Books like Out Of Circulation by Miranda James

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.

Eleven‑year‑old detective Flavia de Luce unearths a body hidden in a church crypt during a village anniversary, sparking a mystery that shows no case is simple.

Eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce must unravel a mysterious death that leads to family secrets tied to Winston Churchill, using her scientific mind and a beloved plane to uncover the truth.

When four children disappear from a Georgia soccer field—including Aurora Teagarden’s brother—Aurora and her husband, true‑crime writer Robin Crusoe, take it upon themselves to investigate the case.

A thriller featuring a young prosecutor who becomes entangled in the case of a famous actress and her tragic death.

Jim Qwilleran, a newspaper journalist turned millionaire, teams up with his clever cats Koko and Yum Yum to solve a decades‑old disappearance in Moose County’s small‑town world.

Charlie Harris, a retired librarian, is blissfully spending time with his new grandson when a mysterious visitor linked to his family arrives at the library, reopening a decades‑old murder mystery that has haunted the town.

In Mississippi’s Athena, interim library director Charlie Harris must navigate a dead keynote speaker, a heated rivalry, and a mysterious murder, all while keeping his rescued Maine Coon Diesel close as they uncover the killer among librarians.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

A mysterious woman in a hospital with newborns and a killer in a diamond mine.

Fiction, Ghost story, Setting - England

When a famous mystery author visits a small Mississippi town for a library exhibit, librarian Charlie Harris must protect a prized collection of her books from a fan who will stop at nothing, even murder, to possess them.

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.

A Biblical scholar uncovers a mysterious letter from Jesus, leading him on a thrilling hunt to find the lost scroll that could change the world.