Gayle Trent

(aka Amanda Lee & Gayle Leeson)

Click here for a post I’ve written about Amanda Lee’s Embroidery Mystery Series.

DAPHNE MARTIN CAKE MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Daphne Martin, Cake Decorator, Virginia

1. Murder Takes the Cake    ’08
2. Dead Pan     ’09
3. Killer Sweet Tooth    ’11
4. Battered to Death    ’13
5. Killer Wedding Cake    ’15

Daphne’s Delectable Cakes: A Cake Coloring Book  ’15 (by Lianna Trent, with foreword by Gayle Trent – based on the Daphne Martin Cake Mystery Series)

MYRTLE CRUMB MYSTERY SERIES:

Main Character: Myrtle Crumb, Senior Sleuth, Virginia

1. Between a Clutch and a Hard Place    ’04
2. When Good Bras Go Bad   ’06
3. Claus of Death    ’13 ….. Christmas
4. Perp and Circumstance    ’15

Soup…Er…Myrtle!    ’14 (Novella)

The Party Line    ’15 (prequel story)

STAND ALONES:

The Flame    ’16 (not a mystery)

Written as Amanda Lee:

EMBROIDERY MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Marcy Singer, Owner of Embroidery Shop, Oregon

1. The Quick and the Thread    ’10
2. Stitch Me Deadly    ’11
3. Thread Reckoning    ’11
4. The Long Stitch Good Night    ’12
5. Thread on Arrival    ’12
6. Cross-Stitch before Dying   ’13
7. Thread End     ’14
8. Wicked Stitch     ’15
9. The Stitching Hour    ’15
10. Better Off Thread    ’16

Written as Gayle Leeson:

GHOSTLY FASHIONISTA MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Amanda Tucker is the owner of a fashion design studio in an historic town in Virginia. Yikes! A ghost (Maxine – “Max”) comes with her shop…

1. Designs on Murder    ’19
2. Perils and Lace   ’20
3. Christmas Cloches and Corpses    ’20
4. Buttons and Blows   ’21

DOWN SOUTH CAFE MYSTERY Series:

Main Character: Amy Flowers, chef and owner of small cafe in Virginia

1. The Calamity Café    ’16
2. Silence of the Jams    ’17
3. Honey-Baked Homicide    ’17
4. Apples and Alibis   ’19
5. Truffles and Tragedy   ’21

STAND ALONES:

Yule Be Dead    ’18 (w/ Lorraine Bartlett) – book 5 in Lorraine Bartlett’s Victoria Square Mystery Series