Motherhood Is Murder

10 best books like Motherhood Is Murder (Mary Daheim): Murder Most Crafty, Scandal in Fair Haven, Christmas Stalkings, Malice Domestic 5, God Save the Queen!, Cat Striking Back, Elizabeth Peters Presents Malice Domestic, Wicked Weaves, Women on the Case, Mary Higgins Clark Presents Malice Domestic

Murder Most Crafty

Author	Maggie Bruce
ISBN	0425204065

There's a pattern to these crimes...
Idle hands are the devil's workshop, which is why it's best to keep them busy with everything from knitting, candlemaking, and papermaking to wreathmaking, basketry, and gourd decorating. For some, skill, patience, and creative expression is also lent to...

Scandal in Fair Haven

Author	Carolyn G. Hart
ISBN	0553094653

There was something sadly irritating about this book and it took me a while to figure it out. Carolyn Hart had made a villain out of the Fair Haven cop and there was no reason to do so. And that impression stuck with me through what otherwise was an engrossing mystery with interesting characters.

Henry...

Christmas Stalkings

Author	Charlotte MacLeod
ISBN	0446403032

The newest entry in the popular series, this volume presents a festive feast of murder and mayhem from today's top masters of mystery—delightfully sinister tales from Elizabeth Peters, Robert Barnard, Reginald Hill, and Charlotte MacLeod. “A package of holiday goodies you can devour without...

Malice Domestic 5

Author	Martin H. Greenberg
ISBN	0671896326

Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Phyllis A. Whitney presents this anthology of original mystery stories by skilled authors, such as Peter Lovesey, Carolyn Wheat, Eve K. Sanderstrom, Jill Churchill, Dean Feldmeyer, Eileen Dreyer, Medora Sale, Patricia Moyes, Susan Rogers Cooper, and Nancy...

God Save the Queen!

Author

Dorothy Cannell

At gloomy Gossinger Hall, where the chill of centuries calls for three sweaters, Sir Henry Gossinger has just dropped a bombshell. After hours of unexplained penance on his knees in the chapel, he has announced to his unwitting relatives that he has written a new will...bequeathing everything to his...

Cat Striking Back

Author	Shirley Rousseau Murphy
ISBN	0061124001

"Why is it, Joe, that you are always the one to find the body?"

On a lovely moonlit night, while carrying a gift of mice to a litter of kittens, Joe Grey stumbles upon a murder scene. Behind an empty house, in an empty swimming pool, there's blood, the smell of human death, and drag marks. But there's...

Elizabeth Peters Presents Malice Domestic

Author	Elizabeth Peters
ISBN	0671738267

A collection of mystery tales presents the work of such masters of the genre as Charlotte MacLeod, Barbara Paul, Charlotte and Aaron Elkins, and Audrey Peterson.

Contents: An idea whose time had come / Elizabeth Peters — The perplexing puzzle of the perfidious pigeon poisoner / Charlotte...

Wicked Weaves

Author	Joyce Lavene
ISBN	0425223302

First in the Renaissance Faire mystery series featuring craft apprentice and sleuth Jessie Morton.

INCLUDES RENAISSANCE RECIPES AND FUN FACTS!

Assistant professor Jessie Morton spends her summers at the Renaissance Village honing her skills and finding the lady, lord, or serf...

Women on the Case

Author	Sara Paretsky
ISBN	0440223253

These are stories of P.I.s who keep guns in their handbags--or their bras, of crime victims, homeless women, and housewives whose ordinary lives take a brutal, sometimes fatal twist. This collection brings several brilliant international authors to American readers for the first time, including...

Mary Higgins Clark Presents Malice Domestic

Author	Mary Higgins Clark
ISBN	1416507035

An anthology of 17 tradidtional mysteries collected by master mystery writer Mary Higging Clark.

Contents: (all stories copyright 1992)
* As It Was in the Beginning by Mary Higgins Clark
* Who Shot Mrs. Byron Boyd? by Amanda Cross
* Dog Television by Robert Barnard
* Goodbye,...

Oxford Blood

Author	Antonia Fraser
ISBN	0393318249

In this tale Jemima is reluctantly shooting a TV exposé — "Golden Lads and Girls" — on the exotic lifestyles of overprivileged undergraduates. Among them is Lord Saffron, the wealthy, twenty-year-old heir to the former foreign secretary. When a confession by a dying midwife throws Saffron's...