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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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.
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
Murder on Astor Place
Victoria Thompson · 278 pages
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"--
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.
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 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.
A Plague on Both Your Houses
Susanna Gregory · 406 pages
The Heiress of Linn Hagh
Karen Charlton · 325 pages
The Bookseller's Tale
Ann Swinfen · 258 pages
Roman Blood
Steven Saylor · 384 pages
80 BC: Gordianus accepts a commission from Cicero to investigate a murder while Rome is under the thumb of a brutal dictator. The client is Sextus Roscius, who was accused of parricide. The novel is derived from Cicero's Murder Trials and features Marcus Tullius Tiro among others.
Claws of the Cat
Susan Spann · 326 pages
In sixteenth-century Japan, master ninja Hiro and the Jesuit priest he is sworn to protect race against time to prevent a wrongful execution by solving the murder of a samurai whose death is linked to numerous possible suspects.
Heresy
S.J. Parris · 435 pages
"Giordano Bruno was a monk, poet, scientist, and magician on the run from the Roman Inquisition on charges of heresy for his belief that the Earth orbits the sun and that the universe is infinite. This alone could have got him burned at the stake, but he was also a student of occult philosophies and magic. In S. J. Parris's gripping novel, Bruno's pursuit of this rare knowledge brings him to Londo
The Queen's Man
Sharon Kay Penman · 291 pages
The 12th Century sleuth, Justin de Quincy, investigates a murder which could shed light on a plot to usurp the crown of England. Prince John is scheming to unseat his brother, King Richard the Lionheart, who went missing as he was returning from a crusade.
Jade Dragon Mountain
Elsa Hart · 423 pages
"On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du is an imperial librarian in exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants, all come for the spectacle of an eclips
A Dark Anatomy
Robin Blake · 359 pages
Lancashire, England, 1740. A grim discovery has been made: a squire's wife, Dolores Brockletower, lies in the woods above her home at Garlick Hall, her throat brutally slashed. Called to the scene, Coroner Titus Cragg finds the Brockletower household awash with rumor and suspicion. He enlists the help of his astute young friend, doctor Luke Fidelis, to throw light on the case.
The Ashes of London
Andrew Taylor · 496 pages
Billy Boyle
James R. Benn · 304 pages
Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston, has just made detective when World War II breaks out. His "Uncle Ike" is Dwight D. Eisenhower, plucked from obscurity to command Army forces in Europe, and he wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Accompanied by an aristocratic Polish officer in exile and a beautiful British WREN, his mission is to catch a spy who may have been planted in
The Chatelet Apprentice
Jean-Francois Parot · 343 pages
The Dragon Scroll
I.J. Parker · 338 pages
Introducing Sugawara Akitada—the hero of a riveting mystery series that captures the rich and exotic culture of ancient JapanIn an adventure filled with highway bandits, unscrupulous politicians, and renegade monks, The Dragon Scroll introduces readers to the lively world of eleventh-century Japan and an irrepressible hero—Sugawara Akitada. On his first official assignment, Akitada—an impoverished
Oh Danny Boy
Rhys Bowen · 352 pages
Irish immigrant-turned-private detective Molly Murphy comes to the aid of handsome NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, who has been arrested for accepting bribes, in a mystery set in early twentieth-century New York.
A Death in Vienna
Frank Tallis · 469 pages
It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psycho analyst - and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just developing and viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion. The world of 1900s Vienna is one where philosophy, science and art are at their most exciting and flourishing, with the coffee shops full of men and women debating the latest cultura