BooksList.Best
Search

Silent Murders

10 best books like Silent Murders (Mary Miley): The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime #15), Singapore Sapphire, Murder on Astor Place, Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War, Rebels, Volume 1: A Well-Regulated Militia, The Drifters, Murder on St. Mark's Place, SEVEN-X, Brilliant, The Right Sort of Man

The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime #15)
AuthorEd McBain
ISBN0843955872
Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45.  

Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are...
Singapore Sapphire
AuthorA.M. Stuart
Harriet Gordon stumbles into a murderous web of stolen gems and cutthroat thieves as she runs from her tragic past in an enthralling new historical mystery series set in early twentieth century Singapore.

Singapore 1910--Desperate for a fresh start and to distance herself from her tragic...
Murder on Astor Place
AuthorVictoria Thompson
ISBN0425168964
After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and discovers that another boarder, a young girl, has been killed. At the request of Sergeant Frank Malloy, she searches the girl's room, and discovers that the victim is from one of the most prominent families in New...
Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War
AuthorHeather Webb
ISBN0062418548
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month . . .

November 11, 1918. After four long, dark years of fighting, the Great War ends at last, and the world is forever changed. For soldiers, loved ones, and survivors, the years ahead stretch with new promise, even as their hearts are...
Rebels, Volume 1: A Well-Regulated Militia
AuthorBrian Wood
This is 1775. With the War for Independence playing out across the colonies, young Seth and Mercy Abbott find their new marriage tested at every turn as the demands of the frontlines and the home front collide. Not merely rehashing the tales of the most famous men of the time, Rebels details the epic story...
The Drifters
AuthorJames A. Michener
ISBN0449213536
In his triumphant best seller, James Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of six young runaways adrift in a world they have created out of dreams, drugs, and dedication to pleasure. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the dark center of their private world, whether it's in...
Murder on St. Mark's Place
AuthorVictoria Thompson
ISBN0425173615
As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy, birth and death-and even murder. And the crime ridden streets of the teeming city offer little relief from either.

Thinking she has been summoned by German immigrant Agnes Otto to usher...
SEVEN-X
AuthorMike Wech
SEVEN-X is a bone-chilling exploration into the root of evil within us.

Freelance Investigative Reporter Eddie Hansen gets a tip on a missing death row prisoner, Annette Dobson, known as "The SIDS Killer."

Eddie adamantly believes Dobson's execution was staged and that she was...
Brilliant
AuthorMarne Davis Kellogg
ISBN0312991436
Meet Kick Keswick, an elegant and self-possessed American who has been at London's venerable Ballantine & Company Auctioneers for over thirty years. She is an expert on paintings, furniture, and objets d'art, and so far has lived a perfectly happy life with things on her mind other than love.
In...
The Right Sort of Man
AuthorAllison Montclair
ISBN1250178363
"A delightful immersion in the period and personalities, with that touch of depth that transforms a good series to a great one." --Laurie R. King

First comes love, then comes murder.

In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch...
The Typewriter Girl
AuthorAlison Atlee
ISBN1451673256
A passionate historical debut novel about a young woman in turn-of-the-century England who finds love and independence at a seashore resort.

In Victorian London, there’s only so far an unmarried woman can go, and Betsey Dobson has relied on her wits and cunning to take herself as far as she...
Sense & Sensibility
AuthorJoanna Trollope
ISBN0062200461
John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate with Belle Dashwood's daughters. When she descends upon Norland Park with her Romanian nanny and her mood boards, the three Dashwood girls—Elinor,...
Princess Elizabeth's Spy
AuthorSusan Elia MacNeal
ISBN0553593625
Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed début, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot—one that could change the course of history.

As World War II sweeps the continent and...
Decorum
AuthorKaaren Christopherson
ISBN1617735213
Kaaren Christopherson's brilliantly observed novel captures the glamour and grit of one of the world's most dazzling cities during one of its most tumultuous eras--as seen through the eyes of a singularly captivating heroine...

In 1890s New York, beautiful, wealthy Francesca Lund is an...
A Girl Like You
AuthorMichelle Cox
ISBN1631520164
Henrietta von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner bar on Chicago's northwest side. It's 1935, but things still aren't looking up since the big crash and her father's subsequent suicide, leaving Henrietta to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings. Henrietta is eventually persuaded...
The Garden of Letters
AuthorAlyson Richman
ISBN0425266257
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LOST WIFE

Set against the rich backdrop of World War II Italy, Garden of Letters  captures the hope, suspense, and romance of an uncertain era, in an epic intertwining story of first love, great tragedy, and spectacular bravery.

