Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

"Ambitious, subtle, engrossing" (LES ECHOS)"An unforgettable novel" (PARIS MATCH) In October 1930, a young actress named Elissa Landi, touted by Fox Studios as the next Greta Garbo, sets foot in Hollywood. She has talent, striking looks and a mysterious background her mother, Karoline Zanardi...

Los Angeles, 1962. Dr. Wiley McCoy has a successful medical practice, movie-star good looks, and a substance abuse problem. When a young woman dies on his operating table, his life and career are destroyed. Romulo DaVinci is a conniving Voodoo shaman with supernatural powers...

The New Victorian Detective Thriller from the Author of The Darwin Affair Tim Mason's gripping new novel finds Inspector Charles Field hunting a ruthless serial killer who is terrorizing Florence Nightingale and her nurses in Crimea in 1855. But when the main suspect turns...

In the summer of 1920, a young woman is called to work as a governess at The Hibiscus, a grand and sweeping estate on Tybee Island off the coast of Savannah, GA. She is reeling from a recent tragedy, looking for employment and a...

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award--A spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb--now in paperback! Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a...

Echoing the fiction of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, this deeply intelligent debut literary thriller--set within a world still reeling from World War II--explores how the actions of a few can change the course of history.British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Elderly writer Elias Lind...

A gifted psychologist is forced to hunt a serial killer or risk having a dark chapter of her past exposed-but her mission may mark her as the next victim...1890s London. Strong-willed Georgia Buchanan, a mind doctor and heiress, spends her time with the mad,...

Mission commander, Donna Kennedy, faces disaster for herself and her crew. In an event rivaling only Apollo 13, a space shuttle mission faces absolute failure. The Columbia is damaged in space and cannot safely return to Earth. Finding a way to bring the crew...

November 1939It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's...

The Empire by George Mavro What if 15 soldiers with todays technology and equipment traveled back in time to 1453 Constantinoplis in just prior to the siege. We know they can but will they agree to significantly influence the events and outcome? While escorting...

From the pen of Eric Wentz comes another thriller etched in the burning sands of Central Asia. Preying in Iran, A Tapestry of Wounds delivers a thrilling and yet a disturbingly good read. Wentz reveals the dark underbelly of international sex trafficking across continents...

"A galloping adventure." -- The Wall Street JournalFrom the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King...

For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terrible's magnificent Library of Gold -- a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Now one of the volumes, The Book of...

John Smith, ex-smuggler and highwayman, and now Lord Fitzwarren, a respectable London ship owner, has an unscrupulous rival. Charles Shapland hopes to destroy his trading empire by any means possible.However, Smith and Bess, his wife, are prepared to defend their position. When Kate Rider,...

1934: Something is deadly wrong with the lake...When Chief Petty Officer Charles Emery receives a cryptic, urgent message from his old mentor, Captain Donovan, he immediately responds - and finds himself in a lake-side resort town in the grip of an unknown terror. Someone...

When a courier for Sweden's Press and Military Office is killed on his final mission, the Norwegian government-in-exile appoints a writer to find the missing documents ... breathtaking WW2 thriller. **International NUMBER ONE bestseller** ' A stylish stand-alone thriller from the godfather of Scandi...

With the Czarist empire in turmoil, a young Mennonite couple in what is now Ukraine adopts a Russian baby. Over the next years their lives twist, alter, and face very unexpected challenges. Amalia and Isaak Albrecht's new family is not at all what they...

In 1851, Paul Cassian joins a mining crew on a journey to newly discovered gold mines in Oregon Territory. Instead of discovering riches, they find themselves fallen prey to supernatural forces bent on trapping them to toil forever in the mines deep in the...

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict in human history, the horrors of war have left an indelible mark on the world's conscience. In 1940, the chilling disappearance of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, and intellectuals foreshadowed a monstrous atrocity that would...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a "powerful, immersive" literary noir about two female World War II correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe (Caitlin Horrocks). Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist...

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author, Steve Berry, comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which the discovery of a lost historical document challenges the global might of the United States. King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed...

Ghost of a Storm is a gothic love story that spans almost a century. The story revolves around a magnificent Stanford White mansion that stands over the cliffs in Montauk, NY. On September 21, 1938, Montauk was devastated by a nor'easter. The Stanford White...

Will her solitude cost her everything?For twenty years, Sophia has guarded the Lighthouse of Alexandria, alone in her task and in her heart.Her pain and loss keep her hidden and isolated, even as the elderly scholars she funds in the famed Library try to...

Brutal violence has swept across a strife-torn Poland, a spark that could set the Soviet prison of Eastern Europe ablaze.Desperate to avoid history repeating itself, the West has dangerous plans, and Bill Cable, now the British Ambassador in Vienna, finds himself in grave danger....

What awaits Brandy in the Devil's Bed?While touring an old castle in France, Brandy Petracus finds an old Templar Knight graveyard. Long forgotten by the world, this ancient cemetery is known to the locals as the Devil's Bed, and its occupants do not rest...

Paulette Monot, vampire-adventuress, having survived the Matabele War in Africa, leaves England to travel in the opposite direction: to America, there to recuperate, make her fortune, and keep a low profile. So much for good intentions. When she finds herself strongly attracted to Lucy...

