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Books to Read if You Like Sherlock Holmes

Books to Read if You Like Sherlock Holmes

Looking for some books to read this weekend? These new releases have plenty of wit, mystery, suspense, and more! Check out these 6 must-read books for fans of Sherlock Holmes.


Verity Easton

by M. Rebecca Wildsmith

Release Date: February 1, 2023

Verity accompanies her father from England to Egypt to locate the tomb of Nefertiti for the British Museum. Strange events, nightmares, and murder seem to follow Verity as she explores the mysteries of the land of her late mother. Will she be able to come to terms with her connection to the past before it’s too late?

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Murder at Haven’s Rock

by Kelley Armstrong

Release Date: February 21, 2023

New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction. Murder at Haven’s Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start… with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins.

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The Cliff’s Edge (Bess Crawford Mysteries Book 13)

by Charles Todd

Release Date: February 14, 2023

Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured. The police are asking questions, and Bess is quickly drawn into the fray as two once close families take sides, even as they are forced to remain in the same house until the inquest is completed.

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Murder in the Mews (Redmond and Haze Mysteries)

by Irina Shapiro

Release Date: February 7, 2023

When the Earl of Granville is skewered with a pitchfork in his own stables, Inspector Haze and Lord Redmond must unearth decades-old family secrets in order to unravel the motive behind the murder. But just when they think they’re making headway, disturbing new revelations come to light and cast doubt on their findings. As Redmond and Haze finally inch closer to the truth, a faceless enemy will stop at nothing to keep them from uncovering it.

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The Augustus Mandrell Thrillers Books 1–3

by Frank McAuliffe

Release Date: February 15, 2023

‘Exciting, hard-edged, full of tradecraft, whimsical eccentricity and rough-hewn philosophy.’ LEE CHILD ‘Mandrell combines the gallows humour of the first grave-digger of Hamlet, the elusiveness of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the deductive powers of Sherlock Holmes, the assassin soul of James Bond and the raffish charm of Raffles.’ Cleveland Plain Dealer Fans of Len Deighton, Ian Fleming, George Macdonald Fraser and Frederick Forsyth will devour this classic spy series full of twists.

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Every Man a King

by Walter Mosley

Release Date: February 21, 2023

In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning “master of craft and narrative,” Walter Mosley, Joe King Oliver is entangled in a dangerous case when he’s asked to investigate whether a white nationalist is being unjustly set up.

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