Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Kate Lemanski's world has been shattered with one family problem after another. When she inherits her family's log home in West Michigan, she returns to the river property to make a new start and to put the pieces of her life back together. As...

The first book in a brand new historical mystery series. "Melanie Jackson is a talent to watch."--WritersWrite.com Armistice Day 1918: Christmas is a peaceful time in Quiet Corner -- except at Mayhem Mansion. There is no peace in Kenneth Mayhew's ancestral manse with a...

Explore the boundless imagination of Gordon Randall Garrett in "The Bramble Bush," a captivating collection of short stories spanning science fiction, mystery, and fantasy. Delve into speculative fiction that blends genres, offering intriguing narratives that have resonated with readers for generations. This meticulously prepared...

The twenty second chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew. Identifying the murderer of the Chancellor of the University is not the only challenge facing physician Matthew Bartholomew. Many of his patients have been made worse by the ministrations of a 'surgeon' recently arrived from Nottingham, his...

Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Émile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers...

"There's a ghost train that runs along here at night. They say it carries the souls of those bound for hell."Jane Adams is only twenty-three, but she's already a widow. A daughter of the railway, after her husband's death she takes a job as...

New York, 1847. Elanora dreams of marrying her childhood sweetheart Eustace. The proposal on her 21st birthday is everything she hoped for, until her fiancé's father dispatches him to the West Indies. After the promise of a white Christmas with the man she loves...

A mysterious death. A missing partner. Can an opera singer and a businessman catch the culprit before he strikes again?New Zealand-born Pania Hayes has won the hearts of her Californian crowds. But after her husbandAuthor: Jenny WheelerISBN-10: 047343007XISBN-13: 9780473430078Publisher: Happy Families LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2018Pages:...

'One of the best in the genre' THE SUN'A fabulously satisfying addition to the canon of vintage crime' DAILY EXPRESS'A delicious adventure' DAILY MAIL on The Riviera Express *** X marks the spot for murder... Temple Regis, 1959: Devon's prettiest seaside resort is thrown...

Charlotte Holmes--aka Sherlock Holmes--becomes entangled in a puzzling missing person case that hits close to home for her beloved Mrs. Watson in this Victorian-set mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of A Ruse of Shadows. It's been three years since Charlotte Holmes struck...

London, 1871Coventry Adams, former harlot and pickpocket, has risen in the world to the precarious, perilous occupation of thief-taker. She turns her skills at disguise, persuasion, and sleight-of-hand to the risky work of tracking wanted fugitives for the Metropolitan Police. Her only allies are...

Reeling from the effect of their long-time dreams shattering, Leah Harper seeks a fresh start in the form of an abandoned schoolhouse. A few old clues in the building point to a long-ago tragedy. Digging deeper with the help of the town's quirky, determined...

Lovers and loyalties are tested when scandals come to light.Memoirist Professor Gavin Nash and his friend Oscar Barratt travel to the picturesque shores of Italy's Lake Como in search of a rare book said to contain the spell for a magical tattoo. It's been...

The Dr. Thorndyke Mystery Novels: The Red Thumb Mark and The Eye of OsirisVolume 1-Two novels featuring the Edwardian doctor detectiveThe author of this special Leonaur collection of the detective story novels, featuring Dr. John Thorndyke was, in fact, a physician himself, Dr. Richard...

He followed the order.He carried out the sentence.And it changed him forever. The Soldier at the Cross is a powerful dual-timeline novel that confronts an unsettling question: What happens to the one who obeyed when obedience was not enough? In first-century Jerusalem, a Roman...

This latest Regency-era mystery from USA Today bestselling author Vanessa Kelly finds Jane Austen's clever Emma Knightley (nee Woodhouse) as an amateur sleuth, navigating shocking changes in her family--while meeting her match in a deadly adversary . . . Emma's spirits are elevated after...

Winter has settled hard over Boston, and Jamaica Pond lies frozen beneath a deceptive blanket of snow-beautiful, silent, and hiding secrets that refuse to stay buried.When a body is discovered beneath the ice, society sleuth Amanda Burnside Halloran is drawn once more into a...

For Leona Gladney, former woman soldier of the Union Army, life goes on despite the echoes of the battlefield in her heart. Now a suffragist and budding socialite in Brooklyn Heights, she yearns for a literary life and family. But her husband's business partner...

Annabelle: The True Story Behind the World's Most Haunted DollBy Neha VohraBehind a glass case sits a simple cloth doll-silent, unmoving, and feared by millions.Annabelle is not the porcelain nightmare seen in movies. She is a real Raggedy Ann doll linked to one of...

You know Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street.Now meet . . . . Max Carrados of The Turrets, Richmond"Together with those of Conan Doyle and R. Austin Freeman, [Max Carrados] are the only detective stories since Poe that are worth re-reading."George Orwell - A Kind...

A hatchet--a seamstress bludgeoned. An axe--a dead child. A shotgun--a lawyer executed. One day, three murders. Lawrence, Kansas, 1873, reels in shock. Kansas Daily Tribune crime reporter, Mary Fanning, chases the monstrous secrets and sins behind the cold, calculated killings--nothing about them is what...

The day was one of high humidity, the temperature soaring to twenty-eight degrees Celsius.A cool breeze over the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea was a small comfort to the inhabitants of the island prison.Manfri was sitting on the surface of one of the many...

January 1941. When Detective Inspector John Jago is called to a house in London's Bloomsbury, he finds the body of a woman who's been attacked and left to die, her only crime seemingly being her kindness to strangers. She's taken victims of the Blitz...

The Agatha Award-winning mystery inspired by the Wright Brothers' real-life sister! While not as famous as her older siblings Wilbur and Orville, the celebrated inventors of flight, Katharine Wright is equally inventive--especially when it comes to solving crimes--in this radiant historical mystery by USA...

Miss Caroline has doubts when she receives an urgent invitation from a London law firm to discuss her late father's estate. After all, the dishonored Earl of Morton died without a pound sterling. But while helping Mrs. Frogerton's daughter navigate the high social season,...

Trusting their old friendship, Elizabeth sends Simon to Scotland with a delegation that will propose a surprising husband for Mary, Queen of Scots. The trip turns into a nightmare, and they must deal with spies, intrigue, and a lawless marcher baron. While Simon struggles...

A literary mystery with a twist of Welsh charm! Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales and hatches a plan: enlist an American pulp novelist to fabricate a mystery around poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The Hopkins Conundrum blends Hopkins' real life and the...

DIVE INTO THIS ACTION-PACKED HEROISM TALELies are harmless, really...unless someone believes them, ingests them, digests them, then those lies can be lethal. The lies metastasize, and spread like a virus consuming everyone in a room, on a street corner, in a city, a country,...

"A first rate mystery, beautifully crafted, fast-paced, and populated with the most vivid (and at times seamy) characters... A bravura debut!" --Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of the Pendergast series of novels A nail-biting debut mystery that plunges readers into the seamy side streets...

Innocence on a Collision Course with EvilTwelve-year-old Evan Mason's life has been turned upside down by the sudden death of his father. His mother isn't home much, the insurance office during the day, waiting tables at night. Evan is spending a great deal of...

What does it cost to survive inside a system designed to break you? Old loves, festering hatreds, and buried family secrets collide in this unsparing tale of Jazz Age New York-when a man returns from the dead, summoned home by a guilt he can't...

Fame is a dangerous game. As her brother lies in a coma after a near-fatal car accident, twenty-two-year-old Grace Brighton climbs the Hollywood Sign to make a desperate wish for his recovery. She loses her footing and plummets to the ground below--only there is...

