Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

In the late 7th Century, the High King of Ireland is killed at night in the middle of his compound. Who killed him is not in question - there are unimpeachable witnesses that point directly to the clan chieftain responsible. Dubh Duin is, after...

In the year 48 B.C., Rome is in the midst of Civil War. As Pompey and Caesar fight for control of the Republic, Rome becomes a hotbed of intrigue, driven by espionage, greed and betrayals. A beautiful young seeress staggers across the Roman marketplace...

Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder--the glory that was Rome. In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike, so...

Set against a background of war-scarred Berlin in the early 1950s, M. M. Kaye's Death in Berlin is a consummate mystery from one of the finest storytellers of our time. Miranda Brand is visiting Germany for what is supposed to be a month's vacation....

Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Historical FictionThis dazzling new Victorian mystery from USA Today bestselling author Karen Odden introduces readers to Nell Hallam, a determined young pianist who stumbles upon the operations of a notorious--and deadly--crime ring while illicitly working as...

SOON TO BE A SERIES FROM APPLE TV!A New York Times BestsellerThe revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who...

"A lush novel, rich with tension and intricately woven, believable characters. Myers clearly loves the Congo--and you will love this book. I did!"--Mary Alice Monroe, bestselling author of Last Light over Carolina With The Witch Doctor's Wife, Tamar Myers delves into her personal history...

"Charles Todd hasn't made a misstep yet in his elegant series featuring Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge, and A Matter of Justice keeps the streak going."--Cleveland Plain Dealer The Washington Post calls the Ian Rutledge novels by Charles Todd, "one of the best historical...

For no gentleman is this more true than Charles Morwellan, the eighth Earl of Meredith. Although he's seen the many successful unions of his Cynster connections, he has also watched his father's obsessions nearly destroy their family and fortune, a mistake Charles will not...

The future ofEgypt lies in the hands of the Medjay's chiefdetective Rahotep in the final, gripping installmentof Nick Drake's acclaimed Ancient Egyptian trilogy. Following Nefertitiand Tutankhamun, Egypt: The Book of Chaos putsRahotep on a high-stakes adventure across enemyempires and rogue states on a top-secret...

Bold, passionate and possessive, the Cynster men let nothing stand in their way when it comes to claiming the women of their hearts.Gerrard Debbington, Vane Cynster's brother-in-law, is one of London's most eligible gentlemen. Uninterested in marriage, his driving passion is to paint the...

What types of mysteries do you prefer? Cozies? Hard-Boiled? With romantic suspense elements? Historic? Or perhaps a little harder to describe? This collection of mysteries from Leah R. Cutter has it all! They all share that same love of Voice that she has for...

When a blackened body is discovered buried beneath a hot-house, Coroner Titus Cragg uncovers a tale of scandalous secrets stretching back almost twenty years. "Blake again demonstrates why he belongs in the first rank of historical mystery novelists" - Publishers Weekly Starred ReviewCoroner Cragg....

"A fast-paced, smart debut novel that blends noir and Lovecraftian elements. If you like J.J. Abram's alternate history Overlord, this book is for you." --James Kestrel, author of Five Decembers1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a...

Death and danger await intrepid nun Hildegard of Meaux when she undertakes a secret mission for the good of her Order, in this eleventh action-packed installment of the medieval mystery series. February, 1390. The Church seethes with rebellion. Newly elected Pope Boniface faces a...

In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case yet: a murder with no body, and a killer who can only be a ghost.Spring, 1921. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Ian...

Detective Inspector Walter Hardcastle is following in his father's footsteps, but is his rapid rise about to be threatened by a spate of disturbing break-ins linked to the war effort August, 1939. As war looms, Detective Inspector Walter Hardcastle is following in the footsteps...

The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit. "Filled with wry humor, tight suspense, and a...

'A rollicking good read' IAN RANKIN'Employs a turbulent 1930s India as the canvas for a nefarious assassination plot complete with tiger hunts and shady maharajahs. A rollicking Raj-era mystery' VASEEM KHAN The second in the series of the Dabble and Harris thrillers! Set in...

Quarantines, masks, death-terms familiar to anyone who faced the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918. World-wide, it is estimated that the horrifying influenza killed more than 50 million people, significantly more than did the guns of the Great War, which was just then coming to...

The police don't want to catch the killer. So he'll have to.Tel Aviv, 1949 - A young Arab woman lies murdered in the city morgue and no one seems to care. The newspapers won't report it. The police won't investigate. No one is trying...

Widowed Lady Rosamund spends the first months of her mourning in the Lake District, where it's safe and peaceful, and murders are exceedingly rare. Luckily, she is rescued from this tedium by a house party comprised of playwrights, poets, and actors-an immoral set of...

The Melody of Death (1915) is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace. Written at the height of Wallace's career as one of England's leading popular fiction writers, The Melody of Death showcases his effective narrative style and innate sense of the strange in everyday...

Crispin Guest has solved many mysteries since losing his knighthood and becoming "The Tracker", an investigator for hire in fourteenth century London. Yet when he witnesses a body fall from London bridge into the frigid waters of the Thames, he finds himself in the...

Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful Regency-era mystery November, 1815. The Battle of Waterloo has come and gone, leaving the British economy in shreds; Henry Austen, high-flying banker, is about to declare bankruptcy--dragging several of his brothers down with him. The crisis destroys...

Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting...

