Pennsylvania Dutch innkeeper Magdalena Yoder keeps folks fed and solves mysteries. Neurotic lawyer Nina Fischman solves New York cases with schtick. Amanda Pepper, hip prep school English teacher and city-dweller, solves mysteries in and around the comfortable Philadelphia suburbs. Plenty of action featuring a female bounty hunter. A bit darker than Evanovich.
Grace is a nice girl who can never seem to get out of go-nowhere relationships.
So she takes to murder, until she gets involved with someone with the same bad habit. Samantha Adams is a wisecracking journalist on the trail of outrageous crime stories from Atlantic City to New Orleans. Charismatic Kate Shugak, an Aleut who formerly worked for the District Attorney, uses survival skills and her knowledge of the Alaskan landscape to solve mysteries. A fun alternative to novels with urban settings. Sassy Brenda Kovner, devoted surgeon's wife and advice columnist, makes huge and hilarious changes in her life on the occasion of her 46 th birthday.