Books like Shakespeare's Landlord (The First Lily Bard Mystery) by Charlaine Harris

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

Miss Marple investigates a chilling murder witnessed on a London train, a case that begins with only a lone witness, no suspects and no body.

Miss Marple unravels a mystery in London's stylish Bertram's Hotel, where polished decor hides a dangerous plot.

After leaving her pop‑idol career, Heather Wells embraces her new life as a dorm director in New York but soon becomes a sleuth when a student’s body is found in her residence hall’s elevator shaft.

Lily visits her great‑uncle’s Cape May summer house and, with a new friend, uncovers a sleuthing adventure that mixes a hidden treasure hunt, a fraudulent medium, and a host of quirky ghosts.

When a mysterious trans‑state disappearance reveals a baby and a murdered husband, Aurora Roe Teagarden and her husband Martin race from Georgia to Ohio to uncover dark family secrets that may endanger them both.

Aurora Teagarden and wealthy businessman Martin Bartell marry at the Julius House, but a violent attack reveals the house and their shared pasts may destroy their fledgling marriage.

In quiet Shakespeare, Arkansas, Lily Bard joins a group therapy session that turns deadly when a fellow member is murdered, sparking a tense hunt for the killer.

Lily Bard, Arkansas’ karate‑trained cleaning lady, investigates the murder of Deedra Dean amid the state’s winding roads and historic scenery.

Lily Bard returns to her hometown of Bartley for her estranged sister’s Christmas Eve wedding, only to discover a murder unfolding amid the holiday celebrations. Now she must race against time to solve the case before her sister’s vows are forever altered.

In the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, Lily Bard, a cleaning woman with a karate background, confronts racial tension when a body builder’s corpse is found. Facing unsolved murders and a determined cop, she must choose between justice and escape.

When a shelter counselor in London discovers a murdered resident’s body floating on the Thames, she takes on a dangerous investigation that forces her to confront her own traumatic past.

Amelia Peabody returns to 1903 Egypt for her ninth adventure, where a warning against the Valley of the Kings, a fraudulent spiritualist, and a shocking murder threaten her family’s cutting‑edge discoveries.

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.

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.

A curious murder in an Egyptian shop sparks Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson into a perilous excavation that uncovers a lost mummy case, ancient conspiracies, and danger beyond mere curses.