Books like Murder carries a torch by Anne George

A charming and clever women detective, Precious Ramotswe, solves mysteries in Botswana's small town of Midsomin, South Africa, from 1986 to 1997, facing dangers and love in the process. The novel is beloved by readers worldwide for its clever dialogue and characters who are as flawed as the rest of us. The book is a bestseller and has been translated into 45 languages, including Polish, German, and Japanese, among others. It was also voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.

Miss Marple finds herself in the Caribbean, where a mysterious old soldier hints at a strange coincidence that could spark adventure.

Elizabeth Lange, a grieving actress, investigates her sister's murder at a luxury spa in Pebble Beach.

Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts her twin by investigating a serial killer, unraveling dark family secrets while racing a cross‑country murderer to protect her own life.

Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, a witty 28‑year‑old private investigator, runs the chaotic Spellman Investigations firm in San Francisco, turning family drama into comic detective work.

Fiction, Ghost story, Setting - England

Torchwood follows Captain Jack Harkness and his team as they investigate mysterious phenomena in South Wales, from ghostly apparitions to baffling medical cases threatening their own community.

When sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne investigate the death of Meemaw Turkett on a quirky trailer‑lot, a sticky web of family secrets, a new bride, and an unlikely sheriff threatens to turn the investigation into a mystery for the ages.

When a post‑wedding luncheon turns deadly, sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne uncover secrets buried in a Southern family’s genealogy and find themselves entangled in a mystery that threatens to expose long‑hidden shame.

Practical ex‑teacher Patricia Anne and her larger‑bodied sister Mary Alice investigate a murder that occurs after a gallery opening, uncovering clues hidden in the local art scene of Alabama.

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.

Catering manager and minister’s wife Faith Fairchild must navigate a web of theft, corruption, and murder when an elderly friend’s body is found in their Massachusetts home, turning a personal tragedy into a dangerous investigation.

Faith Fairchild, the reverend’s wife, investigates a murder in tiny Aleford, Massachusetts, after a body is discovered in a suspicious house fire amid threats to local environmentalists protesting the destruction of Beecher’s Bog.

In her seventeenth fictional adventure, Jessica Fletcher travels to Provence for haute cuisine and finds herself caught in a culinary murder mystery.

Faith Fairchild, a catering teacher and minister's wife, tackles racial harassment at Mansfield Academy while uncovering a murderous plot that threatens both a black student and her own life.

Sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne, who run a Birmingham bar, investigate a strangled killer that stalks them after a murder in their pub.

Thomas Pitt, a Special Branch operative, is called to investigate a murder at Connaught Square, where a junior diplomat's body lies in a wheelbarrow. Suspicion falls on the house’s Egyptian tenant, Ayesha Zakhari, as political intrigue and a looming trial threaten to expose hidden scandals.