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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.
A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons
Kate Khavari · 288 pages
What the River Knows
Isabel Ibañez · 404 pages
Murder on Cold Street
Sherry Thomas · 344 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
The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle · 144 pages
The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ---------- Also contained in: [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20624138W) [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18191906W) [Annotated Sherlock Holmes. 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL151843
The Murder of Mr. Wickham
Claudia Gray · 386 pages
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
Murder at Gulls Nest
Jess Kidd · 336 pages
A Most Agreeable Murder
Julia Seales · 368 pages
Storm and Silence
Robert Thier · 596 pages
How to Solve Your Own Murder
Kristen Perrin · 358 pages
The Silkworm
J.K. Rowling · 464 pages
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a
The Countess Conspiracy
Courtney Milan · 316 pages
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton · 432 pages
The House on Vesper Sands (Inspector Cutter Mystery, An)
Paraic O'Donnell · 416 pages
Belladonna
Adalyn Grace · 400 pages
> Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death – and her own deathly powers – when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.
Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Heather Fawcett · 345 pages
"When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it's too late in this second installment of the Emily Wilde series"-- Provided by publisher
The Listening House
Mabel Seeley · 368 pages
Mine Till Midnight
Lisa Kleypas · 377 pages
When an unexpected inheritance elevates her family to the ranks of the aristocracy, Amelia Hathaway discovers that tending to her younger sisters and wayward brother was easy compared to navigating the intricacies of the ton. Even more challenging: the attraction she feels for the tall, dark, and dangerously handsome Cam Rohan. Wealthy beyond most men’s dreams, Cam has tired of society’s petty res
The Librarian of Crooked Lane
C.J. Archer · 284 pages
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 7
Beth Brower · 313 pages
The Mitford Secret
Jessica Fellowes · 384 pages
The Luminaries
Eleanor Catton · 834 pages
This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investi