Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

It is not an easy life for an English juggler in Twelfth Century Spain. Survival means juggling, not only his knives, but dancing nimbly between the clash of cultures of the sophisticated Moors who conquered the land centuries earlier, the Christians who stubbornly fight...

Dr Nazim Khan is the secretive mastermind of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, and the target of British Intelligence officer Sarah Cable, now twenty-six, ambitious and dangerous. Her task is to worm her way into his trust...The job is distasteful, vital and dangerous. One agent...

Nepal, 1978.High in the Himalayas, a renegade Chinese agent is brutally murdered while trying to reach the British Embassy in Kathmandu. A Triad revenge killing? Or does the mutilated corpse point to sinister espionage activity that might set the powder-keg of South East Asia...

Fabergé eggs. So small, so perfect, so golden, so priceless. So deadly. Private eye Peter Pike and his sleuth-librarian fiancée Greta learn just how deadly when the Third Imperial Egg turns up in the Mississippi River town of Punica, Mo. Now it's up to...

Read the classic monster book that started them all.The definitive edition Features an uplifting extended biography of the life and experiences of Mary Shelly Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by Scottish author...

November, 1938It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn't done. Abel Hershmann's cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading to Venice in search of him and the...

When Seb Foxley discovers a child's body in his workshop and another lad goes missing, our medieval sleuth is perplexed at every turn. His investigations take him across London Bridge to Bankside in Southwark, where he becomes embroiled in the sinister shadows of the...

In the year of 1887, the 'Go-Devil Killer' is terrorizing the small community of Fairmount, Indiana using a supply of stolen nitroglycerin to kill and put out of business a family owned natural gas company. It quickly falls upon Marshal Web and Deputy Tony...

2020 ITW Thriller Awards Finalist"A timely edge-of-your-seat terrorism thriller that plays on every parent's worst fears. This cinematic thriller is destined for TV." -Best ThrillersErik Petersson works with the High-Risk Traveler Task Force, an organization that prevents radicalized individuals from joining extremist groups. Disciplined...

1958 San FranciscoStruggling jazz musician, Frank Valentine, suffers a midnight beating, leaving his left hand paralyzed. Jobless, penniless, and desperate, Frank agrees to join his best friend, George, and three other buddies to distribute a gangster's heroin for quick money.What he doesn't know is...

Open City, Closed Set is a comic thriller set in Hollywood during World War II and follows Roberto Balio, an Italian spy sent to the California coast to investigate his predecessor's disappearance. Roberto, a charming, handsome man with an innate ability to be trusted,...

'Authentic and compelling... Boyle captures the paranoia and peril of the era.' - Roger Moorhouse, author of Berlin at War 'A tense page-turner' - Historical Novel Society Xanthe Schneider is a homespun crossword enthusiast from Cincinnati. In 1938, in an effort to reconnect with...

Originally published as a serial in "Master Humphrey's Clock" between 1840-1841, Dickens historical novel "Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty" is mainly set during the Gordon Riots of 1780, several days of rioting in Great Britain sparked by anti-Catholic sentiment. Highly...

In The Eighties, Las Vegas was an amazing, glitzy, non-stop human circus fueled by booze, gambling, drugs and sex. This amazing scene is the lush backdrop for the story of an eighteen-year old girl walking into a den of thieves with eyes wide open,...

In 1880, eight-year-old Raju and his family board a ship from India to work on the sugar cane plantations in South Africa. Little does Raju realise how this new journey to the 'Dark Continent' of Africa will change his life forever. Trapped by poverty...

By dawn's early light ... murder, mystery, and intrigue.When the Star-Spangled Banner flag is stolen from the Smithsonian Institution, it's up to historian Franklin Scott Keane to get it back.Joining forces with Keane will be an up-and-coming young researcher. Together, they navigate a web...

In Book II - SONS OF CUBA - HOMECOMING Felipe and his handful of rebels are forced into exile by the Batista government. With the help of Ileana Calleri, a Cuban National living in Mexico, a training camp is established in the shadows of...

"A racing climax and a fully satisfying ending" - Kate Quinn1960s Roma Nova. Retrained as an undercover agent, ex-Praetorian officer Aurelia Mitela is sent to Berlin to investigate silver smuggling, but barely escapes a near-lethal trap. Her lifelong nemesis, Caius Tellus, is determined to...

Early 1980s. Roma Nova, founded by dissidents in the dusk of the Roman Empire, is paralysed by a ruler afraid to rule and old laws choking reform. Fear sparks riots only to be exploited by the charismatic leader of a rising nationalist movement.Caius Tellus...

A young tribune at the Roman Empire's dusk meets a fiery daughter of a Celtic prince. Their descendants battle their way through history to the 21st century where they must find their own destiny and happiness while keeping their country safe. Over sixteen hundred...

"A classic tale of resistance and resilience - the only regret is when the action stops." - Douglas Jackson Early 1980s Vienna. Recovering from a near fatal shooting, Aurelia Mitela, ex-Praetorian and former foreign minister of Roma Nova, chafes at her enforced exile. She...

The fifth Sebastian Foxley Medieval Mystery.London is not safe for princes or commoners.In February 1478, a wealthy merchant is killed by an intruder and a royal duke dies at the Tower. Neither case is quite as simple as it seems.Seb Foxley, an intrepid young...

One Secret Changes her war forever...WW2 September 1940.During the middle of a Blitz raid on wartime London, Journalist Anna Forrester receives the phone call that will change everything.Her dying mother leaves her the diary of the long deceased aristocratic heiress Elizabeth Leyac. Just who...

Beneath the glitter of Gilded Age Palm Beach, monsters lurk in the shadows...In 1902, the world is full of new wonders, from telephones to motorcars. It's full of prejudice, too, particularly for people born with physical deformities. Dr. Frank Follett's mission is to study...

