Books like In the bleak midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

On a luxury Nile cruise, the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is found murdered, and intrepid detective Hercule Poirot must uncover the truth amid intrigue, secrets, and false leads.

When the first snow falls in Oslo, a missing‑mothers investigation leads Inspector Harry Hole into a deadly serial‑killer game that threatens to unhinge him.

Eve Dallas returns to her New York precinct for a birthday party, only to confront a long‑suppressed killer from her past—Julie Dockport—whose plan spirals into a deadly, personal showdown.

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.

Lily Connor, an Episcopal priest from Texas, investigates the mysterious death of a Boston parish priest whose official cause of death was an insulin overdose.

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.

Patricia Cornwell’s Isle of Dogs spins a satirical crime drama set in Virginia’s Richmond area, where a governor’s eccentric highway speed‑trap policy triggers a chaotic backlash from a rogue island community and its politically driven police force.

In a crumbling border hotel, a young woman uncovers a sinister mystery involving inherited evil, a love affair, and the origins of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ while her mother, a diocesan exorcist, faces a looming snowstorm and a deadly threat.

On the Welsh border, an exorcist diocese consultant is called to temper a witch‑hunt sparked by a pagan couple’s purchase of a redundant church.