Books like The neighbors by Carol Smith

A London messenger finds himself entangled in an international conspiracy when delivering the memoirs of a deceased European count, leading to murder, blackmail, and a race to prove innocence at the historic English estate of Chimneys.

In London, three women share a flat and a mystery when the third claims she has committed murder and then vanishes. Hercule Poirot must piece together rumours and evidence to determine her guilt, innocence, or madness.

Detective Inspector Gemma James is drawn into a cold case when a stolen piece of jewelry resurfaces, linking London’s elite to a Nazi‑era murder and a second, present‑day death.

Mystery on the London stage unfolds when a staged quarrel turns deadly, forcing Inspector Roderick Alleyn to untangle a web of theatrical deception and a real murder at the Unicorn Theatre.

In London, a seemingly polite card party turns deadly when two guests are strangled with picture wire in identical fashion. Inspector Hemingway must untangle the clues, suspecting the host’s fiancee while uncovering the victims’ murky pasts.

When beloved mystery writer Josephine Tey arrives in London in March 1934, she is drawn into a chilling investigation after a friend she meets on the train is murdered. Together with Detective Archie Penrose, they pursue a killer hidden among the glitz of the British theatre.

When a prostitute’s mutilated body is found in Buckingham Palace, Thomas Pitt and his maid Gracie race to uncover the killer before the scandal threatens the monarchy.

When a shelter counselor in London discovers a murdered resident’s body floating on the Thames, she takes on a dangerous investigation that forces her to confront her own traumatic past.

When a reinforced cask from Paris arrives at London docks, a gold-filled spill uncovers a woman's hand and a murder mystery that forces Scotland Yard’s methodical Inspector Burnley to sift through alibis and lies.

A fox moves in with a hare who needs to retrieve his home.

"Stay away from the Witch! It's a jinx boat!" Such a grim warning would surely frighten a less courageous girl than Kay Tracey. To Kay, whose skill as an amateur detective is already well known in her home town, the threat is a challenge that cannot be ignored. She must find out why someone is trying to keep her from going aboard the Witch! Defying the jinx, Kay and her friends the Worth twins, peppy Betty and studious, quiet Wilma, board the trim little houseboat for a summer trip down the Sharon River. Sailing close behind and always mooring near them, is the strange black Ajax, guarded day and night by a vicious watchdog. Two mysterious, unfriendly men are aboard, armed with guns and wary of any boat approaching them. At night, from the darkened Ajax, a flashlight winks a message in Morse code and is answered by beam from the shore. Can there be any connection between this sinister gang and the recent jewel robberies the police have been unable to solve? Kay, Wilma, and Betty find their holdiay cruise has turned into a precarious chase. The trail finally leads the girls to a dangerous spot from which there seems to be no escape...

In Edwardian London, railwayman Jim Stringer discovers that the line he works on serves only a massive cemetery, and the men around him hate him while his predecessor has vanished under suspicious circumstances. Can he solve the mystery before it kills him?

Historic London police thriller as Thomas Pitt confronts a cunning anarchist plot that masks a powerful press‑manipulated crime syndicate, forcing him to ally with former foes and his wife to protect the empire.