Books like 'A Foreign Affair'
Readers who enjoyed A Foreign Affair by Caro Peacock also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
historical mystery historical-fiction industrial-era victorian suspense crime found-family season-summer female-mc
-
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William S. Baring-Gould
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the Dust Jacket:Although millions know of Sherlock Holmes through the chronicles of his exploits written by Dr. Watson, it is only now that, owing to his recent death, the full biography and facts of his life can be brought before the public...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian 20th-century adult -
Murder at the Mill by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a man’s naked corpse is found strapped to a waterwheel, newly appointed Inspector Haze is called upon to investigate the crime. With the help of American surgeon Captain Redmond, he delves into the life of Frank Darrow, a man who inspired such hatred, his mere death wasn’t enough to satisfy his killer...Categorized as:
historical-fiction crime suspense industrial-era victorian mystery historical fiction -
Murder In The Caravan by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen the body of gentlewoman is found in a Romani caravan, and a second woman from the village of Birch Hill goes missing, Redmond and Haze must peel back the layers of lies, prejudice, and misdirection to discover who’s truly behind the crimes.With little connection between the victims, no obvious motive, and few clues, the case is their most challenging to date...Categorized as:
historical-fiction crime suspense industrial-era victorian mystery historical fiction -
Death at the Diogenes Club by Anna Elliott, Charles Veley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt London's most exclusive club, Sherlock and Lucy must solve a mysterious locked-room murder. Lucy is still coping with the traumatic after-effects of their last case, and her romantic relationship with Jack, her handsome young police detective friend, is not going well... -
-
It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHonorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category2021 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award 2021 Finalist Wishing Shelf Book AwardRiveting Southern Fiction by the award-winning author of When We Were Brave. ~Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden... -
Pilfered Promises by M. Louisa Locke
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is the winter of 1880, and the future looks promising for Annie and Nate Dawson. Nate’s law practice is taking off. Annie has made the transition from pretend clairvoyant to a successful financial consultant. And they are looking forward to spending their first Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays together...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era victorian adult animals anthologies -
Your Scarred Heart by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn enquiry agent hiding from her past.When Miss Honora Wild meets her first client, she fears there has been a dreadful mistake. Having escaped from a domineering father, she shouldn’t have to work for a man suspected of murder, one whose mood matches his frightening facial scar. She shouldn’t have to venture to his clifftop castle to prove the devil is innocent of the crime... -
No Life for a Lady by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter almost a year spent playing chaperone to Mr Daventry’s female enquiry agents, Miss Trimble knows she must find a new position. All his agents are married, and so what other reason could he have for calling her to his office late at night? Except her employer is a master matchmaker, a man who has discovered her true identity, knows her real name and her darkest secret...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian adult arranged-marriage -
A Gentleman's Curse by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe wait for vengeance is over. When a man wakes to find himself gripping a dagger and sprawled next to a corpse, what else can he do but board a boat sailing for India? But after five years spent avoiding the hangman’s noose, Hudson Lockhart has returned to England to prove himself innocent of any crime...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian adult audiobook -
Mine at Midnight by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Miss Eliza Dutton discovers her first case for the Order involves helping a lord who has a gambling habit, her instinct is to refuse. The fact her father lost his fortune and his life at a gaming hell is the reason she despises Lord Roxburgh. But Eliza is given an ultimatum: help the handsome rogue or find work elsewhere...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian adult audiobook -
A Deadly Affair by Carla Simpson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLondon 1889 — Murder, mystery, and two people in a most unlikely partnership.She's an unconventional lady who has traveled the world, practices the art of self defense most excellently, and has an interesting tattoo in, ahem... a very unusual place...Categorized as:
historical-fiction crime industrial-era victorian suspense female-mc romance mystery -
The Midwife's Secret by Emily Gunnis
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA little girl goes missing from Yew Tree Manor - the same house from which a girl vanished decades before. Does the key to the present lie buried even deeper in the past, in the forgotten history of an innocent midwife accused by a family of shocking betrayal? A gripping, heartwrenching story of love, loyalty and family secrets... -
