Books like Except the dying by Maureen Jennings

Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup. Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.

The first book in Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt series, featuring a love story and the clever detective Thomas Pitt solving murder cases in late 1800s London.

Detective Ian Rutledge investigates a mysterious death at Fountains Abbey, a war‑like alchemy puzzle, and a secret search by the War Office, all while uncovering lies among outcasts in Berkshire’s leper cottages.

In 1892, former Superintendent Thomas Pitt is transferred to Whitechapel to investigate anarchist conspiracies, while the unresolved Jack the Ripper murders loom in the background.

In eighteenth‑century London, Jewish ex‑boxer Benjamin Weaver is hired to track debtors and thieves. When his estranged father's mysterious death links him to the nascent stock market, Weaver confronts a cabal of financiers, a desperate prostitute, and his own heritage.

In Victorian Toronto, midwife Dolly Merishaw is murdered, and a boy, found dead in her kitchen, complicates Detective William Murdoch’s investigation.

In a 1970s Ontario suburb, the murder of Chisako and her lover forces residents to confront the lingering shadows of WWII internment, revealing how past injustices shape present identities.

In Richmond, Virginia, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta races against time to stop a serial killer who has targeted young couples and now threatens the daughter of a powerful drug czar.

A cozy mystery in a quaint English village featuring Inspector Alan Markby.