18 books like The Incendium Plot

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L' Argent des autres Émile Gaboriau · 1874 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Challenging Vainement on chercherait dans Paris une rue plus paisible que la rue Saint-Gilles, au Marais, a deux pas de la place Royale.La, pas de voitures, jamais de foule. A peine le silence y est rompu par les sonneries reglementaires de la caserne des Minimes, par les cloches de l'eglise Saint-Louis ou par les clameurs joyeuses des eleves de l'institution Massin a l'heure des recreations.Le soir, bien… Shares Mystery

Cold as Ice

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

A Christmas Guide to Family and Murder

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

The Hidden City

The Hidden City Charles Finch NAMED ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2025 and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' BEST FALL MYSTERIES!Against the vividly drawn backdrop of Victorian London, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox must unlock a mystery concealed in the architecture of the city itself, in this new novel from acclaimed author Charles Finch.It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last… Shares Mystery

The Yellow Violet

The Yellow Violet Frances Crane · 1944 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Mystery with this book.

Kingdom of Bones

Kingdom of Bones James Rollins · 2021 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate From #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, the latest riveting, deeply imaginative thriller in the Sigma Force series, told with his trademark blend of cutting-edge science, historical mystery, and pulse-pounding action.It begins in Africa . . .A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary… Shares Mystery

The Ghost and Mrs. Holloway

The Ghost and Mrs. Holloway Jennifer Ashley 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

Tides of Fire

Tides of Fire James Rollins · 2023 · ★ 4.5 In the latest riveting thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop the world from burning, it’s up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our… Shares Mystery

No Mercy for the Innocent

No Mercy for the Innocent Nancy Herriman Shares Mystery with this book.

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 Blackburn Hall

Murder at Blackburn Hall Sara Rosett · 2019 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A missing author and a sleepy English village rife with secrets . . . September, 1923. Despite closing her first case, high society lady detective Olive Belgrave hasn’t found a new client. She’s taken a job as a hat model to pay for her poky boarding house room. But then a job offer comes her way—make discreet inquiries about a famous author who’s disappeared.  Olive travels to the English… Shares Mystery

A Sinister Revenge

A Sinister Revenge Deanna Raybourn · 2023 · ★ 4.2 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Veronica’s natural-historian beau, Stoker, has been away in Bavaria for months and their relationship is at an impasse. But when Veronica shows up before him with his brother, Tiberius, Lord… Shares Mystery

The Thunder of Stones

The Thunder of Stones Andrea Penrose Shares Mystery with this book.

Murder on Harley Street

Murder on Harley Street C.J. Archer When a patient is electrocuted by a medical therapy device, the manufacturer proves it was tampered with. Who killed her? And what grudge did they hold against her doctor, whose reputation now lies in tatters? The medical profession’s faith in electric shock therapies for treating female nervous conditions is shaken after a patient dies while connected to one such device. Harry Armitage is… Shares Mystery

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

A Swirl of Shadows

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

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

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