Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

"Woman with a Blue Pencil is a brilliantly structured labyrinth of a novel--something of an enigma wrapped in a mystery, postmodernist in its experimental bravado and yet satisfyingly well-grounded in the Los Angeles of its World War II era. Gordon McAlpine has imagined a...

1964--Life on the North Dakota farm hasn't always been easy for Marjorie Trumaine. She has begun working as a professional indexer to help with the bills--which have only gotten worse since the accident that left her husband, Hank, blind and paralyzed. When her nearest...

Spring of 1952. Annie Watson, now widowed, is assisting her daughter Lady Penelope Sheridan with the first formal dinners to be held at the renovated Big House. Even the reputedly troublesome Dowager Lady Edwina cannot cast a shadow over the triumphant success of the...

Master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo return to investigate a murder at the shogunate. June, 1565: Master ninja Hiro Hattori receives a pre-dawn visit from Kazu, a fellow shinobi working undercover at the shogunate. Hours before, the shogun's cousin, Saburo, was...

Sonny Burton was forced to retire from the Texas Rangers after taking a bullet from Bonnie Parker in a shoot-out. The bullet so damaged Sonny's right arm that he had to have it amputated. While Sonny struggles with recuperating and tries to get used...

Ellie Stone is a professed modern girl in 1960s' New York City, playing by her own rules and breaking boundaries while searching for a killer among the renowned scholars in Columbia University's Italian Department. "If you were a man, you'd make a good detective."...

The greatest horse race of the century, with the best five-year-olds of England running against the best of America, will take place in a week at Epsom Downs. Millions have been bet on the winners. Owners, jockeys, grooms, and gamblers from across England arrive....

Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens's unfinished final manuscript. But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks,...

The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey Mappestone In the year 1101, Sir Geoffrey Mappestone returns to his home at Goodrich Castle on the Welsh border. He is travelling in the company of a knight who claims to...

The St. Louis World's Fair, 1904: A miniature city of palaces and pavilions that becomes a backdrop for romance, betrayal--and murder. Cousins Grace and Lillie have been best friends since birth, despite Grace's vastly inferior social status ever since her mother married for love...

Author: Andrea HicksISBN-13: 9798230864387Publisher: Andrea HicksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2025Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d

Author: Chris NicksonISBN-10: 1448316294ISBN-13: 9781448316298Publisher: Severn HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2025Pages: 240Format: Hardcover

The BRAND NEW spellbinding historical novel from bestseller Elena Collins. 'Heartbreaking and hopeful, it's a brilliant read.' Nicola Cornick Now: When Megan's father gets a letter containing a secret from the past, he asks her to go to the Cornish village of St Mawgen...

On a sultry afternoon in July, a man stumbles through thick foliage and rough ground, making for the coast. He wears prisoner's garb and the guards are hot on his heels. Happening upon a bather's clothes - the bather nowhere in sight - the...

Join Countess turned advice columnist Amelia Amesbury as she tries to juggle a new Season and a new murder in this charmingly deadly historical mystery. "A beautiful debutante, a wealthy widow, and a dead would-be baron. What could be more exciting?" Countess by day,...

In this case, Esho is asked to uncover who's behind the murders of prostitutes in the Undercity. It will take every ally he has, and a few new ones he picks up along the way, to discover who's behind the grisly murders.Author: Scott RocheISBN-10:...

Author: Oliver P?tzschISBN-13: 9798228469792Publisher: HarperCollinsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Format: MP3 CD

The BRAND NEW instalment in the page-turning Iris Woodmore Mysteries from Michelle Salter! When murder hits close to home, Iris must fight to clear her name... Spring, 1924. Reporter Iris Woodmore plans to move to London to avoid a shocking hometown scandal. Longtime enemy...

In the shadowy streets of Edwardian London, a killer leaves a trail of bodies, and only one man can stop him. Retired detectives Lawrence and Violet Harpham return to the city for a relaxing holiday, but their peace is shattered when Lawrence begins investigating...

A murder shocks the small town of Walden. And it's only the beginning...Walden, 1921. Local reporter Iris Woodmore is determined to save her beloved lake, Waldenmere, from destruction.After a bloody and expensive war, the British Army can't afford to keep the lake and build...

A fatal jump. A missing suffragette. An inexplicable murder.London, 1920. For the first time ever, two women are competing against each other to become an MP. Reporter Iris Woodmore has a big story on her hands when she accompanies one of the candidates to...

Award-winning historical fiction. Like Game of Thrones with real history. 'Believable, page-turning and memorable.' Lela Michael, S.P. Review1150: Provence, where making love and making paper are crimes against the Church. Death on her heels, Estela runs towards a new identity. Her life depends on...

You will soon discover that Captain Arthur Hastings is on hand to relate confirming details of case after case. Hastings was an ongoing friend and adventure companion of the often exuberant Belgian investigator who once proudly proclaimed, I am the greatest detective in the...

Cambridge, 1940. Snow is falling thick and fast on a cold winter's night. As a college porter makes his nightly rounds, he is startled to hear a boy's desperate screams for help coming from the icy river below. But by dawn the river has...

Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate.Soon, George discovers that this is not the first property that has been targeted. When a man is found dead in the hold...

