Recommendations please?

[rachel2210]

I absolutely loved the Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen. I loved the way it went back and forth from nearly 200 years ago to present day.

 

Do any of you know of any books that are similar?

Thanks

Rachel:)

[Chrissy]

The book that immediately sprang into my mind was 'The House On The Strand' by Daphne Du Maurier. A beautiful read.

[Kidsmum]

I've not read The Bone Garden but i'd second The House on the Strand as a good read.

[madcow]

Another couple of books which go back and forth in time are Kate Morton's books The House At Riverton and The Forgotten Garden. Although they are not crime stories I enjoyed them.

[rachel2210]

Thank you, I'm off now to the library!

[Maureen]

What about The Mathematics of Love? My review here

[Readwine]

Three come to mind: The Darwin Conspiracy by John Darnton (on my wishlist):

 

Darwin's theories have been under attack since he first published The Origin of Species in 1859, but this grandly ambitious novel goes a few steps further to intimate that he was a fraud—and a murderer. Told by turns from three perspectives, the story opens in the present on a volcanic outcrop off the coast of Ecuador where Hugh Kellem, a British field researcher, while tracing Darwin's research path, meets Beth Dulcimer, a beautiful scientist rumored to be distantly related to Darwin. A quick shift shows an ambitious young Darwin about to embark on the Beagle. A little further on, Darwin's youngest daughter, Lizzie, enters via her journal entries, written in the 1870s, decades after Darwin's famous five-year voyage. As the three perspectives unfold, Hugh and Beth find themselves trying to solve the same mystery that intrigued Lizzie 130 years earlier: what happened on the "nuit de feu," the night that transformed the confident, robust Darwin into a haunted near-invalid for his remaining years? Stilted dialogue, perfunctory romance and expendable subplots make for a rough voyage, but Darnton (Neanderthal) puts real passion into his historical imaginings and recreations: the revelation of the "true" origin of the theory of evolution is particularly inspired and more than enough to sustain another Darntonian bestseller.

 

And Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

 

Mosse's page-turner takes readers on another quest for the Holy Grail, this time with two closely linked female protagonists born 800 years apart. In 2005, Alice Tanner stumbles into a hidden cave while on an archeological dig in southwest France. Her discovery—two skeletons and a labyrinth pattern engraved on the wall and on a ring—triggers visions of the past and propels her into a dangerous race against those who want the mystery of the cave for themselves. Ala

[madcow]

Oh I forgot about Labyrinth - another good read

[rachel2210]

I got Labyrinth from the library about a year ago and just couldn't get into it (probably because I was organising a wedding at the time!). I think now though I may give it another go

[rachel2210]

Hello everyone,

 

Can anyone recommend any good historical murder mystery books set in either England or America up to around 300 years ago?

 

I have not long read Tess Gerritsen's The Bone Garden and loved the way it went back and forth from present day to the 1800's.

 

Any suggestions?

[Roland Butter]

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe is one which has stood the test of time. As classics go, it's one of the classic-est ...

[Firestar]

If you still want to find a book that goes from the past to the present you might like 'Endymion spring' By Matthew Skelton.

It's about a book that was magically sealed hundreds of years ago(if i recall correctly it was the 15th century), and can only be opened when the book tastes worthy blood. Then in oxford, modern day, a boy is browsing through a library when his finger is pricked on a book, and events unfold from there.

 

i would reccomend you give it a try!