Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick delivers "a promising start to a Victorian-era series" with the first Ladies of Lantern Street novel Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal...

Tabitha has enjoyed an entertaining afternoon in Julia's kitchen, but her return home is a bit jarring. As she arrives at her grandfather's rue de l'Université mansion, a woman bursts out the door babbling about messages from spirits and a warning Grand-père must heed....

The trial at Blackthorn has ended, but the lesson remains: institutions do not collapse when exposed. They adapt. In Bath, Eliza Fairrowe is drawn into the case of Hawthorne Close, an establishment that claims to protect vulnerable women while quietly separating them from their...

What could be more sinister than a deserted street late at night? Add a young woman, alone, coming back from the theatre, rain, and streetlamps that fail to light the shadows... November 1933. Dottie Manderson, a young socialite from a wealthy family has been...

The Dr. Thorndyke Mystery NovelsVolume 4- Mystery and Detection-two Thorndyke casebook novels The author of this special Leonaur collection of the detective story novels, featuring Dr. John Thorndyke was, in fact, a physician himself, Dr. Richard Austin Freeman, (1862-1943). This eleven volume set of...

The Dr. Thorndyke Mystery NovelsVolume 3-Two more mystery novels featuring Dr ThorndykeThe author of this special Leonaur collection of the detective story novels, featuring Dr. John Thorndyke was, in fact, a physician himself, Dr. Richard Austin Freeman, (1862-1943). This eleven volume set of the...

The Dr. Thorndyke Mystery Novels Volume 2The second helping of two novel volumes of a British scientific detective The author of this special Leonaur collection of the detective story novels, featuring Dr. John Thorndyke was, in fact, a physician himself, Dr. Richard Austin Freeman,...

Devon, Summer 1929. The Pedhurst and de Reve families gather at Harcroft Manor for the reading of a will. But the event is delayed by a sudden death, just the first of several nasty surprises. Enter Fred Willets, decorated pilot-turned-detective, whose sharp eye and...

June 1926, New York City Records are the wave of the future, and jazz singer Lizzie Crane intends to use this new medium to gain fame and fortune in the music world. When Jim Jenkins, owner of Jupiter Records and a close family friend...

Sergeant Alex Houston is assigned to investigate the mysterious theft of sensitive documents from an Ottawa embassy. Mysterious, because robbery should have been impossible given the locked safe and the embassy's tight security. When Alex learns of another seemingly impossible robbery involving safe-cracking, and...

Candid Jones-camera-toting, two-fisted ex-dick-never really retired. He swapped the badge for a Leica, but the streets don't care for retirement plans. In these hardboiled pulp tales he snaps the scene, cracks the jaw, and fires the shutter with equal facility, chasing crooked bookies, dirty...

Something ancient has awakened beneath the sands of Egypt.And it's calling names.When a forgotten tomb is unearthed deep in the Saqqara plateau, archaeologist Dr. Hatem El-Amin hears something impossible-a whisper echoing from inside a sealed sarcophagus that hasn't been opened in four thousand years....

"The Ghostly White Lady" by Lee Savage: BOOK DESCRIPTIONUnveil the Spectral Heart of Philippine FolkloreIn the mist-shrouded landscapes and moonlit corridors of the Philippine archipelago, a timeless specter wanders-the White Lady. More than just a ghost story whispered in hushed tones, she is an...

RCMP Sergeant Alex Houston, her dog-service partner Silver, and her husband Canadian Forces Major Don Harrison are sent on a covert mission with international implications. Someone has been using a fly-in-fishing camp on a remote northern lake as a cover for sophisticated, but unlicensed...

The second novel in the Piccadilly Noir series, this dark historical thriller sees Cockney private eye George Harley return to the streets of London's Soho, populated by gangsters, wide-boys and lowlifes, to investigate a missing cabaret dancer. For fans of Dominic Nolan and Laura...

Murder is on the agenda for Pollard & Toye! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. You can run but you can't hide... Virginia Gould's world is turned upside down when a wealthy family member leaves her...

A brain-twisting mystery for Pollard & Toye! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. The trip of a lifetime is the last one he ever took... Things take a disastrous turn for American tourist Edward Tuke when...

Cosy crime writing at its best! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. Who in the village has a motive for murder...? 1966, Rural England When a body washes up at the banks of the river in...

Pollard & Toye embark on another mind-boggling investigation! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. One bad turn deserves another... Basil Railsdon is on his way to becoming Conservative MP for the village of Loxford. A wealthy...

No bodies. No witnesses.No evidence. Presumed drowned.That's what everyone believed in 1990 after two high school seniors went missing the night before their graduation from Alexandria Bay High School in the Thousand Islands region of New York State. They were probably the ones who...

Mysteries of the Mahoning Valley is part of the multi-volume series called Our Haunted Travels by Shawn and Marianne Donley. Our Haunted Travels features the historical and/or haunted locations that they have personally visited across the United States and territories. The volumes dedicated to...

