Books like Death's door by James R. Benn

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford of a small Texas town hides a dark illness that once threatened his career; now it resurfaces, threatening his peace and the town’s safety.

A federal judge and his secretary vanish before a trial, sparking an FBI investigation that uncovers a brutal murder and a lawyer’s chilling confession.

When the young Cicero enlists Gordianus the Finder, the seasoned detective must unravel a patricide case that pits ambition against justice in ancient Rome.

A murder‑for‑hire assassin kills a senator, becomes a target to his employers, and is pursued by a Justice Department analyst who uncovers a deadly conspiracy.

Lieutenant Billy Boyle is thrust into a war‑torn mystery when a native coastwatcher is murdered on Tulagi in 1943, and the investigation may implicate future president Jack Kennedy.

Sixteen‑year‑old Julie Beaufort‑Stuart returns to her Perthshire ancestral home for one last summer, confronting a family sale, the disappearance of a London archivist, and the theft of a treasured pearl collection—while battling prejudice against the Highland McEwens.

Lieutenant Billy Boyle of the Boston Police and General Ike’s European forces is drawn into a chilling serial‑murder investigation during World War II.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

Herculeah Jones must unravel the mystery after her friend Meat narrowly escapes a hit‑man's bullet, racing to protect herself before danger follows.

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.

A quiet neighbour’s obsession leads a Scotland Yard inspector into a deadly mystery that unravels a past double life threatening many lives.