Death at the Crystal Palace by Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIntrepid cook Kat Holloway puts aside her apron to delve into Victorian London’s high society and catch a killer in this thrilling new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Murder in the East End.While attending an exhibition at the Crystal Palace, young cook Kat Holloway is approached by a woman in distress...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian adult amateur-sleuth -
Snowy Ridge by Peter McKelvie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOften, before a storm, there is that moment of eerie silence, stillness, tranquillity. A moment of absolute peace. Everything in nature stands motionless in anticipation. Even the initiated can be drawn into the deception.The moment Jack saw a lone figure on a horse riding toward him on that hot day in early spring was such a moment in time, literally and figuratively... -
-
The Bowes Inheritance by Pam Lecky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEngland, 1867- A Game of Chance and a Property Lost Who could have known what the consequences would be? Fifteen years later, Louisa Campbell, living in genteel poverty in Dublin, Ireland, is more than surprised to learn that she is the new owner of Bowes Farm...Categorized as:
victorian historical-fiction industrial-era crime suspense romance historical mystery -
The Dagger Dance by Elizabeth Bailey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLady Fan returns in another twisty murder case! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen.Can Lady Fan unravel another mystery…?1793, EnglandAfter a not-so-relaxing holiday in Tunbridge Wells, Lady Ottilia and Lord Francis Fanshawe have returned to their home with a young orphaned girl, Pertesia ‘Pretty’ Brockhurst... -
The Mystery of the Debonair Duke by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere was one man Lady Emma vowed she would never marry.The rakish Duke of Warwick — brother to her very best friend.But one chance encounter on a balcony has Lady Emma questioning all she ever believed about the duke. When her friend — and the duke’s sister — is abducted, they must work together to find her, and determine who has been threatening the Remington family... -
Dauntless by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNoah Ashwood has suffered his fair share of injustices. It’s why he joined the Gentlemen of the Order, why he solves crimes committed against the vulnerable and needy. To his friends he’s known as Dauntless—a fearless fighter, a man with steely determination. And yet his strength is tested when he forms an infatuation for his new client... -
An Impossible Impostor by Deanna Raybourn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhile investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian action-adventure adult -
Murder at Feathers & Flair by Lee Strauss
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's 1924 and war widow fashionista Ginger Gold's new Regent Street dress shop, Feathers & Flair, is the talk of the London fashion district attracting aristocrats from Paris to Berlin to Moscow.Ginger is offered her first job as a private detective when a well-known stage actor goes missing, and though the dress shop takes most of her time, Ginger takes the case... -
Violence of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDEAL WITH THE DEVILSmoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on the lawless frontier. But even the mountain man is not prepared for the outlaw band that strikes Smoke's ranch, kidnapping Sally and the daughter of Smoke's neighbor. Now, the women are gone and a ranch hand and his young daughter are dead. AND PAY THE PRICE IN BLOOD..Categorized as:
crime historical-fiction industrial-era suspense action-adventure adult book fiction -
His White Wager by Tammy Andresen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s no lady...Rebecca White makes her own way. She’ll dress as a man to support her mother if she chooses, she’ll participate in illegal gaming if it pleases her, and she’ll even cheat a lord now and then if the idea catches her fancy. But what she didn’t count on was an entire family of White’s tracking her down and being just as stubborn and independent as—well—herself... -
Kathleen Catches a Killer by M. Louisa Locke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s the very end of December, 1880, and the servant Kathleen Hennessey expects to spend a quiet week taking care of the O’Farrell Street boarding house while her employers, Annie and Nate Dawson, are off spending the Christmas holidays with Nate’s family...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era victorian adult amateur-sleuth animals -
A Gentleman of Mystery by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Georgina Jenkins pulls a half-dead man out of the Thames, little does she realize that her life will never be the same.As the only woman at Bow Street, Georgie lives by two rules—to never be swayed by emotion, and to seek justice—but only when it’s warranted. For she despises the fact that the punishment fits the station in life, and not the crime, a reality she knows all too well...Categorized as:
suspense historical-fiction industrial-era victorian female-mc fiction mystery action-adventure -
-
Curse of the Wicked Scoundrel by Sadie Bosque
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeople call him Hades. He is like the dark prince himself: enigmatic, mysterious and dangerous. Nobody knows his real name. Nobody knows anything about him. Only that he's been cursed to lead his life in loneliness. Because everyone who's ever been close to him, very soon, died.Eloise has led a dull, practical life...Categorized as:
historical-fiction suspense industrial-era victorian female-mc romance historical steamy -
An Inexplicable Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery by Sarah F. Noel
