Kate Young

Lyla Moody loves her sleepy little town of Sweet Mountain, Georgia. She likes her job as a receptionist for her uncle's private investigative firm, her fellow true-crime obsessed Jane Doe members are the friends she's always wanted....

At a murder-mystery-themed wedding reception on Georgia's picturesque Peach Cove Island, the bride is doing an awfully good job playing dead.... Marygene Brown always figured she'd marry her childhood sweetheart, Alex Myers, not cater his wedding. But the Peach Diner could use the exposure. Most...

On Georgia's picturesque Peach Cove Island, a killer is serving up a two-for-one special.... After their mama's passing, Marygene Brown returned to Peach Cove Island to help her sister, Jena Lynn, run the family diner, renowned for its homemade peach desserts. But Mama is never too far away -...

Life has always been sweet on Georgia's Peach Cove Island, but a case of murder has Marygene Brown down in the pits....

Lyla Moody and her book club, the Jane Does, are hosting a Halloween party at Magnolia Manor, tailored after Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced, but when the lights come on after the staged murder, a real victim lies dead from a gunshot wound in her chest. The victim was an estranged...

What better time than Halloween to dig into a bracing discussion of a murder mystery? And what better choice for the Jane Doe Book Club than Crooked House? But not long after the meeting, Sweet Mountain, Georgia, is rocked by a murder that uncannily echoes the novel in question....