23 must-read historical mystery books like Murder at the Carnival (Miss Hayward & the Detective Series #1) by Helen Goltz

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Murder at the Carnival (Miss Hayward & the Detective Series #1)

By: Helen Goltz

4.18

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Now on exhibition for a few days only, the strange, the wonderful, sights you have never beheld bef…

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1. 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
  • historical fiction
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2. 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
  • historical fiction
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3. A Discerning Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series Book 6)

By: Sarah F. Noel

4.46

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

It seems Christmas will be anything but peaceful this year!Tabitha and Wolf are hoping to spend a q… read more

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  • historical
  • historical mystery
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4. 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
  • historical fiction
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5. 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
  • historical fiction
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6. 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
  • historical fiction
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7. 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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8. An Audacious Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series Book 5)

By: Sarah F. Noel

4.39

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Step into 1897 Victorian Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Seri… read more

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  • historical
  • historical mystery
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9. 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
  • historical fiction
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10. An Independent Woman (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery #3)

By: Sarah F. Noel

4.34

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Summoned to Edinburgh by the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, Tabitha and Wolf reluctantly board a tra… read more

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  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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11. A Singular Woman (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery #2)

By: Sarah F. Noel

4.35

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Wolf had hoped he could put his thief-taking life behind him when he unexpectedly inherited an earl… read more

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  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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12. 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
  • historical fiction
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13. 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
  • historical fiction
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14. 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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15. 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
  • historical fiction
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16. Masquerade in London (Samantha and Wyatt Mysteries #1)

By: Emily L. Finch

4.38

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1861. Samantha Kingston has lived under the control of her overbearing uncle since the deat… read more

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  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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17. The Lady's Last Mistake

By: Cara Devlin

4.48

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, Lady Cassandra Sinclair has harbored a scandalous secret and a painful loss. Unwilling t… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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18. 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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19. 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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  • historical
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  • historical fiction
Cover of Revenge in the Rogue's Hideaway (The Kier and Levett Mystery, #4) by Deb Marlowe

20. Revenge in the Rogue's Hideaway (The Kier and Levett Mystery, #4)

By: Deb Marlowe

4.44

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

You can find every kind of entertainment in the Rogue’s Hideaway—song, dance, comedy... and murder.… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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21. A Proud Woman (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery 1)

By: Sarah F. Noel

4.21

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with 'The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Myst… read more

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  • historical
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22. Murder on the Mirrored Lake (The Kier and Levett Mystery, #3)

By: Deb Marlowe

4.46

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Old secrets dragged into the light . . . can turn deadly. Someone wants Niall Kier's secrets expos… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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23. Death from the Druid's Grove (The Kier and Levett Mystery, #2)

By: Deb Marlowe

4.50

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Secrets hide in the Druid's Grove, in a murderer's heart, and in Niall Kier's past . . October 185… read more

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  • historical
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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Missing Diamond (The Crown Jewels Regency Mysteries, #1) by Lynn Morrison

24. The Missing Diamond (The Crown Jewels Regency Mysteries, #1)

By: Lynn Morrison

4.27

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

In Regency London's glittering ballrooms, a well-made match can mean the difference between power a… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of An Indomitable Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series Book 7) by Sarah F. Noel

25. An Indomitable Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series Book 7)

By: Sarah F. Noel

4.48

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

The Investigative Countess, Rapier Sharp Logic paired with Great Insight and Boldness. A Private In… read more

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26. The Ruby Dagger (The Crown Jewels Regency Mysteries, #2)

By: Lynn Morrison

4.46

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Deadly intrigue meets royal expectations when murder comes for the crown. London, 1813. In the g… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of No Stone Unturned (The Lucy Lawrence Mysteries, #1) by Pam Lecky

27. No Stone Unturned (The Lucy Lawrence Mysteries, #1)

By: Pam Lecky

4.30

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

A suspicious death, stolen gems and an unclaimed who will be the victor in a deadly game of cat an… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
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28. Murder at the Carnival (Miss Hayward & the Detective Series #1)

By: Helen Goltz

4.18

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Now on exhibition for a few days only, the strange, the wonderful, sights you have never beheld bef… read more

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29. 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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30. A Pocketful of Diamonds (The Lucy Lawrence Mysteries #4)

By: Pam Lecky

4.44

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucy Lawrence smoothed her silk travelling gown and watched as darkness fell over the shimmering wa… read more

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  • historical
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of An Exhibition of Malice (Samantha and Wyatt Mysteries #3) by Emily L. Finch

31. An Exhibition of Malice (Samantha and Wyatt Mysteries #3)

By: Emily L. Finch

4.50

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything comes at a cost. London, 1862. Now that London’s most notorious criminal has set his … read more

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27 Best historical books like Murder at the Carnival (Miss Hayward & the Detective Series #1) by Helen Goltz

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Cara Devlin

4.45

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Cara Devlin

4.54

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A Discerning Woman: A Historical Romance Mystery (Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series Book 6)

Sarah F. Noel

4.46

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Cara Devlin

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Ghosts in the Abbey (Samantha and Wyatt Mysteries #2)

Emily L. Finch

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Sarah F. Noel

4.34

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