If you loved how Charlotte pieces together the trio of sudden deaths while outmaneuvering society’s gaze—and how she, Mrs. Watson, and Inspector Treadles triangulate the truth—you’ll savor the intricate puzzles in Murder on Black Swan Lane. The caustically brilliant Lord Wrexford and the keenly observant Charlotte Sloane clash and collaborate through false leads, secret societies, and forensic breadcrumbs in Regency London, delivering that same satisfying snap of deduction you enjoyed when Charlotte turns gossip columns and tiny physical details into breakthroughs.

Charlotte’s calculated self-ruin to claim her independence—and her partnership with the formidable Mrs. Watson—showed you the thrill of a woman insisting on her genius. In The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Mary Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs and proves herself his equal, matching wits across ciphers, kidnappings, and international plots. If Charlotte’s cool logic and refusal to bow to Victorian expectations hooked you, Mary’s incisive mind and fearless autonomy will hit the same sweet spot.

If the simmering connection between Charlotte and Lord Ingram—complicated by rank, history, and unspoken longing—kept you turning pages, you’ll adore the combustible pairing of Veronica Speedwell and Stoker in A Curious Beginning. Like Charlotte’s guarded tenderness beneath her composure, Veronica’s bold curiosity sparks against Stoker’s brooding intensity as murder, abductions, and cryptic clues force them into close quarters. The banter, restraint, and earned trust echo that tantalizing, slow-burn emotional pull you enjoyed.

If you liked how A Study in Scarlet Women weaves Charlotte’s insights with Lord Ingram’s interventions and Inspector Treadles’s dogged legwork, The Yard expands a Victorian manhunt through multiple viewpoints inside Scotland Yard’s new Murder Squad. You’ll get the procedural grind, political pressure, and on-the-street peril intercut with deductive leaps—much like watching Charlotte’s quiet brilliance collide with Treadles’s official investigation from different angles.

Charlotte’s entire gambit—embracing scandal to escape a marriage trap—highlights how status and propriety warp justice. In A Spy in the House, Mary Quinn, once condemned by poverty, infiltrates high society as an undercover investigator. Like Charlotte navigating drawing rooms, servants’ staircases, and the watchful eyes of men like Inspector Treadles, Mary turns social roles into tools, using eavesdropped whispers and household routines to crack a case that the powerful would prefer to bury.