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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read mostly historical mysteries and most of the series I read have female leads. There's often a slow burn relationship with a sleuthing partner.

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear was already mentioned. That's an epic series that starts before WWI and ends after it. Book 1 is the origin story and it's a great standalone.

Veronica Speedwell books by Deanna Raybourn are about a 20-something raised by aunts who starts getting hunted when they die. I won't ruin it, but she goes on to juggle being a museum curator and butterfly hunter (an acceptable occupation in the Victorian era). She does investigations with her partner, a taxidermist. It's funny and outrageous.

Kat Halloway books by Jennifer Ashley - she's a cook for a society family in Victorian England. Her possible beau is some sort of detective or agent. It's a clever series! Not cozy, though.

Perveen Mistry books by Sujata Massey - Set in the 1920s Bombay. Perveen was educated at Oxford, but comes home to help at her father's firm and she's the first female lawyer in India. She gets seemingly boring, mundane jobs because of her sex, but she has great adventures.

I could go on and on.[/quote]

I second the Perveen Mistry books— I just finished The Widows of Malabar Hill and loved it. [/quote]
She meets her love interest in the second book. She travels outside the city and it's really interesting. [/quote]

Thank you and have added it to my list:  The Satapur Moonstone. [/quote]

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