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Books like The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

C. M. Waggoner · 2024 · US · mystery · fantasy
★ 3.41 Goodreads · 11,362 ratings

Sherry Pinkwhistle, a mild-mannered librarian in the sleepy upstate New York hamlet of Winesap, has a habit of solving the murders that keep happening around her, and lately she suspects a demon is behind them.

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12 books for readers of The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

Joanne Fluke · 2000 · US 96% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 74,876 ratings
Book 1 of 29 in Hannah Swensen
shares: cosy, whodunit, small town · 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 Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman · 2020 · UK 95% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 874,754 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in The Thursday Murder Club
shares: cosy, whodunit, ageing · 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.

Aunty Lee's Delights

Ovidia Yu · 2013 · Singapore 94% match ★ 3.40 Goodreads · 3,649 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Aunty Lee
shares: cosy, whodunit, ageing · 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.

All Adults Here

Emma Straub · 2020 · US 94% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 93,289 ratings
shares: upstate New York, ageing, small town · easy read, warm

Astrid Strick, a widow in a small Hudson Valley town, sees an acquaintance killed by a school bus, and decides it is time to tell her grown children something she has kept from them.

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto · 2023 · Indonesia 94% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 242,537 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Vera Wong
shares: cosy, whodunit, ageing · 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.

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

M. C. Beaton · 1992 · UK 94% match ★ 3.72 Goodreads · 47,994 ratings
Book 1 of 36 in Agatha Raisin
shares: cosy, whodunit, ageing · 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.

A Box Full of Darkness

Simone St. James · 2026 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 23,514 ratings
shares: upstate New York, supernatural, small town · easy read, intimate

Years after their youngest brother Ben vanished near the woods everyone avoids in the strange town of Fell, New York, the three estranged Esmie siblings, Violet, Vail and Dodie, come home when Ben seems to be calling them back.

Mother-Daughter Murder Night

Nina Simon · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.55 Goodreads · 125,266 ratings
shares: cosy, whodunit, witty · easy read, intimate

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.

Aunt Dimity's Death

Nancy Atherton · 1992 · US 94% match ★ 3.95 Goodreads · 15,859 ratings
Book 1 of 25 in Aunt Dimity
shares: cosy, supernatural · easy read, intimate

Down on her luck in Boston, Lori Shepherd learns that Aunt Dimity, the heroine of her late mother's bedtime stories, was a real Englishwoman who has left her a Cotswolds cottage and a mystery to unravel.

Death by Darjeeling

Laura Childs · 2001 · US 94% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 13,247 ratings
Book 1 of 30 in Tea Shop Mysteries
shares: cosy, whodunit, small town · easy read, intimate

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

Agatha Christie · 1930 · UK 94% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 226,768 ratings
Book 1 of 12 in Miss Marple
shares: cosy, whodunit, ageing · 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.

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

Lilian Jackson Braun · 1966 · US 94% match ★ 3.59 Hardcover · 57 ratings
Book 1 of 29 in The Cat Who
shares: cosy, whodunit, witty · 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.