For Readers: Lillian

The first in a short older series of legal thrillers about Los Angeles deputy DA Rachel Knight, who is out to clear the name of her officemate after he is found shot to death and suspected of committing a murder-suicide. Well-written by Marcia Clark, lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial. Looking forward to finishing this series.

On an island in the Gulf of Naples, Nonna Maria, a widow who knows everyone and everything that goes on, helps a recently engaged young woman disappear while she investigates the true nature of the man she is engaged to.

Annie McIntyre, a recent college graduate adrift and not knowing what she wants to do, moves back home to Garnett, Texas to waitress and help out in her grandfather’s PI firm. She gets drawn into a murder investigation and has to deal with her own PTSD.

Nominee for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, this highly entertaining satire is the story of a former FBI profiler who gave it up to raise her family of four—about to be five—children who becomes embroiled in solving a murder. Touches on a number of socially relevant topics.

In the 1960s, Elizabeth Zott, a chemist, becomes the surprise star of a hit TV show called Supper at Six. She mixes chemistry into her recipes and her goal is to let women know that they don’t need to accept life as it has been handed to them, but that they are entitled to run their own lives.