Books like Matched Pearls (Grace Livingston Hill #30) by Grace Livingston Hill

When a fatal crime shatters his family, former detective Amos Decker must use his impossible photographic memory to uncover the truth behind the murders that defied him, while facing the painful past he cannot escape.

After her eccentric grandmother dies, 7‑year‑old Elsa discovers a collection of apology letters that launch her into a whimsical, sometimes perilous journey through an apartment building, fairy‑tale truths, and unexpected family bonds.

After losing her family, a seventeen‑year‑old orphan named Elizabeth flees from a Montana wilderness to Philadelphia, pursued by a killer, while her faith, horse, and two pistols become her only allies.

Two bachelor brothers, David and Joseph, live on an old farm until a city‑raised sister, adopted by an aunt, arrives and reveals their kinship, bringing faith, love and renewal to their home and village.

Constance, a college girl, keeps her former Sunday‑School classmates in check so she can inherit her grandmother’s precious matched pearls. Faced with a crisis at school, she must confront the promises she made and the faith she once mocked.

An 1914 romance following Effie Martin’s struggle between a tomboy lifestyle and conventional womanhood, leading to friendship and personal growth with football hero Lawrence Earle.

Patty Merrill leaves home after a family dispute, seeks independence, and finds an unexpected companionship with a fellow refugee. A distant nephew also eschews wealth, all guided by a promise of a divine tryst that reshapes their lives.

With four younger siblings to support as well as her invalid mother, since her father died unexpectedly the previous year, Shirley was really up against it. Her tiny secretary's salary could only afford rent for a house that was too small and located in an area with excessive heat, traffic, and pollution. To compound the problems she had been served notice that the family must move in a few weeks. This is why a large stone barn outside the city, in a spacious natural setting with cool, fresh air seemed so inviting. The barn's owner, Sidney, was also up against it in trying to get the barn not only in a habitable, but also in a truly homelike and comfortable state without appearing to be offering charity nor compelling an increase in rent. Shirley completely refused charity of any kind, but was so completely conscientious and loyal in her work, at times jeopardizing her own safety and even risking her life, that abundant help came her way in many forms, leading eventually to property ownership that guaranteed lifetime security for her family. Along the way she taught Sidney the meaning of inner wealth, which is what he really wanted rather than the haughty, condescending, shallow, superficial, undeserving hypocrisy of some of his rich acquaintances. His curiousity about how someone could really live in a barn came to be richly rewarded. Shirley found that her daring bravery in attempting actual life in a barn was also richly rewarded. As she and Sidney discovered what real wealth was, it wasn't only the barn that was enchanted.