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C J Sansom. I am hooked! Is there anything similar?

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BendyBob · 26/03/2010 09:44

I'm sure I've cottoned onto this much later than most bookworms on mn. Still better late than never. I have read Dissolution and now coming to the end of Dark Fire.

I'm so hooked, I don't think I'd notice if the house fell down the books are so gripping (wouldn't they make great films?)

I have Sovereign lined up..but then what? Help!

I haven't really read historical crime books before and had no idea I'd enjoy these so much. Where can I go when I have exhausted the wonderful Shardlake? Any suggestions welcome

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janeite · 26/03/2010 19:20

Try Frank Tallis for crime ones set in Freudian Vienna. The first couple are v good, though they get too formulaic later.

Also a series that begins 'Mistress Of The Art Of Death' is quite good.

Also for the original, try The Moonstone and the Sherlock Holmes books.

animula · 26/03/2010 14:02

Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel is the obvious choice, not crime but large overlap.

Q - ?? is about the Reformation in Europe but not crime.

Name of the rose - Umberto Eco is not the same period and is Europe but is crime and historical and religious.

Some experts on historical crime will surely be along shortly.

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