Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

A Rannoch Fraser Mysteries NovellaOctober 1820. As London simmers over the scandalous royal divorce trial, a pistol shot aimed at the Duke of Wellington's carriage shatters the peace of the autumn night. When Malcolm and M駘anie Rannoch learn their friend Robby Simcox has been...

Edmund Harkins has gone missing. Few would confess to liking the man - a wife-beater and distinctly unsavoury character - so when some hungry pigs disinter his corpse in a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief. However, this intensifies the problem...

A USA Today bestseller! "[Penrose] mixes well-thought out mysteries, early forensic science, great details of the era and a slow burning attraction creating a compulsive read." --The New York Public Library A thrilling new mystery novel from the acclaimed author of Murder at Queen's...

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920[1] and in the United...

'A masterpiece. A historical feast.' C.M.T.Stibbe, Chasing Pharoahs 1151: the Holy Land From the Winner of the Global Ebook Award for Best Historical Fiction Estela, the troubadour, is following the destiny of her beautiful voice. Dragonetz, her passionate knight has a dangerous mission to...

Winner of the Global Ebook Award for Best Historical Fiction 'Believable, page-turning and memorable.' Lela Michael, S.P. Review 1150 in Provence On the run from abuse, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her...

It's autumn of 1881, and Inez Stannert, still the coowner of Leadville, Colorado's Silver Queen saloon, is settled in San Francisco with her young ward, Antonia Gizzi. Inez has turned her business talents to managing a music store, hoping to eventually become an equal...

Action ... Intrigue ... Mystery ... Murder? Helen Meeker has traveled the globe fighting the world's most evil forces, but a small boy has given her a seemingly impossible case. The child believes the same people who killed his father on the Astoria during...

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is halted when a skeleton is discovered beneath a 300-year-old stone plinth - the remains of a woman who was buried alive. But even when...

Saint Paul, Private Eye! It is written, in Matthew, that Jesus, on the cross, cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Was this all Jesus said? Who was present to hear him say anything at all? His disciples had fled...

John Rawlings has returned to his beloved London after spending time in America where revolutionary trouble is dangerously brewing.Having made a substantial sum selling carbonated water, Rawlings buys a country house situated on the banks of the Thames in Strand-on-the-Green in Chiswick.But one morning...

'a well-crafted plot that builds to a chilling climax' - Publishers Weekly Starred Review A medieval mystery from the author of the Hawkenlye series It is 1087 and William Rufus has just ascended the throne; England lies under a harsh new militaristic regime. Rebellion...

"Chris Kelsey hits another home-run with this fast-paced and enthralling mystery starring Emmett Hardy." -Sublime Book ReviewIt's August 1974. The oil-producing states of the Middle East refuse to sell their oil to the United States, igniting a worldwide economic crisis. What's a catastrophe for...

In Pursuit: A Victorian Entertainment, Addison Grimmins, slum-born but ambitious and ruthless, sets out on a quest to bring back the Lord Exchequer of England's missing wife. Now, in Pursued: Lillian's Story, we get the other side of the story from Lillian, the woman...

With dark secrets underground and hints of the occult, this is a must for readers of Adam Nevill and Susan Hill. "A dark, disturbing thrill ride." - Publisher's Weekly Eligos is waiting...fulfil your destiny 1941. In the dark days of war-torn London, Violet works...

New Zealand 1880: A body in a ditch, a missing wife, money in short supply, and a stud horse wanted by the leader of a brutal Australian gang - Sergeant Frank Hardy has a lot to handle. The fourth book in this gripping historical...

Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, famed eccentric detective Hercule Poirot solves a variety of mysteries involving greed, jealousy, and...

The enthralling new Burren mystery . . . April 1511, Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is celebrating the christening of her son when she notices that three of her law students have disappeared from the party. The next morning, one of them is...

Poet-sleuth Geoffrey Chaucer is caught up in the chaos of the Peasants' Revolt as he attempts to track down a brutal killer. June, 1381. Embarking on his annual pilgrimage to Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer and his fellow travellers are forced to turn back when confronted...

Eric Hoffer Award Winner: Mystery/Crime Category First Runner-Up!See review in U.S. Review of Books (July 2023) The Magic City's police force has a way of life at stake in Birmingham, the premier rail terminal has a reputation to protect, and railroad detective Earl Freeman...

In this series of five short stories, Holmes and Watson continue their late investigations into dark crimes in 1920s London, joined by their excitable housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson, and by Jasper Lestrade of Scotland Yard, the ambitious,...

Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead in his garden. Is it from natural causes or is it something to do with the family curse? Is there really a Huge Hound that roams the moors beyond the borders of Baskerville Hall? Come and watch./...

Sherlock Holmes has spoken little on the events following his fall and 'death' at the Reichenbach falls, his miraculous return has always been shrouded deep in mystery .Only the scantest of details has ever been told even to his closest friend Doctor Watson. That...

John is a prince without prospect of a crown. As the youngest son of Henry II, he has long borne the hated nickname 'Lackland'. When warring tribes and an ambitious Anglo-Norman lord threaten Henry's reign in Ireland, John believes his time has finally come....

England, 1176. King Henry II has imprisoned his rebellious Queen for attempting to overthrow him. But with her conspirators still at large and a failed assassination attempt on his beautiful mistress, Rosamund Clifford, the King must take action to preserve his reign.Desperate, Henry turns...