Mason Collins investigates a rash of murders only to discover a web of co-conspirators more dangerous than anything he's ever encountered, in a case that will take him from a Hollywood-style nightclub and a speeding train, to the icy slopes of the Bavarian Alps....

History isn't what it used to be, as photographer Sam Dawson quickly discovers while attempting to unravel the truth surrounding the fatal shooting of a fourteen-year-old boy more than a century ago. Past events and lore compete with stark facts that may have saved...

"No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone."Regarded as one of greatest English novels of the...

Second in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series - November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to assist its beleaguered...

In this stunning thrill ride, perfect for fans of Steve Berry, a poem holds the key to unlocking the past- and to eliminating the future.Author: Seth MargolisISBN-10: 1682300560ISBN-13: 9781682300565Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2016Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly...

Simon Fraser, 25th chief of one of Scotland's most prominent clans, became a great British commando leader in World War II.Felix Haynes' third historical fiction novel imagines an earlier, 1930s rise to greatness for the man Winston Churchill called the handsomest man to cut...

"The Edenic is a gripping, hard-hitting work of fiction, into the world of unadulterated power and greed." The time has come for the Matuses, chosen by God to preserve the parable, "The first will last and the last will be first." "EXCITEMENT of a...

This book is unusual, since it deals with the counterfeiting of gold coins and gold bars circa 1900. Most Americans, outside of coin collectors, don't realize that gold coins were once a common form of currency in our country. In the book is a...

"A Descent into the Maelstr m" is an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form...

"This can't-put-it-down mystery was inspired by author Robert Coburn's visit to the Key West Cemetery. While there he noted a row of 43 small graves, inspiring this masterful tale that blends history, intrigue, and - dare we say? - murder." - Shirrel Rhoades, president...

Jean-Luc Gerard and his apprentice Thaddeus Rose continue their studies of the occult and of practicing witchcraft when a mysterious old tome arrives at their bookstore.When the impromptu delivery points toward works of the famed horror author H.P. Lovecraft, they find themselves facing cosmic...

There have only been a few moments in history where mankind was on the brink of extinction. The Suez Crisis was one of them...Egypt 1956. Israeli forces overrun the Sinai and decimate the Egyptian military in a surprise attack. The Egyptian army is in...

A storm is heading towards the city of Apollonia, and it is not just the bad weather. It is on horseback and in the shape of the Flock invaders. Being led by a man of mystery, the invaders are not necessarily there to break...

In 1976, John Rager, the newly arrived Indian Affairs Nakina District commerce officer lives alone in a rooming house with a deep secret. He soon discovers that many other people within the agency have secrets - in a district with mostly fly-in villages, the...

In the year 1972 in Orange County, Southern California, an ex-Nazi, Ulrich Kreitz, recruits a young man to the cause of Neo-Nazis. What Ulrich Kreitz does not know is that the new recruit, Heinrich Traupman, wants revenge against Ulrich.Author: Charles YnfanteISBN-10: 8215582583ISBN-13: 9798215582589Publisher: Charles...

His Last Bow is the final collection of thrilling short stories in the chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' series, set on the precipice of the First World War. Featuring seven tales from Holmes and Watson's adventures, this volume includes a preface from...

"This is what would happen if a trainee James Bond was asked to solve an Agatha Christie mystery, and it's brilliant." --Stuart Turton, bestselling author of The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle The raven had struck. And the thing was, she knew exactly who...

Father Michael Dominic, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive in Rome, is entrusted with the mission of transporting the original 17th-century trial documents of Galileo to Loyola Law School in Chicago. The stage is set for a modern historical mock trial of Galileo's original...

From Amazon #1 bestselling author Michael Lindley; an emotional story of love, betrayal and bitter compromise set in 1920's Atlanta and a remote village on the northern Gulf Coast of Florida. When a woman from his past makes a surprising return during his 85th...

It's the beginning of the new millennium and Tony Mascelle, the CEO of a struggling Internet startup, is desperately trying to keep his young company alive in the midst of the economic chaos following the bursting of the Internet Bubble. He thought that he...

Romance...adventure...action...Christian values. Everything you'll want for the perfect binge-read!When fear stands between you and your enemy, what do you do?Lara Croft meets Jason Bourne in this pulse-pounding clean adventure thriller where the pages turn themselves! Perfectly brought together with a dash of modern romance...

GOLDEN CITY on FIRE, authored by Sherman Smith is a historical bone-chilling recount of San Francisco's most traumatic even, the 1906 devastating earthquake. Brilliantly written, Smith generates his research into riveting sentences sweeping the reader into the midst of hysteria and chaos as a...

Is the countess of Dalmau alive or dead? Ore even worse, did she even exist? Continuation of "The Twelve Doors" series. #3 Instant bestseller historical mystery thriller in the USA on the day of its release. #1 bestseller in Spain and Mexico. More than...

Cook Town, North Queensland. 1897Samoa, 27, arrives in Cook Town to charter a boat to take her to Mist Island in the Solomon's searching for her younger brother, Rennison, whom she has not heard from in fourteen months. In his last letter he was...