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Just For You! -- Mysteries with Memorable Settings

If you like a gentler mystery with a setting that brings the story to life you should find something to love on this list.

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  • Clare Fergusson, the first female priest of an Episcopal church in Millers Kill, New York, finds herself immersed in murder when a newborn baby is abandoned. The mother is no where to be found. Clare is forced to dig deeply into the town's…
    Book, 2012New York : Thomas Dunne Books/ Minotaur, 2012. — FICTION SPENCER-FLEMING
  • It is 1938. Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany. The Secret Service wants Maisie to retrieve a British prisoner set for release from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich.
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — FICTION WINSPEAR
  • Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective, is a little short on help. So, when a young Canadian woman approaches Mma Ramotswe with a complex case, it's up to her alone to solve it--with her signature intuition and insight, of course. The…
    Book, 2016New York : Pantheon Books, [2016] — FICTION MCCALL SMITH
  • Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October--and…
    Book, 2020New York : Crooked Lane Books, 2020. — FICTION BYRON
  • During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned-and suspects abound. Vice Commissario of the Venice police, Guido Brunetti, sets out to unravel the…
    Book, 2004New York : Harper, 2004. — FICTION LEON
  • New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson's Drug Store soda counter, and "Hot Stuff "comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of…
    Book, 2014New York, NY : Atria Paperback, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2014. — FICTION KRUEGER