Mystery
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Book 1 in the Harker & Moriarty series. A brilliant gothic fantasy horror mystery set in Paris in 1903. Samantha Harker, the daughter of Jonathan and Mina Harker, works for The Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena. Originally a researcher, Sam is desperate to leave the library and be assigned as a field
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Brother Cadfael is a series of 20 books by Ellis Peters (pen name of Edith Mary Pargeter) and a 1990s TV series of 4 seasons, following the life of the 12th century amateur sleuth and monk, Brother Cadfael. An immersive historical setting and a really interesting main character is what makes this series so appealing.
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Far too many people grow boring with age, but in Great Diddling the opposite seems true. Author Berit Gardner moves to Great Diddling in search of inspiration and gets even more than she bargained for when an explosion at a village tea party kills Reginald Trent, a man who is hated by most of the
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Outsiders flock to Miracle Springs in hopes of being made whole, but how many of its residents are hiding wounds that have never healed? Book 1 in the Secret, Book, & Scone Society series. Nora Pennington, owner of Miracle Books, has moved to Miracle Springs to escape a past that has left her scarred, both
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The Matthew Shardlake series is a 7 book historical mystery series set in 16th century Tudor England. Book 1, Dissolution, was published in 2003. The books follow the lawyer Matthew Shardlake as he solves crimes and tries to keep himself and his close ones safe in the dangerous, shifting political environment during the Tudor times.
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A Miss Marple Mystery. Mr. and Mrs. Bantry are a respectable and conventional upper-class couple who one morning wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. The couple both claim to have no knowledge of how this could possibly have happened. Inspector Slack is sent to investigate, but Mrs. Bantry calls
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The Phryne Fisher series consists of 24 books by Kerry Greenwood. The Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries TV series has 3 seasons and 34 episodes. Phryne Fisher is sassy, jazzy, scandalous, independent Australian lady detective in the 1920s with a heart of gold right beneath her tough exterior. She is wealthy and glamourous, but comes from
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Edie O’Sullivan is the Pensioner Puzzler, known for her skills as a crossword setter. She is a jigsaw puzzle fan, devoted to her nephew Sean and holds a deep hatred of Christmas in her heart. But when she receives a box with pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and a message from a murderer calling themself
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A Christmas at Highbury by Michelle Cox A very light-hearted and cosy 1930s Christmas mystery about stolen presents, generational divides and all the love and despair of naturaland found families coming together for Christmas. Cozy mystery. 193 pages. Published 2024 Deck the Halls… Dead by Tessa Aura When the organiser of the Bath Festival of
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Book 3 in The Homeswappers Mysteries series. Retired teachers Etta and Dora and their basset hound Leon have swapped homes with a Danish family from the tiny island of Ærø for a pre-Christmas holiday. But when they find the remains of a woman who went missing two years earlier, the brash Etta and the gentle
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