Books like Blacklist by Sara Paretsky

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.

Detective Harry Bosch and rookie partner Lucia Soto reopen a decades‑old LAPD cold case when a stray bullet finally kills its victim, uncovering a politically charged mystery that turns out to be anything but random.

The engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency, Precious Ramotswe, expands her business to include car repair and a beauty pageant, but her sense of justice remains unshaken by scandal and deceit, as in THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY and TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE.

Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski receives a mysterious client who claims to be banker John Thayer, but the truth turns into a dangerous hunt for a missing girl and a dead son's secret identity.

When a teenage diabetic mother and her premature baby die, V.I. Warshawski investigates medical malpractice and a series of murders linked to a women’s clinic, confronting a deadly cover‑up in Chicago.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Chicago politics—past, present, and future—take center stage in New York Times–bestselling author Sara Paretsky’s brilliant new V. I. Warshawski novel.Chicago’s unique brand of ball is sixteen-inch slow pitch, played in leagues all over the city for more than a century. But in politics, in business, and in law enforcement, the game is hardball.When V. I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who’s been missing for four decades, a search that she figured would be futile becomes lethal. Old skeletons from the city’s racially charged history, as well as haunting family secrets—her own and those of the elderly sisters who hired her—rise up to brush her back from the plate with a vengeance. A young cousin whom she’s never met arrives from Kansas City to work on a political campaign; a nun who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. dies without revealing crucial evidence; and on the city’s South Side, people spit when she shows up. Afraid to learn that her adored father might have been a bent cop, V. I. still takes the investigation all the way to its frightening end.

Detective V.I. Warshawski returns to her South Chicago roots to uncover a hidden father, only to expose a chemical‑industry conspiracy that endangers all involved.

V.I. Warshawski uncovers a covert corporate network of murder and corruption while caring for her golden retriever’s puppies— a mystery that grips the streets of Chicago.

V.I. Warshawski reluctantly probes a cherry‑pie charity for the homeless, only to discover a board member’s murder that uncovers financial fraud spiraling from Chicago banks to Washington halls, forcing her to choose between personal happiness and justice.

V.I. Warshawski investigates a Holocaust survivor’s traumatic past when a mystery survivor surfaces, intertwining Chicago crime, insurance fraud, and international conspiracy—forcing the P.I. to confront memories that could destroy her closest ally.

V.I. Warshaki investigates a shattered, abandoned woman in Chicago, leading her from a wealthy family’s troubles to Hollywood glamour and a women’s prison, the hardest case of her career.

Detective V.I. Warshawski coaches her alma‑mater’s girls’ basketball team, only to become embroiled in a mystery at the multinational retailer By‑Smart when a teenage grandson vanishes with a prized document, sending her on a perilous Chicago road to uncover dark secrets.

In Texas’s rural community The Blinds, a group of former criminals are offered a fresh start thanks to memory‑altering technology, but the uneasy peace is threatened when sheriff Calvin Cooper confronts personal secrets, a suicide, and murder.