10 best-selling historical books like The Devil's Half Mile by Paddy Hirsch

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The Devil's Half Mile

By: Paddy Hirsch

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Caleb Carr, Erik Larsen, and Gangs of New York will love this riveting historical thriller …

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Cover of The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1) by Lyndsay Faye

1. The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)

By: Lyndsay Faye

3.87

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two s… read more

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  • new york
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"And that was when I realized that she was actually a very good liar. Only good liars are surprised at being caught."

-Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)

"If Mercy Underhill were any more perfect, it would take a long day's work to fall in love with her. But she has exactly enough faults to make it ridiculously easy."

-Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)

"He wore a white gown now, facing the free-stone ceiling, a cloth pulled up to his breast. You couldn't take him for sleeping, though, not when you've seen death before. Dead things looked heavy. Eart…"

-Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)

"There was someplace urgent he needed to be, and he wasn't going to make it there on time. It was a gorgeous calamity in scale, I thought. A lovely misfortune. Immediate and irreversible and very soon…"

-Lyndsay Faye, The Gods of Gotham (Timothy Wilde, #1)

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2. The Love of the Last Tycoon

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year a… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There’s a writer for you,"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

"There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

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3. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

By: Timothy Egan

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning and best-selling author Timothy Egan comes the epic story of o… read more

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4. Serpent (NUMA Files, #1)

By: Clive Cussler

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On the bottom of the icy sea off Nantucket lies the battered remains of the Italian luxury liner, A… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

5. Blue Gold (NUMA Files, #2)

By: Clive Cussler , Paul Kemprecos

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Mass Market Paperback

KURT AUSTIN -- CLIVE CUSSLER'S NEW HERO FOR THE MILLENNIUM -- BATTLES TO STOP A BILLIONAIRE TYCOON … read more

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6. 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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7. Moriarty

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.34

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's nail-biting new novel plunges us back into th… read more

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8. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more

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9. The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

By: Jimmy Breslin

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

It was a big bestseller when it was originally published in 1969. It became a major motion picture … read more

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10. Asterix and the Golden Sickle (Asterix, #2)

By: René Goscinny , Albert Uderzo , Anthea Bell , Derek Hockridge

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's a disaster - the druid Getafix has broken his golden sickle. Asterix and Obelix go to Lutetia … read more

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11. The House of Silk

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

London, 1890. 221B Baker Street. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes an… read more

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12. 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 mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5) by Ben Aaronovitch

14. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.99

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

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15. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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16. The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more

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  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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17. What the Devil Knows (Sebastian St. Cyr, #16)

By: C.S. Harris

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious serial killer had been brought to justice until a shocking se… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Winter List (Damian Seeker #6)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.38

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supporte… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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19. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

By: C.S. Harris

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman accused of murder in thi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I believe we are all connected, every living thing one to the other, so that I owe to each what I would owe to myself."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

"Bringing this man’s murderer to justice was more important to Sebastian than he could begin to explain, even to himself."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

"Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn’t get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead—no matter how unsavory we consider them to be."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

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21. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

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22. Razzmatazz

By: Christopher Moore

4.10

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Repeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of San Franc… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"When he walked into Cookie's, everyone shouted, "Happy New Year," and he found a bit of a smile had been hiding somewhere way back in his heart."

-Christopher Moore, Razzmatazz

"There's too much day when you get up in the morning,' Moo Shoes whined. 'How do they do it? Citizens?' 'Suckers,' I said. 'You notice everyone is in a really foul mood in the morning? I don't recomme…"

-Christopher Moore, Razzmatazz

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23. The Second Stranger

By: Martin Griffin

3.43

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Remie Yorke has one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she l… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. The Mantis

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, a propulsive new t… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. The Border (Power of the Dog, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.47

Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bes… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South by Elizabeth Varon

27. Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

By: Elizabeth Varon

4.15

Format: 516 pages, ebook

An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruct… read more

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"I have some little reputation, but my men made it all for me. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Article in -Sumter Republican-, October 29, 1864."

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"...the power of battle is in generalship more than in the number of soldiers. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1876)"

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"[The] object of politics is to relieve the distress of the people and to provide for their future comfort. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, Letter to the New Orleans Times, June 8, 1867."

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

"It does not look like generalship to lose a battle and a cause and then lay the responsibility upon others. -- JAMES LONGSTREET, From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (1896)"

-Elizabeth Varon, Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Cover of The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16) by Alexander McCall Smith

28. The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.08

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, A… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He loved Elspeth so much, and he hoped that she knew it. Yet it occurred to him that she might not be sure of that because he had not told her – or at least he had not told her recently. Wives and hu…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16)

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29. Vine Street

By: Dominic Nolan

4.43

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

SOHO, 1935. SERGEANT LEON GEATS' PATCH. A snarling, skull-cracking misanthrope, Geats marshals … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. The Low Desert

By: Tod Goldberg

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Tod Goldberg is a terrific writer, and The Low Desert is a smart, surprising page turner." —Don Wi… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. The Devil's Half Mile

By: Paddy Hirsch

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Caleb Carr, Erik Larsen, and Gangs of New York will love this riveting historical thriller … read more

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  • new york
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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Lyndsay Faye

3.87

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.64

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Clive Cussler

4.39

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S.G. MacLean

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Barbara Nadel

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Douglas Skelton

4.09

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Andrew Taylor

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