The Glass Slipper
10 best books like The Glass Slipper (Eleanor Farjeon): Flying Too High, Murder on the Ballarat Train, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog, Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune, Murder Past Due, Ogre Enchanted, Unnatural Causes, The Green Mill Murder, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, Death by Water
| Author | Kerry Greenwood |
| ISBN | 1590582373 |
Phryne Fisher has her hands full in this, her second adventure. And just when we think she’s merely a brilliant, daring, sexy woman, Phyrne demonstrates other skills, including flying an airplane and doing her own stunts!
Phryne takes on a fresh case at the pleading of a hysterical woman...
Murder on the Ballarat Train
| Author | Kerry Greenwood |
| ISBN | 1590582411 |
When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save lives....
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1501161172 |
In this “little gem” (
Washington Independent Review of Books),
Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Barry learns how to age happily from his old but joyful dog, Lucy.
As Dave Barry turns seventy—not happily—he realizes that his dog,...
Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune
| Author | Roselle Lim |
| ISBN | 1984803255 |
At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco's Chinatown that she remembers...
There's a cat in the stacks...
...and he makes the purr-fect partner for a librarian-turned-sleuth.
Everyone in Athena, Mississippi, knows librarian Charlie Harris-and his Maine coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash. They also know his former classmate-turned-famous...
| Author | Gail Carson Levine |
| ISBN | 0062561219 |
In this prequel to Ella Enchanted, which can stand on its own, young healer Evie is transformed into an ogre by the meddling fairy Lucinda. She’ll turn back only if someone proposes and she accepts!
Returning to the land and many of the characters from her beloved Newbery Honor–winning...
| Author | P.D. James |
| ISBN | 0571204104 |
AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY
Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coast. With nothing to do other than enjoy long wind-swept walks, tea in front of the crackling...
| Author | Kerry Greenwood |
| ISBN | 1590582403 |
Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things --dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she's wearing a sparkling lobelia-coloured georgette dress. Nothing can flap the unflappable Phryne--especially...
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
| Author | Maj Sjöwall |
| ISBN | 0679745971 |
The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck searching for a well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace.Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad...
'Who are you?' asked the doctor. 'You are not the standard cruise passenger, I can tell you that.' 'Thank you,' said Phryne in a self-possessed manner. 'You are correct. I am a lot of things, some of which do not concern you, but mostly I am Phryne Fisher.'
The nice men at P&O are worried. A succession...
| Author | Kerry Greenwood |
| ISBN | 1590582357 |
The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is feeling dull. But is she bored enough to leave her identity, her home and family behind and join Farrell's Circus and Wild Beast Show?
There have been strange things happening at the circus. And when Phryne is asked by her friends - Samson the Strong Man, Alan...
| Author | Kerry Greenwood |
| ISBN | 1741142466 |
With more than a dash of glamour and serious helpings of style, the witty and courageous Phryne Fisher returns. In 1928 St Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Magic shows, marionettes, tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all...
| Author | Kerry Greenwood |
| ISBN | 1742379567 |
To the accompaniment of heavenly choirs singing, the fearless Miss Phryne Fisher returns in her 20th adventure with musical score in hand.
An orchestral conductor has been found dead and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson needs the delightfully incisive and sophisticated Miss Fisher’s assistance...
The Spies of Shilling Lane
Mrs. Braithwaite, self-appointed queen of her English village, finds herself dethroned, despised, and dismissed following her husband’s selfish divorce petition. Never deterred, the threat of a family secret being revealed sets her hot-foot to London to find the only person she has left—her...
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him...
| Author | Sharyn McCrumb |
| ISBN | 0449149986 |
"Whenever Sharyn McCrumb suits up her amateur detective, Elizabeth MacPherson, it's pretty certain that a trip is in the offing and that something deadly funny will happen on the road."
--The New York Times Book Review
Now, the author of She Walks These Hills brings her storytelling gifts...