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStep into 1897 Victorian Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour.Who is this mysterious woman from Wolf’s past who can so easily summon him to her side?When Lady Arlene Archibald tracks Wolf down and begs him for help, he plans to travel to Brighton alone to see her... -
Speculations in Sin by Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo save an innocent man’s life, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must expose a financial scam that could ruin the most powerful aristocrats in Victorian-era London, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret of Bow Lane...Categorized as:
historical-fiction suspense industrial-era victorian female-mc mystery historical cozy -
Blackfoot Messiah by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the seventh book in his bestselling Preacher series, William W. Johnstone gives his millions of avid fans exactly the kind of gritty, action-packed Western novel they look for from this prolific and hugely popular writer. "A Messiah Shall Lead Them..."...Categorized as:
crime historical-fiction industrial-era suspense action-adventure adult book fiction -
Governess to the Duke's Heir by Maggi Andersen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGet Book Four in the Dangerous Lords series! Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited! Andrew, the Duke of Harrow, has returned to his Oxfordshire estate after years away in Vienna on a diplomatic engagement. He left England after losing his beloved wife in childbirth. But his children consider him a stranger, and the new governess disapproves of him... -
A Treacherous Trade by Kerrigan Byrne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Forgive me…for I have sinned.”And nothing interrupts a good confession like a murder.Fiona Mahoney stands in the ashes of her hopes facing her tempting adversary, Inspector Grayson Croft. Her sins are about to spill from her lips, when he says the one thing that could dispel all thoughts of revelation or redemption...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian action-adventure adult -
Cast in Shadows by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGideon Wayland , heir to the Duke of Townsend, had everything a young man could need―a promising future, a title, charming good looks, great friends, and a family who adored him. Until his body turned him into a monster. He had no choice but to separate himself from the world, to hide his monstrous self from society, to cast away his future...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian adult audiobook -
Discreet Destruction by K.J. Jackson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA wayward ruler of the London underworld. The woman determined to protect him at all costs. Where betrayal and obsession meet, does love stand a chance in this adventure-filled historical romance?He’s oblivious to the danger bearing down on him.A titan of the rookeries, the last thing Declan Rudderton needs in his life is another thing to worry about... -
A Dog in a Doublet by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHarry Browning was a motherless guttersnipe, and the morning he came across the elderly Lord Preston clinging to a sheer rock face he didn't believe in fate. But the fates have plans for Harry whether he believes or not, and he's not entirely sure he likes them. As a reward for his bravery, and in an unusual moment of charity, miserly Lord Preston takes him on...Categorized as:
historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian romance mystery historical regency -
Murder at the Debutante Ball by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this 5th installment of the bestselling mystery series, Cleopatra Fox gets entangled in a web of betrayal and blackmail that leaves the high society matchmakers scandalized.When a notorious cad is bludgeoned to death with a candlestick in the library at the most important ball of the London social season, Cleo finds herself in the prime position to solve the crime...Categorized as:
historical-fiction industrial-era victorian crime female-mc romance mystery audiobook -
-
Shadow at the Morgue by Cara Devlin
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn acquaintance with death Haunted by the unsolved murder of her family fifteen years ago, Leonora Spencer has always been familiar with death. And now, as an assistant to her uncle in his London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner’s reports...Categorized as:
historical-fiction crime industrial-era victorian suspense female-mc romance mystery -
A Bucket of Ashes by P.B. Ryan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“As always, the author excels at setting the scene, evoking the time and place by use of the day-to-day details as well as historical events. The resolution of the central mystery is almost secondary to the revelations about Nell’s past and the way the author ties up all the loose ends of her present situation. Longtime readers will enjoy this aspect immensely; I know I did... -
Murder on Black Friday by P.B. Ryan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“A mesmerizing mystery. Not only does Ryan provide readers with a tightly wound, suspenseful novel peopled with multidimensional characters, she writes about an era whose problems mirror our own. This is a historical period she knows and brings to life so clearly that readers are totally immersed. Nell is an ideal heroine: smart, intrepid and human. Be on the lookout for her return... -
Murder In the North End by P.B. Ryan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“It’s always a good day when a new Nell Sweeney book arrives.” —CA Reviews July 1870: Nell Sweeney’s position as governess for the venerable Hewitts of Boston affords her a unique perspective in an era of sharp class distinctions. Neither servant nor gentlewoman, she can fit in among the denizens of a waterfront tenement or the bluebloods of Colonnade Row... -
