Books like Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews

In the small town of Pickax, journalist Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cat Koko investigate a baffling bee‑sting death that threatens the town’s new senior center, a local museum conversion, and a mysterious housekeeper’s disappearance.

Meg Langslow learns unsettling family truths when her estranged grandfather seeks her, prompting a hunt for her missing grandmother and a murder investigation that turns a small British town into a maze of suspects.

During a Caerphilly Christmas decorating contest, designer Meg Langslow’s mother becomes the prime suspect after a sabotage‑related murder, and Meg must solve the crime before her girlfriend is unjustly arrested.

When Santa Claus is murdered during the town’s Christmas Parade, Meg Langslow takes over the event and turns the crime scene into her own personal investigation.

Meg and Michael host a bustling garage sale that turns into a murder mystery as a buyer unlocks a chest to find a body, sparking a frantic investigation among the crowded relatives and friends.

When a farmhand’s husband is found murdered at the state fair, Meg Langslow helps her friend clear her name by uncovering the killer and retrieving a stolen prize chicken.

Solicitous invitations from a mystery‑murderer lure Scotland Yard to a locked‑room murder that baffles even seasoned detectives, as a dead but otherwise untouched house defies explanation.

Normally a workaholic techie, Zack has missed work for several days. So his friend, Turing, does the only neighborly thing and checks to see if Zack is logged in from home. No luck. Then she skims the databases of local banks to find his personal identification number. Nothing. Next she searches police and hospital records throughout the state. No Zack. Turing is no crazed stalker: she is an artificial intelligence personality of Zack's creation. But, unlike other AIPs, Turing is sentient--and she senses foul play. Fortunately, when Zack created her, he downloaded into Turing every murder mystery in his library, so Turing would think like a detective. She does find some clues to Zack's disappearance, but the enemies may well lie in the real world--where Turing has no ability to move. Fresh, funny, and surprisingly moving, You've Got Murder is a novel you'll never forget--and the first mystery to feature the equally unforgettable character of Turing Hopper a mainframe computer with a mind like Miss Marple and hardware that hides a suspiciously human heart.

In "Die Like an Eagle", Meg Langslow, the quick‑witted blacksmith heroine, teams up with her son’s baseball coach to solve a bizarre murder on opening day of the Caerphilly Eagles – a quirky mystery full of humor and American‑pastime charm.