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A champagne-soaked, jazz-soundtracked romp featuring a heroine who refuses to apologize for her brilliance or her appetites. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Cocaine Blues.
- glamorous
- effervescent
- indulgent
- spirited
- 01
Flying too high
Kerry Greenwood · 2006
A sparkling, champagne-fueled romp through the 1920s with a heroine who solves crimes as flawlessly as she dresses.
- 02
Murder in Montparnasse
Kerry Greenwood · 2005
A sparkling, champagne-fueled romp through the 1920s that hides a surprisingly tender exploration of wartime scars.
- 03
Her Royal Spyness
Rhys Bowen · 2007
A sparkling, witty romp through 1930s London high society with a heroine who is long on titles but delightfully short on cash.
- 04
Murder Must Advertise
Dorothy Leigh Sayers · 1933
A sparkling, satirical romp through a 1930s London ad agency that slowly reveals a dark underbelly of vice and desperation.
- 05
A Study in Scarlet Women
Sherry Thomas
A sharp, gaslit reimagining where a brilliant outcast uses society's blind spots to forge her own independence.
- 06
A perilous undertaking
Deanna Raybourn
A fiercely witty romp through Victorian London, fueled by crackling banter, deadly secrets, and a heroine who absolutely refuses to behave.
- 07
At Bertram's Hotel
Agatha Christie · 2006
A perfectly preserved slice of Edwardian luxury where the tea is hot, the muffins are buttered, and the guests are hiding deadly secrets.
- 08
The dry
Jane Harper
A sun-baked, claustrophobic mystery where the oppressive heat is matched only by the weight of long-buried secrets.
- 09
Cocaine Nights
J. G. Ballard · 1996
A sun-bleached, sinister descent into the moral vacuum of a utopian resort where crime is the only cure for boredom.
- 10
Queenpin
Megan Abbott
A glittering, ruthless dive into the mob's golden era, where ambition and betrayal spin like a roulette wheel.
- 11
Highgate rise
Anne Perry
A fog-draped Victorian mystery that peels back the velvet curtains of high society to reveal the soot and secrets hiding beneath.
- 12
The Saltmarsh Murders
Gladys Mitchell
A delightfully eccentric Golden Age mystery that spikes the traditional cozy village formula with Freudian psychology and macabre wit.
