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A Botswana-based detective series with Mma Ramotswe solving mysterious cases

The engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency, Precious Ramotswe, expands her business to include car repair and a beauty pageant, but her sense of justice remains unshaken by scandal and deceit, as in THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY and TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE.

The charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series finds herself overwhelmed by various puzzling incidents and encounters with the unexpected in Botswana, facing a series of challenges that test her skills as a private investigator and her personal history.

A humorous mystery about a husband who tries his hand at detection, starring the charming and sophisticated Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.

Professor Charles Haycock’s sudden death sparks a campus murder investigation led by private investigator Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven and amateur sleuth Kate Fansler, who untangle a web of suspects within Clifton College’s English department.

Murder in the academy

Newspaperwoman‑turned‑private‑investigator Tess Monaghan tackles a cold “Jane Doe” murder in Baltimore, following a trail that reveals the grim reality behind the city’s sweet‑looking neighborhoods.

When Winifred Ashby disappears after agreeing to help a biographer, college professor Kate Fansler drops her research to investigate, turning her academic rigor into a relentless search for the truth.

Voluptuous private investigator Savannah Reid tackles a mystery when a famed weight‑loss guru, Clarissa Jardin, is found murdered, forcing Reid to uncover a tangled web between fitness fame, family secrets, and deadly intent.

Savannah Reid, a woman private investigator in Southern California, must uncover the mystery behind a skeletal clique’s missing member before the glamor turns deadly.

Mma Ramotswe, the charming and skilled private investigator, once again solves mysteries in Botswana.

Former reporter Tess Monaghan returns to Baltimore as a private investigator, pursuing a murder linked to a disgraced tycoon, a covert hacker, and the city's dark underside.

Private investigator Tess Monaghan is hired to protect star Selene Waites on the set of the troubled TV series *Mann of Steel* in Baltimore, but soon a murder threatens to unravel the production and her city.

Private investigator Kate Fansler tackles a range of mysteries—from vanished university faculty to a stolen seventeenth‑century painting—across New England, Texas, and beyond, each case probing the darker corners of ordinary life.

In a class with sleuths V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum, (Publishers Weekly) China Bayles stumbles over old secrets in a Shaker village.Chinas friends and family are urging her to get some restand a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist with some herbal workshopswhile absorbing all things Shaker, from their furniture to their peaceful ways. But the restored modern version of the village, striving to become a popular tourist attraction, is plagued with misfortune and strife some of it the likely result of sabotage. China and her friend Martha are hoping to get to the bottom of it.However, much like Shaker history itself, the case appears simpler at first than it is. There is tension behind the serene exterior. And after a shocking death occurs during her stay, China will plunge into the archives of another time to connect the sins of the past with a modern-day murder.