Before you knew my name

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Dictionary of Lost Words

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Where the Crawdads Sing

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Death on Demand

Den of Antiquities mysteries

Blanche White mysteries

In for a penny by Kathryn R. Wall

The old buzzard had it coming by Donis Casey

The crow trap by Ann Cleeves

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Survivors by Jane Harpen

Ink and Shadows by Ellery Adams

Where the Crawdads Sing

The Frozen river

When the Jessamine Grows

Cat's Claw by Susan Wittig Albert

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The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green

Southern Discomfort (sequel to Bootlegger's Daughter)

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The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

Where The Crawdad's Sing

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The Night Always Comes

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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Blanche White Mysteries

Summer of Lost and Found by Rebecca Behrens

Saving Tuna Street by Nancy Nau Sullivan (Blanche Murningham Mysteries)

Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Invisible Hour - Alice Hoffman

We Would Never - Tova Mirvis

The covenant of water by Abraham Verghese.

Hard Row

Where the Crawdads Sing

Batman: Nightwalker

Hemlock by Susan Wittig Albert

Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

Let's no one get hurt by Jon Pineda

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (sense of place & mystery)

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (very important sense of place - some of her appeals?)

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman - a mystery set in Sweden (with humor at times) - a stretch from what I've seen others suggest but I couldn't watch the videos

Big lies is a small town

The women (Kristin Hannah)

Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens

The Dry by Jane Harper

A house with good bones by T Kingfisher

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Every Bone a Prayer

A body by the lighthouse by Helen Cox

The lost flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

In the woods by Tana French

Seven by Chris Hammer

Theyll call it treason by Jprdan Greene: this title is a mystery in North Carolina that has a politcal element to it.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens: this title is very much in keeping with the setting and description of the setting that she enjoys.

Down River by John Hart is an unexpected pick. Although it is aNorth Carolina mystery, the main character is a man, not a woman. However, this book is very much chcaracter-driven, which Joane also appreciates.

Quite Similar: A Killing in the Hills by Julia Keller

A Little Less Similar: Decent People by De’Shawn Charles Winslow

Unexpected delight: Tom lake by Ann Patchett

Hemlock - Susan Wittig Albert

A Murder in Passing - Mark de Castrique

The Last House on the Street - Diane Chamberlain

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers

Close to exact - Serena by Ron Rash

Related - A Share in Death by Deobrah Crombie

Southern Discomfort by Margaret Maron

Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Prima Facie by Suzie Miller

Murder at Luna Lake (Blue Ridge Mountain Mysteries) by Cathy Pickens

A Killing in the hills by Julia Keller

When did we lose Harriet by Patricia Sprinkle

Where The Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)

Exiles (Jane Harper)

Hello Beautiful (Ann Napolitano)

Track of the cat by Nevada Barr

Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb

Cul-de-sac by Joy Fielding

'Where the Crawdads Sing' by Delia Owens

'The Dry' by Jane Harper

'Kindred' by Octavia Butler

Them Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney, #1)

The Pepper Peach Murder by Meg Benjamin

Shakespeare's Landlord Charlaine Harris (Charlaine Harris Schulz)

One that is related: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (strong women characters, even if some of them aren't great people)

One that might surprise them: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

Southern Fried

Miss Julia speaks her mind

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

What Have you Done? by Shari Lapena

The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley

Where the crawdads sings

The Frozen River

The women

Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens

The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

All that is Hidden by Rhys Bowen

Where the Crawdads sing by Delia Owens

The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain

All the is Hidden by Rhys Bowen

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

1. Compelling mystery

2. Rural southern setting with a strong sense of place

3. Well developed characters who fight corruption

4. Award winning

5. Beginning of a series

The Coral Bride by Roxanne Bouchard

1. Strong sense of place--but this time in a rural fishing community in Canada

2. Well-developed characters

3. Murder, mystery, and fighting corruption

The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra

1. Well-developed characters and a strong intelligent female lead who fights injustice

2. Intricately plotted mystery

3. Beginning of a series

4. Strong sense of place (1920s Bangalore)

5. Cozier vibe, instead of the darker mood of the previous recommendations

Deception Point by Dan Brown

Smoke and Mirrors by Barbara Michaels

The English Masterpiece by Katherine Reay

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Booked for Death by Victoria Gilbert

The Tattered Cover by Ellery Adams

The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse by Leann Sweeney

The Old Buzzard Had it Coming by Donis Casey

Miss Julia speaks her mind by Ann B. Ross

Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

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The Cork O'Connor series of mystery/suspense books by William Kent Krueger

The pale house

Still life

Bluebird

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The Summer The Melted Everything

"Mother-Daughter Murder Night" by Nina Simone

1. It's a murder mystery with a strong sense of place and well-developed characters. It features a strong woman lead who uncovers town secrets while investigating.

"Southern Fried" by Cathy Pickens

1. The main character is a woman attorney who ends up distracted from her career goals by a murder in her small town. It's set in the south and shares the sense of place that the reader enjoys.

"One Coffee With" by Margaret Maron

1. This is the first in another series by the same author as "Bootlegger's Daughter". While this series is more of a police procedural and is set in New York instead of the South, the reader may find they enjoy it since it's by the same author, even if it is a different tone.