If You Like: Janet Evanovich
Fiction Series
Size 12 is Not Fat by
Former pop star Heather Wells has a new life as assistant dorm director at New York College where she deals with campus crises and murder.
Call Number: CABISBN: 0060525118
Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure by
Tara Holloway has got your number. A special agent on the IRS's payroll, she's dead-set on making sure that money crimes don't pay...Tax cheats, beware: The Treasury Department's Criminal Investigations Division has a new special agent on its payroll. A recovering tomboy with a head for numbers, Tara's fast becoming the Annie Oakley of the IRS - kicking ass, taking social security numbers, and keeping the world safe for honest taxpayers. Or else.
Call Number: KEL (on order)ISBN: 9780312551261Publication Date: 2011
Dating Dead Men by
Wollie Shelley is a greeting card artist struggling to keep afloat financially and to pursue—despite a series of recent disasters—the search for the love of her life. Now if only dead bodies didn't keep turning up around her.
ISBN: 0385510187
The Spellman Files by
Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, P.I., may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism -- but she's good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family's firm, Spellman Investigations.
Call Number: LUTISBN: 1416532390
Open and Shut by
The Andy Carpenter series features a wealthy, witty, deceptively easygoing attorney who loves both dogs and justice. Rosenfelt places his wise-cracking protagonist in assorted unpleasant situations -- mostly in Paterson, New Jersey -- ratchets up the danger, then takes his readers on a fast-paced ride with criminals, cops, and dramatic courtroom scenes.
Call Number: ROSISBN: 089296748XPublication Date: 2002-05-09
Other Series in RCLS
Drag Strip by
Panama City, FL, serves as the setting for this mystery series featuring Sierra Lavotini, a tough-talking gutsy stripper, and her dog, Fluffy. First title in the series: Miracle Strip (not available in RCLS)
ISBN: 0312202954
My Heart May Be Broken, but My Hair Still Looks Great by
Debbie Sue and her pal, Edwina, run the Styling Station and their detective agency, the Domestic Equalizers. When they become knee-deep in the muck of a horse-thievin' and husband cheatin' escapade, hair will still be styled, and casseroles will burn, but creeps will be brought to justice.
Call Number: [Book 2]ISBN: 0060826185Publication Date: 2005-10-18
Body Wave by
Wry wit and murderous mirth marked Cohen's Bad Hair Day whodunits as readers met Maria Shore, owner of the Cut 'N Dye Salon and amateur sleuth-with-style. First title in the series: Permed to Death.
Call Number: MYS COHISBN: 0758200684
What's a Girl Gotta Do? by
This is a fast-paced, funny mystery series featuring a sleuth who is a television newswoman.
Call Number: MYS HAYISBN: 1569470006
Too Big to Miss by
Too big to miss--that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman who struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier boss. And then there's her knack for being in close proximity to dead people . . . . When her close friend Sophie London commits suicide in front of an online web-cam by putting a gun in her mouth and pulling the trigger, Odelia's life is changed forever. Sophie, a plus-sized activist and inspiration to imperfect women, is the last person anyone would ever have expected to end her own life. Suspecting foul play, Odelia is determined to get to the bottom of her friend's death. Odelia's search for the truth takes her from southern California strip malls to the world of live web-cam porn to the ritzy Corona del Mar.
ISBN: 9780738708638Publication Date: 2006
First Grave on the Right by
First Grave on the Right is the award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper. Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e., murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life... and it turns out he might not be dead after all. In fact, he might be something else entirely.
ISBN: 9780312662752Publication Date: 2011
Maggie Needs an Alibi by
Bestselling author Kasey Michaels offers a snappy, sexy--and completely original--take on comic mystery with the first book in a new series. Mystery writer Maggie Kelly has become a murder suspect, and the only sleuth who's really on her side is a character she invented for her bestselling books.
ISBN: 9781575668796Publication Date: 2002
Out of Time by
Casey Jones is as tough as they come. She's big, blonde and shoots to kill with the best of them -- even if she does lack an official P.I. license due to an unfortunate interlude behind bars. First title in the series: Legwork.
