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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMurder In Thrall
Anne Cleeland · 309 pages
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear · 294 pages
Maisie Dobbs started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War. It's 1929 and the first case for her newly established detective agency appears to be simple infidelity. Instead it leads her to confront a darker mystery from the past.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
Laurie R. King · 336 pages
**A Monstrous Regiment of Women** (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #2) by Laurie R. King Martina Petranović (Translator) A Monstrous Regiment of Women continues Mary Russell's adventures as a worthy student of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and as an ever more skilled sleuth in her own right. Looking for respite in London after a stupefying visit from relatives, Mary encounters a frien
The House on Vesper Sands (Inspector Cutter Mystery, An)
Paraic O'Donnell · 416 pages
The Marx Sisters
Barry Maitland · 314 pages
When one of three elderly sisters, great-granddaughters of Karl Marx, is found dead in her Jerusalem Lane house, Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla and Detective Chief Inspector Brock investigate. An atmospheric police procedural-the first in the acclaimed Brock and Kolla mysteries.Jerusalem Lane is a little piece of Dickensian London untouched by development, its inhabitants mainly refugees from pre-
A Song From Dead Lips
William Shaw · 468 pages
London, October 1968. As Beatles fans encamp outside Abbey Road Studios up the road, the Marylebone CID is as much an old boys' club as it ever was. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is the pariah of the office, having just run out on a fellow officer held at knifepoint, when it's shaken up by the arrival of WPC Helen Tozer: awkward chatterbox, farmgirl, and the first woman to enter the murder unit
Die with Me
Elena Forbes · 350 pages
Somewhere in London, a lonely young woman is reaching out to the wrong man. It's up to Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia and the rest of the Murder Squad to find her before a killer does. When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer's broken body is found on the floor of St. Sebastian's Church, the official ruling is that she jumped to her death from the organ gallery above the altar. But then a witness c
The Red Thumb Mark
R. Austin Freeman · 208 pages
The Case of the Missing Marquess
Nancy Springer · 216 pages
When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers—all while attempting to piece
The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
Leah Moore, John Reppion
Kissed a Sad Goodbye
Deborah Crombie · 440 pages
The Burning
Jane Casey · 354 pages
"The Burning Man. It's the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks. And now there's a fifth. Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy clouds her judgment, but the more she learns abo
Good Bait
John Harvey · 404 pages
When a 17-year old Moldovan boy is found dead on Hampstead Heath, the case falls to DCI Karen Shields and her Homicide & Serious Crime Unit. What she doesn't know is that her new case is tied inextricably to a much larger web of gang warfare and organised crime which infiltrates almost every aspect of London society.
Sweet Little Lies
Caz Frear · 368 pages
In this gripping debut procedural, a young London policewoman must probe dark secrets buried deep in her own family's past to solve a murder and a long-ago disappearance. Your father is a liar. But is he a killer? Even liars tell the truth . . . sometimes. Twenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she's ne
Midnight Riot
Ben Aaronovitch · 310 pages
"As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic"--P. [4] of cover.
With No One as Witness
Elizabeth George · 707 pages
In With No One as Witness, Elizabeth George has crafted an intricate, meticulously researched, and absorbing story sure to enthrall her readers. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley is back, along with his longtime partner, the fiery Barbara Havers, and newly promoted Detective Sergeant Winston Nkata. They are on the hunt for a sinister killer.When an adolescent boy's nude body is found mutilated and
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
Above Suspicion
Lynda La Plante · 400 pages
A rookie detective, Anna Travis is about to embark on her first murder case - and it couldn't be a more serious, more gruesome series of murders. The killings began eight years before and now the body count is up to six.
The Railway Detective
Edward Marston · 336 pages
London 1851. With the opening of the Great Exhibition at hand, interest is mounting in the engineering triumphs of the railways, but not everyone feels like celebrating...In an audacious attack, the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, causing many casualties. Planned with military precision, this crime proves a challenge to Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck who fights to untan
Except the Dying
Maureen Jennings · 328 pages
The Cuckoo's Calling
J.K. Rowling · 480 pages
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the