London 1849: A Victorian Murder Story
10 best books like London 1849: A Victorian Murder Story (Michael Alpert): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England, The Asylum, Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster, Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, Victorian Murderesses: A True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women Accused of Unspeakable Crimes, Drowning Ruth
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0739467352 |
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
| Author | David King |
| ISBN | 0307452891 |
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
| Author | Erik Larson |
| ISBN | 0739303406 |
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized...
| Author | James Ruddick |
| ISBN | 0802139744 |
In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later...
| Author | John Harwood |
| ISBN | 0544003470 |
A brilliant new Gothic thriller from the acclaimed author of The Ghost Writer and The Seance
Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker,...
Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
| Author | Harold Schechter |
| ISBN | 0743483359 |
Harold Schechter is quite a writer. His research is awe-inspiring and the way he can turn a tale told by an outside narrator while cuing the reader as to the times of the era that he's writing about is truly a gift. He spends very little time on the setting up the scene and this makes the read more enjoyable...
| Author | Susan Tyler Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0393327531 |
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous...
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
| Author | Donald L. Miller |
| ISBN | 0684831384 |
The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900.
Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its...
| Author | Mary S. Hartman |
| ISBN | 0486780473 |
This riveting combination of true crime and social history examines a dozen cases from the 1800s involving thirteen French and English women charged with murder. Each incident was a cause célèbre, and this mixture of scandal and scholarship offers illuminating details of backgrounds, deeds,...
| Author | Christina Schwarz |
| ISBN | 0345439104 |
In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake. The shock of her death dramatically changes the lives of her daughter, troubled sister, and husband. . . . Told in the voices of several of the main characters and skipping back and forth in time,...
The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method
| Author | Allen Carr |
| ISBN | 1402718616 |
A new edition of the revolutionary bestseller, with four million copies in print. Allen Carr’s innovative Easyway method—which he discovered after his own 100-cigarette-a-day habit nearly drove him to despair—has helped millions kick smoking without feeling anxious and deprived. That’s...
| Author | Carol Goodman |
| ISBN | 0062562630 |
This chilling novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages blends the gothic allure of Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca and the crazed undertones of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper with the twisty, contemporary edge of A.S.A. Harrison’s The Silent...
