AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Buried In Buttercream

G.A. McKevett · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Bone Appetit

Carolyn Haines · 328 pages

In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa in Mississippi, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder when the beauty contest/cook-off's top contender gets poisoned.

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryChef or Baker
❤️

Dolled Up to Die

Lorena McCourtney · 320 pages

When Cate Kinkaid gets a frantic call about a triple homicide, she drives to the scene against her better judgment -- isn't this more up the police department's alley? -- to find that the victims are not who she expects. Cate adds a new rule to her list for assistant private investigators: always find out if the victims actually have human DNA. But who would shoot this nice lady's dolls? And then

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Murder is a Family Business

Heather Haven · 272 pages

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Sticks and Stones

K.J. Larsen

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Midnight Clear

Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Mary Kay Andrews · 336 pages

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

The Blood of an Englishman

M.C. Beaton · 294 pages

Investigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical production, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

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

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Murder Offstage

L.B. Hathaway · 265 pages

When Posie Parker's childhood friend is robbed of the priceless Maharajah diamond and becomes a suspect in a cold-blooded murder case, budding detective Posie vows she will clear his name. Aided by her seriously gorgeous assistant Len, Posie soon realizes things are not quite as they seem, and the darkly-glamorous world of London's theatre and glittering nightclubs prove far more dangerous than sh

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Pushing Up Bluebonnets

Leann Sweeney · 288 pages

When asked to help identify a young woman who may not survive an attempted murder, Abby discovers a possible connection between the girl and a prominent Houston family-the questions about her past are getting stickier than pecan pie. Abby's about to learn the hard way that when she crawls out on a limb, she'd better be certain there's not someone behind her with a saw and a mean spirit.

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

We Witch You A Merry Christmas

Adele Abbott · 92 pages

Cozy MysteryPrivate InvestigatorMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss

Max Wirestone · 321 pages

"Meet Dahlia Moss, the reigning queen of unfortunate decision-making in the Saint Louis area. Unemployed, broke, and on her last bowl of ramen, she's not living her best life. But that's all about to change. Before Dahlia can make her life any messier on her own she's offered a job. A job that she's woefully under-qualified for. A job that will lead her to a murder, an MMORPG, and possibly a fella

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

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

Cozy MysteryPrivate InvestigatorMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Pumped for Murder

Elaine Viets · 292 pages

Helen Hawthorne and her new husband, Phil, have just opened a private investigation business. Their first client asks them to watch her husband, who she believes is body building at a gym to impress another woman. This leads Helen to another dead-end job, working as a receptionist at Fantastic Fitness, which requires her to workout as well. Meanwhile, Coronado Investigations takes on a decades-old

Cozy MysteryPrivate InvestigatorMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Sister Eve, Private Eye

Lynne Hinton · 336 pages

"Sister Eve always says God moves in mysterious ways. And Eve adores a good mystery, especially a murder. A member of the Benedictine Order in Pecos, New Mexico, Sister Evangeline has been feeling disconnected and a bit uncertain about her calling. She's not thrilled when she must return home to Madrid, New Mexico, to care for her testy, ailing father, but she's also invigorated to take on some ne

Cozy MysteryPrivate InvestigatorMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Whiskey Sour

Liliana Hart · 274 pages

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Crime Wave

Rose Pressey · 235 pages

Cozy MysteryPrivate InvestigatorMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

The Outsmarting of Criminals

Steven Rigolosi · 303 pages

"A cozy introducing Miss Felicity Prim, who believes her ample experience in reading mystery novels has prepared her for a new career in private detection"--

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Alexander McCall Smith · 223 pages

The 8th novel in the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Series Grace Makutsi is promoted to associate detective and handles a case herself. Mma Ramotswe helps the hospital in Mochudi deal with a string of mysterious patient deaths. Her husband wants to try his hand at detection, and with his usual style, he does. Charlie, the apprentice, decides to quit and run a taxi service.

Cozy MysteryPrivate InvestigatorMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Family Jewels

Denise Grover Swank · 406 pages

Trouble always comes to those who court it. Rose Gardner's ability to see glimpses of the future has gotten her into hot water time and again, but so have her curiosity and her sense of daring. Those very qualities helped her defeat the most powerful man in Arkansas----- a man so adept at hiding his crimes there was no way to defeat him inside of the law ---but her success came at s steep personal

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Wrecked

Carol Higgins Clark · 261 pages

When Regan Reilly and her husband Jack join his siblings at his parents' vacation home on Cape Cod, it turns out to be anything but a relaxing time.

Cozy MysteryPrivate InvestigatorMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Nothing but Trouble

Susan May Warren · 341 pages

When PJ Sugar returns to her hometown, she begins to investigate a murder where her best friend's husband is the prime suspect and her former flame is heading the police investigation.

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Cocaine Blues

Kerry Greenwood · 195 pages

In 1920s London, the Honourable Phryne Fisher has become bored with the party season. She set her sights on detective work in Melbourne, Australia. Once she books into the Windsor Hotel she's embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism.

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Lowcountry Boil

Susan M. Boyer · 316 pages

Cozy MysteryPrivate InvestigatorMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

Let Us Prey

Jamie Lee Scott · 270 pages

Private InvestigatorCozy MysteryMysteryFemale Lead

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.