Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

When the British arrived in Winnipeg in the 1800s it was convenient for the men to take Metis wives. They were called a la vacon du pays - according to the custom of the country. These women bore the brunt of ensuring survival in...

Canadian Historical Mysteries are a series of fictional mysteries that represent the spirit of the people of Canada who have sought justice over the centuries. Each of these novels are based on a factual mystery set in one of the 10 Provinces/Territories of Canada....

Michael Attiani is back with the exciting second book in his suspenseful thriller series. Sonny's Revenge picks up where Sonny's Vendetta left off - South Philly, where the Valmonti family are urgently trying to make sense of the vendetta against them and their beloved...

After Vigilantes ended a criminal conspiracy in Alder Gulch during the winter of 1863-1864, they founded a "People's Court" to administer justice. At the same time, the notorious Joseph (aka 'Jack') Slade, who once ruled 600 hostile miles of the Overland Stage Line, has...

Thornfield Hall is not the only mansion hiding a perilous secret.Charlotte Bront 's literary heroine, Jane Eyre, is newly married to Mr. Rochester, but her honeymoon bliss is marred when a dangerous outbreak of typhoid fever threatens her life. To escape their disease-ridden house,...

For police investigator Aristide Ravel, the teeming streets of dissolute postrevolutionary Paris are a constant source of activity. And in the unruly climate of 1797, when gold and food are scarce, citizens will stop at little to get what they need. When illiterate servant...

At once a thrilling whodunnit, a maddening romance, and an invigorating plunge into history, The Tsimbalist is a tale of Jews and Russians, depicting their complicated friendships, their dangerous enmities, and their illicit loves, all seen through the eyes of Avrom, a barber, musician,...

A dazzling Italian mystery, rich in intrigue and dark secrets, from an internationally bestselling crime writer at the height of his powers. Florence, 1986. A seemingly inexplicable attack on a church fresco of Adam and Eve brings together an unlikely couple: Julia Wellbeloved, an...

Like many major historical events, Abraham Lincoln's assassination had an official story and a back story.On April 14, 1865, the President was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth, a Southern Sympathizer, at Ford's Theatre in Washington. Simultaneously, a Booth accomplice, Lewis Powell, attempted to...

Monsieur Lecoq is a pioneering detective novel that laid the groundwork for modern crime fiction. The story follows Lecoq, a brilliant investigator, as he solves intricate mysteries with his keen observation and deductive reasoning. Filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected twists, this classic tale...

"I robbed a bank. I got away with it. It wasn't even that hard."Recent college graduate Joel Howard, former bench warmer for his small town college team, is optimistic about his future with his out-of-his-league girlfriend and a job prospect with a local insurance...

In a lawless land stricken with gold fever, the struggle for survival and fortune takes a turn towards murder in this gripping western crime novel from the author of The Wolf Road. Gold fever has taken him. I believe he means to kill me......

Author: Sarah RayneISBN-10: 144831402XISBN-13: 9781448314027Publisher: Severn HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 288Format: Hardcover

The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the...

Author: Philip StanworthISBN-13: 9798230700012Publisher: Philip StanworthLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/07/2025Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.13d

Author: Don WigginsISBN-13: 9798309237432Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2025Pages: 38Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d

Author: Ashley Gardner, Jennifer AshleyISBN-10: 1958798975ISBN-13: 9781958798973Publisher: Ja / AG PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2025Pages: 140Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.33d

Once again, the pen of Stephen Herczeg has produced another set of eclectic stories from the world of Sherlock Holmes and his creator. All have featured in annals of the MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes stories and the many anthologies from Belanger Books.A...

In a world at odds with progress and power, Frankie learns the truth comes at a deadly price. Frankie Keys rose to stardom in New Port, Louisiana, during the decadent Jazz Age. Audiences were captivated by his charm and golden voice, unaware of the...

A sudden death at the local hardware store plunges Barbara into another murder investigation. While examining her list of suspects, she makes the acquaintance of a handsome handyman and also realizes she is being spied on by a mysterious woman. Will the murder investigation...

In this brilliant, twisting historical suspense thriller set during World War II, a young war widow is unwittingly drawn into a sinister web of intrigue and murder. Washington D.C., 1943 Virginia Abrams believed the war had taken all it could from her when her...

When her student goes missing, an independent bluestocking must seek the help of the arrogant duke who spurned her in this sizzling tale of romance and intrigue, perfect for fans of Netflix's Bridgerton series Phoebe Atkinson is what society might call unconventional. Instead of...

In the seemingly idyllic suburb of Oakwood, Ava Jennings has always been the heart of her community. As the beloved PTA president and a dedicated volunteer at Pine View Elementary, she embodies compassion and commitment-until one fateful afternoon turns her world upside down.When a...

She lives a comfortable life But when a posh neighbor is murdered, she fears she'll lose her hard-won independence. Boston, 1930s. Amanda Burnside feels she's coming into her own. Having finally convinced her parents that working in her father's law firm as an investigator...

Murder is for the crows.There's a mass murderer loose on the streets of London, and he's dead set on making Rosemary Lillywhite his next victim. After receiving a second threat, she should have gone straight to her chief inspector beau, Max Whittington, but Rosemary...

It has taken over eighty years, but at long last the British government's embargo on reporting this slice of diplomatic history has been lifted.It was in November 1940, that a senior minister at the British Foreign Office in blacked-out London commissioned Holmes and Watson...

England, 1311. In the dark of the North the devil lies in wait...Paul Doherty's most popular series character returns in the gripping nineteenth mystery in the Hugh Corbett series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and Bernard...

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,...