Books like La Colère de Maigret by Georges Simenon

A young man records street voices with a cassette recorder, only to be murdered; his victim’s connection to a wealthy cosmetics heir thrusts the case into the media, leading Inspector Maïgret to uncover clues that point to an impending large-scale robbery.

Inspector Maigret is called to a Normandy seaside village by an elderly widow whose aid request leads him into a web of hidden wealth and toxic family rivalries.

Police inspector Jules Maigret faces a baffling murder mystery when one of his own detectives is killed in Paris.

Inspector Jules Maigret returns to his hometown of Saint-Fiacre for a funeral, only to be drawn back by a mysterious note predicting a crime on All Souls' Day. Old memories and hidden sins resurface.

Major Maigret travels to the small Dutch town of Delfzijl to investigate a perplexing crime.

In his suit and bowler hat Superintendent Maigret feels out of place among the palm trees, the bright colors, the half-clad, bronzed vacationers on the Côte d'Azur. And the murder case that has called him here seems, somehow, not serious. Who could have wanted to stab to death William Brown, a middle-aged Australian who lived in squalor with an overblown, overperfumed mistress and her officious mother and whose only vice, apparently, was going out on a binge once a month? Maigret would rather lounge in the sun and sip Pernods than question cab drivers, search the bars of Cannes for that rare slot machine, or sit in a sordid little dive with a woman called Fat Jaja. A deft, psychologically fascinating story of men who kick over the traces — and of men who don't. And of how human love and tenderness can theme in the ugliest, most degenerate soil.

During a final visit to the cell of condemned prisoner Jean Lenoir, Maigret picks up a negligently dropped remark about an unsolved-in fact, unreported-murder committed in Paris six years before. It seems Lenoir and his partner witnessed the dumping of a body in the Saint-Martin Canal and used the information to blackmail the murderer.