If you loved watching Adelia sift evidence to clear Cambridge’s Jews under Henry II’s gaze, you’ll click with William of Baskerville methodically unpicking a string of abbey deaths in The Name of the Rose. Like Adelia’s careful reading of bodies with Mansur at her side, William reconstructs clues—books, ink, and marginalia—in a world where the Church’s power makes every discovery dangerous. The cloister’s secret library feels as fraught as Adelia’s confrontations with cathedral authority, giving you that same mix of brainy detection and perilous theology.

Drawn to Adelia Aguilar’s audacious skill—performing clandestine postmortems and sparring with Bishop Rowley? Lady Kiera Darby will scratch that itch. In The Anatomist’s Wife, Kiera’s scandalous past as an anatomist’s assistant becomes her edge when a corpse turns up at a Highland estate. As with Adelia concealing her medical authority behind Mansur to placate medieval mores, Kiera navigates rigid gendered expectations while partnering with investigator Sebastian Gage, turning illicit expertise into the key to justice.

If the mud, markets, and monastic tensions of Adelia’s Cambridge felt vividly real—down to how politics and piety warp the investigation—you’ll love Dissolution. Lawyer-sleuth Matthew Shardlake probes a murder at the Scarnsea monastery during Cromwell’s dissolution, and the setting is as lived-in as Adelia’s England: power-brokers loom (as Henry II does over Adelia), religious houses guard secrets like the priory Adelia challenges, and every hallway draft or liturgical detail doubles as a clue.

Enjoyed how Adelia’s case is snared in Henry II’s clash with the Church and the fate of Cambridge’s Jews? The Janissary Tree thrusts eunuch-investigator Yashim into 1830s Istanbul, where missing officers and a murder inside the harem hint at a conspiracy tied to the abolished Janissary corps. Like Adelia threading between royal demands and ecclesiastical fury, Yashim deciphers clues amid palace whispers, ambassadors, and reformist factions—every answer risks igniting the empire.

If the harrowing child-murder case Adelia unravels—autopsies, profiling a predator, and racing authority’s biases—kept you rapt, The Alienist delivers that same dark pull. Dr. Laszlo Kreizler forms a proto–forensic team with reporter John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to catch a killer of boy prostitutes in Gilded Age New York. As with Adelia battling clerics and bigotry to follow the evidence, Kreizler’s crew uses psychological insight and cutting-edge methods while confronting a city that would rather look away.