Books like The devil at Saxon Wall by Gladys Mitchell

Police lieutenant Eve Dallas confronts a cunning killer who leaves cryptic riddles and a dark past tied to her new husband.

Evangeline Jenner, a shy wallflower, strikes a pact with a famed London scoundrel to escape her scheming family—only to find herself bound to the sinfully handsome Viscount Sebastian. Their perilous wager tests love and loyalty.

Aurora Teagarden and wealthy businessman Martin Bartell marry at the Julius House, but a violent attack reveals the house and their shared pasts may destroy their fledgling marriage.

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Detective Vera Stanhope teams up with a reluctant old adversary to reopen a cold case that may reveal secrets about her father's past.

In Regency London, a notorious rogue named Jack Dodger inherits the fiefdom of the esteemed Duchess Olivia of Lovingdon. Bound by duty and craving, Olivia must confront the dangerous charms of the man she detests as her world of honor collides with forbidden desire.

Master Simon Innes and his brother investigate a string of murders in their quiet English village, where a traveling circus arrives for Easter and a full moon complicates the mystery.

When a prank at Calladale Agricultural College turns deadly, novelist detective Dame Beatrice Lestrange investigates the mysterious death of a student, unravelling a web of secrets, poison and a haunted history across England.

Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley investigates the mysterious death of student Ursula Doyle at the coastal convent St. Peter’s Finger, where suspected foul play, inheritance disputes, and religious tensions intertwine.

Mrs. Bradley, the astute psychologist, investigates a river‑mysterious death that may involve a mythical nymph and a vanished water‑walker.

A rural mystery thick with eccentric villagers, an unsettling grave, and a fatal costume‑party victim pulls a psycho‑analyst into a small English village to untangle a potentially double murder.

A woman's desire...With dreams of a great romantic love, Abigail Carrington sails to England to marry the man she has loved since childhood, Michael Ingram, Marquis of Darfield. She believes her betrothed is a generous and noble man who has been longing for her. But the handsome man waiting for her at the altar is a dark, brooding stranger who rushes her into marriage, then abandons her at his country estate. Only the passion of Michael's kiss gives her hope that theirs can be more than a marriage of convenience.A man's need... With scandal shadowing his past, Michael, the Devil of Darfield, had no need for a wife. Remembering only the little hellion who made life miserable for him aboard her father's ship, he resents the agreement he made to marry her so he could save his ancestral home. Though determined to ignore her, he cannot stop thinking about his lovely violet-eyed bride. Her beauty tempts him. Her charm bedevils him. He tries to drive her away until he almost loses her. Then he vows to regain her love--before it is too late....From the Paperback edition.

During the early months of World War II, the quiet provincial town of Willington is plunged into blackouts and rationing—until three strangers die in a single stormy night, forcing the residents to confront a sinister mystery.

At Chayning Court, after explorer Everard Mountjoy is found dead in the bath, Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley, the house’s women’s head, becomes the sole investigator amid a guilty web of guests and staff.

Mrs. Bradley is drawn to an ancient ritual in Greece, where Sir Rudri Hopkinson attempts to summon Demeter. When a participant disappears and a severed head appears in a box of snakes, the detective must unravel the deadly mystery.

When her brothers’ lives endanger, Lady Margaret Chattan—vowing never to marry to break a centuries‑old curse—teams with Laird Heath Macnachtan to battle a formidable supernatural foe.