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Nina Simon · 2023 · US · mystery
★ 3.55 Goodreads · 125,266 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of Mother-Daughter Murder Night

A Is for Alibi

Sue Grafton · 1982 · US 97% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 195,287 ratings
Book 1 of 25 in Kinsey Millhone
shares: California, whodunit, murder · easy read, story-driven

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.

Aunty Lee's Delights

Ovidia Yu · 2013 · Singapore 96% match ★ 3.40 Goodreads · 3,649 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Aunty Lee
shares: cosy, whodunit, detective · easy read, intimate

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.

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

M. C. Beaton · 1992 · UK 96% match ★ 3.72 Goodreads · 47,994 ratings
Book 1 of 36 in Agatha Raisin
shares: cosy, whodunit, detective · easy read, intimate

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.

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto · 2023 · Indonesia 96% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 242,537 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Vera Wong
shares: cosy, whodunit, witty · easy read, intimate

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.

Dial A for Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto · 2021 · Indonesia 96% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 126,566 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Aunties
shares: mother daughter, cosy, witty, family · easy read, intimate

When Meddelin Chan accidentally kills her blind date, her meddling mother and three aunties help her hide the body, which ends up in a cooler at the extravagant island wedding their family business is running.

The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman · 2020 · UK 96% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 874,754 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Thursday Murder Club
shares: cosy, whodunit, detective · easy read, story-driven

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

Lilian Jackson Braun · 1966 · US 96% match ★ 3.59 Hardcover · 57 ratings
Book 1 of 29 in The Cat Who
shares: cosy, whodunit, detective · easy read, intimate

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.

The Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie · 1930 · UK 96% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 226,768 ratings
Book 1 of 12 in Miss Marple
shares: cosy, whodunit, detective · easy read, intimate

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.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Joanne Fluke · 2000 · US 95% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 74,876 ratings
Book 1 of 29 in Hannah Swensen
shares: cosy, whodunit, female perspective · easy read, intimate

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 Unwedding

Ally Condie · 2025 · US 94% match ★ 3.19 Goodreads · 76,237 ratings
shares: California, whodunit, witty · easy read, intimate

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.

Her Royal Spyness

Rhys Bowen · 2007 · UK 94% match ★ 3.83 Goodreads · 42,918 ratings
Book 1 of 19 in Her Royal Spyness
shares: cosy, whodunit, female perspective · easy read, intimate

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 No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith · 1998 · UK 94% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 280,423 ratings
Book 1 of 27 in No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
shares: cosy, detective, female perspective · easy read, warm

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.