Can anyone recommend any historical fiction crime books? Thanks ?
Can anyone recommend any historical fiction crime books? Thanks ?
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Can anyone recommend any historical fiction crime books? Thanks ?
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco.
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
A Morbid Taste for Bones (No 1 in The Brother Cadfael Series) by Ellis Peters
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton
Delia’s Shadow by Jaime Lee Moyer
Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
The Yard by Alex Grecian
The Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo.
The last three are more mysteries/murder mysteries.
The Thomas Hawkins series by Antonia Hodgson – the first one is The Devil in the Marshalsea
Maisie Dobbs series
Will Thomas series
Naomi novik temeraire series
My favorite is CJ Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake series. ?
Karen Harper’s Elizabeth I series. Michael Jenks’ Templar mysteries.
The Name of the Rose
Anne Perry has two mystery series: the Pitt series begins with The Cater Street Hangman; the Monk series begins with The Face of a Stranger – both are set in Victorian England.
Ellis Peters Cadfael series is set in medieval England.
A newer series set in Victorian England by Charles Finch begins with A Beautiful Blue Death.
Tasha alexander series
The Alienist by Caleb Carr, Murdoch Mysteries by Maureen Jennings, anything by Anne Perry.
The Alienist
C.J. Sansom
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (Flavia de Luce series)
Angela King has one and is doing the sequel x
Chasing the Devil’s Tail
Thanks everyone. I will look into these although ill prob end up buying them all ?
Death at Pemberley by P.D. James.
The Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King.
Love this series.
Phryne Fisher Mysteries set in the 1920s