Books like Knock 'Em dead by Jessica Fletcher

Jessica Fletcher returns to her Maine hometown of Cabot Cove for a quiet Christmas, only to discover the neighbor who played Santa at the annual celebration has been murdered.

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.

When her boyfriend joins the debate team, Lisa thinks her life will change—until a violent initiation causes his death and a second, inexplicable tragedy reveals that one of the debaters poses a real threat. Now she must escape the danger.

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

In her latest mystery, Jessica Fletcher investigates a supposed haunting at the historic Spencer Percy House, where a dying former carpenter’s death threatens to turn the town’s newest real estate mystery into a real crime.