10 Best mystery books like Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1) by Lev A.C. Rosen

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Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.87

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the …

"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just making our own."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just making our own."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

If you liked the mystery plot in Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1) by Lev A.C. Rosen , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
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2. All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

By: Foz Meadows

4.20

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to Foz Meadows's A Strange and Stubborn Endurance , a sultry political & romantic fan… read more

Similar categories in Foz Meadows's All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"[Markel signing] '...If I'd just been a little sharper--' 'You're plenty sharp, Markel,' I said, smiling at him. 'Like an oddly maternal knife."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

"I can feel the pair of you mother-henning me from here,' Vel called from the bathroom door. 'It smacks of conspiracy.' 'You'll be cared about and you'll like it!' Cae called back."

-Foz Meadows, All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

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3. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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4. A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Major Rufus d'Aumesty has unexpectedly become the Earl of Oxney, master of a remote Norman manor on… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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5. The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

4.13

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Bridgerton meets Poldark in this sweeping LGBTQIA+ Regency romance from award-winning author KJ Cha… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"It didn’t have quite the melancholy feel of lost hopes and the futility of human endeavour that would have suited his mood, but it was still moderately picturesque."

-K.J. Charles, The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)

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6. We Could Be So Good

By: Cat Sebastian

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's We Could Be So Good book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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7. You Should Be So Lucky

By: Cat Sebastian

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance about grief and found family, b… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's You Should Be So Lucky book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Sometimes you want to look at a guy and say: Well, he’s fucked, but he’s trying."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"But he also wants that feeling he had earlier, that feeling of being seen for who he is, and of being liked anyway."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"This urge to be kind to a relative stranger is unfamiliar and disconcerting, as if he's discovered in himself a hunger for raw meat or an enthusiasm for vaudeville."

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

"The actual problem is incredibly boring, and Mark hates admitting it even to himself. Unless a couple has the good fortune to get hit by the same freight train, their story ends in exactly one way. H…"

-Cat Sebastian, You Should Be So Lucky

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8. A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

By: Freya Marske

4.29

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, t… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people."

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

"I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anywa…"

-Freya Marske, A Power Unbound (The Last Binding, #3)

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9. Death in the Spires

By: K.J. Charles

4.42

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The newspapers called us the Seven Wonders. We were a group of friends, that’s all, and then Toby d… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's Death in the Spires book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
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10. A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

By: Freya Marske

3.91

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plent… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"Hawthorn waved that aside. “My sister…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"She hadn't anticipated Maud Blyth. She didn't know how anyone ever could."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along."

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

"The head of security for the Lyric had a sturdy figure and a kind face with a reddish moustache that was doing its best to engulf his upper lip, as though he'd inherited it from a larger relative and…"

-Freya Marske, A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)

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11. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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12. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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13. Most Ardently

By: Gabe Cole Novoa

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A trans boy searches for a future―and a romance―in which he can live and love openly as himself in … read more

Similar categories in Gabe Cole Novoa's Most Ardently book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • queer
"I love you, Oliver," Darcy said, "Most ardently."

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"We're permitted to bring a guest,' Darcy said. 'We could bring a guest every week if we wanted to. I'd be happy to make you mine.' Oliver arched an eyebrow. Darcy's face flushed pink. 'My... guest. T…"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

"Just the notion of being able to spend multiple days as himself made Oliver feel lighter. He finished his tea and stood, the heaviness of his argument with his mother melting away at the prospect of …"

-Gabe Cole Novoa, Most Ardently

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14. A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

By: Freya Marske

3.96

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes… read more

Similar categories in Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself …"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself …"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

"You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you t…"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

" You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you…"

-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)

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15. Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.87

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the … read more

Similar categories in Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just…"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

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16. Here We Go Again

By: Alison Cochrun

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The author of Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best f… read more

Similar categories in Alison Cochrun's Here We Go Again book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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18. The Shabti

By: Megaera C. Lorenz

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Can you flimflam a ghost? It’s 1934. Former medium Dashiel Quicke travels the country debunking spi… read more

Similar categories in Megaera C. Lorenz's The Shabti book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
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19. The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's The Pairing book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

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20. The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2)

By: K.J. Charles

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Don't miss the second thrilling Regency romance in the Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series by KJ … read more

Similar categories in K.J. Charles's The Duke at Hazard (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #2) book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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21. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

  • lgbt
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • queer

21 Best fiction books like Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1) by Lev A.C. Rosen

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

All the Hidden Paths (The Tithenai Chronicles, #2)

Foz Meadows

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

Transform Your Habits

A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)

K.J. Charles

4.25

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16 Best fiction books like The Shabti by Megaera C. Lorenz

Transform Your Habits

You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

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The Mars House

Natasha Pulley

4.02

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Death in the Spires

K.J. Charles

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)

K.J. Charles

4.17

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