Foul Play
10 best books like Foul Play (Tori Carrington): And Then There Were Gnomes: Book 2, Top O' the Mournin', Killer Riff, Devil May Care, Dying to Meet You, Never Say Pie, A Murderous Glaze, Obsession, Deceit, and Really Dark Chocolate, Dead Ex, Killer Calories
| Author | Colleen A.F. Venable |
Sasspants, PI(G), the world's fluffiest detective, is back on the case―or she will be, if her sidekick Hamisher can convince her there's really a mystery afoot. Hamisher has made up so many stories, Sasspants doesn't believe him. But one by one the mice in Mr. Venezi's pet shop are going missing, and...
| Author | Maddy Hunter |
| ISBN | 0743458125 |
WHEN IRISH EYES ARE LYIN'...Emily Andrew is earning some much-needed green by navigating the twisting roads of Ireland with a group of seniors, including her beloved Nana. But once the hearty troupe from Iowa lands on Irish sod, trouble starts brewing: there's a death-defying incident with a horse-drawn...
| Author | Sheryl J. Anderson |
| ISBN | 0312351410 |
Glossy mag advice columnist Molly Forrester has been working her tail off to get recognized as an investigative journalist and has even solved a few murders along the way, but none of that matters to her editor, who’s more than happy to keep Molly tied down to her Dear Abby roots.
Thankfully,...
| Author | Elizabeth Peters |
| ISBN | 0380731150 |
Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes -- including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the...
| Author | Jennifer Apodaca |
| ISBN | 0758200765 |
DYING TO MEET YOU is the second in the Samantha Shaw mystery series. Although I have not read the first one, DATING CAN BE MURDER, I was able to get into the story quickly and comfortably. Samantha Shaw (Sam) is the owner of a dating service “Heart Mates” in the small town of Lake Elsinore, California....
| Author | Carol Culver |
| ISBN | 0738723797 |
Book two in the popular (and delicious!) Pie Shop Mystery series
It’s summertime in Crystal Cove, California, and sales are brisk at the outdoor Food Fair. There’s fresh bread, artisan cheese, gourmet cupcakes, plus Hanna’s delicious pies. When despised local food critic Heath Barr...
| Author | Melissa Glazer |
| ISBN | 0425218368 |
A new series takes shape-the debut of the Clay and Crime mysteries.
Includes directions for a pottery project!
In Maple Ridge, Vermont, Carolyn Emerson planned to ease into her golden years running her paint-your-own-pottery shop, Fire at Will. She never expected to uncover a dead...
Obsession, Deceit, and Really Dark Chocolate
| Author | Kyra Davis |
| ISBN | 0037389553 |
Mind her own business? Leave it to the experts? Not a chance.
Sophie Katz's relationship with the irresistible and occasionally insufferable P.I. Anatoly Darinsky is on the fritz when a friend recruits Sophie's investigation skills to decode her possibly two-timing husband's strange...
| Author | Harley Jane Kozak |
| ISBN | 0385518021 |
Wollie Shelley—the endearing, idiosyncratic heroine of the award-winning Dating Dead Men and Dating Is Murder—returns in a funny murder mystery set in the world of television soaps.
When David Zetrakis, the producer of a popular soap opera, is found shot to death the day after Christmas,...
| Author | G.A. McKevett |
| ISBN | 1575665212 |
G. A. McKevett's Savannah Reid is a southern belle who has been displaced to Southern California. She was once a police officer, but after being kicked off the force, she has now opened her own business as a private investigator. With the help of her apprentice Tammy and her former police partner Dirk,...
| Author | Victoria Laurie |
| ISBN | 0451219333 |
When her relationship with FBI agent Dutch Rivers skids to a halt, Abby Cooper is fully aware that a wedding isn't the best post-breakup scenario. But when a friend from the Mile High City finds herself short one bridesmaid, it doesn't take a professional psychic to see the opportunity for a much-needed...
| Author | Valerie Wolzien |
| ISBN | 0449147452 |
Since there was a Halloween Party going on at the library, when Susan Henshaw stumbled across a man with a knife sticking out of his chest, she thought it was a Halloween prop. But the man was murdered, and he's not the only victim, talk show host Jason Armstrong is also murdered. Jason's wife doesn't want...
| Author | Elaine Flinn |
| ISBN | 0060545798 |
Elizabeth Porter was a top-of-the-line Manhattan antiques dealer until her ex-husband and his lover's flagrantly criminal scam left her reputation in tatters. Now, using a new name, Molly Doyle, she's starting over a continent away in a rundown antiques shop in cozy Carmel, California. Molly is...
| Author | Bill Fitzhugh |
| ISBN | 0380806371 |
I picked this up because it looked like ideal beach reading for me: A light mystery set in the deep south, with a lot of references to classic rock. Well, I can't tell if this is an inept attempt at a semi-humorous riff on the themes of Hammett's Red Harvest or just plain inept, but it's terribly dull as a mystery...
| Author | Doug Magee |
| ISBN | 1439154023 |
When there’s DARKNESS ALL AROUND . . . some memories are best forgotten
Within the span of one harrowing week, Risa’s alcoholic husband, Sean, disappears, and her best friend, Carol, is brutally murdered. Eleven years later, Risa has seemingly put her life back together again, comforted...
| Author | J.A. Konrath |
| ISBN | 1401302793 |
I am really loving the series of J. A. Konrath’s series featuring Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels. They are all named after drinks -WHISKEY SOUR, BLOODY MARY, RUSTY NAIL and DIRTY MARTINI which is the fourth book. I am not mentionng the others since I havent read them yet. These aren’t...
