Dark Tides vs Murder in the Bookshop: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Dark Tides Dark Tides Philippa Gregory · 2020 ★★★★☆ 4.0 480 pages · ≈ 8 h 53 m · Moderate

1 New York Times bestselling author of Tidelands returns with an “sweeping” (Parade) historical novel tracking the rise of the Tidelands family in London, Venice, and New England.Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected…

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Cover of Murder in the Bookshop Murder in the Bookshop Anita Davison · 2023 ★★★★☆ 3.9 384 pages · ≈ 7 h 07 m · Moderate

‘A lovely mystery evocative of the period from a talented writer’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay mysteriesSomeone’s been read their last rites…1915, London: Working in the dusty bookshop that her…

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Dark TidesMurder in the Bookshop
Hardcover 3.6 (8) 3.2 (3)
Apple Books 4.0 (375) 4.0 (34)

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Dark TidesMurder in the Bookshop
Ratings 375 34
Editions 6 2
Pages 480 384

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