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  • Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den by Chasity Bowlin

    Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Enter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made... unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves...
  • The Bermondsey Poisoner by Emily Organ

    The Bermondsey Poisoner by Emily Organ

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A trail of suspicious deaths and a culprit who can’t be caught.Journalist Penny Green is reporting on what seems to be a straightforward poisoning case in Bermondsey. But then a series of macabre photographs comes to light. Memento mori with a twist.When Scotland Yard begins exhumations, Penny and Inspector James Blakely are daunted by the size of the investigation...
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  • A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry

    A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2022A Raven and Fisher Book 3Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry.Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from...
  • No Stone Unturned by Pam Lecky

    No Stone Unturned by Pam Lecky

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Lucy Lawrence stared down at her husband, his once handsome face now a twisted mask of death. She shivered and pulled her shawl tighter around her shoulders. His life had held so many secrets, and now his sins were hers to bear… England, 1886. In the flickering gaslights of Victorian London, 28-year-old Lucy Lawrence's future hangs in the balance...
  • The Gang of St Bride's by Emily Organ

    The Gang of St Bride's by Emily Organ

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    London 1885. A gang of lady thieves is targeting Piccadilly’s wealthy shoppers and no one seems able to stop them. As frustrations build, the body of a young woman is pulled from the River Thames. Reporter Penny Green has a lot to write about, and she faces a new challenge when a stranger approaches her with a riddle...
  • Lethal Remedies by M. Louisa Locke

    Lethal Remedies by M. Louisa Locke

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Annie has a problem. She has a beautiful child, a loving husband, a well-run boardinghouse with a supportive circle of friends and family, but she’s feeling restless and unhappy.Dr. Charlotte Brown, the doctor who delivered Annie’s baby, has a different problem...
  • Evidence of Evil: Victorian Historical Romance Mystery by Mary Lancaster

    Evidence of Evil: Victorian Historical Romance Mystery by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pursuing murder and fighting love… Several weeks after they parted company, courtesan Constance calls on the wealthy business-man Solomon Grey to request his help solving another mystery. Her old friend Elizabeth, now the wife of respected magistrate Sir Humphrey Maule, is being accused of murder...
  • Deadly Illusion by Carla Simpson

    Deadly Illusion by Carla Simpson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    What is real or only an illusion?Ghostly images that appear and float across the stage, objects that levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant who disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at the Crystal Palace, including amateur investigator Mikaela Forsythe, watch the performance...
  • The Business of Blood by Kerrigan Byrne

    The Business of Blood by Kerrigan Byrne

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    London, 1890. Blood and death are Fiona Mahoney’s trade, and business, as they say, is booming. Dying is the only thing people do with any regularity, and Fiona makes her indecorous living cleaning up after the corpses are carted away. Her childhood best friend, Mary, was the last known victim of Jack the Ripper...
  • The Art of Deception by Pam Lecky

    The Art of Deception by Pam Lecky

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fresh from her adventures abroad, Victorian widow Lucy Lawrence returns to London, eager to start a new chapter. Her world is rocked when an assassin's bullet strikes her new fiancé. As he lies gravely injured, Lucy vows to unmask the culprit...London, 1888. When a brutal murder occurs at her engagement party, Lucy Lawrence finds herself pulled into a new investigation...
  • The Girl in the Picture by Kerry Barrett

    The Girl in the Picture by Kerry Barrett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Two women. One house. Centuries of secrets East Sussex Coast, 1855 Violet Hargreaves is the lonely daughter of a widowed industrialist, and an aspiring Pre-Raphaelite painter. One day, the naïve eighteen-year-old meets Edwin; a mysterious and handsome man on the beach, who promises her a world beyond the small costal village she’s trapped in...
  • The Royal Assassin: A Victorian era clean cozy mystery by Kate Parker

    The Royal Assassin: A Victorian era clean cozy mystery by Kate Parker

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the Duke of Blackford enters her bookstore, Georgia knows the Archivist Society is in need of her services. The Tsar of Russia and his family are visiting Queen Victoria on the auspices of the engagement of the Russian princess Kira to the son of the Queen’s cousin...
  • The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry

    The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson - a whispering campaign seeks to blame him for the death of a patient in suspicious circumstances...
  • Found by Tammy Andresen

    Found by Tammy Andresen

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The Baron Brightmore is the exact sort of rake a debutante should stay far away from…Not that Miss Alexi Starlit need worry about rogues. She’s too busy blending into the wall to catch the eye of a man like that. That is until this wallflower stumbles across a derelict and drunk baron having a tryst in the garden with an unknown lady...
  • The Jilter by Kate Archer

