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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMurder Most Holy
Paul Doherty, P. Harding · 256 pages
Half Moon Street
Anne Perry · 316 pages
For Superintendent Thomas Pitt, the sight of the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames is unforgettable. The corpse lies in a battered punt drifting through the early mist, clad in a torn green gown and bestrewn with flowers. Pitt’s determined search for answers to the victim’s identity leads him deep into London’s bohemia—to the theatre where beautiful Cecily Antrim is outraging society
An Old Betrayal
Charles Finch · 338 pages
Drawn back into his old profession, Charles Lenox, a Member of Parliament, investigates the murder of an innocuous country squire and discovers that this body is only the first step in a deadly plan to destroy England's monarchy. "In the seventh book of Finch's bestselling series of Victorian mysteries, a case of mistaken identity has Charles Lenox playing for his highest stakes yet: the safety o
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.
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!
A Case of Life and Limb
Sally Smith · 320 pages
Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death
Gyles Brandreth · 416 pages
The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
Adrian Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr · 316 pages
From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those wh
Whom the Gods Love
Kate Ross · 391 pages
Alexander Falkland hasn’t an enemy in the world. Young, talented, and charming, he shines in every field he enters: law, architecture, the investment market. But one night his luck runs out with a vengeance. In the midst of one of his famous parties, he is found with his head smahed, a bloodstained poker beside him. No wonder the inscription on his grave reads: Whom the Gods Love Die Young. When
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
Blood on the Strand
Susanna Gregory · 464 pages
"Webb took a series of shortcuts - he had been born in the slums known as the Fleet Rookery, and knew the city like the back of his hand - and emerged near Ludgate. His fine shoes rubbed his soaked feel and he begain to swear aloud, waking the beggars asleep under the Fleet bridge. His knees ached, too, as they often did in wet weather. He reached the Strand, limping heavily now, and heard the bel
A Body in Berkeley Square
Ashley Gardner · 276 pages
The Man from Hell
Barrie Roberts · 208 pages
The brutal murder of the reclusive Lord Blackwater propels Holmes and Watson into another intriguing case that points to the shadowy figure known only as “The Man form the Gates of Hell”. A tangled web of deceit, violence and tragedy unravels as Holmes’ deductions bring him closer to those behind the plot–a criminal organisation with a far-reaching and perilous influence...
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 Lady Julia Grey Bundle
Deanna Raybourn
"To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching on the floor."Starting with her husband's sudden death, Lady Julia Grey is swept into a world of mystery and deceit. It is also the world of the enigmatic and maddeningly attractive private investigator Nicholas Brisbane...From the extravagant world of Victoria
The Mangle Street Murders
M.R.C. Kasasian · 352 pages
1882. London is at its murkiest yet most vibrant, wealthiest yet most poverty-stricken. No sooner does March Middleton arrive to live with her guardian, Sidney Grice, than a case presents itself: a young woman has been brutally murdered, and her husband is the only suspect. The victim's mother is convinced of her son-in-law's innocence, and March is so touched by her pleas she offers to cover Sidn
Wine of Violence
Priscilla Royal · 248 pages
Theft of Life
Imogen Robertson · 352 pages
London, 1785. When the body of a West Indies planter is found pegged out in the grounds of St Paul's, suspicion falls on one of the victim's former slaves, who was found with his watch on the London streets. As Harriet and Crowther begin investigate, however, they find the answer is not that simple. Together, they negotiate the interests of the British government, the secrets of the plantation own
A False Mirror
Charles Todd · 371 pages
Hampton Regis, a small harbor town on the southern coast of England, is a most unlikely place for violence. Yet, one spring morning, a man is found on the strand so severely beaten that he slips in and out of consciousness. The prime suspect? His wife's jilted lover, who served with Rutledge in the recently ended Great War—but who left the Front under a cloud. Badly wounded, yes, but did someone a
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
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
Wobble to Death
Peter Lovesey · 190 pages
Los Angeles Times In 1879, race walking competitions, known as "wobbles," were all the rage. The death of a contender, followed by a second murder, introduces Sergeant Cribb, who goes on to investigate sports-related deaths in a series of eight books. Peter Lovesey is the author of twenty-five highly praised mystery novels and has been awarded the Crime Writers' Association Gold, Silver, and Diamo
The Outlaw's Tale
Margaret Frazer · 217 pages
Leaving the safety of her nunnery walls behind, Dame Frevisse is drawn into an unholy web of treachery and deceit. Waylaid on the King's Highway by a band of outlaws, Frevisse is shocked to discover that their leader is her long-lost cousin Nicholas. When he pleads with her to help him obtain a pardon for his crimes, she finds herself trapped between the harsh edicts of the law and the mercy of he
The Seven Wonders
Steven Saylor · 421 pages

