If you loved how Lady Kiera Darby’s anatomical skill helps her and Sebastian Gage unravel the murder at her sister’s Scottish estate, you’ll click with the combustible duo in Murder on Black Swan Lane. Here, caustic scientist the Earl of Wrexford teams up with sharp-witted satirical artist Charlotte Sloane to probe a series of killings tied to alchemy and London’s artistic underbelly. Like Kiera sketching forensic details to clear her name, Charlotte’s illustrations and Wrexford’s empiricism become crucial clues—while their wary alliance crackles with the same guarded trust and banter you enjoyed.

Drawn to Kiera Darby’s poise and expertise even as society gossips about her late husband’s dissections? Meet Mary Russell in The Beekeeper’s Apprentice. On the Sussex Downs she stuns Sherlock Holmes with her razor intellect and begins partnering with him on increasingly perilous cases. As Kiera held her ground against whispers while assisting Gage, Russell refuses to be sidelined by convention—matching Holmes clue for clue and asserting her skills with the same confident, incisive presence you admired in Kiera.

If the gradual trust and romantic tension between Kiera and Gage hooked you, Silent in the Grave offers a similarly addictive pull. After Lady Julia Grey’s husband dies under mysterious circumstances, she reluctantly hires the brooding inquiry agent Nicholas Brisbane. As with Kiera’s uneasy alliance with Gage, Julia and Brisbane circle each other through secret letters, threats, and high-society scandal—chemistry simmering while the investigation peels back layers of grief, danger, and desire.

Loved the intimate stakes of Kiera being trapped in a manor where everyone is a potential suspect—and she’s under suspicion herself? In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot and Hastings investigate the poisoning of Emily Inglethorp at Styles Court, where servants, heirs, and houseguests all harbor motives. As in Kiera’s tense confinement at her sister’s estate, every hallway conversation matters, alibis clash, and the solution hinges on noticing the smallest domestic detail.

If Kiera’s haunted past and the way gossip turns her expertise against her resonated, What Angels Fear delivers that same psychological edge. Viscount Sebastian St. Cyr—scarred by war and slandered by rumor—is framed for the murder of actress Rachel York. Like Kiera sketching the victim to read the body’s story, Sebastian relies on keen observation and intuition to decode London’s darkest corners, confronting trauma, privilege, and danger as the noose tightens.