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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMurder in Morningside Heights
Victoria Thompson · 308 pages
"Former police sergeant Frank Malloy and his wife adjust to life in New York high society as they investigate a death in the field of higher learning. After spending his first few weeks as a private detective by investigating infidelities of the wealthy, Frank has a more serious case at hand. Abigail Northrup of Tarrytown, New York, was her parents' pride and joy. After graduating from a prestigio
A Front Page Affair
Radha Vatsal
New York City, 1915. Intelligent, well-traveled, and well-bred, Capability "Kitty" Weeks never expected to find herself reporting on fashion trends and society gossip, but every aspiring journalist has to start somewhere, and Kitty finds her "in" to the world of newspapers on the New York Sentinel Ladies' Page. Meanwhile, news headlines buzz about a shooting at J.P. Morgan's mansion and the sinkin
Deadly Promise
Brenda Joyce · 341 pages
Francesca Cahill is an American heiress. She also happens to be a political activist and an amateur sleuth (detective). Francesca finds out that there a girl missing from the streets and she fears that she may have been abducted. Along with finding her, she has also accepted Calder Harts proposal for marriage which puts her on the outs with Rick, the police commissioner and Harts brother. Howeve
Murder Your Darlings
J.J. Murphy · 316 pages
When she stumbles over the dead body of drama critic Leland Mayflower and an aspiring writer named Billy Faulkner is accused of the murder, Dorothy Parker investigates with the aid of her fellow Algonquin Round Tablemates.
The Family Way
Rhys Bowen · 296 pages
"Molly Murphy--now Molly Sullivan--is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. The most important decision Molly faces these days is whether the lace curtains need cleaning, and she's restless and irritable in the heat of a New York summer and the enforced idleness of pregnancy. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her
A Deadly Affection
Cuyler Overholt · 454 pages
"One of the first women practicing in the advanced new field of psychology, Dr. Genevieve Summerford is used to forging her own path. But when one of her patients is arrested for murder--a murder Genevieve fears she may have unwittingly provoked--she is forced to seek help to solve the crime and clear her patient's name ... and her own"--
31 Bond Street
Ellen Horan · 352 pages
Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell?Though there are no witnesses and no clues, fingers point to Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed Burdell's house and his servants. Rumored to be a black-hearted gold digger with designs on the doctor's name andfortune, Emma is immediately put under house arrest during a murder investigation. A swift conviction is sure to catapult flamboyant di
Secrets on 26th Street
Elizabeth McDavid Jones · 144 pages
In New York City in 1914, eleven-year-old Susan encounters a mystery through an independent-minded female boarder and becomes involved in the growing suffrage movement.
A Curtain Falls
Stefanie Pintoff · 403 pages
1906. When a chorus girl is found dead on a Broadway stage, dressed in the leading lady's costume, Mulvaney knows that news of a possible serial killer would be potentially disastrous to the burgeoning theater world.
The Scent of Death
Andrew Taylor · 474 pages
Manhattan, 1778. A city of profiteers, loyalists and double agents. New York is home to a tide of refugees seeking justice from the British crown. Edward Savill is sent from London to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists. No sooner does he land than he becomes embroiled in a murder.
The Queen of Bedlam
Robert McCammon · 656 pages
Investigating New York City's first serial killer in 1702, magistrate's clerk Matthew Corbert contemplates working with an elderly asylum resident who may hold the key to the killer's identity, in a case that is further challenged by the murderer's dark designs for the city.
The Girl is Trouble
Kathryn Miller Haines · 352 pages
Late 1942 in New York City finds fifteen-year-old Iris helping more with her father's detective business, as long as she follows his rules and learns his techniques, but her investigation into her mother's supposed suicide gets Iris in big trouble--and not just with her father.
The Orphanmaster
Jean Zimmerman · 433 pages
It is 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine van Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond. --From dust jacket.
The Angel of Darkness
Caleb Carr · 648 pages
In one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year, Caleb Carr-- bestselling author of The Alienist--pits Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his colleagues against a murderer as evil as the darkest night. . . .From the Paperback edition.
Seven for a Secret
Lyndsay Faye · 470 pages
Timothy and Valentine Wilde must once again delve into the darkest underbelly of old New York. When the beautiful and terrified Mrs Lucy Adams stumbles into the Tombs, headquarters of New York's newly formed police force, it's the beginning of a dense, thorny maze of crime for copper star Timothy Wilde. He's hardened to the injustices of life in the unforgiving city he's grown up in, but that does
The Death of Lucy Kyte
Nicola Upson · 346 pages
When bestselling crime author Josephine Tey inherits a remote Suffolk cottage from her godmother, it came full of secrets. Sorting through the artefacts of her godmother's life, Josephine is intrigued by an infamous murder committed near the cottage a century before and still casting a shadow over the village. And there was Lucy Kyte, the mysterious beneficiary of her godmother's will. As Josephin
The Curse of the House of Foskett
M.R.C. Kasasian · 416 pages
125 Gower Street, 1882: Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London's most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent men to the gallows, business has been light. Listless and depressed, Grice has taken to lying in the bath for hours, emerging in the evenings for a little dry toast and a lot of tea. Usually a voracious reader, he will pick up neither book nor newspa
Our Lady of Pain
Marion Chesney · 256 pages
Lady Rose Summer is a wayward Edwardian debutante. Her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only to stop her parents shipping her to India for a husband. But curvy seductive French Dolores Duval hires Harry and is everywhere at his side. Rose threatens Dolores, and next day is found over her dead body. Can Harry and Scotland Yard Supt. Kerridge clear Rose?
Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman
Tessa Arlen · 433 pages
"Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that is ruined."--
The Subtle Serpent
Peter Tremayne · 336 pages
Sister Fidelma Mystery series #4 In the year 666 A.D., a headless female corpse is found in the drinking well of a remote abbey in southwest Ireland: clasped in one hand is a crucifix; tied to the other arm is a pagan death symbol. Sister Fidelma--sister to the king of Muman, a *religieuse*, and an advocate of the Brehon law courts--is sent to investigate. En route, she encounters a Gaulish mer
The Clerk's Tale
Margaret Frazer
Dame Frevisse accompanies her prioress on a visit of mercy to a nunnery. St. Mary's nunnery is a place of prayer and healing for women - so it is surprising to see a man sprawled out in the cloister garden. Dead. Less surprising, to Dame Frevisse, was the identity of the victim: Master Montfort was not particularly liked by anyone in the town of Goring. Even his own wife and clerk despised h