Karen Chester: 10 books

A party to die for! After personal and professional disasters, event planner Emma Cassidy just wants to rebuild her life in her sleepy hometown. Organizing a housewarming party for the brash and arrogant Tony Barnet is a step in the right direction. But when food poisoning ruins the party,...

Bed and breakfast with a side of murder! A sea change to Pelican Bay is just what Jennifer Frost, ex-journalist, needs. Operating a bed-and-breakfast isn’t always easy, but she enjoys the challenge. The only hiccup is Addison, her next door neighbour, who’s determined to make life hard...

Letting the cat—or bird—out of the bag can be murder! Faye Seymour has long reigned as Greenville’s gossip queen, but recently she’s been at her worst, spreading rumors like wild fire and putting a lot of noses out of joint. Event planner Emma Cassidy has already lost an important client...

A body in the lake, high stakes secret software, and a tech guru with a surprising number of enemies. But who among them is a dangerous killer? Newly minted millionaire software entrepreneur Mervyn Butterick returns to his home town in a blaze of glory. Once a socially awkward nerd, he’s...

A poisoned potion, a dead New Age millionaire, and a missing herbalist. Is this witchcraft or something more sinister? Event planner Emma Cassidy moves into a cottage in the woods, where she soon discovers her new neighbor Isadora is more than just an herbalist, but also a self-styled witch,...

A new year, a new beginning. But the past brings death and deception to Emma’s doorstep. It’s the holiday season, and Emma Cassidy is looking forward to the New Year’s Eve fundraiser. Until a man is killed on the railway tracks in front of her, a man with no identity. Who was the mysterious...

It should have been the perfect wedding until the groom-to-be jilts his fiancée at the rehearsal dinner...and turns up dead the next morning. Emma Cassidy is doing what she does best—organizing a wedding. But there’s tension in the atmosphere, and Emma can’t shake an uneasy feeling about...

Tinsel, turkey, and tragedy! It’s Christmas in Pelican Bay, and Jennifer Frost is hosting some odd guests at her bed-and-breakfast—a domineering wife and her henpecked husband, plus a smooth-talking man with a mysterious background. Then there’s her temporary lodger, who is definitely...

It’s deadly down in the woods! When a rally against a proposed hotel turns ugly, B&B owner Jennifer Frost finds herself in the midst of a furious protest. But then the town councillor pushing for the development dies—in the same nature reserve where the hotel was to be built. It...

Is murder the last resort? It was meant to be a vacation for Emma Cassidy and her friend Caitlyn at a reopened spa resort operated by Caitlyn’s uncle. But a sense of unease hangs in the air, which only deepens when one of the guests is found dead in the pool. The long history of misadventure...