Books like Aunt Dimity's good deed by Nancy Atherton

In 1917, war‑injured Captain Hastings arrives at his friend John Cavendish’s Essex manor, where the wealthy widow Emily Inglethorp is found dead by strychnine. Hercule Poirot is called to untangle a web of family intrigue and hidden motives.

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

In Agatha Christie’s classic Miss Marple mystery, the quiet village of Chipping Cleghorn is set aflame by a chilling headline announcing a murder; when lights go out at the appointed hour, the detective must unravel a dark secret.

Colonel and Mrs Bantry find a dead young woman in their library, and her body may be linked to another murder. With their own detective skills stalled, they turn to Miss Marple to unravel the mystery.

Miss Marple finds herself in the Caribbean, where a mysterious old soldier hints at a strange coincidence that could spark adventure.

Fiction, Ghost story, Setting - England

In England, mother‑to‑be Lori Shepherd faces a chilling mystery when her twins bring home a creepy, cloaked figure. With Aunt Dimity and friend Kit Smith, she unravels a centuries‑old vampire secret hidden at Aldercot Hall.

After a breakup, amateur gardener Emma Porter embarks on a summer road trip through England’s gardens, where she discovers Penford Hall and a duke hunting a powerful lantern. With Aunt Dimity’s ghostly help, she uncovers secrets and finds unexpected 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.

Lori returns to her small Cotswold town after a stay in the US, only to find her close friend Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper dead. Panicked by the gossip, she takes on the case when her aunt, a sleuth, steps down.