In the late 1800s esteemed detective Sherlock Holmes made a little known trip to the western United States. First summoned to solve a perplexing mystery for one of the great Copper Kings in Butte, Montana, as his presence became known Holmes was implored to...

At ten o'clock on Sunday morning, the twenty-second of October, 1882, in an abandoned house in the West Bottom of Kansas City, just a stone's throw from the stockyards, a fellow named Jasper Harrison did not wake up. His inability to do was the...

The Roaring Twenties: America is dancing to jazz, gangsters are selling bootleg liquor, and the New York Yankees are building a baseball dynasty. In 1923 Yankee Stadium opens and Babe Ruth is about to lead the team to its first world's championship. But the...

In this "thrilling, seductive, and utterly absorbing" (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) historical suspense novel in the tradition of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile and Ruth Ware's The Woman in Cabin 10, pre-war tension and forbidden romance abound, and not...

Discover the real-life mystery surrounding the queen of crime herself: Agatha Christie. In this "audacious mystery...with thrilling results" (The Guardian), Andrew Wilson investigates Christie's unexplained ten-day disappearance and offers his own gripping explanation, in which Christie is pulled into a riveting case of blackmail...

For fans of Kate Morton and Beatriz Williams, a highly atmospheric and suspenseful historical novel, set in the 1890s about a Scottish heiress who unexpectedly encounters her childhood friend in North America, five years after he disappeared from her family's estate the night of...

A classic Golden Age mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Hercule PoirotWhen Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station in the village of Dalmering, murder is the last thing on his mind. But he has never been able to resist anything in the...

Seneca Falls librarian Glynis Tryon finds herself involved with helping slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad in 1854. When she investigates the mysterious death of a freed slave, a terrible secret from the past is unearthed. She must travel to Richmond, Virginia,...

The 25th issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales FEATURES From Watson's Notebooks, by John H Watson, M D Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson NON FICTION Screen of the Crime: Sherlock Gnomes, by Kim Newman The Adventure...

What they are saying about Two Miles High and Six Feet Under "G. Eldon Smith has written another very successful mystery featuring attorney Andrew Coyle. As we follow him from Denver to the rough-and-tumble mining town of Leadville, we are caught up in a...

First published in 1972, this is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of secrecy, duplicity and twisted loyalties.The Todds, governed by the widowed matriarch, Mrs Todd, are well-known in Fordinghurst. When Heck, the philandering youngest son, is found murdered on his boat, they do...

THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN "[Kutscher's] trick is ingenious...He's created a portrait of an era through the lens of genre fiction."--The New York Times Volker Kutscher, author of the international bestseller Babylon Berlin, continues his Gereon Rath Mystery series with...

In Tasha Alexander's novel The Counterfeit Heiress, after an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler...

One of The Boston Globe's Best Mysteries of 2011 Agatha Christie lives! You'll love this book. --John Lescroart Welcome to Edinburgh, 1926. Dandy Gilver, a wealthy and witty aristocrat (and sometimes amateur sleuth) receives a letter from Lollie Balfour, who insists that her husband...

Sleuth. Cook. Ottoman. Lover. Have you met Yashim yet? It's Istanbul in 1839, and as the new sultan installs his harem in the palace, the intrepid investigator Yashim is set adrift on the swirling currents of loyalty and betrayal. The dramatic treachery of Fevzi...

Diamonds can be deadly. October 1897. Diamond mogul Cecil Rhodes wants Sherlock Holmes to break up a smuggling ring. Lucy James is preoccupied with her role as an actress and her upcoming wedding. And then, London's most infamous murderer makes a most unwelcome entrance....

Lucy James and Sherlock Holmes must solve a mysterious locked-room murder at London's exclusive Diogenes Club. But Lucy is still coping with the traumatic after-effects of their last case, and her romantic relationship with a handsome young police detective is growing more complex. Emotions...

San Francisco, 1942. Four months after Pearl Harbor. No one knows if the Japanese will invade California and occupy San Francisco. Harlan Winthrop, a high society banker who heads the city's war bonds campaign is stabbed to death. The pro-Axis greeting "RoBerTo" is painted...

Sergeant Neumann and the inmates of Camp 133 are back! Even thousands of miles from the front lines, locked into a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp at the base of the Canadian Rockies, death isn't far away. For August Neumann, head of Camp Civil Security and...

From the writer who invented the popular Russian crime novel, Boris Akunin, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero Erast FandorinAuthor: Boris AkuninISBN-10: 0802127827ISBN-13: 9780802127822Publisher: Mysterious PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2019Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x...

"One of the best examples of Sherlock Holmes pastiche] that this die-hard Sherlockian has encountered . . . Faye perfectly captures the tone and spirit of the Conan Doyle originals."--Adam Woog, Seattle TimesInternationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye has been enamored with the tales of...

When fugitive Italian monk Giordano Bruno--philosopher, magician, and heretical scientist--arrives in London, he's only one step ahead of the Inquisition. An undercover mission for Queen Elizabeth I and her spymaster provides added protection. Officially, Bruno is to take part in a debate on the...

Mr. and Mrs. Darcy are looking forward to a relaxing stay with dear friends when their carriage is hailed by a damsel-in-distress outside of the village of Highbury. Little do the Darcys realize that gypsies roam these woods, or that both their possessions and...

Fresh from the curious and unsettling matter of Caroline Bingley (as related in Pride and Prescience), Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have every intention of enjoying their still newlywed status at Pemberly until they are confronted with another mysterious situation, one of... Suspense and Sensibility...