18 books like Kingdom of Bones

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A Killing in Cornwall

A Killing in Cornwall Emily Sullivan Shares Mystery with this book.

The Blue Girl

The Blue Girl Alex Grecian Shares Mystery with this book.

A Ruse of Shadows

A Ruse of Shadows Sherry Thomas "I cannot recommend this series enough."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Ali HazelwoodCharlotte Holmes finds herself in a dreadfully precarious position when she’s accused of murder—a crime she’s accustomed to solving as Sherlock Holmes—in this twisty Victorian mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of A Study in Scarlet Women.Charlotte’s success on the RMS Provence has afforded her a… Shares Mystery

The Tembusu Tree Mystery

The Tembusu Tree Mystery Ovidia Yu Shares Mystery with this book.

A Gentleman of Very Few Words

A Gentleman of Very Few Words Grace Burrowes Shares Mystery with this book.

The Egyptian Antiquities Murder

The Egyptian Antiquities Murder Sara Rosett · 2019 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Secrets never die . . . October, 1923. Lady detective Olive Belgrave has a new case. Lady Agnes doesn’t believe in curses—especially ancient curses—and she hires Olive to prove her uncle wasn’t the victim of a malevolent mummy. Olive investigates and discovers the truth is much worse—it’s murder. Can Olive debunk the curse and reveal the true culprit before the mummy curse claims another… Shares Mystery

Murder on the Brighton Express

Murder on the Brighton Express C.J. Archer Gossip, scandal and murder collide on the express train to London. Did the journalist fall from the first-class carriage, or was she pushed?   Cleo’s holiday with her family to the seaside resort town of Brighton is everything she hoped it would be…until she receives a blackmail note. The blackmailer demands Cleo help her or a story revealing Cleo’s investigating will appear in the… Shares Mystery

Murder at the Piccadilly Playhouse

Murder at the Piccadilly Playhouse C.J. Archer She was admired by women and desired by men, until jealousy and past secrets took center stage. Help Cleo and her friends solve the murder of one of London’s leading actresses.  When a hotel guest’s mistress is found dead in the stalls of the Piccadilly Playhouse, a verdict of suicide is given. Convinced his lover didn’t kill herself, Lord Rumford wants the truth uncovered. Against his… Shares Mystery

The Honorable Traitor

The Honorable Traitor Sarah Woodbury The fires of war threaten to consume Gwynedd in the Honorable Traitor, the fifteenth Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mystery. January 1150. Another attempt at peace has brought the kingdoms of Gwynedd and Powys together. Not everyone wants the conference to succeed, however, including King Madog of Powys, who happens to be a participant. So when the body of a woman turns up in an incriminating… Shares Mystery

The Rebel

The Rebel C.J. Archer Elizabethan England: Cole's heart is dark.  He's a mystery, even to those closest to him in the Assassins Guild. All anyone really knows for sure is that he's ruthless, grim, and cares little for his own life. So when he loses his memory during an attack and thinks himself a naive eighteen year-old again, no one can really believe the transformation. But as his memory returns, so do the… Shares Mystery

A Murder in Marylebone

A Murder in Marylebone Emily Sullivan Shares Mystery with this book.

The Briar Club

The Briar Club Kate Quinn · 2024 · ★ 4.3 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of… Shares Mystery

A Scandal in Mayfair

A Scandal in Mayfair Katharine Schellman Sometimes danger lurks in plain sight, and in the cutthroat London Season socialite Lily Adler must race against time to catch a killer. Fans of Bridgerton will delight in this Regency-era mystery featuring an intrepid sleuth, plenty of intrigue, and a touch of romance.London, 1817. The London Season is beginning once more, and Lily Adler’s return to her home on Half Moon Street feels different… Shares Mystery

The Edge of Darkness

The Edge of Darkness Vaseem Khan 'Persis Wadia, denizen of India's own Slough House' Alis Hawkins'Hugely entertaining, devilishly clever' Antonia Hodgson India, 1951. After wilfully ignoring orders, Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective, is exiled from Bombay to the wild and mountainous Naga Hills District. As India's first post-Independence election looms, and tensions rise across the country, Persis finds… Shares Mystery

A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder

A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder Dianne Freeman Shares Mystery with this book.

The Housewives of Atomic Lane

The Housewives of Atomic Lane Andie Newton Shares Mystery with this book.

The Talleyrand Maxim Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The “Talleyrand Maxim” holds that “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” The adage has the character of guidance for life for an ambitious legal clerk, Linford Pratt. Unlike most people, he decides to take extreme measures to get what he believes is his due. Shares Mystery

The Ghost and Mrs. Holloway

The Ghost and Mrs. Holloway Jennifer Ashley Shares Mystery with this book.

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