18 books like Reckoning

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The Ghost and Mrs. Holloway

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

A Stroke of Malice

A Stroke of Malice Anna Lee Huber · 2020 Lady Kiera Darby and her husband Sebastian Gage are looking forward to celebrating with new friends at an exciting yearly soiree, but they soon learn that murder never takes a holiday in the latest riveting installment in this national bestselling series.January 1832. After enjoying a delightful few weeks with her family, expectant mother Kiera and Sebastian Gage have been invited to the Duchess… Shares Mystery

The Saint

The Saint C.J. Archer Elizabethan England: Elizabeth Buckley has been in love with Edward Monk for most of her life. Unfortunately he's only ever had eyes for her older, prettier sister. Five years after he left the village to make himself worthy of a Buckley, their lives intersect. This time, she's determined to make him see her and bed her. All Edward has to do is convince the girl he loves to set aside her… Shares Mystery

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh

The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh Claudia Gray The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet: preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh.Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, generous patroness of Mr. William Collins, a woman of rank who rules over the estate of Rosings Park… Shares Mystery

Deadly Remains

Deadly Remains Kate Ellis · 2025 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity ghostwriter and the theft of his laptop suggests that the motive for murder may lie in his work.While Wesley investigates Barry's famous… Shares Mystery

The Chapel of Bones

The Chapel of Bones Kate Ellis Shares Mystery with this book.

Murder at Wakehurst

Murder at Wakehurst Alyssa Maxwell · 2021 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… For fans of Rhys Bowen comes the new mystery from acclaimed author Alyssa Maxwell, as she takes readers to the turn of the century mansions of famed Newport, Rhode Island . . . where not all is always golden and murder turns a successful… Shares Mystery

A Tangle of Serpents: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery

A Tangle of Serpents: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery Andrea Penrose With the epic victory at Waterloo behind them, Arianna and Saybrook are looking forward to a quiet summer of scholarship, far from the turmoil of war and politics.  But little do they know that an even more dangerous battle is about to test their mettle. The shocking news that Lord Grentham, the steely minister of state security, has been accused of treason and is on the run from arrest… Shares Mystery

Shadows of Madness

Shadows of Madness Tracy L. Ward · 2017 Summoned to Edinburgh after another inexplicable vision, Dr. Peter Ainsley and his sister, Margaret Marshall, are shocked to discover their good friend, and Margaret’s secret lover, has been arrested for murder. Dr. Jonas Davies, a celebrated surgeon and newly appointed professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, was found at the grisly scene with the bloodied surgical knife at his… Shares Mystery

When the Wolves Are Silent

When the Wolves Are Silent C. S. Harris · 2026 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Moderate A brutal string of ritualistic killings terrorizes a city already shaken by economic and political turmoil in this chilling new historical mystery from C. S. Harris, USA Today bestselling author of Who Will Remember.London, 1816: When a notorious young aristocrat is burned alive on a windswept hill popular with neo-Druids, former cavalry officer Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself… Shares Mystery

At the Villa Rose, in Four acts A. E. W. Mason · 1900 · ★ 4.5 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The place: Aix-les-Bains, a lakeside town in southeast France, popular for vacations of the well-to-do. The players: (1) The young Englishman, Harry Wethermill, who, after a brilliant career at Oxford and at Munich, had applied his scientific genius and made a fortune for himself at the age of twenty-eight. (2) Mr. Ricardo, approaching the fifties in age; a widower — "a state greatly to… Shares Mystery

The Lotus Shoes

The Lotus Shoes Jane Yang · 2025 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time." —Heather Morris, #1 bestselling author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzAn empowering, uplifting tale of two women from opposite sides of society, and their extraordinary journey of sisterhood, betrayal, love and triumph.1800s China. Tightly bound feet,… 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

Murder at Archly Manor

Murder at Archly Manor Sara Rosett · 2018 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A high-society murder. An spirited lady detective. Can she out-class the killer before an innocent person takes the fall? London, 1923. Olive Belgrave needs a job. Despite her aristocratic upbringing, she’s penniless. Determined to support herself, she jumps at an unconventional job—looking into the background of her cousin’s fiancé, Alfred.  Alfred burst into the upper crust world of London’s… Shares Mystery

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker Paul Vidich A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceIn the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carré, The Matchmaker delivers a chilling Cold War spy story set in West Berlin, where an American woman targeted by the Stasi must confront the truth behind her German husband's mysterious disappearance.Berlin, 1989.  Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and… Shares Mystery

The House in Lordship Lane A. E. W. Mason · 1946 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Enter Bryan Devisher, over the side of the ketch in which Mordaunt was taking Mr. Julius Ricardo home to London on the summons of his old friend, Inspector Hanaud of the Paris Surete and the English ' idioms.' Exit, Devisher and Mordaunt. Enter Daniel Horbury. Exit Daniel Horbury-violently, with his throat slit in the garden room of the House in Lordship Lane, with Olivia, his wife, locked in her… Shares Mystery

A Swirl of Shadows

A Swirl of Shadows Andrea Penrose Shares Mystery with this book.

Much Ado About Mistletoe

Much Ado About Mistletoe Christina Dodd Fair Verona celebrates the most joyful Christmas season in all of this flat earth, and for spirited20-year-old Rosie Montague, sleuth and daughter of Romeo and Juliet (alive and well and still passionately in love), the season holds a thrilling new kind of mystery . . . My famously optimistic and romantic mother, Lady Juliet, has declared, “I’m determined the Montagues and all of Verona shall… Shares Mystery

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