Books like Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
Newly retired from her London PR firm to a Cotswolds village, Agatha Raisin enters a shop-bought quiche in the local baking competition to win friends, and the judge drops dead after eating it.
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The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.
The Thursday Murder Club
Four friends in a Kent retirement village meet every Thursday to pore over unsolved murders, and when a real killing happens on their doorstep, they set out to solve it before the police can.
Aunty Lee's Delights
When a body washes up on a tourist beach on Sentosa, Rosie Lee, the widowed owner of a Peranakan café and catering business in Singapore known to all as Aunty Lee, decides the police could use her help.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
Hannah Swensen, who runs The Cookie Jar bakery in Lake Eden, Minnesota, finds the town's well-liked dairy delivery man shot behind her shop, with her cookies scattered beside him, and starts asking questions.
The Red House Mystery
Antony Gillingham, a gentleman of leisure, arrives at the Red House to visit a friend just as a shot is fired behind a locked office door, and the host's black-sheep brother is found dead inside.
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Vera Wong, a lonely sixty-year-old widow who runs a fading tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, finds a dead man on her floor one morning and, unimpressed by the police, decides to catch the killer herself by befriending the suspects.
Her Royal Spyness
In 1932 Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fourth in line to the throne and flat broke, flees her brother's Scottish castle for London, where the Queen asks her to spy on the Prince of Wales and a body turns up in her bath.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A wealthy widower is stabbed in his study in a quiet English village, and the retired Poirot takes the case with the help of the local doctor who narrates it.
Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Lana Rubicon, a high-powered Los Angeles estate agent recovering from cancer, has to stay with her daughter Beth in a rural cottage on Elkhorn Slough, and when her granddaughter Jack finds a body while kayaking, Lana decides to help solve it.
Death by Darjeeling
Theodosia Browning, who runs the Indigo Tea Shop in Charleston's historic district, is pouring at a candlelit garden party when a guest collapses and dies with a cup of her Darjeeling in his hand.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
In the summer of 1950 at Buckshaw, the crumbling English country house she shares with her widowed father and two older sisters, eleven-year-old chemist Flavia de Luce finds a dead bird on the doorstep with a stamp pinned to its beak.
Last Bus to Woodstock
Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.