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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorQuilt or Innocence
Elizabeth Spann Craig · 296 pages
Retired folk art curator Beatrice Coleman knows everything there is to know about quilts, except how to make them. But with her recent move to Dappled Hills, North Carolina, she's learning all sorts of new things--including how to solve a murder. Includes quilting tips.
Aunt Bessie Assumes
Diana Xarissa · 226 pages
Picture Miss Seeton
Heron Carvic · 209 pages
When Miss Seeton walks out of a performance of Carmen and witnesses a real-life stabbing, all she can recall is a shadowy figure. But how could even she have guessed that her latest artistic endeavour is a picture-perfect portrait of the killer? Her caricature, however, puts her in a perilous position, for back at her rustic cottage in Plummergen, she’s fated to be a sitting duck . . . for murder
Recipes for Love and Murder
Sally Andrew · 419 pages
"A bright new talent makes her fiction debut with this first novel in a delicious crime series set in rural South Africa: a flavorful blend of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and Goldy Schulz, full of humor, romance, and recipes, and featuring a charming cast of characters. Tannie Maria ("tannie" meaning auntie, the respectful Afrikaans address for a woman older than you) is a middle-aged widow
Murder Passes the Buck
Deb Baker · 272 pages
Ghost at Work
Carolyn G. Hart · 290 pages
When the pastor's wife discovers a murdered body on her porch, ghost sleuth Bailey Ruth Raeburn applies her beyond-the-grave talents for solving puzzles to keep suspicion from falling on the innocent pastor.
A Clue for the Puzzle Lady
Parnell Hall · 323 pages
Cruciverbalists, rejoice! Pick up a pencil and get ready to solve a puzzling murder-and an actual crossword puzzle-in this sparkling debut of a unique amateur detective: Miss Cora Felton, an eccentric old lady with a syndicated puzzle column, an irresistible urge to poke into unsettling events, and a niece who's determined to keep her out of trouble. When the body of an unknown teenage girl turns
In For a Penny
Kelsey Browning, Nancy Naigle · 342 pages
"When Lillian Summer Fairview's husband up and dies on her, it leaves the last living member of the most prestigious family in Summer Shoals, Georgia, in a hot mess. While Lil was busy being a proper Southern lady, Harlan squandered dang near the whole family fortune on lottery tickets. To keep her financial skeletons in the closet and give him a decent burial, Lil made a deal that has now landed
Outfoxed
Rita Mae Brown · 409 pages
From the bestselling author of the landmark work Rubyfruit Jungle comes an engaging, original new novel that only Rita Mae Brown could have written. In the pristine world of Virginia foxhunting, hunters, horses, hounds, and foxes form a lively community of conflicting loyalties, where the thrill of the chase and the intricacies of human-animal relationships are experienced firsthand--and murder ex
Armed and Outrageous
Madison Johns · 278 pages
Crewel World
Monica Ferris · 256 pages
The art of needlecraft requires patience, discipline, and creativity. So, too, does the art of detection. Just ask Betsy Devonshire--who's learning that life in a small-town needlecraft shop can reveal an unexpected knack for knitting ... and a hidden talent for unraveling crime. When Betsy arrived in Excelsior, Minnesota, all she wanted was to visit her sister Margot and to get her life in ord
Manna from Hades
Carola Dunn · 305 pages
The day after collecting donations, elderly widow Eleanor Trewynn and the vicar's wife find the dead body of a longhaired, scruffy-looking youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop. Then they discover that some donated jewelry thought to be fake is actually very real, very expensive, and the haul from a violent robbery in London. Making matters more complex, the corpse found in the storero
Murder In Half Moon Bay
Nancy Jill Thames · 178 pages
Murder on a Girls' Night Out
Anne George · 250 pages
Aunty Lee's Delights
Ovidia Yu · 264 pages
Occasional sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant, feisty widow Rosie "Aunty" Lee helps rookie Police Commissioner Raja investigate the murder of one of her wealthy patrons by using her connections and uncanny ability to track down clues.
The Cat Who Caught a Killer
L.T. Shearer · 318 pages
Gin & Daggers
Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain · 261 pages
Getting Old Is Murder
Rita Lakin · 336 pages
Never the Bride
Paul Magrs · 294 pages
A nice lady who runs a B&B in Whitby who turns out to be the Bride of Frankenstein... Brenda has come to Whitby to run a B&B and find some peace and quiet after a long and eventful life. She and her best friend Effie like nothing better than going out for dinner at the Christmas Hotel and keeping their eyes open for any mysterious goings on. And what with sinister beauty salons, peculiar visiting
Pretty Poison
Joyce Lavene, Jim Lavene · 353 pages
Strangeways to Oldham
Andrea Frazer · 211 pages
Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers was not a horsey sort of country-woman. Neither was she tall, slender, or young. She was in complete contrast to the stereotypical idea of one of her breeding, being short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. If she didn't call a spade a shovel, it was only because she was calling it 'trumps'! On a visit to a local nursing home, where she has heard tha
A Nice Class of Corpse
Simon Brett · 221 pages