Books like Agatha Raisin and the murderous marriage by Marion Chesney

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.

After a heated quarrel, Agatha Raisin’s husband James vanishes, leaving a single bloodstain and a trail of suspicion. To clear her name and uncover the truth, Agatha teams up with Sir Charles and dives into a tangled web of love, betrayal, and murder.

Agatha Raisin tries to ignore the charms of her new neighbour, Paul Chatterton, but he soon lures her into an investigation. Paul has heard about Agatha's Cotswold sleuthing and wastes no time offering their services to the owner of a haunted house.

Agatha Raisin teams with her neighbour John Armitage to investigate the death of a captivating new curate in a picturesque Cotswold village.

When therapist Jill Davent moves to Carsely and probes into Agatha Raisin’s past, the popular Cotswold sleuth finds herself the prime suspect after Jill is strangled. Agatha must rally her detective team to clear her name.

A murder during a village pantomime forces Agatha Raisin and her amateur detective team to untangle feuding thespians and unearth a killer hidden in Cotswold hills.

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.

After a tough six‑month stint in London, Agatha Raisin returns to Carsely, Cotswolds, where a sensational murder of local hiker Jessica Tartinck thrusts her and reluctant neighbour James Lacey into an informal investigation amid tense disputes with local landowners.

Former PR supremo turned amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin thinks she's in for a treat when her ex-husband James Lacey actually invites her to go on holiday with him. But, horror! His idea of an idyllic break is the small, run down resort of Snoth on Sea. And once they arrive at this less than exotic spot, things naturally start to go from bad to worse. W fellow guest in their hotel is found murdered, and soon poor Agatha herself becomes a suspect ... she must solve this particular case from her prison cell!

When a wealthy land developer who had been planning to turn a community garden into a housing estate winds up dead, Agatha Raisin is hired by the victim's accused son to clear him of suspicion and identify the real killer among numerous suspects.