28 Top historical books like Murder Most Melancholy (Penrose & Pyke Mysteries #2) by Rose Pascoe

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Murder Most Melancholy (Penrose & Pyke Mysteries #2)

By: Rose Pascoe

4.29

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Penrose & Pyke venture to the edge of madness when they reunite to investigate two tragic deaths an…

If you liked the historical plot in Murder Most Melancholy (Penrose & Pyke Mysteries #2) by Rose Pascoe , here is a list of 28 books like this:

1. What Darkness Brings (Sebastian St. Cyr, #8)

By: C.S. Harris

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

London, September 1812. After a long night spent dealing with the tragic death of a former military… read more

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2. Murder at the Merton Library (Wrexford & Sloane, #7)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.11

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Responding to an urgent plea from a troubled family friend, the Earl of Wrexford journeys to Oxford… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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3. Death at Fournier Downs (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #2)

By: Cara Devlin

4.45

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

After a murder scandal nearly sent her husband to the gallows, Audrey, the Duchess of Fournier, has… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
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4. Taken to the Grave (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #7)

By: Cara Devlin

4.54

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series comes to a thrilling conclusion in the seventh and final book… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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5. 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
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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6. Nature of the Crime (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #6)

By: Cara Devlin

4.45

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series continues in January 2024 with the sixth Audrey Sinclair and … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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7. Deadly Obsession (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #6)

By: Carla Simpson

4.55

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

A photograph taken of the daughter of one of London’s most prominent citizens in a private setting … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
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8. Ghosts in the Abbey (Samantha and Wyatt Mysteries #2)

By: Emily L. Finch

4.46

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

She can’t escape her past… Derbyshire, 1861. Haunted by the events of the summer, Samantha Kingston… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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9. Deadly Betrayal (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #8)

By: Carla Simpson

4.57

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

"Ghosts of the past…The very case that made Brodie leave the Metropolitan Police returns to jeopard… read more

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  • mystery
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10. Murder in the Mews (Redmond & Haze #10)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.55

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

When the Earl of Granville is skewered with a pitchfork in his own stables, Inspector Haze and Lord… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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11. Murder of a Mermaid (Redmond & Haze #11)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.53

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

The discovery of a young woman’s body drifting down the Thames, her hair adorned with flowers and h… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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12. Deadly Illusion (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #4)

By: Carla Simpson

4.40

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

What is real or only an illusion? Ghostly images that appear and float across the stage, objects… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
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13. Fatal by Design (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #5)

By: Cara Devlin

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

A summer house party in the English countryside.A missing rare jewel.An abducted viscountess.The se… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
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14. Silence of Deceit (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #3)

By: Cara Devlin

4.48

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets and lies simmer to the surface in the third riveting Bow Street Duchess mystery. For yea… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
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15. Penance for the Dead (Bow Street Duchess Mystery #4)

By: Cara Devlin

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Old scandals and destructive truths are exposed when a woman from Hugh Marsden’s past is murdered i… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
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16. 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
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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17. A Deadly Vow (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #5)

By: Carla Simpson

4.64

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

A THIRTY YEAR OLD MURDER... Old Town, Edinburgh, in a squalid tenement where poverty, rats, and di… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
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18. A Killer in the Crystal Palace (The Kier and Levett Mystery, #1)

By: Deb Marlowe

4.38

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A grand showcase for technology, art, design and . . . murder. London, 1851, and the Great Exhib… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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19. Deadly Deception (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #7)

By: Carla Simpson

4.49

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Sir James Redstone has recently returned from abroad. He is handsome, well-educated, heir to the Re… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
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20. A Deadly Game (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #3)

By: Carla Simpson

4.41

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1890: It's a New Year, but murder never takes a holiday. The past reaches out to the … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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21. Deadly Secrets (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #2)

By: Carla Simpson

4.41

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

A severed foot. Fingerprints left on a wine glass. A secret cypher code. The scent of orange and ci… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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22. 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

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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23. A Deadly Affair (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #1)

By: Carla Simpson

4.32

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

London 1889 — Murder, mystery, and two people in a most unlikely partnership. She's an unconvent… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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24. The Thunder of Stones (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery, #8)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Athens. A city where the ancient past and present tangle in a web of intrigue. As Saybrook and Aria… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
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25. 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
  • historical mystery
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26. Murder Most Melancholy (Penrose & Pyke Mysteries #2)

By: Rose Pascoe

4.29

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Penrose & Pyke venture to the edge of madness when they reunite to investigate two tragic deaths an… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
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27. A Whisper of Death (Raven & Wren, #1)

By: Darcy Burke

4.44

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

After being viciously stabbed and left for dead, Hadrian Becket, Earl of Ravenhurst struggles back … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
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28. A Deadly Scandal (Angus Brodie & Mikaela Forsythe #9)

By: Carla Simpson

4.61

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder is such a nasty business…Mikaela Forsythe has returned from safari in Africa with her great … read more

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  • mystery
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29. A Skeleton in Every House (Catriona Winters #1)

By: Isabella Duke

4.33

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Suffocated by the constraints of high society and yearning to prove herself as a journalist, Catrio… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
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30. Murder of Innocents: A Redmond and Haze Mystery Book 14 (Redmond and Haze Mysteries)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.58

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Summoned to a historic Tudor manor, Jason and Daniel are charged with investigating the heart-wrenc… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
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31. Murder at King’s Crossing (Wrexford & Sloane, #8)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Miss Scarlet and the Duke and Bridgerton—a masterfully plotted mystery that combines en… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • fiction

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