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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHen of the Baskervilles
Donna Andrews · 336 pages
Helping a friend who is at risk of losing her farm and freedom when her unfaithful husband is discovered murdered at the state fair, Meg Langslow struggles to find the real killer and recover a stolen prize chicken to clear her friend's name.
The PMS Murder
Laura Levine · 256 pages
On the frontlines of the battle of the bulge, otherwise known as trying on bathing suits in the communal dressing room at Loehmann's, freelance writer Jaine Austen makes a new friend--a wannabe actress named Pam--and gets a new job: sprucing up Pam's bare-bones resume. Their feeling of connection is mutual, so Pam invites Jaine to join The PMS Club-a women's support group that meets once a week ov
Thirty-Two and a Half Complications
Denise Grover Swank · 374 pages
The Importance of Being Ernestine
Dorothy Cannell · 256 pages
With Dorothy Cannell's trademark wit and hilarity, Ellie Haskell and Mrs. M masquerade as detectives to track down a Ghostly killerEllie must admit that she's been missing Mrs. Malloy since her caustic, corpulent housekeeper began moonlighting at a private detective's office. So when Mrs. M invites her to Detective Jugg's office one night, Ellie is delighted. Just as the ladies have settled into a
Them Bones
Carolyn Haines · 327 pages
If only I hadn't kidnapped the dog...but the ransom paid the mortgage....Now I seem to be a private eye....I shouldn't have listened to that ghost....Meet Sarah Booth Delaney...an unconventional Southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi...if it doesn't make her the deadest.No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end
Big Boned
Meg Cabot · 384 pages
Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with "rebound beau," vigorous vegan math professor Tad Tocco, is more than satisfactory. Best of all, nobody has died lately in "Death Dorm," the aptl
Limoncello Yellow
Traci Andrighetti · 324 pages
An unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces Francesca "Franki" Amato that she just isn't cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move from Austin to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica's detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. Hopes for a more stable life are dashed when Private Chicks is hired to find ou
Not a Girl Detective
Susan Kandel · 315 pages
"I spent my entire youth idolizing Nancy Drew. I'm pushing forty now, but some fantasies die hard."Besides her beloved collection of vintage designer clothing, there is nothing Cece Caruso cherishes more than her childhood memories of Nancy Drew. Her near obsession with the fictional teenage sleuth led her to become a professional biographer of classic mystery writers. And now that she's working o
Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun
Kathleen Bacus · 323 pages
Heavenly Pleasures
Kerry Greenwood · 288 pages
No one has less intrest in mysteries than Corinna Chapman, who has made bread to bake, but they seem to be arising spontaneously in the vincinty of her bakery, Earthly Delights. Between the mouthwatering distractions of loaves and muffins, of JAson her apprentice and Horatio the cat, she's keeping an eye on the door as she waits for the exciting Daniel, her recently acquired lover, to walk back in
Not One Clue
Lois Greiman
L.A. psychologist Christina McMullen's relationship with Detective Jack Rivera is heating up--until a client threatens to put a damper on their sparks. Chrissy has been counseling Micky Goldenstone to face the secrets from his past, but she had no idea that they would lead to a dangerous confrontation with a criminal even the police can't protect her from. To make matters worse, Chrissy's best fri
Better Off Dead in Deadwood
Ann Charles · 397 pages
A Tisket, A Tasket, A Fancy Stolen Casket
Fran Rizer · 288 pages
Bubbles meets Six Feet Under in the new Calamine Parrish mystery series. Mortuary cosmetologist Calamine Parrish stares death in the face every day. But when she finds a hypodermic needle in the neck of an "accidental" drowning victim, and the victim's fancy casket is stolen, Callie finds herself in over her head-and in the way of a killer.
Obsession, Deceit, and Really Dark Chocolate
Kyra Davis · 350 pages
Sophie Katz's relationship with the irresistible and occasionally insufferable P.I. Anatoly Darinsky is on the fritz when a friend recruits Sophie's investigation skills to decode her possibly two-timing husband's strange behavior. When Sophie shows up in a short, red cocktail dress and her friend's hubby winds up dead, the loveable would-be sleuth can't help but take on the job. Suddenly plunged
A Dead and Stormy Night
Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages