historical mysteries set in 19th & 20th century england

Explore gripping historical mysteries set in 19th & 20th century England with our curated list of suspenseful books. Uncover secrets, scandals, and thrilling whodunits from Victorian and Edwardian eras to post-war Britain.

19th 20th books century england historical mysteries
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Silent in the Grave

by Deanna Raybourn

"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave." These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, …
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The Season

by Sarah MacLean

Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra …
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Her Royal Spyness

by Rhys Bowen

THE FIRST ROYAL SPYNESS MYSTERY! The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to “a …
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Kept

by D. J. Taylor

Madness, greed, love, obsession, Machiavellian schemes, and a great train robbery--all are interwoven in this wonderfully imaginative novel that reinvents Victorian life and passions with …
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A Beautiful Blue Death

by Charles Finch

Equal parts Sherlock Holmes and "Gosford Park," this Victorian debut introduces a wonderfully appealing detective and his friend, the lovely Lady Jane.
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Drood

by Dan Simmons

A tale inspired by the mysterious final years of Charles Dickens finds the fifty-three-year-old literary master irrevocably changed when a train journey with his mistress …
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