Books like Murder at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison

Four retirees in a quiet village form the Thursday Murder Club, solving crimes in their Jigsaw Room. When a developer is found dead, their keen sleuthing leads them into their first live investigation.

Twin African American sisters flee their hometown after their father's murder—one chooses to pass as white while the other stays true to her identity, exploring race, family, and the complexities of self through generations.

Eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce must unravel a mysterious death that leads to family secrets tied to Winston Churchill, using her scientific mind and a beloved plane to uncover the truth.

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.

Kate Shackleton, an amateur sleuth, investigates the mysterious death of banker Everett Runcie, whose wife seeks divorce and his murder may be linked to hidden personal scandals.

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.

Skye Denison returns to her hometown of Scumble River to investigate a shocking murder that threatens to unravel the quiet community she left behind.

When the clown‑shop owner in a Michigan town is murdered, a neighboring chocolatier becomes the prime suspect while uncovering clues that point to a hidden killer, all amid the chaos of Clown Week.

When a celebrated instructor is murdered at Morningside Heights, former police sergeant Frank Malloy and his wife are drawn into a mystery that tests their detective skills and the fragile secrets of New York academia.

Three co‑owners of the Cackleberry Club Café investigate the murder of milk farmer Mike Mullen, turning their culinary partnership into a crime‑scene investigation as they chase the killer through New York’s dairy backstreets.

In the quiet post‑War England of 1926, a missing quarry mason sparks a mystery that draws the keen eye of young detective Kate Shackleton and her investigating mother, Mary Jane, whose own secrets may hold the key to the truth.

One late-summer's evening, before the beginning of the new term, Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Newbitt, are guests at Sherebury University art department's drinks party to introduce the new teaching assistant sculptress Gillian Roberts. However, tragedy strikes on a tour of the art department, when the lift breaks down ans a corpse is discovered at the bottom of the shaft. Dorothy and Alan become involved in the ensuing investigation, putting their local knowledge and sleuthing skills to good use once again. But when another member of the art faculty goes missing and someone receives threatening phone calls, it seems the killer still has something to hide and may very well strike again.

Scrapbooking enthusiast Carmela discovers a bloody body in an antiques shop and must use her sleuthing skills to solve a murder and a theft in the quirky streets of New Orleans.

Book editor Samantha Clair is drawn into a London murder investigation when her former partner’s partner dies, and she finds herself caught between a police inspector boyfriend and an ex‑boyfriend‑art dealer who needs her help.