Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Author: A. M. StuartISBN-10: 176451422XISBN-13: 9781764514224Publisher: Oportet PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2026Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d

A war in Gaza. An ancient Christian fragment. A secret that could challenge two thousand years of history.As war consumes Gaza, writer Amir Zane is approached by a Palestinian Christian carrying an ancient Syriac fragment rescued from a community whose history is disappearing along...

** A sweeping historical novel of war, love, ambition and betrayal, set in a forgotten kingdom south of the Silk Road. **HE CAME FROM THE MIST.HE WOULD REMAKE AN EMPIRE.Sixteenth century. South of the Silk Road. Beyond the great eastern rivers, a kingdom is...

Some places disappear from maps. Others remain exactly where they were-and simply stop being acknowledged.In The Midnight Atlas: Volume II - Places Removed from the World, the Archive turns from mysterious transmissions toward impossible geography: towns without names, railway stations quietly deleted from timetables,...

Gaza, 2024. A man who spent thirty-three years in silence begins to gather people around him. Twelve men leave their routines and families behind to follow him, believing he might be a prophet.The Last Prophet of Palestine pieces together this movement through twelve distinct...

Rutherford County, Texas. 1975.The sign at the county line says it all: The Crossroads of America. Route 68 cuts straight through the heart of the county, connecting traffic from every point of the compass - trucks hauling cattle, guns, and things that don't appear...

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. July 1939. A pleasant afternoon by the river turns tragic when the body of young party girl Effie Watkins is discovered in the reed beds. For an overstretched Inspector Bodkin,...

This story is set in post-war Coventry after the Blitz.The reader is taken into the 1960s at the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral with the Queen and Princess Margaret.Teenager Rosalind has a granny, Alice. The story goes back to the 19th century, when...

When the recently graduated Elizabeth stepped out of the taxi, her first impression was wow! Looking up and up to the top of the imposing edifice of Craigwell Castle in the Highlands of Scotland, this quiet beauty of a young lady was struck by...

Years later, Gordian often recalled the case: a grisly tale of music, beauty, heartbreak and murder. The kind of thing that should be forgotten, but remains in the mind, year after year. Even more often, he recalled the lines from Poe that were at...

Who painted this picture. A retired solicitor from Essex inherits nothing from the family estate but a painting - of his grandmother, captured by a forgotten Montparnasse artist named Louis de Ville. Curiosity sends him to Paris, where he searches for the traces of...

WASHINGTON, D.C., 1903 . . .After twenty years, the French attempt to dig a Panama Canal is at last faltering-and President Theodore Roosevelt smells an opportunity. But before he can send in American gunboats, he'll need eyes and ears on the ground in Panama....

A country house. A dangerous secret. And a fiancé Etty Redgrave definitely cannot trust.England, 1868: Newly engaged, Etty Redgrave should be planning her wedding. Instead, she travels to the countryside for Lady Darby's summer house party, determined to uncover why her fiancé lied to...

From bestselling historical fiction author MJ Porter, the new gripping historical mystery set in 1940s Erdington, for fans of Helena Dixon, Emily Organ, L.B. Hathaway and Michelle Salter.Birmingham, England, December 1944.Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to the Dunlop Rubber Company...

From bestselling historical fiction author MJ Porter, the new gripping historical mystery set in 1940s Erdington, for fans of Helena Dixon, Emily Organ, L.B. Hathaway and Michelle Salter.Birmingham, England, November 1944.Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to a suspicious death at...

Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard travels to England's windswept coastline to investigate a murder in a place where, several years after the end of WWI, the memory of the war still runs strong . . . July, 1921: England is suffering a heatwave...

Cassie Woods yearns to be a real journalist. But in 1880s New York City, her only assignments are women's interest stories. Until, that is, a cookbook author she's meant to interview goes missing and Cassie finds herself in the midst of a police investigation...

"Nicholas Goade, Detective" is a compelling collection of short stories that follows the adventures of a seasoned Scotland Yard investigator as he traverses the English countryside. Seeking a peaceful respite from his duties in London, Nicholas Goade instead finds himself embroiled in a series...

"The Father Brown Stories" is a definitive collection of detective fiction featuring one of literature's most unconventional sleuths. Created by G.K. Chesterton, Father Brown is a quiet, unassuming Roman Catholic priest whose profound understanding of human nature and the complexities of sin allows him...

China, 206 BC. The Qin Dynasty is dying. The books have been burned. And a woman physician is the only person who knows how to read the empire's pulse.Wei Shen has spent eleven years learning everything her father could teach her, which was everything...

In the quiet English village of Little Dunning, nothing ever changes.The church clock has been stuck at twenty past three for years. The villagers know one another's habits, histories... and secrets.Until murder arrives.When the Reverend Fitch is found dead in his vestry, poisoned under...

When Morton Farrier, the formidable forensic genealogist, is called upon to uncover the mysterious disappearance of a housemaid working in a large Edwardian country house in 1911, he embarks on a perilous journey into the past. Uncovering surprising secrets and facing dangerous adversaries, Morton...

"This was a really good read. I loved the writing style, the story, and couldn't put it down. I'm looking forward to reading the earlier books." Sue Wallace, Love Book Tour "A refreshing read with a lot of thought going into the time period!"...

Some sins don't stay buried. Some wrongs don't die with the condemned.Deep in the shadow-draped hollows of Cripple Creek, Virginia, a woman named Edith Calloway was tried, condemned, and cast out by her own mountain kin - not for evil, but for knowing too...

Angel Garcia Jones vanished into the deep woods of Yonah, North Carolina, leaving a trail of murders-- and a lingering, spectral presence. Newcomers Cal and Joy McAlister, seeking to rebuild their lives, find themselves drawn into the mountain's shadows. Cal, a retired trader and...

