Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

The latest installment of the gripping Raven and Fisher mystery seriesPRAISE FOR THE RAVEN AND FISHER MYSTERY SERIES'Brilliantly conceived, fiendishly plotted' Mick Herron'The immersive world of Ambrose Parry just gets better and better' Jess Kidd Edinburgh, 1854, and a killer stalks the streets. Body...

A distinctly unfortunate inventor discovers that he doesn't exist. Finding himself in this nightmare situation he consults Sherlock Holmes and presents the sage of Baker Street with one of his most baffling challenges.Is it a simple case of amnesia or something far more sinister?...

San Francisco, 1880: Driver, after a year at sea, returns to the city, only to be shot down and nearly killed. The main suspect? A mysterious Russian known only as The Scratch. It's up to Driver's wife Genevieve to hunt him down, since the...

Madge didn't mean to kill her best friend, but what happens when the only choices you get to make are bad ones? Following the interwoven fates of three women and set in the North of England at the turn of the 20th century, Spirit...

Kennedy's Ghosts is a novel that follows a young journalist as he embarks on a journey that begins in 1960, when he meets a mysterious bohemian bag lady. The story takes readers from the post-war era through the 1960s and beyond, as the journalist...

The New Victorian Detective Thriller from the Author of The Darwin Affair Tim Mason's gripping new novel finds Inspector Charles Field hunting a ruthless serial killer who is terrorizing Florence Nightingale and her nurses in Crimea in 1855. But when the main suspect turns...

A modern-day homicide detective is working as an undertaker's assistant in Victorian Scotland when a serial poisoner attacks the men of Edinburgh and leaves their widows under suspicion.Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her...

When a bright young man teams up with a glamorous femme fatale, the identity of a murderer won't be the only secret they'll unmask.London, 1922. Between gallivanting in his Rolls-Royce and darkening the doorways of London's hotspots, Lord Reginald "Rex" Bankes-Fernsby has almost succeeded...

It's 1923 and Rocky Mountain National Park is scarcely eight years old. District Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating the killing of three elk. Gala Book, eleven-year-old daughter of the local barber, has befriended one particularly huge bull elk. She decides to protect it by...

A secret life exposed Melbourne, 1925. Reggie da Costa, The Argus's celebrated crime reporter, takes a break from investigating gangland crime to assist Ruby Rhodes, whose identical twin sister has died in mysterious circumstances. Together, they investigate how Katherine could afford a house, motorcar,...

There's a dangerous killer lurking by this loch... and only canny Cressida can track them down.Scotland, June 1925. Socialite Cressida Fawcett has been invited to cast her interior design eye over the Stirling family's new seat, Ayrton Castle, up in the Scottish Highlands. Thrilled...

Madison, Wisconsin, June 2000. A man disappears during a routine day at the office. A woman finds a shoebox filled with cash, fake IDs, and a cryptic list. Two seemingly unrelated events with one unusual connection: William Shakespeare.Seamus O'Neill, a local rock & roll...

A curated collection of magic...and murder.When a set of bound manuscripts written on magician-made paper is brought to the Glass Library, Sylvia and the professor send the owner away. After all, the library collects books about magic, not containing it. But the murder of...

York, 1865. A passenger train stands ready to depart amid the bustle at the station. The flurry of passengers and porters, the swooping pigeons and barking dogs are thrown into a state of turmoil when an explosion rips through the brake van of the...

Christmas, 1940. A temporary truce between the German and Allied forces is a welcome respite from the relentless air raids over London. Down Street underground station, in the heart of Mayfair, is now a secret retreat for Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his cabinet....

December 1864. As a cold winter wind scours the Worcestershire countryside, an excursion train comes through a tunnel in the Malvern Hills to be confronted by a blockage on the line ahead. Although a disastrous derailment is averted, the passengers are alarmed. Cyril Hubbleday,...

When Artillery Conray Patton washes up on the bank of the Angelina River in 1958, it's both the end of a journey and the beginning of a story. It's one that stretches from the Civil War to the civil rights era, from the now-gone...

Set in midcentury Paris and starring Julia Child's fictional best friend, this magnifique reimagining of the iconic chef's years at Le Cordon Bleu blends a delicious murder mystery with a unique culinary twist. "It's Child's ebullient personality that is the heart of the book....

London, 1899. A shocking murder is discovered at the heart of the Tower of London. The dead body of a Yeoman Warder is found inside a suit of armour belonging to Henry VIII, having been run through with a sword, and when details of...

A gifted psychologist is forced to hunt a serial killer or risk having a dark chapter of her past exposed-but her mission may mark her as the next victim...1890s London. Strong-willed Georgia Buchanan, a mind doctor and heiress, spends her time with the mad,...

Come into the East End of London, 1888. Walk the streets of Whitechapel and slums of Spitalfields, side by side with history's most notorious serial killer.Overhear his plans, and listen - or try not to - to his secret thoughts as he waits in...

"If Raymond Chandler had turned a steely eye to the notorious Hollywood casting couch, the result might well be called Someone To Watch Over Me."-Malcolm Brooks, author of Painted Horses and CloudmakerHollywood, 1947. Jack Shannon, a former actor whose promising career was interrupted by...

