mystery recs

[oracne]

If you've read any good mysteries lately, particularly historical mysteries, please tell me about them!

I'm currently reading C. S. Harris (Regency England) and Deanna Raybourn (Victorian England). I've already come to love Lindsey Davis (Flavian Rome).

EDITED TO ADD: My older posts on mysteries, at least the ones I had the foresight to tag.

Comments

[gnomi]

I just finished Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell. It's a contemporary mystery, but it's all about a search for a missing Shakespeare play, so there's a lot of history woven in.

[altariel]

You've almost certainly read them already, but I've only just got into the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, and devoured Monk's-Hood last week.

mraltariel and I have both just got hooked on Edmund Crispin's Gervase Fen novels: they're not period exactly - he was writing them in the 40s and 50s, and that's when they're set. The Moving Toyshop is the most well-known one.

[oracne]

Yep, I read the Cadfael books when they were coming out. Have you seen the tv adaptation yet? Stars Sir Derek Fucking Jacobi, woo! Also Sean Pertwee [slurp], for some of them.

[altariel]

I saw a few of them a while back but *drops voice to whisper* I didn't like Jacobi in the part!

[oracne]

I guess I can forgive you. I, for one, was disappointed when Sean Pertwee was replaced with some other guy who did not have a sexy voice.

It's true that Jacobi played Cadfael as more Claudius-like than I envision Cadfael from the books.

[mamculuna]

Steven Saylor rocks on! Also Rome, starts with Cicero's first speech (in his first book) and now up to the death of JC.

[oracne]

Yep, I rec the Ross mysteries. *is sad there are not more*

I think someone on LJ originally recced them to me!

[oyceter]

You may have already read these, but I'm in the middle of the second book in Sarah Smith's The Vanished Child series (starts with The Vanished Child, then goes on to The Knowledge of Water and another one I can't remember).

They're set in 1910 America and France, and there's a lot of character development and relationships along with the mystery, and I really like that it does a Sayers-esque examination of a woman's choices in this time period.

[oracne]

Yep, read those and loved them. She was working on a fourth book a while back, but went on to another project, and then another. *sigh*

I wrote about them here:
http://oracne.livejournal.com/711691.html

[oyceter]

Ooh, thanks for the link, will read once I get through them!