Books like Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia

When a brutal murder links a billionaire husband to a homicide investigation, Dallas‑Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas must piece together clues amid a chaotic crime scene.

Eve Dallas, a police officer and author, receives a clue from a book that leads her to solve a murder in New York City.

In 1933 London, a young Indian woman’s body is found in a canal. Maisie Dobbs, the city’s leading private investigator, steps in when Scotland Yard’s investigation stalls, uncovering a web of secrecy and injustice.

"In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"--brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband Alec--Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard --go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy's friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body. And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy's three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can't officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Superintendent Underwood, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime"--

Rebekah Roberts, a Brooklyn-born Hasidic Jewish woman turned New York reporter, investigates a murder in her estranged community, uncovering secrets that challenge her identity and the powerful ties between NYPD and the ultra-Orthodox.

Kate Shackleton, an amateur sleuth, investigates the mysterious death of banker Everett Runcie, whose wife seeks divorce and his murder may be linked to hidden personal scandals.

"In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So, in July, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, the daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, now retired as private informer, has taken up her father's former profession and it's time to get back to work. The first order business, however, is the corpse found in a chest sent as part of a large lot to be sold by the Falco family auction house. As the senior family representative in Rome, it falls upon Albia to find out who, why, and by whom. At the same time, her potential young man, Faustus, comes looking for help with his friend Sextus's political campaign. Between the auction business and Roman politics, it's not quite clear which one is the more under-handed and duplicitous. Both, however, are tied together by the mysterious body in the chest, and if Albia isn't able to solve that mystery, it won't be the only body to drop"--

International agent Kate Shackleton escorts the India Office to investigate the disappearance of Maharajah Narayan, whose body is soon found on the Bolton Abbey estate, triggering a deadly hunt for a vanished diamond.

When Charlotte is abruptly killed by a train, she awakens as the newest member of the Dead Girls Detective Agency and must solve her own murder before crossing to the Other Side.

When Ali’s parents lose their life savings in a Ponzi scheme, her father becomes a suspect after a double homicide, and Ali and her husband fight to clear his name and bring justice to victims, including a cold‑blooded killer.

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.