Books like The brutal telling by Louise Penny

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.

Detective Joona Linna returns from Sweden to chase a web of homicides tied to a clandestine arms deal, blending crime investigation with thriller suspense.

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.

A snowbound Catskills inn turns deadly as guests are washed out of contact during a blizzard, and one by one they begin to die in what seems like a sinister murder mystery.

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.

Two police detectives uncover a chilling village mystery, linking a recent fatal traffic incident to a decade‑old disappearance and a controversial murder conviction.

Inspector Roderick Alleyn investigates a decapitated dancer during a village sword dance, questioning whether the death was murder or a supernatural act in a quirky English rural community.

Roderick Alleyn faces an assassination attempt at London's Ng'ombwana embassy, navigating rival police forces, a tribal court, and a clever black cat to solve the murder.

Inspector Roderick Alleyn investigates the murder of model Sonia Gluck in an artist colony, where the suspect is the fiesty painter Agatha Troy.

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

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.

A gripping mystery story following teenage girls grappling with personal tragedy and the pursuit of justice in a small English town.

"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 the Shetland Isles, inspector Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves investigate the mysterious disappearance and subsequent death of friend Eleanor, whose obsession with a local ghost may hide a decades‑old secret worth killing for.

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

Superintendent Roderick Alleyn returns in Ngaio Marsh’s 24th detective novel, where a mysterious patron’s gift of a ruined theatre and a Shakespearean glove sparks a play, a murder and a crafty theft.