Books like Killing Cassidy by Jeanne M. Dams

The engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency, Precious Ramotswe, expands her business to include car repair and a beauty pageant, but her sense of justice remains unshaken by scandal and deceit, as in THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY and TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

Judge Knott's murder mystery in Beaufort, North Carolina, with a past lover as the suspect.

Retired teacher Dorothy Martin finds a quiet holiday in Iona gone awry when a storm, a missing key, and a dangerous cave lead her to uncover secrets that threaten the island’s fragile community.

Deborah Knott, a lawyer in North Carolina, tries to become a judge but becomes entangled in an old murder case and must solve the mystery to stay in the race for election.

Dorothy Martin, a retired teacher, becomes an amateur sleuth when her son Bob is accused of stealing a Sevres tea set from Brocklesby Hall's informal toy museum, leading her through village secrets and miniature wonders.

American widow Dorothy Martin, 60, lives in an English village and, after a Christmas service, discovers the body of the local canon. Her unconventional hat style and curious nature spark a sleuth partnership with the widowed chief constable.

In London’s affluent Paragon Walk, a brutal rape‑murder turns a community of aristocrats into suspects, and Charlotte Pitt’s link to a resident forces her to ask the questions no one else will.

Teacher‐turned-investigator Dorothy Martin faces a Thanksgiving mystery: a missing schoolteacher, a dead husband, and a harassed daughter, all while uncovering unsettling family secrets.

Thomas Pitt, a Special Branch operative, is called to investigate a murder at Connaught Square, where a junior diplomat's body lies in a wheelbarrow. Suspicion falls on the house’s Egyptian tenant, Ayesha Zakhari, as political intrigue and a looming trial threaten to expose hidden scandals.

American Dorothy Martin and her husband uncover a mysterious death on Alderney, turning a holiday into a suspenseful investigation of cold‑blooded murder on a picturesque English Channel island.

American Anglophile Dorothy Martin tackles a tricky puzzle in the historic university town of Cambridge. Dorothy Martin isn't overly enthusiastic when her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, invites her to accompany him to a conference in Cambridge, picturing cramped student accommodation. But St. Stephen's turns out to be recently renovated, and, bolstered by en suite facilities, Dorothy is looking forward to exploring the historic and beautiful city. It is not long, though, before disaster strikes: lost in the maze of college buildings, Dorothy stumbles into a laboratory...and is shocked to find what looks like a pool of blood on the floor. She flees, to fetch help, but when Alan checks it out, there is nothing to be found. Was she mistaken? Or has a terrible crime been committed? Dorothy, who can never resist a puzzle, determines to find out.

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.