Books like The game by Laurie R. King

Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective tale follows Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the legend of an undead hound on Dartmoor, revealing secrets that threaten a family’s legacy.

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.

In Agatha Christie’s classic Miss Marple mystery, the quiet village of Chipping Cleghorn is set aflame by a chilling headline announcing a murder; when lights go out at the appointed hour, the detective must unravel a dark secret.

Colonel and Mrs Bantry find a dead young woman in their library, and her body may be linked to another murder. With their own detective skills stalled, they turn to Miss Marple to unravel the mystery.

Miss Marple finds herself in the Caribbean, where a mysterious old soldier hints at a strange coincidence that could spark adventure.

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

When a 15‑year‑old orphan named Mary Russell stumbles upon retired Sherlock Holmes in Sussex, she becomes his apprentice and partner, uncovering a case that drags them into international intrigue.

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.

Set in 1660s Oxford, Iain Pears’s mystery follows Sarah Blundy as she faces a murder accusation, with the case unfolding through four distinct perspectives that reveal the truth in a surprising twist.

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.

During the Summer of Love, Easy Rawlins balances the crisis of his daughter’s expensive medical treatment with a dangerous plan involving an armored car heist, a mysterious disappearance, and a web of deception that stretches from LA’s hippie scene to a European tragedy.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.

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.

Set in 1837 Calcutta, an earnest soldier and a disillusioned political agent race to find a missing writer, only to be pulled into the sinister world of the Thuggee cult.

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.

"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.

A concise collection of Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell adventures, featuring nine previously published short stories and a brand‑new mystery set in London.