Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

With Havana World Series, one of Latin America's premier crime writers offers a blend of baseball, American mobsters, and corrupt cops. It is the fall of 1958 and all of Cuba is riveted to the World Series-the New York Yankees are playing the Milwaukee...

'Wonderful story which transfixes you from the start - this is the first novel I've read by this author but definitely not the last. The characters are beautifully written and the author effortlessly sucks you in to their worlds.' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A beautifully written...

Is extreme justice the mirror image of extreme injustice? Has a historic Christian knight, the likes of Dracula, victimized his enemies with such blood-curdling cruelty to become the greatest pariah of all times? Yesterday's answers are diced and spliced by today's most brilliant researchers....

Author: Andrey KurkovISBN-10: 0063352338ISBN-13: 9780063352339Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 336Format: Hardcover

This thrilling historical mystery starring Mozart tells of friendship and betrayal, and how music allows us to defy death--from the acclaimed author of Death and the Maiden and The Suicide Museum. In 1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach in...

Paris, 1941. William Gunnison, a British Private trying to keep a low profile in Nazi-occupied France, accidentally kills an old American man he mistakes for a German officer. The old man's butler Jacques, now alone in Paris with a secret the Nazis could kill...

'An instant classic' Daily Mail'A real page-turner!' Ben Kane The ship was doomed before it ever left port. His fate was sealed before he ever stepped on board. From R. L. Graham, Death on the Lusitania is an immersive WW1 historical novel set aboard...

Sinister Among Us, A Mystery Novel, is a gripping narrative of intrigue, crime, and sinister activities at a small Christian college in the rural Indiana town of Copperville. The main charter of the book is Dr. Bradley Green, the Interim President at Cyprus College....

Aboard the steamship Oceanic in 1885, 15-year-old Keridec Rees is carrying her father's ashes home when her friend and companion, Anne Bonney, disappears. Is Anne hiding among the passengers in steerage? Has she fallen overboard? Or was she murdered? Keri has no answers. But...

A page-turning historical mystery, perfect for readers of Eve Chase, Lulu Taylor and Rachel Burton. If you save a crumbling mansion, will it mend a broken heart? A month ago, Amy Wood had her perfect home, perfect boyfriend and perfect job in London. Now...

Reporter, sleuth, and new mother Emma Cross Andrews comes to the aid of a distraught wife who's convinced her husband is trying to kill her . . . April 1903: Emma and Derrick Andrews have been invited to the wedding of her cousin Reggie...

Award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has reimagined the great German composer and keyboard virtuoso Johann Sebastian Bach as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Keith Richards in this imaginative new historical mystery. During a visit to the German city of Kassel to inspect...

Venice1866, a Frenchman on his honeymoon, sees an artist sketching a scene. When he visits his workshop, he falls in love with the painting and commissions five versions: one for himself, one for his two siblings, one for his parents, and another small one...

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket When Anthony Cade agrees to deliver a mysterious memoir, he never expects it will plunge him into a world of murder, royal scandals, and buried secrets. His journey takes him to Chimneys, an English estate filled with intrigue,...

Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow... Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man's guardian blames...

Why should the devil have all the best tunes? 'Themes of inequality, forbidden love and personal responsibility weave through a fast-paced narrative in which the location plays a key part. Nation Cymru The Salvation Army has come prancing and singing from the slums of...

Delving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of fifteen masterful short stories.With a cohort of writers including Dorothy L. Sayers, Ethel...

Author: Jackie SharpISBN-10: 1999257855ISBN-13: 9781999257859Publisher: Jackie SharpLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.56d

"Fresh and exciting, with both humor and thrills, Griffiths' first book in her new series knocks it out of the park!"--Shari Lapena Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence. Unless, that is,...

". . . masterful, evocative, and original." -Georgina Petty, journalist and author of Top Dogs"A wonderful dance in a beautiful hall of mirrors taking the reader through the decades of glamour and war, love and espionage." -Sarah Ingham, PhD, author of The Military CovenantBriggens...

In 1953, two FBI agents are called in to investigate the disappearance of a young White woman in Louisiana. In their pursuit of clues, they stumble across the horrific murder of a Black youth. It soon becomes apparent that the two cases are linked,...

Face Down Across the Western Sea is book seven in the Face Down series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. Long out of print in hardcover, this is the first paperback edition. It has been newly edited by the author. When...

Could Alexander Hamilton be at the center of a vast murder plot engulfing Old New York? As his widow, Eliza, pieces together the puzzle, she unearths a heartbreaking secret that threatens to tear her family apart.Perfect for fans of Sherry Thomas and Deanna Raybourn,...

The Woman in White is a mysterious sensational novel, written by Wilkie Collins, published in 1860. A young art teacher Walter Hartright, meets an entirely white dressed mysterious woman, while he was returning, after meeting his mother and sister. Later, he came to know...

The House of Sin and Splendor so named by triple threat entertainer Betsy Bellweather a vaudeville sensation who became a popular silent film star; one who not only made the successful transition to talkies but dominated them, becoming the top money-maker for famous film...

