Books like A Lesson in Secrets (Maisie Dobbs #8) 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.

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.

Set in spring 1937, Maisie Dobbs returns to Britain only to find herself entangled in a murder investigation and political intrigue in Gibraltar amid the Spanish Civil War refugees.

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.

Mary Russell aids Sherlock Holmes in a perilous investigation that tests their bond, from vanished bees to a missing family and a dangerous killer tied to Holmes’s past.

Kate Shackleton, an amateur sleuth, investigates the mysterious death of banker Everett Runcie, whose wife seeks divorce and his murder may be linked to hidden personal scandals.

"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"--

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.

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.

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.

In 670 AD Ireland, Sister Fidelma and her ally Eadulf investigate a noble’s murder near Cashel, uncovering clues tied to a violent uprising led by a religious fanatic.