Book Match

If you like books by Victoria Johnson, you may like these suggestions. Here are some other historical mystery series, most of which can be described as novels of manners, with strong period details, and relationships which grow despite societal class distinctions. Enjoy!

Cordelia Frances Biddle - Martha Beale/Thomas Kelman series

If you liked The Da Vinci Code because of its thrilling chases and suspense, you may enjoy these titles:

Sandstorm
by James Rollins
“Ubar, a lost city buried beneath the Arabian Desert, is more than mere legend, and something astonishing waits there.”—catalog summary.  This is the first in the Sigma Force series by Rollins.

If you like "One Shot" by Lee Child, you may also like these titles and authors:

Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn.
In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director Irene Kennedy and operative Mitch Kelly are dispatched to the Middle East to diffuse Iran's sworn retaliation against the United States. (Catalog summary)

Nancy Thayer wrote the "Hot Flash Club" books, which always feature smart, sassy, sexy women - perhaps past the first blush of youth. If you are looking for books like those, then you may like:

These book lists in the Reading Room: 

•  Mid-Life Madness: stories for People of a Certain Age
• Marriage Can be Murder
• Later Love
• That Would be Ma'am to You

Some specific titles you may enjoy:

If you like magical realism, here are some titles you might enjoy:

"The New York Trilogy: City of Glass: Ghosts: The Locked Room"
by Paul Auster
A surrealist take on hard-boiled private eye mysteries. Fast-paced, puzzling and fun.

If you liked "Little Earthquakes" by Jennifer Weiner, you may also like these titles and authors:

"Some Nerve" by Jane Heller

 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer is charming and comprised of letters. Epistolary fiction is one of my favorite literary devices. If you liked this book, you may also like:

Which Brings Me to You by Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott

 If you like Where Dreams Begin by Lisa Kleypas, you might also like these titles and authors.

THE LAST SUMMER (OF YOU AND ME) by Anna Brashares covers the themes of sisters and family and love and heartbreak with poignancy and humor.

Two lists with similar stories are "A Friend in Need" and "Dating and other Disasters of Modern Life".

Some other books you may enjoy:

If you like books by Faye Kellerman, you may also like...

Take a look at the Reading Room: