Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Maid
Molly Gray, a maid at an upscale hotel who finds people baffling and takes great pride in her work, discovers a wealthy guest dead in his suite, and her odd manner quickly makes her the police's main suspect.
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.
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 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 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.
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.