By M.C. Beaton
Series Agatha Raisin Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

In order to introduce herself to the picturesque English village where she has just retired, Mrs. Agatha Raisin enters a quiche in a local competition and promptly finds herself a murder suspect when the judge dies from her poisonous pie.

By Charles Atkins
Series Lillian Campbell and Ada Strauss Mysteries

When the nursing home in their picturesque town is burned down by an arsonist, retired sleuth Lilian and her partner, Ada, assist detective Mattie Perez in an investigation that rapidly proves complex and frightening.

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Big Cherry Holler, the extraordinary sequel to Big Stone Gap, takes us back to the mountain life that enchanted us in Adriana Trigiani’s best selling debut novel (From the Publisher).”

By Adriana Trigiani
Series Big Stone Gap Novels
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“Ave Maria's life in Big Stone Gap, VA, is essentially the same as it's been for all 35 years of her life, but after her mother's will reveals that the man Ave thought was her father isn't, she begins to lose hold of her routine… In between panic attacks and shouting matches, Ave tries to figure out what all these changes mean in her life (Library Journal).”

By Alexander McCall Smith
Series No.1 Ladies Detective Agency

“Precious Ramotswe and her assistant, Grace Makutsi, investigate local advice columnist Aunty Emang, who may be linked to trouble at a local medical clinic and the cobra that somehow ended up in Precious's office (From the Publisher).”

By Alexander McCall Smith

“Emphasizing, as usual, ethical quiddities that most mysteries either ignore or take for granted, Smith produces another absorbing case in which Isabel doesn't so much detect as interfere in a quietly masterful way more frivolous sleuths can only envy (Kirkus Reviews).”

By Lilian Jackson Braun
Series Cat Who Mysteries

When Iris Cobb, who claimed ghosts were haunting the farmhouse museum, dies under mysterious circumstances, Jim Qwilleran decides to investigate.

By Isis Crawford
Series Mystery with Recipes

When the beautiful Thanksgiving turkey they prepared blows up in their client's face, sending Monty Field to the great dining room in the sky, sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons must convince the Field family that they are not responsible and whip up the real killer.

By Melody Carlson
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Christmas is approaching, and Lena Markham finds herself penniless, friendless, and nearly hopeless … When a secondhand red coat unexpectedly lands her a job as Mrs. Santa at a department store, Lena finally thinks her luck is changing. But can she keep her past a secret (From the Publisher).”

By Alexander McCall-Smith

“Isabel Dalhousie comes to the aid of a renowned, much respected doctor whose reputation is at stake following the death of a patient because of allegations of scientific fraud in respect to a newly marketed drug (From the Publisher).”

By Carolyn G. Hart
Series Death on Demand Mysteries
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When her husband's latest case takes them to a remote private island, Annie's initial delight turns to horror when she realizes that they have been marooned along with numerous suspects from the case her husband is investigating.

By Alexander McCall Smith

“Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi travel to the north of Botswana, to the stunning Okavango Delta, to visit a safari lodge where there have been several unexplained and troubling events--including the demise of one of the guests (From the Publisher).”

By Debbie Macomber

Keeping a low profile after a painful divorce, Lacey Lancaster spurns the advances of her handsome neighbor, Jack Walker, in spite of their cats' mutual attraction.

By Alexander McCall Smith
Series Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries

“A delicious mix of the unlikely and the tried-and-true, this latest cozy from an undisputed master will make readers feel just that (From Publishers Weekly).”

By Diane Hammond
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk

“Having devotedly cared for a lone elephant at a dilapidated zoo for more than forty years, Samson hopes to be able to retire when he hires promising assistant Neva, who forces Samson to acknowledge that the elephant also needs the company of her kind (From the Publisher).”

By Francine Rivers
Series Marta's Legacy
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

“The first in an epic two-book saga, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations… Each woman is forced to confront her faulty but well-meaning desire to help her daughter find her God-given place in the world (From the Publisher).”

By Alexander McCall-Smith
Series No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

“In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Ramotswe tangles with a feral child, the finalists in a beauty pageant and a suspicious cook (From the Publisher).”

By Carlene O’Connor
Series Irish Village Mysteries
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Now officially Kilbane's newest garda, Siobhâan O'Sullivan must try to solve the mysterious death of an American tourist in a graveyard, and faces an awkward reunion with Macdara Flannery when he is dispatched from Dublin to assist with the investigation.

By Nora Roberts
Series Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland is getting a major facelift from the Montgomery brothers. As the architect of the family, Beckett's social life consists mostly of talking shop over pizza and beer. But there's another project he's got his eye on: the girl he's been waiting to kiss since he was fifteen.

By Alexander McCall Smith

 “The No.1 Ladies´ Detective Agency, located in Gaborone, Botswana, consists of one woman, the engaging Precious Ramotswe. A cross between Kinsey Millhone and Miss Marple, this unlikely heroine specializes in missing husbands, wayward daughters, con men and imposters (From the Publisher).”

By Nick Trout
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"Returning home to Eden Falls, Vermont, to revive his late father’s veterinary practice and then quickly sell it, Cyrus Mills finds his plans changing when he beings feeling invested in the community and the relationships he forms (From the Publisher)."

By Patti Callahan Henry

After a song he writes catapults him to country stardom, former drifter Jimmy Sullivan finds his thirst for wealth and fame overshadowing his devotion to his brother and love for his girlfriend, and it will take a Christmas miracle to get him to save what really matters.

By Lou Jane Temple
Series Heaven Lee Mysteries

While visiting New Orleans to help the Sisters of the Holy trinity hold their annual benefit dinner, Chef Heaven Lee of Kansas City becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her old friend's husband.

By Alexander McCall Smith

“When friends from Dallas introduce her to Tom Bruce, a Texas tycoon, Isabel Dalhousie turns sleuth to investigate Tom's young fiancée, who may be more interested in Tom's money than in Tom (From the Publisher).”

By Leslie Meier
Series Lucy Stone Mysteries

In the town of Tinker's Cove, Maine, the body of barkeep Old Dan Malone is found floating in the town's icy harbor, forcing Lucy Stone, the Pennysaver newspaper's intrepid reporter, to solve this murder before the St. Patrick's Day celebrations begin.

By Alexander McCall Smith
Series No. 1 Ladies\' Detective Agency

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency tries to discover if a local football team's games are fixed.

By T.C. Boyle

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi–and–recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.

By Jessica Conant-Park
Series Gourmet Girl Mysteries
Recommended By Nancy Lowenstein, Library Page

“Chloe Carter has a lot on her plate-exams for grad school are coming up, and her chef boyfriend needs her support as his fledgling trendy restaurant comes into its own. The staff of Simmer gets along like petits pois in a pod, everyone pulling pranks on one another now and then. Everyone, that is, except for Leandra, a waitress who treats the busboys like chopped liver-and can never take a joke. One morning, Leandra's dead body is found in a fish truck. So people start to wonder: was this just a prank gone awry? Or did somebody actually want her to sleep with the fishes? (From the Publisher).”

By Maeve Binchy
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

Follows the efforts of a woman who turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges.