Amateur Detectives

Detectives come in all kinds of packages in these fun mysteries.

Fiction is shelved alphabetically by author.

	Nancy Atherton Aunt Dimity, Detective
Lori Shepherd's Aunt Dimity offers detective advice from beyond the grave, when Lori begins to investigate the murder of the local gossip, Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper.
	Lilian Jackson Braun The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Former author and newspaper reporter, Jim Qwilleran, and Koko the Siamese cat must figure out what's going on in the local art scene, and it's not just parties and pretty pictures.
	G. K. Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown
This time the detective is a priest, who uses his intuition and understanding of the human soul to solve 12 criminal cases.
	Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage
Miss Jane Marple is introduced in this mystery, in which she must solve the murder of the hated Colonel Protheroe, when his body is found in the vicar's study.
	Jeanne M. Dams The Body in the Transept
Dorothy Martin is an inquisitive American widow who has relocated to Sherebury after the death of her husband. Feeling the absence of her husband during Christmas, she goes to church, only to trip over the body of the cleric after services. Without much else to do with her days, Dorothy decides to investigate; however, the closer she gets to the killer, the closer the killer gets to her.
	Carola Dunn Rattle His Bones: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Set in 1920's London, Daisy Dalrymple is a freelance journalist whose assignment leads her to the Natural History Museum, where a murder has taken place. The very unpopular Keeper of Mineralogy has been stabbed with a dinosaur bone, and someone has replaced all the museum's gems with fakes.
	Janet Evanovich One for the Money
Stephanie Plum tries to find a new career in bounty hunting when she's laid off from her job as a lingerie buyer. Her first case happens to be Joseph Morelli, a cop, as well as her first… well, let's just say they have a history together.
	Kate Kingsbury Paint by Murder
With the backdrop of World War II England, Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, lady of the Manor House, must discover the truth behind the murder of her kindly tenant.
	Sara Rosett Moving is Murder
On her way home from a neighborhood barbeque, air force wife Ellie Avery discovers the body of a local environmentalist. The death appears to be an allergic reaction to wasps, but when she finds a cup with some sugary junk and bits of bees at the bottom, she feels compelled to snoop.
	Sarah Strohmeyer Bubbles Unbound
Meet Bubbles Yablonksy, bleached blonde beautician, mom of a precocious teenager, journalism student at Two Guys Community College, and now, murder investigator.