Scrapbooking Mysteries Books in Order

Jazz Fest brings giant puppets and music to Royal Street, but the fun ends when Carmela and Ava hear a crash and find antiques dealer Devon Dowling dead with an icepick wound. Their hunt for his killer stretches from food stalls to backroom deals.

During a spectacular Mardi Gras parade, Carmela’s ex husband rides high on a glittering float that suddenly crashes and explodes. Shamus survives, but a fellow krewe member dies, and Carmela has to decide how much she can trust Shamus while tracking a saboteur.

Browsing New Orleans’ Winter Market, Carmela and Ava see a reviled restaurant critic stagger and collapse with a serving fork in his chest. When her ex boyfriend Quigg becomes the prime suspect, Carmela must juggle old feelings and new dangers.

After a romantic dinner in New Orleans’ Garden District, Carmela and her detective boyfriend hear a scream from Lafayette Cemetery and find assistant district attorney Isabelle Black dead on a tomb. A strip of antique lace points toward high society secrets.

On a Halloween evening in the French Quarter, Carmela investigates strange noises in a neighboring antiques shop and ends up catching the owner’s bloody body as it falls from a cabinet. A missing death mask turns the case toward collectors and old grudges.

At a glittering welcome home party for parolee businessman Jerry Earl, Carmela and Ava watch the festivities collapse when he is found dead and crammed into a clothes dryer. Drawn in by his widow, they sift through scams, mistresses, and bad investments.

During a live Mardi Gras broadcast, flashy TV reporter Kimber Breeze is strangled on a French Quarter balcony, right above the crowd. Soon afterward Carmela starts receiving eerie postcards supposedly from Kimber, forcing her to confront enemies the reporter left behind.

During a visit to St. Tristan’s Church, Carmela and Ava witness a hooded figure and then find a fellow scrapbooker bludgeoned beside a smashed statue. A stolen antique crucifix pulls them into bayou communes, soup kitchens, and dangerous devotions.

As New Orleans gears up for a Monsters and Mayhem parade, Carmela and Ava help build giant puppets. When unpopular businessman Brett Fowler is killed by a float’s Minotaur head, suspicion falls on their designer friend, and they race to clear him.

In New Orleans, Carmela agrees to help turn a crumbling mansion into a Halloween haunted house. When one of the organizers winds up dead among the props, she and Ava navigate ghost stories, money troubles, and a very real killer.

While partygoers toast the coming of Mardi Gras, Carmela and Ava stumble over a float designer strangled with barbed wire. Their search for answers leads to a legendary pirate hoard, shady coin dealers, and more danger than any parade promises.

New Orleans Halloween festivities turn deadly when Carmela discovers a fashion model’s body behind her friend Ava’s voodoo shop. With a handsome tarot reader and his wolf handling brother under suspicion, Carmela tiptoes through costumes, catwalks, and bayou shadows.

Still rebuilding her French Quarter shop after the hurricane, Carmela thinks reconciling with her ex, Shamus, will be her biggest challenge. Then Shamus is kidnapped and his uncle is shot, and a memorial scrapbook Carmela creates may reveal the killer.

Carmela’s all night “Crop Till You Drop” session at her French Quarter scrapbooking shop screeches to a halt when the antique dealer next door is found stabbed in the alley. With her customers under suspicion, she must rearrange scattered clues fast.

At a pre wedding party Carmela has helped decorate, the groom is discovered with a knife in his neck. Asked by the devastated bride to help, Carmela pieces together secrets, debts, and jealousies hidden beneath New Orleans charm.

New Orleans scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is riding high on Mardi Gras business until a prominent citizen is murdered and her estranged husband becomes the prime suspect. Clues buried in her customers’ keepsakes push Carmela into amateur sleuthing.