Books like Checkmate to murder by E. C. R. Lorac

Detective Daniel Hawthorne teams up with bestselling writer Anthony Horowitz in a modern whodunnit set in Great Britain, where a complex murder case forces both to navigate crime, secrecy, and investigation.

New solicitor Henry Bohun joins a London law firm handling insurance cases, only to uncover a murder while exploring a trust deed, dragging him into a traditional detective‑style mystery.

In the bleak North Country, 82‑year‑old Robert Garth is found dead in the mud of an ancient outhouse. Chief Inspector Macdonald must sift through Garth family secrets, rival neighbors and wartime tensions to unmask the killer.

Chief Inspector Macdonald unravels a black‑out murder in wartime London, where a lone matchlight reveals the killer’s identity—and a deeper conspiracy tied to the victim’s true name.

In fog‑shrouded London, a murder in the home of Rose and her doctor sets a group of friends and suspects in motion as Inspector Cockrill, aided by rival Inspector Charlesworth, untangles motives and alibis amid misty confusion.

Opportunistic paparazzo‑hatred, a diva’s fragile retreat to a New Zealand island, and an operatic murder converge in Ngaio Marsh’s mystery, where Detective Roderick Alleyn must untangle jealousy, secrets, and death.

A mystery involving secrets, grief, and suspicion in an English setting.

After a war‑time injury, former soldier Nicholas Vaughan settles into quiet rural life in Devon. When his thatched cottage burns down, Inspector Macdonald investigates a suspicious death that shakes his peaceful retreat.

In the Shetland Isles, inspector Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves investigate the mysterious disappearance and subsequent death of friend Eleanor, whose obsession with a local ghost may hide a decades‑old secret worth killing for.

Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn investigates a series of murders during a London theatrical production, uncovering jealousy, secrets, and a desperate motive behind the killings.

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

> It opens on a dark and misty winter night, with the central characters eagerly looking forward to a ball that is a highlight of the local social calendar. Two men are making their way to the ball by car. Nicholas Brent, an ex-naval commander who now runs an inn in the neighbourhood, has offered a lift to a barrister called Ian Macbane, who comes from out of town but has local family connections. Their conversation turns to Dilys Maine, a beautiful young woman admired by both of them, and also to the strange disappearance of a local girl, Rosemary Reeve. >Nick Brent has arranged to drive Dilys home, but on the way back after the ball, he brakes to avoid hitting a corpse that is in the middle of the road. When he goes to a nearby house to call the police, he is knocked out by a man he presumes to be Michael Reeve, brother of the girl who went missing. >These events set in train a police investigation which is hampered by the reluctance of witnesses to tell the truth. Who is the deceased, and what could have been the motive for killing him? [From the Introduction by Martin Edwards]