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The Game
by Laurie R. King
A murder mystery set in the world of Victorian England, involving a young detective and her companion.
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are visited by Sherlock's gravely ill brother, Mycroft, who has an intriguing case for them. Mycroft, who has connections in the highest levels of the government, has ... (Wikipedia)
Locked Rooms
by Laurie R. King
A detective solves a decades-old mystery and unravels a conspiracy of secrets.
On their way back to Britain from India, Holmes and Russell stop at Russell's childhood home in San Francisco. As they approach San Francisco, Russell becomes more and more distracted. Holmes ... (Wikipedia)
Justice Hall
by Laurie R. King
A thrilling adventure to solve a murder mystery, uncovering secrets of the past.
Mary Russell and husband Sherlock Holmes receive a surprise visitor late at night: a much-changed Ali Hazr, one of their Palestinian companions during the events of O Jerusalem (novel) five years ... (Wikipedia)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
A whimsical tale of two magicians mastering the mysteries of English magic.
The novel opens in 1806 in northern England with The Learned Society of York Magicians, whose members are "theoretical magicians" who believe that magic died out several hundred years earlier. The ... (Wikipedia)
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Harriet Vane returns to her alma mater to solve a mystery, while grappling with her feelings for Lord Peter Wimsey.
Harriet Vane returns with trepidation to her, alma mater, , Shrewsbury College, Oxford to attend the Gaudy dinner. Expecting hostility because of her notoriety (she had stood trial for murder in an ... (Wikipedia)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
A young girl's detective journey to solve a murder mystery in a picturesque English village.
As the novel opens, Flavia Sabina de Luce schemes revenge against her two older sisters, Ophelia (17) and Daphne (13), who have locked her inside a closet in Buckshaw, the family's country manor home ... (Wikipedia)
Silent in the Grave
by Deanna Raybourn
A Victorian-era mystery novel involving a determined female sleuth to unmask a murderer.
"LET THE WICKED BE ASHAMED, AND LET THEM BE SILENT IN THE GRAVE." These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward ... (Goodreads)
Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
The story of two 19th century women who make a groundbreaking discovery in the fossil-rich cliffs of Lyme Regis.
In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except ... (Goodreads)
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
by Alan Bradley
Flavia de Luce, a precocious 11-year-old chemist and amateur detective, solves another murder mystery in her small English village.
From Dagger Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously ... (Goodreads)
Dragonfly in Amber
by Diana Gabaldon
Romantic adventure through history as two time travelers fight to change their destiny.
Claire Randall has returned to her own time, where she has been living for 20 years with her husband Frank. Following his death, she brings her daughter, Brianna, to the home of the Randalls' old ... (Wikipedia)
Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
Detective story set in post-WWI London, investigating a mysterious disappearance.
Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion, only to be discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady ... (Goodreads)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A detective's collection of cases, full of intrigue and suspense.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and ... (Goodreads)
Revenge of the Spellmans
by Lisa Lutz
A private investigator family must protect its secrets while solving a mystery.
YOU THOUGHT YOUR LIFE WAS COMPLICATED Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch – in court-ordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous ... (Goodreads)
The Book of Life
by Deborah Harkness
A journey of magic and science to unlock the secrets of eternal life.
The #1, New York Times, bestselling series finale and sequel to, A Discovery of Witches, and, Shadow of Night, Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying ... (Goodreads)
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
by Agatha Christie
A collection of short stories featuring the sharp-witted Miss Marple, solving crimes with her astute observations and knowledge of human nature.
At last - all 20 Miss Marple short stories in a single volume! Jane Marple is from the village of St Mary Mead and applies her skills of observation and deduction to a wide variety of mysteries. ... (Goodreads)
The Spellmans Strike Again
by Lisa Lutz
Family of private investigators take on mysterious cases and uncover hilarious secrets.
In Document #4 of the Edgar-nominated series detailing an outrageously funny family of detectives, former wild child and private investigator Izzy Spellman finally agrees to take over the family ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Gilded Hour
by Sara Donati
Two female doctors in 1880s New York City navigate societal expectations and solve a mystery involving missing children.
The year is 1883, and in New York City, it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips ... (Goodreads)
A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows
by Diana Gabaldon
A journey through time and a battle between duty and love.
Available for the first time as an exclusive eBook in this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. Orphaned during World War ... (Goodreads)
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
A small English village grapples with the effects of the bubonic plague.
When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of ... (Goodreads)
Heat Rises
by Richard Castle
Detective Nikki Heat investigates the murder of a gossip columnist, uncovering a web of secrets and lies in the process.
In the third book of the New York Times bestselling Nikki Heat series, following HEAT WAVE and NAKED HEAT, Richard Castle's new thrilling mystery continues the story of NYPD Homicide Detective, Nikki ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Face of a Stranger
by Anne Perry
A gripping mystery surrounding the identity of a murdered man and the secrets that lie beneath.
His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he ... (Goodreads)
Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen
A young woman's journey of self-discovery, navigating the complexities of high society.
Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of ... (Wikipedia)
An Echo in the Bone
by Diana Gabaldon
18th-century Scottish and American characters struggle with loyalty, betrayal, and love in the midst of war.
In the 20th century at Lallybroch, Brianna, Roger, Jem, and Mandy are reading letters from Claire and Jamie from the past, one of which mentions hidden gold, with a location known only to Jem. ... (Wikipedia)
The Curse of the Pharaohs
by Elizabeth Peters
A thrilling mystery set in ancient Egypt, where a daring sleuth uncovers a deadly secret.
The Emersons are at home in England, aching to return to Egypt, but finding no excuse to return until Lady Baskerville asks them to finish the excavation started by her husband, who died mysteriously ... (Wikipedia)
Curse of the Spellmans
by Lisa Lutz
A quirky family of private investigators grapple with secrets, lies, and curses while solving a mysterious case.
THEY'RE BAAAAACK. Their first caper,, The Spellman Files, was a, New York Times, bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly ... (Goodreads)
Black Sheep
by Georgette Heyer
A dashing young man attempts to unite his family and win the heart of a beautiful heiress.
The novel is set in Bath, Somerset and centres on two main characters: Miss Abigail Wendover and Mr Miles Calverleigh. At the beginning of the novel, Abigail's niece Fanny claims to have formed a ... (Wikipedia)
Venetia
by Georgette Heyer
A spirited young woman's thrilling adventure to win her true love.
The beautiful Venetia Lanyon, thanks to a reclusive and over-protective father, grew up in the country, away from the world with only her younger brother Aubrey, bookish and lame, for company. Her ... (Wikipedia)
Faro's Daughter
by Georgette Heyer
A charming romance between a young woman and an aristocrat as they navigate the upper class society.
The beautiful but poor Deborah Grantham presides over her aunt's gaming house in Georgian London. Here she meets Max Ravenscar, who is determined to prevent his young cousin Lord Mablethorpe from ... (Wikipedia)
The Hippopotamus Pool
by Elizabeth Peters
An archaeological mystery, as an Egyptologist and her team race to unlock the secrets of a lost tomb.
Amelia and Emerson are in Cairo to greet the 20th century, when a mysterious Mr. Shelmadine presents them with a gold ring from an unknown tomb bearing the cartouche of Queen Tetisheri . The Emersons ... (Wikipedia)
Started Early, Took My Dog
by Kate Atkinson
Private investigator Tracy Waterhouse rescues a child and buys a dog, leading to a complex web of secrets and lies.
The main story takes place over a few days in present-day (2010) Leeds, England and vicinity. There are frequent flashbacks to 1975, when the mystery being investigated originated. ... (Wikipedia)
