Books like Home by nightfall by Charles Finch

Sophie Foster faces betrayal and danger in the sixth book of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, as she uncovers ancient secrets that threaten reality itself.

Detective William Monk investigates the murder of arms dealer Daniel Alberton while a romantic entanglement between Alberton’s daughter and the American Lyman Breeland threatens to eclipse the crime.

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.

Jim Vanning has an identity crisis. Is he an innocent artist who just happens to have some very dangerous people interested in him? Or is he a killer on the lam from his last murder with a satchel worth over $300,000 in tow? Relentlessly focused, Nightfall may be David Goodis’ most accomplished novel. It is a fiendishly constructed maze, filled with unpredictable pitfalls and human predators whose authenticity only makes them more terrifying.

After a stay in Italy, Lady Julia returns to her Sussex estate, only to discover a murder at a nearby abbey. With private investigator Nicholas Brisbane, she navigates intrigue, family secrets and a snowbound conspiracy to uncover the killer before another tragedy.

In 1895 South London, destitution and crime prevail. Private investigator Arrowood, a self‑taught psychologist, tackles a gangster’s reign of terror after a lead dies in his sight.

In 1882 London, March Middleton joins her guardian Sidney Grice and is drawn into a brutal murder investigation when the victim’s husband becomes the only suspect.

Detective Charles Lenox investigates the disappearance of a Oxford student, unraveling strange clues and a murky secret society that may threaten the campus.

Charles Lenox, a fledgling detective in 1850 London, must solve a serial murder case after an anonymous writer claims responsibility for a victim found in a naval trunk.

After her father’s apocalyptic prophecy comes true, Jenna is rescued by an ex‑marine named Mason who takes her to a remote cabin. As the power grid fails and mutant dogs roam the Pacific Northwest, Jenna and Mason must survive the emerging Dark Age, protecting strangers and confronting supernatural forces.

*The sitting room looked as familiar as the back of his hand, and immediately Lenox took a liking to the young man who inhabited it. He saw several small artifacts of the missing student's life---a frayed piece of string about two feet long of the sort you might bind a package with, half of a pulpy fried tomato, which was too far from the breakfast table to have been dropped, a fountain pen, and lastly, a card which said on the front The September Society. . . .* In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle's problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mater to investigate, he discovers a series of bizarre clues, including a murdered cat and a card cryptically referring to the September Society. Then, just as Lenox realizes that the case may be deeper than it appears, a student dies, the victim of foul play. What could the September Society have to do with it? What specter, returned from the past, is haunting gentle Oxford? Lenox, with the support of his devoted friends in London's upper crust, must race to discover the truth before it comes searching for him, and dangerously close to home.

Victorian detective Charles Lenox is drawn from his quiet study to investigate the suspicious death of a former servant in London, where a rare poison may have hidden a murder beneath an apparent suicide.