Books like Cast iron by Peter May

Fin Macleod returns to his childhood Hebridean island to restore his family cottage and investigate a mysterious death entwined with hidden family secrets and a dangerous rival.

When a brutal murder on the Isle of Lewis mirrors a case Peter May’s Edinburgh detective Fin MacLeod solved two decades earlier, he must confront his past and uncover a link between the killings.

A thriller featuring a young prosecutor who becomes entangled in the case of a famous actress and her tragic death.

Private detective Jack Taylor battles a mysterious crime syndicate in rural Ireland.

Former Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought‑hit hometown to attend the funeral of his best friend Luke and unwittingly rekindles a decades‑old mystery of murder, false alibis, and buried secrets.

A retired detective must navigate alcohol problems and teenage help to expose an elusive cult leader called 'The Great Leader'.

Ex‑Detective Inspector Fin McLeod, now a security officer on the Isle of Lewis, unravels a long‑hidden secret when a bog burst reveals a vanished light aircraft and its mysterious passenger.

A forensic detective races to solve France’s seven most notorious murders, using cutting‑edge science while the justice system falls away, only to find himself targeted by the killer in a thrilling chase through Parisian catacombs.

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 cold case in France sets off a clash of wine and the criminal underworld.

Twenty years after a mysterious death, Detective Cormac Reilly is called back to investigate when a new drowning appears to be a suicide, forcing him to confront corruption and betrayal in Ireland’s dark heart.

A Biblical scholar uncovers a mysterious letter from Jesus, leading him on a thrilling hunt to find the lost scroll that could change the world.