26 Top mystery books like Nightshade by E.S. Thomson

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Nightshade

By: E.S. Thomson

4.19

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer, apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhar…

If you liked the mystery plot in Nightshade by E.S. Thomson , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. The Wages of Sin (Sarah Gilchrist #1)

By: Kaite Welsh

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Gilchrist has fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical s… read more

Similar categories in Kaite Welsh's The Wages of Sin (Sarah Gilchrist #1) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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2. Offshore (Shetland Island, #6.1)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.43

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Offshoreis a striking collection of short stories, all set on islands off the coast of the UK, and … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Offshore (Shetland Island, #6.1) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. The Killing of Polly Carter

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

An original story from the creator and writer of the hit BBC One TV series, Death in Paradise, feat… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Killing of Polly Carter book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook

4. The Strings of Murder (Frey & McGray, #1)

By: Óscar de Muriel

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

A spellbinding concoction of crime, history and horror - perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Jo… read more

Similar categories in Óscar de Muriel's The Strings of Murder (Frey & McGray, #1) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

5. A Summer of Discontent (Matthew Bartholomew, #8)

By: Susanna Gregory

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Matthew Bartholomew jumps at the chance to travel to Ely with Brother Michael, as it will give him … read more

Similar categories in Susanna Gregory's A Summer of Discontent (Matthew Bartholomew, #8) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

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6. Impact of Evidence

By: Carol Carnac

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a… read more

Similar categories in Carol Carnac's Impact of Evidence book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery
  • historical
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. 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 E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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8. The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

By: Katie Lumsden

3.67

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Vic… read more

Similar categories in Katie Lumsden's The Secrets of Hartwood Hall book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"But I did not want the future he had planned for me. I did not want a future chosen by anyone but myself."

-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

"I said nothing. Too many reasons, too many sins. But he was right. It did not feel wrong. It felt less wrong than anything had in a long time."

-Katie Lumsden, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

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9. 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 E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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10. The Drift

By: C.J. Tudor

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly grippin… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Drift book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. 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 E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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12. Murder at the Fitzwilliam (Museum Mysteries, #1)

By: Jim Eldridge

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

After rising to prominence for his role investigating the case of Jack the Ripper, former Detective… read more

Similar categories in Jim Eldridge's Murder at the Fitzwilliam (Museum Mysteries, #1) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4)

By: Ambrose Parry

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chl… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. A Corruption of Blood (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #3)

By: Ambrose Parry

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh. This city will bleed you dry. Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains,… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's A Corruption of Blood (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #3) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. 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 E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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16. Ritual of Fire (Cesare Aldo #3)

By: D.V. Bishop

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Florence. Summer, 1538.A night patrol finds a rich merchant hanged and set ablaze in the city’s mai… read more

Similar categories in D.V. Bishop's Ritual of Fire (Cesare Aldo #3) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. 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

Similar categories in Katy Watson's The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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)

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18. The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)

By: Ambrose Parry

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying al… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Louis XIV of France said that only the small man desires always to be right. It struck Raven that the route to discovery and knowledge lay not in the desire to be right, but in one's preparedness to …"

-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)

"Raven wondered how many enduring misapprehensions in medicine (and other fields, for that matter) were down to ambition and the desire to be vindicated. How many proud men had only sought out the evi…"

-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)

"Men often talked about a woman's intuition. Ostensibly it sounded complimentary and yet its intention was usually patronising and dismissive: a term for irrational flights of fancy that these silly c…"

-Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #2)

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19. The Horror of Haglin House (The Violet Thorn Mysteries, #1)

By: M.R.C. Kasasian

3.14

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

Home is where the horror is… Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk… read more

Similar categories in M.R.C. Kasasian's The Horror of Haglin House (The Violet Thorn Mysteries, #1) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sign of the Devil (Frey & McGray #7) by Óscar de Muriel

20. The Sign of the Devil (Frey & McGray #7)

By: Óscar de Muriel

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

THE FINAL FREY & McGRAY MYSTERY All will be revealed… * * * * * The Devil Has Come to Edinbu… read more

Similar categories in Óscar de Muriel's The Sign of the Devil (Frey & McGray #7) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Darker Arts (Frey & McGray, #5) by Óscar de Muriel

21. The Darker Arts (Frey & McGray, #5)

By: Óscar de Muriel

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Madame Katerina, Detective 'Nine Nails' McGray's most trusted clairvoyant, hosts a séance for three… read more

Similar categories in Óscar de Muriel's The Darker Arts (Frey & McGray, #5) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. 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 E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Nightshade by E.S. Thomson

23. Nightshade

By: E.S. Thomson

4.19

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer, apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhar… read more

Similar categories in E.S. Thomson's Nightshade book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dance of the Serpents (Frey & McGray, #6) by Óscar de Muriel

24. The Dance of the Serpents (Frey & McGray, #6)

By: Óscar de Muriel

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Properly creepy and Gothic' IAN RANKIN on the Frey & McGray mysteries... December, 1889. Ther… read more

Similar categories in Óscar de Muriel's The Dance of the Serpents (Frey & McGray, #6) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

Similar categories in Hester Musson's The Beholders book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Death at Mistram Manor: A 1940s DCI Bryce story (Chief Inspector Bryce Murder Mysteries Book 5) by Peter Zander-Howell

26. Death at Mistram Manor: A 1940s DCI Bryce story (Chief Inspector Bryce Murder Mysteries Book 5)

By: Peter Zander-Howell

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A funeral service in Oxfordshire has been held for the late chatelaine of Mistram Manor. The subse… read more

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27. The Droitwich Deceivers (Inspector Ravenscroft, #5)

By: Kerry Tombs

4.29

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

AN EVOCATIVE VICTORIAN DETECTIVE STORY FULL OF CLEVER TWISTS Droitwich, April 1890. A nine-year-o… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Tombs's The Droitwich Deceivers (Inspector Ravenscroft, #5) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • historical
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. 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 E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Blood Roses (The Warsaw Quartet #1)

By: Douglas Jackson

4.35

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed… September 1939. A city ruled by fear. … read more

Similar categories in Douglas Jackson's Blood Roses (The Warsaw Quartet #1) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of At Midnight In Venice (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #5) by J.C. Briggs

30. At Midnight In Venice (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #5)

By: J.C. Briggs

4.33

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s a tricky case for Charles Dickens and Superintendent Jones! Perfect for fans of Sherlock Holme… read more

Similar categories in J.C. Briggs's At Midnight In Venice (Charles Dickens & Superintendent Sam Jones #5) book and E.S. Thomson's Nightshade

  • crime
  • historical fiction

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