Books like Swan for the money by Donna Andrews

Stephanie Plum, a novice bounty hunter, is tasked with catching a teenage suspect, Kenny Mancuso, while New Jersey vice cop Joe Morelli tracks him for his own reasons.

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 her parents turn their home into an animal rescue, amateur sleuth Meg Langslow finds herself amid a murder mystery involving a volunteer caregiver.

When blacksmith Meg Langslow and her fiancé settle into a new house in Caerphilly, Virginia, a buried corpse surfaces while the family digs a pool for penguins from the town’s failed zoo, with the keeper nowhere to be found.

When a city‑wide tragedy shatters her comfortable life, Mary Swan Middleton learns that true wealth lies in compassion as she joins forces with a humble neighbor to uncover a mysterious truth.

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.

When Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz’s business is booming, a cocktail‑party disaster sparks a murder mystery that forces her to use her culinary instincts to catch a killer before another bite dies.

A town clerk's investigation of a murder that could clear a political scandal.

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.