Introducing scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in 14th Century France.Paris, 1393. Recent widow Christine de Pizan became a scribe to the Queen of France to support her family, but when she is called...

A veteran actress's brutal murder at a Broadway theater in 1941 sets off a police investigation that reaches back to pre-WWI Vienna and 1920s Berlin in Brigitte Goldstein's densely plotted noir mystery novel, Death of a Diva. In 1941 New York, the murder on...

Lady Eleanor Swift is having a grand time cosying up with her husband in Dublin's traditional pubs, eating their fill of Irish stew and soaking up the craic... Until another body ruins all their plans! Lady Eleanor Swift is visiting Dublin with her husband...

A mystery surrounding an opal and a green dress links two women---one in the mid-1800s and the other at the close of World War I.Author: Tea CooperISBN-10: 0785235124ISBN-13: 9780785235125Publisher: Thomas NelsonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2020Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Author: Andrey KurkovISBN-10: 0063352346ISBN-13: 9780063352346Publisher: HarperviaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/05/2026Pages: 336Format: Paperback

Author: Uvi PoznanskyISBN-10: 1974001733ISBN-13: 9781974001736Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2017Pages: 182Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

A mysterious lodger. An unsettling series of murders. Is the man renting their room a killer in disguise?In The Lodger, Marie Belloc Lowndes crafts a chilling tale inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. When a quiet yet eccentric man rents a room from...

On January 24, 1925, The Saturday Evening Post began its serialization of the book that would make Earl Derr Biggers famous: The House Without a Key, the first of the Charlie Chan series. Chan, the first Chinese detective in literature, was modeled after Chang...

Doctor SynRussell ThorndikeDoctor Syn is a quiet, unassuming vicar in the small fishing village of Dymchurch-under-the-wall. He, his sexton Mipps, and the friendly villagers lead a simple life-until a frigate sent by the King lands at their docks, and an officious captain steps down...

Author: Vaseem KhanISBN-10: 139974786XISBN-13: 9781399747868Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2026Pages: 336Format: Paperback

A popular, young poet is found dead among the daffodils with his heart cut out. Who could have committed such a heinous crime?Spring has arrived in the Lake District, and Bridget De Lacey is feeling renewed. After a tumultuous year, filled with loss, murder,...

Scotch MistReviewers said: "Five stars! Delightfully entertaining, rich characters, suspenseful, charming all in one; anxiously awaiting the next one!""a fascinating tale set in England in the 1930s. This 'cosy crime' novel, with its measure of burgeoning romance, is a good read; something to entertain...

Discover the gruesomely wicked medieval mystery from Kieth Moray, for fans of C. J. Sansom, Paul Doherty and E. M. PowellAuthor: Keith MorayISBN-10: 1837034427ISBN-13: 9781837034420Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/10/2026Pages: 354Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.88d

June 1931. In the ancient city of Lyon, the body of a young woman, mysteriously drained of all life, is found in the Rhône River. Quickly, the Nyctalope gathers all the agents of his Committee for Information and Defense (C.I.D.) to solve this strange...

Author: Gwen Bristow,Bruce ManningISBN-10: 1464281084ISBN-13: 9781464281082Publisher: Poisoned Pen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2026Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d

You won't be able to put down this latest instalment in the Fairbanks and Flynn Mysteries, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Benedict Brown and T. E. Kinsey Three women hide in Big Ben, only two come out alive...2 April 1911 is census night,...

The BRAND NEW page-turning, historical cozy mystery series from Kelly Oliver ️☠️Mesopotamia, 1930: When Agatha Christie invites fellow members of the Detection Club to witness the famous excavations at the ruins of Ur, Dorothy L. Sayers, her quick-witted assistant Eliza Baker, and Theo Sharp...

Set in 1870s New York high society, The Age of Innocence explores the inner conflict of a man caught between duty and desire. As he prepares to marry the perfectly proper May, Newland Archer is drawn to her unconventional cousin Ellen, whose scandalous separation...