Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

When an unwelcome visitor arrives at Hild's monastery, Fridgyth the herb-wife is forced to hold her tongue. The widow of the fierce Mercian king, who once brought death and destruction to the coastal community, is an uneasy sight for many. Although everyone is thankful...

The Pilgrim's Way, the ancient thoroughfare between Winchester and Canterbury - but how did it become a symbol of resistance to those who wanted to withdraw from Europe? That is what Adrian Matinson tries to discover after his friend is found dead on the...

Liv Grimstad is riding on a suburban train in Sydney, Australia in 1975 when she takes notice of the old man sitting opposite her. Though his features are different, she recognizes that man by the piercing look in his cornflower-blue eyes.She is convinced it...

"A herbwife on a mule may go where warriors cannot - she may see what warriors cannot see and hear what warriors cannot hear "The Monastery at Whitby is ruled over by the powerful and independent Abbess Hild. But when she needs someone to...

The year is 1892. While touring Britain with her production of Macbeth, the famous American actress, Carola LeFevre, receives an anonymous death threat. Detective Sergeant John Billings from Scotland Yard is appointed as her personal security guard. Billings is thrown into a theatrical world...

Of Witches and Werewolves is a boxset containing all three of the historical mystery books listed below in one tome.Devil in the CountrysideIt's 1588 and a killer is loose in the German countryside. Is it the legendary Werewolf of Bedburg or something even more...

No Thoroughfare By Wilkie Collins, Charles DickensAuthor: Charles Dickens, Wilkie CollinsISBN-10: 1718951981ISBN-13: 9781718951983Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2018Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Amidst the heraldry of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, a string of brutal murders rocks Britain's upper crust--and threatens the realm itself--in this spellbinding historical mystery series debut Felicity Carrol is interested in everything--except being a proper young matron of Victorian society. Brilliant and resourceful,...

A gruesome murder in a sleepy 14th-century English village sets the stage for a taut drama laced with witchcraft, depravity, and long-buried secrets. England, 1324--a land rife with superstition and gripped by fear of the Church's holy wrath. When a beggar is murdered in...

President Teddy Roosevelt's daring daughter, Alice, leaps into action to exonerate a friend accused of poisoning a man just about everyone hated. Alice Roosevelt, the brilliant, danger-loving daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has already risked an assassin's bullet to solve one murder. She never...

In 1919 England, in the shadow of The Great War, many look to the spirit world for answers. But it will take an all too earthbound intrigue to draw in the discerning heroine of Anna Lee Huber's latest mystery . . .Author: Anna Lee...

"Intrigue abounds.... Robb's captivating blend of history and mystery vividly evokes medieval Scotland." -BOOKLIST Scots are gathering in Murdoch Kerr's Edinburgh tavern, plotting to drive out the English forces. Margaret takes her place there as innkeeper, collecting information to pass on to William Wallace-until...

Set in a crumbling Victorian asylum where a gruesome murder is committed, this sequel to Beloved Poison explores the early science of brain study while giving chilling insight into an asylum's workings. 1851, Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr. Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is...

Shakespeare in Love meets C. J. Sansom in a historical thriller with a swashbuckling twist--and a hero as you've never seen him before. August, 1585. England needs its greatest hero to step forward . . . When he is caught by his wife in...

Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret. October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel--back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since...

"Quietly annoying and tenacious" Sheriff John Le Brun has earned a reputation for solving wickedly complex crimes, from his home town of Brunswick, Georgia to London, England. Now retired, he finds himself mysteriously hired to solve the 1908 murder of the owner of a...

Danger is Detective Jake Jezreel's business. In the first-century AD, Jake's profession as a private detective makes him a rare breed. Jake lives in the very large shadow of his famous detective father who has provided investigative services for King Herod and, more recently,...

Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past--from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back...

The third and final entry of the Bertie Prince of Wales mystery series, featuring future King Edward VII, Albert Edward, as an amateur sleuth solving suspicious murders in Victorian England. Bertie, amateur sleuth and the Crown Prince of Wales, loves food and women. This...

Introducing Victorian England's most illustrious amateur sleuth (if not necessarily its most adept): Bertie, Prince of Wales, who can't help but poke his royal nose into a suspicious-sounding circumstance.Bertie, Prince of Wales and future King Edward VII, is a charismatic but self-indulgent man who...

Esteemed California music professor David Whealy is drawn to the other side of the country to investigate the circumstances behind his unexpected inheritance. As David probes deeper into the secrets of his benefactor, James Burton West, he finds more than just a wealth of...

The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London. It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian...

"OUR MOST TALENTED HISTORICAL MYSTERY WRITER TODAY." --ANDREW GULLI, STRAND MAGAZINE"THE GAME IS MOST DEFINITELY AFOOT." --MICK HERRONIn 1910 London, Captain Vernon Kell's fledgling secret intelligence service faces being shut down before it has even begun its job of saving the British Empire from...

Miles Brodie is just a bargain-rate lawyer handling divorces for Big Joe's Tiki Bar girls. He's barely squeezing rent money from his third-rate law practice when Joe hires him to find out who's knocking off his pals. Before a full-blown turf war breaks out,...

There's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimes-until wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair: General Well'ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane, the leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets. What does...

Five Dr. Richard F. Fairchild, Professor of Religions at Fremont College, sequels to "Valley of the Gray Moon", set in Northern Ohio along Cleveland's Cuyahoga River and in the Sandusky - Bass Islands area and in Europe in the 1960s. The first involves a...

