Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

Matthew "Mathe" Stone and Jonathon "Finn" Finley, friends from different backgrounds, find a common desire to challenge their world in the extreme, seeking Tall Air. Against their hilarious and frightful missteps as teenagers, through first loves, to their struggle to survive Naval Air combat...

An ancient energy. A daring expedition. Two misfit scientists in a race against time.Iris McTavish always wanted to follow in her father's footsteps. But when his sudden death leaves her household on the brink of ruin, she may have to choose an unwanted marriage...

In a cruel, centuries-old tradition, lovely sixteen-year-old Marpessa of Lokris is chosen by lot to serve as a slave for one year in distant Troy, across the Aegean Sea. She can return, but only if she survives. Marpessa leaves behind her devoted mother, and...

Sparky and the King takes readers to the sleazy and dark corners of the 1960s Louisiana/Texas Gulf coast. Fidel Castro has just taken over Cuba, Jack Kennedy is in the White House, Organized Crime is moving in on the rock 'n roll industries and...

Heartbreak, joy and nefarious doings at London's luxurious HOTEL DU BARRY. A book for lovers of fine gin, murderous impulses and writing of the ilk of Jonas Jonasson. When a laughing baby is found amongst the Hotel du Barry's billowing sheets, tucked up in...

The building of the Alms house in Sherborne has taken the good people of Sherborne into much thought and energetic fund raising, despite still owing the Abbot money for rebuilding after the fire. Against this backdrop, Shaftesbury Abbey becomes embroiled in a gruesome happening...

"Remarkable stuff. Fans of Bill James' Harpur and Iles saga of cops and robbers are in for quite a treat" - Kirkus Reviews Starred Review Sergeant-Detective ﾉmile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set...

Belfast 1993: A nocturnal ambulance service at the Belfast Central Station almost turns deadly for the young paramedic Ryan. In the crosshairs of the IRA, he is badly wounded and wakes up in the hospital with muddled memories. The police close the case fast,...

It all starts with a ring, inlaid with a seemingly insignificant black stone. Discovered on its own by the famous archaeologist Flinders Petrie, the stone had not been recognised for what it was, for up until the fall of Jerusalem in the 6th century...

During the Dark Ages, Dublin, Ireland was a Viking base and their center for the slave trade. By 905, Vikings were converting to the Christian Religion and fighting among themselves because of it. Christianity was becoming the spiritual foundation of European society and spreading...

Presume Nothing The Hound of the Baskervilles Listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel." In 1999, it was listed as the top Holmes novel, with a perfect rating from Sherlockian scholars of 100....

No one imagined a hurricane striking the idyllic village of Verdad in the spring of 2015, nor what two young survivors, Ariadna and Isandro, would stumble upon in its aftermath. Something extraordinary...a relic so bizarre and ancient, it would compel nations to seek out...

"An interesting story centered around an actual event during World War II..." -- Wayne Abrahamson US Navy, retired, MAs in Anthropology and History, Author of Black Silver and Sergeant Dooley and The Submarine Raiders Faced with guilt and uncertainty, a young geologist travels to...

For readers of The Nightingale and Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a gripping historical thriller set against a fully-realized WWII backdrop about the love a father has for his son and the lengths he is willing to go to find him, from a talented...

What if God's most closely guarded secret fell into the wrong hands?THE PROPHET CRUCIFIED IN A SACRED GROVE... A MILLENNIA-OLD SECRET ABOUT TO BE EXPOSED... A HOLY RELIC CAPABLE OF DESTROYING THE WORLD WITH A SINGLE TOUCH...After saving the Catholic Church in Katsikas's debut...

The year 1187 is one of the most fateful for the Christian crusades in the Holy Land, and one of the most disastrous. With an act of savage banditry, an infamous lord of the Kingdom of Jerusalem destroys the treaties that have made possible...

Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016 The Oath tracks the intertwined lives of Dr. Katz and SS Doktor Bloch, who both survive Auschwitz and the war to practice medicine in the United States, never losing the stains upon their souls. Katz, a...

*** FINALIST for a Minnesota Book Award *** "It's the era of Capone and Dillinger, when gangsters ruled St. Paul. Two thugs, Sly and Eightball, want to move up in the ranks. They betray their boss, form an uneasy alliance, and kidnap a priest,...

Laura Wingate's life in New York City was falling apart. The man she hoped to marry would not commit, and her job as a museum exhibitions manager was growing stale. Needing to reevaluate her future, she travels to Magnolia House located near Alexandria, Louisiana....

*** FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY ***A MISSING DA VINCI. A TERRIFYING GENETIC BREAKTHROUGH. A PAST AND FUTURE ABOUT TO COLLIDE!USA Today bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy delivers another torn from the headlines thriller in Saint Peter's Soldiers.In World War Two...

War looms in the land that will one day become China. Seven States battle for power and influence in the waning days of the Zhou Dynasty, and each of them wants to be the best. The State of Wei is one, and in 403...

Painting a vivid and terrifying picture of war-torn Europe during World War II, this tale chronicles the lives of Anna, a Krakow university professor, and her husband Jan, a Polish cavalryman. After they are separated and forced to flee occupied Poland, Anna soon finds...

GIUSEPPE VAZANNO is one of the wealthiest and most beloved landowners in 1911, post-feudal Sicily. His lemon orchards provide work for the Sicilian peasants, a rich life for his brothers and their families, and a peaceful oasis for his wife Maria and their two...

From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes a hard-edged look at the seductive, high-stakes and often hypocritical world of religious revivalism and televangelists....Spellbinder is the story of a genuine and charismatic believer known as "Preacher," who returns...

The Wrath Of Palzora is a story of love, lust, hatred, greed, deception and murder. Set in the early days of Oklahoma statehood, it begins with the mysterious death of a farmer who fell dead while drawing water from a well in Lincoln County,...

In this sequel to "Bandita Bonita, Romancing Billy the Kid," the Lincoln County War is far from over and William H. Bonney is now the most wanted, notorious outlaw in the New Mexico Territory. Elucia Howard, now christened with the celebrated moniker, Lucy "Lucky...

A soldier returns home to find his parents displaced and their property stolen in this classic Western. "He leaned propped against the rail of the great ship, in an obscure place aft, shadowed by the life-boats. It was the second night out of Cherbourg...

Louis L'Amour's Western stories are beloved worldwide. Now, collected together for the first time in a single volume, are three of his finest tales of the West. The texts have been restored to their original appearances in magazines. In "The Lion Hunter and the...

Twenty years after he survived Vietnam, Daniel Mulvaney's memoir about it is a best seller. But success brings unforeseen attention. An invitation from a mysterious Vietnamese, to return to the land that nearly took his life, takes Danny back to when an idealistic kid...

On his first trip out West, Zane Grey became friends with Buffalo Jones, the "last of the plainsmen" as he called him. Jones had been witness to the great herds of buffalo that had once ranged on the Great Plains, and he had been...

A strange and mysterious gem named the Sphinx Emerald leaves its trail through history: a witness to many historic events and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous men such as Alexander the Great, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, Leonardo da Vinci, Cardinal...

Spring 1915: World War One rages across Europe, and the British Empire is assailed on all fronts--domestic and abroad. Amidst this bloodbath of nations, where one man's flag is another man's shroud, a British spy is asked to do the impossible: seduce and betray...

A WW2 spy story. 1943. Kurt Muller and a young colleague parachute into southern Germany to rescue a British-Canadian agent. The Allies have won the battle of the Atlantic, and German forces are retreating on all major fronts. The war in Europe is effectively...

"The research is impeccable and the writing full of verve." Antonia Senior, The Times1642.England has been plunged into a Civil War.Blandford Candy is sent to London, after an illicit affair, and joins the Roundhead army to fight against the King, taking part in the...

