22 best-selling historical mystery books like For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3) by Rhys Bowen

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For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

By: Rhys Bowen

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Molly Murphy finds turn-of-the-century New York City unwelcoming to women. Now Dublin aristocrats w…

If you liked the historical mystery plot in For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3) by Rhys Bowen , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of Princess Elizabeth's Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery, #2) by Susan Elia MacNeal

1. Princess Elizabeth's Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery, #2)

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed début, Mr. Churchill’s Se… read more

Similar categories in Susan Elia MacNeal's Princess Elizabeth's Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery, #2) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"Jolly good!" ... King [George VI] exclaimed [after Queen Elizabeth fired the gun at Hitler's photograph]. "You got him right in the n-n-n-naughty bits."... "Good," she said. "That's where I was aimin…"

-Susan Elia MacNeal, Princess Elizabeth's Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery, #2)

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2. Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mystery, #5)

By: Victoria Thompson

4.06

Format: 343 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sarah Brandt, a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York City, has seen more than her share of joy a… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Thompson's Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mystery, #5) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"She remembered how her parents had warned her about Malloy, and she remembered how Malloy warned her about Malloy. Too many things to remember."

-Victoria Thompson, Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mystery, #5)

"Did you take a vow of poverty or something?" "This is a housedress, Malloy," she said, indignant again. "I was cleaning when you came. I gave my other clothes away because I got some new ones. From m…"

-Victoria Thompson, Murder on Mulberry Bend (Gaslight Mystery, #5)

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3. Murder on Waverly Place (Gaslight Mystery, #11)

By: Victoria Thompson

3.94

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Brandt is not completely surprised when her very proper mother asks her to attend a seance. S… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Thompson's Murder on Waverly Place (Gaslight Mystery, #11) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"Was that all it took?" "What?" she asked, completely bewildered. "To shut you up," he clarified with a definite grin this time. "All it took was agreeing with you." She glared at him. "If you'd ever …"

-Victoria Thompson, Murder on Waverly Place (Gaslight Mystery, #11)

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4. Murder in Little Italy (Gaslight Mystery, #8)

By: Victoria Thompson

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby ju… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Thompson's Murder in Little Italy (Gaslight Mystery, #8) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder on Sisters' Row (Gaslight Mystery, #13) by Victoria Thompson

5. Murder on Sisters' Row (Gaslight Mystery, #13)

By: Victoria Thompson

3.98

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

It's no mystery why readers love Victoria Thompson's Edgar Award- nominated series. With the he… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Thompson's Murder on Sisters' Row (Gaslight Mystery, #13) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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6. Long Spoon Lane (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #24)

By: Anne Perry

3.98

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon… read more

Similar categories in Anne Perry's Long Spoon Lane (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #24) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Murder in Chelsea (Gaslight Mystery, #15) by Victoria Thompson

7. Murder in Chelsea (Gaslight Mystery, #15)

By: Victoria Thompson

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope's Daughters Mission for… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Thompson's Murder in Chelsea (Gaslight Mystery, #15) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Mystery, #1) by Victoria Thompson

8. Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Mystery, #1)

By: Victoria Thompson

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and discovers … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Thompson's Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Mystery, #1) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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9. For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

By: Rhys Bowen

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Molly Murphy finds turn-of-the-century New York City unwelcoming to women. Now Dublin aristocrats w… read more

Similar categories in Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime

10. Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs, #10)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The death of an Indian immigrant leads Maisie Dobbs into a dangerous yet fascinating world and take… read more

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11. Bones of a Feather (Sarah Booth Delaney, #11)

By: Carolyn Haines

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

When PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner and best friend, Tinkie, take on Monica and Eleanor Lev… read more

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12. Murder in Murray Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #16)

By: Victoria Thompson

3.50

Format: 121 pages, Hardcover

When facing injustice, the residents of nineteenth-century New York City's tenements turn to midwif… read more

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13. Bone Appetit (Sarah Booth Delaney, #10)

By: Carolyn Haines

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy… read more

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14. Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante (Maggie Hope Mystery, #5)

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

December 1941. Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C.… read more

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15. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

Cover of A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17) by Jacqueline Winspear

16. A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"Yet the alternative he had suggested smacked of privilege, and wasn't privilege always bolstered by a discrimination of sorts?"