Call Number: MYS MUNISBN: 0380791382
Knock Off by
Meet Finley Anderson Tanner--F.A.T. to her enemies. This West Palm Beach paralegal hates the gym, still rents her condo, and loves two-hour lunches with her friends almost as much as she loves shopping for deeply discounted designer goods. Investigating murder isn't her style, until Finley's boss asks her to look into the "accidental" death of a client's husband. The deeper Finley digs, the stranger things get. Meanwhile she's dealing with the hot, hunky P.I. assigned to the case, Liam McGarrity. Who knew crime could be this much fun?
Call Number: MYS POLISBN: 9780758215574Publication Date: 2007
Mama Does Time by
Meet Mama: a true Southern woman with impeccable manners, sherbet-colored pantsuits, and four prior husbands, able to serve sweet tea and sidestep alligator attacks with equal aplomb. Mama's antics - especially her penchant for finding trouble - drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction. One night, while settling in to look for ex-beaus on COPS, Mace gets a frantic call from her mother. This time, the trouble is real: Mama found a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible and the police think she's the killer. Before their mama lands in prison - just like an embarrassing lyric from a country-western song - Mace and her sisters must find the real culprit.
ISBN: 9781410411952Publication Date: 2009
Gone with a Handsomer Man by
Teeny Templeton believes that her life is finally on track. She's getting married, she's baking her own wedding cake, and she's leaving her troubled past behind. And then? She finds her fiance playing naked badminton with a couple of gorgeous, skanky chicks.
ISBN: 0312571224Publication Date: 2011
Mystery Series
Killer Heels by
Glossy mag advice columnist Molly Forrester works her tail off to get recognized as an investigative journalist and solves a few murders along the way in this mystery series.
Call Number: MYS ANDISBN: 0312319460
Murder with Peacocks by
In this winner of the 1997 St. Martin's Malice Domestic Award, hectic plans for three family weddings in one summer are made even more hectic by murder. A bridesmaid three times over, for her best friend, her sister-in-law to be, and her mother, Meg returns to the little Virginia town in which she grew up to help arrange the events. Amidst the near disasters, truculent brides-to-be, screwball relatives, and minutiae-filled days, someone kills the rudely annoying sister of her mother's fiance.
Call Number: MYS ANDISBN: 9780312199296Publication Date: 1998
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by
Agatha has moved to a picture-book English village and wants to get in the swing. So she buys herself a quiche for the village quiche-making contest and is more than alarmed when it kills a judge. Hot on the trail of the poisoner, Agatha is fearless, all the while unaware, that she's become the next victim....
Call Number: MYS BEAISBN: 9780804111638Publication Date: 1993
Body Movers by
Carlotta Wren has always dreamed of taking a vacation from her life as daughter to fugitive parents and mother to her younger brother, Wesley. So when she is temporarily suspended from her job at Neiman Marcus, the invitation from hunky body mover Cooper Craft to ride to Florida for some fun in the sun and a VIP body pickup seems like a good idea.... And then Wesley tags along to elude an irate loan shark and to play chaperone.... And then they are greeted on arrival by three different men, each one laying claim to the celebutante's body they've been hired to move.... And it isn't long before they realize someone is determined that the stressed-out trio won't make it back to Atlanta with their famous cargo intact
Call Number: MYS BONISBN: 9780778323334Publication Date: 2006
The Thin Woman by
Overweight and unmarried, Ellie Simons balks at the prospect of attending her family reunion. But with a hired escort in tow--posing as husband--she summons the courage to go, little realizing that the weekend will lead to unexpected romance, a treasure hunt--and murder.
Call Number: MYS CANISBN: 9780553291957Publication Date: 1984
Grime and Punishment by
Suburban single mom Jane Jeffry turns amateur sleuth in this series.
Call Number: MYS CHUISBN: 0380764008
Wanna Get Lucky? by
A young woman plunges from a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter, landing in the pirates' lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle of the 8:30 p.m. pirate show. Everyone writes her off as another Vegas victim, except Lucky O'Toole. As head of Customer Relations at Babylon megacasino and resort, she's got a lot on her plate, but she can't resist getting involved in this one.
