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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Nightingale Gallery
Paul Doherty · 256 pages
The Last Templar
Michael Jecks · 384 pages
The Apothecary Rose
Candace Robb · 319 pages
The Harper's Quine
Pat McIntosh · 302 pages
Veil of Lies
Jeri Westerson · 280 pages
In the late 14th Century, disgraced former knight Crispin Guest finds himself in the midst of a situation involving a murdered tradesman, a missing religious artifact, a family dispute and a perplexing mystery.
The Unquiet Bones
Melvin R. Starr · 254 pages
Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, he feels no real calling—despite his lively faith—and he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris, and then hanging his sign in Oxford. Soon after, a local lord asks Hugh de Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the
Faded Coat of Blue
Owen Parry · 346 pages
Abel Jones, a Welsh immigrant and Union army enlistee, investigates the death of Anthony Fowler, a young volunteer captain whose murder is blamed on the Confederates. Jones pursues the blood of the battlefield through the intrigues of Washington, D.C., where evil and good intertwine.
The Chatelet Apprentice
Jean-Francois Parot · 343 pages
The Last Kashmiri Rose
Barbara Cleverly · 298 pages
"It is 1922, in Panikhat, located on the plains fifty miles from Calcutta. In March of each of the past five years the wife of a cavalry officer in the Bengal Greys has met with a violent and terrifying death. One died in a fire, another by a cobra bite, the third from a fall, and the fourth victim drowned. Of course, they all might have been accidents, while the death of Captain Somersham's prett
The Thief-Taker
T.F. Banks · 300 pages
June 1815. When Henry Morton is called to the scene at Portman House in Claridge Square, the Bow Street constable finds a man dead in a hackney coach--ostensibly of asphyxiation. He was Halbert Glendinning, a gentleman of unsullied character. Then why was he seen frequenting one of London's most notorious dens of iniquity? And why has the driver of the coach vanished into the night? While Sir Nath
Goodnight Sweet Prince
David Dickinson · 320 pages
The Last Days of Newgate
Andrew Pepper · 391 pages
St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himself accidentally embroiled in the murder investigation but quickly realises that he has stumbled into something more sinister and far-reaching. In his pursuit of the murderer, Pyke ruffles the feathers of some powerful people, and, falsely accused of murder himself, he soon
In Milady's Chamber
Sheri Cobb South
Lord fieldhurst was murdered in his wife's bed chamber and his dead body was discovered by his wife. John Pickett, the bow-street runner was called to solve the case. Will John be able to solve the crime and save Lady Fieldhurst from gallows!
The Wayward Apprentice
Jason Vail · 211 pages
Murder in the Place of Anubis
Lynda S. Robinson · 218 pages
Tutankhamen calls upon his trusted chief investigator, Lord Merren, to search out a killer who has desecrated the sacred Place of Anubis.
The Truth of All Things
Kieran Shields · 404 pages
Investigating the murder of a prostitute in 1892 Portland, Maine, Deputy Marshal Archie Lean discovers that the victim was ritually executed as a witch, and enlists the help of a criminologist with whom he follows a trail to the spiritual societies of gothic New England.
Wine of Violence
Priscilla Royal · 248 pages
Murder Most Holy
Paul Doherty, P. Harding · 256 pages
The Mark of a Murderer
Susanna Gregory · 480 pages
I Will Have Vengeance: The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi
Maurizio de Giovanni · 216 pages
Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous San Carlo Theatre, the enigmatic and aloof Commissario Ricciardi is called in to investigate. Arrogant and bad-tempered, Vezzi was hated by many, but with the livelihoods of the opera
The Strings of Murder
Oscar de Muriel · 416 pages
Thirteenth Night
Alan Gordon · 256 pages
A historical mystery set in the thirteenth century in the mythical Duchy of Orsino on the Adriatic Coast (ie Dalmatia, part of the former Yugoslavia) and featuring characters of Shakespeare's play TWELFTH NIGHT. Twelve years after the events of the play, the Duke of Orsino has been murdered and the duchy is in a state of political turmoil. Feste (the fool), believing he sees the hand of Malvolio i
The Seven Wonders
Steven Saylor · 421 pages
Except the Dying
Maureen Jennings · 328 pages