Books like Heavenly pleasures (A Corinna Chapman mystery # 2) by Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher returns to 1920s Melbourne to investigate the death of a famous fairy-book author while juggling her romance with Lin Chung and personal danger.

Phryne Fisher returns aboard the SS Hinemoa, where a series of jewel thefts on a luxury New Zealand cruise forces the elegant detective to unravel a ring of thieves amid shipboard intrigue.

Life hasn't been so sweet for Everly Swan over the past couple of years but now that she's back in her seaside hometown and the proud owner of a little iced tea shop and café right on the beach, things are finally starting to look up until a curmudgeonly customer turns up dead on the boardwalk. With one of her hallmark glass tea jars lying right next to him and an autopsy that reports poison in his system, it doesn't look good for Everly or her brand new business. As the townspeople of Charm turn their backs on Everly, she fights to dig up clues about who could have had it in for the former town councilman. With a maddeningly handsome detective discouraging her from uncovering leads and a series of anonymous attacks on Everly and her business, it will take everything she's got to keep this mystery from boiling over.

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.

Hannah Swensen, a Lake Eden baker, must solve a murder that unfolds during her annual Christmas buffet, using her baking skills and sleuthing to protect her town from danger amid a blizzard.

Corinna Chapman, a talented baker, discovers adventure when she agrees to bake for a soap opera set—leading to cake‑related intrigue, sabotage, and a strange tiger named Tabitha.

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.

Baker Corinna Chapman becomes an amateur sleuth when a threatening note and a mysterious syringe bring danger, drug trouble, and a missing girl into her kitchen. With wit and dough, she uncovers the sinister plot threatening her life and her bakery, Earthly Delights.

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.

During a scorching Melbourne summer, baker Corinna Chapman of Earthly Delights tries to keep Christmas celebrations under control while untangling a mystery involving runaways, a mischievous donkey, and a potential romance with the local chef.

Corinna Chapman, owner of Earthly Delights Bakery, faces fierce competition when a low‑cost franchise opens nearby and a string of odd incidents threatens her business and her town.

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.