The fictional stories based in history. Some of them are so real you could almost believe that they really happened. Some so fantastical that you only wish they did.

Series

• The Watchmaker’s Daughter by C.J. Archer (Glass and Steele #1)
• The Last Necromancer by C.J. Archer (The Ministry of Curiosities #1)
• The Scarlet Woman by Libba Bray (Gemma Doyle Companion)
• Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine (The Great Library #1)
• Ink, Iron, and Glass by Gwendolyn Clare (Ink, Iron and Glass #1)
• We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal (Sands of Arawiya #1)
• Chain of Charms series by Kate Forsyth
• The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason (Stoker & Holmes #1)
• Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood (Phryne Fisher #21)
• Gene of Isis by Traci Harding (The Mystique Trilogy #1)
• Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn (Tales of the Otori #1)
• His Fair Assassin series by Robin LaFevers
• The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence (Roman Mysteries #1)
• Montague Siblings series by Mackenzi Lee
• The Falconer series by Elizabeth May
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (Bois Sauvage #1)
• Dragonkeeper by Carole Wilkinson (Dragonkeeper #1)

Short story collections

• The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories edited by Maxim Jakubowski

Standalones – Novels

• Prince of Shadows by Rachel Caine
• Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Human Acts by Han Kang
• 11/22/63 by Stephen King
• The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
• The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
• The French Gift by Kirsty Manning
• The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay

Standalones – Short stories

• The Face of the Killer by Violet Addison & David N. Smith
• His Last Victim by K.G. Anderson
• Mr. Splitfoot by Dale Bailey
• Wagers of Gold Mountain by Steve Berman
• Picking Up the Pieces by Pat Cadigan
• In the Wake of the Autumn Storm by Adrian Cole
• Ripper Familias by Terry Davis & Patrick Jones
• Blue Serge by Martin Edwards
• Signed Confession by Martin Feekins
• Kosher by Michael Gregorio
• Charged by Leanna Renee Hieber
• Boiling Point by Alex Howard
• Knowledge of Medicine by Erin N. Kennemer
• A Small Band of Dedicated Men by Andrew Lane
• Into the Mist For Ever by Rosemary Laurey
• Dear Boss by Nic Martin
• A Child of the Darkness by Brett McBean
• The Keys to the Door by William Meikle
• A Head for Murder by Keith Moray
• Flowers of the Chapel by Sarah Morrison
• Bertie by Barbara Nadel
• Martha by Columbkill Noonan
• Phosphorus by Veronica Schanoes
• Trespass by Sally Spedding
• Point of No Return by Jennifer St Giles
• Monkeys by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Unwanted Women of Surrey by Kaaron Warren
• The Jewel in the Toad Queen’s Crown by Jane Yolen

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