16 Top historical books like A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4) by Cora Harrison

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A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

By: Cora Harrison

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Reverend Mother receives a decidedly gruesome gift in this compelling Irish historical mystery.…

If you liked the historical plot in A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4) by Cora Harrison , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Mortal Arts (Lady Darby Mystery, #2)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Scotland, 1830. Lady Kiera Darby is no stranger to intrigue—in fact, it seems to follow wherever sh… read more

Similar categories in Anna Lee Huber's Mortal Arts (Lady Darby Mystery, #2) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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2. The Night She Died (Inspector Thanet #1)

By: Dorothy Simpson

3.75

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

British police detective Luke Thanet tracks a housewife’s killer in the debut novel of an award-win… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Simpson's The Night She Died (Inspector Thanet #1) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
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3. A Grave Matter (Lady Darby Mystery #3)

By: Anna Lee Huber

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Scotland, 1830. Following the death of her dear friend, Lady Kiera Darby is in need of a safe haven… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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4. An Unwilling Accomplice (Bess Crawford, #6)

By: Charles Todd

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

World War I Battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's career is in jeopardy when a murder is committed on h… read more

Similar categories in Charles Todd's An Unwilling Accomplice (Bess Crawford, #6) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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5. A Gentleman of Fortune (A Dido Kent Mystery #2)

By: Anna Dean

4.11

Format: 559 pages,

The great Mrs Lansdale is no more - and all her neighbours in Richmond are gossiping about her deat… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dean's A Gentleman of Fortune (A Dido Kent Mystery #2) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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6. Quick and the Dead (Alex Quick, #1)

By: Susan Moody

3.63

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

"Aficionados of British crime fiction can't get enough, and this fresh mystery will satisfy their c… read more

Similar categories in Susan Moody's Quick and the Dead (Alex Quick, #1) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
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7. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
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8. Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Wrexford & Sloane, #5)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.13

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The upcoming marriage of the Earl of Wrexford and Lady Charlotte Sloane promises to be a highlight … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"Without laughter to counter the injustices and absurdities of the world, life could so easily crush one's spirit."

-Andrea Penrose, Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Wrexford & Sloane, #5)

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9. Fourteen Days

By: Margaret Atwood

3.23

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more

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10. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
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11. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • historical
  • ireland
  • historical fiction
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12. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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13. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller

14. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
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15. So Shall You Reap

By: Donna Leon

4.07

Format: 262 pages, ebook

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more

Similar categories in Donna Leon's So Shall You Reap book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

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16. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

Similar categories in Anne Hillerman's The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
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17. Murder at Queen's Landing (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery, #4)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The murder of a shipping clerk . . . the strange disappearance of trusted friends . . . rumors of c… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Penrose's Murder at Queen's Landing (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery, #4) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Murder at Half Moon Gate (Wrexford & Sloane, #2) by Andrea Penrose

18. Murder at Half Moon Gate (Wrexford & Sloane, #2)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.17

Format: 220 pages, ebook

A wealthy lord who happens to be a brilliant scientist . . . an enigmatic young widow who secretly … read more

Similar categories in Andrea Penrose's Murder at Half Moon Gate (Wrexford & Sloane, #2) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"History's boring," grumbled Raven, reluctantly sitting down. "Actually it's not," she countered. "It's all about the fascinating people--the politicians, the philosophers, the artists, the soldiers, …"

-Andrea Penrose, Murder at Half Moon Gate (Wrexford & Sloane, #2)

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19. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

By: Louise Penny

4.46

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more

Similar categories in Louise Penny's A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

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20. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

By: Sujata Massey

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more

Similar categories in Sujata Massey's The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

21. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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22. Deck With Flowers

By: Elizabeth Cadell

4.11

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Madame Landini’s memoirs promised to be sensational. Rodney, who had captured them for his publishi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Cadell's Deck With Flowers book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
Cover of I Saw Him Die (Agatha Christie #4) by Andrew    Wilson

23. I Saw Him Die (Agatha Christie #4)

By: Andrew Wilson

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

“Fiendishly well-plotted, hugely entertaining.” —Lucy Foley, bestselling author of The Hunting Part… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Wilson's I Saw Him Die (Agatha Christie #4) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Death in Cornwall (St. Just Mystery, #4) by G.M. Malliet

24. Death in Cornwall (St. Just Mystery, #4)

By: G.M. Malliet

3.58

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

A humorous cozy set in the picturesque surroundings of Cornwall starring Cambridge DCI Arthur St. J… read more

Similar categories in G.M. Malliet's Death in Cornwall (St. Just Mystery, #4) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
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25. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • historical
  • historical fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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26. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
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27. 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 Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
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28. A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

By: Cora Harrison

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The Reverend Mother receives a decidedly gruesome gift in this compelling Irish historical mystery.… read more

Similar categories in Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • ireland
Cover of Night of the Lightbringer (Sister Fidelma #28) by Peter Tremayne

29. Night of the Lightbringer (Sister Fidelma #28)

By: Peter Tremayne

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, di… read more

Similar categories in Peter Tremayne's Night of the Lightbringer (Sister Fidelma #28) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • ireland
Cover of Murder at Beaulieu Abbey (A Hildegard of Meaux medieval mystery Book 11) by Cassandra Clark

30. Murder at Beaulieu Abbey (A Hildegard of Meaux medieval mystery Book 11)

By: Cassandra Clark

4.03

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Death and danger await intrepid nun Hildegard of Meaux when she undertakes a secret mission for the… read more

Similar categories in Cassandra Clark's Murder at Beaulieu Abbey (A Hildegard of Meaux medieval mystery Book 11) book and Cora Harrison's A Gruesome Discovery (Reverend Mother Mystery #4)

  • mystery
  • historical
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31. The Rose Arbor

By: Rhys Bowen

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a ha… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery

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