Elaine L. Orr writes the Jolie Gentil Mystery series which started in 2011 and is set in New Jersey. It features real estate appraiser Jolie Gentil who returns to the New Jersey beach town where she spent 11th grade and moves into her Aunt Madge’s B&B to have a quieter life... it's not long before she’s found the body of a former classmate’s mother, danced with a skeleton, and been talked into running the local food pantry....
Elaine also writes the River's Edge Cozy Mystery series which started in November 2015 and is set in Iowa. It features ex-reporter Melanie Perkins who has taken a job as a landscaper.