Books like Hasty Death by Marion Chesney

A locked‑in murder on the Orient Express forces detective Hercule Poirot to unravel a mystery among a diverse group of passengers during a snowbound night.

When a prostitute is murdered on decrepit Pentecost Alley, Superintendent Thomas Pitt traces a Hellfire Club badge to the wealthy Finlay Fitzjames, but the investigation forces him to confront powerful family and political pressures while his wife Charlotte aids the pursuit of justice.

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.

Sir Oliver Rathbone, a London barrister, takes a case of alleged slander from Countess Zorah Rostova, only to discover a deeper murder mystery involving the late Prince Friedrich and his vanished wife, Princess Gisela.

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.

In Victorian London, private detective William Monk investigates a baffling missing-person case that spirals into a series of murders, exposing the era’s social mores and hidden scandals.

Emily Brightwell’s debut Victorian mystery follows Mrs. Jeffries, a charming domestic housekeeper who keeps Inspector Witherspoon’s Scotland Yard investigations sharp and his secrets safe, proving that clever sleuthing can come from unexpected quarters.

In Victorian London, Mrs. Jeffries must unravel a murder tied to a tense seance, using her keen sense for human nature to help an unsentient inspector solve the case.

"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.

Hired by the Parish councilor of a small community in the Cotswold Hills to investigate the murder of a jolly widow, Agatha Raisin learns about the victim's penchant for keeping borrowed items in a case that is complicated by village secrets and a killer who would make Agatha a next target.

Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. This book explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nation-wide panic in the early nineteenth century.

Dame Frevisse, a nun, leaves her cloister to chase her outlaw cousin Nicholas up the King's Highway, confronting the law, her vows, and a deadly manor where faith and greed collide.

When dour novelist John Heppel is found dead in his cottage, Hamish Macbeth—a local policeman turned sleuth—must sort through a tangle of suspects and the quiet of the Scottish countryside to uncover the truth.

When glamorous BBC reporter Crystal French is murdered in the small Scottish village of Lochdubh, Detective Hamish Macbeth must unravel a web of local resentments and media rivalry to find the killer.

Set amid 1940 London’s Blitz, Lord Peter Wimsey secretly aids the Foreign Office while Harriet Vane confronts the murder of a Land Girl, driving a tense wartime mystery.

In medieval Prior Byfield, plague and famine grip the village while a twisted web of adultery, crime, and intrigue threatens its inhabitants. Nuns Sister Frevisse and Sister Thomasine investigate the betrayal that endangers the nunnery and the community.