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Sovereign
Sovereign is a 2006 historical mystery novel by C. J. Sansom and the third book in the Matthew Shardlake series. Set in 1541, it sends the lawyer Shardlake to York during Henry VIII's royal progress through northern England, where he undertakes an assignment connected with a political prisoner. The...
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The top alternative to Sovereign in 2026 is Five Little Pigs with a score of 9.18/10, followed by Red Harvest (9.12) and The Daughter of Time (9.06).
Five Little Pigs
Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, first published in 1942, gives Hercule Poirot a murder whose immediate evidence has...
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett's first novel, Red Harvest, appeared in 1929 after serialization in Black Mask. Its narrator is the unn...
The Daughter of Time
Confined to a hospital bed, Inspector Alan Grant turns to a historical question in Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time,...
The Hollow Man
Two apparently impossible murders draw Dr. Gideon Fell into John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man, published in 1935 and is...
The Devotion of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X, a Japanese crime novel published in 2005, is a full-length entry in the Det...
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Published in 1986 under Ruth Rendell's Barbara Vine pseudonym, A Dark-Adapted Eye examines a family's past through the r...
In the Woods
Tana French's 2007 debut novel In the Woods introduces the Dublin Murder Squad through Detective Rob Ryan's investigatio...
A Murder is Announced
Published in 1950, Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced turns a newspaper notice into the starting point for a Miss M...
The Galton Case
A wealthy family's missing heir brings California private investigator Lew Archer into The Galton Case, Ross Macdonald's...
A Fatal Inversion
Ruth Rendell's A Fatal Inversion, published in 1987 under her Barbara Vine name, begins with the discovery of human rema...
Curtain
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is an Agatha Christie detective novel featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings....
A Taste for Death
A Taste for Death is a 1986 detective novel by P. D. James featuring Scotland Yard commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. Th...
Murder Must Advertise
Murder Must Advertise is a 1933 detective novel by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring the aristocratic investigator Lord Peter...
The Black Echo
The Black Echo is Michael Connelly's 1992 debut novel and the first book featuring Los Angeles Police Department detecti...
Some Buried Caesar
Some Buried Caesar is a 1939 detective novel by Rex Stout featuring private investigator Nero Wolfe and his assistant an...
Dissolution
Dissolution is a 2003 historical mystery novel by C. J. Sansom and the first book in the Matthew Shardlake series. Set i...
Revelation
Revelation is a 2008 historical mystery novel by C. J. Sansom and the fourth installment in the Matthew Shardlake series...
The Wench is Dead
The Wench Is Dead is a 1989 detective novel by Colin Dexter featuring Inspector Morse. Confined to a hospital in Oxford,...
A Caribbean Mystery
A Caribbean Mystery is a 1964 detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring the elderly amateur investigator Miss Marple....
The Devil and the Dark Water
The Devil and the Dark Water is a 2020 historical mystery novel by British author Stuart Turton. Set in 1634 aboard a Du...
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