Books like Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear

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.

A moving tale of a young girl's escape from war‑torn Europe and her discovery of love and hope in a foreign land.

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.

Three friends and a ring of female spies of WWII uncover a mystery of missing agents, weaving friendship, courage and danger through wartime Manhattan and occupied Europe.

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

In spring 1930, Maisie Dobbs is hired to locate a runaway heiress. When three of the heiress’s former friends are found dead, she races to uncover who would murder these respectable young women before it’s too late.

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.

After a plane crash that leaves only a painter and a child alive, the surviving pilot must navigate a treacherous coast while investigators uncover secrets that may haunt the elite aboard.

Retired Carole Seddon unwittingly becomes the sleuth when, with her Labrador Gulliver, she discovers a body on Fethering beach that vanishes before the police act. Together with eccentric neighbor Jude, she tackles a mystery the authorities ignore.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Jude stumbles into a local bookmakers shop and discovers the murder of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski, prompting her and her friend Carole to investigate the crime together.

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.

Maisie Dobbs investigates a string of fires and petty crimes in a Kentish village during hop‑picking season, uncovering a deeper mystery tied to wartime trauma and local prejudice.