The Game is Afoot!

In the spirit of Enola Holmes, this series also stars a clever, teenage lady detective in Victorian-era London. Biracial Chinese/Irish orphan Mary Quinn gets rescued from the gallows and recruited into an investigative group known as The Agency. For her first assignment, Mary goes undercover as a lady’s companion in a merchant’s house. She soon becomes enmeshed in a house full of secrets. Come for the mystery, stay for the delightful romantic banter that ensues.

For readers who: want the closest thing to Enola Holmes

Craving a book like Enola Holmes involving another teenage relative of Sherlock’s? Sink into this present day mystery featuring Sherlock’s great-great-great-granddaughter, Charlotte Holmes. Fate throws students Jamie Watson and Charlotte together after they both get framed for a student’s murder at Sherringford prep. This Watson and Holmes partnership makes for a charming modern day adaptation of the classic Sherlock Holmes.

For readers who: want something more modern

In Sense and Second-Degree Murder, aspiring scientist Elinor Dashwood and her sister Marianne, a budding detective, work together to solve the mystery of their father’s murder. A murder mystery remake of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin, this book has all the romance and history of a 19th century story but with the action of detective work.

For readers who: want to read a classic but are bored by the thought

A year after an accidentally whirlwind grand tour with her brother Monty, Felicity Montague has returned to England with two goals in mind—avoid the marriage proposal of a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh and enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science.

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor—even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it.

For readers who: didn't think Enola needed Sherlock's help

You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester. Despite their significant age gap (!) and his uneven temper (!!), they fall in love—and, Reader, she marries him. (!!!)

Or does she?

Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and one orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Brontë, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood are about to be drawn together on the most epic ghost hunt this side of Wuthering Heights.

For readers who: love a fourth wall break

Shortly after Ellingham Academy opened, the founder's wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.

True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at the Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.

For readers who: want to go back and forth through time

Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die. A gothic tale full of mystery and romance about a willful female surgeon, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, and the buried secrets they must uncover together.

For readers who: love some 19th century mystery romance

By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, "Dear Miss Sweetie." When her column becomes wildly popular, she uses the power of the pen to address some of society's ills, but she's not prepared for the backlash that follows when her column challenges fixed ideas about race and gender. With prose that is witty, insightful, and at times heartbreaking, Stacey Lee masterfully crafts an extraordinary social drama set in the New South.

For readers who: want some historically relevant action and mystery

A adventure, set in the late 19th century, about science, love, and finding your place in the world. Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but she knows such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores.

Elizabeth must learn to navigate this new world of possibility: with her familial duties and faith tugging at her heartstrings, a new romance on the horizon, and the study of the night sky calling to her, she can’t possibly have it all…can she?

For readers who: think girls can be anything they want, including detectives and astronomers