Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

In post-World War II England, former Secret Service operative Mirabelle Bevan becomes embroiled in a new kind of intrigue . . . In the popular seaside town of Brighton, it's time for Mirabelle Bevan to move beyond her tumultuous wartime years and start anew....

Time: the late nineteenth century. Place: the city of New York, a mecca for the ambitious and the corrupt where the poor barely survive on the wages for their fourteen-hour work day. Crime is at its highest, higher than it will be in all...

Senior Lieutenant Pavel Matyushkin has a problem. Several, actually. Not the least of them is the fact that a powerful Soviet boss has been murdered, and Matyushkin's surly commander has given him an unreasonably short time frame to close the case. Then there is...

The Edgar Award-winner's colonial series continues as Scottish exile Duncan McCallum uncovers a loyalist conspiracy--"Historical mystery at its best" (Booklist, starred review). The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent marks the first organized resistance to English rule, someone is kidnapping and killing...

"Very highly recommended!" --Jim Harris, Pacific Northwest Writers AssociationIt's the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition is the law of the land. A rumrunner's boat is found adrift near the United States-Canada maritime border of Puget Sound, its crew missing, its cargo hold riddled with bullet holes...

France, 1944. Agent Kim Maxwell has a new mission. She's investigating the death of Bernard Leblanc, a local SOE leader. It looks like an accident, but Kim knows better . . . Her HQ is the Bistro Le Renard Rouge. The Red Fox. And...

A matter of matrimony... Lord Julian Caldicott is summoned to the family seat by his ducal brother, whose bachelorhood is imperiled by the very determined Lady Clarissa Valmond. As the only titled Eligible the hostesses avoid including on their guest lists, Julian has little...

A reluctant DuchessLady Anna Trevallyn may be a Duchess by name but she is unlike any other titled female in Boston society. When her best friend Libby disappears unexpectedly from a soiree at her stately home, Anna ignores advice to leave it to the...

THE WATERS ARE RISING AND SO IS THE BODY COUNT Marooned amidst rising flood waters on their horse farm, Sergeant Frank Hardy and his pregnant wife Mette shelter two other families. But when Frank finds his own carving knife in someone else's throat, and...

Author: Ashley WeaverISBN-10: 1432872885ISBN-13: 9781432872885Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/08/2020Pages: 553Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00dLarge Print

Return to Walkers' Mountain is a work of fiction, however, the Walker's story is true. Bev Freeman remembers the story since she was only 12 years old. She never knew the outcome of the man who murdered the family. The fiction story is centered...

On a stormy night in March 1941, Maisie Rose Hawkins leaves her drunk husband, Stan, out in the rain--and he disappears. Detective Sergeant Bob Robbins and young PC Laurie Oliver are called out to investigate and discover that Stan's small fishing boat is gone,...

"Edgar-winner Pattison combines action, period details, and a whodunit with ease in his impressive third mystery set in Colonial America." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life...

It seems J.T. and Mickey will never learn. This summer they've decided to break the record (for the most original pranks) of the immortal Judd and Howie. They begin their quest by setting off cherry bombs in their sixth-grade classroom, then progress to dropping...

Armand Lavar de is a penniless young journalist who inherits a fortune from a wealthy cousin on the condition that he must first travel around the world in under a year with only five "pennies" in his pocket. If he fails, the money will...

The Police Agent (1867) is a milestone in the development of crime fiction. Its eponymous hero, the cunning Mr. Porion, a.k.a. P re Cinnamon, does not employ his detective skills to pursue a vampire-like serial killer intent on bleeding children, but rather to protect...

On a miserable rainy evening a desperate father enters 221B Baker Street. His daughter has been kidnapped and spirited off the North America. The evil network who have taken her have spies everywhere. If he goes to Scotland Yard they will kill her. There...

When Amory Ames' husband Milo receives a troubling letter from his childhood nanny, Madame Nanette, the couple travels to Paris to solve a mystery. Her employer, parfumier Helios Belanger, died suddenly just before the release of his highly anticipated new perfume. And Madame Nanette...

When a World War II widow inherits a dilapidated English estate, she uncovers a diary written by an adolescent girl named Maude Gower. Looking for answers, she begins reading, only to unravel more questions about the mysterious past and many secrets hidden deep within...

It's 1913. The move to Cumberland is he brother Billy's idea, and it's a good one. Th little mining community on Vancouver Island is quiet, and it's a change - exactly what nineteen-year-old Heather Foster needs after her mother's death. It isn't long however,...

Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery. London, August 1881. After a difficult few months, the World's End Investigation Bureau is...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and The Financial Times From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that...

India and Matt thought all their problems would come to an end once they found Chronos. But the watch magician brings with him as many questions as answers, and a load of trouble. To fix Matt's magic watch, they must find an old diary...

Seattle, 1956 Inspector Michael Riggs doesn't believe in "women's intuition," but when Margaret Baker insists that her friend, Ruby, would never willingly have jumped off a bridge to end her own life, Riggs reluctantly agrees to re-examine the closed case. Riggs wants to give...

A sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt's family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress the gossip...

