Genre Mash: Mystery x Historical Fiction

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Genre Mash: Mystery x Historical Fiction

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Act like a lady, think like a lord
Connally, Celeste
Paper Book
Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, a dazzling first entry in a captivating new Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin from Celeste Connally. London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of...
The alienist
Carr, Caleb
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES * "A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages."--Entertainment Weekly "Caleb Carr's rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history...
The Bangalore Detectives Club
Nagendra, Harini
Paper Book
The beekeeper's apprentice, or, On the segregation of the queen
King, Laurie R.
Paper Book
An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association FromNew York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell...
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Goodman, Alison
Paper Book
A Washington Post Best Mystery Novel of 2023 A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling...
The Bletchley riddle
Sepetys, Ruta; Sheinkin, Steve
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A thrilling mystery and collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin! This historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding...
The Christie affair
Gramont, Nina de
Paper Book
Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge? "Sizzles from its first sentence." - The Wall Street Journal A...
Code name verity
Wein, Elizabeth
Paper Book
The Dante Club : a novel
Pearl, Matthew
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller Words can bleed. In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields—are finishing America’s first...
Death and the sisters
Redmond, Heather
Paper Book
Before there was Frankenstein, a young Mary Shelley, her stepsister Jane "Claire" Clairmont, and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are drawn into a shocking murder investigation in this deliciously captivating new historical mystery revolving around the real-life trio who would later scandalize...
Death comes to Pemberley
James, P. D.
Paper Book
A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen's beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.   It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy...
The detective's assistant
Hannigan, Kate
Paper Book
Based on the extraordinary true story of America's first-ever female detective, this fast-paced adventure recounts feats of daring and danger...including saving the life of Abraham Lincoln! Eleven-year-old Nell Warne arrives on her aunt's doorstep lugging a heavy sack of...
Detectives in togas
Winterfeld, Henry.
Paper Book
In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure. Yes, Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school, but no, he did not...
The disappearance of Émile Zola : love, literature and the Dreyfus case
Rosen, Michael
Paper Book
The incredible story of Emile Zola's escape to London in the aftermath of the scandalous Dreyfus Affair.
The echo of old books : a novel
Davis, Barbara
Paper Book
A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls. Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer's affinity for books extends beyond the...
The Great Trouble : a mystery of London, the blue death, and a boy called Eel
Hopkinson, Deborah
Paper Book
Eel has troubles of his own- As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of London. And he's got a secret that costs him four precious shillings...
Jackaby
Ritter, R. William
Paper Book
"Sherlock Holmes crossed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer." --Chicago Tribune Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the...
Jane Steele : a confession
Faye, Lyndsay
Paper Book
Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls "wonderfully entertaining" and USA Today describes as "sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety."  <...
Kill her twice
Lee, Stacey
Paper Book
A YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los Angeles's Chinatown, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl. "A captivating and crackling noir full of suspenseful twists. Readers will fall in love with the Chow sisters and their quest for the...
A killer in winter
Gregory, Susanna
Paper Book
Cambridge 1354. Christmas approaches and the town is gripped by the worst blizzards in living memory. As physician, Matthew Bartholomew, struggles to help the poorer citizens cope with freezing temperatures, his colleagues prepare for the festivities. The weather has trapped many travellers in...
Lair of dreams : a Diviners novel
Bray, Libba
Paper Book
The thrilling supernatural sequel in The Diviners series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Libba Bray! The longing of dreams draws the dead, and this city holds many dreams. After a supernatural show down with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed...
The lioness
Bohjalian, Chris
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A Washington Post Best Book of the Year * A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant. ...
The listeners
Stiefvater, Maggie
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER· An Oprah Daily Best Summer Read · A Christian Science Monitor Best Book · Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year "Wonderfully observed--actually, flat-out wonderful." --The Wall Street Journal "Richly imagined ....
The luminaries
Catton, Eleanor
Paper Book
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General's Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand's Gold Rush, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men...
Maisie Dobbs : a novel
Winspear, Jacqueline
Paper Book
Hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths. Maisie Dobbs isn't just any...