    The Jilter by Kate Archer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Cautious Lady and a Courageous LordSix highly placed matrons mourn their lack of daughters until they devise a scheme to launch eligible girls in need of assistance, and so The Society of Sponsoring Ladies is born.Lady Prudence Landry, only daughter of the Earl of Copeland, has been besieged by Lord Luckstone...
  • An Indomitable Woman by Sarah F. Noel

    An Indomitable Woman by Sarah F. Noel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Investigative Countess, Rapier Sharp Logic paired with Great Insight and Boldness. A Private Inquiry Agent.When the dowager countess receives her first assignment as a private inquiry agent from Tuchinsky, an East End gangster, she immediately throws herself into the case with gusto...
  • Uncharted Waters by Sabrina Flynn

    Uncharted Waters by Sabrina Flynn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ninety-nine days remain in Isobel Amsel's sentence, and the world keeps spinning - just not for Isobel. Her twin brother disappears for unknown reasons, and she’s left pacing in her cage like a tiger. While Isobel's rebellious adopted daughter, Sao Jin, keeps her on her toes, Riot is left to sort out his crumbling finances. And find a ring, which proves far more difficult than he imagined...
  • Murder in Moonlight by Mary Lancaster

    Murder in Moonlight by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A house of secrets, an impossible attraction On a personal quest, Constance Silver, who runs Mayfair’s most exclusive brothel, has lied her way into Greenforth Manor, home of respectable and charismatic provincial banker, Walter Winsom. She feels quite safe from recognition until Solomon Grey joins the party...
  • The Beguilement of Lady Eustacia Cavanaugh by Stephanie Laurens

    The Beguilement of Lady Eustacia Cavanaugh by Stephanie Laurens

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens continues the bold tales of the Cavanaugh siblings as the sole Cavanaugh sister discovers that love truly does conquer all...
  • The Maid’s Secret by Emily Organ

    The Maid’s Secret by Emily Organ

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The truth is rarely simple. London 1884. Victorian industrialist Alexander Glenville is a man with many secrets. Fleet Street reporter Penny Green is tasked with working undercover as a maid in his home, but tragedy strikes when Glenville’s daughter is poisoned...
  • The Maid's Secret: A compelling historical murder mystery by Emily Organ

    The Maid's Secret: A compelling historical murder mystery by Emily Organ

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Cyanide in the champagne. A family with deadly intentions... Can an undercover reporter reveal the truth before it’s too late?London, 1884. When reporter Penny Green is tasked with going undercover as a maid to spy on a Victorian industrialist in his South Kensington home, she expects intrigue. But she never imagined murder...
  • Murder on Amsterdam Avenue by Victoria Thompson

    Murder on Amsterdam Avenue by Victoria Thompson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    In this Gaslight Mystery from the national bestselling author of Murder in Murray Hill, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy investigate foul play in the secretive high-society world of nineteenth-century New York City… In the midst of Sarah and Frank’s wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the...
  • A Ghastly Spectacle by Lynn Messina

    A Ghastly Spectacle by Lynn Messina

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Since the new Duchess of Kesgrave cannot be swayed from her unfortunate interest in dead bodies, Lady Abercrombie decides to confront the matter head-on by hosting a murder mystery dinner party.Gathering together several of society’s most influential members, she concocts an amusing puzzle-play, assigns roles, and stands back to allow Bea to impress them all with her ingenuity...
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    mystery  victorian  historical  regency  audiobook
  • A Bucket of Ashes by P.B. Ryan

    A Bucket of Ashes by P.B. Ryan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “As always, the author excels at setting the scene, evoking the time and place by use of the day-to-day details as well as historical events. The resolution of the central mystery is almost secondary to the revelations about Nell’s past and the way the author ties up all the loose ends of her present situation. Longtime readers will enjoy this aspect immensely; I know I did...
  • Amelia Peabody's Egypt by Elizabeth Peters, Dennis Forbes

    Amelia Peabody's Egypt by Elizabeth Peters, Dennis Forbes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity. Now, with this monumental volume of Egyptian culture, history, and arcania, readers will be able to immerse themselves in the great lady's world more completely than ever before...
  • The Sea Captain's Wife by Jackie French

    The Sea Captain's Wife by Jackie French

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling story of murder, mystery, and mutiny on the high seas - and a love so intense it can overcome two different cultures.You never know what the sea will give you ... or what it will take back...
  • Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati

    Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York Obstetrician Dr. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr...
  • The Counterfeit Lady: A Victorian era clean cozy mystery by Kate Parker

    The Counterfeit Lady: A Victorian era clean cozy mystery by Kate Parker

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Who would suspect antiquarian bookseller Georgia Fenchurch of leading a double life—as a private investigator for the clandestine Archivist Society in Victorian London? When England’s national security is compromised, Georgia must pose as a titled lady to root out a spy… A cousin of Georgia’s dear friend, Lady Phyllida Monthalf, is brutally murdered in her home during the theft of blueprints of...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  victorian  historical  length-medium
  • The Inevitable Fall of Christopher Cynster by Stephanie Laurens

    The Inevitable Fall of Christopher Cynster by Stephanie Laurens

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to the Cynsters' next generation with a rollicking tale of smugglers, counterfeit banknotes, and two people falling in love.A gentleman hoping to avoid falling in love and a lady who believes love has passed her by are flung together in a race to unravel a plot to undermine the realm...
  • Murder In the North End by P.B. Ryan

    Murder In the North End by P.B. Ryan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    “It’s always a good day when a new Nell Sweeney book arrives.” —CA Reviews July 1870: Nell Sweeney’s position as governess for the venerable Hewitts of Boston affords her a unique perspective in an era of sharp class distinctions. Neither servant nor gentlewoman, she can fit in among the denizens of a waterfront tenement or the bluebloods of Colonnade Row...
  • Foes, Friends and Lovers by Stephanie Laurens

    Foes, Friends and Lovers by Stephanie Laurens

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with a tale of a gentleman seeking the road to fulfillment and a lady with a richly satisfying life but no certain future...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  mystery  historical  length-long
  • Miss Flibbertigibbet and The Barbarian by Stephanie Laurens

    Miss Flibbertigibbet and The Barbarian by Stephanie Laurens

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with a story of two people thrown together on a journey of discovery that defines what each most want of life, love, and family.A gentleman wishing to buy a fabulous horse and a lady set on protecting her family find common ground while pursuing a thief who upends both of their plans...
  • An Audacious Woman by Sarah F. Noel

    An Audacious Woman by Sarah F. Noel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For fans of Deanna Raybourn, Tasha Alexander, and Andrea Penrose...Step into 1897 Victorian Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour...
  • The Meriwell Legacy by Stephanie Laurens

    The Meriwell Legacy by Stephanie Laurens

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    #1 NYT-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with her favorite sleuths to unravel a tangled web of family secrets and expose a murderer.When Lord Meriwell collapses and dies at his dining table, Barnaby and Penelope Adair are summoned, along with Inspector Basil Stokes, to discover who, how, and most importantly why someone very close to his lordship saw fit to poison him...
  • An Intrepid Woman by Sarah F. Noel

    An Intrepid Woman by Sarah F. Noel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finally, Tabitha and Wolf are married and they couldn't be happier. The last thing either of them wants is to be sucked back into a murder investigation.Tabitha and Wolf, eager to embrace their new life as a married couple, have agreed not to take on any new investigations for the time being. Instead, they want to enjoy a peaceful time as newlyweds, uninterrupted by murder and intrigue...
  • A Pocketful of Diamonds by Pam Lecky

    A Pocketful of Diamonds by Pam Lecky

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucy Lawrence smoothed her silk travelling gown and watched as darkness fell over the shimmering waters of Lake Como – her honeymoon bliss shattered in an instant by a telegram carrying deadly tidings…Newlyweds Lucy Lawrence and Phineas Stone arrive at the glittering shores of Lake Como, Italy, not to enjoy a romantic honeymoon but to answer a frantic plea for help...
  • Never Trust an Earl by Maggi Andersen

    Never Trust an Earl by Maggi Andersen

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Redcliffe Park, Northumberland, 1819 Dominic Thorne, the Earl of Redcliffe, arrives in Redcliffe village in the far north of England, to view his inheritance. The estate, Redcliffe Park, is miles from a decent town, and in need of extensive renovation.A rake, says the squire’s wife, who heard all about him from her aunt in London. Rumors of Dominic’s scandalous lifestyle have quickly spread...
  • Of Gold and Shadows by Michelle Griep

    Of Gold and Shadows by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In 1888 Victorian England, Ami Dalton navigates a clandestine dual life. By day, she strives to establish herself as a respected Egyptologist, overcoming the gender biases that permeate academia. But with a heart for rescuing black-market artifacts, she is most often disguised as her alter ego, the Shadow Broker...
  • Her Wanton White by Tammy Andresen

