Books like Marriage is murder by Nancy Pickard

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

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.

At Pirriwee Public, a beachside school, a routine trivia night spirals into chaos when a parent dies—raising questions of murder, accidental death, or toxic truths. Parents discover how small lies can become deadly.

Macon Leary, a cynical travel writer, shuns itineraries until a fuzzy-haired dog‑trainer sparks an unexpected voyage of love and self‑discovery.

A detective in semiretirement finds herself assigned to lead the Literary Detectives, only to be replaced by a new chief librarian, leaving her to deal with the consequences of her past actions.

Set in post‑World War I Boston, _The Given Day_ follows two families—a black and a white—caught amid revolutionaries, anarchists, and a brewing union movement, culminating in the 1919 police strike.

Dorothy L. Sayers introduces Lord Peter Wimsey and the aspiring detective Harriet Vane in this classic detective mystery, where a courtroom accusation sparks an unlikely romance.

Aurora Teagarden and wealthy businessman Martin Bartell marry at the Julius House, but a violent attack reveals the house and their shared pasts may destroy their fledgling marriage.

Retired Carole Seddon unwittingly becomes the sleuth when, with her Labrador Gulliver, she discovers a body on Fethering beach that vanishes before the police act. Together with eccentric neighbor Jude, she tackles a mystery the authorities ignore.

In New Eden, Montana, ex‑court reporter Marilee Jennings investigates her best friend’s mysterious death and discovers a web of secrets that threaten her own life.

Private eye C.W. Sughrue takes a job in Montana that pulls him into the decades‑old mystery of a missing woman from Haight‑Ashbury.

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

When a strained marriage ends in murder, DS Jane Bennett and DI Mike Lockyer face a brutal South London case that probes family loyalties and secrets within a high‑profile police squad.

>This is a novel of classical detection in a cheerful vein, though its people are real and its events plausible. >It is narrated by Tessa Price (Tessa Crichton of *Death in the Grand Manor* has now married Robin Price of the Metropolitan C.I.D.) and the root of the plot is blackmail. Information from her husband, and from some curious acquaintances out of her own past who are evidently connected with the case, leads Tessa herself to become (rather willingly) involved; and being almost as shrewd as she is mischievous she begins to draw various conclusions, not all of them correct. >Many of the encounters in the story take place during Tessa's visits to a London department store, on the top floor of which is a bar to which any customer who spends over twenty-five pounds is invited for a drink. Here lies part of the secret which, in its overt and practised form, is bedevilling Robin at Scotland Yard - who hates blackmailers more than any other criminals. >Tessa gets a bit too knowing, and it is her own life that is finally at stake.

When sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne investigate the death of Meemaw Turkett on a quirky trailer‑lot, a sticky web of family secrets, a new bride, and an unlikely sheriff threatens to turn the investigation into a mystery for the ages.

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.

A murder mystery in New York City featuring an actress-turned-catsitter who becomes involved in a horse race and cat theft.

When a boy discovers skeletal remains in a Texas cave, veteran herbalist China Bayles must unravel two linked murders while opening a new community theater, uncovering secrets that tie the past to a present‑day killer.

An alluring honeymoon plot twist leads to a mysterious murder on an isolated island.