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Plague Pits & River Bones by Karen Charlton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
London 1812: Treacherous gangs roam the capital, and not even the Palace of Westminster is safe. When Detective Stephen Lavender is called in to investigate a highway robbery and a cold-blooded murder, both the cases take a dangerous and disturbing personal twist...

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Murder at the Abbey by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
When the body of a young woman is found near the ruins of a haunted abbey, everyone assumes she died of fright. A postmortem examination tells a different story. Not only was Elizabeth Barrett poisoned, but the lethal dose of cyanide must have been administered by someone close to her—someone she trusted, who may have known her secret...

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Pilfered Promises by M. Louisa Locke
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
It 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...

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Who Speaks for the Damned by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman convicted of murder in this enthralling new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent...

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Why Kings Confess by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian’s past puts him to the ultimate test. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr...

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Murder at Half Moon Gate by Andrea Penrose
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
A wealthy lord who happens to be a brilliant scientist . . . an enigmatic young widow who secretly pens satirical cartoons . . . a violent killing disguised as a robbery . . . Nothing is as it seems in Regency London, especially when the Earl of Wrexford and Charlotte Sloane join forces to solve a shocking murder...

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Where the Dead Lie by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
London, 1813Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is no stranger to the dark side of the city, but he's never seen anything like this: the brutalized body of a 15-year-old boy dumped into a makeshift grave on the grounds of an abandoned factory. One of London's many homeless children, Benji Thatcher was abducted and tortured before his murder—and his younger sister is still missing...

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The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick'What if we decided to try and find him?''What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are we going to catch the Yorkshire Ripper, when the police haven't even managed to?'I sighed. Her questioning my ideas was a recent and unwelcome element to our friendship. But it was a valid point...

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The Custom House Murders by Ashley Gardner, Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Captain Lacey encounters an old army friend just returned from Antigua, who is being accused of smuggling and possibly murder. Lacey decides to help the man, whom he considers honorable, to clear his name.Meanwhile James Denis has given Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames...

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What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious killer had been brought to justice until a shocking series of gruesome new murders stuns the city in this thrilling historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Speaks for the Damned.It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over and Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together...

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Who Slays the Wicked by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent....When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered, Sebastian St...

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The Suspect's Daughter by Donna Hatch
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Determined to help her father with his political career, Jocelyn sets aside dreams of love. When she meets the handsome and mysterious Grant Amesbury, her dreams of true love reawaken. But his secrets put her family in peril...

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The Dagger Dance by Elizabeth Bailey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Lady 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...

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Murder in Grosvenor Square by Ashley Gardner
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, Book 9. This is a full-length novel of 86,000 words (32 chapters). Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has grown close to...

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Curse of the Poppy by Emily Organ, Gabrielle Baker
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Discovered Penny Green yet? A woman dies in a burglary in Fitzrovia. A man is murdered in an opium den in Limehouse. Gutsy Fleet Street reporter Penny Green suspects the two deaths are connected, but how can she prove it? The answer may lie in Whitehall where the India Office reaps the benefits of Britain’s opium trade...

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The Sans Pareil Mystery by Karen Charlton
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
On a cold February night in Regency London, a dark curtain falls on the Sans Pareil Theatre following the death of April Clare, a promising young actress, whose body is found in mysterious circumstances.Detective Stephen Lavender and his dependable deputy, Constable Woods, quickly discover that nothing is quite as it seems...

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Cast in Ice by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Lady Winnifred Waverley, daughter of the Duke of Townsend, walked the fringes of Society harboring a horrible secret. A secret so damning that it would shatter her entire family and destroy any chance for her younger sister Anne to find a love match...

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Too Hot to Handel by Sheri Cobb South
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
When a rash of jewel thefts strikes London, magistrate Patrick Colquhoun deploys his Bow Street Runners to put a stop to the crimes. The Russian Princess Olga Fyodorovna is to attend a production of Handel’s Esther at Drury Lane Theatre, where she will wear a magnificent diamond necklace...

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Restless Rake by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
She wants her freedom… Clara Whitney is desperate to leave London and return to her native Virginia. She'll do anything, even if it means striking a deal with the most notorious earl in England, to get what she wants...

