Best Historical Crime

1
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
19,551 members
312 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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2
The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
9,505 members
250 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
Sovereign
by C. J. Sansom
2,424 members
91 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
The Cater Street Hangman
by Anne Perry
1,790 members
67 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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5
The House of Silk
by Anthony Horowitz
2,895 members
156 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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6
Mistress of the Art of Death
by Ariana Franklin
4,008 members
251 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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8
Instruments of Darkness
by Imogen Robertson
611 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
Chatterbox, jenniferw88
9
The Return of Captain John Emmett
by Elizabeth Speller
480 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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10
Cocaine Blues
by Kerry Greenwood
1,791 members
130 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
raidergirl3, aulsmith
11
The Pale Blue Eye
by Louis Bayard
1,105 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
jburlinson
12
An Empty Death
by Laura Wilson
109 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
13
Roman Blood
by Steven Saylor
1,531 members
42 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
14
The Athenian Murders
by José Carlos Somoza
774 members
29 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
jburlinson
15
The Crimson Rooms
by Katharine McMahon
271 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Soupdragon
16
Anatomy of Murder
by Imogen Robertson
263 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Chatterbox
17
A Free Man of Color
by Barbara Hambly
916 members
38 reviews
4
Member
aulsmith
18
Death Comes as Epiphany
by Sharan Newman
481 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
elkiedee
19
A Rich Full Death
by Michael Dibdin
250 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
jburlinson
20
Island of Bones
by Imogen Robertson
239 members
11 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
21
The Red Pavilion
by Robert van Gulik
448 members
11 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
22
The Pericles Commission
by Gary Corby
203 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Chatterbox
23
The Office of the Dead
by Andrew Taylor
166 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
24
Martyr
by Rory Clements
518 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Chatterbox
25
Death of a Nationalist
by Rebecca Pawel
268 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
26
The Silver Pigs
by Lindsey Davis
2,393 members
80 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
27
The Janissary Tree
by Jason Goodwin
1,559 members
66 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Chatterbox
28
The Complaint of the Dove
by Hannah March
71 members
3 reviews
4.1
Member
Chatterbox
29
One Corpse Too Many
by Ellis Peters
2,763 members
64 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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30
Dissolution
by C. J. Sansom
4,195 members
196 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
31
A Distinction of Blood
by Hannah March
58 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
Chatterbox
32
An Air That Kills
by Andrew Taylor
143 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
elkiedee
33
The Devil's Highway
by Hannah March
77 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Chatterbox
34
The Ashes of London
by Andrew Taylor
567 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
elkiedee
35
Death Be My Theme
by Hannah March
28 members
1 review
5
Member
Chatterbox
36
The Devil in the Marshalsea
by Antonia Hodgson
367 members
20 reviews
4
Member
elkiedee
37
Dark Fire
by C. J. Sansom
2,560 members
115 reviews
4.1
Member
elkiedee
38
Heartstone
by C. J. Sansom
1,619 members
69 reviews
4.2
Member
Chatterbox
39
Revelation
by C. J. Sansom
2,005 members
67 reviews
4.2
Member
Chatterbox
40
Curtain Call
by Anthony Quinn
109 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
elkiedee
41
The Way of All Flesh
by Ambrose Parry
395 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
42
The Rhetoric of Death
by Judith Rock
153 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Chatterbox
43
A Poisoned Season
by Tasha Alexander
1,027 members
49 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
44
Death of a Stranger
by Anne Perry
741 members
14 reviews
3.8
Member
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