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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCrocodile 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.
The Devil and the Dark Water
Stuart Turton · 463 pages
Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James · 330 pages
Death Comes to Pemberly is a murder mystery based on the characters from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. The novel joins Mr and Mrs Darcy after they have been married for six year and just as they are preparing to hold their annual ball in honour of Mr Darcy’s mother. Everything is going well, Jane and Bingley have arrived and their staff have preparations well in hand. Then the night befor
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.
Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
Stephanie Barron · 337 pages
"The twelfth installment in Stephanie Barron's fan-favorite Being a Jane Austen Mystery series. Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities,
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.
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.
Murder on the Flying Scotsman
Carola Dunn · 232 pages
The Listening House
Mabel Seeley · 368 pages
Not Quite Dead Yet: A GMA Book Club Pick
Holly Jackson · 439 pages
In seven days Jet Mason will be dead. Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time. Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, t
Todos en mi familia han matado a alguien
Benjamin Stevenson
The Cuckoo's Calling
J.K. Rowling · 480 pages
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the
The Art of Killing Well
Marco Malvaldi · 192 pages
The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins · 444 pages
One of the first English detective novels, this mystery involves the disappearance of a valuable diamond, originally stolen from a Hindu idol, given to a young woman on her eighteenth birthday, and then stolen again. A classic of 19th-century literature.
The Hindenburg Murders
Max Allan Collins · 245 pages
"How the Hindenburg went from luxury airship to gargantuan fireball wasn't the only mystery surrounding the zeppelin's fatal flight. First came the murder. When a passenger vanishes during the Hindenburg's trans-Atlantic voyage from Frankfurt to New Jersey, mystery writer Leslie Charteris is asked to use his knowledge of the criminal mind to quietly pinpoint the killer. Charteris is famous for his
The Murder of Mr. Wickham
Claudia Gray · 386 pages
Murder on the Christmas Express
Alexandra Benedict · 272 pages
Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
Nick Drake · 352 pages
1222
Anne Holt · 332 pages
1222 metres above sea level: train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. With night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and find shelter in a centuries-old mountain hotel. Before dawn breaks, one of them will be murdered. Trapped by the killer within, tra
The Siamese Twin Mystery
Ellery Queen · 325 pages
Ellery Queen and his father are driving through a mountainous area of the United States on vacation when they are forced by a forest fire to seek shelter in a private home on the top of a mountain. The home soon becomes impossible to escape due to the fire. Dr. Xavier's aerie is host to an unusual assortment of characters, including his family and guests, a pair of teenage boys who are "Siamese" o
First Class Murder
Robin Stevens · 328 pages
Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the famous Orient Express. From the moment the girls step aboard, it's clear that everyone in the first-class carriage has something to hide. Then there is a scream from one of the cabins, and a wealthy heiress is found dead. But the killer has vanished - as if into thin air. Daisy and Hazel are faced with their first locked-room mystery - and wit
Dead Man's Island
Carolyn G. Hart · 323 pages
Retired reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins--better known as ""Henrie O""--Is called in by an old lover, arrogant media tycoon Chase Prescott, to investigate a murder plot against him.
The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji · 228 pages
Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming. The Decagon House Murders is a milestone in the