Books like Czech Mate (Max Rydal) by Elizabeth Darrell

Former MI5 spy turned BBC radio producer Juliet Armstrong must confront dangerous foes from her World War II past when her old enemies stalk her in London after decades of quiet life.

Inspector Alan Grant investigates the murder of a woman found on a British coast, where a twisted article in her hair hints at a complex web of clues and motives.

Inspector Alan Grant investigates a mysterious murder on a night train to London, where a dying man's unfinished poem—about talking beasts and singing sands—clues him to a hidden conspiracy.

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and partner Barbara Havers trail a serial killer in London, confronting race politics and police turmoil while hunting the psychopath who strikes in a ruthless pattern.

Inspector Alan Grant joins a sleepy English village to untangle the sudden disappearance of the wealthy, handsome Leslie Searle, whose turmoil has raised suspicions of amnesia, suicide, or murder.

"Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French mademoiselle in the passenger seat. With the house now Addie's, needed improvements in hand, and a weekend house party underway, how inconvenient of Rupert to turn up! Not in the flesh, but in - actually, as a - spirit. Rupert has to perform a few good deeds before becoming welcomed to heaven - or, more likely, thinks Addie, to hell. Before Addie can convince herself she's not completely lost her mind, a murder disrupts her careful seating arrangement. Which of her twelve houseguests is a killer? Her mother, the formidable Dowager Marchioness of Broughton? Her sister Cecilia, the born-again vegetarian? Her childhood friend and potential lover, Lord Lucas Waring? Rupert has a solid alibi as a ghost and an urge to detect. Enter Inspector Devenand Hunter from the Yard, an Anglo-Indian who is not going to let some barmy society beauty witnessed talking to herself derail his investigation. Something very peculiar is afoot at Compton Court and he's going to get to the bottom of it - or go as mad as its mistress trying"--

In Spook Street, a retired MI5 spy grapples with memory loss while the agents of Slough House race to stop a bomb that killed forty civilians in a shopping centre.

A WWII‑era secret service agent turned private investigator unravels a murder and a haunting séance, as she searches for a missing wife in war‑torn Belgium.

Set amid 1940 London’s Blitz, Lord Peter Wimsey secretly aids the Foreign Office while Harriet Vane confronts the murder of a Land Girl, driving a tense wartime mystery.

The Confessions of Max Tivoli follows a boy born as an elderly ‘nisse’ of Danish myth whose body ages in reverse, forcing him to repeatedly fall in love with a girl who ages normally in turn of the twentieth‑century San Francisco.