27 must-read mystery books like The Umbrella (Harriet Gordon Mystery #0.5) by A.M. Stuart

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The Umbrella (Harriet Gordon Mystery #0.5)

By: A.M. Stuart

4.12

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

The cause may be righteous, but the price she had paid had been too high The short heart wrenchi…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Umbrella (Harriet Gordon Mystery #0.5) by A.M. Stuart , here is a list of 27 books like this:

1. The Frangipani Tree Mystery (Crown Colony #1)

By: Ovidia Yu

4.09

Format: 156 pages,

First in a delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, introducing amateur sleuth Su… read more

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2. A Calamitous Chinese Killing (Inspector Singh Investigates #6)

By: Shamini Flint

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Inspector Singh's expertise is required in China in his sixth adventure, as he battles political in… read more

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3. A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, i… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
"A man cannot choose to die when he has not yet learnt to live." Stoker"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"If I could have created a perfect woman, I could never have imagined you. But that is my failure. Not yours."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"Not everyone shares your tendency to scorn the company of others." "Scorn the company of others! Thanks to you, I speak to entirely too many people, entirely too often."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"Do you mean to dissuade me? Point out the flaws in my plan? Express your objections with vehemence and eloquence?" He tipped his head. "Actually, no." "Are you entirely well? Have you a fever? Should…"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

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4. Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4)

By: Ashley Weaver

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The fourth instalment in the delightful series following safecracker Electra McDonnell fighting Naz… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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5. A Nest of Vipers (Bangalore Detectives Club #3)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This latest novel in the Bangalore Detectives Club mystery series takes the reader deep into the hi… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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6. The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a charming, joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing de… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Royal Affair (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #2) by Allison Montclair

7. A Royal Affair (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #2)

By: Allison Montclair

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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8. The Highgate Cemetery Murder (Tate and Bell Mystery, #1)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.35

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in H… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17) by Rhys Bowen

9. The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17)

By: Rhys Bowen

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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10. The Last Hope

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awar… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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11. A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.50

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Co… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
"Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen"

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

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12. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Fatal Illusion (Lady Darby Mystery, #11) by Anna Lee Huber

13. A Fatal Illusion (Lady Darby Mystery, #11)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

New parents Lady Kiera Darby and Sebastian Gage look forward to introducing Sebastian’s father to h… read more

Similar categories in Anna Lee Huber's A Fatal Illusion (Lady Darby Mystery, #11) book and A.M. Stuart's The Umbrella (Harriet Gordon Mystery #0.5)

  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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14. Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

*** SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS ***In the fourth rip-roa… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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15. Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

By: Nev March

3.76

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona militar… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
"Secrets are like serpents, Jim. They grow in the dark. [Diana Framji, to Jim Agnihotri]"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to my face."

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Joy was made of moments like this, each insignificant in itself, piled together into a monolith, immutable and strong, something to lean against when one's world went awry. [Jim Agnihotri]"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Whatever I had expected, it was not this. Astonishment gave way to bitterness. I was a mixed breed, a bastard, not worthy of his daughter. Had I not seen that mix of pity and disapproval all my life?…"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

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16. Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club, #2)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murt… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder in Rose Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #27) by Victoria Thompson

17. Murder in Rose Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #27)

By: Victoria Thompson

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private detective husband Frank discover that the cure is worse than t… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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18. A Disappearance in Fiji

By: Nilima Rao

3.89

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigati… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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19. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 6 (The Unselected Journals, #6)

By: Beth Brower

4.79

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

There is bedlam, and there is delightful bedlam.This afternoon touched on the second, much to my pl… read more

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  • historical fiction
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20. The Unkept Woman (Sparks & Bainbridge, #4)

By: Allison Montclair

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Allison Montclair returns with the fourth Sparks & Bainbridge mystery, The Unkept Woman : London, 1… read more

Similar categories in Allison Montclair's The Unkept Woman (Sparks & Bainbridge, #4) book and A.M. Stuart's The Umbrella (Harriet Gordon Mystery #0.5)

  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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21. Deadly Manor (Deadly #10)

By: Kate Parker

4.45

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Surrounded by war, stalked by murder, can she stay alive? October 1940. Livvy Redmond is thrille… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of A Rogue's Company (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery, #3) by Allison Montclair

22. A Rogue's Company (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery, #3)

By: Allison Montclair

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Allison Montclair's A Rogue's Company, business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bur… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Temptation of Forgiveness (Commissario Brunetti, #27) by Donna Leon

23. The Temptation of Forgiveness (Commissario Brunetti, #27)

By: Donna Leon

3.92

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

In the twenty-seventh novel in Donna Leon's bestselling mystery series, a suspicious accident leads… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony, #2) by Ovidia Yu

24. The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony, #2)

By: Ovidia Yu

3.95

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

'Great protagonist, great setting - this is a delightful book' Morning Star The second novel in Ovi… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
"Mrs MacPherson looked very proud of her son. It made me think about the different lessons people try to pass on to children about money. And about who controls that money."

-Ovidia Yu, The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony, #2)

"One thing about a tiny island like Singapore is that every man, woman, and monkey in it originated from somewhere else. Whether your distant ancestors sailed from China, India, the Malay archipelago …"

-Ovidia Yu, The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony, #2)

Cover of The Right Sort of Man (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #1) by Allison Montclair

25. The Right Sort of Man (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #1)

By: Allison Montclair

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

First comes love, then comes murder.In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very diffe… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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26. Swordcrossed

By: Freya Marske

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“Clever, sparkling, and perfectly indulgent, Swordcrossed feels like stepping into a party already … read more

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27. A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.24

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, hope they’ve finally found peace after a … read more

Similar categories in Anna Lee Huber's A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12) book and A.M. Stuart's The Umbrella (Harriet Gordon Mystery #0.5)

  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Deadly Gamble (Deadly #11) by Kate   Parker

28. Deadly Gamble (Deadly #11)

By: Kate Parker

4.43

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1940s Portugal, everyone is willing to trade secrets if the price is right. Britain stands al… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder at Traitors' Gate (A Tate and Bell Mystery, #2) by Irina Shapiro

29. Murder at Traitors' Gate (A Tate and Bell Mystery, #2)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The chill of winter has descended on London. But for Sebastian Bell and Gemma Tate, there will be l… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Angsana Tree Mystery (Su Lin Series Book 8) by Ovidia Yu

30. The Angsana Tree Mystery (Su Lin Series Book 8)

By: Ovidia Yu

4.35

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of Singapore's finest living authors' South China Morning Post 'Simply glorious. Every nook a… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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31. The Umbrella (Harriet Gordon Mystery #0.5)

By: A.M. Stuart

4.12

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

The cause may be righteous, but the price she had paid had been too high The short heart wrenchi… read more

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  • mystery
  • novella
  • edwardian
  • historical fiction

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Deanna Raybourn

4.19

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Ashley Weaver

4.26

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Harini Nagendra

3.79

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The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

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3.70

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