Books like A corpse at St Andrew's Chapel by Mel Starr

An anatomist investigates a murder in Oxfordshire’s elite society.

When a French physician is murdered in 1813 Regency London, aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife Hero are pulled into a deadly web of war‑time intrigue, a secret Napoleonic delegation, and the vanished Lost Dauphin.

In 1546, lawyer Matthew Shardlake is drawn into the deadly politics of Henry VIII’s dying reign, where he must navigate treachery, religious persecution, and a family will dispute while being summoned by Queen Catherine Parr for secret assistance.

A Viscount in early 19th‑century London investigates a snow‑drift murder tied to the royal court, uncovering secret motives and betrayals amid a frosty Frost Fair.

After five‑year‑old Kitty Easton vanishes from her bed in 1911, her fragile mother clings to hope. A man named Laurence discovers that the empty house and its occupants may hide a darker tale of love, betrayal and violence.

An experiment in historical narration: two true "tales"--Each involving a violent death, each linked to a great, tragic Boston dynasty, that of General James Wolfe, killed at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the second, the death of George Parkman, eccentric Boston luminary. Both tales are linked by the fate of the dynasty of the Parkmans of Boston and by Schama's sense of the irrecoverable distance between events and their narration, of the death of certainty--Jacket.

The University should have been delighted when an influential courtier decides to found a new College in Cambridge, but the older Colleges are jealous of the newcomer's ostentatious wealth, and the townsfolk bitterly resent yet another academic foundation thrust into their midst. Tensions between town and gown rise further still when physician Matthew Bartholomew snatches an unpopular felon from the jaws of death - an incident that coincides with a sudden increase in violent crime across the whole region. As the new College is about to receive the charter that will make it an official part of the University, an arrow flies through the air and kills the Junior Proctor. With the townsfolk and the scholars blaming each other for the murder, Bartholomew and his friend Brother Michael must find the culprit before the whole region erupts in a frenzy of recrimination and revenge.

When a stolen Elgin Caryatid explodes into murder, private investigator Francis Powerscourt and his ally Johnny Fitzgerald dig into London’s Greek community and elite society to uncover the motives behind the priceless theft.

In Roman Britain : the medicus Ruso and his wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend to the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge and are still smarting from the failure of a recent rebellion that claimed many lives. When Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing, tensions increase. Then a local boy also vanishes, and Ruso and Tilla discover an intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers.