Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Court jester Will Somers is drawn into another gripping and entertaining mystery when malevolent forces strike again at the court of Henry VIII - and Anne Boleyn is the target. 1536, London. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is in peril. In the mid of...

Agatha Christie's trusted housekeeper, Phyllida Bright, has become an amateur sleuth in her own right. When a party game leads to murder, she decides to crash the investigation. While her famous employer is happily back home at Mallowan Hall, wrestling with her Belgian detective's...

On Christmas Day 1944, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is called to investigate a murder concerning top-secret radio espionage work. After his last mission put him in the tailspin of the Battle of the Bulge, Captain Billy Boyle travels to southeast England to visit...

Heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter are about to become more than partners as investigators--they are to be wed at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. But a killer has designs on ruining the wedding as well as their lives . . . IN...

In this witty standalone masterpiece set during the golden age of silent cinema, a British vaudeville performer turned movie cop finds himself in a real-life crime story. It's 1916, and Warwick Easton's traveling show has landed him in California. Out of money and about...

"Regency fans should enjoy this innovative and adventurous foray." -Publisher's WeeklyThe most skilled of Merlin's Mauraders, Siena must unmask a traitor lurking among an exclusive club of book collectors. Armed with only her wits, her blades, and her sultry body, she joins the gentlemen...

Previously fired for speaking out against workplace injustices, twenty-five-year-old Kay Thompson finds her true calling once appointed to support Eleanor Roosevelt, a champion of human rights known as ER among those in her inner circle. Kay fully embraces her new role as the former...

Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series.Summoned to Edinburgh by the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, Tabitha and Wolf reluctantly board a train and head north to Scotland.The dowager's granddaughter, Lily, refuses to participate in...

Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour.The Dowager Countess of Pembroke is missing!While Wolf is contemplating whether or not he wishes to continue taking on...

It seems Christmas will be anything but peaceful this year!Tabitha and Wolf are hoping to spend a quiet Christmas at Glanwyddan Hall, the Pembroke estate in Wales. However, before they even leave London, they receive unsettling news of disturbing pranks happening on the estate....

Filled with Victorian-era intrigue for readers of Rhys Bowen, Deanna Raybourn, Tasha Alexander, and Julia Seales, Dianne Freeman's Agatha Award-winning series takes a delightful jaunt to the City of Light as Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, encounters a murder scene at the...

Guarding the Treasure, this historical novel, is Book Three, of a trilogy in Under the Canyon Sky: centers on early Grand Canyon pioneers. By day, the Canyon, the main character in this story, flaunts wild colors and teasing shadows; by night, it sleeps under...

Penrose and Pyke go together like fire and kerosene in this pulse-racing Victorian-era mystery. Trouble's brewing in the Devil's Half Acre. A death in an alleyway, a tragic accident in a factory, rumours of a murderer loose on the streets. It's enough to give...

A Baroness who will stop at nothing to protect her family's reputationHer Royal Highness, Princess Elizabeth Armstrong-Leeds, Baroness Esk, is a suspect in the murder of her kidnapper. Not only does she risk a ruined reputation in the eyes of Boston's elite, Libby may...

1931. Frances Palmer is overjoyed when her brother Rob returns to Adelaide as a racecourse veterinarian. But all is not well on the turf, and when a man is murdered, there is only one suspect - Rob. Frances and her boyfriend, charming night club...

Here's a historical murder mystery, for you, set in the 18th century, one Christmas Day Someone is killing the lordlings in London.Get your copy of Sarah Barton's "Hunting the Wren" to discover this intriguing who dunnit. "Mrs." Elizabeth Rowland is the young housekeeper for...

The fourth novel in the action-packed Marc Edwards mystery series, set during the rebellions of 1830s Upper Canada. Autumn 1837: the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada are on the eve of open revolt. Lieutenant Marc Edwards has been sent with a force of...

It's 1847, "Black '47," and 100,000 Irish emigrants are fleeing to North America to escape starvation. When a bloated body washes up on Lake Ontario shore near his home, Thaddeus Lewis is sent on a journey that takes him into the heart of disaster.Author:...

Nathan Elliott returns home to be with his dying father but within days he has disappeared. Methodist circuit rider Thaddeus Lewis joins the hunt but is disturbed by the arrival of Nathan's wife, who is a psychic. This historical mystery includes a strange wild...

Lucy Graham, radiantly beautiful, born to poverty, and Sir Michael Audley, aging aristocratic widower and fabulously wealthy, are married soon after first glance. Life is peaceful at old Audley Court until the arrival of Robert Audley- Sir Michael's nephew- and his friend George Talboys,...

A moving and transporting novel from the author of Among the Lemon Trees.Author: Nadia MarksISBN-10: 1509815686ISBN-13: 9781509815685Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2018Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Masked balls, duels and murder: musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in a shocking crime in this gripping nineteenth-century mystery set in New Orleans. February, 1841. It's Carnival season in New Orleans. Free man of color Benjamin January...

From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Murder on the Ballarat Train, the next historical mystery featuring the intrepid amateur sleuth Phryne Fisher. What happens when this train reaches its deadly destination? Phryne is determined to find out..."Greenwood's stories are brief,...

Edinburgh, 1948. Welfare Officer Helen Crowther has enough on her plate between her hectic job, her complicated love life, and her growing reputation as a troublemaker. Last year's scandal did nothing to help with the disapproval she already gets as a woman in her...

An old man dies, and with him goes "the last hope of the mad and desperate" in Paris. Alexander Reisden, ex-madman, refuses to be mad or desperate anymore. He intends to live a normal life. But he takes on the job of closing Dr....

