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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Vigil of Spies
Candace Robb · 360 pages
The Prince of Darkness
P.C. Doherty · 256 pages
The Assassin in the Greenwood
Paul Doherty · 362 pages
It is 1302 and Corbett and his two servants are sent to Nottingham to investigate the return of Robin to Sherwood Forest. They are perplexed on their arrival to find fresh mysteries. Corbett's peace of mind is further shattered by news that the French have despatched an agent to assassinate him.
The Mark of a Murderer
Susanna Gregory · 480 pages
The Abbot's Agreement
Melvin R. Starr · 256 pages
Murder Most Holy
Paul Doherty, P. Harding · 256 pages
The Alehouse Murders
Maureen Ash · 288 pages
A Templar treasure for mystery readers!An honorable-yet world-weary-Knight Templar solves the mysteries of Medieval England.After eight years of captivity in the Holy Land, Templar Bascot de Marins escapes with injuries to his body and soul. Now on a sojourn at Lincoln Castle, he hopes to regain his strength, and mend his waning faith-but not even the peace of God's countryside is safe from the mo
The Demon's Parchment
Jeri Westerson · 320 pages
Former knight and nobleman Crispin Guest, now surviving as a detective in 14th century London, agrees to track down stolen parchments possibly connected with a series of brutal murders for a Jewish physician attending the Queen.
The Novice's Tale
Margaret Frazer · 229 pages
The arrival of lusty, blaspheming dowager Lady Ermentrude at St. Frideswide convent in 1431 causes quite a stir, but before the obnoxious woman can get what she came for--her niece, the novice Thomasine--she is murdered. Sister Frevisse - Book 01
The Hangman's Daughter
Oliver Potzsch · 435 pages
Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is fo
A Dreadful Penance
Jason Vail · 206 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 Summer of the Danes
Ellis Peters · 280 pages
In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England--almost a peace. For several months there has been little actual fighting between the forces of King Stephen and those of Empress Maud, the two royal cousins contending for the throne. On the whole, Brother Cadfael considers it a blessing to live in these peaceful times. Still, a little excitement--and some time spent outside the ab
The Butcher Bird
S.D. Sykes · 342 pages
Oswald de Lacey is growing up fast in his new position as Lord of Somershill Manor. The Black Death changed many things, and just as it took away his father and elder brothers, leaving Oswald to be recalled from the monastery where he expected to spend his life, so it has taken many of his villagers and servants. However, there is still the same amount of work to be done in the farms and fields, a
A Man's Word
Martin Jensen · 278 pages
Season of the Raven
Denise Domning · 285 pages
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.
The Wolves of Savernake
Edward Marston · 243 pages
The Good Knight
Sarah Woodbury · 347 pages
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
Dead Water
Barbara Hambly · 416 pages
The Limehouse Text
Will Thomas · 352 pages