Historical fiction
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Magpie Murders is book 1 in the Susan Ryeland series by Anthony Horowitz. Magpie Murders was published in 2016, and the TV series is a 6 episode TV series from 2022. Alan Conway is a successful crime writer and a really unpleasant person, taking pleasure in basing his characters on real people, exposing their secrets…
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Book 1 in the Jane Austen Mysteries series. This novel imagines the twenty-seven year old Jane Austen as an amateur sleuth, working on behalf of her dear friend Isobel Payne. Isobel is newly wedded to the much older Earl of Scargrave, and Jane is a guest at Scargrave Manor when the Earl passes away after…
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Book 1 in the Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #1 series. Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be “alienated” not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists. A dark, historical, psychological thriller exposing the…
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Hercule Poirot stars in 33 novels and 51 short stories by Agatha Christie, making his first appearance in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and in the 13 seasons TV series based on the books. One of the greatest and most beloved fictional detectives, Hercule Poirot is famous all over the world, and to many who…
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On the small island of San Piedro on the northwest coast of Washington in 1954, a local fisherman, Carl, is found dead, tangled in his own net and drowned. A suspicious wound on his head leads to an investigation into the dead man’s affairs, and before long another local fisherman, Kabuo, is accused of murder.…
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Book 1 in the Christopher Redmayne series. Christopher Redmayne, the talented, handsome, younger Redmayne son, has yet to find his calling in life, but after the Great Fire of London ravages the city, he decides to embark on a career as an architect. Helped along by his older brother Henry, an incurable hedonist with many…
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Book 1 in the Secret Identity series. Carmen Valdez has inherited her love of comics from her father. She works as a secretary at Triumph Comics while dreaming of being a comic book writer. When her colleague asks for her help she spies a chance at a break, and together they create a compelling female…
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Book 1 in the A Catskill Summer Resort Mystery series Summer of 1953. Elizabeth’s mother Olivia is a retired Broadway and Hollywood dancer. When her third husband emptied her bank accounts, she was left with nothing but the Haggerman’s Catskills Resort and called Elizabeth to help her run the place. And by “help” she means…
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The creation of a serial killer is described in a strangely poetic fashion in My Men, written in Norwegian by Victoria Kielland and translated into English by Damion Searls. When the young Brynhilde is forsaken by her lover, she embarks on a journey from her homeland of Norway to America, hoping to find a new…
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Book 1 in the Malabar House series. Malabar House is the name of a police station in Bombay housing the undesired and failed members of the police force not trusted to be placed anywhere else. It is also the station where Persis Wadia is assigned. As India’s first and only female police officer, there are…
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