Books like Blanche on the Lam
Sentenced to thirty days for bouncing cheques, Blanche White, a Black domestic worker, slips out of the courthouse and hides as the new maid for a wealthy white family at their summer house in North Carolina, just before a body turns up.
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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 Unwedding
Ellery Wainwright, whose husband has left her for another woman, takes the Big Sur trip they booked for their twentieth anniversary alone, and the morning after a lavish wedding at the resort she finds the groom dead in the pool, just as a storm cuts everyone off.
The Violin Conspiracy
Ray McMillian, a young Black violinist who taught himself to play, finds that his family's old fiddle is a Stradivarius, and weeks before the Tchaikovsky Competition it is stolen, with a ransom note.
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.
A Is for Alibi
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.
The Westing Game
Sixteen heirs of the eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing are paired off and handed clues, and whoever solves the puzzle of his death will inherit his fortune.
Such a Fun Age
A twenty-five-year-old Black babysitter is publicly accused of kidnapping the white toddler in her care, and everyone's performative allyship collapses.
Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?
When Kitty Karr, a white star of Hollywood's golden age, dies, she leaves her fortune to the St. John sisters, three wealthy young Black women in Los Angeles, and Elise, a celebrity in her own right, is left to settle Kitty's affairs and the questions that follow.
Negroland
The Pulitzer-winning critic remembers growing up in the Black upper middle class of mid-century Chicago, with its manners, its pressures and its uneasy sense of belonging.
Tar Baby
A successful Black model visiting her wealthy white patrons on a Caribbean island meets a drifter who upends her sense of self.
The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.
The Other Black Girl
Nella Rogers, the only Black editorial assistant at a Manhattan publishing house, is thrilled when Hazel joins the office, until anonymous notes start appearing on her desk telling her to leave.