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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe 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 Unquiet Bones
Melvin R. Starr · 254 pages
Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, he feels no real calling—despite his lively faith—and he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris, and then hanging his sign in Oxford. Soon after, a local lord asks Hugh de Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie · 190 pages
Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St. Mary manor of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed old aunt Emily, she of a sizeable fortune, to a suspicious younger man, Alfred Inglethorp, twenty years her junior. Emily's two stepsons, John
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley · 375 pages
In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found
Squire Throwleigh's Heir
Michael Jecks · 352 pages
Murder on Waverly Place
Victoria Thompson
Victoria Thompson once again “vividly recreates the gaslit world of New York.”(Publishers Weekly)Sarah Brandt is not completely surprised when her very proper mother asks her to attend a seance. She knows that Mrs. Decker still carries great guilt over the death of her older daughter, Maggie. So Sarah accompanies her and the spiritualist does seem to contact Maggie—convincing Mrs. Decker to attend
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.
Murder Most Holy
Paul Doherty, P. Harding · 256 pages
The Mark of a Murderer
Susanna Gregory · 480 pages
The Apothecary Rose
Candace Robb · 319 pages
The Monk Who Vanished
Peter Tremayne · 318 pages
In het Ierland van de 7e eeuw moet Sister Fidelma, non en vooraanstaand lid van de rechterlijke macht, proberen de achtergronden van een dubbele aanslag te vinden.
The Demon Archer
Paul Doherty · 388 pages
A medieval mystery. The death of Lord Henry Fitzalan is a matter little mourned as he was a man of few friends. So when Hugh Corbett is asked to bring his murderer to justice, it is not a matter of finding a suspect, but of choosing between them.
Champagne for One
Rex Stout · 194 pages
Archie Goodwin sits in for a friend at a charity dinner dance for unwed mothers, and one of the guests drops dead on the dance floor. The young woman was depressed and known to carry poison - but Archie is sure that this was murder.
A Beautiful Blue Death
Charles Finch · 336 pages
On any given day in London, all Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, wants to do is relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist another chance to unravel a mystery, even if it means trudging through the snow to her townhouse next door. One of Jane's former servants,
Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers · 272 pages
This is the first in the Lord Peter Wimsey series of stories that includes Harriet Vane. Harriet is introduced as she stands in the dock on trial for murder. Lord Peter immediately determines that she is innocent and sets out to prove it - falling in love with her in the process.
The Serpent's Tale
Ariana Franklin · 371 pages
Ordered by Henry II to establish the possible role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the poisoning death of Henry's mistress, a reluctant Adelia Aguilar joins forces with her infant daughter's father, the Bishop of St. Albans, during the investigation.
Silent in the Grave
Deanna Raybourn · 424 pages
"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave."These ominous words are the last threat that Sir Edward Grey receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, he collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of guests.Prepared to accept that Edward's death
Death at the Bar
Ngaio Marsh · 284 pages
A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot. Chief Inspector Alleyn knows it wasn't the dart that killed him, but the prussic acid someone added to the cut.
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
Murder on the Leviathan
Boris Akunin · 248 pages
In 1878 two detectives are pitted against other aboard the steamship Leviathan. Young Russian diplomat, Erast Fandorin, and police commissioner "Papa" Gauche, must find a stolen statue and catch the murdered before the ship reaches it's Calcutta destination.
Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie
Kathy Lynn Emerson · 256 pages
Left alone to handle the uproar following the poisoning murder of the steward, Lady Susanna Appleton, an expert herbalist, seeks to identify what killed the steward while unmasking the killer.