Fun Fiction with Clean Language and Little Violence

Try these books if you're looking for:

• cleaner language
• little violence
• like authors Agatha Christie, Jessica Day George, & Jane Austen

Maisie Dobbs 
By Jacqueline Winspear
MYSTERY WINSPEAR Maisie #1
Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, Trade and Personal Investigations.

The Corinthian 
By Georgette Heyer
ROMANCE HEYER
When a man comes across a beautiful young woman climbing out of a window in a bid to escape, he finds the ideal opportunity to realize his own escape in this sparkling Regency romance with a decidedly Shakespearean twist.

The Star of Kazan 
By Eva Ibbotson
YA IBBOTSON
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.