Portofino, Italy,...
Murder at Ochre Court
AuthorAlyssa Maxwell
In the summer of 1898, reporter Emma Cross investigates a shocking death among the bright lights of Newport's high society . . .

After a disappointing year as a society columnist for the Herald and staying with her more well-heeled Vanderbilt relatives in New York City, Emma has returned to...
Styx & Stone
AuthorJames W. Ziskin
ISBN1616148195
Ellie Stone is a professed modern girl in 1960s' New York City, playing by her own rules and breaking boundaries while searching for a killer among the renowned scholars in Columbia University's Italian Department.

"If you were a man, you'd make a good detective."

Ellie Stone is sure...
The Rivals of Versailles
AuthorSally Christie
And you thought sisters were a thing to fear. In this compelling follow-up to Sally Christie's clever and absorbing debut, we meet none other than the Marquise de Pompadour, one of the greatest beauties of her generation and the first bourgeois mistress ever to grace the hallowed halls of Versailles.

I...
The Perks of Loving a Scoundrel
AuthorJennifer McQuiston
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McQuiston continues her enchanting Seduction Diaries series as a bookish spinster and an unrepentant rogue unite to unmask a traitor.

Every girl dreams of a hero . . .

No one loves books more than Miss Mary Channing. Perhaps that’s why...
Eleanor
AuthorJason Gurley
1985. The death of Eleanor's twin sister tears her family apart. Her father blames her mother for the accident. When Eleanor's mother looks at her, she sees only the daughter she lost. Their wounded family crumbles under the weight of their shared grief.

1993. Eleanor is fourteen years old...
Murder on Gramercy Park
AuthorVictoria Thompson
ISBN0425178862
As a midwife in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen her share of suffering and joy, birth and death. Now, she learns that crime doesn’t discriminate, when the highest echelons of society are rocked by murder… A Gaslight Mystery

At a summons from Detective...
Mortal Arts
AuthorAnna Lee Huber
ISBN0425253783
Scotland, 1830. Lady Kiera Darby is no stranger to intrigue—in fact, it seems to follow wherever she goes. After her foray into murder investigation, Kiera must journey to Edinburgh with her family so that her pregnant sister can be close to proper medical care. But the city is full of many things Kiera...
Murder by Matchlight
AuthorE.C.R. Lorac
On a damp November evening in wartime London, a young chemist sits on a bench in Regent's Park and watches as an approaching stranger suddenly disappears beneath a footbridge. Seconds later another figure appears on the same overpass, stops to smoke and discard a cigarette, and strikes a match that...
The Other Lady Vanishes
AuthorAmanda Quick
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California—where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets...

After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate...
Anonymous Sources
AuthorMary Louise Kelly
ISBN1476715548
A fast-paced international thriller in the vein of Janet Evanovich by former NPR anchor and correspondent Mary Louise Kelly, about a Pakistani terrorist's nuclear threat to blow up the White House.

When Boston reporter Alexandra James is assigned to cover the death of Thom Carlyle, the son...
Proving Ground
AuthorPeter Blauner
ISBN1250117445
From New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award winner Peter Blauner comes a gritty new audiobook.

"Ari Fliakos gives a splendid performance. His versatile voice and energy enliven the many characters in this thriller." -- Library Journal

"Ari Fliakos enhances an exciting...
Blood's Echo
AuthorIsabella Maldonado
ISBN0738750808
Whenever the lust for drugs, money, and power lays claim to a city, brutality is never far behind. Phoenix detective Veranda Cruz is dead set on taking down the Villalobos Cartel, but the ruthlessness of her quarry demands a ruthless edge of her own.

Detective Veranda Cruz leads an elite...
Angel Killer
AuthorAndrew Mayne
ISBN0062348876
FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she's left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her . . . until a killer with seemingly supernatural powers puts her talents to the ultimate test.

A hacker who identifies himself only as "Warlock" brings down the FBI's website and posts a code...
Fox
AuthorKelly Oliver
ISBN0997583622
From Award Winning Author, Kelly Oliver

Killer genes are no accident.

When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024