Books like Death Before Wicket by Kerry Greenwood

The Pelican Brief is John Grisham’s third crime‑thriller, following "The Firm" and "A Time to Kill." The legal‑suspense novel follows journalists, judges, and the U.S. Supreme Court through high‑stakes intrigue.

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 bored of London’s party scene, the Honourable Phryne Fisher moves to Melbourne, where a stay at the Windsor Hotel plunges her into a tangled web of poisoned lovers, cocaine smuggling, corrupt cops and political intrigue.

Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, a witty 28‑year‑old private investigator, runs the chaotic Spellman Investigations firm in San Francisco, turning family drama into comic detective work.

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.

Stephanie Plum tackles her toughest case yet as three managers disappear from New Jersey’s Red River Deli, each leaving a single shoe behind. With the police stumped and Lula suspecting alien abductions, Plum must unravel the mystery before the deli loses its newest owner.

Phryne Fisher returns to a Gothic mansion in the Victorian mountains, where a strangled maid, death threats and mysterious funeral urns lure her into a dangerous investigation.

Fiction, Ghost story, Setting - England

In the 1928 St Kilda Flower Parade, Phryne Fisher is chosen Queen of the Flowers, but a beach murder forces her to abandon the carnival and become a detective in her own stylish, spirited mystery.

A southern gothic mystery series featuring Annie Darling and her husband Max, set in the 1970s and 1990s, involving the death of a family and the uncovering of dark deeds 20 and 22 years later.

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.

Phryne Fisher is invited to a lavish party in 1928 Melbourne, but when three guests—including a child—disappear, she must decode a scavenger‑hunt mystery to rescue them.

Phryne Fisher, a spirited Australian detective in 1929, investigates a suspected murder and a missing child case in an intriguing mystery set in Austria.