26 must-read fiction books like A Killer in King's Cove (Lane Winslow #1) by Iona Whishaw

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A Killer in King's Cove (Lane Winslow #1)

By: Iona Whishaw

3.95

Format: None pages,

A smart and enchanting postwar mystery written for fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Wi…

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1. The Jazz Files (Poppy Denby Investigates, #1)

By: Fiona Veitch Smith

3.83

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Introducing Poppy Denby, a young journalist in London during the Roaring Twenties, investigating cr… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of An Impartial Witness (Bess Crawford, #2) by Charles Todd

2. An Impartial Witness (Bess Crawford, #2)

By: Charles Todd

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

It is early summer 1917. Bess Crawford has returned to England from the trenches of France with a c… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Divorce Can Be Deadly (Dr. Benjamin Bones Mysteries, #2) by Emma Jameson

3. Divorce Can Be Deadly (Dr. Benjamin Bones Mysteries, #2)

By: Emma Jameson

3.50

Format: 31 pages,

Two ghosts troubled Dr. Benjamin Bones. One he feared would never release him. Another he worried m… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Murder In The Afternoon (Kate Shackleton, #3) by Frances Brody

4. Murder In The Afternoon (Kate Shackleton, #3)

By: Frances Brody

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dead one minute ... Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry wher… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Dying In the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1) by Frances Brody

5. Dying In the Wool (Kate Shackleton, #1)

By: Frances Brody

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Take one quiet Yorkshire village, Bridgestead is a peaceful spot: a babbling brook, rolling hills a… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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6. A Killer in King's Cove (Lane Winslow #1)

By: Iona Whishaw

3.95

Format: None pages,

A smart and enchanting postwar mystery written for fans of the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Wi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery

7. Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.16

Format: 320 pages,

In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger … read more

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8. Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the he… read more

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9. The Kill Fee (Poppy Denby Investigates #2)

By: Fiona Veitch Smith

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poppy Denby, Arts and Entertainment Editor at The Daily Globe, covers an exhibition of Russian Art,… read more

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10. A Medal for Murder (Kate Shackleton, #2)

By: Frances Brody

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Kate Shackleton joins Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs... They make excellent heroines." --Liter… read more

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11. The Mapping of Love and Death (Maisie Dobbs, #7)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.32

Format: 312 pages,

In the latest mystery in the New York Timesbestselling series, Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of … read more

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Cover of Playing It Safe (Electra McDonnell, #3) by Ashley Weaver

12. Playing It Safe (Electra McDonnell, #3)

By: Ashley Weaver

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell—formerly a safecracking thief, but current… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9) by Deanna Raybourn

13. A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"A man cannot choose to die when he has not yet learnt to live." Stoker"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"If I could have created a perfect woman, I could never have imagined you. But that is my failure. Not yours."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"Not everyone shares your tendency to scorn the company of others." "Scorn the company of others! Thanks to you, I speak to entirely too many people, entirely too often."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"Do you mean to dissuade me? Point out the flaws in my plan? Express your objections with vehemence and eloquence?" He tipped his head. "Actually, no." "Are you entirely well? Have you a fever? Should…"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

Cover of Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4) by Ashley Weaver

14. Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4)

By: Ashley Weaver

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The fourth instalment in the delightful series following safecracker Electra McDonnell fighting Naz… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

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

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  • mystery thriller
  • 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

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  • 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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18. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

19. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • 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

Cover of I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) by Ian Ferguson

20. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay

21. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Secret of the Lady’s Maid by Darcie Wilde

22. The Secret of the Lady’s Maid

By: Darcie Wilde

4.12

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

The resourceful and intrepid Rosalind Thorne, a heroine after Jane Austen’s heart, has a scandalous… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of A Pretty Deceit (Verity Kent, #4) by Anna Lee Huber

23. 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 Iona Whishaw's A Killer in King's Cove (Lane Winslow #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Secrets of a Scottish Isle (Jane Wunderly, #5) by Erica Ruth Neubauer

24. Secrets of a Scottish Isle (Jane Wunderly, #5)

By: Erica Ruth Neubauer

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On an isolated isle off the western coast of Scotland, spirited American Jane Wunderly must investi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16) by Jacqueline Winspear

25. The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"Children should always be believed until proven otherwise."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)

"know that expression—only a man could cause a woman to look like that"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)

"Fear had to be handled with care, managed so it became a tool, not a weight."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)

"I believe it’s called ‘irrational reasoning.’ It’s what happens to people when they’re scared"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs, #16)

Cover of Death Under a Little Sky (Jake Jackson #1) by Stig Abell

26. Death Under a Little Sky (Jake Jackson #1)

By: Stig Abell

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A detective ready for a new life…For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in London… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Lady from Burma (Sparks & Bainbridge, #5) by Allison Montclair

27. The Lady from Burma (Sparks & Bainbridge, #5)

By: Allison Montclair

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Allison Montclair's The Lady from Burma, murder once again stalks the proprietors of The Right S… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of A Certain Darkness (Verity Kent, #6) by Anna Lee Huber

28. A Certain Darkness (Verity Kent, #6)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Set in Downton Abbey-era post-World War I England, this action-packed series from the USA Today bes… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of The Key to Deceit (Electra McDonnell, #2) by Ashley Weaver

29. The Key to Deceit (Electra McDonnell, #2)

By: Ashley Weaver

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to De… read more

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

30. 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

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"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 Cold Snap (Paradise Café, #3) by Maureen Jennings

31. Cold Snap (Paradise Café, #3)

By: Maureen Jennings

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

December 1936. Charlotte Frayne, Private Investigator, is pulled into a dangerous international plo… read more

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  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery

22 best-selling historical books like A Killer in King's Cove (Lane Winslow #1) by Iona Whishaw

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The Jazz Files (Poppy Denby Investigates, #1)

Fiona Veitch Smith

3.83

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Charles Todd

3.89

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Divorce Can Be Deadly (Dr. Benjamin Bones Mysteries, #2)

Emma Jameson

3.50

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Murder In The Afternoon (Kate Shackleton, #3)

Frances Brody

4.05

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Jane Casey

4.29

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Mark Billingham

4.11

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Val McDermid

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