In the Mystery section unless noted.

Susan Wittig Albert, A Dilly of a Death.
China Bayles investigates when the Pickle Queen disappears on the eve of the annual Pickle Fest in a small Texas town. Part of a series.

M.C. Beaton, Death of a Maid.
Scottish Constable Hamish Macbeth discovers the body of a gossipy housecleaner who’s been bludgeoned with her own pail. Part of a series.

Laurien Berenson, Best in Show.
Melanie Travis investigates a suspicious death at the Poodle Club dog show. Part of a series.

Rhys Bowen, Evans Above.
Welsh Constable Evan Evans is determined to connect two apparently accidental deaths on Mount Snowden. First in a series.

Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Moved a Mountain.
Jim Qwilleran and his cats head to the mountains for a vacation and stay in the house of a man who was killed a year ago.

Simon Brett, The Torso in Town.
Two neighbors in a English seaside village attend a dinner party that is interrupted by the discovery of a body. Part of a series.

Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries and the Best Laid Plans. Paperback Mystery
In Victorian England, a police inspector’s housekeeper and staff help investigate a murder without his knowledge. Part of a series.

Laura Childs, Chamomile Mourning.
Charleston teashop owner Theodosia Browning is hosting a tea party when a dead man falls off a balcony onto her cake. Part of a series.

Dorothy Cannell, The Thin Woman.
A woman hires an escort to pose as her boyfriend at a family gathering, but the deception is complicated by an uncle’s will. First in a series.

Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage.
Miss Marple is on the case when a man with many enemies is shot in the vicar’s study. First in a series.

Jill Churchill, The Merchant of Menace.
An investigative reporter is killed during a neighborhood Christmas caroling party hosted by suburban mom Jane Jeffry. Part of a series.

Jane Cleland, Consigned to Death.
New Hampshire antiques dealer Josie Prescott turns sleuth after a potential client is found stabbed to death in his mansion. First in a series.

Blaize Clement, Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter.
A former deputy becomes a professional pet sitter and discovers a dead body face down in the cat bowl in a client’s home. First in a series.

Barbara Colley, Maid for Murder.
A woman who runs a maid service in New Orleans helps a client whose husband was murdered. First in a series.

Cleo Coyle, On What Grounds. Paperback Mystery
On her first day as manager of a Greenwich Village coffee shop, Clare Cosi finds her assistant unconscious on the floor. First in a series.

Mary Daheim, The Alpine Quilt.
Emma Lord—the publisher of a small-town newspaper—investigates the poisoning death of a woman at a quilting party. Part of a series.

Jeanne Dams, The Body in the Transept.
An American widow moves to an English town and discovers the body of the Canon after Christmas Eve service in the cathedral. First in a series.

Carola Dunn, Death at Wentwater Court.
Inspector Alec Fletcher is called to a country estate to investigate a tragic skating death and finds inquisitive journalist Daisy Dalrymple already on the case. First in a series.

Monica Ferris, Knitting Bones.
At home recovering from a broken leg, needlework shop-owner Betsy Devonshire tries to locate a man who disappeared with charity funds from the Embroiderers’ Guild. Part of a series.

Joanne Fluke, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder.
Hannah Swenson opens a cookie shop in her Minnesota hometown and finds a deliveryman murdered in the alley. First in a series.

Earlene Fowler, Fool’s Puzzle.
The curator of a folk art museum discovers an artist’s dead body on the eve of a quilt exhibit opening. First in a series.

Sara Frommer, Murder & Sullivan.
A judge is murdered onstage during a performance of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta. Part of a series.

Anne George, Murder Boogies with Elvis.
An Elvis impersonator is murdered at a benefit show attended by Southern sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Ann. Part of a series.

Sarah Graves, Mallets Aforethought.
While restoring an abandoned historic home, Jacobia Tiptree discovers a mummified body and a more recent corpse. Part of a series.

Parnell Hall, Cozy.
Two guests are murdered at the B & B where New York City private eye Stanley Hastings and his wife are vacationing. Part of a series.

Carolyn Hart, Murder Walks the Plank.
On a mystery cruise to benefit literacy, someone falls overboard and bookstore owner Annie Darling suspects murder. First in a series.

Hazel Holt, Mrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy. Paperback Mystery
While acting as literary executor for a late friend, author Sheila Malory begins to suspect her fellow writer’s death was not accidental. Part of a series.

Fred Hunter, Ransom at Sea.
A murder on a senior cruise on Lake Michigan prompts amateur sleuth Emily Charters to call upon her cop friend Jeremy Ransom. Part of a series.

Alice Kimberly, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure. Paperback Mystery
When a bestselling author drops dead at a book signing, the bookstore owner is helped by the ghost of a P.I. who haunts her shop. First in a series.

Rett MacPherson, Family Skeletons.
Amateur genealogist Torie O’Shea is asked to do a family tree and then finds her client murdered. First in a series.

Nancy Martin, Have Your Cake & Kill Him Too.
A Philadelphia society columnist enlists the help of her sisters in finding out who shot a man with a bow and arrow. Part of a series.

Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
A woman in Botswana opens a detective agency and helps people solve a variety of mysteries. First in a series.

Tim Myers, Innkeeping with Murder. Paperback Mystery
The owner of a lighthouse hotel investigates the death of a guest. First in a series.

Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Ivy.
Faith Fairchild is hired to cater a class reunion on an isolated island hosted by a reclusive mystery writer. Part of a series.

Louise Penny, Still Life.
An inspector in the Surete du Quebec investigates the death of an artist in an apparent hunting accident. First in a series.

R. T. Raichev, The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette.
A woman looks back on the summer of the Royal Wedding when a girl disappeared from a country house party. First in a series.

Emilie Richards, Blessed Is the Busybody. Paperback Mystery
The new minister in a small Ohio town is blamed when the body of a naked woman is found on the parsonage doorstep but his wife is determined to find the real killer. First in a series.

Cynthia Riggs, Jack in the Pulpit.
Victoria Trumbull helps investigate the strange deaths of four parishioners of a church on Martha’s Vineyard. Part of a series.

Ann Ripley, Death in the Orchid Garden.
In Hawaii for her PBS gardening show, Louise Eldridge finds a body on the beach. Part of a series.

Gillian Roberts, A Hole in Juan.
At Halloween, students and faculty at Amanda Pepper's school fall victim to mysterious events too ominous to be called pranks. Part of a series.

Mary Saums, Thistle and Twigg.
Two women in an Alabama town try to exonerate a neighbor accused of murder.

Patricia Sprinkle, Who Left That Body in the Rain? Paperback Mystery
A Georgia magistrate uncovers dark secrets while investigating a family friend’s death. Part of a series

Sarah Stewart Taylor, O’ Artful Death.
At a Vermont artists’ colony, an art historian studies a monument in a cemetery that may hold the key to a 100-year-old murder. First in a series.

Kathryn Wall, Judas Island.
South Carolina private investigator Bay Tanner looks into the suspicious death of an archeologist who discovered a recent skeleton. Part of a series.

Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs.
A woman who was a nurse in World War I opens a private investigations agency a takes on a case that uncovers a tragedy from the war. First in a series.