Books like Prudence be damned by Mary McMullen

Artemis Fowl infiltrates the icy reaches of Murmansk to rescue his father, caught by a ruthless extortion group, while assembling an unlikely team and a daring plan.

Prudence "Rue" Akeldama, a thirty‑something Londoner, sails on a lavish dirigible to India with friends to find an elite tea while her adoptive vampire father watches. The journey erupts into intrigue, politics, and supernatural danger.

A mystery novel featuring Perry Mason trying to solve the case of a woman who has taken over her brother's flower shop, but has been replaced with her husband's gambling debts.

Travis McGee: The Turquoise Lament

After a decade of turmoil, Thorn confronts new danger when his foster mother is murdered and he becomes a suspect, forcing him to unearth buried truths about family, justice, and revenge.

Two teenagers recount their pregnancy to an unborn child in a moving story about family and love, told from two perspectives.

Travis McGee #13

Sgt. Raymond Shaw, a decorated war hero turned sleeper agent, threatens a nation as those in power seek to control him. His former commander must unravel a Cold‑War conspiracy that reaches the highest echelons of government.

Two ex‑convicts, Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara, plan a high‑stakes kidnapping of a wealthy developer’s wife in Detroit, but their scheme goes awry when the husband resists, forcing a desperate Plan B with a vengeful housewife.

A fast paced international thriller - sure to delight fans starved of WallanderWhen archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place.Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his bundles of papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy theory that JFK's brain disappeared prior to the autopsy – along with the vital evidence regarding bullet exit wounds. The only lead is a letter and photograph from Henrik's girlfriend in Mozambique.Louise's quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her son's death takes her to Africa; a continent rife with disease, poverty and corruption. Struggling to cope with sickness and the oppressive heat, Louise sees fear in every face, even unexpectedly in the patients at the clinics set up by an American businessman. In Kennedy's Brain Mankell confirms his status as a master of suspense, and delivers a timely and riveting thriller which will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

A Connecticut schoolteacher opens her school to a young Negro scholar and is subjected to persecution and imprisonment for her action.

Adam Miller's love affair with a Jewish woman in post-war Venice is threatened by the dark underbelly of the Occupation and the murky past of the city itself.

A 35‑year‑old mother decides to escape on a holiday, only to be kidnapped by a 20‑year‑old man—henrietta and humor unfold in this 1977 tale of crime and captivity.

This is the funniest of the Dortmunder series