Best Historical Crime

1
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,753 members
335 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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2
The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
10,457 members
262 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
Sovereign
by C. J. Sansom
2,708 members
96 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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4
The Cater Street Hangman
by Anne Perry
1,916 members
71 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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5
The House of Silk
by Anthony Horowitz
3,546 members
172 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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6
Mistress of the Art of Death
by Ariana Franklin
4,283 members
256 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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8
Instruments of Darkness
by Imogen Robertson
656 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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9
The Return of Captain John Emmett
by Elizabeth Speller
512 members
43 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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10
Cocaine Blues
by Kerry Greenwood
1,964 members
136 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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11
The Pale Blue Eye
by Louis Bayard
1,217 members
46 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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12
An Empty Death
by Laura Wilson
117 members
4 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
13
Roman Blood
by Steven Saylor
1,648 members
42 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
14
The Athenian Murders
by José Carlos Somoza
838 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
jburlinson
15
The Crimson Rooms
by Katharine McMahon
287 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Soupdragon
16
Anatomy of Murder
by Imogen Robertson
284 members
19 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
17
A Free Man of Color
by Barbara Hambly
1,005 members
41 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
18
Death Comes as Epiphany
by Sharan Newman
521 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
elkiedee
19
Island of Bones
by Imogen Robertson
265 members
11 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
20
A Rich Full Death
by Michael Didbin
262 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
jburlinson
21
The Red Pavilion
by Robert van Gulik
497 members
12 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
22
The Pericles Commission
by Gary Corby
223 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Chatterbox
23
The Office of the Dead
by Andrew Taylor
178 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
24
Martyr
by Rory Clements
561 members
29 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
Chatterbox
25
Death of a Nationalist
by Rebecca Pawel
285 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
26
The Silver Pigs
by Lindsey Davis
2,600 members
88 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
27
The Janissary Tree
by Jason Goodwin
1,653 members
71 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Chatterbox
28
The Complaint of the Dove
by Hannah March
72 members
2 reviews
4
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Chatterbox
29
One Corpse Too Many
by Ellis Peters
3,041 members
71 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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30
Dissolution
by C. J. Sansom
4,698 members
205 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
31
A Distinction of Blood
by Hannah March
60 members
½ 3.6
Member
Chatterbox
32
An Air That Kills
by Andrew Taylor
149 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Member
elkiedee
33
The Devil's Highway
by Hannah March
78 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
Chatterbox
34
The Ashes of London
by Andrew Taylor
716 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
elkiedee
35
Death Be My Theme
by Hannah March
27 members
5
Member
Chatterbox
36
The Devil in the Marshalsea
by Antonia Hodgson
420 members
20 reviews
3.9
Member
elkiedee
37
Dark Fire
by C. J. Sansom
2,871 members
121 reviews
4.1
Member
elkiedee
38
Heartstone
by C. J. Sansom
1,863 members
70 reviews
4.2
Member
Chatterbox
39
Revelation
by C. J. Sansom
2,249 members
70 reviews
4.2
Member
Chatterbox
40
Curtain Call
by Anthony Quinn
138 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
elkiedee
41
The Way of All Flesh
by Ambrose Parry
498 members
37 reviews
3.8
Member
elkiedee
42
The Rhetoric of Death
by Judith Rock
164 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
Chatterbox
43
A Poisoned Season
by Tasha Alexander
1,111 members
52 reviews
3.8
Member
Chatterbox
44
Death of a Stranger
by Anne Perry
805 members
18 reviews
3.8
Member
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