Books like The body in the bookcase by Katherine Hall Page

Miss Jane Marple investigates the mysterious shooting of magistrate Colonel Protheroe in St. Mary Mead, uncovering secrets that ordinary villagers could not.

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 caterer Goldy Bear relocates her family to Aspen Meadow Country Club, a supposed car accident turns into murder, forcing her to use her wit and culinary skills to uncover a dangerous secret.

Goldy Bear, a seasoned caterer, plans her wedding while cooking up a feast for the day—only to discover her groom is a homicide detective on the trail of a killer. A delicious mix of mystery and recipes.

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.

Faith Fairchild, the reverend’s wife, investigates a murder in tiny Aleford, Massachusetts, after a body is discovered in a suspicious house fire amid threats to local environmentalists protesting the destruction of Beecher’s Bog.

Caterer Goldy Schulz faces a disastrous season when a rival threatens her business, a contractor leaves her kitchen ruined, and a fashion shoot at a mountain cabin turns deadly.

When Goldy "Goldilocks' Catering" makes a low‑fat banquet for Mignon Cosmetics, she is thrust into a murder mystery that ties animal‑testing protests, exotic plants, and a startled hit‑and‑run to her own kitchen.

Caterer Faith Fairchild must untangle a chain of lethal accidents at her family’s Vermont ski resort to save its future and her own life.

Faith Fairchild, a catering teacher and minister's wife, tackles racial harassment at Mansfield Academy while uncovering a murderous plot that threatens both a black student and her own life.

A minister’s wife becomes a fugitive suspect when a dessert she prepared at her church’s fundraising event turns deadly, forcing her to use her culinary and investigative instincts to clear her name and unmask the true killer.

Faith Fairchild, a caterer and minister’s wife from New York, moves to the quiet Massachusetts village of Aleford, where she discovers a dead body in a church belfry and decides to solve the mystery herself.

Chef‑turned‑sleuth Goldy Schulz hosts a PBS cooking show in Colorado’s Killdeer Ski Resort while battling blizzards, culinary mishaps, and a suspicious murder that threatens her career and life.