Books like Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King

A collection of twelve short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, first published in The Strand Magazine (1891‑92) and compiled in 1892.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of Four, follows Holmes and Watson as they investigate a mysterious treasure and a crime tied to a former convict.

Two young lovers, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, form a private detective agency and are hired to locate a missing woman named Jane Finn, whose disappearance threatens post‑war Britain.

A charming and clever women detective, Precious Ramotswe, solves mysteries in Botswana's small town of Midsomin, South Africa, from 1986 to 1997, facing dangers and love in the process. The novel is beloved by readers worldwide for its clever dialogue and characters who are as flawed as the rest of us. The book is a bestseller and has been translated into 45 languages, including Polish, German, and Japanese, among others. It was also voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes navigate peril and intrigue in the bazaars of 1918 Jerusalem, facing murderous foes while uncovering a web of political and ethnic tension.

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes investigate a 1906 San Francisco earthquake mystery that resurfaces a buried memory of a past crime with the power to kill again.

Mary Russell, a detective and associate of Sherlock Holmes, investigates the murder of an archaeologist after he returns to England with a controversial letter claiming to be from an apostle of Christ.

Mary Russell, a young detective in the post‑World War I era, partners with Sherlock Holmes to uncover the sinister underpinnings of a feminist‑Christian sect known as the New Temple of God.

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes travel incognito to India, searching for a missing spy who inspired Rudyard Kipling’s "Kim" and uncovering dangerous intrigue.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s genius detective teams up with his apprentice Mary Russell to untangle a wartime mystery involving a duke’s brother, a scandalous death, and a trail that leads from London to Paris and the American frontier.

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.

Irene Adler, the famed American opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, steps into a new mystery where her keen detective skills rescue barrister Godfrey Norton and force a showdown with the legendary detective himself.

Grace Hamblin, a beekeeper’s daughter on an English estate, faces sudden independence after her father’s death and navigates love, family duty, and future expectations.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.

In early‑20th‑century New York, Irish‑American detective Molly Murphy and policeman Daniel Sullivan uncover a mystery when a young woman is found unconscious in the snow of Central Park.