Books like Nine days by Minerva Koenig

Detective Lindsay Boxer faces two intertwined murders in San Francisco, racing against time to solve a brutal shooting and a jewel heist while her personal life teeters.

An Irish bouncer in a New Jersey bar must solve a series of murders, including the killing of the girl he loves, with a quirky crew of misfits in this high‑energy detective adventure.

When a struggling artist inherits a huge parcel of land and a deadly fate, the safest option may be to run. In Terry Goodkind’s thriller, the stakes rise, the danger intensifies, and survival becomes everything.

Elle St. James battles her father's ruined company and a forbidden romance with Apollo Savas, a Greek stepbrother who holds the remnants of her legacy, while twelve‑month pregnancy forces her to confront revenge and redemption.

After hospital discharge, Caroline's restorative trip to her sister Fenella's West Country home turns into a tense investigation when a violent, murderous incident erupts, spurred by Fenella’s volatile husband.

A slick Perry Mason mystery where a brash heiress seeks counsel over a will that threatens her inheritance if she marries early—only to find her own groom on trial after an uncle’s murder.

Sergeant Gunnhildur Giacute;sladottir investigates a suspicious death in a Reykjavik hotel, uncovering ties to a returning gangster and a clandestine bondage society, turning a simple case into a perilous police probe.

A widowed mother and her daughter inherit the secluded Honeychurch Hall, only to find a missing nanny, a dead housekeeper, and a murder accusation that forces the daughter to unravel family secrets in this cozy mystery.

"Reformed criminal Julia Kalas travels from small-town Texas to Mexico on the trail of a missing persons case in the second installment in this atmospheric, critically-acclaimed series Julia Kalas has found a place for herself in small-town Texas. After being forced to relocate by the Aryan Brotherhood and witness protection, she's working on getting her budding construction business off the ground. But her newfound status as a sometimes-problem solver doesn't stop local cops from giving her the hairy eyeball when a dead body is found stuffed in the upstairs closet of her latest remodeling project. Not up for another game of pin-the-tail-on-the-murder-suspect, Julia takes private detective John Maines up on an offer of employment working a missing persons case at the Texas-Mexico border. The fat check he dangles in front of her as payment will be enough to set her up in comfortable retirement far away from the tiny Texas backwater, which suits Julia just fine. However, fate, as usual, has other plans for her. In South Texas, Julia learns that the dead man in her closet has been identified and that a warrant has been issued for her arrest. As she tangles with Mexican drug lords, shady surgeons, and a gang of Native American women with an axe to grind, she can't ignore the sinking feeling that things are about to get a hell of a lot worse before they get better. South of Nowhere is the action-packed follow up to Minerva Koenig's original and thrilling debut, featuring an intriguing mystery and a gutsy heroine mystery fans will love"--

When the clown‑shop owner in a Michigan town is murdered, a neighboring chocolatier becomes the prime suspect while uncovering clues that point to a hidden killer, all amid the chaos of Clown Week.

Scrapbooking enthusiast Carmela discovers a bloody body in an antiques shop and must use her sleuthing skills to solve a murder and a theft in the quirky streets of New Orleans.

Book editor Samantha Clair is drawn into a London murder investigation when her former partner’s partner dies, and she finds herself caught between a police inspector boyfriend and an ex‑boyfriend‑art dealer who needs her help.