20 must-read historical books like The Key In The Lock by Beth Underdown

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The Key In The Lock

By: Beth Underdown

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unfurling out of an upper window and a hecti…

If you liked the historical plot in The Key In The Lock by Beth Underdown , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley

1. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
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2. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
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3. The Hemlock Cure

By: Joanne Burn

3.73

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1665 and the women of Eyam keep many secrets. Isabel Frith, the village midwife, walks a d… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Burn's The Hemlock Cure book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • historical mystery
  • adult
Cover of The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) by Jessie Burton

4. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

Cover of The House of Footsteps by Mathew West

5. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

Similar categories in Mathew West's The House of Footsteps book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • horror
  • adult
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6. The House of Mirrors

By: Erin Kelly

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, s… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kelly's The House of Mirrors book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Key In The Lock by Beth Underdown

7. The Key In The Lock

By: Beth Underdown

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire. Smoke unfurling out of an upper window and a hecti… read more

Similar categories in Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
Cover of The Leviathan by Rosie Andrews

8. The Leviathan

By: Rosie Andrews

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Andrews's The Leviathan book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"

-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan

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9. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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10. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

Similar categories in Kate Griffin's Fyneshade book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
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11. The Story Collector

By: Iris Costello

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

THREE LOST SOULS.A LONG-BURIED SECRET.THE TRUTH THAT COULD SET THEM FREE...-----London, 1915: Tarot… read more

Similar categories in Iris Costello's The Story Collector book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
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13. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Gifts by Liz Hyder

14. The Gifts

By: Liz Hyder

3.72

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A… read more

Similar categories in Liz Hyder's The Gifts book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Beholders by Hester Musson

15. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

Similar categories in Hester Musson's The Beholders book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola

16. The Clockwork Girl

By: Anna Mazzola

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A intoxicating and darkly immersive story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, from the… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Clockwork Girl book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of The Trial of Lotta Rae by Siobhan MacGowan

17. The Trial of Lotta Rae

By: Siobhan MacGowan

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Halloween night, 1906. Lotta Rae is assaulted by a wealthy gentleman and bravely takes him to trial… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan MacGowan's The Trial of Lotta Rae book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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18. The Book of Eve

By: Meg Clothier

3.27

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A book whispers. A woman hears its power. A man will stop at nothing to silence them both. 'It … read more

Similar categories in Meg Clothier's The Book of Eve book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of Begars Abbey by V.L. Valentine

19. Begars Abbey

By: V.L. Valentine

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing l… read more

Similar categories in V.L. Valentine's Begars Abbey book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of The Revels by Stacey  Thomas

20. The Revels

By: Stacey Thomas

3.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to begin… ‘I am no witch. I have not sold my soul t… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Thomas's The Revels book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The House of Whispers by Anna Mazzola

21. The House of Whispers

By: Anna Mazzola

3.64

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes the secrets of the past are more dangerous than the present... Rome, 1938. As the w… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The House of Whispers book and Beth Underdown's The Key In The Lock

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror

21 Best fiction books like The Key In The Lock by Beth Underdown

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The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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The Hemlock Cure

Joanne Burn

3.73

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The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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Louise Welsh

3.71

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