12 Top mystery books like Most Loving Mere Folly by Edith Pargeter

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Most Loving Mere Folly

By: Edith Pargeter

3.71

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

A post-WWII love affair is eroded by suspicions of murder, from the Edgar Award–winning author of t…

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Cover of The Knocker on Death's Door (The Felse Investigations #10) by Ellis Peters

1. The Knocker on Death's Door (The Felse Investigations #10)

By: Ellis Peters

4.02

Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The knocker hung on a very special door - oak, heavy, with a late-Gothic arch, and apparently a lat… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. Death to the Landlords (The Felse Investigations, #11)

By: Ellis Peters

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Dominic Felse and the Swami Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of h… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Rainbow's End (Felse, #13)

By: Ellis Peters

3.96

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The sleepy village of Middlehope is suddenly jerked into life by nouveau riche antiques magnate Art… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Piper on the Mountain (Felse, #5)

By: Ellis Peters

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during a vacation in Czechoslovakia, accidental death is … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Funeral of Figaro

By: Ellis Peters

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Figaro is killed in an aeroplane crash it seems that nothing can save the production of Mozart… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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6. Mourning Raga (Felse, #9)

By: Ellis Peters

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a you… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps th… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

8. The Stormy Petrel

By: Mary Stewart

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rose Fenemore is taking a break from her Cambridge teaching post in an isolated cottage on the isla… read more

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9. The House of Green Turf (Felse, #8)

By: Ellis Peters

4.50

Format: 142 pages,

When world famous singer Maggie Tressider crashes her car on the way to a concert, she wakes up in … read more

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10. Celia's House

By: D.E. Stevenson

4.89

Format: 78 pages,

Celia's House, filled with effervescent warmth and cheer, is the story of Dunnian -- a spellbinding… read more

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11. Death Mask

By: Ellis Peters

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The moment Evelyn Manville enlists in the British Army, his thoughts turn to Dorothy Grieve. He's l… read more

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12. Never Pick up Hitch-hikers!

By: Ellis Peters

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Alf Jarrett spots the hitch-hiker, he thinks his prayers have been answered. William Banks is … read more

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13. Dead Water (Roderick Alleyn, #23)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.53

Format: None pages,

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14. City of Gold and Shadows (Felse, #12)

By: Ellis Peters

4.16

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Alan Morris disappears, his great-niece, Charlotte, regrets never having got to know the renow… read more

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15. This Rough Magic

By: Mary Stewart

3.06

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

When Lucy Waring's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of … read more

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16. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

By: Ellis Peters

4.07

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. H… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity."

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to r…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one ma…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

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17. Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

By: Ellis Peters

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

November, 1145. While Cadfael has bent Abbey rules, he has never broken his monastic vows--until no… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears."

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

"In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right…"

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

"It may be that God is reminding me that I am approaching my November. Well, why regret it? November has beauty, has seen the harvest into the barns, even laid by next year's seed. No need to fret abo…"

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

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18. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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19. The Will and the Deed

By: Ellis Peters

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking revelation in a diva’s will leads to murder in this chilling whodunit from the Edgar Awa… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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20. Most Loving Mere Folly

By: Edith Pargeter

3.71

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

A post-WWII love affair is eroded by suspicions of murder, from the Edgar Award–winning author of t… read more

Similar categories in Edith Pargeter's Most Loving Mere Folly book and Edith Pargeter's Most Loving Mere Folly

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

13 must-read fiction books like Most Loving Mere Folly by Edith Pargeter

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Ellis Peters

4.02

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Death to the Landlords (The Felse Investigations, #11)

Ellis Peters

3.79

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Rainbow's End (Felse, #13)

Ellis Peters

3.96

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Ellis Peters

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The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)

Margery Allingham

3.93

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Candace Robb

4.04

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Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5)

Margery Allingham

3.57

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Karen Charlton

4.67

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