Books like Hole in One by Catherine Aird

A locked‑in murder on the Orient Express forces detective Hercule Poirot to unravel a mystery among a diverse group of passengers during a snowbound night.

Detective Alex Cross faces a devastating murder spree in Washington, D.C., as a sniper eliminates corrupt politicians and threatens his life, forcing him to confront a powerful adversary while juggling his wedding plans.

When a mock murder hunt at a village fete turns deadly, crime‑novelist Ariadne Oliver summons Hercule Poirot to uncover the truth amid twists that blur reality and performance.

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.

When a crow drops a human finger on a walking club member’s path, a search for a missing body brings together police, community members and local farmers in a quiet English village.

In the quiet country estate of Strontfield Park, a dinner party turns deadly when the host is killed by car collision and poisoned, leaving Inspector C. D. Sloan to untangle motives among the eleven survivors.

In England’s Almstone Flower Show, a vanished fortuneteller turns up dead, prompting Detective Inspector Sloan and Detective Constable Crosby to unravel a baffling murder with no obvious motive or opportunity.

When old schoolteacher Miss Beatrice Wansdyke dies wealthy, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan must protect her fortune from ruthless pursuers while preparing for fatherhood.

When octogenarian Octavia Garamond demands a police‑presented funeral and a post‑mortem, Inspector C. D. Sloane and Constable Crosby investigate her mysterious death and a secretive past that may have put her life in danger.

A private investigator goes undercover as a dancer to solve a murder that wakes a Miami dance studio’s hidden secrets.

A collection of tightly crafted short mysteries that follow Inspector C. D. Sloan through a wealthier businessman’s death, a Christmas family drama, and a hospital scandal, plus a 1930s Foreign Office case and a 16th-century Scottish clansman’s murder.

A scholarly investigation into how Agatha Christie and her peers in the Detection Club reshaped crime fiction, intertwining literary analysis with biographical insight.

A Texas Ranger and a group of paranormal investigators solve a case of murder and disappearance in San Antonio.

Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan investigates a murder and a mysterious break‑in at Berebury Nursing Home, both linked to the life—and secrets—of Josephine Short, a woman whose recent death shocks her family.

Detectives Sloan and Crosby unravel the tangled clues left by a dying chemist, tracing three mysterious deaths that may be linked—one accidental drowning, a lost caving victim, and a son’s reckless accident—into a potential murder confession.

Horatio Leavenworth, a prominent New York merchant, is found dead in his Fifth Avenue mansion. Suspicion falls on his two nieces, Mary and Eleanore, as only one stands to inherit his fortune, sparking a classic whodunit.

Detective Maeve Kerrigan is at a wedding weekend in the English countryside, hoping to escape London’s endless crime scenes. But when a fellow officer is murdered in a London park, she and her partner, DI Josh Derwent, must race back to solve the case.

A whodunit is set in the Hollywood movie colony at the height of its Golden Age. A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood hills, and with him working to produce her novel for an upcoming film, the pair's recent marriage isn't the only way that they're connected. But when the husband is found murdered on the wife's birthday, using a method of poisoning that was described in one of her books, Victoria suddenly becomes the main suspect as her new happy life comes crashing down around her. The case appears straightforward from the outside, but the LAPD investigator on the scene finds the truth to be anything but. Though all the signs point to Victoria, there's no motive to be found. Now, to solve the mystery of whodunnit, he'll have to dig beneath the veneer of the household and reveal its inner workings, and to understand the deadly drama that unfolded just beneath the surface.