Books like The beautiful mystery by Louise Penny

When Belgian detective Hercule Poirot returns to the English village of King's Abbot, he confronts the murder of industrialist Roger Ackroyd, unraveling a web of family secrets and hidden motives that reveal the culprit was nobody he expected.

After a tragic gunshot wound, former chief detective Carl Mørck is reassigned to cold‑case work, where he is drawn into a five‑year investigation of a missing Danish politician.

Armand Gamache follows a mysterious map to uncover a buried crime in Three Pines, entangling him with Cadet Amelia Choquet and a vanished professor, forcing a reckoning of secrets and guilt.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to the remote Manoir Bellechasse for a wedding anniversary celebration, where a grotesque murder among the Finney family forces him and his team to unravel a perplexing mystery set in Quebec.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

During Quebec City's Winter Carnival, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must solve a murder in the Literary and Historical Society, where a historian’s search for Samuel de Champlain’s remains unearths a buried secret that drives someone to kill.

When a famed but now forgotten woman vanishes, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache delves into a mysterious disappearance that only a brilliant poet recognizes, unearthing secrets in Quebec’s sleepy village of Three Pines.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates a murder in a remote Quebec village, uncovering hidden motives amid the local art scene.

When a stranger dies in a Quebec village, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache confronts secrets hidden in the bistro, antiques shop, and the town's residents—and the town’s hidden history.

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.

Chief Inspector Gamache pursues a murder that leads him into the hidden world of a cloistered sect in Northern Canada, blending celestial Gregorian chants with a gripping crime investigation.

Retired Quebec detective Armand Gamache reluctantly assists a neighbor’s search for her missing husband, uncovering the disturbing workings of a psychologically damaged mind.

In the Quebec village of Three Pines, detective Armand Gamache is called to investigate the disappearance of nine‑year‑old Laurent Lepage. His search uncovers a dark truth that links a long‑forgotten crime, betrayal, and a looming threat to the community.

In the quiet village of Three Pines, Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache confronts a mysterious November figure that leads to a murder investigation and a courtroom clash, probing his conscience as a tangible threat looms.

In Quebec's village of Three Pines, Inspector Armand Gamache faces a supernatural séance gone wrong, a baffling death, and accusations from his own police hierarchy, all while trying to protect his team's integrity and clear his name.

Detective Armand Gamache faces Quebec’s toughest case yet: a high‑profile disappearance that threatens the reputation of the Sûreté and pulls him into a web of danger and corruption.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

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.