Laura Levine

When the neighborhood Scrooge, former child star Scotty Parker, is murdered, freelance writer Jaine Austen, who was helping him stage a comeback, finds herself on the list of suspects and must find the real killer.

When her abusive professional-matchmaker boss ends up dead, Jaine Austen is on the long list of suspects.

I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny. —Joanne Fluke
If clothes make the man, then what do Jaine Austen's elastic-waist pants and T-shirts make her? A fashion nightmare, according to her neighbor, Lance. She doesn't expect Lance—who works in the designer shoe department at Nieman Marcus—to understand. . .which is how she ends up visiting his favorite boutique, Passions. While the couture...

When Bunny, the trophy wife of mattress mogul Marvin Cooper, dies from a poisoned martini at a party Jaine is attending with her friend Lance, Jaine works to find the real killer and exonerate Lance, who is the prime suspect.

While teaching on a swanky cruise, wordsmith Jaine Austen soon discovers that her all-expenses-paid trip to the Mexican Riviera comes with blackmail, a sleazy British dancer, eccentric passengers, and murder.

When Hannah Swenson finds her neighbor murdered next to a box of her gingerbread cookies, she discovers a flurry of murder suspects as long as her holiday shopping list. Jaine Austen has been enlisted to help with her parents' retirement community holiday play. Dr. Preston McCay falls to his death during the final act and Jaine must figure out if it was murder. Lucy Stone discovers a body and with the hours quickly ticking till Christmas, Lucy races...