Eccentric and fiercely independent Inspector Vasiliev exposes a conspiracy by a high ranking nobleman and a top official in the secret police to assassinate the tsar in late imperial Russia. He finds unexpected help from Irina, a member of the revolutionary underground, with whom...

This is the sequel to To Kill a Tsar. Another thrilling adventure of eccentric Inspector Vasiliev, who this time takes the readers to Kiev, a city gripped in the horror of the 1881 pogroms against the Jews. "In this second, marvelous installment of their...

"Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author." SalonChicago, 1969: The trial of eight protestors from the Democratic Convention the previous year has the whole world watching-and all of Chicagoland on edge.Smokey Dalton...

Author: Kris NelscottISBN-10: 0615917070ISBN-13: 9780615917078Publisher: Wmg PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/16/2013Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d

"Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author. " SalonSmokey Dalton takes on the dangerous world of back-street abortionists in pre-Roe Chicago. After attending a charity fundraiser, private investigator Smokey Dalton and his...

Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actually alive. For nearly four decades, Eldritch Swan has been locked away in an Irish prison and now, at last, has been released. Shocked and...

Trying to leave painful memories behind her, Chloe Ellefson is making a fresh start. She's the new collections curator at Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor ethnic museum showcasing 1800s settlement life. On her first day, Chloe meets with an elderly woman who begs her...

'Properly creepy and Gothic' IAN RANKIN on the Frey & McGray mysteries...December, 1889. There have been many bad days in Edinburgh police's secret subdivision 'The Commission for the Elucidation of Unsolved Cases Presumably Related to the Odd and Ghostly'. But today is surely the...

The Second Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith have been writing professional mystery short stories that have won awards and sold millions of copies, plus they...

It's true that Denton and Henry James are both American writers now living in London, but they have little else in common: James has the gravitas (and perhaps the pomposity) of a living legend, master of the literary kingdom, while Denton...well, he's scruffy and...

Full of the rich detail of New York's teeming immigrant community and the colorful historical personalities of the age, For the Love of Mike is the triumphant third installment in Rhys Bowen's New York Times bestselling series, now in trade paperback. Molly Murphy is...

As fashion designer to London's elite, she had an eye for detail and a flare for the dramatic. But there's nothing stylish about her cold-blooded murder.With the social season just around the corner, the women in Cleo's family are having new outfits made by...

It is no idle whim that takes Paco Ruiz to Madrid, the city he fled thirty years earlier, but an urgent need to lay to rest the ghosts of the past.Accompanied by his best friend, ex-DCI Charlie Woodend, he relives his days as a...

Professor Brendan Keane and Joanna "Jo" Lawrence have returned once more to Devon after several weeks abroad. Though yet another winter had pulled away from the English shores, mystery and suspense do not follow their retreat. As a young boy is found asleep in...

"A first-rate whodunnit set in the 1960s New York art world, a time and place Helen Harrison has recreated with a page-turning mix of history, gossip, and fun!"--Bob Colacello, author of Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close UpOne artist. One student. One deadly mystery.When Regionalist...

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestselling author Val McDermid delivers a propulsive new thriller that finds journalist Allie Burns has become an editor, and as the Cold War and AIDS crisis deliver a nonstop tide...

Some knowledge is dangerous...especially in the wrong hands...As the conflict in Vietnam heats up, Simon Hannay is pursuing his Masters in Comparative Literature at a Midwest university, teaching karate on the side and doing his best to avoid the draft. He's not overly excited...

"Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen." - Jonathan CarrollA bold and intriguing fabulist novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature--Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick--from the...

In the tradition of The Thirteenth Tale, Brunonia Barry's bewitching gothic novel, The Lace Reader, is a phenomenon. Called " a] richly imagined saga of passion, suspense, and magic" by Time Magazine, it is a haunting and remarkable tale told by an unforgettable, if...

In the tradition of Caleb Carr's The Alienist and Eric Larsen's The Devil in the White City comes The Paris Enigma, a gripping tale of murder and the art of crime solving. Written in a strikingly original voice, and poignantly evoking a world about...

The brand new unmissable adventure novel for fans of Scott Mariani, Dan Brown and Daniel Silva 'The ingenious construction of the ivory box would ensure that neither wind nor water, earth nor fire would ever defile its precious contents.'Leiden, Holland, 1996 For historian Peter...

Charlotte Holmes comes face to face with her enemy when Moriarty turns to her in his hour of need, in the USA Today bestselling series set in Victorian England. A most unexpected client shows up at Charlotte Holmes's doorstep: Moriarty himself. Moriarty fears that...

Author: Anne Louise BannonISBN-10: 1948616211ISBN-13: 9781948616218Publisher: Healcroft House, PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2022Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d

"One of the best of this series . . . Lively and well-plotted." --The New York Times Book Review The spiritualist movement has captivated a segment of Victorian London: manifestations, the occult, and "sensitives" are in vogue. When s ance sites become targets for...

"Sweetheart's Lake" is a romantic suspense novel set during the regency period. Alicia Bartlett's love, Edmund Pembroke, is struck down by cholera just two weeks before their wedding day. His dying wish is to see Sweetheart's Lake one last time with Alicia, where he...