Books like Speaking from Among the Bones by Alan Bradley

A parlor game in Snowbound Sittaford House turns deadly when a curse appears to predict murder. Amateur occultists must confront a spirit world to uncover the killer.

Cody Hoyt, a brilliant but alcoholic cop, investigates the suspicious death of his mentor Hank Winters after a mentor’s burned cabin points to foul play, forcing him to confront his own sobriety and past misconduct.

Eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce must unravel a mysterious death that leads to family secrets tied to Winston Churchill, using her scientific mind and a beloved plane to uncover the truth.

Dr. Temperance Brennan must confront a resurfacing child‑murderer as the Charlotte PD Cold Case Unit investigates a new victim in Vermont and North Carolina, risking her own demons to stop the relentless psychopath.

In medieval Cambridge, Adelia, a pioneering female forensic expert, is charged by King Henry II to uncover a murderer who has wrongly targeted the Jewish community.

A detective must untangle a baffling murder case in which an amnesiac doctor discovers his pivotal alibi, while the convicted killer’s wrongful trial leaves the truth hidden and the danger still looming.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

A widowed mother and her daughter inherit the secluded Honeychurch Hall, only to find a missing nanny, a dead housekeeper, and a murder accusation that forces the daughter to unravel family secrets in this cozy mystery.

An amateur sleuth discovers a chilling tape that may link a missing teen to the bones in a forensic lab – a chilling mystery that ensues when a forensic anthropologist follows the lead into the backwoods.

A gripping mystery story following teenage girls grappling with personal tragedy and the pursuit of justice in a small English town.

A Edinburgh bookseller becomes a detective when a friend’s murder and a priceless collection of antique medical tomes collide, forcing her to navigate the city’s hidden corners and the mysteries of the past.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

Unwed, unemployed, and broke, Southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney turns to her detective instincts in the Mississippi town of Zinnia to solve a murder and protect her family plantation, all while a ghost from the past watches her every move.

In cozy Mississippi town of Zinnia, private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney balances holiday cheer with a tense ransom case when a kidnapped teen’s safety hinges on solving a family mystery before Christmas.