Books like Love for sale by Jill Churchill

A locked‑in murder on the Orient Express forces detective Hercule Poirot to unravel a mystery among a diverse group of passengers during a snowbound night.

Bill Bryson turns the universe into a conversational guide, tracing science from the Big Bang through evolution, geology, chemistry, astronomy, and particle physics with humor and clarity.

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.

Sookie Stackhouse must protect her brother Jason, who is transforming into a were‑panther, and uncover a sniper targeting the local changeling community before the next full moon.

A billionaire man, Nikolai Golitsyn, seeks the woman he once betrayed, Ellie, to raise his orphaned niece and, unexpectedly, asks her to marry him.

A summer in the ancestral priory turns deadly when a murder exposes secrets beneath the family’s inherited home.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.

Ben Badwin, a confirmed bachelor and ladies' man, is instantly drawn to Sierra Murphy, a dedicated landscaping entrepreneur. As their worlds collide, Ben discovers a hidden past and growing romance beneath Sierra’s serene garden façade.

In a period of Jewish exile, Lilah vows to forsake a Persian marriage for her faith; when her brother demands Jewish men abandon foreign wives, she defies the law to protect her culture.

Lily and Robert Brewster host a weekend with a celebrated author and invited guests, but a murder turns the gathering into a tense investigation—will Lily solve the crime before more bodies are found?

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.

Lilian Girvan, a young widow and single mother, balances an illustrating career, two children, and a newfound love for gardening at the Los Angeles Botanical Garden. Through composting and new friendships she learns to bloom again.

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.

An empress of Austria, a penniless English horseman, and a clever heiress entwine in a love triangle set against the 19th‑century Grand National, exploring the private yearning behind public duties.