Hi, I enjoyed reading The Poisoner's Handbook and The Devil In The White City.
But I don't know much about that genre of historical fiction.
I don't like True Crime, and I don't like nonfiction, but I somehow love the mix of the two, written like fiction.
I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you
by mattandimprov
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One of my favorites in the genre is Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen.
It was originally published as three different novels.
I enjoyed The Iron King by Maurice Druon.
The works of Ion L. Idriess is a good example of this. He writes non-fiction but as if it were fiction.
IDK if it’s quite this genre, but Dennis Wheatley’s *Roger Brook* series tells a complete history of the French Revolution. Our hero is a fictional character, but the books were written to be a novelized history of that period. Aimed mainly at a YA audience, you can read them as a straight swashbuckling adventure, but by the end of them you will know pretty much all you could want to about the Napoleonic era, and in some depth.