Call Number: MYS COOISBN: 9780765325433Publication Date: 2010
Don of the Dead by
Beautiful, smart, and chic, Pepper Martin never had to work a day in her life -- until her surgeon daddy was convicted of fraud and the family fortune ran bone dry. Suddenly desperate, the inexperienced ex-rich girl was forced to take the only job she could get: as a tour guide in a cemetery. But a grave situation took a turn for the worse when a head-on collision with a headstone left her with an unwanted ability to communicate with the disgruntled deceased . . . and now Pepper has a whacked Mafia don demanding that she hunt down his killers -- and threatening to haunt her until she does.
Call Number: A PB MYS CASISBN: 9780060821463Publication Date: 2006
Swift Justice by
Charlotte "Charlie" Swift prefers working alone. That's why after eight years as an Air Force investigator she became a PI rather than a cop. She lives alone, she works alone, and aside for the occasional flirtation with sexy cop Connor Montgomery or her hunky neighbor Father Dan, she likes it that way. Then her silent partner flees the country, leaving his wife, Gigi, with nothing but the house, the Hummer, and a half interest in Swift Investigations. Charlie ends up with a heap of debt and Gigi, who has decided to be a not-so-silent partner.
Call Number: MYS DISISBN: 9780312641504Publication Date: 2010
Murder Can Upset Your Mother by
Overweight private investigator Desiree Shapiro deals with romance, food, and murder in New York City. First title in the series: Murder Can Kill Your Social Life.
Call Number: MYS EICISBN: 0451202511
I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by
This series features Los Angeles writer Cece Caruso--mystery biographer extraordinaire, vintage clothing enthusiast, and part-time sleuth.
Call Number: MYS KANISBN: 0060581050
Murder at Longbourn by
Planning New Year's resolutions to rid her life of all things unhealthy, Elizabeth Parker has dumped fatty foods, processed sugar, and her two-timing boyfriend. Indeed, the invitation to join her Aunt Winnie for a How to Host a Murder Party on New Year's Eve at Winnie's new Cape Cod B and B comes just in time. But when the local wealthy miser ends up the unscripted victim, Elizabeth must unearth old secrets and new motives in order to clear her beloved aunt of suspicion.
Call Number: MYS KIEISBN: 9780312537562Publication Date: 2009
Liar, Liar by
Private Investigator Cat DeLuca and her Pants on Fire Detective Agency have a reputation for catching cheaters. It’s a skill Cat mastered when married to her run-around ex, Johnnie Ricco. Armed with a camera, Cat scales balconies, dangles from hotel windows, and splashes the bare facts on 8X10 glossies. They tend to sweeten her clients’ divorce settlements. Life takes a strange turn when a reporter for the Chicago Tribune (Rita Polansky) masquerades as a client with a liar-liar husband. Watch for the 2nd book in the series: Sticks and Bones (2012)
Call Number: MYS LARISBN: 1590587251
This Pen for Hire by
Jaine Austen is a hip, jack-of-all-trades writer who spends her days penning steamy personal ads. No-one needs her help more than geeky Howard Murdoch. Jaine successfully sets him up on a date and all is going well until Valentine's Day when Howard finds his new love has been murdered.
Call Number: MYS LEVISBN: 9780758201584Publication Date: 2002
May Day by
Due to a dead-end job and a cheating boyfriend, the Twin Cities have lost their charm for Minneapolitan Mira James, and Mira decides to begin a new life in rural Battle Lake. Right away she is offered jobs as an assistant librarian and part-time reporter, and falls into an unexpected romance with a guy who seems to be the perfect man until he turns up dead between the reference stacks her tenth day on the job. Anxious to learn more about the man who had briefly stolen her heart, Mira delves into the hidden mysteries of Battle Lake, including a old land deed with ancient Ojibwe secrets, an obscure octogenarian crowd with freaky social lives, and a handful of thirtysomething high school buddies who hold bitter, decades-old grudges. Mira soon discovers that unknown dangers are concealed under the polite exterior of this quirky small town, and revenge is a tator-tot hotdish best served cold. A hip, humorous, and gripping account of small-town murder, this novel is the first in a series of cozies.
