Books like A False Mirror by Charles Todd

Colonel and Mrs Bantry find a dead young woman in their library, and her body may be linked to another murder. With their own detective skills stalled, they turn to Miss Marple to unravel the mystery.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.

Inspector Ian Rutledge races across a blizzard to solve the brutal murder of the Elcott family and find a missing child in remote Urskdale, confronting the ghosts of war and the ferocity of a cold‑blooded killer.

After the Great War, Inspector Ian Rutledge returns to London, haunted by shell shock, and is drawn into a murder case that threatens both his career and his sanity.

In 19th‑century England, Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge must untangle a bloody murder of a despised London businessman, tracing a hidden chain of guilt that stretches back to a wartime act two decades earlier.

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

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Ian Rutledge, a renowned detective, gets entangled in a hit-and-run investigation involving two families known for their Madeira wine.

In post‑World War I Lancashire, Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge must unravel a twin mystery: a beheaded housewife behind a red door and a mysterious man who vanished in London. Facing silence and betrayal, Rutledge seeks justice before guilt takes hold.

Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot investigates a mysterious murder in the Yorkshire Dales, while Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, once a lover, comes to help and uncover the darker aspects of his family's past.

Number 35 The Hill, a disturbing crime story involving a kidnapping and investigation by police detectives.

Inspector Ian Rutledge returns to Dorset to solve a murder and the disappearance of two children, while confronting his own war trauma and the secret lives of locals and Londoners.

In Cornwall, a family’s sudden deaths prompt a Scotland Yard investigation that brings war‑influenced detective Ian Rutledge to confront personal ghosts and the mystery of a Ripper‑style killing spree.