The Bloodied Girl (1857) is the third volume in a series of four that tells the story of the secret government's spy network, the Secret Bureau, that intercepts and opens all private mail. In this tome, we discover how the downfall of Napoleon and...

Discover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library's archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring classics were written in the golden age of detective fiction."...this crime is conditioned by the place. To understand the one you've got to study the...

Amateur sleuth Queen Elizabeth II is back on the case in 1960's England in the 5th installment of this historical mystery series the New York Times Book Review calls "sheer entertainment," perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Richard Osman. 1961, England.The Queen is...

Hollywood, 1939. When film director Orland Orcott is found dead in his locked study, police rule it a suicide. However, movie star Victor Marvel believes otherwise and sets out to investigate, aided by his handsome boyfriend, Griffin, and Eve Spellman, Victor's smart, young costar....

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,...

When second-rate illustrator Ernie MacGuffin's artistic works triple in value following his apparent suicide off the Brooklyn Bridge, Dorothy Parker smells something fishy. Enlisting the help of magician and skeptic Harry Houdini, she goes to a s ance held by MacGuffin's mistress, where Ernie's...

With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts' latest novel is an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, and another love ballad to his region of North Carolina. Clinton Salter is the sheriff who never wanted...

In this delightful historical mystery, Phyllida Bright--amateur sleuth and Agatha Christie's esteemed housekeeper--discovers a killer stalking the stages of London's illustrious theaters. Housekeeper Phyllida Bright is quite in her element at Mallowan Hall, the charming English manor that she keeps in tip-top shape. By...

Mothering Pirates is a descendant's story born in history and wrapped in a tale of best friends. River Grey is the third great- granddaughter of the famous pirate Anne Bonny. Her best friend, Lexington O'Malley is the third great-granddaughter of The Pirate Queen of...

At the darkly glamorous height of the Roaring 20s, an independent Black intellectual and her bi-racial foster child are immersed in the vibrant world of the Harlem Renaissance - and a shocking murder on Striver's Row - in this thrilling Jazz Age mystery for...

Author: Natalie BrianneISBN-13: 9798987095386Publisher: Searose PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2024Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

In the shadow of Nazi-occupied France, a legacy is concealed, waiting silently to be reclaimed.Decades later, Paris art restorer Amelia Beckett is used to peeling back layers of history. But when a seemingly ordinary heirloom lands in her studio, her careful routine is shattered...

In the winter of 1846, after attending a performance of Shakespeare in Detroit, young wife Claire Hinman is found stabbed and bludgeoned in a snowy field. The person behind her death has devised a scheme to implicate Claire's husband, Carl. To avoid arrest, Carl...

"There is a spirit that moves amongst us. They call him the Messenger of Death. And tonight...tonight...he called my name."The Loxworths are a family of clairvoyant mediums. Sitters at their seances are dying. Their deaths predicted by a mysterious entity known as The Messenger...

Step into a world where the boundaries between life, death, and the afterlife blur in "Quantum Resurrection." Detective Jack Spec is thrust into a transformative journey after a fatal attack leaves him and his family in a morgue over Christmas. His soul, trapped in...

A ski holiday with friends at a mountain resort. What could possibly go wrong? It's supposed to be the engaged couple's vacation from sleuthing, instead they are confronted with a murder at the isolated hotel. Aside from their party, the guests are strangers to...

With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts' latest novel is an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, and another love ballad to his region of North Carolina. Clinton Salter is the sheriff who never wanted...

Bringing Sherlock Holmes from the Victorian Era into the dark days of World War II, this imaginative new thriller confronts the world's greatest detective with a killer emulating the murders of Jack the Ripper. London, 1942. A killer going by the name of Crimson...

It may be a surprise to those who think of "Minnesota Nice" today, but in the 1920s and '30s, the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis were rife with crime and corruption. Criminals from John Dillinger to Ma Barker to Babyface Nelson spent...

On the eve of Sherlock Holmes's retirement Watson pays a final visit to 221b Baker Street. Their quiet conversation is interrupted as other guests drift in and out of the 221b sitting-room... Also included here is the account of a visit made by Holmes...

On the first day of Hexamshire's annual weeklong fair in late summer 1221, Master Gruffydd, an arrogant merchant and town worthy, is poisoned. A wealthy man, Gruffydd has been shamed by his low birth, a condition he could never overcome. By contrast, his wife,...

* The Secret of Monument Valley(Volume 2 in the Florea/Holland Mystery Series)... According to the so-called experts, in about 1450 AD, an exceedingly prosperous generation of Native Americans, known then as the Anasazi, vanished from their strongholds in the American Southwest--disappeared without so much...

In this rousing sequel to The Blackstone Key, Rose Melikan's heroine returns to the world of espionage for an intelligent, thrilling adventure in Georgian England. When the story begins Mary is a wealthy heiress. Young ladies in her situation ought to marry well--as her...

Journey through five decades of Aroostook County's rugged history in this spellbinding saga that weaves together mystery, legend, and the raw beauty of Maine's wilderness. At the heart of the story lies a family cabin and an enigmatic stone enclosure blessed-or cursed-with inexplicable energy,...

Two grisly murders. A disgraced former mayor. A tranquil town on the verge. This gripping historical crime novel set in the south pulls the past into the present, perfect for fans of Charles Todd and Ann Cleaves. Dave Hendricks was once a respected man...