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Start with Eggs in Purgatory and continue through all 9 books in the listed reading order.
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Start with Eggs in Purgatory
Book 1 by Laura Childs • Published 2008
In a converted train depot café, widows Suzanne, Toni, and Petra serve eggs and comfort to their small town. When Suzanne’s lawyer is found shot behind the Cackleberry Club, clues point toward her late husband’s secre...
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Cackleberry Club Series reading order
Ends with Egg Shooters
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Book 1:Eggs in Purgatory
Laura Childs • 2008
In a converted train depot café, widows Suzanne, Toni, and Petra serve eggs and comfort to their small town. When Suzanne’s lawyer is found shot behind the Cackleberry Club, clues point toward her late husband’s secre...
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Book 2:Eggs Benedict Arnold
Laura Childs • 2009
Delivering a pie to the local funeral home, Suzanne finds mortician Ozzie Driesden dead on his own embalming table and is knocked out with chloroform. Shaken but stubborn, she and her friends dig into small town grudg...
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Book 3:Bedeviled Eggs
Laura Childs • 2010
Getting ready for Halloween, the Cackleberry Club ladies host a candidate meet and greet that ends with an arrow between the mayoral hopeful’s eyes. A second killing on the town’s Quilt Trail pushes Suzanne to untangl...
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Book 4:Stake & Eggs
Laura Childs • 2012
A blizzard morning turns grisly when a snowmobile crashes behind the Cackleberry Club and the town’s most hated banker is found beheaded by a wire. Suzanne’s investigation uncovers land deals, grudges, and a runaway g...
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Book 5:Eggs in a Casket
Laura Childs • 2014
Helping decorate the town cemetery for a historic anniversary, Suzanne and Toni instead uncover the body of a former prison warden sprawled in an open grave. Their search for answers leads back to old inmates, simmeri...
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Book 6:Scorched Eggs
Laura Childs • 2014
While getting her hair done, Suzanne watches the building next door erupt in flames, killing longtime clerk Hannah Venable. When investigators find accelerant, she follows a trail of insurance angles and casino secret...
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Book 7:Egg Drop Dead
Laura Childs • 2016
On a routine cheese pickup at a local dairy farm, Suzanne instead finds the owner dead in his barn while distressed cows bellow nearby. Shocked and angry, she investigates family rifts, money troubles, and land disput...
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Book 8:Eggs on Ice
Laura Childs • 2018
At a rehearsal of A Christmas Carol, the actor playing Scrooge is stabbed by a costumed Ghost of Christmas Past in front of the whole cast. Suzanne chases the killer through the theater and then through a maze of grud...
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Book 9:Egg Shooters
Laura Childs • 2021
Stopping by the hospital with dinner for her fiancé, Suzanne walks into a gunman’s rampage in the emergency room and knocks him down with a thermos of chili. When he disappears, she and her friends scramble to identif...
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Cackleberry Club Series FAQ
What is the best order to read the Cackleberry Club Series series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with Eggs in Purgatory.
How many books are in the Cackleberry Club Series series?
There are 9 books currently listed in the Cackleberry Club Series series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Cackleberry Club Series series?
New readers should start with Eggs in Purgatory, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Cackleberry Club Series series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 2008 to 2021.