Books like A useful woman by Darcie Wilde

Glasgow’s underbelly is rocked when a small‑time heroin dealer is found dead, forcing a detective and an aspiring actress/private‑investigator to chase tangled clues and a missing mentor.

"In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"--brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband Alec--Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard --go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy's friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body. And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy's three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can't officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Superintendent Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime"--

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 Inspector Marnie Rome must race against time to uncover the truth behind the vanished children of a London farm while hunting the killer who framed her family.

When Ali’s parents lose their life savings in a Ponzi scheme, her father becomes a suspect after a double homicide, and Ali and her husband fight to clear his name and bring justice to victims, including a cold‑blooded killer.

Amory Ames, a stylish detective, works with her husband Milo to solve a jewelry theft and a murder at a masked ball in 1930s London.

An inconvenient woman

When a celebrated instructor is murdered at Morningside Heights, former police sergeant Frank Malloy and his wife are drawn into a mystery that tests their detective skills and the fragile secrets of New York academia.

A crime‑mystery novel where a private investigator in North Carolina tackles murders linked to a local coffee shop and doughnut shop, featuring the character Suzanne Hart.

In the quiet post‑War England of 1926, a missing quarry mason sparks a mystery that draws the keen eye of young detective Kate Shackleton and her investigating mother, Mary Jane, whose own secrets may hold the key to the truth.