The Old Man in the Corner
| Author | Emmuska Orczy |
| ISBN | 1406835897 |
Not a word against baronesses … A certain Danish baroness began her tale with the words: “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills …”
Some baronesses just have better writing skills than others.
Even this collection, one of many, of short stories about The Old Man...
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer, but he’s doing his best. He can’t have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. It’s only when she returns, pregnant to someone else, that he discovers his surprising talent as a father. So when Trudy finds Jesus and...
Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, are busy decking the halls for the holidays when an unexpected delivery and a shocking murder conspire to shake up the season in this all new installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
December twenty-fifth is right around the corner,...
Death of an Art Collector
| Author | Robert Goldsborough |
| ISBN | 1504057538 |
An art hoarder's suspicious death paints a nasty picture for Nero Wolfe.
No matter how fabulously he's being courted, infamously dour "art hog" Arthur Wordell isn't keen on favoring the new Guggenheim Museum with his extensive collection. Even at the urging of his beloved daughter, Nadia....
| Author | Miranda James |
| ISBN | 0425241572 |
4 stars to Miranda James's Classified as Murder. I very much enjoyed this classic cozy tale. It is reminiscent of an Agatha Christie story with all the key elements from a family of potential killers, a mysterious theft, and more going on that anyone realizes!
Story
James Delacorte,...
| Author | Miranda James |
| ISBN | 0425277763 |
The New York Times bestselling author of No Cats Allowed and Arsenic and Old Books is back with more Southern charm and beguiling mystery as Charlie and Diesel must find a killer in a room full of librarians...
Lighthearted librarian Charlie Harris is known around his hometown of Athena, Mississippi,...
A supremely geeky murder mystery perfect for Whovians, gamers, and Muggles alike.
Autumn has everything she could possibly want: Loving friends, a successful business, and a gaggle of nerds in her store every day.
Welcome to Ten Again, a tabletop gaming store that attracts nerds...
| Author | Naomi Hirahara |
| ISBN | 0425264955 |
Trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle…
Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it’s still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate.
At...
Mrs. Jeffries and the Mistletoe Mix-Up
| Author | Emily Brightwell |
| ISBN | 0425243575 |
Ring in the season with another Mrs. Jeffries tale of holiday homicide.
Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit, a bloody sword next to his body. Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case-preferably before the eggnog is ladled out on...
| Author | Simon Brett |
| ISBN | 0330486551 |
Amateur sleuths Jude and Carole take on their third case when a terrible discovery is made in the cellar of a grand old house. Grant and Kim Roxby had hoped that their first dinner party at Pelling House would make an impression with their new neighbours. And the next day it's certainly the talk of the town...
| Author | Gretchen Sprague |
| ISBN | 0373264895 |
WAndering through a local second-hand bookstore which was closing (Sigh...), I noticed this book and picked it up--intrigued by the title. I read the blurb and the first page and decided to buy if for 50cents. After I read it, I was sorry, I hadn't picked up the other two titles in the series. And looking...
| Author | Eliot Pattison |
| ISBN | 1250169682 |
Bones of the Earth is Edgar Award-winning author Eliot Pattison's much anticipated tenth and final installment in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Shan series.
After Shan Tao Yun is forced to witness the execution of a Tibetan for corruption, he can't shake the suspicion that he...
| Author | Carola Dunn |
| ISBN | 0312675496 |
The Daisy Dalrymple series continues in Heirs of the Body—when one of four potential claimants to the title of Lord Dalrymple dies a sudden, nasty death, the question on everyone’s mind is, “was it murder”?
In the late 1920s in England, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is recruited...
As a professional editor, Mikki Lincoln is used to crimes against the English language. As an amateur sleuth, she's finding catching criminals a lot more dangerous than catching
typos . . .
Nestled in the picturesque Catskills, the village of Lenape Hollow prepares to celebrate...
| Author | Kerry Greenwood |
| ISBN | 1742372430 |
1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden-haired girls. And not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting nervous. Polly Kettle, a pushy, self-important Girl Reporter with ambition and no sense...
