7 Top historical books like Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller, #4) by Robert Olen Butler

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Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller, #4)

By: Robert Olen Butler

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Paris in the Dark, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher …

If you liked the historical plot in Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller, #4) by Robert Olen Butler , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2) by M.C. Beaton

1. The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.73

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Feisty Agatha Raisin, former London PR exec, retired to quiet Cotswold village. Handsome vet Paul B… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"I don't like children, said Lord Pendlebury petulantly. 'Too many of them. Go away."

-M.C. Beaton, The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2)

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2. Cold Earth (Shetland Island, #7)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the road a… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden (Agatha Raisin, #9) by M.C. Beaton

3. Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden (Agatha Raisin, #9)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There is nothing more depressing for a middle-aged lovelorn woman with bald patches on her head tha… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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4. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.07

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

5. Search the Dark (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #3)

By: Charles Todd

5.00

Format: 229 pages,

The introspective hero of Wings of Fireand A Test of Wills(Edgar Award nominee) returns in Search t… read more

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6. Triple

By: Ken Follett

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

As the nuclear arms race escalates in the Middle East, the Mossad, KGB, Egyptians, and Fedayeen ter… read more

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7. The Best of Our Spies

By: Alex Gerlis

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy and the liberation of Europe is un… read more

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8. Dead Water (Shetland Island, #5)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery f… read more

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9. The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #18)

By: Laurie R. King

4.41

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caugh… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz

10. 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
  • thriller
  • fiction
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11. The Baker's Secret

By: Stephen P. Kiernan

4.01

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The rest of the people depended on their gardens and the occupier's paltry rations. Everything else, the army took for itself. The young soldiers looked ruddy and pale, while the middle commanders de…"

-Stephen P. Kiernan, The Baker's Secret

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12. 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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  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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13. The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.40

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Ann Cleeves returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Mat… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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14. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

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  • espionage
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"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. 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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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20) by Elizabeth  George

17. The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

By: Elizabeth George

4.19

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Every Spy a Traitor (The Double Agent series Book 1) by Alex Gerlis

18. Every Spy a Traitor (The Double Agent series Book 1)

By: Alex Gerlis

4.11

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

'Gerlis is at the top of his game' Paul Vidich, author of Beirut Station 'Utterly gripping and sta… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • espionage
  • fiction
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19. Dragonfly

By: Leila Meacham

4.31

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, as… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Unwanted Dead (Eddie Giral, #1) by Chris   Lloyd

20. The Unwanted Dead (Eddie Giral, #1)

By: Chris Lloyd

3.81

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Paris, Friday 14th June 1940. The day the Nazis march into Paris. It made headlines around the glo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller, #4) by Robert Olen Butler

21. Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller, #4)

By: Robert Olen Butler

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Paris in the Dark, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher … read more

Similar categories in Robert Olen Butler's Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller, #4) book and Robert Olen Butler's Paris in the Dark (Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller, #4)

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • war
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

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3.73

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Ann Cleeves

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3.31

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Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Harlan Coben

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Sulari Gentill

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