10 Top historical books like Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16) by Barbara Hambly

Cover of Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16) by Barbara Hambly

Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

By: Barbara Hambly

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride ... The intriguing new Ben…

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Cover of The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7) by Ivan Doig

1. The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7)

By: Ivan Doig

4.07

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekee… read more

Similar categories in Ivan Doig's The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul."

-Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7)

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2. The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer

By: Roseanne Montillo

2.89

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial kill… read more

Similar categories in Roseanne Montillo's The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America's Youngest Serial Killer book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • 19th century
  • historical
  • crime
  • mystery
Cover of Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10) by Kerry Greenwood

3. Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10)

By: Kerry Greenwood

3.77

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The sassy Phryne Fisher sets the seamy side of Sydney alight in her tenth adventure.Phryne Fisher h… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Greenwood's Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"Come to the jacaranda tree at seven o'clock and you will hear something to your advantage. Destroy this note.' No signature, no clue to the identity. Just what sort of heroine do you think I am? Phry…"

-Kerry Greenwood, Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10)

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4. The Silent Cry (William Monk, #8)

By: Anne Perry

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Deep in London's filthy, dangerous slums, Victorians transacted their most secret and shameful busi… read more

Similar categories in Anne Perry's The Silent Cry (William Monk, #8) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) by Ngaio Marsh

5. The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ngaio Marsh's bestselling and ingenious third novel remains one of the most popular pieces of crime… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Do you read crime fiction?"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"They do a certain amount of mischief, they're an almighty nuisance, but as murderers I've no real faith in the British anarchist."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"Nash, who carried in his head a sort of social ladder, had quietly decided that police officers of all ranks were to be graded with piano tuners."

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

"... In our midst—in our very midst, Matron—are secret agents, secret societies, powers of evil known to the Yard but unsuspected by the general public. Mercifully so." He stopped short, folded his ar…"

-Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Cover of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1) by Joan Aiken, Pat Marriott

6. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1)

By: Joan Aiken , Pat Marriott

4.12

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leav… read more

Similar categories in Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13) by Ngaio Marsh

7. Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.09

Format: 129 pages,

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patrioti… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Death by Water (Phryne Fisher, #15) by Kerry Greenwood

8. Death by Water (Phryne Fisher, #15)

By: Kerry Greenwood

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

'Who are you?' asked the doctor. 'You are not the standard cruise passenger, I can tell you that.' … read more

Similar categories in Kerry Greenwood's Death by Water (Phryne Fisher, #15) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Home from the Sea (Elemental Masters, #7) by Mercedes Lackey

9. Home from the Sea (Elemental Masters, #7)

By: Mercedes Lackey

4.08

Format: 31 pages,

Mari Prothero turns sixteen, and learns the family fishing luck depends on each generation marrying… read more

Similar categories in Mercedes Lackey's Home from the Sea (Elemental Masters, #7) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Blood of Tyrants (Temeraire, #8) by Naomi Novik

10. Blood of Tyrants (Temeraire, #8)

By: Naomi Novik

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an Engli… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Novik's Blood of Tyrants (Temeraire, #8) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Death of a Fool (Roderick Alleyn, #19) by Ngaio Marsh

11. Death of a Fool (Roderick Alleyn, #19)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

A ritual dance becomes a murderous mambo... At the winter solstice, South Mardian's swordsmen weave… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Cain His Brother (William Monk, #6) by Anne Perry

12. Cain His Brother (William Monk, #6)

By: Anne Perry

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and… read more

Similar categories in Anne Perry's Cain His Brother (William Monk, #6) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8) by Kerry Greenwood

13. Urn Burial (Phryne Fisher, #8)

By: Kerry Greenwood

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Austral… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4) by Ngaio Marsh

14. Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When lovely Cara Quayne dropped dead to the floor after drinking the ritual wine at the House of th… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick' 'I am invariably gulled by detect…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy (Roderick Alleyn, #4)

15. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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16. The Mummy Case (Amelia Peabody, #3)

By: Elizabeth Peters

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nic… read more

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17. Wilful Behaviour (Commissario Brunetti, #11)

By: Donna Leon

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife's students with a strange and vague… read more

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18. Lady of Ashes (Lady of Ashes, #1)

By: Christine Trent

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1861 London, Violet Morgan is struggling to establish a good reputation for the undertaking busi… read more

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19. The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, #1)

By: Anne Perry

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident tha… read more

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20. Condominium

By: John D. MacDonald

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to Golden Sands, the dream condominium built on a weak foundation and a thousand dirty secr… read more

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21. Unnatural Issue (Elemental Masters, #6)

By: Mercedes Lackey

3.93

Format: 152 pages,

A brand-new Elemental Mastersnovel from the national bestselling author Mercedes Lackey. Richard W… read more

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22. Europe at Midnight

By: Dave Hutchinson

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight. For an in… read more

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23. Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus, #3)

By: Ian Rankin

4.00

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

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24. The Day of Atonement

By: David Liss

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sebastiao Raposa is only thirteen when his parents are unjustly imprisoned, never to be seen again,… read more

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25. Uniform Justice (Commissario Brunetti, #12)

By: Donna Leon

3.94

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

A riveting, pitch-perfect murder mystery--the work of a truly masterful storyteller. Conjuring cont… read more

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26. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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Cover of I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle

27. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

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  • fiction
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

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28. The Last Stone

By: Mark Bowden

3.71

Format: 352 pages, None

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shoppin… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bowden's The Last Stone book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • mystery
  • american
  • crime
Cover of Shed No Tears (Cat Kinsella #3) by Caz Frear

29. Shed No Tears (Cat Kinsella #3)

By: Caz Frear

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed and internationally bestselling crime novelist Caz Frear returns with her third superb no… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) by Donna Leon

30. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

Similar categories in Donna Leon's A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16) by Barbara Hambly

31. Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

By: Barbara Hambly

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride ... The intriguing new Ben… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16) book and Barbara Hambly's Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16)

  • american
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime

17 Top fiction books like Cold Bayou (Benjamin January, #16) by Barbara Hambly

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The Whistling Season (Morrie Morgan #1, Two Medicine Country #7)

Ivan Doig

4.07

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Death Before Wicket (Phryne Fisher, #10)

Kerry Greenwood

3.77

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The Silent Cry (William Monk, #8)

Anne Perry

4.38

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The Nursing Home Murder (Roderick Alleyn, #3)

Ngaio Marsh

3.71

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Who Buries the Dead (Sebastian St. Cyr, #10)

C.S. Harris

4.24

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Where Shadows Dance (Sebastian St. Cyr, #6)

C.S. Harris

3.95

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Cain His Brother (William Monk, #6)

Anne Perry

4.80

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Wings of Fire (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #2)

Charles Todd

3.60

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