Books like Trilogy of death by P. D. James

Detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates a brutal murder at a psychiatric clinic, confronting a cunning killer who challenges his reputation for failure-free cases.

Cordelia Gray, a young and sharp detective, inherits the Pryde Detective Agency and tackles a mysterious student death that turns out to be a sinister murder plot within a prominent London family.

Private detective Cordelia Gray protects fading star Clarissa Lisle on the island of Courcy, where poisoned letters and Shakespearean riddles threaten a planned cinematic comeback.

A nursing school becomes a crime scene when two students are brutally killed during a demonstration. Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must untangle the mystery and confront a killer who leaves a deadly trail in London.

Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard investigates a psychotic strangler on the Norfolk coast, confronting local secrets and a baffling murder while staying at his aunt’s windmill on Larksoken headland.

In "A Taste for Death", Scotland Yard commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates a double murder at St. Matthew's Church, where an upper‑crust minister is slain beside a derelict, unraveling motives tied to a diary, a violet‑eyed widow and a web of deceit.

Detective Adam Dalgliesh investigates a student’s murder on an East Anglian theological college, uncovering a web of faith, passion, and a deadly conspiracy.

A collection of London-based crime stories blending the familiar with the unexpected for a reflective take on the city.

An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life - to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy on money is simple: you can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill. But hey, practice makes perfect . . . Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is feeling the pressure from his superiors, his previous case is still giving him sleepless nights, there have been major developments with his missing wife Sandy, and an old adversary is back. But worse than all of this, he now believes a Black Widow is operating in his city. One with a venomous mind . . . and venomous skills. Soon Grace comes to the frightening realization that he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is. Love You Dead is the gripping twelfth book in Peter James' Roy Grace series.

A collection of gritty detective short stories by Peter Robinson, featuring the private investigators Alan Banks and John Francis Cuddy across England and Canada.

A collection of 18 Sherlock Holmes stories that parody the original tales.

Deadly Pleasures is a collection of three masterly detective novels by P. D. James, featuring the famed investigator Adam Dalgliesh and the compelling Cordelia Gray in murder‑laden mysteries.

A Christmas mystery featuring a private detective who solves a murder during the holiday season.

An anthology of six previously uncollected stories explores the memories, emotional machinations, rationalizations, dreams, and desires of people who get away with the perfect murder or who help keep information about a killing secret.