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Sleuths Set in the Decades
1930s
Someone to watch over me by Jill Churchill
Damned in paradise : a Nathan Heller novel by Max Allan Collins
1940s
Murder at the president's door : an Eleanor Roosevelt mystery by Elliott Roosevelt
Murder in the rue de Paradis by Cara Black
Historical Mysteries — Male Detectives
Sister Pelagia and the red cockerel : a novel by Boris Akunin ; translated by Andrew Bromfield
Spectres in the smoke by Tony Broadbent
Alexandria by Lindsey Davis
Death of a wine merchant by David Dickinson
Sherlock Holmes Wannabes
The Star of India : a novel of Sherlock Holmes by Carole Buggé
The alienist by Caleb Carr
The final solution : a story of detection by Michael Chabon
Deadly season by Tim Champlin
Historical Mysteries — Female Detectives
Mark of the lion by Suzanne M. Arruda
The siren queen : an Ursula Blanchard mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's court by Fiona Buckley
Dangerous practice by Clare Curzon
Beacon Street mourning : a Freemont Jones mystery by Dianne Day
Well-written, Character-driven Books
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Mr. X by Peter Straub
- Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy starting with volume 1 When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
- the works of Anne Tyler, her first is Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- the works of Elizabeth Berg, including Never Change
Teen Paranormal / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Need by Carrie Jones
Uglies. 1 by Scott Westerfeld
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Leviathan by written by Scott Westerfeld ; illustrated by Keith Thompson
Teen Mysteries With Romance
Bad kitty by Michele Jaffe
A spy in the house by Y.S. Lee
Rose cottage by Mary Stewart
Heist society by Ally Carter
Detecting Detroit
Mystery Series
A stolen season : an Alex McKnight novel by Steve Hamilton
American detective by Loren D. Estleman
Better than sex a mystery featuring Anneke Haagen by Susan Holtzer
Concrete hero : a Ben Perkins mystery by Rob Kantner
Mystery Women
A spoonful of poison by M.C. Beaton
A cat named Brat : an Alice Nestleton mystery by Lydia Adamson
Tomb of the golden bird by Elizabeth Peters
Borderline by Nevada Barr
Death By The Decades
1930s
The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Peril at end house by Agatha Christie
Murder in the Oval Office by Elliott Roosevelt
Night over water by Ken Follett
1940s
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy