Books like The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

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.

In "Lethal White", private‑detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott chase a chilling murder linked to a 2012 London Olympic witness, winding through London’s streets, Parliament, and a sinister country house.

Former CIA operative Jack Morgan runs the globe‑wide Private investigation firm, tackling an NFL‑gambling scandal, the murders of 18 schoolgirls and the brutal killing of a friend’s wife—pushing him to balance vengeance, justice and workplace intrigue.

When a friend of his adopted daughter reports a serial killer targeting traveling panhandlers, private investigator Lucas Davenport is drawn into North Dakota, where he uncovers a violent subculture and a deadly conspiracy.

In southeast Minnesota, a school board vote to allow a local reporter to be killed triggers a mystery, as Virgil Flowers investigates a dognapping ring that has expanded into medical labs and a murder.

In Wyoming’s remote Black Hills, game warden Joe Pickett lands at a mysterious ranch where rumours of hidden wealth and murder swirl. He must uncover the truth while confronting dangerous locals and unexpected betrayal.

In Las Vegas, a corrupt restaurant owner lures young women into a deadly business, while Los Angeles detective Jack Morgan follows leads that bring him into the city of sin and a murder-for-hire ring.

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.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

Former Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought‑hit hometown to attend the funeral of his best friend Luke and unwittingly rekindles a decades‑old mystery of murder, false alibis, and buried secrets.

An amnesiac on Harris, a detective in Lewis, and a girl in Edinburgh pursue the truth behind a bludgeoned corpse and a mysterious map called Coffin Road, weaving a tense Scottish crime thriller.

In Delhi, ex‑Private India chief Santosh Wagh must confront personal demons as he investigates a murder case tied to corrupt officials and buried human remains at a government site.

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.

New York detective Stanley Hastings gets pulled into a deadly prostitution ring when he tries to rescue a housewife from her pimp, only to find himself the top suspect amid money, sex, and murder.

When a former journalist settles back into his hometown of Promise Falls, New York, a hidden family secret and a series of brutal killings force him to confront the town’s dark past and his own doubts.

Cork O'Connor races against a looming winter storm to find a missing man in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, uncovering a deadly mystery that threatens not only his life but the lives of hundreds.

In London, celebrity divorce lawyer Richard Pryce is found bludgeoned in his flat, a £3,000 bottle of 1982 Château Lafite beside him and a mysterious three‑digit number on the wall. Private investigator Daniel Hawthorne, with assistant and author narrator Anthony, must unmask the killer and their own hidden secrets.