If You Like Sue Grafton

Track of the Cat  by Nevada Barr
Fleeing New York to find refuge as a ranger in the remote backcountry of West Texas, Anna Pigeon stumbles into a web of violence and murder when fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed and another ranger vanishes.

Dead Time by Eleanor T. Bland
Transplanted Chicago cop Marti MacAlister looks into the sudden death of Dorsey, an eccentric old woman whose loud music had always disturbed the other residents at the Cramer Hotel.

You Only Die Twice by Edna Buchanan
What was the nude, recently slain body of Kaithlin Jordan doing spoiling the pristine turquoise waters of Miami Beach – especially when the dead socialite's convicted killer husband is sitting on Death Row for having murdered her...10 years ago! Reporter Britt Montero lives for this kind of story. But she may die for this one, as well. Because each question raises many others – and every hard-won answer reveals secret passions and explosive truths that could doom an overly inquisitive journalist with a tendency to leap before she looks.

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Watch out, world, here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. She's from the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton, New Jersey, where cars are American, windows are clean, and dinner is served at six. No exceptions. Stephanie lives five miles from her parents, trying to sever the world's longest umbilical cord. Mom is a meddler, and eccentric Grandma Mazur is a few cans short of a case. Out of work, Stephanie blackmails her bail bondsman cousin, Vinnie, into giving her a try as an "agent." She knows zilch about the job, but she figures her new pal, fearless bounty hunter Ranger, can teach her whatever it takes. Her first assignment: nail Joe Morelli, a former cop on the run from a murder charge.

Until Proven Guilty by J.A. Jance
The little girl was only five, much too young to die – a lost treasure who should have been cherished, not murdered. She could have been J.P. Beaumont's kid, and the determined Seattle homicide detective won't rest until her killer pays dearly. But the hunt is leading Beaumont into a murky world of religious fanaticism and toward a beautiful, perilous obsession all his own. And suddenly Beau himself is a target – because faith can be dangerous...and love can kill.

Wild Kat by Karen Kijewski
Kat Colorado, a thirty-something California bartender-turned-P.I. is a curious lady with nine lives, nerves of iron...and a passion for justice. After Kat pulls a hunky young man from a fiery car wreck, he hires her to find out who wants his plain-Jane wife dead. California cool and clever.

A Grave Talent by Laurie King
Assigned, along with her new partner, to investigate the murders of three little girls, homicide detective Casey Martinelli closes in on a colony of mismatched people living in the wooded hills near San Francisco.

Ask the Cards a Question by Marcia Muller
There's trouble in Sharon McCone's quiet San Francisco apartment building. Madame Anya, with her cards, her tame crow and her candles, had predicted evil for Molly Antonio. Linnea Carraway, drinking heavily and careening crazily in the wake of a divorce, had argued with her. Now the sweet, elderly lady lies in her apartment. Linnea, last to see Molly alive, is the prime suspect, and if Sharon means to clear her best friend, she has to find the murderer fast. Suddenly death is in the cards, threatening Sharon's oldest friendship, her professional credibility – and her life.

Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
America's "most convincing and engaging" (Entertainment Weekly) female private-eye, V.I. Warshawski, is looking for a missing coed, but finds a large scam involving big business executives, notorious underworld figures and murder.

Twilight by Nancy Pickard
In this mysterious tale the fortunes of Port Frederick, Massachusettts, are riding on the upcoming Autumn Festival, sponsored by the Judy Foundation founder and director, Jenny Cain. As if running the fair wasn't enough, Jenny's life and her own fortunes become much more complicated when she is swept into a long-running, deadly controversy, which, to her horror, threatens disaster for those she holds dear.