Books like Murder with puffins by Donna Andrews

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.

Margaret Lawrence introduces her unforgettable heroine, Hannah Trevor, whose disregard for convention sets her apart from the other women of the small town of Rufford, Maine. Yet as a midwife, Hannah is intimately involved in the lives of people simultaneously capable of great joy and deeply scarred by a bloody war of revolution. Now, in the midst of a merciless winter, an abomination has occurred: a young Rufford wife and mother has been raped and murdered in her home. Few knew the tormented victim well, but she named her three attackers in a horrified letter of accusation written before she died. And one of the accused is Daniel Josselyn - a wealthy man of honor, a wounded war veteran, and Hannah's one-time lover, the father of her illegitimate daughter. A savage crime has touched Hannah's world, impelling her to join her dear, damaged friend, local constable Will Quaid, in his investigation.

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.

Meg Langslow, the eager maid‑of‑honor in a tiny Virginia town, must juggle wedding plans for three brides—one with a Native‑American purification ritual and another wanting live peacocks—while an off‑beat newcomer’s murder and a string of accidents threaten the Southern summer.

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.

A murder mystery at a high-security boarding school turns deadly, leaving detectives Rizzoli and Isles to unravel the truth.