Mary Renault
The King Must Die and many of her other novels. Historical fiction Ancient Greece. Loved these.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DCGJ6UO/...I28P97WQ82IPVH
The Eagle has Landed by Jack Higgins WWII
http://www.amazon.com/Eagle-Landed-L...gle+has+landed
Penmarric by Susan Howatch loved this when I first read it. Kind of de Maurier in feel. Family saga with a gothic touch.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009DA5FXU/...I3P9VQAS1OGN9E
Katherine by Anya Seton great historical novel 14 c. England (John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008454XNS/...I3FVWQOR83XMAM
God is an Englishman, R. F. Delderfield great saga on a grand scale. Starts mid 19th c.
http://www.amazon.com/God-Englishman...+an+englishman
The
Poldark novels by Winston Graham historical novels from the late 18th c. England.
http://www.amazon.com/Ross-Poldark-N...ywords=poldark
The Dorothy Sayers Peter Wimsey mysteries.
http://www.amazon.com/Unnatural-Deat...dorothy+sayers
Highly recommend all of the above and more....
It is interesting, there are some Georgette Heyers,
http://www.amazon.com/Regency-Buck-G...eorgette+heyer, and Heyer mysteries
http://www.amazon.com/Blunt-Instrume...eorgette+heyer but not all of them, enough to hook someone though. I have them all and have read them all many times. The same with other authors, a few books by a prolific author. A good technique to get us to buy, eventually.
There are lots of mystery series or parts of. Some of the mysteries are old classics like Rinehart, John Gardner, Leslie Charteris (The Saint), Lawrence Sanders, etc. I was really surprised!
And this too:
Montalbano's First Case by Camilleri a novella
Oh and
The Coroner's Lunch by Cotterill great mystery series.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J52G3ZA/...I2DRUXM0R9HLN2
After perusing through the books, found about 150 that I might want to read or reread. So am doing the free month, and probably much longer, though I have way too many books to read already!
Also if anyone knits or crochets check out the non fiction.