Can you recommend a good Victorian Thriller?

[Matildathebrave]

You know with lots of atmosphere and murders and fogy streets?

Trying to find the above with no luck!

Crimson petal and the white

I was going to say Fingersmith but shiney beat me to it...

What about that other one by the same author... Affinity.

Written by a Victorian, or set in Victorian times?

If the former, The Woman in While by Wilkie Collins is fabulous.

White

Anne Perry's series about William Monk, of the Thames river police.

The Woman In White or The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins. Brilliant.

The American Boy - Andrew Taylor - not Victorian but nicely atmospheric.

Some Conan Doyle?

Frankenstein. Dracula. The Invisible Man.

Dorian Grey.

I like The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins if you want something a bit more off the beaten track. Edgar Allen Poe?

I was going to suggest The Moonstone and The Woman in White also :).

Thanks all. Yes I did mean set in Victorian times, off to have a look at your recommendations on Amazon

ooooh ooh you must read this dora damage

Yes to, 'Dora Damage' - I thoroughly enjoyed it.

try any of the collected ghost stories of MR James. I know it's not strictly what you're asking for, but they do have heaps of Victorian atmosphere and spookiness.

Was going to suggest Wilkie Collins or MR James. Or you can't beat a good Sherlock Holmes.

Not a thriller as such more a whodunnit but have you read The Suspicions of Mr Whicher?

Or The Turn of the Screw by Henry James more horror but very atmospheric.

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Moonstone is really good. And quite funny in places.
Must see if Woman in White is free on Kindle as well.

Not quite what you're asking for, but you might want to try "Lady Audley's Secret" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (has been in print again recently).

'Sleep Pale Sister' by Joanne Harris - not brilliant, but v. Victorian :)

^Sleep, Pale Sister, a powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic evocation of Victorian artistic life, was originally published before Joanne Harris achieved worldwide recognition with Chocolat.

Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her.

Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken.

Drawn into a dangerous underworld of prostitution, murder and blackmail, she must finally plan her revenge.^

Urg, italics-fail.

I was disappointed by 'Lady Audley's Secret' as the writer kept interrupting her own plot to go on and on about stuff. It really annoyed me. Without that, the story itself is quite good fun.

I agree Remus, I was very disappointed with Lady Audley and struggled to get to the end- also the "big secret" was glaringly obvious. I would second Crimson Petal, Fingersmith and also Affinity. You could try Dr Jekell and Mr Hyde or some Dickens or Wilkie Collins.

I agree with those who've recommended the woman in white by Wilkie Collins. I read it years ago and loved it. I have just downloaded The Moonstone (free) from iBooks on the strength of this thread.

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Can I also recommend Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood? Not written by a Victorian, but (if I remember correctly) set in Victorian times. And a brilliant read.