She can run, but she can't hide. When Evie Parker, Countess of Woodridge, decides to spend a day in London unaccompanied she has no idea she will encounter the one person she has hoped to spend the rest of her life avoiding. There's no...

"And when you are alone, burn it. It's my most important work, and means the destruction of humankind."These are the words that Dr. Albert Einstein confessed to Linda Donovan on the 18th of April, 1955. Linda was one of the nurses at Princeton Hospital...

Up and Coming Starlet Gets ICED in, Murder on Ice by P.J. ConnLos Angeles, California, 1947 When aspiring actress Cookie Crumble is found dead in a refrigerator in a vacant apartment, the police immediately suspect the landlord's son whose father hires gumshoe PI Joe...

A ship full of suspects awaits Ruby and Fina. Will they find the murderer before their own secrets are revealed? Spring in the Caribbean, 1935. Cruising to disaster, Ruby Dove and Fina Aubrey-Havelock face down a murderer who is slowly crossing names off the...

By the year 1901, the Old West was just a memory and the new century only a promise. That's when a Texas woman's search for her missing brother draws the attention of a hard-boiled Texas Ranger who's on the trail of a notorious outlaw...

The genre of stories presented in this fascinating collection evolved over several millennia from the ancient tradition of oracle bone divinations, some of which dealt with the subjects of law and jurisprudence, into the casebooks that were employed by magistrates from the Song dynasty...

After dreaming that her alter-dimensional sister Sobak was in danger, Anna Rykov is sent to Depression era Boston to find and kill the shape shifting alien who has captured her, and whose plans could bring about the extinction of all life on Earth. Anna...

Insurance Executive Implicated in Murder of Mysterious Woman in Murder Me Twice by P.J. Conn Los Angeles, California, 1947Joe Ezell, GI turned gumshoe, pays the bills by catching philandering husbands for rich dames wanting a divorce. Then Faye Marten darkens his door. She doesn't...

In THE BLUE GIRL MURDERS, a series of gruesome murders of beautiful young blondes rocks Baltimore during the summer of 1966 when the city already is in turmoil from a police scandal and from enormous racial tension resulting from desegregation efforts by the Congress...

Heiress Prudence MacKenzie is a valuable partner to attorney Geoffrey Hunter, despite the fact that women are not admitted to the bar in New York's Gilded Age. The shocking murders in Whitechapel are making news worldwide, and Geoffrey and Prudence find the stories in...

The third in the Bram Stoker Mysteries series, applauded in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, RT Book Reviews and others. In this book London's Lyceum Theatre sees the death (Accident? Suicide? Murder?) of one of its top actors, while a figure taken to be a...

Drawing inspiration from the philosophical teachings of Camus and the allegory of Sisyphus, London '85 is an existentialist journey into the depths of the human condition. This compelling narrative centers around the tormented and ostensibly vapid life of a transplanted Northerner, trapped by his...

The fourth book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths caught up in the whirlwind of the London Season--and in a murderous scheme involving the family of Edmund and Fanny Bertram Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney understand...

In 1796, the men at Fort Kenay or Russian Redoubt Saint Nicholas are terrified. A ghost, a woman in a tattered white dress, screams nightly along the banks of the Kenai River below the bluffs where the fort stands. Young Nicholas arrives with Captain...

Author: Susanna M. NewsteadISBN-10: 8412595394ISBN-13: 9788412595390Publisher: Madeglobal PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2024Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.61d

Author: Tyler R. TichelaarISBN-13: 9798987269220Publisher: Marquette FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2024Pages: 828Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.63lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.83d

Author: Christianna BrandISBN-10: 1464237581ISBN-13: 9781464237584Publisher: Poisoned Pen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 288Format: PaperbackSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.68d

Author: Jefferson GlassISBN-10: 1639775498ISBN-13: 9781639775491Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2024Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d

Queen Elizabeth's half-sister and secret agent Ursula Stannard takes on a dangerous new mission involving mysterious disappearances and murder in Cornwall in this gripping Tudor mystery. 1594. Ursula Stannard is attending on her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth, when she receives an urgent summons from Sir...

Author: Agatha ChristieISBN-10: 1998667073ISBN-13: 9781998667079Publisher: Revive ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2024Pages: 144Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Author: Kitty KildareISBN-10: 1915378885ISBN-13: 9781915378880Publisher: K.E. O'Connor BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2024Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d

Author: S. K. RizzoloISBN-13: 9798991478502Publisher: S.K. RizzoloLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2024Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Author: James C. WorkISBN-10: 1645995364ISBN-13: 9781645995364Publisher: Encircle Publications, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2024Pages: 292Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Author: James R. BennISBN-10: 1641297093ISBN-13: 9781641297097Publisher: Soho CrimeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

Author: Sabrina LundISBN-10: 1068787929ISBN-13: 9781068787928Publisher: Goose House PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2024Pages: 310Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.70d