Gayle Trent
1967-
Pseudonyms: Holly Jordan, Amanda Lee and Gayle Leeson
 

Gayle Trent lives in Southwest Virginia with her husband and two children. She is an author, publisher and editor at Grace Abraham Publishing. She is the creator of:
1. 'Myrtle Crumb', an amateur sleuth.
2. 'Down South Café Mystery' series featuring Amy Flowers, an aspiring chef and small-town Virginia native (under the pseudonym 'Gayle Leeson').
3. 'Ghostly Fashionista Mystery' series featuring Amanda Tucker, the owner of a fashion design studio in Abingdon, Virginia (under the pseudonym 'Gayle Leeson').
4. 'Daphne Martin', a cake decorator and amateur sleuth.
5. 'Marcy Singer', a embroidery shop owner and amateur sleuth (under the pseudonym 'Amanda Lee').
She also co-authors the 'Victoria Square Mystery' series with Lorraine Bartlett. Visit also this site and this site.
 

Titles and year of publication:  

 'Myrtle Crumb' Novels
 1) Between a Clutch and a Hard Place  2004
 2) When Good Bras Go Bad  2006
 3) Claus of Death (e-book)  2013
 4) Soup...Er...Myrtle! (e-book)  2014
 5) Perp and Circumstance (e-book)  2015
 6) The Party Line (e-story)  2015
 'Down South Café Mystery' Novels (as 'Gayle Leeson')
 1) The Calamity Café  2016
 2) Silence of the Jams  2017
 3) Honey-Baked Homicide  2017
 4) Apples and Alibis  2019
 5) Fruit Baskets and Holiday Caskets  2020
 6) Truffles and Tragedy  2021
 'Ghostly Fashionista Mystery' Novels (as 'Gayle Leeson')
 1) Designs on Murder  2019
 2) Perils and Lace  2020
 3) Christmas Cloches and Corpses  2020
 'Daphne Martin' Novels
 1) Murder Takes the Cake  2008
 2) Dead Pan  2009
 3) Killer Sweet Tooth  2011
 4) Battered to Death  2013
 5) Killer Wedding Cake  2015
 'Marcy Singer' Novels (as 'Amanda Lee')
 1) The Quick and the Thread  2010
 2) Stitch Me Deadly  2011
 3) Thread Reckoning  2011
 4) The Long Stitch Good Night  2012
 5) Thread on Arrival  2012
 6) Cross-Stitch Before Dying  2013
 7) Thread End  2014
 8) Wicked Stitch  2015
 9) The Stitching Hour  2015
10) Better Off Thread  2016
 'Victoria Square Mystery' Novels (as 'Gayle Leeson' with Lorraine Bartlett)
 1) Yule Be Dead (Book 5 in the series))  2018
 2) Murder Ink (Book 6 in the series)  2019
 3) A Murderous Misconception (Book 7 in the series)  2020
 4) Dead Man's Hand (Book 8 in the series)  2021
 Other Novels
 1) The Perfect Woman (e-book)  2012
 2) The Flame  2016
 As 'Holly Jordan'
 1) The Mourning Ring  2006

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