If what gripped you in The Satapur Moonstone was watching Perveen navigate purdah to advise the maharanis and hold her ground with Colin Sandringham, you’ll love Maisie Dobbs. Maisie—another woman carving out space in a male-dominated field—uses keen observation and compassion to solve cases rooted in class and trauma. Like Perveen’s careful interviews within the Satapur palace, Maisie’s inquiries peel back genteel façades to reveal the wounds of the past, all while she pushes against the limits society sets for her.

Enjoyed the princely-state maneuvering and the tightrope Perveen walks between the dowager maharani, the young ruler, and the British Political Agent in The Satapur Moonstone? A Rising Man plunges you into 1919 Calcutta, where Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee probe a politically explosive murder amid viceroy visits, revolutionary cells, and bureaucratic stonewalling. The tug-of-war you saw around Satapur’s future echoes here in every clue the detectives pry loose from officials with agendas.

If the monsoon-soaked trek to the Satapur palace, the rhinoceros-horn gossip, and the rituals of a secluded court drew you in, The Strangler Vine will scratch the same itch. Carter escorts you through 1830s India with East India Company officers chasing a missing writer amid Thuggee rumors. The sensory-rich roads, caravanserais, and political outposts mirror the textured courtly world you explored with Perveen—every locale as vivid and fraught as Satapur’s corridors.

In The Satapur Moonstone, Perveen balances princely prerogatives against the British Political Agency to protect a young maharaja’s future. Murder at Malabar House echoes that collision of powers in newly independent 1950 Bombay, where Persis Wadia—India’s first female police inspector—untangles a high-profile killing tied to British grandees and communal fault lines. If you liked how Perveen navigated colonial hierarchies and tradition-bound spaces, Persis’s battle through post-Raj institutions will feel thrillingly familiar.

Drawn to the way Perveen interviews cloistered royals, parses palace secrets, and follows a trail that turns deadly in The Satapur Moonstone? In A Curious Beginning, lepidopterist Veronica Speedwell teams with the enigmatic Stoker after a benefactor is murdered, unraveling a twisty case through forensic sleuthing and daring escapades. The meticulous cluework and bold heroine—so reminiscent of Perveen’s cool-headed investigation under monsoon skies—make this a lively next step.