Books like Guardian angel by Sara Paretsky

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.

Detective Kinsey Millhone investigates an undelivered letter that clears her first husband of a fatal assault, uncovering the real killer and a trail back to her Vietnam War days.

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.

Kinsey Millhone returns to the darker side of the human soul in P is for Peril, where a prominent physician’s disappearance leads her into a dangerous maze of Medicare fraud and duplicity.

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.

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 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 dead reporter in a ghostly Chicago mansion, uncovering ties to two powerful families and a missing boy linked to terrorist activity.

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.

Former reporter Tess Monaghan returns to Baltimore as a private investigator, pursuing a murder linked to a disgraced tycoon, a covert hacker, and the city's dark underside.

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.