Books like Dark Tort by Diane Mott Davidson

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.

When her best friend dies at one of Goldy Schulz’s catered parties, the celebratory cuisine turns into a murder mystery, and Goldy must turn detective to catch the killer before he serves her up cold.

When the beloved delivery man of Cozy Cow Dairy is found dead behind The Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen must use her baking charm and detective instincts to solve the crime before her famed chocolate chip crunchies tarnish her bakery’s reputation.

In Minnesota, Hannah Swensen’s Cookie Jar bakery turns Main Street into a Hollywood set, but when a film shoot turns deadly, the fragrant mystery unfolds—can a baker save her town?

In Colorado’s Elk Park Preparatory School, caterer Goldy Bear uncovers a death that turns into a mystery as she hunts the killer behind a valedictorian’s murder, all while protecting her son and navigating school secrets.

When Goldy Bear, a Colorado caterer, takes charge of a wake dinner, her culinary craft turns from comfort to confessional as a sudden death, a physician’s accusation, and a looming business closure force her to uncover family secrets before she becomes the victim.

When caterer Goldy Bear relocates her family to Aspen Meadow Country Club, a supposed car accident turns into murder, forcing her to use her wit and culinary skills to uncover a dangerous secret.

Goldy Bear, a seasoned caterer, plans her wedding while cooking up a feast for the day—only to discover her groom is a homicide detective on the trail of a killer. A delicious mix of mystery and recipes.

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 a holiday breakfast at the Aspen Meadow Library, Goldy Schulz uncovers a murder and a treasure map, and discovers that Sandee Brisbane—thought dead—may be orchestrating a vendetta.

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.

Caterer Goldy Schulz faces a disastrous season when a rival threatens her business, a contractor leaves her kitchen ruined, and a fashion shoot at a mountain cabin turns deadly.

Caterer Goldy Schulz is hired to cook a lavish banquet for a high‑profile financial firm, but when the event turns deadly she finds herself battling both crime and a torrid affair with the client’s financial whiz.

When Goldy "Goldilocks' Catering" makes a low‑fat banquet for Mignon Cosmetics, she is thrust into a murder mystery that ties animal‑testing protests, exotic plants, and a startled hit‑and‑run to her own kitchen.

Goldy Schulz, a Colorado catering entrepreneur, finds herself the prime suspect in a murder while her ex‑husband is recently paroled. Two detectives pursue her as she tries to protect her family and her business.

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.

A minister’s wife becomes a fugitive suspect when a dessert she prepared at her church’s fundraising event turns deadly, forcing her to use her culinary and investigative instincts to clear her name and unmask the true killer.

Chef‑turned‑sleuth Goldy Schulz hosts a PBS cooking show in Colorado’s Killdeer Ski Resort while battling blizzards, culinary mishaps, and a suspicious murder that threatens her career and life.

When Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz’s business is booming, a cocktail‑party disaster sparks a murder mystery that forces her to use her culinary instincts to catch a killer before another bite dies.