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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMistress of the Art of Death
Ariana Franklin · 408 pages
The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition."In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed
Bundori
Laura Joh Rowland · 385 pages
The Music Of The Spheres
Elizabeth Redfern · 424 pages
In 1795 London, Jonathan Absey of the Home Office pursues dual investigations into French espionage in Britain and the still unsolved murder of his teenage daughter, a pursuit that leads to a bizarre society of astronomers called the Company of Titius whose quest for a long-lost star leads ever closer to his own probe.
Critique of Criminal Reason
Michael Gregorio · 400 pages
A young magistrate works with his mentor, Immanuel Kant, to find a serial murder who is terrorizing the city of Königsberg.
Sacrilege
S.J. Parris · 423 pages
Summer, 1584. Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Queen Elizabeth, has long suspected an undercurrent of Catholic resistance in the city that was once England's greatest centre of pilgrimage. He calls Giordano Bruno, his maverick secret agent, away from his post at the French Embassy to investigate. But when Bruno arrives in Canterbury, he has no idea of the dark secrets he's about to uncover. He
The Werewolf of Bamberg
Oliver Potzsch · 570 pages
"In 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon travel to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare: a murderer in Bamberg is leaving the severed limbs of victims in the trash outside the city. When rumors quickly spread that the deaths are the work of a werewolf, Jakob must prove the superstition wrong and embarks on a sea
The Order of the Furies
Niklas Natt och Dag · 400 pages
When his close friend, Anna, who is said to be in possession of a letter with the names of revolutionary conspirators, goes missing, Cardell must find her before the secret police, and as he and Winge fight for justice and life, they are caught between powerful enemies in 18th-century Stockholm.
Lost and Gone Forever
Alex Grecian · 379 pages
"Many changes have happened to the Murder Squad. Rash actions have cost Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith his job, and in response he has set up his own private detective agency. Inspector Walter Day has been missing for a year, and no one knows where he is--though there is a strong suspicion that Saucy Jack has him. Hammersmith has made finding Day his primary case, and he has company--a pair of bounty
Who Buries the Dead
C.S. Harris · 356 pages
Investigating the brutal murder of a socially ambitious plantation owner in early 19th-century London, Sebastian St. Cyr discovers a link between the case and the 17th-century beheading of King Charles. "London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, into a macabre and increasing
The Axeman's Jazz
Ray Celestin · 400 pages
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.
The Orphanmaster
Jean Zimmerman · 433 pages
It is 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the mysterious state of affairs are a quick-witted twenty-two-year-old trader, Blandine van Couvering, herself an orphan, and a dashing British spy named Edward Drummond. --From dust jacket.
The Ashes of London
Andrew Taylor · 496 pages
Revelation
C.J. Sansom · 655 pages
The first three Shardlake mysteries have won over critics and readers alike. In Revelation, Sansom's newest book in the series, the year is 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, a woman sympathetic to reform, whom he wants for his sixth wife- much to the dismay of Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court. Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is working to defend a
The Harlot's Tale
Sam Thomas · 308 pages
"It is August, 1645, one year since York fell into Puritan hands. As the city suffers through a brutal summer heat, Bridget Hodgson and Martha Hawkins are drawn into a murder investigation more frightening than their last. In order to appease God's wrath--and end the heat-wave--the city's overlords have launched a brutal campaign to whip the city's sinners into godliness. But for someone in York,
The Queen's Accomplice
Susan Elia MacNeal · 430 pages
"This New York Times bestselling mystery series continues as American-born codebreaker extraordinaire, Maggie Hope, returns to England to continue her intelligence work during World War II. England, 1942. Great Britain and the U.S. have joined forces to fight the Nazis. In London, Maggie Hope takes on the biggest challenge of her career: finding a killer who models himself on Jack the Ripper--and
Vienna Blood
Frank Tallis · 408 pages
A murder mystery of great intelligence' the TimesIn the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud - his friend Dr. Max Liebermann - to a
Oh Danny Boy
Rhys Bowen · 352 pages
Irish immigrant-turned-private detective Molly Murphy comes to the aid of handsome NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, who has been arrested for accepting bribes, in a mystery set in early twentieth-century New York.
The Lord of Ireland
E.M. Powell · 368 pages
Ruler of the Night
David Morrell · 342 pages
Opium addict Thomas De Quincey and his irrepressible daughter Emily investigate the strangling of a lawyer in what is the first murder on an English train, and they uncover a dangerous secret that reaches the highest levels of British society.
The Twylight Tower
Karen Harper · 305 pages
Karen Harper brings a legendary era to life, drawing us into an intoxicating world of majesty and mayhem, political intrigue and adventure ... where danger is everywhere ... and where a young queen journeys to greatness in the long shadow of her bloodstained past.
Palace of Spies
Sarah Zettel · 367 pages
In 1716 London, an orphaned sixteen-year-old girl from a good family impersonates a lady-in-waiting only to discover that the real girl was murdered, the court harbors a nest of spies, and the handsome young artist who is helping her solve the mystery might be a spy himself.
The Canterbury Papers
Judith Koll Healey · 368 pages