Meg Raymond

Nancy Thayer wrote the "Hot Flash Club" books, which always feature smart, sassy, sexy women - perhaps past the first blush of youth. If you are looking for books like those, then you may like:

These book lists in the Reading Room: 

•  Mid-Life Madness: stories for People of a Certain Age
• Marriage Can be Murder
• Later Love
• That Would be Ma'am to You

Some specific titles you may enjoy:

When you think of Sherlock Holmes, do you think of a middle-aged man in a deerstalker cap, blowing smoke from a pipe and peering through a magnifiying glass while saying "It's elementary, my dear Watson"?

Many writers have tried to emulate, imitate and improve on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective tales.  Check out the book list "Sleuthing Sherlock Holmes" for many different portrayals of the Great Detective. 

What is is about Jane Austen?  If you have read her books over and over and over, maybe you are ready to try something a little different.  Her stories have been re-told and re-imagined in prequels and sequels and in various time periods and settings.  Her characters even make literary appearances as zombies and vampires.  Browse our new booklist, Jane Austen Over and Over and Over.

 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer is charming and comprised of letters. Epistolary fiction is one of my favorite literary devices. If you liked this book, you may also like:

Which Brings Me to You by Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott

"Sarah's Key" is a historical novel about the roundup and deportation of French Jews in 1942, but it is also a modern tale about families, secrets and loyalties. The story is gripping and moves between modern France and Europe on the verge of the Holocaust.

If you like "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay, you may like these recommendations.

Some are historical, some move back and forth in time and some just have a similar "feel" to the storytelling.
 

"The Elegance of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery

Check out "Books With Bite," featuring vampires, werewolves and other fictional creatures that go bump in the night.

If you like the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris, you may like some of the following books.  Sookie is not only a telepath, but a spunky gal!  This series features all kinds of fearsome creatures, but the humor shines through at all times.

THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME) by Anna Brashares covers the themes of sisters and family and love and heartbreak with poignancy and humor.

Two lists with similar stories are "A Friend in Need" and "Dating and other Disasters of Modern Life".

Some other books you may enjoy:

If you like books by Faye Kellerman, you may also like...

Take a look at the Reading Room:
 

Hello!  If you enjoyed “Summer Sisters” by Judy Blume, these stories about women and friendship may appeal to you:

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

by Ann Brashares

A story about a special summer in the lives of four lifelong friends who are separated for the first time. The young women find a pair of jeans that fits each of them perfectly and they decide to use the pants as a way of keeping in touch.