18 books like The Body in the Garden

What to read after The Body in the Garden — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Deadly Cypher

Deadly Cypher Kate Parker · 2021 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A USA Today Bestseller!Could a murder at Bletchley Park cost Britain the war?November, 1939. The British government has assembled a small group of intellectuals at an estate north of London as part of a top-secret codebreaking effort. Everything about it is clandestine. The facility is ringed with a veil of silence until one of the young female linguists is murdered.Britain's counterintelligence… 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

Guaranteed to Bleed

Guaranteed to Bleed Julie Mulhern · 2015 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Mystery with this book.

A Gentleman of Modest Ambitions

A Gentleman of Modest Ambitions Grace Burrowes Lord Julian Caldicott is battling a severe case of winter doldrums as well as a serious bout of pre-wedding jitters. He longs to summon—invite, rather—his intended, Miss Hyperia West to Caldicott Hall, but she seems to be having a fine time shopping for her trousseau in London. Julian’s growing pile of miseries is only increased when a neighbor, Sir Clive Arbuthnot, reports that his titled cousin… Shares Mystery

A Gentleman of Very Few Words

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

SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead

SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead John Maddox Roberts · 2008 Shares Mystery with this book.

The Case at Barton Manor

The Case at Barton Manor Emily Queen · 2019 · 155p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Mystery with this book.

The Bookseller of Inverness

The Bookseller of Inverness S. G. MacLean A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.Six years later, with the… 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

A Murder in Marylebone

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

Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel

Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel Lucy Foley & Agatha Christie · 2026 Shares Mystery with this book.

Cold as Ice

Cold as Ice Julie Mulhern · 2017 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Mystery with this book.

Reckless With a Bonus Excerpt

Reckless With a Bonus Excerpt Andrew Gross · 2012 For a limited time and a special price, discover Reckless, the New York Times bestselling novel by Andrew Gross, plus the first three chapters from his next novel, 15 Seconds, a thrilling, fast-paced story of a man, on the run, desperate to prove his innocence and to save his family’s lives. 15 Seconds will be available wherever books are sold July 10th. Shares Mystery

Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners)

Pirate King (with bonus short story Beekeeping for Beginners) Laurie R. King NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An engaging romp guaranteed to please . . . perfectly written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”—USA Today   In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. But rumors of criminal activities swirl around his popular movie studio. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of… Shares Mystery

The Murder of Mr. Wickham

The Murder of Mr. Wickham Claudia Gray · 2022 · ★ 3.9 A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham—one of literature’s most notorious villains—meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery from a New York Times bestselling author featuring Austen’s leading literary characters. “Had Jane Austen sat down to write a country house murder mystery, this is exactly the book she would… Shares Mystery

Eleanor and the Cold War

Eleanor and the Cold War Ellen Yardley · 2025 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A brilliant 1950s Cold War historical mystery debut a female sleuth who is also an indispensable assistant to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Perfect for fans of Colleen Cambridge and Agatha Christie.New York City and Washington, DC, 1951.Kay Thompson—secretary to Eleanor Roosevelt—is a young woman of conviction navigating the post-World War II period. But can she expose the dark truth about… Shares Mystery

The Dove of Death

The Dove of Death Peter Tremayne 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

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