When a young reporter is pushed from a ninth story window in Greenwich Village, NYPD Homicide Lieutenant Frank Mead soon connects the case to a murder that took place at the same site a hundred years earlier, during the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.Following...

THE THREE RHODES NOT TAKEN. Oxford University is famous throughout the world for its splendid architecture, lovely manicured lawns and gardens, and passionate pursuit of research, teaching and learning. But it turns out to be at the center of a case involving fraud, theft,...

1913. War drums throb across the world. Greed and malice stalk the island. Despite people's sneers, one woman stands up for the downtrodden. From childhood, Pansy has been an outsider. Her oddness makes her the butt of ridicule. Even her own family struggle to...

DEMAREST KILL is a murder mystery and coming of age/loss of innocence novel unlike any you have read before. The Demarest Kill is a stream that threads its way through New City, behind The Dutch Garden and the Rockland County Courthouse, and serves as...

'A piece of advice before we start. Don't believe those fools who preach that death is a friend, or worse, like Paullus and his crew of fanatics, the happy gateway to a better and fuller existence. It's nothing of the sort. Death, gentle reader,...

'Him and his fancy fish-farm, raking it in hand over fist. He's a bastard. A greedy bastard. Some people, they'd be better off dead, know what I mean?'Baiae, jewel of the Campanian coast and favourite playground of Rome's great and not-so-good. Gaius Trebbio, the...

Medieval Ludlow's deputy coroner, Stephen Attebrook would like nothing better than to enjoy a temperate spring, the Broken Shield Inn's sweet ale and delicious mutton stew. But a murdered man in possession of stolen stamps for minting money is found floating in the inn's...

The Leavenworth Case By Anna Katherine Green The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in...

Revised Edition: 31st May 2016 February 1917. The Germans may not be the only enemy on the Western Front. A young officer is haunted by nightmare recollections of the Battle of the Somme and shackled to a desk at the War Office as he...

It wasn't until thirty years after the attacks, and the lies, and the intricately orchestrated death, that Jo Grant Munro could bring herself to describe it all in Behind The Bonehouse. Her work as an architect, and the broodmare farm she ran with her...

London 1901. The city is in the grip of 'Monkey Man Mania'. Intrepid explorer, Drake Patterson has caused a media storm following his astonishing discovery of a frozen ancient man in the remote Himalayan mountains. This 'Primal Man' has been triumphantly transported back to...

It is 1876 America. Ulysses S. Grant is completing his second term as president, the Civil War has been over for eleven years, and Sitting Bull's Lakota have just defeated Custer's seventh calvary. But now as rumors begin circulating about a mystical being that...

Death at Fernside From the bestselling author of Murder at Rutherford Hall, comes the sixth book in the Rachel Markham Mystery Series. Book Six - In the Mystery Series When Rosemary, better known as Lady Woolton - an aging aristocratic acquaintance sends an invitation...

Murder and mayhem result from government experiments in producing human-ape hybrid "Super Soldiers" in pre-World War II America in this period mystery thriller by Cryptozoologist/Author, Scott MarloweAuthor: Scott C. MarloweISBN-10: 153041248XISBN-13: 9781530412488Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2016Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

1868 Ottawa D'Arcy McGee is assassinated. As John A. Macdonald cradles his friend's bloody head, he blames transplanted Irish terrorists: the Fenian Brotherhood. Within a day, Patrick James Whelan is arrested. After a show trial, Whelan is publicly hanged. That much is history. Did...

Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder . . . The chipped pink nail polish is a dead giveaway--no pun intended. When a human thumb...

Shakespearean actress turned Pinkerton detective Lilly Long and her reluctant partner, Cade McShane, travel to New Orleans to save a young widow from a fate worse than death...1881, Chicago. Assigned to her second case as a Pinkerton, Lilly still needs to prove herself--both as...

In this riveting and emotionally powerful historical drama, an ex-FBI agent plunges into the darkest shadows of 1930s Europe, where everything he loves is on the line . . . International consultant Prescott Sweet's mission is to bring justice to countries suffering from America's...

A MILLER FOUND UNDER HIS WHEEL It's 1194 and Sir Faucon de Ramis, the shire's newly appointed Keeper of the Pleas, must do his duty and make an official declaration of the cause of a miller's death. Saddled with a clerk who names Faucon...

A sudden thaw on Christmas Day reveals to Harry the beggar a dead girl of extraordinary beauty frozen beneath the snow off the pathway to Saint Laurence's church in medieval Ludlow. It looks like murder, and medieval deputy coroner Stephen Attebrook, a poverty-stricken knight,...

It's 1929 and a local Negro neighborhood called Jackson Ward in Richmond, Virginia is booming. In fact, it's called "The Black Wall Street of America" by economists of the day. Things are booming financially and socially for the Negro community, but then a series...

A beautiful young priestess leads Marcellus and Tay into deception and mystery. Was a traveler's death a case of mistaken identity? Only the killer knows the unexpected truth. With a little help from Venus, a would be murderer sets a trap of his own,...

James Murray is a young man with a dream -- he wants to be a writer just like his idol, Dashiell Hammett -- but there's a Depression on, and he's the only one in his family with a job. Even though it's a good...

Hush, hush, hushHere comes the Bogeyman...London during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs, and caf駸, soldiers mix with...