Books like Aunt Dimity, detective by Nancy Atherton

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.

A single volume compiling all twenty Miss Jane Marple short stories, where Agatha Christie’s beloved amateur sleuth solves crimes in her quiet, observant village of St. Mary Mead.

A modern mystery spins when Lori Shepherd must travel to New Zealand to find a long‑lost brother for her dying neighbors, with the aid of Aunt Dimity’s uncanny guidance.

Fiction, Ghost story, Setting - England

Detective‑cabby Carlotta Carlyle investigates a surge of new manuscripts in the voice of vanished author Thea Janis, while a Boston Cold Case squad refuses to reopen the former’s murder. Secrets of a glittering family surface as Carlotta peels back layers of intrigue.

In England, mother‑to‑be Lori Shepherd faces a chilling mystery when her twins bring home a creepy, cloaked figure. With Aunt Dimity and friend Kit Smith, she unravels a centuries‑old vampire secret hidden at Aldercot Hall.

After a breakup, amateur gardener Emma Porter embarks on a summer road trip through England’s gardens, where she discovers Penford Hall and a duke hunting a powerful lantern. With Aunt Dimity’s ghostly help, she uncovers secrets and finds unexpected love.

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 cozy mystery featuring a smart aleck cat in Las Vegas.

Lori Shepherd inherits her aunt’s honey‑colored English cottage, setting her on a supernatural mystery through Cornwall that unravels family secrets, mistaken identities and a hidden treasure.