Books like Title wave by Lorna Barrett

A locked‑in murder on the Orient Express forces detective Hercule Poirot to unravel a mystery among a diverse group of passengers during a snowbound night.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the legend of an undead hound on Dartmoor, revealing secrets that threaten a family’s legacy.

Hard‑boiled detective Sam Spade races to recover a priceless, gem‑encrusted statuette while double‑crosses and danger creep from every corner.

A charming and clever women detective, Precious Ramotswe, solves mysteries in Botswana's small town of Midsomin, South Africa, from 1986 to 1997, facing dangers and love in the process. The novel is beloved by readers worldwide for its clever dialogue and characters who are as flawed as the rest of us. The book is a bestseller and has been translated into 45 languages, including Polish, German, and Japanese, among others. It was also voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.

Set in 1950s rural Arkansas, John Grisham’s debut novel follows seven‑year‑old Luke Chandler as he works the cotton fields with Mexican and hilltop neighbors, confronting racial tension, forbidden romance and a murder that force him to grow up early.

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When a friend of his adopted daughter reports a serial killer targeting traveling panhandlers, private investigator Lucas Davenport is drawn into North Dakota, where he uncovers a violent subculture and a deadly conspiracy.

During a Christmas gathering at Lexham Manor, the wealthy Nathaniel Herriard is found dead, and six guests become suspects. Scotland Yard inspector Hemingway must untangle inheritance motives and a locked‑room mystery to identify the killer.

A thriller featuring a young prosecutor who becomes entangled in the case of a famous actress and her tragic death.

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.

When an aircraft crashes into a village gazebo, killing the pilot and Tricia Miles' friend Deborah, the baffling event sparks a mystery that could hide a deliberate scheme. Tricia, a New Hampshire journalist, must untangle the truth.

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.

In 1961 Minnesota, 13‑year‑old Frank Drum must confront the far‑reaching impact of a family tragedy, as secrets, adultery, and betrayal unravel his Methodist household and the close‑knit town it calls home.

In small-town Stoneham, New Hampshire, mystery‑bookstore owner Tricia Miles wrestles with a sudden murder when her second‑floor college roommate, Pammy Fredericks, is found dead in a trash can.

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.

In her latest mystery, Jessica Fletcher investigates a supposed haunting at the historic Spencer Percy House, where a dying former carpenter’s death threatens to turn the town’s newest real estate mystery into a real crime.

Tricia Miles, a bookstore owner and amateur sleuth in Stoneham, Massachusetts, must clear her con‑man father's name when he becomes a murder suspect after a local woman with a scandalous past is killed.