Meet The Author
Whether writing as Valerie Burns, V.M. Burns, or Kallie E Benjamin, Valerie is always most at home spending time with her beloved poodles, Kenzie and Chloe (who are often featured in her cozy mysteries).
Valerie Burns is a prolific writer of cozy mysteries, and an Agatha, Anthony, Edgar, and Next Generation Indie Award finalist.
As V.M. Burns, she is the author of the Mystery Bookshop Mystery, Dog Club Mystery, RJ Franklin Mystery, and Baker Street Mystery series.
As Kallie E. Benjamin, Valerie also writes the Bailey the Bloodhound Mystery series.
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Murder From A to Z
Nana Jo has volunteered her lawyer granddaughter, Jenna, to teach estate planning to retirees—with Sam providing her bookshop as the venue. But during the seminar, entitled Getting Your Ducks in Order, it quickly becomes clear someone’s up to Fowl Play. When elderly Alva Tarkington, accompanied by her niece, sits down for a consultation, Sam realizes the woman’s frequent blinking is actually Morse Code—S.O.S. The sisters get her alone, and Alva tells them she believes her life is in danger and must change her will . . .
Unfortunately, Alva is found dead the next day—seemingly from natural causes. But Nana Jo and the sisters suspect otherwise. In between penning her latest historical mystery, set in 1939 as England declares war on Germany and Lady Elizabeth Marsh pursues stolen paintings and a traitor, Sam teams up with the senior sleuths of Shady Acres to search for motives—beginning with Alva’s family. They soon learn not everyone is who they say they are, and someone is more than qualified to teach a class on cold-blooded murder . . .
Icing on the Murder is #4 in the Baker Street Mystery series. Influencer-turned-bakery-owner Maddy Montgomery has sold plenty of wedding cakes before, but before she turns one out for her and her fiancé’s wedding, she’ll have to solve a little case of murder . . .
Murder From A to Z is #11th in the Mystery Bookshop Mysteries series. When Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington and her sister, Jenna, agreed to host a class for seniors on estate planning, they didn’t plan on discovering shady doings at Shady Acres Retirement Village . . .
Hounding a Killer, is #2 in the Bailey the Bloodhound series. It’s chaos in Crosbyville when someone tries to swindle a large inheritance, but as Pris and Bailey start digging for the missing money, they uncover the wrong kind of bones….