Books like The Red Door by Charles Todd

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A classic English country‑house murder mystery in which an amateur sleuth and his aide investigate a locked‑room homicide amid a rowdy gathering of guests.

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 the tranquil harbor town of Hampton Regis, detective Ian Rutledge battles his own past when a brutally beaten man surfaces, and the victim’s body vanishes—forcing him to unearth a sinister killer amid war memories and betrayal.

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.

After World War I, Inspector John Madden investigates a brutal murder in a quiet village, using the emerging science of criminal psychology to unravel a serial killer’s plans.

Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped in the middle of a desolate road. Standing beside the vehicle is a woman with blood on her hands and a dead man at her feet. She swears she didn't kill Stephen Wentworth. A stranger stepped out in front of their motorcar, and without warning, fired a single shot before vanishing into the night. But there is no trace of him. And the shaken woman insists it all happened so quickly, she never saw the man's face. Although he is a witness after the fact, Rutledge persuades the Yard to give him the inquiry, since he's on the scene. But is he seeking justice--or fleeing painful memories in London? Wentworth was well-liked, yet his bitter family paint a malevolent portrait, calling him a murderer. But who did Wentworth kill? Is his death retribution? Or has his companion lied? Wolf Pit, his village, has a notorious history: in Medieval times, the last wolf in England was killed there. When a second suspicious death occurs, the evidence suggests that a dangerous predator is on the loose, and that death is closer than Rutledge knows.

"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.

Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge unravels a tangled network of revenge and hidden pasts spanning World War I to a fatal motor‑car crash in England, where a faceless killer threatens to claim another innocent life.