Books like Murder by Tradition (A Kate Delafield Mystery) by Katherine V. Forrest

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

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.

Detective Kate Martinelli investigates a mysterious Victorian‑era murder that links a prized Sherlock Holmes manuscript to a L.A. killer, blending San Francisco crime‑scene savvy with Holmesian intrigue.

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

Jonathan Kellerman and his wife Faye Kellerman collate two arresting police procedurals—one set in Berkeley’s political arena and another in Nashville’s music scene—into the suspenseful double novel Capital Crimes.

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.

LAPD detective Kate Delafield unravels a revenge killing that ties a 1940s Hollywood legend to the House Un-American Activities Committee, uncovering long‑hidden curses amongst her eccentric neighbors in Los Angeles.

After two patrons are murdered on successive nights at a play, detective Kathy Mallory investigates the killings and mystery chalkboard messages backstage.

Detective Peter Decker must untangle a puzzling disappearance of a diamond dealer’s family from their Los Angeles estate, but the case deepens when another dealer is murdered in Manhattan, pulling Decker and his wife Rina into a global web of intrigue that ends in their own backyard.

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.

First‑year LAPD rookie Cynthia Decker faces a terrifying stalker while juggling a car‑jacking investigation, all while keeping her growing danger hidden from her father Peter and stepmother Rina.

Detective Merci Rayborn faces division in her sheriff’s department after a deputy is shot dead and a wife is murdered—she believes the deputy was framed and must uncover the truth before more lives are lost.

LAPD detective Kate Delafield teams with a new iron-willed lieutenant to investigate a brutal murder at the La Brea Tar Pits, uncovering secrets that blur ancient history with present-day corruption.

When lesbian detective Kate Delafield is shot by a police officer during a burglary, her recovery uncovers a sinister anti‑gay conspiracy within the Los Angeles Police Department.

After a Vietnam reunion invitation, former soldiers confront hidden threats when a hotel room is attacked, turning a nostalgic gathering into a perilous investigation for a police officer and veteran alike.

A police lieutenant in Atlanta who stumbles upon a murder mystery.

Micky Knight, a lesbian private detective in New Orleans, takes on a case that leads her from the city’s wealthiest districts to its most desperate neighborhoods, uncovering not only the truth about a girl’s alleged abuse but also her own troubled past.

In this lesbian mystery, Ellen Hart’s detective Jane Lawless fights to protect her father from a dark, murderous plot in a Minneapolis setting.

During a glittering Hollywood wedding, detective Jane Lawless uncovers a sinister mystery when bodies start falling amid the celebrity chaos.

Ex‑soldier Logan Thibault, haunted by Iraq memories, seeks the woman in a photograph he found in his pack. He embarks on a journey that uncovers a startling truth while Beth, the woman in the picture, battles her own turmoil.

LAPD detective Hieronymous (aka Harry) Bosch is a loner and a nighthawk. Called out on a routine drug overdose case, Bosch soon realises that the victim found lying in the Mullholland Dam drainpipe is no accident case. Billy Meadows was a fellow 'tunnel rat' in Vietnam and Harry swears to bring the killer to justice.