12 Best historical books like The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3) by A.J. MacKenzie

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The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

By: A.J. MacKenzie

4.30

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping tale of murder and mystery in eighteenth century England. Across the still, dark English…

If you liked the historical plot in The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3) by A.J. MacKenzie , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. This Thing of Darkness

By: Harry Thompson

3.81

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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2. Silent Night (Lady Julia Grey, #5.5)

By: Deanna Raybourn

3.06

Format: 220 pages, ebook

'Tis the season for an investigation! Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane return for a Christmas caper… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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3. The Body in the Marsh

By: Nick Louth

3.21

Format: 208 pages,

When a woman goes missing, it gets personal for DCI Craig Gillard. But he could never imagine what … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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4. Apple Tree Yard

By: Louise Doughty

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yvonne Carmichael sits in the witness box. The charge is murder. Before all of this, she was happil… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night."

-Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard

"There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability."

-Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard

"Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize."

-Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard

"Quando decidi di non dire qualcosa devi continuare a non dirlo. Basta poco, penso. Basta poco per trasformare la tua vita in una menzogna."

-Louise Doughty, Apple Tree Yard

5. The Blood of Gods (Emperor, #5)

By: Conn Iggulden

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The fifth and final instalment of the Emperor series. Julius Caesar has been assassinated. A nation… read more

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6. Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

By: Kathryn Hughes

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

'A work of formidable scholarship that propels the reader from idea to idea. Reading it is like unr… read more

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7. The Falcons of Fire and Ice

By: Karen Maitland

3.87

Format: None pages, ebook

The year is 1539 and the Portuguese Inquisition ushers in an era of torture and murder. When the Ro… read more

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8. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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9. A Lesson In Dying (Inspector Ramsey, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.88

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Heppleburn, once a Northumberland pit village, has always been close-knit, friendly and safe - unti… read more

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10. The Midnight Hour (The Brighton Mysteries, #6)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.98

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

The sixth gripping Brighton-based mystery from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Serie… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Midnight Hour (The Brighton Mysteries, #6) book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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11. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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12. The King's Pleasure (Tudor Rose, #2)

By: Alison Weir

4.03

Format: 593 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the private side of t… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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13. The Pudding Lane Plot (Thomas Chaloner #15)

By: Susanna Gregory

4.16

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

The people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none fas… read more

Similar categories in Susanna Gregory's The Pudding Lane Plot (Thomas Chaloner #15) book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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14. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • crime
  • historical fiction
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15. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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16. A Song of Me and You

By: Mike Gayle

3.95

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more

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17. The Tudor Deception (Ben Hope, #28)

By: Scott Mariani

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

An unmissable new thriller from the master of the genre An unsolved historical mystery. A brutal… read more

Similar categories in Scott Mariani's The Tudor Deception (Ben Hope, #28) book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Child's Play (DI Kim Stone #11) by Angela Marsons

18. Child's Play (DI Kim Stone #11)

By: Angela Marsons

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Finally we’re playing a game. A game that I have chosen. I give one last push of the roundabout and… read more

Similar categories in Angela Marsons's Child's Play (DI Kim Stone #11) book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Where the Silence Calls (DI Ridpath #3) by M.J. Lee

19. Where the Silence Calls (DI Ridpath #3)

By: M.J. Lee

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Play with fire, and you’re going to get burned. The unputdownable new Ridpath crime thriller.In Man… read more

Similar categories in M.J. Lee's Where the Silence Calls (DI Ridpath #3) book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • crime
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20. The Bad Daughter

By: Joy Fielding

3.63

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

What first appears to be a random home invasion reveals a family's dark secrets in this domestic ti… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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21. The Escape Room

By: L.D. Smithson

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything is a clue. Eight strangers arrive at a remote sea fort off the coast of England. They a… read more

Similar categories in L.D. Smithson's The Escape Room book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Shadow Network (Dempsey/Devlin Book 5) by Tony Kent

22. The Shadow Network (Dempsey/Devlin Book 5)

By: Tony Kent

4.19

Format: 532 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you take down an enemy when no one believes they exist? When the lawyers of alleged war crim… read more

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23. The Garden of Lost and Found

By: Harriet Evans

3.97

Format: 555 pages, Hardcover

Nightingale House, 1919. Liddy Horner discovers her husband, the world-famous artist Sir Edward Hor… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical fiction
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24. Articulated Restraint

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.85

Format: 26 pages, ebook

Being a Lady Astronaut means being twice as dedicated, and twice as good as everyone else. And some… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's Articulated Restraint book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • historical fiction
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25. Through the Wall

By: Caroline Corcoran

3.57

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Lexie loves her home. She feels safe and secure in it – and loved, thanks to her boyfriend Tom.But … read more

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  • mystery
"Isn’t that what matters now, anyway? Behind closed doors can be flawed, as long as Facebook says joy."

-Caroline Corcoran, Through the Wall

"Whatever I had, it turns out, I would look over my shoulder to see what someone else had and want it, too. This is me. Perhaps it is everyone."

-Caroline Corcoran, Through the Wall

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26. The Man in Black: Stories

By: Elly Griffiths

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3) by A.J. MacKenzie

27. The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

By: A.J. MacKenzie

4.30

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping tale of murder and mystery in eighteenth century England. Across the still, dark English… read more

Similar categories in A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3) book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder in Mayfair (Lady Eleanor Swift #18) by Verity Bright

28. Murder in Mayfair (Lady Eleanor Swift #18)

By: Verity Bright

4.49

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Tea and cake at The Ritz, a stolen pearl necklace and a missing dead body… Lady Swift is back on th… read more

Similar categories in Verity Bright's Murder in Mayfair (Lady Eleanor Swift #18) book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

29. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) book and A.J. MacKenzie's The Body in the Boat (Hardcastle & Chaytor Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction
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30. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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3.06

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Elly Griffiths

3.98

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Jason Vail

4.53

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4.36

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