |
Dark Chocolate Demise | (2015) | |
Vanilla Beaned | (2016) | |
Caramel Crush | (2017) | |
Wedding Cake Crumble | (2018) | |
Dying for Devil’s Food | (2019) | |
Pumpkin Spice Peril | (2020) | |
For Batter or Worse | (2021) | |
Strawberried Alive | (2022) | |
Sugar Plum Poisoned | (2023) | |
Fondant Fumble | (2024) |
Publication Order of Cupcake Bakery Mystery Non-Fiction Books
Fairy Tale Cupcakes: Recipes from the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries | (2022) |
Publication Order of Decoupage Mystery Books
Stuck on Murder | (2009) | |
Cut to the Corpse | (2010) | |
Sealed with a Kill | (2011) |
Publication Order of Good Buy Girls Mystery Books
(as Josie Belle)
50% Off Murder | (2012) | |
A Deal to Die For | (2012) | |
Buried in Bargains | (2013) | |
Marked Down for Murder | (2014) | |
All Sales Final | (2015) |
Publication Order of Happy Ever After Books
The Good Ones | (2019) | |
The Christmas Keeper | (2019) |
Publication Order of Hat Shop Mystery Books
Cloche and Dagger | (2013) | |
Death of a Mad Hatter | (2014) | |
At the Drop of a Hat | (2015) | |
Copy Cap Murder | (2016) | |
Assault & Beret | (2017) | |
Buried to the Brim | (2020) | |
Fatal Fascinator | (2023) |
Publication Order of Library Lover’s Mystery Books
Books Can Be Deceiving | (2011) | |
Due or Die | (2012) | |
Book, Line and Sinker | (2012) | |
Read It and Weep | (2013) | |
On Borrowed Time | (2014) | |
An Unlikely Meeting | (2015) | |
Better Late Than Never | (2016) | |
Death in the Stacks | (2017) | |
Hitting the Books | (2018) | |
Word to the Wise | (2019) | |
One for the Books | (2020) | |
Killer Research | (2021) | |
The Plot and the Pendulum | (2022) | |
Fatal First Edition | (2024) | |
A Merry Little Murder Plot | (2024) |
Publication Order of Museum of Literature Romance Books
Royal Valentine | (2022) | |
The Attraction Distraction | (2022) | |
It Happened One Christmas Eve | (2022) |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Keeping up Appearances | (2005) | |
To Catch a Latte | (2018) | |
Paris is Always a Good Idea | (2020) | |
Wait for It | (2021) | |
Summer Reading | (2023) | |
Love at First Book | (2024) |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Perk Avenue / To Catch a Latte | (2002) | |
A Real Work of Art / Thick as Thieves | (2003) |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Cozy Cookbook | (2015) |
Notes: The Good Buy Girls series is written as Josie Belle. The Decoupage Murder Mysteries series is written as Lucy Lawrence. The novel Keeping Up Appearances was written as Jennifer McKinlay. To Catch a Latte was written by Jennifer McKinlay, coupled with Perk Avenue by Patricia Knoll. Thick as Thieves was written by Jennifer McKinlay, coupled with A Real Work of Art by Samantha Connolly.