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message 1: by [deleted user] (new)

I am in LOVE with the Mrs Jefferies series...can ANYONE tell me if there are any other British Series like it? Victorian household help solving mystery type series....just love the characters and coziness in Emily Brightwell books...thank you...
Martha


message 2: by Nell (last edited Feb 07, 2015 09:50AM) (new)

Nell | 3410 comments Mod
I don't know of another series exactly like that one.
P.B. Ryan has a series set in post Civil War Boston with a governess. The first is Still Life With Murder. For Victorian era, there's Robin Paige's series featuring an American writer living in England with her husband, an English peer.

There are series that feature a housekeeper as sleuth but most of them are modern. And there are several series set during the 1800s.

Is it the time period? the household help as protagonist? or the historical British setting that you like the most? There are a number of mysteries that fall into each category but not all three.


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Time period along with household help


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Rosemary | 32 comments m.c. beaton is a fairly modern woman who becomes a P.I. VERY GOOD STORIES , VERY GOOD MYSTERIES AND VERY FUNNY. ALSO SHE HAS A SERIES WHO'SE HERO IS A SCOT NAMED HAMMISH MACBETH , SAME THING GOOD STORY GOOD MYSTERY AND FUNNY THIS ONE TAKES PLACE IN THE HIGHLANDS i LOVED THEM ALL . i ALSO LOVED MRS. JEFFERIES


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Rosemary | 32 comments ALSO REMEMBERED ANTHER AUTHOR . ELIZABETH PETERS. ABOUT THE TRIALS AND MYSTERIES OF AN ARCEOLOGIST AND HIS WIFE AMELIA VERY GOOD AND SHE IS PROLIFIC


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I found a new series similar.. 2 books so far.. By Susanna Calkins.. I've read the others posted but they are not similar I'm a 66yr old avid reader of British mysteries other cozy n not so have read most. Emily Brightwell is just about my favorite next to MC Beaton.. And Ann Perry..


message 7: by Nell (last edited Feb 08, 2015 03:55AM) (new)

Nell | 3410 comments Mod
Here is a link to mysteries set during the 1800s
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/His...

This list is not limited to cozy mysteries. Most of the mysteries set during that era have members of the peer or early detective force as main characters. I like the the Lady Julia Grey series by Deanna Raybourn.

Have you read The Thief Taker by Janet Gleeson? The protagonist is a cook in a London household. It's a historical mystery but it may be 18th century.


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they sound just grand Nell...thank you so much...I shall look them up for sure!!!


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