Books like Murder on a summer's day by Frances Brody

Twenty‑five year‑old Belly Conklin returns to the family summer home on the coast, where a cancer diagnosis forces her to confront love, loss, and growing up amid the familiar rhythm of beach life.

Thirteen-year-old Meg grapples with envy, sibling rivalry, and the looming threat of her older sister Molly’s leukemia as one summer turns tragic.

Hercule Poirot unravels a series of bizarre, Christmas‑season murders, piecing together clues from a warning, a buried corpse, a quarrel, a dietary change, and a dream‑inspired suicide. Each case tests the detective’s famed analytical skill.

Seventeen‑year‑old Jessie on Nantucket in 1969 faces family secrets as the Levin siblings navigate civil‑rights protests, a Vietnam‑deployed brother, a pregnant sister in Boston, and a historic summer that mirrors the nation’s turmoil.

Carrie Bradshaw’s first weeks in New York City as she battles setbacks to secure her place in the Big Apple – a prequel to "Sex and the City" and a sequel to "The Carrie Diaries".

Irene Adler, the famed American opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, steps into a new mystery where her keen detective skills rescue barrister Godfrey Norton and force a showdown with the legendary detective himself.

Kate Shackleton, an amateur sleuth, investigates the mysterious death of banker Everett Runcie, whose wife seeks divorce and his murder may be linked to hidden personal scandals.

"In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So, in July, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, now retired as private informer, has taken up her father's former profession and it's time to get back to work. The first order business, however, is the corpse found in a chest sent as part of a large lot to be sold by the Falco family auction house. As the senior family representative in Rome, it falls upon Albia to find out who, why, and by whom. At the same time, her potential young man, Faustus, comes looking for help with his friend Sextus's political campaign. Between the auction business and Roman politics, it's not quite clear which one is the more under-handed and duplicitous. Both, however, are tied together by the mysterious body in the chest, and if Albia isn't able to solve that mystery, it won't be the only body to drop"--

When former lover Anna Pittman is found murdered, former schoolmate Clara Gamadge becomes the unlikely sleuth, uncovering hidden motives, jealousies, and a tangled web of intrigue.

Kate, a woman‑sleuth, is hired to find a missing daughter in 1950s England, a task complicated by a ghostly library, a strangled librarian’s corpse, and a suspicious Italian organ grinder, forcing her to uncover the true murderer.

When an equestrian champion is found dead in the stables, Carole Seddon and her friend Jude uncover a web of suspects amid the world of horse racing.

In the quiet post‑War England of 1926, a missing quarry mason sparks a mystery that draws the keen eye of young detective Kate Shackleton and her investigating mother, Mary Jane, whose own secrets may hold the key to the truth.

One late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Newbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant sculptress Gillian Roberts. However, tragedy strikes on a tour of the art department, when the lift breaks down ans a corpse is discovered at the bottom of the shaft. Dorothy and Alan become involved in the ensuing investigation, putting their local knowledge and sleuthing skills to good use once again. But when another member of the art faculty goes missing and someone receives threatening phone calls, it seems the killer still has something to hide and may very well strike again.