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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Diviners
Libba Bray · 608 pages
Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w
The Steep & Thorny Way
Cat Winters · 351 pages
"A sixteen-year-old biracial girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'"--
The Gallery
Laura Marx Fitzgerald · 336 pages
In 1929 New York City, twelve-year-old housemaid Martha O'Doyle suspects that a wealthy recluse may be trying to communicate with the outside world through the paintings on her gallery walls.
Dreamland Burning
Jennifer Latham · 377 pages
SOME BODIES WON'T STAY BURIED. SOME STORIES NEED TO BE TOLD. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past, the present, and herself. One hundred years earlier, a single violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into
The Yearbook
Carol Masciola · 223 pages
Has teenaged misfit Lola Lundy slipped through a crack in time to 1924, just in time for the high school Fall Frolic dance, and where she makes an instant connection with the brainy and provocative Peter Hemmings, or is she having a romantic hallucination related to her family's background of mental illness?
The Burry Man's Day
Catriona McPherson · 336 pages
The Vanishing of Dr Winter
L.B. Hathaway · 209 pages
Visiting the university town of Cambridge to unravel a mysterious tragedy in her own family, Private Detective Posie Parker is approached by an unwelcome figure from her past, asking for professional help. Tasked with finding out what happened to a brilliant doctor who disappeared almost five years earlier in the chaos of war, Posie is forced to confront her own painful memories of the Great War.
Fall of a Philanderer
Carola Dunn · 352 pages
Murder In The Afternoon
Frances Brody · 400 pages
"An intricate plot in the post-WWI English countryside and Frances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus) combine in this absorbing mystery perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Agatha Christie. Dead one minute... Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stone mason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground, they rush o
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.
Come Hell or Highball
Maia Chance · 320 pages
Silhouette of a Sparrow
Molly Beth Griffin
During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper.
The Essence of Malice
Ashley Weaver · 312 pages
Traveling to Paris with Milo to investigate the death of a famous parfumier, Amory discovers that the victim was about to release a highly anticipated new fragrance and had been targeted by industry rivals and heirs vying for control of his empire.
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Kerry Greenwood · 274 pages
The Riddle at Gipsy's Mile
Clara Benson · 284 pages
Lost in the mists of the Romney Marsh, Angela Marchmont stumbles upon the body of a woman whose face has been disfigured - presumably to prevent recognition. Who is she, and what was she doing out there in the middle of nowhere? The search for answers will take Angela from a grand stately home to London's most fashionable - and disreputable - nightclub, and into a murky world of illegal drinking,
Born of Deception
Teri Brown · 328 pages
Budding illusionist Anna Van Housen is on top of the world: after scoring a spot on a prestigious European vaudeville tour, she has moved to London to chase her dream and to join an underground society for people like her with psychic abilities. Along with her handsome beau, Cole Archer, Anna is prepared to take the city by storm. But when Anna arrives in London, she finds the group in turmoil. Se
The Curse of Penryth Hall
Jess Armstrong · 326 pages
Murder at Hartigan House
Lee Strauss · 232 pages