Ann Cleeves' Shetland Quartet series about Shetland native policeman Jimmy Perez is a particular favorite of mine, though I doubt the endings would be termed "happy."
The series begins with Raven Black, the first winner of the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award for the best crime novel of the year. In it, Jimmy Perez is called on to investigate the murder of a teenage girl. She's found by Fran, an aspiring artist and single mother. Fran is alerted to the presence of the body by a splash of color on the snowy ground and a murder of crows (the collective noun for a group of crows) circling the area.
I've been putting off reading the fourth book in the series. Why? Because I didn't want to come to the end of this gritty, suspenseful series. I got a lovely surprise when I discovered there will be a fifth in the newly-dubbed Shetland series. Now that's a happy ending.
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