leonf

Alice Duncan Daisy Gumm series. a fake spiritualist in Pasadean, CA, USA circa post WWI. GF and I started a FB groups for her and she is a frequent contributor. Sometimes we offer pissibilities for her future adventres.

lberna

Thanks. I just entered a “hold” for a download at my parish library. I decided I would start with the first book of this series. “Sworn to Silence” has an estimated wait time of 8 weeks. I’m not in any hurry. I’ll wait for a good mystery. There are other books I can read in the meantime.

Seasew

I really like Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder books. I listen to them on audio. Thanks for telling us about the new one.

Iceblossom

I looked up the Daisy Gumm books they sound like a good fit for me, my library doesn't have any of them in Audio form but Audible does and I am a prime member so can get it that way. I'll write myself a note.

For similar tastes but set in the past is the Maisie Dobbs books by Jacqueline Winspear, set in Britain mostly from WWI on. They say "maisie dobbs" so often in the first books it sort of got to me... Maisie is a girl who grew up in service but was able to go to school and otherwise improve her lot in life and then got involved in adventures of various sorts as a "psychologist and investigator".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisie_Dobbs

Lately I'm going through the Mary Russell/Mrs. Sherlock Holmes books by Laurie R King. I read the Beekeeper's Apprentice when it was first written, bunch of them have come out since then. There are a number of similarities between Mary and Maisie. Some have been better than others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie...lmes_mysteries

Another semi-similar series is set in San Francisco around the time of the fire/earthquake is by Shirley Tallman. The protagonist is a female lawyer. Or more specifically, the only female lawyer...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/41576-sarah-woolson

For modern female lawyers I enjoyed the Barbara Holloway books by Kate Wilhelm. Barbara is a death penalty qualified lawyer in Eugene, Oregon. Not the usual place for murder mysteries!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Wilhelm

Only a few of them, but I liked the Cree Black books by Daniel Hecht. Cree is a Seattle based psychic detective, so some supernatural elements to the story. Not similar to the other books but psychic detective got in my head
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hecht

leonf

Quote0 Lately I'm going through the Mary Russell/Mrs. Sherlock Holmes books by Laurie R King. I read the Beekeeper's Apprentice when it was first written, bunch of them have come out since then. There are a number of similarities between Mary and Maisie. Some have been better than others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie...lmes_mysteries

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Let me know if you want to Join Daisy Daze.

leonf

PS Dasiy is a fashion seamstress for her family and uses a knee control White. Though Alice called it something different. I've corrected her. hehe

mjkgquilt

In Michigan we can search of Libraries in the state for a book. Takes about a week or 10 days for a book to arrive at my Library. When I'm finished reading, I return it to my Library and they return it to its Home Library. Perhaps Colorado has a similar exchange.

leonf

interlibrary loan can be international. I've done that, too.