Books like Cool repentance by Antonia Fraser

An authoritative account of the 1692 Salem witch trials, detailing how fear and accusation turned a Massachusetts community into a scene of hysteria and execution.

Master Simon Innes and his brother investigate a string of murders in their quiet English village, where a traveling circus arrives for Easter and a full moon complicates the mystery.

Antonia Fraser examines the lives and legacies of Henry VIII’s six wives, uncovering their personalities, political influence, and the complex history of Tudor marriage and court life.

The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishments and follies, exploring in detail his intimate relationships with women. The king's mother, Anne of Austria, had been in a childless marriage for 22 years before she gave birth to Louis XIV. A devout Catholic, she instilled in her son a strong sense of piety and fought successfully for his right to absolute power. In 1660, Louis married his first cousin, Marie-Thérèse, in a political arrangement. While unfailingly kind to the official "Queen of Versailles," Louis sought others to satisfy his romantic and sexual desires. Fraser weaves insights into the nature of women's religious lives--as well as such practical matters as contraception--into her sweeping portrait of the king, his court, and his ladies.--From publisher description.

A rural mystery thick with eccentric villagers, an unsettling grave, and a fatal costume‑party victim pulls a psycho‑analyst into a small English village to untangle a potentially double murder.

Set amid 1940 London’s Blitz, Lord Peter Wimsey secretly aids the Foreign Office while Harriet Vane confronts the murder of a Land Girl, driving a tense wartime mystery.

In London’s affluent Paragon Walk, a brutal rape‑murder turns a community of aristocrats into suspects, and Charlotte Pitt’s link to a resident forces her to ask the questions no one else will.

Jemima Shore, a TV investigative reporter, returns to Blessed Eleanor's Convent after a former friend’s mysterious death, and must untangle the secrets of Sister Miriam’s vanished life before the danger escalates.

A memoir by Antonia Fraser that chronicles her 33‑year marriage to playwright Harold Pinter, offering intimate insights into their shared life and the literary world.