V.M. Burns (Valerie Burns)
1964-
Pseudonym: Kallie E. Benjamin
 

Valerie Marie Burns was born in South Bend, Indiana. She currently lives in Tennessee. She is an author and Operations Manager at a call center for an appliance manufacturer. She is the creator of:
1. 'Baker Street Mystery' series featuring Maddy Montgomery, a social media expert who inherits her great-aunt's bakery in New Bison, Michigan (as 'Valerie Burns').
2. 'Bailey the Bloodhound Mystery' series featuring Priscilla Cummings, a children's crime fiction author with her bloodhound Bailey (under the pseudonym 'Kallie E. Benjamin').
3. 'Dog Club Mystery' series featuring Lilly Echosby, an amateur sleuth with her toy poodle, Aggie, in Tennessee.
4. 'Mystery Bookshop' series featuring Samatha Washington, the owner of a mystery bookstore in North Harbor, Michigan.
5. 'R.J. Franklin', a homicide detective in St. Joseph, Indiana.
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Titles and year of publication:  

 'Baker Street Mystery' Novels (as 'Valerie Burns')
 1) Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder  2022
 2) Murder Is a Piece of Cake  2023
 3) A Cup of Flour  2024
 4) Icing on the Murder  2025
 'Bailey the Bloodhound Mystery' Novels (as 'Kallie E. Benjamin')
 1) Sniffing Out Murder  2023
 2) Hounding a Killer  2025
 'Dog Club Mystery' Novels
 1) In the Dog House  2018
 2) The Puppy Who Knew Too Much  2019
 3) Bark If It's Murder  2019
 4) Paw and Order  2020
 5) Sit, Stay, Slay  2020
 'Mystery Bookshop' Novels
 1) The Plot Is Murder  2017
 2) Read Herring Hunt  2018
 3) The Novel Art of Murder  2018
 4) Wed, Read & Dead  2019
 5) Bookmarked for Murder  2019
 6) A Tourist's Guide to Murder  2021
 7) Killer Words  2021
 8) Bookclubbed to Death  2022
 9) Murder on Tour  2023
10) The Next Deadly Chapter  2025
11) Murder from A to Z  Due January 2026
 'R.J. Franklin' Novels
 1) Travellin' Shoes  2018
 2) Motherless Child  2019
 3) Steal Away  2020

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