14 must-read mystery books like A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland

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A Gathering of Ghosts

By: Karen Maitland

3.91

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

1316. On the wilds of Dartmoor stands the isolated Priory of St Mary, home to the Sisters of the Kn…

If you liked the mystery plot in A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of A Conspiracy of Violence (Thomas Chaloner, #1) by Susanna Gregory

1. A Conspiracy of Violence (Thomas Chaloner, #1)

By: Susanna Gregory

3.88

Format: 502 pages, Paperback

The dour days of Cromwell are over. Charles II is well established at White Hall Palace, his mistre… read more

Similar categories in Susanna Gregory's A Conspiracy of Violence (Thomas Chaloner, #1) book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • medieval
Cover of Plague Land (Somershill Manor Mystery, #1) by S.D. Sykes

2. Plague Land (Somershill Manor Mystery, #1)

By: S.D. Sykes

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somerhill Manor. Despatched to a monastery at the … read more

Similar categories in S.D. Sykes's Plague Land (Somershill Manor Mystery, #1) book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • medieval
  • audiobook
Cover of The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11) by Philippa Gregory

3. The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse... Kateryn Parr, a thirty-yea… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Gregory's The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11) book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again."

-Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

"I believe that to be a free woman is to be both passionate and intelligent; and I am a free woman at last."

-Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

"iI you are a reader you are already half-way to being a writer -for you have a love of words and a pleasure from seeing them on a page."

-Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

"I stay, kneeling on the hearthstone, till the clock on the table strikes four with its silvery little chime and I realise that I have been in a trance of prayer for hours. I have prayed and I believe…"

-Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #11)

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4. The Last Hours

By: Minette Walters

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

For most, the Black Death is the end. For a brave few, it heralds a new beginning. When the Black D… read more

Similar categories in Minette Walters's The Last Hours book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • medieval
  • audiobook

5. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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6. A Place of Greater Safety

By: Hilary Mantel

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danto… read more

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7. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more

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8. Profile K

By: Helen Sarah Fields

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. There’s something wrong with me. For years I’v… read more

Similar categories in Helen Sarah Fields's Profile K book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Royal Secret (Marwood and Lovett, #5)

By: Andrew Taylor

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the No.1 bestselling author of  The Last Protector  and  The Ashes of London  comes the next b… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Taylor's The Royal Secret (Marwood and Lovett, #5) book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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10. Broken Light

By: Joanne Harris

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Harris's Broken Light book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Night Raven (Crow Investigations #1)

By: Sarah Painter

3.79

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Lydia Crow... Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and m… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Painter's The Night Raven (Crow Investigations #1) book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
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13. 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 Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
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14. His Black Tongue

By: Mitchell Lüthi

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is no plague in Enfaire… Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-feari… read more

Similar categories in Mitchell Lüthi's His Black Tongue book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • horror
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Drowned City (Daniel Pursglove, #1) by K.J. Maitland

15. The Drowned City (Daniel Pursglove, #1)

By: K.J. Maitland

3.70

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

1606. A year to the day that men were executed for conspiring to blow up Parliament, a towering wav… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Maitland's The Drowned City (Daniel Pursglove, #1) book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Rivers of Treason (Daniel Pursglove #3) by K.J. Maitland

16. Rivers of Treason (Daniel Pursglove #3)

By: K.J. Maitland

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove's ne… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Maitland's Rivers of Treason (Daniel Pursglove #3) book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Glorious Exploits by Ferdia  Lennon

17. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

Similar categories in Ferdia Lennon's Glorious Exploits book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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18. The Path of Thorns

By: A.G. Slatter

4.00

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess t… read more

Similar categories in A.G. Slatter's The Path of Thorns book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • horror
  • fantasy
"I shake myself, feel the past cascade from my shoulders."

-A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

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19. A Gathering of Ghosts

By: Karen Maitland

3.91

Format: 531 pages, Paperback

1316. On the wilds of Dartmoor stands the isolated Priory of St Mary, home to the Sisters of the Kn… read more

Similar categories in Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • 14th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Traitor in the Ice (Daniel Pursglove #2) by K.J. Maitland

20. Traitor in the Ice (Daniel Pursglove #2)

By: K.J. Maitland

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens the shadows this captivating historical novel for re… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Maitland's Traitor in the Ice (Daniel Pursglove #2) book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Guests by Nikki   Smith

21. The Guests

By: Nikki Smith

3.51

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The resort of their dreams. A destination to die for... WELCOME TO PARADISE! Or so the staff… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Smith's The Guests book and Karen Maitland's A Gathering of Ghosts

  • mystery
  • fiction

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Susanna Gregory

3.88

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S.D. Sykes

3.63

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Philippa Gregory

3.96

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Minette Walters

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Rebecca Netley

4.00

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The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

Katie Lumsden

3.67

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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