Books like The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd

Reimagining the Trojan War through the eyes of Achilles’ closest companion, Patroclus, the novel explores themes of friendship, heroism, and forbidden love amid mythic glory.

David Ebershoff’s New York Times bestseller blends 19th‑century Mormon history with a contemporary Utah murder mystery, tracing the violent legacy of polygamy through the lives of Ann Eliza Young and a modern seeker of truth.

When ancient bones surface in Woodsboro, Boston archaeologist Callie Dunbrook returns from sabbatical, facing a cursed dig, a re‑entangled ex‑husband Jake, and revelations about her privileged past.

In the years leading to the Opium Wars, the slave ship Ibis carries a diverse crew of sailors, stowaways, convicts, and passengers—including a bankrupt raja, a widowed village woman, a mulatto American, and an evangelical opium trader—who bond as ship-brothers on a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean.

Regeneration follows two real soldiers at Craiglockhart Hospital during World War I, exploring their shell‑shock, rehabilitation, and the intellectual debates that shaped postwar Britain.

Set in 1951 during the Korean War, "Indignation" follows Newark law student Marcus Messner as he attends Ohio’s Winesburg College, struggles with his father’s fears, and confronts the challenges of coming of age in postwar America.

A compelling tale of resilience, imagination, and the power of storytelling through the eyes of a young orphan from a war-torn island and his new found love of reading, as he discovers the magic of adventure and the strength of the human spirit.

Through a Glass Darkly follows Barbara Alderley, a beautiful fifteen‑year‑old noblewoman, as love, ambition and family intrigue unfold within the ruthless circles of the English aristocracy.

Amelia Peabody returns to 1903 Egypt for her ninth adventure, where a warning against the Valley of the Kings, a fraudulent spiritualist, and a shocking murder threaten her family’s cutting‑edge discoveries.

A fast paced international thriller - sure to delight fans starved of WallanderWhen archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe something more sinister took place.Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. While looking through his bundles of papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy theory that JFK's brain disappeared prior to the autopsy – along with the vital evidence regarding bullet exit wounds. The only lead is a letter and photograph from Henrik's girlfriend in Mozambique.Louise's quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her son's death takes her to Africa; a continent rife with disease, poverty and corruption. Struggling to cope with sickness and the oppressive heat, Louise sees fear in every face, even unexpectedly in the patients at the clinics set up by an American businessman. In Kennedy's Brain Mankell confirms his status as a master of suspense, and delivers a timely and riveting thriller which will have readers on the edge of their seats until the very end.

Amelia Peabody and her companion Radcliffe investigate a murder during an excavation of an ancient Egyptian tomb.

In 1914, a British archaeologist unearths an Assyrian palace on the brink of destruction by a Baghdad railroad while American geologists and other adventurers vie for control of Iraq’s secret oil fields.

A curious murder in an Egyptian shop sparks Amelia Peabody and her husband Radcliffe Emerson into a perilous excavation that uncovers a lost mummy case, ancient conspiracies, and danger beyond mere curses.

The Last Camel Died at Noon: Amelia Peabody's Mystery on the Nile

Cecelia Holland’s novel spans ancient Egypt and the 1920s, weaving the reign of Tutankhamun, the downfall of Akhenaten, and Howard Carter’s relentless quest to uncover the young king’s hidden tomb.