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Martha wants to read: I'd like to read a mystery, preferably with a historical setting. Some I've enjoyed have been written by Agatha Christie, P. B. Ryan, Victoria Thompson & Carola Dunn, to name a few. ...more

Aug 15, 2017 03:17PM · 1 like · Like

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Location: Stonington, IL

About: I love to read! During college, I practically stopped reading for pleasure which lasted several years. I can't honestly say why except that I was real ...more

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Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, #1)
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Rex Stout

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Aug 15, 2017 04:38PM · 3 likes · Like

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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
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Caleb Carr

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Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)
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Dorothy L. Sayers

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Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon

Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)

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Entry Island
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Peter May (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 15, 2017 10:50PM · 1 like · Like

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The Prisoner in the Opal
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A.E.W. Mason

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Aug 16, 2017 10:28AM · 1 like · Like

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A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew, #1)
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Susanna Gregory

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Aug 16, 2017 10:29AM · 1 like · Like

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Aug 16, 2017 02:07PM · 1 like · Like

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De familie
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Mario Puzo

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The Name of the Rose
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Umberto Eco

she said: " Of course, you may have already this one since it's super famous but it is one of my most favorite books of all time, not just in this genre. A brilliant detective solves the mystery of the murder of a library in a monastery in the middle ages. I fell in love with William of Baskerville, although he's not very romantic. A kind of medieval Sherlock Holmes. ...more "

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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
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C.J. Sansom

she said: " A medieval mystery--a very different take on Thomas Cromwell from the point of view one of his followers. Shardlake has a hump back--one of the few detectives with a disability. "