Books like 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.
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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.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
With the money from her late father's cattle, Precious Ramotswe opens the first detective agency in Botswana run by a woman, and sets about solving the problems of the people of Gaborone with common sense and bush tea.
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.
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 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 Kamogawa Food Detectives
Behind an unmarked door on a quiet Kyoto backstreet, former police detective Nagare Kamogawa and his daughter Koishi run a restaurant and a detective agency that tracks down dishes people remember and can no longer taste.
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.
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.
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Jim Qwilleran, a down-on-his-luck reporter assigned to the art beat of the Daily Fluxion, stumbles into murder in the city's art world, with help from Koko, the Siamese cat of the paper's acid-tongued art critic.
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.
Still Life
When a beloved retired teacher is found dead in the woods outside Three Pines, a tiny village south of Montreal, killed by an arrow on Thanksgiving weekend, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec doubts it was a hunting accident.
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.