The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
By: Susannah Stapleton
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing o…
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1. Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder
By: Piu Marie Eatwell
3.61
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing … read more
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2. The Lady Vanishes
By: Ethel Lina White
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more
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3. The Female Detective
By: Alexander McCall Smith , Mike Ashley , Andrew Forrester
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1864, the British writer James Redding Ware (1832-c.1909), under the pseudonym Andrew Forrester,… read more
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4. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)
By: Sophie Hannah
3.75
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more
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- mystery
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5. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- audiobook
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
6. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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7. Into the Uncanny
By: Danny Robins
4.27
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
'A contemporary Van Helsing...' Sunday Times'King of true-life scary tales' Observer'A wonderfully … read more
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- mystery
- nonfiction
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"the older I'd got, the more ghost had become an abstract concept, something impossibly fictional on a par with Hobbits, Jedi or getting a GP appointment"-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny
"Science itself can be quite negative because you essentially can never really prove a theory is correct, you can only prove it's wrong, so scientists are by definition sceptical because they spend a …"-Danny Robins, Into the Uncanny
8. Death of an Author
By: E.C.R. Lorac
3.99
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more
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9. The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
By: Lucy Barker
3.55
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historical novel about the rivalry between two female mediums during Victorian London’s obsession… read more
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- historical
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"I want your reputation... I want everything you have."-Lucy Barker, The Other Side of Mrs. Wood
10. 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
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11. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)
By: Richard Coles
3.90
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more
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12. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)
By: Janice Hallett
3.63
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more
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- mystery
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13. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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14. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire
By: Michael Palin
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more
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- audiobook
15. Platform Seven
By: Louise Doughty
3.52
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkw… read more
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"The dead don't bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is no…"-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven
"It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. You…"-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven
16. A Death in Diamonds (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, #4)
By: S.J. Bennett
4.18
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The royally brilliant fourth book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates mystery series! 1957… read more
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- audiobook
17. Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
By: Robin Ince
3.84
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with P… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"This is one of the wonders of books: the delight of being a species that can chronicle and preserve. I pick up a book from a shelf, and someone who is no more than ash or bone can still change me."-Robin Ince, Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour Of The Bookshops Of Britain
18. Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
By: Peter Ross
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Featuring a brand new chapter!* Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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19. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
By: Joanna Cannon
3.65
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more
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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
20. Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1)
By: Alice Bell
3.56
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A fast-paced and hilarious debut crime novel, in which a burnt-out Millennial medium must utilize h… read more
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"Figgy Wellington-Forge opened the driver’s door and unfolded from the car like a sexy deck chair."-Alice Bell, Grave Expectations (Grave Expectations, #1)
21. Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
By: Blessin Adams
3.86
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most fou… read more
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22. The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)
By: Katy Watson
3.77
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of the author who made them fam… read more
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"It's not for us to say what is motive enough for a person. what might be a minor annoyance to us could mean murder to someone else..."-Katy Watson, The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)
23. The Bone Chests
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history o… read more
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24. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
By: Kate Strasdin
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more
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25. The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
By: Susannah Stapleton
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing o… read more
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26. Hokey Pokey
By: Kate Mascarenhas
3.34
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
February, 1929. The Regent Hotel in Birmingham is a place of deception and glamour. Behind its … read more
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"I’ve never wanted to be compliant,"-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey
"If that memory were false, she didn’t know how the trust the rest."-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey
"Merlini Sat up in bed with the cautiousness of someone who has read too many cheap ghost stories, trying not to catch the attention of shadows."-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey
"Quarrington recognised this feeling from heavy snowfalls in prior years. He theorists that hotels should be for pleasure, or business, but never an emergency in a storm. As soon as people were confin…"-Kate Mascarenhas, Hokey Pokey
27. The House on Graveyard Lane (Rachel Savernake Golden Age Mysteries, #4)
By: Martin Edwards
3.65
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
"I want you to solve my murder," said the woman in white. Rachel Savernake gave a sardonic smile… read more
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28. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
By: Olivia Williams
3.61
Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition
THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more
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