5 must-read mystery books like The Master of Samar by Melissa Scott

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The Master of Samar

By: Melissa Scott

4.21

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Rejected by his aristocratic family, Gil Irichels has been content to make his living as a travelin…

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1. Spectred Isle (Green Men, #1)

By: K.J. Charles

3.97

Format: None pages, ebook

Archaeologist Saul Lazenby has been all but unemployable since his disgrace during the War. Now he … read more

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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 Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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. 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 Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
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4. Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots (The Cabots, #3)

By: Cat Sebastian

4.21

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, 1973 Daniel Cabot doesn’t really know what he’s doing with his life. He’s lost fa… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots (The Cabots, #3) book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Alex hoped Daniel appreciated exactly how bold and daring he was being in going to the grocery store on Tuesday rather than Saturday. It was like fucking Mardi Gras over here, everything upside down."

-Cat Sebastian, Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots (The Cabots, #3)

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5. Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5)

By: Cat Sebastian

4.20

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

North Carolina, 1953 Billy Reardon’s spent the past five years trying and failing to keep his te… read more

Similar categories in Cat Sebastian's Luke and Billy Finally Get a Clue (The Cabots #3.5) book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
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6. 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 Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • 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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7. 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 Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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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8. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • lgbt
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

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9. The Mars House

By: Natasha Pulley

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee a… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Mars House book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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10. 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 Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • queer
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11. Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.53

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorce… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Demon Daughter (Penric and Desdemona, #12) book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fiction
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12. A Theory of Haunting

By: Sarah Monette

3.95

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Kyle Murchison Booth, archivist at the Parrington Museum, has heard of Thirdhop Scarp. Everyone has… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Monette's A Theory of Haunting book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

By: T. Kingfisher

4.32

Format: 446 pages, ebook

Marguerite Florian is a spy with two problems. A former employer wants her dead, and one of her new… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4) book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"They say the gods never give us more than we can handle, but let's just say that the gods had an overinflated sense of my abilities."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"It's the thought that counts," said Marguerite. "Not with the explosives, it isn't," said Ashes, and on that point, Marguerite had to agree."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

"The whole world is made of words," said Marguerite irritably. "Treaties and contracts and secrets and laws are nothing but words, but everything runs on them. Of course they've got power."

-T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Faith (The Saint of Steel, #4)

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14. If Found, Return to Hell

By: Em X. Liu

3.83

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Being an intern at One Wizard sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yell… read more

Similar categories in Em X. Liu's If Found, Return to Hell book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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15. The Master of Samar

By: Melissa Scott

4.21

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Rejected by his aristocratic family, Gil Irichels has been content to make his living as a travelin… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. A Market of Dreams and Destiny

By: Trip Galey

3.90

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Nominated for the 2024 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature! Enter the bazaar of the bi… read more

Similar categories in Trip Galey's A Market of Dreams and Destiny book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • magic
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Deri was well and truly caught, a fly in the web of words and wonder spun by the actors on the stage."

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"Woven of wise women’s insight and young men’s dreams, of societal expectations and half-moon’s beams, Maurlocke’s robe habitually changed its form to match the expectations of the merchant’s customer…"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

"But it was humbling. Awe-inspiring, even. There was a gravity about the stone, a surreal sense of vastness. And the resonant sense of lost love, the sheer depth of it reverberated through the stone, …"

-Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

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17. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.05

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins are not cats. Nor do they have tails. But they are most assuredly… read more

Similar categories in P. Djèlí Clark's The Dead Cat Tail Assassins book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • magic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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18. Honey and Pepper (When in Pheme, #1)

By: A.J. Demas

3.99

Format: 222 pages, ebook

Newly freed from enslavement, Nikias is making a life for himself in the bustling city of Pheme, wo… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Demas's Honey and Pepper (When in Pheme, #1) book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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19. Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13)

By: Lois McMaster Bujold

4.62

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

When Rozakajin, road-weary bandit and army deserter, spots a hapless blond young man in a country i… read more

Similar categories in Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric and the Bandit (Penric and Desdemona, #13) book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • fantasy
  • adult
  • magic
  • fiction
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20. The House of the Red Balconies

By: A.J. Demas

4.29

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Hylas has come to Tykanos to build an aqueduct. He has not come to enjoy the island’s main attracti… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Demas's The House of the Red Balconies book and Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
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21. 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 Melissa Scott's The Master of Samar

  • romance
  • m m romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • adult
  • queer

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