You can never have too much regency. Have you read Georgette Heyer? She's better known for her Georgian/Regency romances, but her mysteries/thrillers are also good, and a few of her novels have elements of both. Another series that might appeal is Miranda Carter's Blake & Avery novels, beginning with The Strangler Vine. Carter utilises the dual-protagonist model, in the tradition of Holmes-Watson and Aubrey-Maturin. Set in 1830s India under the EIC, Blake is essentially Kipling's Kim, but grown-up and jaded with his role as an agent for the Company, whereas Avery is a bluff, country gentleman, freshly dispatched as a junior officer to join the Bengal army. Blake is the sly, intellectual one, whereas Avery is slow-on-the-uptake, naive but good in a fight. The plot is set against Sleeman's campaign against the thugs (and Carter, being an historian, provides some interesting perspectives on the revisionist take) with some EIC political skullduggery thrown in - a terrifically atmospheric study of India a few decades before the Raj. The next two novels transport Blake & Avery back to blighty, where it's more conventional sleuthing in Dickensian London. I also had a pretty average reading year. The best book I read was a reread, so I suppose that's cheating. Best new book(s) would probably be the Six of Crows duology, which I really enjoyed but I'm not sure they lived up to the hype I've seen over the past few years.
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Oh yea sorry I was probably one of those people hyping it up 😂 yes I have read a couple of Georgette Heyer’s regency novels but I didn’t know she also wrote mysteries! I will be checking those out thank you 👍🏽 and will have a look at the Blake & Avery ones too!
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