Historical novel

In the vein of Ellis Peters’s Cadfael series.

Who is Matthew Bartholomew?

Coming from Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner’s officer Susanna Gregory (the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys), this series is about Matthew Bartholomew who investigates murders in medieval time. 

Matthew Bartholomew is an unorthodox physician living in fourteenth-century Cambridge. He is a master at the College of Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches medicine.

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A spin-off of the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries.

Who is Daniel Pitt?

Thomas Pitt is a police inspector in Victorian London, married to Charlotte, a woman from an upper-class family who use her connections to the landed gentry and aristocracy to help her husband solve murder investigation. They are both the heroes of one of Anne Perry’s series, the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries.

Now, their son Daniel Pitt is also the hero of his own series. Daniel is not a detective like his father, but a reluctant lawyer in the 1910s who worked to prove his client’s innocence.

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Also known as the “Herring Mysteries.”

Who are Elsie and Ethelred?

Written by British author L. C. Tyler, the Elsie and Ethelred series is a cozy mystery series about a duo of amateur detectives.

More precisely, the series is about Ethelred Tressider, a mid-list crime writer, and his indefatigable, deeply nosy, chocolate-chomping agent Elsie Thirkettle, as they tumble onto murder mysteries to solve.

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A gothic serie in 1830s Scotland.

Who is Lady Darby?

Written by American author Anna Lee Huber, the Lady Dabry Mysteries is a historical mystery series about Lady Kiera Darby, artistic sleuth who uses uses her talent for the macabre to bring murderers to justice in 1830s Scotland.

At the beginning of the series, Lady Darby is the widow of Sir Anthony Darby, a reknowned English anatomist awarded a baronetcy for service to the Crown as surgeon. She is a talented portraitist and used to serves as her late husband’s illustrator, for whom she sketched the cadavers he cut up for the book on anatomy he was writing. When a murder happens, her particular set of skills is put to use…Read More »Lady Darby Mystery Books in Order: How to read Anna Lee Huber’s series?