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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorOwls Well That Ends Well
Donna Andrews · 322 pages
Meg and Michael are having a garage sale to empty their new house of all the clutter gathered by the Sprocketts. The sale brings an influx of relatives and a horde of visitors. A bargain seeker wants to buy a chest but insists on seeing inside it first - when Meg unlocks it a body is found and a murder investigation begins with a vast array of suspects from the large crowd that just wants to shop
A Painted House
John Grisham · 465 pages
Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready.
Crooked House
Agatha Christie · 192 pages
Three generations of the Leonides family live together in a large, if somewhat crooked looking, house. Then the wealthy patriarch, Aristide, is murdered. Suspicion falls on the whole household, including Aristide's two sons, his widow – fifty years his junior – and even his three grandchildren. Could any member of this seemingly devoted family have had a hand in his death? Can Charles Hayward, fia
A Bone to Pick
Charlaine Harris · 222 pages
Aurora "Roe" Teagarden's fortunes change when a deceased acquaintance names her as heir to a rather substantial estate, including money, jewelry, and a house complete with a skull hidden in a window seat. Roe concludes that the elderly women has purposely left her a murder to solve. So she must identify the victim and figure out which one of her new, ordinary-seeming neighbors is a murderer-withou
10 Blind Dates
Ashley Elston · 336 pages
A is for Alibi
Sue Grafton · 244 pages
A IS FOR AVENGER. A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. She's a twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments but with a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A IS FOR ACCUSED. That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ag
Murder on a Bad Hair Day
Anne George · 266 pages
Murder on a Bad Hair DayIt's hard to believe practical, petite ex-schoolteacher Patricia Anne and amiable, ample-bodied, and outrageous Mary Alice are sisters, yet sibling rivalry has survived decades of good-natured disagreement about everything from husbands to hair color. No sooner do the Southern sisters discover a common interest in some local art, when they're arguing the artistic merits of
Takedown Twenty
Janet Evanovich · 337 pages
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in -- not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even
The Skeleton in the Closet
Angie Fox · 250 pages
Deaths of Jocasta
J.M. Redmann · 338 pages
New Orleans private detective Micky Knight has been hired to provide security for an exclusive party on the bucolic side of Lake Ponchartrain--the ideal job. But murder crashes this perfect party when the body of a young woman is found in the surrounding woods. Back in the city, Micky's former lover, Dr. Cordelia James discovers another body at her clinic.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis · 239 pages
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Pinned for Murder
Elizabeth Lynn Casey · 278 pages
"Tori Sinclair feels like she's known her new sewing sisters forever. That is until the richest and meanest woman in Sweet Briar turns up murdered--and Rose, the circle's feisty matriarch, refuses to believe her troubled former student and responsible. With suspicion and gossip spinning out of control, something worse than just ruffled feathers is threatening to tear the town apart... Now Tori mus
Burying the Honeysuckle Girls
Emily Carpenter
Natchez Burning
Greg Iles · 791 pages
Penn Cage must investigate when his father, a beloved family doctor and pillar of the community, is accused of murdering Violet Davis, the beautiful nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the early 1960s.
Pretty is as Pretty Dies
Elizabeth Spann Craig · 210 pages
Shades of Earl Grey
Laura Childs · 277 pages
Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater-but trouble is brewing at the engagement soiree of the season...
Charmed to Death
Shirley Damsgaard · 288 pages
Witches' Bane
Susan Wittig Albert · 272 pages
The second China Bayles mystery. Herb shop owner China is shocked when Halloween hijinks take a gruesome turn in Pecan Springs, ending in a brutal murder. And China is even more shocked when her friend Ruby, a New Age expert in tarot and astrology, becomes the prime suspect after a minister accuses her of witchcraft.
In Deep Voodoo
Stephanie Bond · 384 pages
Romance. Mystery. Who can you trust when you are ***In Deep Voodoo***? During the annual Voodoo Festival in the little town of Mojo, Deke Black is stabbed to death in his own office. Unfortunately, his recently divorced wife, Penny, stabbed a voodoo doll of Deke during a celebration of the divorce. Penny is wrongly accused of the murder. Deke's death becomes a story for the media. So, which one of
Naked Once More
Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz · 332 pages
Kirby is chosen to write a sequel to a bestselling novel whose author disappeared seven years earlier. When she goes to the author's hometown she is plagued by accidents and becomes embroiled in murder, mystery and romance.
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Mildred D. Taylor · 394 pages
Let the Circle Be Unbroken is a story of a small Mississippi town in the 1930s, and the troubles that plague its black community. Picking up where its precursor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, leaves off, Mildred Taylor recounts the trials of this small community through the characters of the Logan family. More specifically, it focuses on the children of the family; Stacey, Cassie, Little Man and C
Return to Sullivan's Island
Dorothea Benton Frank
Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina's Lowcountry made famous in her beloved New York Times bestseller Sullivans Island to tell the story of the next generation of Hamiltons and Hayes.Return to Sullivans IslandWhether you were away from the Lowcountry for a week or for years, it was impossible to remember how gorgeous it was. It never changed and everyone depe