25 must-read historical fiction books like Smoke & Lies (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #4) by Andrea Penrose

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Smoke & Lies (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #4)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.19

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Now that peace reigns in Europe and Napoleon has been exiled to the island of Elba, Lady Arianna an…

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1. Murder at Beechwood (Gilded Newport Mysteries #3)

By: Alyssa Maxwell

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Newport, Rhode Island's high society, the summer of 1896 brings lawn parties, sailboat races...… read more

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2. A Study in Death (Lady Darby Mystery #4)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.90

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the national bestselling author of A Grave Mattercomes the latest riveting mystery featuring a… read more

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3. A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, i… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
"A man cannot choose to die when he has not yet learnt to live." Stoker"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"If I could have created a perfect woman, I could never have imagined you. But that is my failure. Not yours."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"Not everyone shares your tendency to scorn the company of others." "Scorn the company of others! Thanks to you, I speak to entirely too many people, entirely too often."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"Do you mean to dissuade me? Point out the flaws in my plan? Express your objections with vehemence and eloquence?" He tipped his head. "Actually, no." "Are you entirely well? Have you a fever? Should…"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

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4. Death at Fournier Downs (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #2)

By: Cara Devlin

4.45

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

After a murder scandal nearly sent her husband to the gallows, Audrey, the Duchess of Fournier, has… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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5. Taken to the Grave (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #7)

By: Cara Devlin

4.54

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series comes to a thrilling conclusion in the seventh and final book… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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6. The Highgate Cemetery Murder (Tate and Bell Mystery, #1)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.35

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in H… read more

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  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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7. Nature of the Crime (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #6)

By: Cara Devlin

4.45

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series continues in January 2024 with the sixth Audrey Sinclair and … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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8. Deadly Obsession (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #6)

By: Carla Simpson

4.55

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

A photograph taken of the daughter of one of London’s most prominent citizens in a private setting … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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9. Deadly Betrayal (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #8)

By: Carla Simpson

4.57

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

"Ghosts of the past…The very case that made Brodie leave the Metropolitan Police returns to jeopard… read more

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  • mystery
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10. Deadly Illusion (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #4)

By: Carla Simpson

4.40

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

What is real or only an illusion? Ghostly images that appear and float across the stage, objects… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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11. An Independent Woman (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery #3)

By: Sarah F. Noel

4.34

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Summoned to Edinburgh by the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, Tabitha and Wolf reluctantly board a tra… read more

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  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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12. Fatal by Design (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #5)

By: Cara Devlin

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

A summer house party in the English countryside.A missing rare jewel.An abducted viscountess.The se… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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13. Silence of Deceit (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #3)

By: Cara Devlin

4.48

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets and lies simmer to the surface in the third riveting Bow Street Duchess mystery. For yea… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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14. Penance for the Dead (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #4)

By: Cara Devlin

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Old scandals and destructive truths are exposed when a woman from Hugh Marsden’s past is murdered i… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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15. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

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  • historical
  • regency
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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16. Murder at the Seven Dials (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #1)

By: Cara Devlin

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A murdered opera singer. A duke drenched in her blood. For Bow Street Officer Hugh Marsden, the bru… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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17. An Artless Demise (Lady Darby Mystery, #7)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.16

Format: 413 pages, ebook

November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby’s return … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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18. A Wicked Conceit (Lady Darby Mystery, #9)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh, Scotland. March 1832. Kiera and Gage have been eagerly awaiting their bundle of joy but … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of A Fatal Illusion (Lady Darby Mystery, #11) by Anna Lee Huber

19. A Fatal Illusion (Lady Darby Mystery, #11)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

New parents Lady Kiera Darby and Sebastian Gage look forward to introducing Sebastian’s father to h… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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20. The Dreadful Duke (The Bad Heir Day Tales #1)

By: Grace Burrowes

4.44

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

He’d rather carry hod in hell… Finn Cathcart, a successful sculptor, is having a fine time on the … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Smoke & Lies (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #4)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.19

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Now that peace reigns in Europe and Napoleon has been exiled to the island of Elba, Lady Arianna an… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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22. A Deadly Vow (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #5)

By: Carla Simpson

4.64

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

A THIRTY YEAR OLD MURDER... Old Town, Edinburgh, in a squalid tenement where poverty, rats, and di… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • mystery
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23. A Killer in the Crystal Palace (The Kier and Levett Mystery, #1)

By: Deb Marlowe

4.38

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A grand showcase for technology, art, design and . . . murder. London, 1851, and the Great Exhib… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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24. The Lady's Last Mistake

By: Cara Devlin

4.48

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Lady Cassandra Sinclair has harbored a scandalous secret and a painful loss. Unwilling t… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • regency
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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25. Deadly Deception (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #7)

By: Carla Simpson

4.49

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Sir James Redstone has recently returned from abroad. He is handsome, well-educated, heir to the Re… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
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26. A Deadly Game (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #3)

By: Carla Simpson

4.41

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1890: It's a New Year, but murder never takes a holiday. The past reaches out to the … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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27. Revenge in the Rogue's Hideaway (The Kier and Levett Mystery, #4)

By: Deb Marlowe

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

You can find every kind of entertainment in the Rogue’s Hideaway—song, dance, comedy... and murder.… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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28. Deadly Secrets (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #2)

By: Carla Simpson

4.41

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

A severed foot. Fingerprints left on a wine glass. A secret cypher code. The scent of orange and ci… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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29. A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.24

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, hope they’ve finally found peace after a … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8) by Sherry Thomas

30. A Ruse of Shadows (Lady Sherlock, #8)

By: Sherry Thomas

4.19

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Holmes is accustomed to solving crimes, not being accused of them, but she finds herself … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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31. A Deadly Scandal (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #9)

By: Carla Simpson

4.61

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder is such a nasty business…Mikaela Forsythe has returned from safari in Africa with her great … read more

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  • mystery

18 must-read fiction books like Smoke & Lies (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #4) by Andrea Penrose

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A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

Deanna Raybourn

4.19

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Cara Devlin

4.54

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The Highgate Cemetery Murder (Tate and Bell Mystery, #1)

Irina Shapiro

4.35

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Nature of the Crime (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #6)

Cara Devlin

4.45

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Deanna Raybourn

4.19

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C.J. Archer

4.07

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Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

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Susan Elia MacNeal

4.16

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