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10 best books like Devoured (D.E. Meredith): The Rhetoric of Death, War Girls, Promise the Night, Witchfall, By Royal Command, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, The Thirteenth, The Doomsday Machine: A Further Astonishing Adventure of Horatio Lyle, Night Watch: A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown, The Bohemian Girl

The Rhetoric of Death
AuthorJudith Rock
ISBN0425236641

Paris, 1686: When The Bishop of Marseilles discovers that his young cousin Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been helping heretics escape the king's dragoons, the bishop sends him far away-to Paris, where Charles is assigned to assist in teaching rhetoric and directing...
War Girls
AuthorAdèle Geras
ISBN1783440600
1914: War has broken out across Europe and beyond. Nothing will ever be the same again for those caught up in the conflict.

This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever. A courageous nurse risks her life at the Front Line; a young...
Promise the Night
AuthorMichaela MacColl
Immediately compelling and action-packed, this carefully researched work of historical fiction introduces young readers to the childhood of the famous yet elusive Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo from England to North America. As in her debut novel, Prisoners in the Palace, MacColl propels...
Witchfall
AuthorVictoria Lamb
ISBN0373211007
Her darkest dreams are coming true.

In Tudor England, 1555, Meg Lytton has learned how powerful her magick gift can be. But danger surrounds her and her mistress, the outcast Princess Elizabeth. Nowhere is safe in the court of Elizabeth's fanatical sister, Queen Mary. And as the Spanish Inquisition's...
By Royal Command
AuthorMary Hooper
ISBN0747588856
Lucy has become a firm fixture in the household of Dr Dee, a real-life figure who was court magician to Queen Elizabeth 1. Lucy, in return for saving the queen's life, has been told that she is to work as a spy for Her Grace and that she is to remain with the Dee family and await further instruction ...And then...
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
AuthorMichael Sims
ISBN0143105663
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
The Thirteenth
AuthorG.L. Twynham
ISBN1907211136
Imagine starting at the end and finishing back at the beginning. This is the story of a teenage girl called Valerie Saunders who is about to be thrown through time and space. Being bestowed with abilities beyond her wildest nightmares, she discovers that she not only has to deal with turning eighteen,...
The Doomsday Machine: A Further Astonishing Adventure of Horatio Lyle
AuthorCatherine Webb
ISBN1905654006
There are many mysteries in this world that are yet to be resolved in 1865. Some of them, man was not meant to know. Scientist, inventor, and occasional sleuth, Horatio Lyle, is a man of science and a man of reason. As such, he does not care for the mysterious sect known as the Tseiqin and the strange,...
Night Watch: A Long-Lost Adventure in Which Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown
AuthorStephen Kendrick
ISBN0375403671
In this brilliantly crafted pastiche, Stephen Kendrick brings Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown together in an unprecedented collaboration on a singularly shocking murder case.

It is Christmas Day, 1902, and a priest’s mutilated body has been found in a London church that is hosting a...
The Bohemian Girl
AuthorKenneth M. Cameron
ISBN0312538979
When Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from a young woman saying she’s in danger and needs his help, he doubts there’s anything he can do. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it...
The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls
AuthorJohn R. King
ISBN0765318016
Probably the most infamous story in the Sherlock Holmes canon is “The Final Problem” as it relates the facts of the death/murder of the master detective at Reichenbach Falls. On May 4, 1891, the detective met his archenemy Professor Moriarty on a ledge above the falls; the two became locked in a titanic...
The Limehouse Text
AuthorWill Thomas
ISBN0743273354
In The Limehouse Text, Barker and Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's late assistant, leading them to London's Chinese district, Limehouse. There they retrieve an innocent-looking book that proves to be a rare and secret text stolen from a Nanking monastery, containing...
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders
AuthorKate Griffin
ISBN0571302696
Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder when The Lady devises...
Jinx (Lady Grace Mysteries, #10)
AuthorGrace Cavendish
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What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James & Jack the Ripper
AuthorPaula Marantz Cohen
ISBN1402243553
An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. And she generally doesn't mind. But this time she is not about to let things alone. Yes, her brother Henry may be a famous author, and her other brother William a rising star in the new field of psychology. But when they...
The Sweet Smell of Decay
AuthorPaul Lawrence
ISBN1905636423
“As I gazed upon her face a small black beetle emerged from the ruins of her right eye. It stood uncertainly upon the crest of her cheekbone as if suddenly reluctant to step out further. Though I looked upon the beetle as if it was something unutterably revolting – still I felt like we two had something...
The Last Days of Newgate
AuthorAndrew Pepper
ISBN0753821680
'A story of high intrigue and low politics, brutal murder and cunning conspiracies . . . tangy and rambunctious stuff!' Observer

'Gripping and atmospheric' Daily Express

'Enjoyably disturbing . . . likely to leave the reader clamouring for more' TLS

St Giles, London, 1829:...
The Poisonous Seed
AuthorLinda Stratmann
ISBN0752461184
When a customer of William Doughty's chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William's daughter, nineteen-year-old Frances, determines to redeem her ailing father's reputation and save the business. She soon...
A Bucket of Ashes
AuthorP.B. Ryan
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ASIN B003WEAJ2A

“The resolution of the central mystery is almost secondary to the revelations about Nell’s past and the way the author ties up all the loose ends of her present situation. Longtime readers will enjoy this aspect immensely;...
The Thief-Taker
AuthorT.F. Banks
ISBN0440236967
June 1815. When Henry Morton is called to the scene at Portman House in Claridge Square, the Bow Street constable finds a man dead in a hackney coach--ostensibly of asphyxiation. He was Halbert Glendinning, a gentleman of unsullied character. Then why was he seen frequenting one of London’s most...
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