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Baker Girls
Baker Girls
Series · 5 books · 2017-2021
By
Maria Grazia Swan
Books in series
#1
Cooks, Crooks and a Corpse
2017
Can't resist lighthearted comedy dressed with a little mystery that never takes you down a dark road? Good, because that’s what you get when you put two hot Italian imports together. Meet the hot pink Fiat 500 and its owner, real estate agent Monica Baker. Now stir in a dead body, a caterer about to lose her license, a real estate office coming off the rails, a goofy Great Dane, and a lively heroine who can’t help falling for the brooding bad boy. This is the world of Monica Baker: a high-speed mystery with a serving of mischief and a side of laughs.
#2
Foods, Fools, and a Dead Psychic (Baker Girls, #2
2018
The Psychic Fair is in town, with Mediums and Psychics, Astrologers galore. And a lone murderer! Believers and skeptics stroll the booths, nooks and crannies, along with the wise and the fools, all searching for answers to life’s dilemmas. Some of them will go home full of hope, other filled with disappointment. One of them won’t go home at all. Good Italian Catholic girl Monica Baker has no interest in the fair, until Homicide comes calling and she finds out the people she trusted most were lurking there. Where can she turn? To the willing arms of the married Frenchman who fills her nights with lusty dreams or the long arm of the law? Is the answer to the murder and Monica’s future in the cards, the stars, the crystal ball? Or in Monica’s own date with destiny.
#3
Wine, Dine and Christmas Crimes
2019
Some Christmas surprises don’t come from Santa. At a gathering atop the tallest building in Phoenix, Arizona, to celebrate Monica Baker’s newest listing, the body of a mysterious young woman is found floating in the pool. But why do fingers point to Monica? Is it the victim’s missing clothing that links Monica to the crime? As if being alone during the holidays and in love with someone else’s husband wasn’t depressing enough, Monica now needs to convince the cops, her real estate broker, and her friends, that she really, really isn’t a Christmas killer. And she better be quick if she wants to make midnight mass instead of prison roll call.
#3.5
Pies, Lies and a Last Goodbye
2019
A missing horse. An absent heartthrob’s disappearing wife. A catering gig making pie for highflying gamblers. Monica’s got her fingers in too many pies, all of them leading to trouble. Tristan Dumont, the hunky millionaire and very married horseman asks Monica for a favor. Keep an eye on his beloved appaloosa till he gets back in town. As usual, she jumps to please him without thinking twice. When Tristan’s horse and then his wife go missing, social media starts to hum with gossip that Monica was the last to see both victims alive. Things continue to spin out of control, like the wheels on her beloved hot pink Fiat, and Monica has more on her hands than baking pies for a derby. Can Monica clear her name and save the innocent victims before Mr. Dumont returns home? Because the game is rigged and Monica is in danger of losing all that she cherishes most.
#4
Apples, Appaloosa and Alibis
2021
A good deed, a sexy French millionaire, and a deadly mystery. Just a typical day for Monica Baker… Monica thought her luck was finally improving… until she found herself caught up in a murder investigation. Again. And running the risk of being the next victim. Who knew that agreeing to pick up someone’s mail could end with a dead body in the den, a warning from beyond the grave, and a media circus? As chaos ensues, only one thing is certain. If Monica wants her happily ever after with Tristan, she’s going to have to fight for it. Literally…
Author
Maria Grazia Swan
Author · 20 books