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Blood Is Blood: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
A bombing injures private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, leaving it up to his soon-to-be-married junior partner—Thomas Llewelyn—to find the person trying to murder them both before it's too late.In 19th century London, Cyrus Barker and his associate Thomas Llewelyn are renowned private enquiry agents, successfully employed by the highest levels of Her Majesty's government as well as private citizens...

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The Counterfeit Lady: A Victorian era clean cozy mystery by Kate Parker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Who would suspect antiquarian bookseller Georgia Fenchurch of leading a double life—as a private investigator for the clandestine Archivist Society in Victorian London? When England’s national security is compromised, Georgia must pose as a titled lady to root out a spy… A cousin of Georgia’s dear friend, Lady Phyllida Monthalf, is brutally murdered in her home during the theft of blueprints of...

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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...

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The Inventor by Emily Organ
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
London 1884. Electricity pioneer Simon Borthwick lights up Victorian London with a stunning illuminations display – then shoots himself in a hansom cab. Plucky Fleet Street reporter Penny Green witnesses the inventor’s death and suspects the clue to his suicide lies in a mysterious letter he left behind...

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Death at the Workhouse: An utterly captivating historical mystery by Emily Organ
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Someone’s preying on Victorian London’s poor. Can a determined reporter unmask the killer stalking the workhouse?London,1885. News reporter Penny Green is spending time at Shoreditch Workhouse working undercover. She knows more can be done for the deserving poor but does anyone care?When two workhouse inmates die in a fight, the police and the coroner accept the simplest explanation...

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The Vanishing Man by Charles Finch
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
From the critically acclaimed and USA Today bestselling author Charles Finch comes The Vanishing Man, the second in a prequel trilogy to his Charles Lenox Victorian series, in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind...

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The Last Moriarty by Charles Veley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
A 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...

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Murder on the Serpentine by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
The queen of the Victorian mystery, New York Times bestseller Anne Perry returns with the 32nd novel in the Inspector Pitt series MURDER ON THE SERPENTINE. Pitt is on a secret mission for the Queen, maybe his last... London, 1899: Head of Special Branch Commander Thomas Pitt is summoned to Buckingham Palace...

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Betrayal at Iga: A Hiro Hattori Novel by Susan Spann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Autumn, 1565: After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro's ninja clan in the mountains of Iga province. But when an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered during peace negotiations, Hiro and Father Mateo must find the killer in time to prevent a war between the ninja clans...

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Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Volume One by Ashley Gardner
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
A collection of the first three novels in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries series plus two Captain Lacey short stories originally published in mystery magazines...

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The Murder at Mandeville Hall by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
#1 New York Times -bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of unexpected romance that blossoms against the backdrop of dastardly murder...

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The Guilt of Innocents by Candace Robb
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
It is winter in the year of our Lord 1372. A river pilot falls into the icy waters of the River Ouse during a skirmish between dockworkers and the boys of the minster school—among them Owen Archer’s adopted son Jasper...

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The Color of Death by Bruce Alexander
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Suspicion and fear are running high in London, as a gang of expert criminals terrorizes the town in a spree of robbery and murder. And in a time when slavery is still practiced in the colonies, there is but one peculiar clue to the identity of this group: The robbers are all black men...

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Murder at the Opera by D.M. Quincy
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
When a nobleman's mistress is gunned down on the steps of the Covent Garden opera house, brilliant adventurer Atlas Catesby discovers a sinister family connection that compels him to investigate.London, 1815. Amateur sleuth Atlas Catesby is about to discover the dark side of the bright lights...

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Murder in Bloomsbury by D.M. Quincy
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Acclaimed author D. M. Quincy is back with a second captivating mystery as adventurer Atlas Catesby must put aside his own feelings for Lady Lilliana as they work together to get justice for someone she holds dear...

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The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of the Great Detective in India and Tibet by Jamyang Norbu
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
In 1891, the British public was horrified to learn that Sherlock Holmes had perished in a deadly struggle with the archcriminal Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Then, to its amazement, he reappeared two years later, informing a stunned Watson, 'I traveled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhasa...

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Prince by Rory Clements
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
England, 1593. Plague rages, famine is rife, and the city is in revolt. From this bedlam rises the sharpest of sleuths: a man named John Shakespeare.Shakespeare’s brother investigates a series of murders rocking Elizabethan London. He follows the clues, which lead him from horseraces to brothels to an explosive encounter at sea...

