Books like The fire dance by Helene Tursten

Detective Harry Bosch and rookie partner Lucia Soto reopen a decades‑old LAPD cold case when a stray bullet finally kills its victim, uncovering a politically charged mystery that turns out to be anything but random.

Erica Falck returns to her Swedish hometown after her parents’ funeral, only to confront a cold‑blooded mystery when her childhood friend Alex is found dead in an icy bath. As memories surface, she and police detective Patrik Hedström uncover a town’s dark past.

Detective Joona Linna returns from Sweden to chase a web of homicides tied to a clandestine arms deal, blending crime investigation with thriller suspense.

In the fourth book of Ann Cleeves' critically acclaimed series set in the Shetland Islands, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez brings his fiancée home to Fair Isle, a birder's paradise, where strangers are viewed with suspicions and distrust. When a woman's body is discovered at the island's bird observatory, the investigation is hampered by a raging storm that renders the island totally isolated. Jimmy has to find clues the old-fashioned way, and he has to do it quickly. There's a killer on the island just waiting for the chance to strike again.

Sergeant Gunnhildur Giacute;sladottir investigates a suspicious death in a Reykjavik hotel, uncovering ties to a returning gangster and a clandestine bondage society, turning a simple case into a perilous police probe.

Detective Inspector Marnie Rome must race against time to uncover the truth behind the vanished children of a London farm while hunting the killer who framed her family.

Detective Vera Stanhope and Joe Ashworth investigate two brutal murders in the tight-knit community of Harbour Street, uncovering hidden secrets that span generations.

"In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So, in July, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, now retired as private informer, has taken up her father's former profession and it's time to get back to work. The first order business, however, is the corpse found in a chest sent as part of a large lot to be sold by the Falco family auction house. As the senior family representative in Rome, it falls upon Albia to find out who, why, and by whom. At the same time, her potential young man, Faustus, comes looking for help with his friend Sextus's political campaign. Between the auction business and Roman politics, it's not quite clear which one is the more under-handed and duplicitous. Both, however, are tied together by the mysterious body in the chest, and if Albia isn't able to solve that mystery, it won't be the only body to drop"--

In the quiet town of Tanumshede, a car accident death sparks a rash of unexplained fatalities as a reality‑TV show unfolds, forcing detective Patrik Hedström and his colleagues to confront a possible serial killer under relentless media scrutiny.

Detective Inspector Irene Huss, a judo‑champion and feminist officer in Gothenburg, tackles a chilling case that turns a supposed financier suicide into a high‑stakes mystery exposing Sweden’s social underbelly.

A young Parisian dancer, Sylvie, pursues her dream of becoming a prima ballerina amid the upheaval of the Franco‑Prussian War, using the discipline of ballet to find strength and hope.

Detective Patrik Hedström faces his toughest case yet as a series of suspicious deaths in Fjallbacka suggests a serial killer linked to the dark forests where two children vanished decades ago.

Los Angeles homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton investigates a fatal house fire that claims Juliet Chatman and her children, while her own marriage and suspicions of arson—whether by the serial threat known as The Burning Man or the Chatmans’ son—test her judgment and resolve.