If what hooked you was how Dalgliesh teases out motives behind the church vestry killing—patiently peeling back the Berowne family’s secrets and the tramp’s hidden history—you’ll love A Dark-Adapted Eye. Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) builds a crime from buried memories and corrosive loyalties, much as the investigation in A Taste for Death turns on quiet revelations in interviews rather than flashy forensics. You get that same intimate, unsettling dive into why people do terrible things—and how a family’s story can be the most dangerous evidence of all.

If the fallout from a Cabinet minister found dead in a London church—and the way Westminster shadows every step of Dalgliesh’s case—kept you rapt, try The Ghost. Harris turns a seemingly straightforward assignment into a political autopsy of a former Prime Minister, where each revelation feels like another closed-door briefing. Like the Berowne investigation, public image and private truth grind against each other, and the stakes aren’t just personal—they’re national.

If you appreciated the slow, methodical build—from the vestry’s blood-streaked tiles to the careful interviews with the Berownes and the people who haunt that parish—In the Woods delivers the same taut patience. French lets the case breathe and darken, as Dalgliesh does, letting atmosphere and small inconsistencies do the heavy lifting. It’s the kind of procedural where each conversation feels like a chess move and the final turn lands because the groundwork was laid with care.

If you liked how A Taste for Death moves among Dalgliesh, his team (including the sharp, working‑class Kate Miskin), and the Berowne circle—letting each viewpoint reframe the murder in the church—then Case Histories will click. Atkinson threads several cases through multiple voices, so each chapter recasts the mystery the way each interview in the vestry case subtly changes your sense of what really happened.

If the layered structure—aristocratic scandal, a brutal death in a sacred space, and the patient unpicking of a family’s lies—pulled you through A Taste for Death, A Great Deliverance offers a similarly intricate weave. Like Dalgliesh navigating the Berowne household and the parish web, Lynley and Havers pry into a community where class, history, and shame are the locks on the truth.