Call Number: MYS LOUISBN: 9780738708386Publication Date: 2006
Our Lady of Immaculate Deception by
Roxy Abruzzo is a loud-mouthed, sexy, independent-minded niece of a Pittsburgh Mafia boss trying to go (mostly) straight. She’d like to stay completely out of her uncle Carmine’s shady business dealings. She'd like to concentrate on the architectural salvage business she runs mostly on the up and up for a tidy profit. But Roxy knows where all the good intentions in the world usually lead, and when she can’t help herself from tucking away an ancient Greek statue that's not really hers, she pays for it by getting caught up in the chaos surrounding the sordid murder of the statue’s former owner, heir to a billion-dollar Pittsburgh steel fortune. Of course, she has plenty of help getting in and out of trouble, including her sidekick “Nooch” Santonucci; her widowed aunt Loretta, a lawyer with big hair and short skirts; and Patrick Flynn, ex-marine, professional chef, and former high school flame, fresh from Afghanistan to torture Roxy, just like old times.
Call Number: MYS MARISBN: 9780312573720Publication Date: 2010
Hounding the Pavement by
Meet Ellie Engleman, psychic dog-walker The newest dog-walker on Manhattan's Upper East Side has a talent--she can hear what her canine clientele is thinking. So when a dog's owner turns up dead, Ellie must bone up on her sleuthing and perk up her ears to find a killer.
Call Number: A PB MYS MCCISBN: 9780451226310Publication Date: 2009
Sick of Shadows by
The book that started it all for Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb's widely acclaimed series featuring amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson. When delicate Eileen Chandler is set to marry, her family fears the man is a fortune hunter. Thank goodness, Eileen's cousin Elizabeth MacPherson comes early for support. Unfortunately, Elizabeth also has some detecting to do, as a dead body is found, and none of the wedding party is above suspicion....
Call Number: MYS MCCISBN: 9780345356536Publication Date: 1989
False Profits by
L.A. business consultant Tucker Sinclair offers financial advice to her clients and solves murders on the side.
Call Number: MYS SMIISBN: 0892967900
Bubbles Unbound by
Bubbles Yablonsky, the spandex-wearing, cleavage-baring hairstylist-cum-journalist and sleuth from Lehigh, Pennsylvania, solves crimes in this series of wacky, wisecracking mysteries.
Call Number: MYS STRISBN: 0525945806
Every Crooked Nanny by
Callahan Garrity is a part-time PI, a former Atlanta cop, and the full-time owner of the House Mouse cleaning service, catering to wealthy Atlanta suburbanites.
Call Number: MYS TROISBN: 0061091707
If Looks Could Kill by
Freelance true-crime writer Bailey Weggins ends up investigating murders in the glamorous magazine publishing world of New York City.
Call Number: MYS WHIISBN: 0446530239
Individual Titles
Darkest Fear by
In number seven of the Myron Bolitar series, the sports agent and amateur detective searches for a missing bone-marrow donor to save the life of his college sweetheart's 13-year-old son. If the title and cover lead some to wonder why this novel is on this list, a quick look at the repartee between the characters and Simon's take on various situations will provide the clues.
ISBN: 0440235391Publication Date: 2001-05-08
The Hearse Case Scenario by
This is the third novel of Cockey's featuring undertaker Hitchcock Sewell. While investigating this mystery, Sewell encounters a felonious artist, a Miles Davis wanna-be, an Ida Lupino look-alike and a very irritated dance instructor.
Call Number: MYS COCISBN: 0786867116Publication Date: 2002-02-06
Fast Women by
Recently divorced, Nell Dysart begins a new life as a secretary for a detective agency. Soon she is involved in investigations of blackmail, arson and murder.
Call Number: CRUISBN: 0312252617Publication Date: 2001-05-01
Agnes and the Hitman by
Agnes's life goes awry when a dognapper invades her kitchen, hampering her attempts to put on a wedding. And then Shane shows up. Hes got a big hit scheduled, a rival trying to take him out, and an ex-mobster uncle asking him to protect little Agnes in this sexy, hilarious romp.
Call Number: CRUISBN: 0312363044
Barking! by
Liz Evans is often called England's Janet Evanovich. In Barking, her heroine accidentally knocks a stranger on the head with a large beef bone while looking for a friend's dog. Learning that she is a private investigator, the stranger asks her to help him find out if he could have killed someone in a past life. Although skeptical, she agrees to help him when he offers her a generous expense account.
