11. Murder With Peacocks (Meg Langslow, #1) by Donna Andrews. Three Weddings…And a Murder.

Up to now Meg Langslow’s summer just isn’t going swimmingly. Down inside her Virginia that is small hometown she’s maid of honor during the nuptials of three loved ones–each of who has dumped the look inside her capable arms. One bride is defined in including A indigenous American natural purification ceremony, while another wants live peacocks regarding the yard. Only help from the town’s drop-dead gorgeous hunk, disappointingly rumored become gay, keeps Meg afloat in a ocean of dotty family relations and crazy next-door neighbors.

And, in whirl of summer time events and picnics, Southern hospitality is strained into the restriction by an newcomer that is offensive hints at skeletons into the visitors’ closets. However it appears this lady has offended one way too many when she’s found dead in dubious circumstances, followed closely by a sequence of accidents–some deadly. Quickly, level-headed Meg’s to-do list extends from flower plans and bridal registries to catching a killer–before the following catered occasion is her very own funeral.

12. Aunt Dimity’s Death (An Aunt Dimity Mystery, # 1) by Nancy Atherton. Lori Shepherd thought Aunt Dimity had been just a character in a bedtime story… Until the Dickensian law practice of Willis & Willis summons her to a reading for the woman’s will.

Down-on-her-luck Lori learns she’s going to inherit an estate–if that is siazable can discover the secret hidden in a treasure trove of letters in Dimity’s English country cottage. Just just just What starts as a mythic becomes|tale that is fairy a mystery–and a ghost story–in an improbably cozy setting, as Aunt Dimity’s indominable spirit leads Lori on an otherworldly quest to find out just how, in this life, real love can overcome all.

13. Genuine Murders (Aurora Teagarden, #1) by Charlaine Harris. Aurora Teagarden, tiny city librarian and real criminal activity buff, is searching forward to your month-to-month conference associated with the Real Murders Society, a small grouping of other criminal activity enthusiasts whom share a distinctive fascination with historical murders.

The community conferences would be the highlight of Roe’s life that is social sleepy Lawrenceville, Georgia, and she’s ready for the peaceful nights discussion, coffee, and snacks. But after she finds your body of the community user in a staged crime scene eerily comparable to the main one the group ended up being designed to talk about that really night, Roe discovers herself in the center of the murderous tale of her very own.

Due to the fact killer hits once more, it is obvious that people of the true Murders Society are becoming goals of a copycat that is knowledgeable. By using handsome authorities detective Arthur Smith plus the town’s dashing resident that is new secret novelist Robin Crusoe, it’s as much as Roe to see in the event that murderer is just one of the group’s own and also to piece the perplexing puzzle together before another human anatomy seems.

14. Borrower of the(Vicky Bliss, #1) by Elizabeth Peters night. Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, she actually is as breathtaking into the most dangerous of situations as she is brainy–with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her.

A lacking masterwork in lumber, the final creation of the master carver whom passed away when you look at the violent tumult for the sixteenth century, might be concealed in a medieval German castle within the city of Rothenburg. The reward has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague to the forbidding citadel as well as its dark secrets. However the treasure look quickly turns life-threatening.

Right Here, where in actuality the bloodstream associated with the long overlooked damned spots ancient rocks, Vicky must face two possibilities that are equally perilous. Either a strong supernatural wicked inhabits this destination… Or some body frighteningly real is prepared to destroy for just what Vicky is set to get.

15. The Eyre Affair (Thursday Then, no. 1) by Jasper Fforde. The very first installment in Jasper Fforde’s ny Times bestselling variety of Thursday upcoming novels presents literary detective Thursday Then along with her alternative truth of literature-obsessed England—from mcdougal of Early Riser

Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will like Jasper that is visiting Fforde’s Britain, circa 1985, whenever time travel is routine, cloning is a real possibility (dodos would be the resurrected pet of preference), and literary works is taken really, extremely really: it’s a bibliophile’s fantasy. England is just a digital authorities state where an aunt could possibly get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem pornstars and forging Byronic verse is really an offense that is punishable.

All of this is business as always for Thursday Next, distinguished Operative that is special in detection. But once some one starts characters that are kidnapping works of literary works and plucks Jane Eyre through the pages of Bronte’s novel, Thursday is up against the task of her job. Fforde’s ingenious fantasy—enhanced by an internet site that re-creates the planet associated with the novel—unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully mix that is witty.

16. The Thin Woman (Ellie Haskell Mystery, no. 1) by Dorothy Cannell. Ellie Simons longs to be thin—and hitched. However with her passion that is single-minded for and clotted cream, her prospects on both counts appear dim. That’s why the summons to wait a household reunion during the old home that is ancestral about since welcome as a snakebite. Just how can she appear along with her embarrassingly complete figure in her modest unmarried state and keep her chins up?

Enter Bentley T. Haskell of Eligibility Escorts, a devastatingly appealing composer of smutty novels who additionally cooks just like a fantasy. With Bentley posing as her beau that is besotted seems courageous sufficient to beard her batty relations inside their den.

But mouldering Merlin’s Court is nothing beats Ellie remembers, and along with her wretchedly beautiful relative Vanessa making eyes at Ben, and her malevolent old uncle Merlin showing up in the many unforeseen places, it is sufficient to place Ellie off her meals. Plus the best—and worst—is yet in the future, once the week-end contributes to death that is sudden unexpected relationship, and a treasure search that promises epicurean Ellie wealth, hearth, and joy… If she survives.

17. The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (Haunted Bookshop Mystery, #1) by Alice Kimberly. Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her old Aunt Sadie are making ends satisfy by building a secret guide shop—a quaint Rhode Island landmark rumored to be haunted. Pen may not have confidence in ghosts, but she does have confidence in good publicity—like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a guide signing. But right after the bestselling thriller author reveals a secret in regards to the store’s connect to a 1940s murder, he keels over dead—and right in the center of the store’s new Community Events room.

Whom provides Mrs. McClure the first clue that it had been murder? The bookstore’s full-time ghost—a PI murdered regarding the really spot a lot more than fifty years back. Is he a figment of Pen’s overactive imagination? Or perhaps is the fedora-wearing that is oddly likable the only real hope Pen has got to solve the criminal activity? It is possible to bet your everlasting life upon it.

18. Death at Bishop’s Keep (Kathryn Ardleigh, number 1) by Robin Paige. Kate Adrleigh is everything the English that is victorian gentlewoman not–outspoken, free-thinking, American…and a author associated with the frowned upon “penny-dreadfuls. ”Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a human body is unearthed in a nearby archeological dig–and Kate gets the opportunity to not merely research her latest story…but to begin her very very first case with amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan.

19. The key regarding the Mansion by Julie Campbell. Trixie’s summer will probably be sooo boring along with her two older brothers away at camp. Then again a millionaire’s child moves to the next-door mansion, a vintage miser hides a lot of money in their decrepit home, and a runaway kid begins hiding call at Sleepyside!

20. Glazed Murder (Donut Shop Mystery, number 1) by Jessica Beck. Meet Suzanne Hart, owner and operator of Donut Hearts restaurant in April Springs, new york. An out-of-work actor she’s dubbed “The Great Impersonator, ” Suzanne decided to pursue her one true passion in life: donuts after her divorce from Max. Therefore she cashed inside her settlement and exposed store within the heart of her beloved hometown.