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The Chinese Bell Murders by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
A.D. 668Meet Judge Dee, the detective lauded as the "Sherlock Holmes of ancient China" — Fans of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series will thrill to this reissue of the first volume in Robert van Gulik's classic Chinese Murders series. The Chinese Bell Murders introduces the great Judge Dee, a magistrate of the city of Poo-yang in ancient China...

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The Lost Lord of Castle Black by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
An exciting new Regency Historical Romance series! Graham, Lord Blakemore, was believed to be lost at sea as a boy. While his mother, Lady Agatha, has never given up hope of finding her son again, others—eager for the title and the wealth that accompanies it—have been conspiring to have him declared dead against Lady Agatha’s wishes...

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A Newlywed’s Guide to Fortune and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
With her new husband George busy on a special mission for the British Museum, Frances has taken on an assignment of her own. The dowager Viscountess Winstead needs someone to sponsor her niece, Kate, for presentation to Queen Victoria. Frances—who understands society’s quirks and constraints as only an outsider can—is the perfect candidate...

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The Rookery by Emily Organ
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
There’s a killer in the slums. London 1884. When a thief robs Fleet Street reporter Penny Green, she finds herself caught up in a horrifying murder. Someone is terrorizing the residents of St Giles Rookery and Scotland Yard sends Inspector James Blakely to investigate. When the serial killer claims a victim outside the slums, Victorian London is sent into panic...

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A Breach of Promise by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
When a brilliant young architect suddenly ends his engagement to a socially prominent woman, her outraged parents file a sensational breach of promise suit. But the case comes to a tragic halt when a murderer strikes. Sleuth William Monk investigates. A Mystery Guild selection...

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The Woman in the Water by Charles Finch
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles to make a name for himself as a detective . . . without a single case. Scotland Yard refuses to take him seriously and his friends deride him for attempting a profession at all...

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The Obsessions of Lord Godfrey Cavanaugh by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens concludes the tales of the Cavanaugh siblings with the riveting story of the youngest brother and his search for a family of his own...

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The Twisted Root by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
For Miriam Gardner, attending a party at the London home of her fiance, Lucius Stourbridge, to celebrate their forthcoming marriage, it should have been one of the happiest days of her life. But, after making a sudden exit from the party, Miriam disappears without a trace. Reluctant to cause a scandal, Lucius seeks out William Monk, a detective with a reputation for excellence...

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Traitors Gate by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
This is an alternate cover for ISBN 0449224392 (ISBN13: 9780449224397) Someone in the Colonial Office is passing secrets to Germany about England's African strategy. While Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt investigates this matter of treason, he is quietly looking into the tragic "accidental" death of his childhood mentor, Sir Arthur Desmond...

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The Silent Cry by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Deep in London's filthy, dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful business. For a price, a man could procure whatever he wanted, but it happened now and then that the price he paid was his life. Now, in sunless Water Lane, respected solicitor Leighton Duff lies dead, kicked and beaten to death. Beside him lies the barely living body of his son, Rhys...

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An Old Betrayal by Charles Finch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
In the seventh book of Finch’s bestselling series of Victorian mysteries, a case of mistaken identity has Charles Lenox playing for his highest stakes yet: the safety of Queen Victoria herself.On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees to take time away from his busy schedule as a Member of Parliament to meet an old protégé’s client at Charing Cross...

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Einer trage des anderen Schuld by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Anne Perry’s seventeenth William Monk novel, now in paperback, is a mesmerizing masterpiece of innocence and evil on London’s docks, a welcome addition to this successful and beloved series. NATIONAL BESTSELLER On a London riverbank, when the body of small-time crook Mickey Parfitt washes up with the tide, no one grieves...

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Death of a Stranger by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Few authors have written more mesmerizingly about Victorian London than Anne Perry...

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Execution Dock by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
On the bustling docks along the River Thames, Great Britain’s merchant ships unload the treasures of the world. And here, in dank and sinister alleys, sex merchants ply their lucrative trade. The dreaded kingpin of this dark realm is Jericho Phillips, who seems far beyond the reach of the law...

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