Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Michel, much like his Jewish ancestor, Daniel, is an advisor to King Phraattes of the Parthian Empire. He decides to buy the Garden of Eden where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet. It is now completely under water and the home of marsh people....

A gripping tale of murder and mystery in 18th-century England. Across the still, dark English Channel come the smugglers. But tonight they carry an unusual cargo: a coffin. Several miles inland, a respected banker holds a birthday party for his wife. Within days, one...

Dark Days @ Crenshaw House is historical fiction based on John Hart Crenshaw and his family home now known as the Old Slave House in Gallatin County, Illinois. He owned slaves who labored at the salt works on the Saline River. Crenshaw was accused...

Some old houses have more history than others... The Asharton Manor Mysteries Boxed Set is a four part series of novellas spanning the twentieth century. Each standalone story (about 20,000 words) uses Asharton Manor as the backdrop to a devious and twisting crime mystery,...

Grad student Sarah Deane was on a birdwatching vacation in Texas when she discovered her true calling as the "Nancy Drew of the 1980s" (Publishers Weekly). In these two adventures, however, she's brought her eagle eye back home to Maine.The first stop is Bowmouth...

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...

Vienna's alter ego, Katarina. has come back to haunt her. She brings with her suspicions of her husband's fidelity. Rainey's impatience with Vienna is justified as he struggles with thoughts that she is secretly wishing to be back with Anton DeMarco; the man who...

In 1936 Britain is facing a political and constitutional crisis. The fascist British Union are edging towards power, the king's American mistress threatens to destabilise the monarchy, and secretive forces are manipulating events for their own ends. Hugh Clifton is trapped in his role...

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! The Comfort of Ghosts completes Jacqueline Winspear's ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series. "An outstanding historical series."--The New York Times "Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with...

The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction debut by award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon. Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is...

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible--but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his...

"Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word."--Carl Hiassen" Moore's novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture."--Washington Post"If there's a funnier writer out there, step forward."--PlayboyAbsolutely nothing is sacred...

Lady Ravenna Birchfield yearns to put her dark past behind her. Nine months after losing her husband, she wants to return to London to lead a quiet life of charity work and fencing lessons. But those plans fall apart when her old friend, Foreign...

Old West drifters Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer have starred in several Holmes on the Range novels-rustling up award nominations and fans aplenty while they solved mysteries using the methods of their hero, Sherlock Holmes. But the origins of their interest in the...

A THIRTY YEAR OLD MURDER... Old Town, Edinburgh, in a squalid tenement where poverty, rats, and disease are rampant, a young woman who worked in a local tavern lies dying. Just another number and bound for a pauper's grave in Greyfriar's kirkyardA BOY FOUND...

A missing man, a stolen baby and a plot of land where nothing grows. Are they connected? One person knows.1948: Sugar Creek seemed such a welcoming town for Ellen, a young woman keen to share the news of her pregnancy with her fiancé Billy....

Few folks remember that the U.S. Mint in Denver was robbed of $200,000 in 1922. One robber was found dead. The others vanished with the money. Even fewer people know that at the same time, the Lawn Lake Dam was being built in Rocky...

Something Sweet and Sexy is a love story about two people who finally find each other after years of searching and a few failed marriages. Clark chose to set her book Something Sweet and Sexy in Roman times because that is the author's favorite...

SHERLOCK HOLMES MEETS THE OLD WEST IN THIS EXHILARATING MURDER MYSTERY ADVENTURE AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. When down-on-their-luck brothers Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer attend the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, they don't expect to be invited to participate in a...

Convict. Detective. Lawman. On the wild American frontier, no man's path is straight and narrow, and Jonas V. Brighton's is no exception. Like many Western lawmen-even those with names like Earp and Hickock-he hails from hardscrabble roots and does what he has to in...

Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course.Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes all seem to be somehow connected to the murder, and even the toughest of...

With an introduction by Donis Casey."A tale full of wit, humor, sorrow and, more important, the truth." --TONY HILLERMAN, New York Times bestselling authorAlafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE"With its earthy prose and stunning attention to detail, this stands apart." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Very intriguing and atmospheric ... a fascinating read in the light of contemporary events." -Alexander McCall Smith, Bestselling Author of The No. 1...

It's 1947 and in the remote South Australian town, Honiton, a skeleton is discovered encrusted in salt in the middle of the dry, Lake Beauty, that borders the town. Newly arrived sergeant, Sam, and his wife, ex-policewoman, Annie, have to battle local prejudices, post...

Rachel Ann Maddon is about to become America's next great movie star. Adored by the camera, loved by her public, beautiful Rachel Ann has it all, including a dark secret from her past that threatens to blow up her promising future when her mentor...

This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal.It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher,...

Five sensational Sherlock Holmes stories by Orlando Pearson followed by three meditations hinting at the most radical theory yet about the Great Baker Street Detective. A Type of Infamy - Holmes investigates a mysterious disappearance in 1938; The Fourth Student - shocking events in...

