Books like Slaves of obsession by Anne Perry

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

The Goldfinch chronicles the life of thirteen‑year‑old Theo Decker, who survives a museum attack that kills his mother and carries an art piece that becomes a lifelong obsession, exploring loss, identity, and art in contemporary America.

When Belgian detective Hercule Poirot returns to the English village of King's Abbot, he confronts the murder of industrialist Roger Ackroyd, unraveling a web of family secrets and hidden motives that reveal the culprit was nobody he expected.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

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.

On a luxury Nile cruise, the glamorous Linnet Ridgeway is found murdered, and intrepid detective Hercule Poirot must uncover the truth amid intrigue, secrets, and false leads.

Dan Simmons’ historical thriller follows Charles Dickens after a train accident in 1865, reexamining his life, London society, and the unresolved mystery of his final unfinished novel.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

Sir Oliver Rathbone, a London barrister, takes a case of alleged slander from Countess Zorah Rostova, only to discover a deeper murder mystery involving the late Prince Friedrich and his vanished wife, Princess Gisela.

After Sir Edward Grey is murdered, his widow Julia partners with private investigator Nicholas Brisbane to uncover the brutal truth behind his death, confronting London’s hidden dangers and her own painful revelations.

Private detective William Monk is drawn into a perilous investigation that links a stolen cargo of African ivory, a mysterious murder at a docked schooner, and a desperate woman sent to his wife's clinic, threatening both their lives and their world.

A concise historical exploration of Mary Boleyn, the lesser-known sister of Anne, set within the Tudor court of 1508–1543.

In Victorian London, private detective William Monk investigates a baffling missing-person case that spirals into a series of murders, exposing the era’s social mores and hidden scandals.

In a tense Victorian London, Inspector William Monk investigates a brutal murder of an aristocratic girl, aided by former nurse Hester Latterly as he navigates a web of amnesia and political intrigue.

Maisie Dobbs, a former housemaid turned Cambridge student, serves as a war‑zone nurse during World War I. After the conflict, she begins a career as a private investigator, and her first case unravels a darker secret that forces her to confront the war’s lingering trauma.

A Breach of Promise tells the story of wealthy social climbers Barton and Delphine Lambert suing for their beautiful daughter Zillah's rejection by architect Killian Melville, who adamantly refuses to marry her.

An Inspector in London: Detectives William Monk and Caleb Stonefield are drawn into the mysterious disappearance of Angus Stonefield and the dark secrets of their twin brother's life.

In eighteenth‑century London, Jewish ex‑boxer Benjamin Weaver is hired to track debtors and thieves. When his estranged father's mysterious death links him to the nascent stock market, Weaver confronts a cabal of financiers, a desperate prostitute, and his own heritage.

Detective Superintendent William Monk investigates a tragic bridge incident in Victorian London, uncovering intertwined murders, a flawed sewer scheme, and underground intrigue that risk the city’s safety.

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

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

In Anne Perry’s Victorian London mystery, two women are strangled in a famed artist’s studio. Investigators William Monk and his wife hunt clues to clear the suspected Viennese surgeon, Dr. Kristian Beck, unraveling the victims’ hidden lives.

Detective Bernie Gunther is pulled back into the shadows of Berlin’s 1934 Nazi world and Havana’s 1954 political turmoil as he confronts past enemies and a new threat that could end his life.