    Her Wanton White by Tammy Andresen

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He’s sworn never to marry...Lord Justice White isn’t the settle down type of man. He’s a fighter, a drinker, and a rake, through and through. But when he takes on the villain threatening his family, a beautiful and innocent debutante is caught in the crossfire. As sweet as Lady Violet is tempting, Justice doesn’t want her for himself. Absolutely not...
  • Unspeakable Acts by Jackson Marsh

    Unspeakable Acts by Jackson Marsh

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    "Death will come da capo, suddenly silent, and you will not hear your final applause. Fail us, and you die." Blackmail, a death threat and an opera. The Clearwater Foundation is to be launched with a charity gala at the City Opera House where Archer's old friend, Cadwell Roxton, is to star. But Roxton has a dark secret...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  victorian  historical  queer  m-m  length-medium
  • Footprints in the Sand by Pam Lecky

    Footprints in the Sand by Pam Lecky

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Lucy Lawrence travels to Egypt with a dashing French archaeologist, she thinks she's leaving her troubled past behind. But in the shadow of the pyramids, death and deception await...Egypt, 1887. After scandals in London, young widow Lucy Lawrence seeks a fresh start in Cairo, agreeing to fund an archaeological dig led by the charismatic Frenchman Armand Moreau...
  • A Woman of True Honor by Grace Burrowes

    A Woman of True Honor by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Valerian Dorning is handsome, charming, and absolutely pockets to let. He’s hopelessly attracted to heiress Emily Pepper, but as he puts it to Emily, an honorable man must bring independent means to his marriage...
  • A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman, Sarah Zimmerman

    A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder by Dianne Freeman, Sarah Zimmerman

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Set in Victorian England, this witty and lighthearted cozy historical mystery from award-winning author Dianne Freeman will delight fans of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, as an American-born amateur sleuth investigates misdeeds among the British aristocracy.For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late...
  • The Dead Cry Justice by Rosemary Simpson

    The Dead Cry Justice by Rosemary Simpson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    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…Heiress-turned-sleuth Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter step out of the elite society of Gilded Age New York as they venture into the city’s crime ridden streets and most dangerous neighborhoods to search for two missing...
  • A Newlywed’s Guide to Fortune and Murder by Dianne Freeman

    A Newlywed’s Guide to Fortune and Murder by Dianne Freeman

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    With her new husband George busy on a special mission for the British Museum, Frances has taken on an assignment of her own. The dowager Viscountess Winstead needs someone to sponsor her niece, Kate, for presentation to Queen Victoria. Frances—who understands society’s quirks and constraints as only an outsider can—is the perfect candidate...
  • Murder on Black Friday by P.B. Ryan

    Murder on Black Friday by P.B. Ryan

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    “A mesmerizing mystery. Not only does Ryan provide readers with a tightly wound, suspenseful novel peopled with multidimensional characters, she writes about an era whose problems mirror our own. This is a historical period she knows and brings to life so clearly that readers are totally immersed. Nell is an ideal heroine: smart, intrepid and human. Be on the lookout for her return...
  • The Journey by Annelie Wendeberg

    The Journey by Annelie Wendeberg

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book 4 in the award-winning Anna Kronberg series. New and revised edition. "Kronberg is a wonderful character, prickly, independent, analytical, intelligent..." A Bibliophile's Reverie What would you do if your darkest nightmare came true? For Anna Kronberg, time is running out...
  • Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon by C.J. Archer

    Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    As fashion designer to London’s elite, she had an eye for detail and a flare for the dramatic. But there’s nothing stylish about her cold-blooded murder.With the social season just around the corner, the women in Cleo’s family are having new outfits made by the most sought-after designer in the city. Madame Poitiers is bold, self-absorbed and not French, despite her claims...
  • Lady of a Thousand Treasures by Sandra Byrd

    Lady of a Thousand Treasures by Sandra Byrd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father’s passing and her uncle’s decline into dementia, the family business is at risk. In the Victorian era, unmarried Eleanor cannot run Sheffield Brothers alone...
  • A Sherlock Holmes Alphabet of Cases Volume 4 (P to T): Five new stories from the notes of John H. Watson M.D. by Roger Riccard

    A Sherlock Holmes Alphabet of Cases Volume 4 (P to T): Five new stories from the notes of John H. Watson M.D. by Roger Riccard

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Roger Riccard, one of the most respected Sherlock Holmes authors, has again taken pen in hand to bring forth the first five adventures in a new series of short stories for your entertainment. The Adventure of the Apothecary’s Prescription – Dr. Watson receives a shipment of medicine with a cryptic note, that only Sherlock Holmes can unlock...
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