Historical fiction
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Book 1 in the Fiona Figg Mysteries series. Fiona Figg has a photographic memory. As a child, she devoured Sherlock Holmes stories and loved acting. Many years later, during World War 1, these skills come in handy as Fiona volunteers to replace an injured agent for an undercover mission for the War Office, giving her…
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Book 1 in the Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries series. Bombay 1892. Captain Jim Agnihotri, a big Sherlock Holmes fan, has just begun working as a journalist after recovering from injuries sustained in a battle. At Bombay University, two young women from the prominent Parsee Framji family die from falling from the top of…
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Father Brown is a series of 52 short stories by G. K. Chesterton, and an ongoing TV show with 12 seasons. A mild and fairly meek character, Father Brown has been called “the empathetic detective”, quietly solving crimes by identifying with the murderer and understanding their psychology. The Father Brown TV series is only loosely…
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Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, known as Georgie to her friends, is a cousin of King George V of England and 35th in line to the throne. Unfortunately her family has fallen on hard times, and as Georgie refuses to marry for anything but love, she is basically penniless. Determined to fend for herself without…
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Book 1 in the Veronica Speedwell series. Miss Veronica Speedwell is not your typical Victorian-era lady. Orphaned at a young age and brought up by two spinster sisters, Veronica is a lepidopterist with scandalously modern ideas of women’s independence, and even her love of butterflies comes from a desire for freedom. A young lady should…
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Book 1 in the Anno Dracula series. What if vampires were the ruling class of Victorian England, with Dracula himself having turned and married Queen Victoria, installing himself in London as the ruler of the British Empire? And what if the victims of Jack the Ripper were all vampires? This is the premise of Anno…
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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…
