Books like Tunnel vision 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.

When Lorna Kepler’s bizarre death leaves detectives with no lead, her grieving mother Janice turns to Kinsey Millhone, who must confront a case that threatens to unravel the quiet streets of California’s fictional Santa Teresa.

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.

A Washington detective and a former actress’s turbulent romance unfolds across Munich, Vichy, and Detroit during WWII, as love clashes with espionage and wartime paranoia.

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 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 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.

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.