Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hairspray and Homicide | 2013 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 2 | A Dyed Blonde and a Dead Body | 2013 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 3 | Mascara and Murder | 2013 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 4 | Pageant and Poison | 2013 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 5 | Conditioner and a Corpse | 2013 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 6 | Mistletoe, Makeup and Murder | 2014 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 7 | Hairpin, Hair Dryer and Homicide | 2014 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 8 | Blush, a Bride and a Body | 2014 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 9 | Shampoo and a Stiff | 2014 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 10 | Cosmetics, a Cruise and a Killer | 2014 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 11 | Lipstick, a Long Iron and Lifeless | 2014 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 12 | Camping, Concealer and Criminals | 2014 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 13 | Treated and Dyed | 2015 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
| 14 | A Wrinkle-Free Murder | 2017 | Cindy Bell | Buy |
The Bekki The Beautician series by Cindy Bell is a fourteen-book mystery series running from 2013 to 2017, opening with Hairspray and Homicide. The titles lean hard into beauty-salon wordplay — Mascara and Murder, Conditioner and a Corpse, Shampoo and a Stiff, Lipstick a Long Iron and Lifeless — pairing the vocabulary of a beautician’s trade with the language of crime fiction. The humour in the naming carries through all fourteen entries.
The bulk of the series arrived in a single prolific year: nine books were published in 2014 alone, following five in 2013. After Treated and Dyed in 2015, there’s a gap of two years before the final entry, A Wrinkle-Free Murder, appeared in 2017. Readers who enjoy cozy mysteries with a recurring professional setting will find plenty to work through here.