This wry, big-hearted noir brings 1950s New York to life, from the tenements of Hell's Kitchen to the mansions of Riverdale, from Sing Sing to City Hall, with a gripping murder mystery laying bare the explosive conflicts between its big wheels, its working stiffs,...

Treachery. Theft. A Danish dilemma. 1606 - Theobald's Palace, England Unfortunately for Lucinda McCrae, kings can be careless with their jewels. When a drunk King James I swaps hats during a drinking contest with King Christian of Denmark, his priceless diamond hat brooch goes...

Lady Juliana knows she is in danger. But does she really need a bodyguard?One abduction and suddenly her brother, the Duke, begins treating her like a damsel in distress. Lady Juliana, however, is anything but - she is a woman who knows her own...

Caught in a compromising position with the very man she suspects of threatening her family, will she risk scandal or agree to an arranged marriage with a monster?Lady Prudence Remington is tired of waiting for someone else to solve her family's problems. So she...

Six nights a week the cast of the smash-hit play Daughter of the Revolution performs to a sold-out audience. A thrilling story of forbidden marriage and a secret love child, the critics say it'll run for years. That is until one night the third...

In a world full of technological wonders, the oldest crime still requires the smartest detective.San Francisco, 1925Lady Anne Worthington, an English countess with a brilliant mind for invention, has crossed an ocean to showcase her revolutionary Self-Typing Telegraph Machine at the World's Fair. Far...

In the glittering court of Henry VII, danger still hides in the shadows of past rebellions. Once a boy who challenged a king, Lambert Simnel, the last living pretender to the English throne, has spent years buried in obscurity, pardoned by Henry VII and...

When Ellie Stanley, an Ohio college student and budding journalist, flies to Dallas to babysit her sister's twin boys, she expects a fun-filled November weekend. Plans change abruptly when she and her sister become witnesses to the murder of the century--the assassination of President...

Katherine McKenna's red-eye flight to Dubai is off to a rocky start before the plane leaves the ground. Yet it's the salty storm of subterfuge prepared to reign upon her landing that warns of the desert's true threat.A dangerous accelerant to her chronic insomnia,...

From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night, a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence. Despite personal success, Yedidyah--a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons--finds himself increasingly drawn to...

Author: Paul Van DoornISBN-10: 9152718727ISBN-13: 9789152718728Publisher: ISBN SverigeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2022Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.59d

Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. Or did she? Lizzie was charged with the August 1892 murders, tried in a court of law, and acquitted, but the court...

In 1889, citizens of London are terrorized by a tall, ghostly apparition. Women all across London are frightened, and some refuse to leave their houses when it is reported that Spring-heeled Jack jumped from a building and grabbed a young woman. After scratching the...

BLOODSHED, BULLETS, AND THE GUNSLINGING ROAD TO JUSTICE.Sheriff Conor Armenta's routine prisoner transfer turns deadly when an assassin's bullet kills his captive and narrowly misses him. Determined to track down the shooter, he enlists the help of his Moapa Paiute friend, Rayno Pete, setting...

Death at a Highland Wedding is the fourth installment in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's gripping Rip Through Time Novels. After slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson has embraced her new life in Victorian Scotland as housemaid...

Cold-case detective Raquel Laing faces new threats and long-buried secrets in this gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series. SFPD Homicide Inspector Raquel Laing had what might politely be termed a "difficult childhood," until...

A wildly entertaining debut and homage to the classic murder mystery set in post-WWII London where a stranger's arrival at a boarding house sets a deadly chain of events in motion--perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Agatha Christie, and Richard Osman. London, 1953. Jimmy...

New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns to Victorian Scotland in the latest in the genre-blending Rip Through Time series. Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Mitchell has grown accustomed to life in Victorian Scotland after travelling 150 years into the past into the body...

Wuhan, 1926. Civil war has reached the Yangtze. A Nationalist army sweeps north out of Canton, warlord regimes crumble ahead of it, and foreign gunboats ride at anchor off the Hankow bund while inside the concessions the great powers watch one another across the...

When forensic archaeologist Nora Hale returns to her hometown of Hartwell, New Jersey, to survey the ruins of a long-abandoned boot factory, she expects an ordinary excavation. Instead, she uncovers evidence that something far darker lies below.Seven years after the Civil War, Harlan Merritt...

Evidence of a struggle. Blood on the carpet. And a housekeeper, vanished. For Detective Inspector Jasper Reid, Mrs. Zhao is more than just an employee-she is family. So, when it appears Mrs. Zhao has been abducted, Jasper and the woman he loves, morgue assistant...

A wall that weeps. A secret that kills.When a new homeowner in Savannah, Georgia, writes to Ghost Healers, Inc. about a wall in her Victorian row house that "weeps" every night, Sue can't resist the call. Beneath the city's beauty-where moss drapes like mourning...

Gloria Wingfield has narrowly escaped with her life, after her last adventure. Now, determined to avoid dangerous entanglements in the future, she focuses on returning her hotel to prominence in the seaside community. But amid preparations for a grand gala, an unpleasant new guest...

As he prepares to embark on a career with the National Park Service, Rick Forrester is suddenly thrust into an unexpected maze of mystery and suspense. The unearthing of a secret journal leads him into a series of time travels and thrilling adventures. Yellowstone...

Books! Bodies! And... baguettes!?The son of a powerful politician is strangled in a grand Parisian library. The police call it a mugging gone wrong, but master sleuth Lord Edgington is not convinced. When a second body turns up in another library - this time...