18 Best historical fiction books like A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16) by Melvin R. Starr

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A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16)

By: Melvin R. Starr

4.37

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

When Hugh and Kate's new-born son is taken to the church to be baptized, they are astounded to find…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16) by Melvin R. Starr , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Shroud of Dishonour (Templar Knight Mystery, #5) by Maureen Ash

1. Shroud of Dishonour (Templar Knight Mystery, #5)

By: Maureen Ash

4.08

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Templar Bascot de Marins is preparing to rejoin the Holy Wars when he is called upon to investigate… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of The Richest Man in Town (Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #14) by Jason Vail

2. The Richest Man in Town (Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #14)

By: Jason Vail

4.44

Format: 0 pages, Kindle Edition

Harry Carver, the legless artisan, and his wife Joan find the corpse of the richest man in Ludlow i… read more

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Cover of There was a Crooked Man (Stephen Attebrook Mystery #15) by Jason Vail

3. There was a Crooked Man (Stephen Attebrook Mystery #15)

By: Jason Vail

4.52

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

The corpse of one of medieval Ludlow’s tavern keepers, popular Red John Griffin, is found by the be… read more

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  • medieval
Cover of Possession (Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mysteries Book 17) by Joyce Lionarons

4. Possession (Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mysteries Book 17)

By: Joyce Lionarons

4.65

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

York, February, 1275. When Cordwainer falls ill after being summoned to the deaths of a man and his… read more

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5. The d'Albiac Inheritance (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries #9)

By: J.G. Lewis

4.48

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Salisbury, 1231 A violent encounter at a tournament thrusts Ela into a tug of war over an ancient m… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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6. Unholy Sanctuary (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries #10)

By: J.G. Lewis

4.48

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Salisbury 1232 An elderly nun is accused of witchcraft after a priest dies under mysterious circum… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Murder Most Treasonable (A Brother Athelstan Mystery #22) by Paul  Doherty

7. Murder Most Treasonable (A Brother Athelstan Mystery #22)

By: Paul Doherty

4.56

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Spies, secrets and suspicious Friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan races against time to solve impossibl… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • historical fiction
Cover of Too Good to Hang (Bradecote & Catchpoll #11) by Sarah Hawkswood

8. Too Good to Hang (Bradecote & Catchpoll #11)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

4.53

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

April, 1145. Thorgar the Ploughman is found by the bloodied body of Father Edmund, a village priest… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Hidden Dead (Thomas Berrington Tudor Mystery #3) by David   Penny

9. The Hidden Dead (Thomas Berrington Tudor Mystery #3)

By: David Penny

4.42

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

A mysterious relic. Bones that do not belong. A Church in chaos. Settling into life near Ludlow,… read more

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Cover of Murder of a Hangman (Redmond and Haze #13) by Irina Shapiro

10. Murder of a Hangman (Redmond and Haze #13)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.55

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

When a severed head is left on the steps of Newgate Prison, Lord Redmond and Inspector Haze are lef… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder Among the Dead (Redmond and Haze #12) by Irina Shapiro

11. Murder Among the Dead (Redmond and Haze #12)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.52

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

When Charlotte Haze’s nurse, Rebecca Grainger, is discovered murdered at a disused burial ground an… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Resurrection Mystery (The Detective Lavender Mysteries Book 7) by Karen Charlton

12. The Resurrection Mystery (The Detective Lavender Mysteries Book 7)

By: Karen Charlton

4.67

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

A corpse rises from the dead in the morgue at Guy's Hospital, and his missing pantaloons appear to … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder In Maastricht (Master Mercurius Mysteries #7) by Graham Brack

13. Murder In Maastricht (Master Mercurius Mysteries #7)

By: Graham Brack

4.46

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Another darkly humorous murder mystery featuring Master Mercurius! Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylo… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Two Tales (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #15) by Joyce Lionarons

14. Two Tales (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #15)

By: Joyce Lionarons

4.52

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

York, 1274: When a young carpenter is found stabbed to death after a harvest festival, Matthew Cord… read more

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Cover of What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19) by C.S. Harris

15. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Healers (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #16) by Joyce Lionarons

16. The Healers (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #16)

By: Joyce Lionarons

4.49

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

York, 1274: As Sheriff de Bury works to combat an upsurge in thefts in the city and Berta tries to … read more

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Cover of Betrayal (Gavin Rownt Medieval Mystery #8) by Joyce Lionarons

17. Betrayal (Gavin Rownt Medieval Mystery #8)

By: Joyce Lionarons

4.60

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

London, January 1252. When a knight is robbed and killed on the road to Canterbury, Constable le Bl… read more

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Cover of A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16) by Melvin R. Starr

