Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.59
Format: 320 pages,
Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence--and the patronag…
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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
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- historical mystery
- audiobook
"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)
2. The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (Maggie Hope, #4)
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
3.90
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry, The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent is… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- historical mystery
- audiobook
3. Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
By: Jacqueline Winspear
3.59
Format: 320 pages,
Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence--and the patronag… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- historical mystery
- audiobook
4. Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)
By: Louise Penny
3.42
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards. Chief Inspector Arm… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
5. The Queen's Accomplice (Maggie Hope Mystery #6)
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
3.16
Format: 315 pages,
Spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope returns to war-weary London, where she is thrust in… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- historical mystery
6. Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- historical mystery
- audiobook
"She wasn't happy, exactly; she was still too raw for that. But she was satisfied. Satisfied and relieved, too, with maybe just a bit of joy thrown in for good measure. Yes, that was it. She'd made it…"-Susan Elia MacNeal, Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
7. A Duty To The Dead (Bess Crawford, #1)
By: Charles Todd
4.07
Format: None pages,
England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usua… read more
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8. 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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9. His Majesty's Hope (Maggie Hope Mystery, #3)
By: Susan Elia MacNeal
3.16
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle i… read more
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10. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- audiobook
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
11. Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
By: Susan Rowland
4.33
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Who is killing off members of the Falconer family and why? Such is the challenge confronting highly… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- fiction
"Falconers,"-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,"-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity."-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt."-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
12. 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
- audiobook
"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)
13. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
14. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
15. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
By: Alan Bradley
3.82
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiri… read more
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- mystery thriller
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"Simple pleasures are best."-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
"It was as black in the closet as old blood."-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
"...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities."-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
"I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did."-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
16. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
17. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
By: Tana French
4.12
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
18. Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
By: Elizabeth Peters
4.00
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her debut Egyptian advent… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- historical mystery
- audiobook
"God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,"-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
"...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes."-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
"I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had be…"-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to me…"-Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
19. 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
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- 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)
20. Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
By: Louise Penny
4.33
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head o… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
"I don’t know. I need help. I was wrong. I’m sorry."-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
"In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity."-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
"They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know."-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
"Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish."-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
21. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
By: Louise Penny
4.46
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- audiobook
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)