-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

"...places leave their mark in the same way that a human being can touch us. We have to make our peace with place, with the locations where we have spent time. We consider how we've been affected by b…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

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17. 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

Similar categories in Susan Elia MacNeal's The Last Hope book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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18. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

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19. Deadly Scandal (Deadly, #1)

By: Kate Parker

4.05

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Olivia Denis is a contented young wife with a carefree life in late 1930's London. Then her world i… read more

Similar categories in Kate Parker's Deadly Scandal (Deadly, #1) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Murder at the Olympics (Ginger Gold Mystery #23) by Lee Strauss

20. Murder at the Olympics (Ginger Gold Mystery #23)

By: Lee Strauss

4.57

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Chapters 1 + 2 Excerpt: Chapter 1 Clive Pippins stood at the window of his attic bedroom in … read more

Similar categories in Lee Strauss's Murder at the Olympics (Ginger Gold Mystery #23) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder in the Alps (High Society Lady Detective #8) by Sara Rosett

21. Murder in the Alps (High Society Lady Detective #8)

By: Sara Rosett

4.14

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

A cold-blooded killer lurks in the luxurious winter wonderland of St. Moritz . . . Switzerland, 1… read more

Similar categories in Sara Rosett's Murder in the Alps (High Society Lady Detective #8) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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22. A Pretty Deceit (Verity Kent, #4)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.05

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

In the aftermath of the Great War, the line between friend and foe may be hard to discern, even for… read more

Similar categories in Anna Lee Huber's A Pretty Deceit (Verity Kent, #4) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Murder in Rose Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #27) by Victoria Thompson

23. Murder in Rose Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #27)

By: Victoria Thompson

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private detective husband Frank discover that the cure is worse than t… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Thompson's Murder in Rose Hill (Gaslight Mystery, #27) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of The King's Justice (Maggie Hope #9) by Susan Elia MacNeal

24. The King's Justice (Maggie Hope #9)

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

4.02

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Could a stolen violin be linked to a serial killer terrorizing London during World War II? Only sec… read more

Similar categories in Susan Elia MacNeal's The King's Justice (Maggie Hope #9) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Death on Tremont Row (Higgins & Hawke Mystery #5) by Lee Strauss

25. Death on Tremont Row (Higgins & Hawke Mystery #5)

By: Lee Strauss

4.64

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Death isn't an act! It’s been five years since Haley Higgins moved back from London to Boston, a… read more

Similar categories in Lee Strauss's Death on Tremont Row (Higgins & Hawke Mystery #5) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • cozy mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder on Bedford Street (Gaslight Mystery, #26) by Victoria Thompson

26. Murder on Bedford Street (Gaslight Mystery, #26)

By: Victoria Thompson

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private investigator husband, Frank, must stop a killer lurking among … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Thompson's Murder on Bedford Street (Gaslight Mystery, #26) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Pawprints & Predicaments (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery #3) by Bethany Blake

27. Pawprints & Predicaments (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery #3)

By: Bethany Blake

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Tail Waggin' Winterfest is the highlight of the season in the famously pet-friendly Pocono Moun… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Blake's Pawprints & Predicaments (Lucky Paws Petsitting Mystery #3) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Traitor Among Us (Elena Standish #5) by Anne Perry

28. A Traitor Among Us (Elena Standish #5)

By: Anne Perry

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Elena Standish investigates the murder of a fellow MI6 agent near the country estate of one of Engl… read more

Similar categories in Anne Perry's A Traitor Among Us (Elena Standish #5) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15) by Jacqueline Winspear

29. The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.32

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the myst… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

"People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

Cover of Lucky Score (Lucky O'Toole, #9) by Deborah Coonts

30. Lucky Score (Lucky O'Toole, #9)

By: Deborah Coonts

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

If Lucky O’Toole, chief problem solver for the Babylon, Vegas’ primo Strip property, knows one thin… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Coonts's Lucky Score (Lucky O'Toole, #9) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
Cover of Deadly Travel (Deadly, #5) by Kate   Parker

31. Deadly Travel (Deadly, #5)

By: Kate Parker

4.38

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Travel to Berlin in 1939 is treacherous. Carrying out two clandestine missions in the enemy capital… read more

Similar categories in Kate Parker's Deadly Travel (Deadly, #5) book and Rhys Bowen's For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery

23 Best fiction books like For the Love of Mike (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #3) by Rhys Bowen

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4.06

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