Historical Mysteries, with an Emphasis on Science and Medicine

Try these books if you're looking for:

• historical mystery
• lesser-known figures in history
• history of science and medicine
• problem solving
• adventure fiction and non-fiction
• realistic plots
• strong characterization

Mistress of the Art of Death 
Ariana Franklin
MYSTERY Franklin Mistress #1
In medieval Cambridge, a young Italian doctor named Adelia is called on to investigate the murders of four children and finds herself caught in a web of anti-Semitism and hatred that threatens her own life.

The Anatomy of Deception 
Lawrence Goldstone
MYSTERY Goldston
Nineteenth-century Philadelphia physician Ephraim Carroll draws on the new techniques of forensic medicine to investigate the brutal murder of a beautiful young woman and the horror that led to her death.

Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle 
Thea Cooper
612.34 COO 2010
Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others, "Breakthrough" relives the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin.

The Plague Tales 
Ann Benson
F Benson
Two parallel stories, one set in the fourteenth century, the other in the twenty-first century, feature two unwitting heroes who confront the release of the bubonic plague on an unsuspecting world.