Books like A dangerous place by Jacqueline Winspear

In 1933 London, a young Indian woman’s body is found in a canal. Maisie Dobbs, the city’s leading private investigator, steps in when Scotland Yard’s investigation stalls, uncovering a web of secrecy and injustice.

In 1932 Major‑Ian Murder at a Cambridge college forces Maisie Dobbs to go from undercover lecturer to sleuth, exposing hidden truths about Britain's wartime politics and the early Nazi threat.

Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator, tackles a mysterious case when Sir Cecil Lawton seeks her help to unmask the truth behind his wife's grief and his missing son from the Great War.

A gripping mystery set in London during the 1920s as Maisie Dobbs investigates a brutal murder of a street vendor.

Maisie Dobbs, a former housemaid turned Cambridge student, serves as a war‑zone nurse during World War I. After the conflict, she begins a career as a private investigator, and her first case unravels a darker secret that forces her to confront the war’s lingering trauma.

"In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So, in July, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, now retired as private informer, has taken up her father's former profession and it's time to get back to work. The first order business, however, is the corpse found in a chest sent as part of a large lot to be sold by the Falco family auction house. As the senior family representative in Rome, it falls upon Albia to find out who, why, and by whom. At the same time, her potential young man, Faustus, comes looking for help with his friend Sextus's political campaign. Between the auction business and Roman politics, it's not quite clear which one is the more under-handed and duplicitous. Both, however, are tied together by the mysterious body in the chest, and if Albia isn't able to solve that mystery, it won't be the only body to drop"--

Milo, a devoted woman sleuth, travels to Paris to uncover the sinister murder of famed perfume magnate Amory, whose imminent fragrance launch has attracted ruthless rivals and greedy heirs brashly fighting for his empire.

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.

In Alaska’s rugged southwest, private investigator Kate Shugak teams with state trooper Liam Campbell as they unravel a murder tied to a mysterious freight operation following the death of aviation entrepreneur Finn Grant.

On Christmas Eve 1931, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a suicide and then becomes chief investigator of a menacing letter threatening mass death, while her assistant’s grief spirals and she must confront a dangerous conspirator and personal trauma from wartime memories.

Amory and Milo Ames investigate a decades‑old murder that resurfaces when socialite Isobel Van Allen returns to her former country house to publish a scandalous sequel, forcing the detectives to untangle a web of lies and uncover the killer.