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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë
Laura Joh Rowland · 379 pages
Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Brontë sets off for London to clear her name. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder, Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous chain of events that forces her to confront demons from her past. With the clandestine aid of the other Brontë sisters, Emily and Anne, and of the suspi
India Black and the Gentleman Thief
Carol K. Carr · 308 pages
"India Black's double life operating a high-class brothel and running high-stakes espionage for Her Majesty's government can take its toll. But there's no rest for the weary-particularly when an international conspiracy comes knocking; India Black is one of Victorian London's most respected madams-not a bloody postmistress. So when Colonel Francis Mayhew forwards a seemingly innocuous shipping bil
Beloved Poison
E.S. Thomson · 395 pages
After uncovering six tiny coffins at St. Saviour's Infirmary, apprentice apothecary Jem Flockhart seeks answers, following a trail that leads from the dissecting room to Newgate prison and the gallows.
Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse
Martin Davies · 320 pages
Death at Devil's Bridge
Robin Paige · 288 pages
The Wages of Sin
Kaite Welsh · 374 pages
"Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and-
Twelfth Night
Deanna Raybourn · 400 pages
A Christmas Grace
Anne Perry · 210 pages
When the season brings a chill, nothing warms the heart or elevates the spirits like a new novel by Anne Perry, whom the Chicago Sun-Times calls "the most adroit sleight-of-hand practitioner since Agatha Christe." Perry's gifts are on full display in A Christmas Grace--a hope-filled tale of forgiveness that is rich with mystery and intrigue.With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sist
The Traitor in the Tunnel
Y.S. Lee · 373 pages
Queen Victoria has a little problem: there's a petty thief at work in Buckingham Palace. Charged with discretion, the Agency puts quickwitted Mary Quinn on the case, where she must pose as a domestic while fending off the attentions of a feckless Prince of Wales. But when the prince witnesses the murder of one of his friends in an opium den, the potential for scandal looms large. And Mary faces an
The Last Moriarty
Charles Veley · 287 pages
The Mapmaker's Apprentice
C.J. Archer · 311 pages
A Foreign Affair
Caro Peacock · 331 pages
The Russian Hill Murders
Shirley Tallman · 280 pages
A spirited and headstrong young attorney in San Francisco, Sarah Woolson, flaunts the conventions of nineteenth-century society and feminine behavior to take on the case of a woman whose husband has died in a sweatshop fire.
Lady of Ashes
Christine Trent · 426 pages
Only a woman with an iron backbone could succeed as an undertaker in Victorian England, but Violet Morgan takes great pride in her trade. While her husband, Graham, is preoccupied with elevating their station in society, Violet is cultivating a sterling reputation for Morgan Undertaking. She is empathetic, well-versed in funeral fashions, and comfortable with death’s role in life—until its chillin
A Rip Through Time
Kelley Armstrong · 352 pages
The Curse of the Pharaohs
Elizabeth Peters · 357 pages
One of the best-loved of mystery writers weaves another tale of intrigue featuring Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe of Crocodile on the Sandbank. This time the willful and witty duo must catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient Egyptian tomb.
The Girl and the Gravedigger
Oliver Pötzsch · 448 pages
The Vanishing Thief
Kate Parker · 296 pages
"Georgia Fenchurch appears to be an unassuming antiquarian bookseller in Victorian London, but the life she leads is as exciting as any adventure novel. For Georgia is a member of the Archivist Society, a secret association of private investigators led by the mysterious Sir Broderick. When a frantic woman comes to Georgia claiming that her neighbor, Nicholas Drake, has been abducted by the notorio
Bloody Lessons
M. Louisa Locke · 318 pages
The Curse of the House of Foskett
M.R.C. Kasasian · 416 pages
125 Gower Street, 1882: Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London's most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent men to the gallows, business has been light. Listless and depressed, Grice has taken to lying in the bath for hours, emerging in the evenings for a little dry toast and a lot of tea. Usually a voracious reader, he will pick up neither book nor newspa
The Case of the Bizarre Bouquets
Nancy Springer · 192 pages
A Study in Scarlet Women
Sherry Thomas · 411 pages
"USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a
A Rare Interest in Corpses
Ann Granger · 320 pages
Irene's Last Waltz
Carole Nelson Douglas