AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Slayers of Seth

Paul Doherty · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Hide books by the same author
❤️

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.

Ancient EgyptHistorical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMystery
❤️

The Horus Killings

Paul Doherty · 276 pages

Egypt's Queen Hatusu, the first Pharoah-Queen, needs the acknowledgement of her critics and the acceptance of her people before she can assume her throne. But the omens bode evil when a spate of killing desecrates the house of Horus. Now she must work with the respected Judge Amerotke to find the killers and bring them to justice.

Ancient EgyptHistorical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMystery
❤️

Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.

Ancient EgyptHistorical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMystery
❤️
Historical MysteryAncient EgyptDetective ProtagonistMystery
❤️

Alexandria

Lindsey Davis · 313 pages

In A.D. 77, Marcus Didius Falco, agent to the Emperor Vespasian, investigates the mysterious death of the head librarian of the world-famous library of Alexandria, bringing him into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life.

Historical MysteryAncient EgyptDetective ProtagonistMystery
❤️

Beneath The Pyramid

Christian Jacq · 392 pages

Ancient EgyptHistorical MysteryHistorical FictionMystery
🙂

Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

Nick Drake · 352 pages

Ancient EgyptHistorical MysteryMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

Death Comes as the End

Agatha Christie · 224 pages

It is 2000 BC in Egypt and Imhotep the Ka-Priest brings home his beautiful young concubine Nofret. But not all the members of his family welcome her. When she is found dead Imhotep's daughter, Renisenb, suspects it might not have been an accident. The death unleashes the greed and hate that have been building up within the family and the horrific events that follow tear it apart.This is Christie's

Ancient EgyptHistorical MysteryHistorical FictionMystery
🙂

The Angel Court Affair

Anne Perry · 455 pages

When Commander Thomas Pitt is ordered to protect a young woman visiting London from Spain, he cannot see why this is a job for Special Branch. When she disappears in the dead of night from Angel Court, however, he is faced with a dangerous mystery. Sofia preached new, and some say blasphemous, religious ideals, and her life had been threatened. But Pitt senses there is some deeper and more dangero

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

Bundori

Laura Joh Rowland · 385 pages

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

When Falcons Fall

C.S. Harris · 369 pages

"The much-anticipated new entree in the Sebastian St. Cyr "simply elegant" historical mystery series, from the national bestselling author of Who Buries the Dead and Why Kings Confess. Ayleswick-on-Teme, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and on a quest to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

A Mist of Prophecies

Steven Saylor · 302 pages

One afternoon as Gordianus the Finder is crossing the marketplace, a beautiful young seeress staggers towards him and dies in his arms. Possibly insane, and with no memory of her past Cassandra - like her Trojan namesake - had been reputed to possess the true gift of prophecy. For such a gift there are many in Rome who would pay handsomely...or resort to murder. Cassandra had been the confidante o

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

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

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Lady Chapel

Candace Robb · 343 pages

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

Deadly Affair

Lucinda Brant · 338 pages

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

Treachery

S.J. Parris · 540 pages

Summer, 1585: As English ships are held captive in Spain, fear mounts of an Invincible Armada, built by King Philip II, and intended to invade English shores. Sir Francis Drake prepares to embark on an expedition by royal commission to cross the Atlantic and seize major Spanish ports, diverting Philip's American treasure supplies to Queen Elizabeth. Giordano Bruno, radical philosopher and spy, acc

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

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!

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Death of Achilles

Boris Akunin · 240 pages

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Council of the Cursed

Peter Tremayne · 307 pages

Counseling a hostile Irish delegation to the Celtic church of 670 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel is embroiled in a politically tenacious investigation when one of the delegates is found murdered, a case that is complicated by the theft of a priceless reliquary.

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Strings of Murder

Oscar de Muriel · 416 pages

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

Tug of War

Barbara Cleverly · 288 pages

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Crediton Killings

Michael Jecks · 320 pages

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

Murder Most Holy

Paul Doherty, P. Harding · 256 pages

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction
🙂

The Baklava Club

Jason Goodwin · 272 pages

"Join Investigator Yashim for a final exotic escapade in this rich Edgar Award-winning series In four previous novels, Jason Goodwin's Inspector Yashim, the eunuch detective, has led us through stylish, suspenseful, and colorful mysteries in the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire. Now, in The Baklava Club, Yashim returns for his final adventure--and his most thrilling yet. Three naive Italian liberals

Historical MysteryDetective ProtagonistMysteryHistorical Fiction

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.