ISBN: 0752825410Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Cast in Stone by
Things haven't been going great lately for Leo Waterman's burly ex-hero, Henry "Heck" Sundstrom. First came the honeymoon boating accident that killed Heck's son and new daughter-in-law, Allison. And now the big man himself is dying--struck down by a runaway truck at an ungodly hour in a section of Seattle where no decent citizen should be caught dead. But Waterman's not so sure Allison went down with the ship. And if his motley, aging legmen, "the Boys," can gather the facts, perhaps he can prove it.
Call Number: MYS FORISBN: 0380727625
Sis Boom Bah by
Two sisters who have been feuding since childhood unwittingly become each other's alibis in the murder case of a man who's hit on both of them.
ISBN: 0312203128Publication Date: 1999-04-15
Mr. Perfect by
"What would make the perfect man?" That's the topic at a table of professional women at their favorite restaurant. Mr. Perfect. Would he be tall, dark, and handsome? Caring and warmhearted -- or will just muscular do? Jaine Bright and her three girlfriends start off with the basics -- but as the conversation picks up momentum, they write down a tongue-in-cheek checklist that's both funny and racy. The next thing they know, the List spreads like wildfire throughout their company, grabbing the interest of local newspapers and television coverage. No one expected all this attention for something that began as a joke. And the joke turns deadly serious when one of the four women is murdered.
Call Number: HOWISBN: 0671027573
Compromising Positions by
The brilliant debut that's sold over a million copies-now in trade paperback for the first time! Rediscover the "wonderfully funny, deliciously mean" (New York Times) novel that launched Susan Isaacs' New York Times bestselling career-and introduced Long Island housewife Judith Singer, her most beloved character. Judith is smart and funny, with a gorgeous husband and wonderful kids. She's also incredibly bored, having put her Ph.D. plans on hold for a life of housekeeping and nose-wiping. So when a local dentist is found murdered, and the police suspect her neighbor, that's all the excuse Judith needs to jump in and begin her own investigation. It seems the deceased periodontist was quite the Don Juan of the PTA, with a habit of taking incriminating photos. In between school runs and making dinner, Judith is drawn deeper into the case-and closer to the sexy police detective in charge.
Call Number: ISAISBN: 9780425216194Publication Date: 2007-02-06 (reprint of 1978 book)
Birthday Party by
In Marne Davis Kellogg's fifth intricately plotted, wildly entertaining mystery, Marshal Lilly Bennett, hot on the trail of an unlikely serial murderer, finds herself drugged and lost in the Nevada desert. Out West, where open spaces are practically sacred, land developers are considered the closest thing to Satan, so it's really no surprise to Lilly Bennett when members of the Johnson clan--the evil spirits behind the Johnson Land Company--start getting bumped off. It all begins with a masked gunman's very surprising appearance at a charity dinner. With her trusty Glock pistol tucked in her evening bag, Lilly chases the murderer across food-laden tables, startling the guests even more and ruining her brand-new Yves Saint Laurent aubergine shantung suit in the process, only to have the killer escape in the Bennett family helicopter. Needless to say, the marshal is more than eager to get even. As any reader of Marne Davis Kellogg's wickedly biting, cleverly conceived, and always amusing mysteries will know, nothing that happens to the Bennett clan of Bennett's Fort, Wyoming, ever takes place on a small scale. InBirthday Party, Lilly and her oh-so-proper mother spend time hobnobbing with a bevy of Las Vegas showgirls; the marshal and her hunky new husband, Richard, find themselves wining and dining with mobsters; and Bennett's Fort entertains a superstar at a party. Events unfold at breakneck speed, and the entertainment never lets up, right through the startling and deliciously satisfying conclusion.
ISBN: 0385493339Publication Date: 1999-12-28
Other Authors to Try
Maracotta, Lindsay
Matturro, Claire
McKevett, G.A.
Myers, Tamar
Piesman, Marissa
Roberts, Gillian
Rogers, Chris
Saulnier, Beth
Shankman, Sarah
Sussman, Susan
Sources & Other Lists
Catalog Summaries
Seattle Public Library's If You Like Janet Evanovich
Funny Female Sleuths by Shelley Mosley (Novelist Plus) (may required PRPL library card to access)
Mystery--If You Like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum HWPL
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