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If You Like The Residence

If you like Netflix's The Residence featuring a birdwatching detective, check out these other books you may enjoy!

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  • The Residence

    Inside the Private World of the White House

    Brower, Kate Andersen
    This non-fiction book is the basis for the fictional series. An intimate account of White House life from the perspectives of the service staffs of the Kennedys through the Obamas details their friendships, marriages, everyday activities…
    BookNew York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] — 975.3 BROWER
  • If you like the Upstairs, Downstairs aspect: A cook working in a London mansion has no issue with her employer’s eccentricities until her assistant is murdered.
    PaperbackNew York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2018. — FICTION ASHLEY
  • If you want another mystery solved by birdwatching detectives: Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the George and Molly Palmer-Jones series following remarkable mysteries in a birdwatching community—now in print for the first time…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2025. — 823.9140
  • If you like the level-headed detective surrounded by oddballs: Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks…
    PaperbackLeawood, Kansas : Brash Books, [2014] — FICTION NEELY
  • If you want a classic mystery series set in the White House: A lawyer with ties to the President must investigate the murder of the Secretary of State under mysterious circumstances, in this first book in Margaret Truman's New York Times…
    PaperbackNew York : Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. — FICTION TRUMAN
  • If you want a cozy, feel good mystery: Suspicious and doubting, Glory Brussard decides to investigate after learning that her best friend, a nun beloved by her Lafayette, Louisiana community has died mysteriously and has been ruled a…
    BookNew York, NY : Pegasus Crime, 2023. — FICTION ARCENEAUX
  • If you want to read about an investigator trying to solve a crime that no one else thinks is a crime: Former Chicago cop-turned-private investigator Cass Raines tackles a spate of vandalism at a local church where she discovers the dead…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Books, 2018. — FICTION CLARK
  • If you want a mystery set in a big house with lots of suspects that each have a motive: Murder links past and present once again in this mind-boggling metafictional mystery from Anthony Horowitz featuring detective Atticus Pünd and editor…
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — FICTION HOROWITZ
  • If you like The Residence, but want more suspense: Idealistic young FBI agent Peter Sutherland is forced to question everything and trust no one in order to stop a Russian mole in the White House.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] — FICTION QUIRK
  • If you just want to read more about backyard birding: Tracking the natural beauty that surrounds us, The Backyard Bird Chronicles maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions, and beautiful original sketches. With…
    PaperbackNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — 598.0723 TAN
  • If you're ready to start birdwatching: Used by millions of birders from novices to the most expert, The Sibley Guide became the standard by which natural history guides are measured. The highly anticipated second edition builds on this…
    PaperbackNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. — 598.097 SIBLEY