16 must-read mystery books like The Asylum by Karen Coles

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The Asylum

By: Karen Coles

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

1906: Being a woman is dangerous, being different is deadly. Maud Lovell has been at Angelton Lu…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Asylum by Karen Coles , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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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 Karen Coles's The Asylum

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

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Familiars book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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3. 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 Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of The Hemlock Cure by Joanne Burn

4. 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 Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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5. The Parlour Game: A Victorian Ghost Story (The Corvidae Hauntings)

By: Jennifer Renshaw

3.90

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

DEATH IS ONLY THE BEGINNING... a gothic tale for fans of The Clockwork Girl and The Shape of Darkne… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Renshaw's The Parlour Game: A Victorian Ghost Story (The Corvidae Hauntings) book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
"Sometimes a lie is nothing but a delicate veil masking the ugliness of the truth – they do not last for long."

-Jennifer Renshaw, The Parlour Game: A Victorian Ghost Story (The Corvidae Hauntings)

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6. The Shape of Darkness

By: Laura Purcell

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Shape of Darkness book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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7. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

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8. 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 Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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9. 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 Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • adult
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10. A House of Bells

By: J.T. Croft

3.85

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman haunted by fate, a child silenced by fear, and a house full of secrets and bells. 1918. … read more

Similar categories in J.T. Croft's A House of Bells book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of The Asylum by Karen Coles

11. The Asylum

By: Karen Coles

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

1906: Being a woman is dangerous, being different is deadly. Maud Lovell has been at Angelton Lu… read more

Similar categories in Karen Coles's The Asylum book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of The Strange Adventures of H by Sarah Burton

12. The Strange Adventures of H

By: Sarah Burton

4.16

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

Orphaned young, H is sent to live with her doting aunt in London. H's life is a happy one until her… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Burton's The Strange Adventures of H book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I recalled how cruel the plague had made people to each other, and was obliged to concede that there is no disaster which can befall humanity, that we will not fail to make worse by our own hands, fo…"

-Sarah Burton, The Strange Adventures of H

"It was as if everyone in the whole world had departed, leaving me alone in it, and I thought this must be what Hell is like. Not hot and full of pain and confusion, but cool and grey and empty, where…"

-Sarah Burton, The Strange Adventures of H

"I would check myself and wonder if I had already contracted the plague, as in such strange countries my thoughts rambled. But then I decided it was merely the times that made us strange , and we must…"

-Sarah Burton, The Strange Adventures of H

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13. The Graves of Whitechapel

By: Claire Evans

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the gripping new novel by the author of The Fourteenth Letter, a lawyer in Victorian London must… read more

Similar categories in Claire Evans's The Graves of Whitechapel book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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14. The Quickening

By: Rhiannon Ward

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Feminist gothic fiction set between the late 19th century and the early 20th century - an era of bu… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Ward's The Quickening book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

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

15. 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 Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
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16. The Woman in Room Three: A Victorian Mystery and Suspense Novel

By: Laura Dowers

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

In this gripping novel set in Victorian England, an idealistic young doctor sets out to free one of… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dowers's The Woman in Room Three: A Victorian Mystery and Suspense Novel book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of This Fearful Thing by L.M. West

17. This Fearful Thing

By: L.M. West

4.33

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Southwold, Suffolk, 1645. Ann has fled from her past but when her childhood tormentor finds her in … read more

Similar categories in L.M. West's This Fearful Thing book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • fiction
Cover of The Plague Letters by V.L. Valentine

18. The Plague Letters

By: V.L. Valentine

3.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

WHAT IS ONE MORE CORPSE, WHEN ALL AROUND YOU ARE DYING... London, 1665. Hidden within a growing … read more

Similar categories in V.L. Valentine's The Plague Letters book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Shadowing by Rhiannon Ward

19. The Shadowing

By: Rhiannon Ward

4.04

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

When well-to-do Hester learns of her sister Mercy's death at a Nottinghamshire workhouse, she trave… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Ward's The Shadowing book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Haunting of Abney Heights: A Gothic mystery by Cat Thomas

20. The Haunting of Abney Heights: A Gothic mystery

By: Cat Thomas

3.75

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

When Meg returns to London, she knows she’ll be facing ghosts from her own troubled past. She doesn… read more

Similar categories in Cat Thomas's The Haunting of Abney Heights: A Gothic mystery book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Woman on Ward 13 by Delphine Woods

21. Woman on Ward 13

By: Delphine Woods

4.15

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The first thing they question is your memory. You must hold on to it, at any cost.’ 1900 Asy… read more

Similar categories in Delphine Woods's Woman on Ward 13 book and Karen Coles's The Asylum

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

21 must-read fiction books like The Asylum by Karen Coles

Transform Your Habits

The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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The Familiars

Stacey Halls

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Hemlock Cure

Joanne Burn

3.73

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20 best-selling fiction books like The Clockwork Girl by Anna Mazzola

Transform Your Habits

The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

4.00

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The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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The Maiden

Kate Foster

4.05

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The Hemlock Cure

Joanne Burn

3.73

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