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Murder at the Mill by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
When 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...

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Murder In The Caravan by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
When 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...

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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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The Thief of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
There’s Often a Fine Line Between a Criminal and a Saint Constable Jackson Forge intends to make the world safer, or at least the streets of Victorian London. But that’s Kit Turner’s domain, a swindler who runs a crew that acquires money the old-fashioned way—conning the rich to give to the poor...

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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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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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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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Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Erika Rosenthal has always been secretive with her friend and neighbor, Detective Inspector Gemma James, about her past, except for one telling detail: She and her long-dead husband, David, came to London as refugees from Nazi Germany. But now the elderly woman needs Gemma's help. A unique piece of jewelry stolen from her years ago has mysteriously turned up at a prestigious London auction house...

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Murder at Kensington Palace by Andrea Penrose
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Wrexford and Sloane must unravel secrets within secrets—including a few that entangle their own hearts—when they reunite to solve a string of shocking murders that have horrified Regency London... Though Charlotte Sloane’s secret identity as the controversial satirical cartoonist A.J...

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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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Why Mermaids Sing by C.S. Harris, К.С. Харрис
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
In 1811 London, murder stalks the city's elite as the sons of prominent families are found in public places, with their bodies mutilated and strange objects stuffed in their mouths, and Sebastian St. Cyr takes time out from his shaky relationship with actress Kat Boleyn to track down the killer...

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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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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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The Royal Assassin: A Victorian era clean cozy mystery by Kate Parker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
When the Duke of Blackford enters her bookstore, Georgia knows the Archivist Society is in need of her services. The Tsar of Russia and his family are visiting Queen Victoria on the auspices of the engagement of the Russian princess Kira to the son of the Queen’s cousin...

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A Perilous Perspective by Anna Lee Huber
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
An all-new historical mystery in this USA Today bestselling series featuring beloved inquiry agents Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage.Argyll, Scotland. July 1832. After a trying few months in Edinburgh, Kiera and her husband and investigative partner, Sebastian Gage, are eager to escape to the Highlands with their three-month-old child...

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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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A Disappearance in Drury Lane by Ashley Gardner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Late December, 1818 As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, comes to him about an actress friend who’s gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent...

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The Greatest Challenge Of Them All by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
A nobleman devoted to defending queen and country and a noblewoman wild enough to match his every step race to disrupt the plans of a malignant intelligence intent on shaking England to its very foundations...

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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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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...

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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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The Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms...

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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 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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Three Debts Paid by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Three Debts Paid is the fifth gripping instalment in an exciting new generation of Pitt novels from the pen of highly acclaimed crime writer and New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry.It is February 1912 when barrister Daniel Pitt is reunited with his old college friend, Inspector Ian Frobisher...

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Death in Kew Gardens by Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
From the New York Times bestselling author of Scandal Above Stairs Kat Holloway steps out from beneath the stairs and into international intrigue, where murder and stolen treasure lurk among the upper echelons of Victorian London. In return for a random act of kindness, scholar Li Bai Chang presents young cook Kat Holloway with a rare and precious gift—a box of tea...

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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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Treason at Lisson Grove by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant prepared to divulge details of a potentially devastating international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hastening to rendezvous with him, arrives a second too late, preceded by a knife-wielding assassin...

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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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A Pressing Engagement by Anna Lee Huber
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
In this delightful novella from the national bestselling author of A Study in Death, Lady Kiera Darby has one last mystery to solve before she can walk down the aisle... Scotland, 1831. With her wedding to fellow investigator Sebastian Gage only a day away, Kiera is counting down the hours...

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Dorchester Terrace by Anne Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
1896. Newly promoted to Head of Special Branch, Thomas Pitt is forced to face the danger his new position brings when he uncovers the work of a traitor in his department. Not knowing who to trust, he must unmask the conspirator, whist simultaneously protecting a suspected target, Austrian state visitor Duke Alois...

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