To investigate the source of gossip about Cyclops, Willie does the unthinkable - she dons a dress. However her plan goes awry when she's kidnapped by a disgruntled magician with the power to detonate gunpowder at will. The magician forces India and Matt to...

Are curses real?After a toymaker magician gives a lecture at a collector's club soiree, an important spell is stolen and a man is found strangled. The investigation into his murder leads India and Matt to the colorful and dangerous world of the Romany gypsy...

With knowledge of magic becoming more widespread in London, magicians find themselves highly sought after. Consumers want to buy their wares and so seek out magicians among their acquaintance. India's rare magic is in demand from Matt's family, the Collector's Club, and other magicians...

Reader's Favorite 5-Star Review Seal Recipient"An often engaging gothic whodunit." -Kirkus"I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to fans of suspense and intrigue everywhere." -K.C. Finn, Readers' Favorite"A fantastic read! Ingram Hargrave has produced a masterful historical mystery with his debut novel." -Abigail Darby, Author...

A Victorian era murder. A modern-day family researcher. Can she unravel a governess's entanglement in a dark family secret? Ireland, 1895. Polly Brady hopes to escape her oppressive past by accepting the position of governess at Colgrannagh, an old house in the Wicklow mountains....

October 1907, East London. A mask maker works painstakingly to rebuild injured faces out of painted copper alloy, until he is brutally murdered at his workbench. The police suspect a burglary gone wrong, but when a much more high-profile killing shocks the city just...

Originally published in 1866, The Dead Letter is an atmospheric and suspenseful novel of mystery and romance. Set in rural New York, it tells the story of a postmaster's daughter who must solve a strange and deadly puzzle involving a lost letter and a...

"A man staggers out of his cottage into the streets of Oxfordshire, shattering an otherwise peaceful evening with the terrible sight of his body shaking and heaving, eyes wild with horror. Many of the villagers believe the Devil himself has entered Joseph Makepeace, the...

For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers. ------------------------------------ The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the...

"Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance." Wilkie Collins's investigation of illegitimacy and 'the woman question' in No Name (1862) compels with a wholly different...

Wealthy London tycoon, Richard Goodborn, has mysteriously vanished! Travel back to Victorian England, where the Earl of Glamford, a young man named Alexander, receives a prewritten letter from the missing Goodborn, asking for his help. With the help of a larger-than-life Governor, and a...

The sport of kings is the backdrop for a game of murder where one player loses more than the match. Can Cleo solve the case, or will the murderer win? Summer has arrived along with a plethora of social events that keep Cleo and...

New Mexico, 1979: After a career in the military as a CID detective, all James Pinter wants to do is drive his rig and mind his own damn business. But when his daughter, Molly, finds a dead woman behind a gas station and a...

Reader's Favorite 5-Star Review Seal Recipient"An often engaging gothic whodunit." -Kirkus"I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to fans of suspense and intrigue everywhere." -K.C. Finn, Readers' Favorite"A fantastic read! Ingram Hargrave has produced a masterful historical mystery with his debut novel." -Abigail Darby, Author...

Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to hunt down an escapee from a French asylum, in this new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery from critically-acclaimed author Alys Clare. London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to...

Inspired by the real-life mother of forensic science, Frances Glessner Lee, and featuring a whip-smart, intrepid sleuth in post-WWII Vermont, this debut historical mystery will appeal to fans of Victoria Thompson and Rhys Bowen. Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief...

Plenty of paper millionaires jumped off half-finished buildings in 1926 when the Florida land boom went bust. One such tycoon disappeared from a luxury ocean liner in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Was EQ Edmunds just another victim of his own greed-or was...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author's own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect . . . Sara...

An occult thief takes on a sinister society threatening to tear the fabric of this world apart, in this daring noir-thriller from the bestselling world of Arkham Horror Countess Alessandra Zorzi, reformed thief and acquirer of occult artifacts, faces her greatest challenge yet as...

What have Stonehenge, puppets, King Charles I, and characters from an Alexander Dumas story got in common? The answer is contained within the carefully crafted Sherlock Holmes on the Western Front. The plot, as is usually the case with anything written by Val Andrews,...

The setting is an English country house, where Mark Ablett has been entertaining a house party consisting of a widow and her marriageable daughter, a retired major, a wilful actress, and Bill Beverley, a young man about town. Mark's long-lost brother Robert, the black...

Jordan Maxwell, a twenty-seven-year-old freelance journalist, ventures to New York City to make a name for herself. With both of her parents dead, she struggles to get by living in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. In a twist of fate, Jordan...

The young Scottish woman Moira Fergusson looks forward to a rosy future, but then fate hits her hard.Burdened with a heavy load she believes she has finally found happiness when she meets Robert. Robert MacIntyre has come to Scotland to take up the inheritance...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author's own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect . . . Sara...

Lizzie Headrick thought she'd finally met her prince charming in Dr. Grant Chatsworth. Their fairytale courtship swept her off her feet and ended with the engagement ring of her dreams.As she moves into one of Buckhead's finest estates, Lizzie soon learns all that glitters...