Jacklyn Brady aka Sherry Lewis. As Jacklyn she writes the Piece of Cake Mystery series started in 2011. The series takes place in New Orleans. It features pastry chef Rita Lucero. She leaves New Mexico and goes to New Orleans to get her husband Philippe to sign divorce papers..... in the first book in the series-- she finds him dead.
As Sherry Lewis she wrote the Senior Sleuth Fred Vickery Mystery series which ended in 1999. Sherry also writes romance novels.