Books like Murder in Washington and the Body on the Beach by Dorothy Woolfolk

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

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.

Children learn about Egypt by creating a game.

When a haunted dollhouse illuminates the night, sisters Amy and her sister with a mental disability investigate the past murders that befell their family.

Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 detective tale in which Parisian sleuth C. Auguste Dupin uncovers the truth behind the double murder on Rue Morgue.

Ernest Hemingway’s nonfiction account celebrates bullfighting as an art form, offering history and personal reflections on its courage and ritualistic nature.

Three casinos, three bodies, three days – in Las Vegas, a serial killer confounds the FBI’s juvenile profilers with unpredictable, public murders. Each victim’s tattooed numbers hide a deadly code that pulls the young detectives deeper into danger.

Evie O'Neill discovers she has supernatural abilities while navigating the seedy underworld of 1920s New York City.

A teenage girl from a New Orleans brothel embarks on a murder investigation to get into a prestigious college.

Sophie Winters survives an attack that kills her best friend Mina—and must hunt the killer while proving she is no longer an Oxy addiction victim.

On the RMS Etruria in 1889, Audrey Rose Wadsworth and escape artist Thomas Cresswell must solve a series of murders on a transatlantic cruise before the next victim is found.

Mickey Bolitar, a young detective, investigates the Abeona Shelter and seeks answers about his father's death.

"Hide and Seek" is a teen‑fiction mystery about sisters and twins navigating high‑school drama, family secrets, and a homicide that turns the family upside down.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

Herculeah Jones must unravel the mystery after her friend Meat narrowly escapes a hit‑man's bullet, racing to protect herself before danger follows.

Number 16 In the Col Primrose series. APA *The Lying Jade* > Leslie Ford's new book will be good news for Colonel Primrose fans. After an absence of four years, the Colonel and his granite-faced sidekick, Sergeant Buck - and of course Grace Latham - are back at work in Washington. This is an especially timely book, for it concerns Senate investigating committees, the hidden lives of men high in the government, and the question of corruption. > Hamilton (Call Me Ham Vair, a rising young Congressman, is determined for personal reasons to cripple the career of Rufus Brent, recently appointed head of an important government agency. To do this Vair intends to use manufactured evidence of a scandal in Brent's family - a picture of Brent's daughter Molly supposedly running away from a night club raid. Molly herself is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and is hidden at the country home of Brent's lawyer. Into this situation comes Forbes Allerdyce, a mysterious figure who claims to be the best friend of Brent's son who has been killed in Korea. Allerdyce wants to find Molly to further his own purposes, and it devolves upon Grace Latham to prevent him. >Out of these ingredients Leslie Ford has devised one of her most intriguing stories. There is romance haunted by terror, there is humor and warmth, there is murder, and finally a tragi-comic revelation which traps the killer. *Washington Whispers Murder* is for all Leslie Ford fans, and especially Primrose addicts for whom there is quite a shock in store on the last few pages.

A gripping mystery set inside the White House, where the Secretary of State is found garroted and everyone—from the Chief of Staff to the President—becomes a suspect.

In 1892 New England, young Abigail Rook assists R.F. Jackaby—a clairvoyant investigator who sees supernatural beings—at a series of murders he believes stem from a nonhuman creature.

Three high‑school friends are framed for the murder of their classmate; they must dismantle the crime and expose the real culprit while navigating school drama.