The Piccadilly Plot by Susanna Gregory

In Restoration London, Thomas Chaloner is summoned to London by his master, the Earl of Clarendon to investigate the theft of material from Clarendon’s embarrassingly sumptuous new house. But within hours Chaloner discovers threats of assassination, a stolen corpse, and a scheme to frame the Queen for treason.

Anatomy of Murder by Imogen Robertson

London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of her husband, a ship’s captain who has been gravely injured in the king’s naval battles with France. As London’s streets seethe with rumor, a body is dragged from the murky waters of the Thames. The indomitable Mrs. Westerman and her reclusive sidekick, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, are once again called on to investigate.

When Maidens Mourn by C.S. Harris

In 1812, when Gabrielle Tennyson is murdered, aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new reluctant bride, the fiercely independent Hero Jarvis, find themselves involved in an intrigue concerning the myth of King Arthur, Camelot, and a future poet laureate.

Dying in the Wool by Frances Brody

1920s Yorkshire is a peaceful spot. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens. Until the day that Master of the Mill Joshua Braithwaite goes missing. Now Joshua’s daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding her father. Who better to investigate than Kate Shackleton?

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