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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Quiet Life In The Country
T E Kinsey · 250 pages
"Lady Emily Hardcastle is an eccentric widow with a secret past. Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante, is an expert in martial arts. The year is 1908 and they've just moved from London to the country, hoping for a quiet life. But it is not long before Lady Hardcastle is forced out of her self-imposed retirement. There's a dead body in the woods, and the police are on the wrong scent. Lady H
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Alan Bradley · 404 pages
Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia’s first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a c
Strong Spirits
Alice Duncan · 317 pages
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages
Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.
Mastering the Art of French Murder
Colleen Cambridge · 262 pages
What's a Ghoul to Do?
Victoria Laurie · 367 pages
M.J., her partner Gilley, and their client, the wealthy, de-lish Dr. Steven Sable, are at his family's lodge, where his grandfather allegedly jumped to his death from the roof-although Sable says it was foul play. But the patriarch's isn't the only ghost around. The place is lousy with souls, all with something to get off their ghoulish chests. Now M.J. will have to to quell the clamor-and listen
The Remains of the Dead
Wendy Roberts · 288 pages
Sadie Novak's got the kind of job that kills cocktail chatter dead: she owns Scene-2-Clean a crime scene cleanup company. And if wiping up after murders weren't spooky enough, she can also see and talk to the ghosts of the victims...When grieving relatives hire Sadie and her employee, ex-cop Zack Bowman, to clean up after the murder-suicide of Trudy and Grant Toth, Sadie figures she's bound to mee
Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
Nancy Martin · 288 pages
You could say my sisters and I are hot-blooded bluebloods with a flair for fashion—and for solving crimes. But things have NOT been going well for us Blackbirds: Emma has busted out of a very exclusive clinic. Libby’s hormones are in overdrive from selling paraphernalia for Potions and Passions, a company that promises its customers full satisfaction. And I’m still dating mobster’s son Mick Abruzz
Thirty-Five and a Half Conspiracies
Denise Grover Swank · 472 pages
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
Size 12 Is Not Fat / Size 14 Is Not Fat Either
Meg Cabot · 345 pages
Unplugged
Lois Greiman · 401 pages
Christina McMullen, psychologist extraordinaire, has problems--not least of which are her needy clients, a schizophrenic septic system, and her sizzling-then-fizzling romance with Lieutenant Jack Rivera. But Chrissy has yet another problem she'd like to ignore: finding her secretary's missing boyfriend. Okay, so she secretly hopes the vertically challenged computer geek has harmlessly departed fro
Better Off Dead in Deadwood
Ann Charles · 397 pages
Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun
Lois Winston · 301 pages
When Anastasia Pollack's gambling-addicted husband permanently cashes in his chips in Vegas, her life craps out. Anastasia's job as crafts editor at American woman magazine makes life even stickier when she discovers the dead body of über-ambitious fashion editor Marlys Vandenburg hot-glued to Anastasia's office chair. When evidence surfaces of an illicit affair between Marlys and Anastasia's husb
Merry, Merry Ghost
Carolyn G. Hart · 282 pages
Introduced in Agatha-winner Hart's Ghost at Work (2008), the late Bailey Ruth Raeburn returns to earth on a heavenly mission to help a four-year-old orphan in this delightful sequel. Susan Flynn, the matriarch of one of the leading families of Adelaide, Okla., who's dying from congestive heart failure, discovers she has a grandson after Keith, the child of Susan's soldier son killed in Iraq, shows
Double Dip
Gretchen Archer · 270 pages
Things are dicey at work. A personal assistant goes missing, a little old lady goes on a suspicious winning streak, and a Bellissimo executive goes gaga for Davis Way. She follows a disappearing slot-tournament player trail to the So Help Me God Pentecostal Church in Beehive, Alabama, then jumps headlong into a high stakes holy scandal. She's on a losing streak at home, too. Her days, nights, and
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
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
Donna Andrews · 314 pages
Operating the switchboard at the business office shared by her brother's computer-game company and six unusual therapists, Meg Langslow finds herself drawn into a mystery when the company's practical joker is murdered on top of a mail cart.
Trick or Treat
Kerry Greenwood · 294 pages
Trick or Treat sees Corinna upstaged by a hot bread shop, Best Fresh bread, opening just down the street from her own bakery, Earthly Delights. Her apprentice, Jason, characterises Best Fresh bread as 'shit' but that doesn't make it any less popular. Meanwhile, the gorgeous Daniel's old friend George is staying with him while she establishes a base and a business in Melbourne. Georgiana Hope is ta