Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

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......

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...

A religious scandal. A deadly homecoming.Moustafa Ghani El Souwaim has come far in life. Raised illiterate in a remote village in the Soudan, he set out at sixteen to better himself. His journey took him to the great archaeological sites of Africa, where he...

When famed psychic Alicia Lysander is brutally attacked after leaving a seance at the home of an earl, Jason Redmond and Daniel Haze must retrace her movements to determine who might have had a motive to want Alicia dead. As they delve into the...

It is hardly surprising Verity Lark can't sleep at night with all the thoughts darting through her mind: her recent stay in Newgate, her debt to Colson Hardwicke, the horrible abuse suffered by the children at Fortescue's that her reporting on the orphan asylum...

Nurse Aggie Burnside is looking forward to a quiet vacation at a beach house in Morgan's Cove, Maine. But neighbors quarrel, old feuds erupt and someone dies. Can this amateur sleuth sift through the strands of deception to solve the crime? Massachusetts 1932. Aggie...

The Beggar King is the third book in Hangman's Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat...

The seventh chilling mystery in the bestselling Hangman's Daughter series.The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire's hangmen's guild--prestigious for...

The Werewolf of Bamberg is the fifth book in Hangman's Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.In 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon travel to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare:...

The Poisoned Pilgrim is the fourth book in Hangman's Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.1666: The monastery at Andechs has long been a pilgrimage destination, but when the hangman's daughter, Magdalena, her doctor husband Simon, and their two small children arrive there, they learn that...

The mysterious sixth entry in the Hangman's Daughter series.It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man...

FIVE STARS! "TOP TEN MYSTERY READS OF 2022" -Kathleen Costa, Kings River Life Magazine Mona Moon travels to Merry Old England to visit Brynelleth, Robert Farley's ancestral home, for the first time. Hoping to make a good impression, Mona finds she is rebuffed at...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE ASSASSINO PAZZO The Criminal Lunatic Asylum in Broadmoor held some of the most dangerous men in England. One of them escapes and soon wealthy French men and women living in London are being murdered and mutilated. Scotland Yard calls for...

With Free Love, the debut novel in her wickedly diverting new mystery series Annette Meyers wowed readers as she deftly brought the sights and sounds or Prohibition Era Greenwich Village to exhilarating life. Now this accomplished author returns to the roaring twenties, as snow...

Young married private detectives, Debbie and Jeremy Hadley, discover that Debbie's family, the Danforths, have a family secret. Grandma Marie Danforth summons them because she fears that alienated family members and underworld characters will attempt to wrest control of the secret from her. The...

An acquaintance with death Haunted by her family's unsolved murder sixteen years ago, Leonora Spencer is familiar with death. As an assistant in her elderly uncle's London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner reports. She also isn't opposed...

Inspired by the true story of Frances Glessner Lee, whose miniature replicas of crime scenes are still used to train forensic investigators today, this follow up novel to Death in the Details continues the adventures of intrepid amateur sleuth Maple Bishop. Maple Bishop has...

*A USA Today bestseller* Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling next installment in a captivating Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin. 21 June, 1815. London may be cheering the news of Napoleon's surrender at Waterloo, but Lady Petra Forsyth has little to...

When Fredericka Wing arrives in South Sutton, Massachusetts, a tiny New England town, it seems an ideal place for a working summer vacation. She plans on managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore while working on her own writing. She never dreamed she would find a body...

Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.Author: Ray CelestinISBN-10: 1509838988ISBN-13: 9781509838981Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2022Pages: 560Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.40d

Shrewsbury, 1866. Julian Lockyer is an imposing gentleman in his late fifties. Having reserved a room for the night at the Station Hotel, he asks to be called early in the morning because he has a train to catch. Repeated attempts are made to...

Shanghai 1927. Pearl of the East or Whore of the Orient? Depends on who you ask. It's a cesspool of poverty, thronged with refugees, gripped by civil war. But for some it's still a fever dream: jazz clubs, film stars, and opium dens, celebrities...

When a film star is poisoned in Prohibition-era Philadelphia, private investigator Edie Shippen is on the case in the second Deadly Twenties mystery, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Rhys Bowen. Philadelphia, 1921. Edie Shippen has officially started her new career as a...

In the early twentieth century a bear frightens a team of horses into plunging to their deaths from off a hill near a proposed railroad route through wilderness Alaska. In 1974 young Californians Thomas Findlay and Emily Wells dig post holes for a cabin...

FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYWHEN SATAN WHISPERSA KINGDOM CRIES OUT FOR ITS SAVIORA darkness is spreading across the Kingdom of France, scores turning against God and embracing the teachings of Satan.For he has found a portal and now...

'Clever, funny, ingenious and endearing' Lissa Evans'The most audacious plot ever... gritty, engrossing and great fun' Beth Morrey'A great story, fast, dramatic, funny, full of the sounds and smells of Elizabethan London' Andy HamiltonMurder Most Foul is a dark, witty and fast-paced novel, from...