Paulette is sent on a mission to China with the words of her mentor ringing in her ears. "A hot wind is now fanning the flames of racism in China, Paulette." Said Lady Ellen Terry. "And, like dust in a drought, it has blown...

"The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in." ― Harold C. Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 2Books, movies and popular media have eulogized the major role...

TWO POWERFUL RIVALS -- ONE DECISIVE BATTLE Now a political hostage in Falaise, lfgifa forms an unlikely friendship with William, Duke of Normandy. William has been swift to recognize her skills and exploit them to his advantage. However, unbeknownst to the duke, Gifa is...

A Falcon Flies: The fifth book of Talon. Talon has returned to Acre the crusader port after more than a year in Byzantium. He is now a rich man, the owner of ships and and in possession of a license to play the merchant...

The Brothers Pendragon: United by blood -- and separated by blood In the early spring, two young men arrive in Uther Pendragon's magnificent city. They have never met before, nor is either of them known to the king or anyone else in the city....

Ancient Plague as a Bio-Weapon.A cult of assassins living on as modern day Terrorists.Could a scrap of medieval poetry really hold the key to saving an unsuspecting world from the grip of deadly pandemic? Canadian historian Abigail Leclaire has no idea of the danger...

Past and present collide in the home of the Brontë sisters in this engrossing and suspenseful dual-timeline novel. 1838 - Nine-year-old Harry hates working on the mill floor, and flees to the moors above Haworth whenever he can escape the deadly, thundering machinery. There...

When heiress Kaira Munroe and world-renowned Oceanographer Jonathan Bell, are summoned to a remote location in the Caribbean to analyze a mysterious golden disc - set between the pillars of an ancient Stonehenge - they discover evidence of the unimaginable. Their worst fears are...

Summer. 1936. Upstate New York. First, the banks were coming for their farms. Then, a record heat wave scorched the land. And then came Joshua Bloomfield, driven by revenge and greed, seeking to reclaim an inheritance of blood money and the family he believed...

Kate Fergusson, a CNN reporter, found a reference to a tool for control of the masses in a letter from Lafayette to George Washington. Evan Davidson, a Professor at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, discovered a missing scroll from Luke's Gospel...

It's Easy to be Brave from a Safe Distance. When Zekial Broome stops a sadistic slave chaser, Grissum McCord, from whipping his captive, he and the girl have no choice but to flee west into the untamed lands of the wild frontier. If they...

You would think Cecilia LaRoque has it all: a loving father, wealth, beauty, social position and a devoted suitor. She doesn't. Crushed by a cold and critical mother who soon absconds to live with a dissolute lover, 'Cissy' struggles to prove herself worthy of...

"Ward Just took time off from the editorial page of The Washington Post to write his first novel, A Soldier of the Revolution, the story of a young man who is sent to South America to work for an Ameri"Author: Ward JustISBN-10: 1586480979ISBN-13: 9781586480974Publisher:...

It's early in the Second World War, and most of Europe is occupied by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, aspiring to establish a thousand-year empire. The occupied countries will be robbed of their art treasures, the items to be exhibited in newly built German...

This book is a fictional story about two hundred acres of land that was stolen from an African American family who obtained land thanks to the Homestead Act. In the 1800s, Veronica Williams' great-grandfather was deceived, and this is how this brave descendant regained...

WWI veteran Spicer leaves his native New York to join a Soviet spy service to combat fascists in Weimar Germany during the late 1920s. Despite his loyalty to the cause and successful exploits on its behalf, his moral principles and his devotion to a...

Girl with Parasol is a suspenseful novel about looting of Jewish-owned artworks by the Nazis during World War II. These crimes hit the headlines in 2013 with the discovery of an art cache in Munich, and in 2014 with the release of George Clooney's...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's brilliant and thrilling historical novel Wolves of Rome is perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow's Eagles of the Empire series and Ben Kane's Eagles of Rome series.Author: Valerio Massimo ManfrediISBN-10: 1509878998ISBN-13: 9781509878994Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2019Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.70h x...

Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained. Rick Coleman, an investigative journalist, determines to uncover the secrets. Taking place in the now, but with flashback chapters which...

It is 1936 as track star Dietrich Becker trains for the Berlin Olympics. Supported by his wife and an unknown benefactor, Dietrich is hiding a dangerous secret: he is Jewish. But when he unexpectedly loses to the legendary Jesse Owens, a humiliated Dietrich crumbles...

Trouble comes to the Botai at the peak of their power. Recent raids on shepherds and travelers have started again in a similar pattern to attacks made by the Smolens villagers years ago. Even worse, the Botai have lost their access to tin, the...

During World War II, as the Allied armies advance into Germany, the very wealthy Baron von Braunstein believes Germany will lose the war. His two sons having been killed, he arranges to get his only remaining child, a daughter, out of Germany and into...

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Red Shadows' is a story that follows the adventures of the puritan explorer Solomon Kane. Robert Ervin Howard was born...

This book contains Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novella, "The Corsican Brothers - A Novel". It is the tale of two brothers who, after being conjoined and separated when very young, are still able to sense the spine of the other. A moving story that has...

A thrilling collection of the 20 most challenging murder cases solved by Arthur Conan Doyle's remarkable detective, Sherlock Holmes. Join Sherlock Holmes in this new collection of classic short stories as he investigates cases involving murder and foul play. In these tales, Holmes uses...

Set in the vast and rugged moorland of Dartmoor, this gripping short story follows Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as they attempt to discover the truth behind the disappearance of a phenomenal racehorse, Silver Blaze. When the prize-winning racehorse Silver Blaze goes missing the...