A gripping tale with a simple moral: hope for the future is steeped in knowledge of the past.Aaron, an indifferent but brilliant student at a small college in New England, is led step by step into a mysterious cave of history. Over the course...

She's fiercely independent. He's determined to protect her.Wisconsin, 1933-When a routine mission becomes an ambush that kills his team, Craft Agency sniper Miles Wright determines to find the persons responsible and protect the woman he rescued. But the fierce independence that led Lily Moore...

She came to America to escape a workhouse prison, but will the cost of freedom be too high a price to pay?1933, Wisconsin - Large animal veterinarian Katy Wells takes her patients' welfare personally, so it's no surprise when she stands up to angry...

He can procure anything, except his heart's deepest wish. She might hold the key, if she's not discovered first.Chicago, 1933?Lucia Critelli will do anything for her ailing grandfather, including stand in a breadline to have enough food to make him a St. Nicholas Day...

Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour.Tabitha was used to being a social pariah. Could her standing in society get any worse?Tabitha, Lady Chesterton, the...

Get ready for a journey to the Baskervilles - the hall shrouded in a fog of sinister mystery, and where the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson encounter the most terrifying and deceitful of their opponents. Get ready to look...

Violent crime is unusual in 1960s Montgomery, Illinois, a small industrial village just outside of Chicago. If something illegal occurs, the village's size limits the number of suspects police chief John Rively must consider. When the murder of a nineteen-year-old girl rocks normally quiet...

In the wilds of Wyoming, a missing man's secrets are buried deep...and uncovering them may cost one cowboy his life.When Jess Delaine agrees to look for Robert Sandoval in the remote town of Harrow, Wyoming, he expects an ordinary search. But he soon finds...

Politics, Friendship, or Greed? Which of these was the true author of the Confederate conspiracy to decapitate the Union? The Absolution of Mars by T.F. Troy is a masterful blend of historical fiction, human drama and moral exploration. Set against the backdrop of a...

Author: Tasha AlexanderISBN-10: 1250411297ISBN-13: 9781250411297Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2016Pages: 318Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.79d

"A fantasy tale that hums with magic and originality, featuring extensive worldbuilding and a compelling cast of ne'er-do-wells."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Bernice Chandler is a woman with a sword and a lot of problems it won't fix. She's got a ritual murder case on her...

Lady Appleton's World: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories first published between 1999 and 2015 and newly edited by the author. They feature the adventures of Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, and other characters from Kathy...

A murderer is identified by a team of oxen. A dead man rises from a watery grave to indict his killer. A phantom hearse gliding through Melbourne's slums foretells violent death. A seamstress turns -detective to avenge her friend's homicide. A locked-tent mystery. Such...

When a young Chinese woman is murdered within the British Quarter of the foreign legation, Inspector Gong is ordered by the Imperial Court to solve the crime before the incident escalates into war between China and the foreign powers. The only problem? Inspector Gong...

The theft of the diamond necklace and the antique pistols might all be explained, but the body in the lake is particularly puzzling. 'Don't expect me to solve anything, ' Inspector Wilkins announces modestly when he arrives to sort out the unpleasantness. And at...

"Superior... Refreshingly, Spencer doesn't make Redhead, who's capable of snark and petty malice, wholly likable. Readers will look forward to the further adventures of this distinctive lead" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review Private investigator Jennie Redhead is hired to investigate a murder that's left...

Debut novelist Michael Boccacino invites readers into the world beyond the realm of the living in Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling, a Victorian gothic tale of the strange and supernatural. But all who enter this house must beware--for there is a price...

They're used to solving murders. But until now the killer has always been human...October 1912. The inhabitants of Littleton Cotterell emerge from their homes after a week of torrential storms to the gruesome news that one of Sid Hyde's prized sheep has been mauled...

Discover the delightfully gripping new historical mystery series that's perfect for fans of Helena Dixon, Verity Bright and T E Kinsey. Agatha Christie is about to embark on a new, gripping murder case. But this time, she's not the author - she's a suspect......

Investigative team Blake and Avery find themselves entangled in a case involving political conflicts, personal vendettas, and England's first celebrity chef. London, 1842. Captain William Avery is persuaded to investigate a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman's club--a...

Discover the delightfully gripping new historical mystery series that's perfect for fans of Helena Dixon, Verity Bright and T E Kinsey. Agatha Christie is about to embark on a new, gripping murder case. But this time, she's not the author - she's a suspect......

"[A] clever time-traveling thriller." --Kirkus Reviews May 20, 2019: Homicide detective Mallory is in Edinburgh to be with her dying grandmother. While out on a jog one evening, Mallory hears a woman in distress. She's drawn to an alley, where she is attacked and...

The King's mistresses are being murdered, one by one...When Samuel Pepys and his loyal inquisitors, Abby Harcourt and Jacob Standish, are summoned to King Charles II's court, they anticipate frivolous entertainment and unimaginable luxury. Instead, they find only death.One of the King's beloved mistresses...

Is evil decided at birth, or is it cultivated? In this rousing mystery thriller, readers may find an answer to the question of why villains choose the dark paths they walk.As a child, Buzz knew one thing for sure: his parents didn't want him....

In the Everglades, a senseless murder unearths long-buried secrets.When artist Hezekiah Freeman is found drowned in the shallow waters of Everglades National Park, Special Agent Alison Nance and Clarence Johnson are tasked with uncovering the truth behind his death. What initially seems like a...