Books like The Language of Bees 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.

Amy Stewart’s The Drunken Botanist traces how humans have distilled and fermented a diverse array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits and fungi into the world’s alcoholic beverages.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kate, a woman‑sleuth, is hired to find a missing daughter in 1950s England, a task complicated by a ghostly library, a strangled librarian’s corpse, and a suspicious Italian organ grinder, forcing her to uncover the true murderer.

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.