A vacation to the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida, quickly turns deadly for brothers Jon and Michael Rickner as an antiquities dealer is brutally murdered in his shop just minutes after meeting with them. Moments later, Jon and Michael discover an original Edison...

Praise for Mark Ciabattari's Rizzoli saga: ""With unerring irony, Ciabattari paints a shimmering, disorienting world in which the lines between dreams and reality are systematically skewed." -Publishers WeeklyAuthor: Mark CiabattariISBN-10: 1599540967ISBN-13: 9781599540962Publisher: Bordighera PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2016Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

An ENGAGING and PROVOCATIVE new novel that CHALLENGES all the political, social, and economic INADEQUACIES of the AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS System. In a dazzling display of political insight and masterful storytelling, Sylvester Stephens presents a new novel about what has been wrong throughout America's...

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common...

Grapes of wrath By Boyd Cable is the life of a private soldier during World War I.Author: Boyd CableISBN-10: 1545134766ISBN-13: 9781545134764Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2017Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d

Austria, 1944 Former policeman Friedrich Moeller never expected to be released from prison, or see his family again. But the Gestapo needs a man-hunter to apprehend an Allied agent who has killed three men, and worse, absconded with Top Secret Luftwaffe documents which detail...

London, 1812: Treacherous gangs roam the capital, and not even the Palace of Westminster is safe. When Detective Stephen Lavender is called in to investigate a highway robbery and a cold-blooded murder, both the cases take a dangerous and disturbing personal twist.And when Lavender's...

The discovery of a lost Caravaggio painting yields centuries of deadly secrets in this pulse-pounding novel of historical intrigue and modern-day suspense...In seventeenth-century Rome, an arrogant and reckless artist named Caravaggio drinks and brawls his way through his violent, insatiable life, all while painting...

"Welcome to the bloody end of bleeding Kansas..."Based on true events, this unforgettable novel tells the story of the Bloody Benders, a family of grifters and thieves running an isolated feed store on the Kansas plains, boarding travelers along the Great Osage Trail.Beautiful Kate...

The third thrilling archaeological adventure with Alicia Myles from No.1 bestselling Amazon author, David Leadbeater. Full of intense action and rich pirate history, Alicia Myles and the Gold Team follow four-hundred-year-old clues in their search for the long-lost treasure hoard of the fabled pirate,...

Tenth-century Iceland. One night in the darkness of winter, two friends set out on an adventure but end up killing a man. Kjaran, a traveling poet who trades songs for food and shelter, and Gunnar, a feared warrior, must make a choice: conceal the...

AD 635, Anglo-Saxon Britain: Oswald is now King of Northumbria. However, his plans for further alliances and conquests are quickly thrown into disarray when his wedding to a princess of Wessex is interrupted by news of a Pictish uprising. Rushing north, Oswald leaves Beobrand...

When an injured man appears at the home of Sir Tobias, Coroner of Dorset, claiming to have devastating news of his son-in-law, he is compelled to investigate for the sake of his daughter and grandson.Matthias Barton is drawn into the investigation and travels to...

Sherborne in 1436 was a quarrelsome town, the townspeople and the Abbot at loggerheads over the narrowing of the entrance to Allhallows, the chapel-of-ease attached to the Abbey, and the positioning of a font in the same chapel. Against this background, a young man...

When the death of Cosimo de Medici spurs power-hungry aristocrats into action, can a young Florentine stop his birthplace from plunging into chaos? Florence, 1464. Nico Argenti is glad to be home. Returning with a Doctor of Law degree, he eagerly awaits his introduction...

Martin Kerner blew it. A whiskey stained semester torpedoed his shot at the law degree he'd worked his whole life towards. With one final opportunity for redemption, what stands in his way is not a person or a thing. It's a place. DETROIT. A...