18. A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16)

By: Melvin R. Starr

4.37

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

When Hugh and Kate's new-born son is taken to the church to be baptized, they are astounded to find… read more

Similar categories in Melvin R. Starr's A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16) book and Melvin R. Starr's A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16)

  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of What the Devil Knows (Sebastian St. Cyr, #16) by C.S. Harris

19. What the Devil Knows (Sebastian St. Cyr, #16)

By: C.S. Harris

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious serial killer had been brought to justice until a shocking se… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Harlot's Riddle (Anglo-Norman Mysteries #5) by Maureen Ash

20. The Harlot's Riddle (Anglo-Norman Mysteries #5)

By: Maureen Ash

4.21

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

In this latest Anglo-Norman mystery a wine and mead merchant is found dead in his bed the morning a… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Sheriff's Riddle (Anglo-Norman Mysteries #4) by Maureen Ash

21. The Sheriff's Riddle (Anglo-Norman Mysteries #4)

By: Maureen Ash

4.40

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

In this newest Anglo Norman mystery, a charcoal burner is murdered in the greenwood and Estrid cond… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15) by C.S. Harris

22. Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

By: C.S. Harris

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman accused of murder in thi… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Harris's Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15) book and Melvin R. Starr's A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16)

  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction
"I believe we are all connected, every living thing one to the other, so that I owe to each what I would owe to myself."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

"Bringing this man’s murderer to justice was more important to Sebastian than he could begin to explain, even to himself."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

"Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn’t get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead—no matter how unsavory we consider them to be."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

Cover of A Darkness in Seven Dials (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 17) by Ashley Gardner

23. A Darkness in Seven Dials (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries Book 17)

By: Ashley Gardner

4.58

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

March 1820When James Denis is arrested for murder and lands himself in Newgate, it falls to me to p… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Petteril's Wife (Lord Petteril Mysteries #5) by Mary Lancaster

24. Petteril's Wife (Lord Petteril Mysteries #5)

By: Mary Lancaster

4.59

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Incognito in Portugal…Lord Petteril’s cousin, the newly commissioned Major Bertie Withan, has gone … read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Petteril's Ladybird (Lord Petteril Mysteries #3) by Mary Lancaster

25. Petteril's Ladybird (Lord Petteril Mysteries #3)

By: Mary Lancaster

4.52

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

An earl’s son, shot in the home of his mistress… Lord Petteril, with his redoubtable assistant A… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Petteril's Corpse (Lord Petteril Mysteries #2) by Mary Lancaster

26. Petteril's Corpse (Lord Petteril Mysteries #2)

By: Mary Lancaster

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

A murdered stranger in his home wood…The discovery of a naked corpse upsets the new Viscount Petter… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12) by Anna Lee Huber

27. A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.24

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, hope they’ve finally found peace after a … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Litany of Lies (Bradecote & Catchpoll #12) by Sarah Hawkswood

28. Litany of Lies (Bradecote & Catchpoll #12)

By: Sarah Hawkswood

4.53

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

Midsummer, 1145. Walter, the steward of Evesham Abbey, is found dead at the bottom of a well pit. T… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Blood Libel (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #2) by Joyce Lionarons

29. Blood Libel (A Matthew Cordwainer Medieval Mystery #2)

By: Joyce Lionarons

4.35

Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition

As tensions rise between Christians and Jews in thirteenth-century York, Cordwainer attempts to sol… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Beasts of the City (Thomas Berrington Tudor Mystery Book 4) by David Penny

30. The Beasts of the City (Thomas Berrington Tudor Mystery Book 4)

By: David Penny

4.58

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1503In a city shrouded with dread, the arrival of Thomas Berrington, summoned by King Henry… read more

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Cover of The Players' Boy (Gavin Rownt Medieval Mystery #9) by Joyce Lionarons

31. The Players' Boy (Gavin Rownt Medieval Mystery #9)

By: Joyce Lionarons

4.53

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1252: Gavin Rownt finds himself caught in the middle of a rift between two old friends when… read more

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22 Best mystery books like A Polluted Font (The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #16) by Melvin R. Starr

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Shroud of Dishonour (Templar Knight Mystery, #5)

Maureen Ash

4.08

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J.G. Lewis

4.48

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Unholy Sanctuary (Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries #10)

J.G. Lewis

4.48

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Murder Most Treasonable (A Brother Athelstan Mystery #22)

Paul Doherty

4.56

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A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

Deanna Raybourn

4.19

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Murder at the Merton Library (Wrexford & Sloane, #7)

Andrea Penrose

4.11

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Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Wrexford & Sloane, #5)

Andrea Penrose

4.13

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A Gentleman in Challenging Circumstances (The Lord Julian Mysteries #3)

Grace Burrowes

4.43

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