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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
Richard Zimler · 318 pages
The Titanic Murders
Max Allan Collins · 272 pages
When a passenger is found dead inside a locked cabin aboard the opulent Titanic, it’s a crime worthy of “the Thinking Machine,” the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using formidable logic. So who better to crack this real-life case than author Jacques Futrelle, the man behind America’s favorite detective? On board for a romantic getaway with his wife, Futrelle agrees to condu
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
The Nightingale Gallery
Paul Doherty · 256 pages
The Wolves of Savernake
Edward Marston · 243 pages
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.
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,
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 Bookseller's Tale
Ann Swinfen · 258 pages
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
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 Question of Inheritance
Elizabeth Edmondson
Jade Dragon Mountain
Elsa Hart · 423 pages
"On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du is an imperial librarian in exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants, all come for the spectacle of an eclips
A Plague on Both Your Houses
Susanna Gregory · 406 pages
Claws of the Cat
Susan Spann · 326 pages
In sixteenth-century Japan, master ninja Hiro and the Jesuit priest he is sworn to protect race against time to prevent a wrongful execution by solving the murder of a samurai whose death is linked to numerous possible suspects.
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
Death Comes As Epiphany
Sharan Newman · 320 pages
Catherine LeVendeur, the most promising student in Heloise's convent, Paraclete, has the responsibility of discovering who has altered the text of a psalter given the the Abbot of Suger during the 12th century.
The Anger of God
Paul Doherty, P. Harding · 256 pages