Books like From Here to Paternity (Jane Jeffry Mystery Series #6) by Jill Churchill

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.

When Lily and Robert Brewster take jobs at a New York nursing home, their routine shifts take a deadly turn as a staff member’s sudden death sparks a mystery, compelling the couple to piece together clues behind a murder.

Inspector Witherspoon revisits a buried North London murder when a strangled victim’s hand holds an old newspaper clipping, revealing a past connection with his former client, Mrs. Robinson. He enlists Mrs. Jeffries to untangle the mystery.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

Detective Isabel Dalhousie uncovers a stolen painting in Scotland, leading to a mystery that involves her philosophy and a wealthy owner.

Single mother Jane Jeffry lets a film crew use her backyard and soon finds herself investigating the killer of a blackmailing prop man.

With three kids to raise on her own, Jane Jeffrey sometimes needs a hand with the housework. But many of her complaining neighbors believe that the "Happy Helper" cleaning lady they all share wouldn't know a dustball if she choked on it. that hardly seems reason enough, though to do the disreputable domestic in. So when the cleaning woman in question is discovered strangled to death with a vacuum cleaner cord, Jane decides to dig up the real dirt-if the tenacious single mom can find time to spare between her PTA meetings and car pooling duties. But despite her busy schedule, Jane is determined to tidy up the whole murderous mess-even if it means provoking a killer who may live as close as next door!

When suburban sleuth Jane Jeffry plans her dream wedding, two murders in a self‑defense class force her to team up with her boyfriend, detective Mel VanDyne, to uncover the killer before she can walk down the aisle.

Jane Jeffry joins an all-woman crew to remodel a Chicago mansion for Bitsy Burnside, only to uncover a murder and a growing threat against her life.

During a reunion of high‑school girls, suburban single‑mom Jane Jeffry uncovers a murder linked to a senior‑year scandal, forcing her to solve a crime before more alumni die.

A Lambda Literary Award winner and debut novel, Simple Suburban Murder follows a gay high school teacher investigating a colleague's murder.