The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara…
Want to Read $ 5.99"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
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1. The Dance Tree
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
3.90
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
2. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
3. Still Life
By: Sarah Winman
4.17
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
4. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
5. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Lamplighters
By: Emma Stonex
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Emma Stonex's The Lamplighters book and Emma Stonex's The Lamplighters
- mystery thriller
- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- horror
- crime
- audiobook
"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters
7. The Twyford Code
By: Janice Hallett
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code
8. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
By: Janice Hallett
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
9. The Whalebone Theatre
By: Joanna Quinn
4.06
Format: 558 pages, Hardcover
A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Without passion we are only machines."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre
10. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
11. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
12. How to Kill Your Family
By: Bella Mackie
3.54
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
13. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
14. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
By: Richard Osman
4.49
Format: 421 pages, Hardcover
Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
15. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
16. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
17. Lily
By: Rose Tremain
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
18. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
By: Richard Osman
4.38
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
"But you can’t be ruled by hindsight, can you?"-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
"Love? Try Googling it. There aren't any answers."-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
"When you look backwards, everything is inevitable."-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
"Ron's mouth opens, but, unusually for him, no words come out."-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
19. A Fatal Crossing
By: Tom Hindle
3.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
November 1924. The Endeavour sets sail from Southampton carrying 2,000 passengers and crew on a wee… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
20. The Leviathan
By: Rosie Andrews
3.48
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- historical fiction
- adult
"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan
21. The Skeleton Key
By: Erin Kelly
3.78
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
- audiobook
