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Historical Detective Books
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The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,063 ratings — published 1982
The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,743 ratings — published 1983
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.96 — 45,935 ratings — published 1977
The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,435 ratings — published 1986
The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,436 ratings — published 1991
One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.07 — 18,613 ratings — published 1979
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.89 — 40,882 ratings — published 1951
Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,938 ratings — published 2010
Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,040 ratings — published 1981
The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,056 ratings — published 1986
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.14 — 408,983 ratings — published 1980
The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,461 ratings — published 1989
Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,677 ratings — published 1980
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.06 — 64,018 ratings — published 2003
Goldstein (Gereon Rath, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,538 ratings — published 2010
The Athenian Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,958 ratings — published 2001
Der stumme Tod (Gereon Rath, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,541 ratings — published 2009
Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.40 — 17,024 ratings — published 2018
El quinto evangelio (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.28 — 548 ratings — published 1993
Recipe For Treason (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #3)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,418 ratings — published 2012
The Monster of St. Marylebone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.31 — 45 ratings — published 1999
The Railway Viaduct (The Railway Detective, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,605 ratings — published 2006
Inspector of the Dead (Thomas De Quincey, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,412 ratings — published 2015
The Iron Horse (The Railway Detective #4)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,331 ratings — published 2007
Murder on the Brighton Express (The Railway Detective #5)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,490 ratings — published 2007
The Eight (The Eight, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,693 ratings — published 1988
The Excursion Train (The Railway Detective #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,918 ratings — published 2005
The Railway Detective (The Railway Detective, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,697 ratings — published 2004
The Last Templar (Knights Templar, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,311 ratings — published 1995
The Chinese Lake Murders (Rechter Tie-mysteries, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,833 ratings — published 1960
The Glass House (Captain Lacey, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,251 ratings — published 2004
A Regimental Murder (Captain Lacey, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,614 ratings — published 2004
The Hanover Square Affair (Captain Lacey, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,817 ratings — published 2003
The Death of Achilles (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,526 ratings — published 1998
A Corpse at St Andrews Chapel (Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon Chronicles #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,371 ratings — published 2009
Murder on the Leviathan (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,725 ratings — published 1998
The Turkish Gambit (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,318 ratings — published 1998
The Red Door (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #12)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,787 ratings — published 2009
The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,956 ratings — published 1998
Resurrection Row (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,919 ratings — published 1981
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.00 — 81,369 ratings — published 1975
An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,404 ratings — published 1985
The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #14)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,517 ratings — published 1987
Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,403 ratings — published 1994
Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.37 — 28,625 ratings — published 2008
The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,263 ratings — published 1988
Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #9)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,344 ratings — published 1984
The Potter's Field (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #17)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,710 ratings — published 1989
The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #5)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,885 ratings — published 1981
Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as historical-detective)
avg rating 4.26 — 34,201 ratings — published 2006
