Laura Levine
Laura Levine is an American author of cozy mystery novels (specifically, her Jaine Austen series). Although she has not been a novelist for long, Laura has been a writer for a very long time. She has worked on many sitcoms (including classics) like The Bob Newhart Show, Three’s Company, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, The Jeffersons and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Her claim to fame is having created the Count Chocula and Frankberry General Mills cereals. Her favourite authors are Agatha Christie, Joe Keenan and Anne Tyler. Laura enjoys reading, swimming, gardening and walking (mostly to the refrigerator, she jokes).

Laura Levine’s first novel was This Pen for Hire, published in 2002. The novel began her Jaine Austen series. As of this writing, she has had one book per year published in the series ever since. Below is a list of Laura Levine’s books in order of when they were originally published:

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Publication Order of Jaine Austen Books

This Pen for Hire (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Last Writes (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killer Blonde (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Shoes to Die For (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The PMS Murder (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death by Pantyhose (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killing Bridezilla (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killer Cruise (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Trophy Wife (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pampered to Death (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Neighborhood Witch (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Killing Cupid (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death by Tiara (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Has Nine Lives (2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Bachelorette (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Neighborhood Scrooge (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death of a Gigolo (2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Murder Gets a Makeover (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death by Smoothie (2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nightmare on Elf Street (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dangers of Candy Canes (2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Candy Cane Murder(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gingerbread Cookie Murder(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Christmas Sweets(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Note: The novella collections Candy Cane Murder and Gingerbread Cookie Murder also contain contributions by Joanne Fluke and Leslie Meier.

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Laura Levine Synopses: Laura Levine’s novella in the Candy Cane Murder collection is The Dangers of Candy Canes. Jaine Austen investigates a murder of a wealthy suburbanite who apparently falling off the roof in the middle of installing a giant candy cane. The roofing contractor, who was being held responsible, contacts Jaine in an attempt to clear his name.

Laura Levine contributes towards the Gingerbread Cookie Murder collection with the novella The Dangers of Gingerbread Cookies. Jaine Austen is helping with her parents’ seniors community play when the lead, a gingerbread cookie, falls to his death at the end.

In Pampered to Death, the tenth book in the Jaine Austen series by Laura Levine, Jaine and her cat Prozac are off for a surprise trip to a spa. But it turns out the spa is actually a fat farm. One of the others at the farm is movie star Mallory Francis, who ends up strangled during a seaweed wrap. Unfortunately, the list of possible suspects is long.

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