Historical Mystery Novels

Books of suspense, mystery, and crime set during an earlier time.

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The Ghost bride begins as a historical novel but takes an unexpected turn into a fantastic ghost and murder mystery

The Dante Club: A Novel

Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante’s Inferno. Only an elite group of America’s first Dante scholars—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields—can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante’s literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.

Frank Malloy is assigned to a new case—finding a missing young woman who had been responding to “lonely hearts” ads in the paper before she disappeared. Cozy Mystery Books, The Residents, Mystery Novels, Historical Novels, Lonely Heart, Mystery Series, Mystery Book, Cozy Mysteries

Murder in Murray Hill (Gaslight Mysteries, book 16) by Victoria Thompson

Frank Malloy is assigned to a new case—finding a missing young woman who had been responding to “lonely hearts” ads in the paper before she disappeared.

Perry’s gripping new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel invites us back to Victorian London, where greed and ambition never sleep, and passion sometimes runs riot.

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Female Archaeologist

Amelia Peabody Emerson

Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude!

The Baker Street Letters by Michael Robertson. First in a new series about two brother lawyers who lease offices on London's Baker Street--and begin receiving mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes

Dame Agatha transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where a priest’s daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp’s nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder. Agatha Christie Books, Detective Novels, Detective Fiction, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Vintage Book Covers, Beautiful Book Covers

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Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha transports us back to ancient Egypt 2000 B.C. where a priest’s daughter, investigating a suspicious death, uncovers an asp’s nest of jealousy, betrayal, and serial murder.

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The Anatomist's Apprentice (Dr. Thomas Silkstone #1)

It is 1780 and a young American Physician, Dr. Thomas Silkstone, risks life and limb to explore the mysterious death of a young Earl.

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From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again.

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NPR's Best Books of 2014 - The Girl Next Door: A Novel

In the waning months of the Second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and their memories?

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The Name of the Rose

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective.

In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again. The Killers, Elizabeth I, Diana Gabaldon, Will Turner, Reading Lists

Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of De…

In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.

Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including The Cater Street Hangman, Calendar Square, Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. Monk Serie, Friend Book, Great Books To Read, Personalized Books

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Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including The Cater Street Hangman, Calendar Square, Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane.

the cover of lindsey davis's book, alexandria

A locked-room murder in first century AD Alexandria provides Marcus Didius Falco with an intriguing challenge.

The Roman Mysteries - Wikipedia

In this atmospheric debut novel, the first installment of a planned series, readers are whisked to the first century A.D. to help girl detective Flavia Gemina solve a brutal crime in the Roman port city of Ostia.

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