Shona McMonagle is your ordinary, garden-variety librarian: comfortably padded, in her middle years, expert in various arcane martial arts. She also has an impressive knack for time travel ("impressive" may be overstating things: her first two forays--revolutionary Russia, 19th-century France--went less than smoothly).Her latest...

A well-kept secret, a bathing machine and a dead bodyEliza Thomson Investigates...July 1905: A family holiday to the seaside, at Brighton's most prestigious hotel, promises to be a grand affair. And bumping into an old friend adds to the excitement.But when a body is...

Ancient Rome, in this accurate and evocative series, is just as politics driven as any major American city--possibly even more. Decius Caecilius Metellus has, through a series of rather wild adventure, and in the act of tracking down killers and other reprobates, barely escaped...

I was happier than any mere mortal has a right to be and I should have known better. The entire body of received mythology and every last Greek tragedy ever written have made one inescapable truth utterly clear: If you are supremely happy, the...

A mysterious victim. A heartless doctor. An assistant whose loyalty extends to murder.Christmas, 1904. Falling behind in her first year of science, Vita plans a vacation devoted to study, but is lured from her books when a man with no memory is brought to...

Sister Fidelma returns in another spellbinding story of murder and intrigue in seventh-century Ireland--when the murder of a high cleric threatens to result in a bloody war between two of Ireland's kingdoms. In AD 644 the Venerable Dacan, a respected scholar of the Celtic...

Julius Caesar, as we know, arrived in Gaul (now France) and announced "I Came, I Saw, I Conquered." But when Decius Metellus arrives from Rome, not seeking military glory but rather avoiding an enemy currently in power, he finds that although the general came...

Shanghai in the twenties was a fabulous place, a gaudy, immoral, violent, unjust, optimistic free-for-all where rickshaws competed with Rolls-Royces and a wealthy Englishman, American, or Japanese who spent an afternoon at the dog races might be inconvenienced by the sight of a public...

Violence finds its way to old Hollywood in the eleventh Josephine Tey mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear.September 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set...

In first century Rome, a murder victim found in the Tiber leads to a brutal gang war and Flavia Albia to a confrontation with her long-hated nemesis, with all that she loves in the balance.First century Rome is plagued by all the evils the...

"There's been a murder."... Those four words are bad enough, but when the craftiest of the three mob bosses utters them in the District Detective office, they carry a whole new kind of weight. Olivia Wainwright and Dallas Stowe are always prepared for the...

In the shadow of impending darkness, a woman haunted by a recurring phobia embarks on a journey that transcends time. While unraveling the secrets of her own past, she stumbles upon a life lived during a tumultuous era.Follow her time travels by stepping into...

The year '84 brought Holmes & Watson several interesting cases but none quite as recherché and exotic as the shocking business surrounding the disappearance of one of London's brightest young beau's, Mr. Henry Fyldene the Younger. The Fyldene's were an ancient family whose cadet...

In post-World War I England, foul play at a suspicious s饌nce provokes the delightfully mismatched sleuthing duo of American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim Brit Edwina Davenport to dig up some dirt . . . Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret:...

Charlotte Holmes is accustomed to solving crimes, not being accused of them, but she finds herself in a dreadfully precarious position as the bestselling Lady Sherlock series continues. Charlotte's success on the RMS Provence has afforded her a certain measure of time and assurance....

The summer village fete, a newly erected marquee and a missing tent pegEliza Thomson Investigates...August 1905: Recently home from their trip to Brighton, Eliza and Connie are deep in preparation for the local village fete.Half the villagers are involved too, and once the marquee...

The new 'Benjamin January' novel from the best-selling author Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother's murder - and Benjamin January is seeking money after his bank crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both are to be...

No one cares much when a couple of street whores working the lowest rung on the prostitution ladder in 1914 New Orleans are murdered in the same fashion. But when a third sporting woman turns up dead in a crib, a small panic ensues,...

The eternal triangle of love, sex and money brought Storyville, New Orleans to a broil in 1905. MayAnn rejects her lover Antoine and takes up with a wealthy man in order to raise her station in life. After several machinations to win her back,...

First published as End of Term under A. C. Koning. Cambridge, 1935. Frederick Rowlands, blind war veteran, is attending an event at St Gertrude's College. However, the festivities are harshly interrupted when when a research student is found dead in suspicious circumstances. As one...

Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, hope they've finally found peace after a tumultuous summer, but long-buried family secrets soon threaten to unravel their lives . . . October 1832. Kiera is enjoying the slower pace of the English countryside. She,...

Nic Manton is down on his luck with love and money A significant historical find can change his life around Or it might bring danger and death When Richard Wagner died in Venice in 1883, it was the end of a brilliant musical life....

When Charlotte Haze's nurse, Rebecca Grainger, is discovered murdered at a disused burial ground and her young charge is nowhere to be found, Daniel and Jason must race against the clock to solve the crime in order to save the little girl. Will their...