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Before We Were Yours

By Lisa Wingate

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The Only One Left

By Riley Sager

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Black Velvet and Vengeance

By Deborah Challinor

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Black Silk and Sympathy

By Deborah Challinor

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The Benevolent Society Of Ill-Mannered Ladies

By Alison Goodman

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Black Silk and Buried Secrets

By Deborah Challinor

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The Girl with the Suitcase

By Lesley Pearse

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The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin

By Alison Goodman

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The Apothecary Diaries 01 (Light Novel)

By Natsu Hyuuga

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The Crash

By Kate Furnivall

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The Medici Return

By Steve Berry

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

By Stuart Turton

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The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives

By Elizabeth Arnott

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The Luminaries

By Eleanor Catton

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Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective

By Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar

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The Tangled Web

By Tea Cooper

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The Ghost Tree

By Barbara Erskine

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Child of the Ruins

By Kate Furnivall

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The Bookbinder’s Secret

By A. D. Bell

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The Winter Garden

By Nicola Cornick

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A Murder in Paris

By Matthew Blake

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Murder at Holly House

By Denzil Meyrick

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The Devil and the Dark Water

By Stuart Turton

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The Wife, the Maid and the Mistress

By Ariel Lawhon

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Ashes in the Snow

By Oriana Ramunno

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The Distant Echo

By Val McDermid

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The Daughter Of Time

By Josephine Tey

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A Modern Detective

By Edgar Allan Poe

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Traitors Gate

By Jeffrey Archer

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The Hobart Hotel: The new must-read 2026 Tasmanian historical novel about a jewel-thief-turned-spy.

By Mary-Lou Stephens

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The Devil's Bible

By Steve Berry

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The Last Death of the Year

By Sophie Hannah

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The Last Garden in England

By Julia Kelly

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Murder in Mesopotamia

By Agatha Christie

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Liar

By Lesley Pearse

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The Good Wife of Bath

By Karen Brooks

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The Greek House

By Dinah Jefferies

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Act of Oblivion

By Robert Harris

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The Violinist’s Secret

By M.J. Hollows

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Perspectives

By Laurent Binet

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Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel

By Lucy Foley

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The Apothecary Diaries 07 (Light Novel)

By Natsu Hyuuga

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The Apothecary Diaries 05 (Light Novel)

By Natsu Hyuuga

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Bookish

By Matthew Sweet

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The Samurai Detectives: Volume 1

By Shotaro Ikenami

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The Murder at World’s End

By Ross Montgomery

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The Apothecary Diaries 02 (Light Novel)

By Natsu Hyuuga

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Smoke in Berlin

By Oriana Ramunno

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Greater Sins

By Gabrielle Griffiths

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The Samurai Detectives: Volume 2

By Shotaro Ikenami

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Venetian Vespers

By John Banville

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The Reluctant Heiress

By Dilly Court

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The Railway Detective's Christmas Case

By Edward Marston

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The Apothecary Diaries 06 (Light Novel)

By Natsu Hyuuga

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Death Under a Little Sky

By Stig Abell

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The Blood Tide

By Neil Lancaster

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The Apothecary Diaries 04 (Light Novel)

By Natsu Hyuuga

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The Monogram Murders

By Sophie Hannah

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Over My Dead Body

By Jeffrey Archer

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Next in Line

By Jeffrey Archer

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MIDSUMMER MYSTERIES: Secrets and Suspense from the Queen of Crime

By Agatha Christie

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You'll Never See Me Again

By Lesley Pearse

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Betrayal

By Lesley Pearse

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By Her Hand

By Marion Taffe

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The Masterpiece

By Belinda Alexandra

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The Queen Who Came in from the Cold

By S.J. Bennett

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The Final Problem

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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Sound Mind Dead Body

By Dave Warner

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The Custom House Murder

By Mike Hollow

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Daughters of Rome

By Kate Quinn

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The Afterlife of Harry Playford

By Steven Carroll

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The Soho Murder

By Mike Hollow

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The Watchmaker's War

By Danny Ben-Moshe

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The Burial Plot

By Elizabeth Macneal

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The Nurses' War

By Victoria Purman

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The Blitz Detective

By Mike Hollow

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Last Seen in Santorini

By Vivian Conroy

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Island of Secrets

By Rachel Rhys

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The Apothecary Diaries 03 (Light Novel)

By Natsu Hyuuga

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A Disappearance in Fiji

By Nilima Rao

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