"Breathtaking. Gripping. Based on true events."At the legendary Château de Fontainebleau near Paris, once the seat of French kings, a murdered art dealer is found within its ancient walls. Clues suggest he was on the trail of two priceless lost paintings-one by Leonardo da...

A sparkling, grasping caper in which humour and deduction dance. The Adventures Of The Eleven Cuff-Buttons invites readers to step into a playful, slyly satirical corner of detective fiction where wit outsmarts circumstance and curiosity drives the chase. Across this Edwardian-era adventure, readers meet...

Paris 1940The Reich is moving in and Stella Bled Lawrence can't get out.Stella has proved adept at the double agent game, too adept as it turns out. The British want her to stay where she is, even though she's about to be trapped, and...

From USA Today bestselling author A.W. Hartoin comes a series perfect for the fans of Pam Jenoff's The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel, Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, and Kit Sergeant's The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII.Amsterdam 1940It's only a matter...

For newlywed Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it's cracked up to be. She's on her honeymoon, young and blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the...

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...

November 1939It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's...

When Ellery Queen, described by the London Times as "the logical successor to Sherlock Holmes," is invited by his friend, a doctor, to witness an operation, he accepts the offer in hopes of furthering his capabilities as an amateur detective, but soon ends up...

Basil St. Florian is an accomplished agent in the British Army, tasked with dozens of dangerous missions for crown and country across the globe. But his current mission, going undercover in Nazi-occupied France during World War II, might be his toughest assignment yet. He...

When Crane, a graduate journalism student, hears that his fiancée has committed suicide, he's immediately suspicious and launches into an investigation of her death. The tiny New Jersey town she lived in has seen a rash of suicides lately, with the unlikely coincidence that...

Step into the sultry heat of 1920s Egypt, where ancient secrets hide along the banks of the Nile River.Fresh from solving her first murder case in Egypt, archaeologist Dr. Clarissa Bell thought the most dangerous thing about her new assignment would be authenticating ancient...

Secrets can't stay buried forever-but maybe some should. In bustling, multicultural 1831 New Orleans, Tobias Whitney, the sexton of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, uncovers a journal sealed inside the tomb of Dominique You-war hero of the Battle of New Orleans, privateer, and half-brother...

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...

When financial ruin forces a viscount into London's most scandalous profession, only a wealthy heiress can save him--but at what cost?Aubrey, Viscount Wellstone, has lost everything except his title and his charm. Facing crushing debts and a crumbling estate, he accepts the unthinkable: becoming...

Author: Ashley Gardner,Jennifer AshleyISBN-10: 1966401612ISBN-13: 9781966401612Publisher: Ja / AG PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2026Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Author: Kathryn LaskyISBN-10: 1448318866ISBN-13: 9781448318865Publisher: Severn HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2026Pages: 224Format: Paperback

In Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife Sarah Brandt learns that the mother's mixed-race niece is missing, and she enlists Sergeant Malloy's help. But after they find the girl dead in an alley, there are ample suspects from both sides of Canal Street.Author: Victoria...

The discovery of an abandoned Spanish merchant ship off the coast of America plunges the Ludlows into a far-reaching conspiracy fueled by jealousy, ambition and nationalistic fervor. The Bucephalas lies trapped under the gaping muzzles of the 32-pounder Spanish guns of New Orleans' harbor...

Old King Brady and Alice, peering in between the curtains, saw enough. Harry had got himself into a bad fix. There he lay on the floor with three Chinamen bending over him. One held a box, another a long glass vial. What were they...

The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart is a gripping mystery novel that blends suspense, intrigue, and psychological tension. Set aboard a luxury yacht, the story follows the crew and passengers as they embark on what should be a peaceful journey. However, the voyage...

Author: Jonathan DunskyISBN-10: 9657795532ISBN-13: 9789657795538Publisher: Lion Cub PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2026Pages: 434Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.08dLarge Print

Author: Jonathan DunskyISBN-10: 9657795540ISBN-13: 9789657795545Publisher: Lion Cub PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2026Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Jonathan DunskyISBN-10: 9657795524ISBN-13: 9789657795521Publisher: Lion Cub PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2026Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

Author: W. D. NelsonISBN-13: 9798994698808Publisher: Stone Lake PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2026Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.57d

Author: Artemisia ClareISBN-13: 9798994563106Publisher: Artemisia ClareLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2026Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.92d

Author: Teresa TrentISBN-13: 9798898201678Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/10/2026Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Author: John D. NesbittISBN-13: 9798895673744Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2026Pages: 274Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.68d

Author: Glenn CooperISBN-10: 1971648035ISBN-13: 9781971648033Publisher: Lascaux MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2026Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

The BRAND NEW page-turning cozy mystery from Debbie Young, perfect for fans of Fiona Leitch, Faith Martin and Agatha ChristieONE VILLAGE. TEN SUSPECTS. ONE DEADLY PERFORMANCE.The curtain is about to rise on the Bunbury Players' latest production, Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, The Importance of...