Murder in the East End by Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA new upstairs, downstairs Victorian murder mystery in the Kat Holloway series from the New York Times bestselling author of Death in Kew Gardens . When young cook Kat Holloway learns that the children of London's Foundling Hospital are mysteriously disappearing and one of their nurses has been murdered, she can't turn away...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian adult audiobook -
Murder in Venice by L.B. Hathaway
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWho do you trust when simply everyone is wearing a mask?A Winter Wedding, Venice, 1923Posie Parker, London’s premier female Private Detective, is getting married…But on arrival in Venice, Posie finds she is walking into a nightmare: her lodgings on the Grand Canal are consumed by fire, her famous fiancé is preoccupied, and most bizarrely of all, her hostess, the Countess Romagnoli, confesses she... -
Special Assignments by Boris Akunin, Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia's suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives. The Jack of Spades is a civilized swindler who has conned thousands of rubles from Moscow's residents including Fandorin's own boss, Prince Dolgorukoi...Categorized as:
crime historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian action-adventure adult audiobook -
The Last Moriarty by Charles Veley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA lovely young American actress from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Troupe comes to 221B Baker Street on a cold November morning, desperately seeking assistance from Sherlock Holmes. Inexplicably, Holmes agrees to help, even though the Prime Minister of England and his cabinet need Holmes to solve a murder case that could threaten a high-stakes meeting with John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan... -
Death on Beacon Hill by P.B. Ryan
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 17 ratings“Death on Beacon Hill continues Ms. Ryan’s excellent Nell Sweeney series. The rich characterization and her strong evocation of place, coupled with a well-plotted tale, make for a rich story. Add a clever conclusion and Ms. Ryan delivers a fascinating read...Categorized as:
crime female-mc historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian adult audiobook -
Turning the Tide by Edith Maxwell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"An intriguing look at life in 19th-century New England, a heroine whose goodness guides all her decisions, and a mystery that surprises."--Kirkus Reviews A suffragist is murdered in Rose Carroll's Massachusetts town Excitement runs high during presidential election week in 1888... -
-
Earl of St. Seville by Christina McKnight
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen a bluestocking spinster sets her mind to something…Lady Patience Lane, daughter of the Earl of Desmond and legendary boxer Ivory Bess, grew up learning to fight, not how to mind her manners. She always expected she’d become a trainer like her mother, until injuries from the ring led to her mother’s untimely death... -
London Stranger: Historical Regency Romance by Joyce Alec
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Juliet wants answers. Lord Strickland does not want her involved. Can they learn to work together and maybe even fall in love along the way?Lady Juliet has been hoping for a successful London Season but before she even arrives, a dreadful scene greets her. Finding a mysterious letter, Juliet does all she can to remove the memory from her mind but finds it difficult to return to society... -
Death at the Falls by Rosemary Simpson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet amidst the opulent mansions and cobblestone streets of 1800’s New York, this atmospheric new historical mystery brings the Gilded Age to life in a tantalizing tale of old money, new love, and grave suspicion, as newly-minted lawyer Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter travel to Niagara Falls for a dangerous assignment…October 1890: As Prudence and Geoffrey settle into the most...Categorized as:
historical-fiction industrial-era victorian female-mc mystery fiction historical murder -
Clue of Affection by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsViolet Harrington will marry for no reason other than love. The daughter of a Duke, her mother is determined to find her a suitable match, but she is holding out hope that despite approaching spinsterhood she will find the love she is looking for. Then one night she witnesses a murder in the gardens outside a ball, and it changes her life forever...Categorized as:
suspense victorian historical-fiction industrial-era female-mc romance mystery regency -
Dark Intentions by Diana Bold
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Allison Croft has vowed never to wed. An heiress in her own right, she is determined not to let any man have power over herself or her money. She's convinced herself she can be happy living a quiet life doing charitable works. But when Polly, a former prostitute she's trying to help, is brutally murdered, her entire world is turned upside down...Categorized as:
historical-fiction industrial-era suspense victorian romance historical mystery regency -
Violet Vanquishes a Villain by M. Louisa Locke
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this novella, Annie and Nate Dawson, the amateur sleuths from M. Louisa Locke's cozy Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, are visiting Nate's family at their ranch near San Jose, California. What was supposed to be a pleasant romantic interlude for the two of them, plus a chance for Annie to get to know Nate's family better, turns serious when a crime is uncovered...
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.