If you enjoy historical mysteries, you’ll appreciate the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. Set in England between the wars, Maisie is a former domestic servant, whose current career as psychologist and investigator follows a grueling stint as a nurse during the First World War.

In class conscious England,  Maisie struggles to be taken seriously as a business woman and support herself and her loyal assistant, Billy Beale. 

In An Incomplete Revenge, a simple assignment to investigate a land purchase in rural Kent exposes a decade’s long secret.

This is an intriguing rather than quaint series–think Ruth Rendell not Agatha Christie.