The Mesmerist
Woods, Caroline
Paper Book
AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR . A tightly plotted page-turner ripped from the headlines of history, as three very different women must work together to stop a killer and save the truest home they've ever known. Before hypnotism, there was Mesmerism. And in 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake...
Moriarty
Horowitz, Anthony
Paper Book
The game is once again afoot in this thrilling mystery from the bestselling author of The House of Silk, sanctioned by the Conan Doyle estate, which explores what really happened when Sherlock Holmes and his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty tumbled to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls. ...
Murder is bad manners
Stevens, Robin
Paper Book
Two friends form a detective agency--and must solve their first murder case--in this "sharp-witted debut" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that is the first adventure in a brand-new middle grade mystery series set at a 1930s boarding school. Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong...
The night raven
Rundberg, Johan; Prime, A. A.
Paper Book
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Global Literature in Libraries YA Translated Book Prize A USBBY Outstanding International Book Mika is not your average twelve-year-old--and she's about to prove it. It's 1880, and in...
One came home
Timberlake, Amy.
Paper Book
A Newbery Honor Book An ALA-ALSC Notable Children's Book Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel "An adventure, a mystery, and a love song to the natural world. . . . Run out and read it. Right now."-Newbery Medalist...
Reader, I murdered him
Cornwell, Betsy
Paper Book
In this daring tale of female agency and revenge from a New York Times bestselling author, a girl becomes a teenage vigilante who roams Victorian England using her privilege and power to punish her friends' abusive suitors and keep other young women safe. Adele grew up in the...
The red palace
Hur, June
Paper Book
June Hur, critically acclaimed author of The Silence of Bones and The Forest of Stolen Girls, returns with The Red Palace--a third evocative, atmospheric historical mystery perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Kerri Maniscalco. To enter the palace...
The ruby in the smoke
Pullman, Philip
Paper Book
In search of clues to the mystery of her father's death, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart ventures into the shadowy underworld of Victorian London. Pursued by villains at every turn, the intrepid Sally finally uncovers two dark mysteries--and realizes that she herself is the key to both. "In Dickensian...
The scandalous sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
Berry, Julie
Paper Book
There's a murderer on the loose--but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce. The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett,...
The shadow of the wind
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos
Paper Book
"Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Wondrous...masterful...The ...
The silence of bones
Hur, June
Paper Book
June Hur's elegant and haunting debut The Silence of Bones is a bloody YA historical mystery tale perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Renée Ahdieh. I have a mouth, but I mustn't speak; Ears, but I mustn't hear; Eyes, but I mustn't see.
The silver bone : a novel
Kurkov, Andrei?; Dralyuk, Boris
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024 "Very intriguing and atmospheric ... a fascinating read in the light of contemporary events." -Alexander McCall Smith, Bestselling Author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency "With its...
A spy in the house
Lee, Y.S
Paper Book
Introducing an exciting new series! Steeped in Victorian atmosphere and intrigue, this diverting mystery trails feisty heroine Mary Quinn as she takes on a precarious secret assignment.
Stealing Mona Lisa : a mystery
Morton, Carson
Paper Book
AKirkus Reviews' Best of 2011 Fiction and aLibrary Journal Best Mystery of 2011 What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting? The charming Eduardo de...
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie
Bradley, Alan
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE AGATHA * ARTHUR ELLIS * DILYS * DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS  "Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine."--Chicago Sun-Times...
The Traitors' Gate
Avi
Paper Book
John Huffam is sure the tall man's beard is false. He's sure of little else in November 1849, the year he is fourteen, the year his father is sentenced to London's Whitecross Street Prison. Maybe the man following John -- who claims to be one Inspector Copperfield -- can explain why....
Under the same stars
Bray, Libba
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller * A USA Today Bestseller * An Indie Bestseller * A Good Morning America Book Club Pick * Edgar Award Nominee * Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee * An Audible Best Audiobook of the Year ...
We do not part
Han, Kang; Morris, Paige Aniyah; yaewon, e.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE...
The widows of Malabar Hill
Massey, Sujata
Paper Book
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and...
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