Books like Murder on a Bad Hair Day by Anne George

In Agatha Christie’s classic Miss Marple mystery, the quiet village of Chipping Cleghorn is set aflame by a chilling headline announcing a murder; when lights go out at the appointed hour, the detective must unravel a dark secret.

A charming and clever women detective, Precious Ramotswe, solves mysteries in Botswana's small town of Midsomin, South Africa, from 1986 to 1997, facing dangers and love in the process. The novel is beloved by readers worldwide for its clever dialogue and characters who are as flawed as the rest of us. The book is a bestseller and has been translated into 45 languages, including Polish, German, and Japanese, among others. It was also voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.

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.

Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts her twin by investigating a serial killer, unraveling dark family secrets while racing a cross‑country murderer to protect her own life.

Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, a witty 28‑year‑old private investigator, runs the chaotic Spellman Investigations firm in San Francisco, turning family drama into comic detective work.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.

Siblings Abby and Jonah travel through a magic mirror into Rapunzel’s tale and daringly free her from the tower, reunite her with her parents, and rewrite the story for a joyous ending.

When sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne investigate the death of Meemaw Turkett on a quirky trailer‑lot, a sticky web of family secrets, a new bride, and an unlikely sheriff threatens to turn the investigation into a mystery for the ages.

When a post‑wedding luncheon turns deadly, sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne uncover secrets buried in a Southern family’s genealogy and find themselves entangled in a mystery that threatens to expose long‑hidden shame.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

Nora Blackbird, society columnist and down-and-almost-out former debutante, reclaims her place within Philadelphia's elite when she stumbles upon the murdered body of a millionaire art collector.

Sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice drive across Alabama to help their cousin Luke uncover his wife’s disappearance, only to stumble onto a murder mystery involving serpents and a snake‑handling preacher.

Sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne, who run a Birmingham bar, investigate a strangled killer that stalks them after a murder in their pub.