When I read Tony Hillerman mysteries, they go down like popcorn. They are fun the first time through. I don't return to them as a rule.

Sharyn McCrumb's mysteries set in the Appalachian Mountain country have appealed to me for years, especially the lady with the Sight, spinster Nora Bonesteel.

I have forgotten the author of the series set in Puritan New England, whose protagonist is a midwife; as a midwife she assists at more than births, and sometimes she is called when there is no doctor for miles around, which may even be those occasions when an examiner/coroner is called for. A very righteous and angry author, as I recall, but the research is impressive.