I think verseblack covered the most that I could think of. Hmm, The Three Evangelists by Fred Vargas is about three young and terribly broke historians who end up sharing a house and then somehow end up solving crime(s) in the neighbourhood. It's pretty entertaining, and I loved that they use their research skills in the process (and that they major, respectively, in pre-history, medieval history, and the Great War and therefore constanty at odds with each oher), but this isn't exactly in the same vein a Elizabeth Peters or Kostova.
There are some fantasy books like Alphabet of Thorn that I loved and are about archivists/librarians/translators, but they're obviously studying fictional history and language, so that may not count. The same goes for hard sci-fi Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds--archaeology factors greatly into his series, but it's fictional future archaeology, so may not be what you're looking for. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis and her other novels are about time-travelling Oxford historians (it's not as ridiculous as it sounds, and there're award-winning science-fiction novels), and there're quite a few books about bookstore owners who end up discovering mysteries like The Shadow of the Wind, but then again they're not really Peters-type, either.
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Date: 2012-04-06 03:11 pm (UTC)There are some fantasy books like Alphabet of Thorn that I loved and are about archivists/librarians/translators, but they're obviously studying fictional history and language, so that may not count. The same goes for hard sci-fi Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds--archaeology factors greatly into his series, but it's fictional future archaeology, so may not be what you're looking for. To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis and her other novels are about time-travelling Oxford historians (it's not as ridiculous as it sounds, and there're award-winning science-fiction novels), and there're quite a few books about bookstore owners who end up discovering mysteries like The Shadow of the Wind, but then again they're not really Peters-type, either.