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...

USA Today best-selling author When the music stopped, it was murder Back in London's swinging '60s, Steve Cook was teen idol number one. But that changed when a sixteen-year-old fan was found dead in his hotel room bed. Steve's career came to a crashing...

Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 - 30 January 1935) was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the most prolific English writers of detective fiction.Fletcher...

A controversial, graphic and often disturbing account of how Sherlock Holmes, the archetypal detective, discovered the identity of Jack The Ripper, the killer who stalked Whitechapel in 1888. Based on newly discovered journals of his intimate friend, Doctor Watson, confidential Scotland Yard files, plus...

Two candles flaring at a Christmas crib. A nurse who steps inside a church to light them. A gunshot emptied in a man's head in the creaking stillness before dawn, that the nurse says she didn't hear. It's 1947 in the snowbound, war-scarred City...

"A psychological account of a crime"--that's how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described his novel Crime and Punishment, which tells of two horrific axe murders in St. Petersburg. It becomes much more than a mere "account," however, when a pair of dead bodies turn up in London's...

It is a cold London morning in 1887, and the discovery of a dead man in an abandoned house plunges Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson into a series of eight trying cases that will test the friendship of the two companions and threaten...

When a half-naked man is found gibbering on the moor, Sherlock Holmes uncovers a series of bizarre murders. At their heart lies a shadowy figure known only as The Sorcerer. He can talk to the dead, they say. He can bend any will to...

As Chaucer's pilgrims shelter for the night, it's the physician's turn to enthral his fellow travellers with a terrifying tale. When Brother Anselm and his novice Stephen are summoned to the Church of St Michael's, Candlewick, to perform an exorcism, the demons that plague...

In Rouletabille at Krupp's (1917), Gaston Leroux followed the template created by John Buchan in Greenamtle (1916), in which a heroic secret agent is conscripted to carry out an officially-sanctioned dangerous mission in enemy territory. Here, it's fearless investigative journalist Joseph Josephin, aka Rouletabille,...

A beautiful city with ugly traditions of corruption and racism. A black man set to hang for a murder he didn't commit. A world-famous author -- and detective -- who isn't about to let it happen..."An enjoyable tour of 1890s New Orleans... Twain can...

The events of the novel The Night Reporter take place in Lviv in 1938. Journalist Marko Krylovych, nicknamed the "night reporter" for his nightly coverage of the life of the city's underbelly, takes on the investigation of the murder of a candidate for president...

Author: Jd ArnoldISBN-10: 1432895885ISBN-13: 9781432895884Publisher: Wheeler Publishing Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2023Pages: 371Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20dLarge Print

Hampshire, 1943.Kim Maxwell has been languishing in the 'cooler' in what she sees as punishment for getting caught - and tortured - by the Nazis, before being freed by Resistance fighters and smuggled back into England. Now she is sent for by the head...

In 2022, Andrew Foster is a long-tenured News Director for a local television station. After an exhaustive search, Andrew purchased his lifelong dream car. The car is a 1963 Corvette C2 Coupe with a highly desired split-back rear window. Unknown to Andrew and the...

One good turn deserves anotherEllie Porterfield is not one of THE Porterfields though she works in high-end fashion at their department store.When a severely beaten man collides with her at a bus stop she calls an ambulance and renders first aid.Is drawn further into...

Get ready to step back in time to the Great Depression, where Olivia Wainwright is the only thing standing between the people of Big Town and the ruthless crime families that dominate the area. As the District Detective, Olli is used to going it...

"Superb. . .a fast-moving and gripping plot"- Publishers Weekly Starred Review August, 1556. Jack Blackjack is on a simple mission: make it back home to his beloved London. It should be simple, right? Wrong. He's made it as far as Exeter, but before he...

The queen's half-sister, Ursula Stannard, returns to solve another Tudor mystery in this page-turning tale of suspicious riches, murder and hidden treasures - can she find the golden cargoes? May 1589. Being the queen's half-sister and occasional secret agent, can take its toll, which...

The rich are getting richer--and stone-cold dead--in the next installment in Kate Belli's thrilling Gilded Gotham Mystery series, for fans of Rhys Bowen and Deanna Raybourn. Spring, 1890. The long New York winter is over, the buds are blossoming, and romance is in the...

John Hall was born in Leeds and worked for twenty-five years as an analytical chemist before embarking on a career as a writer. His stimulating Sherlock Holmes novels are written with a wonderful knowledge of his subject and are highly popular with Sherlockian enthusiasts...

A WOMAN WRONGFULLY INCARCERATED. A DOCTOR FIGHTING TO FREE HER.London, 1864. Dr Felix Cowdrey is working in a London free hospital, and hating every minute of it. So many of his patientshave illnesses and injuries that cannot be treated, and his inability to help...

When a courier for Sweden's Press and Military Office is killed on his final mission, the Norwegian government-in-exile appoints a writer to find the missing documents ... breathtaking WW2 thriller. **International NUMBER ONE bestseller** ' A stylish stand-alone thriller from the godfather of Scandi...

The New York Yacht Club's exclusive gathering at Newport, Rhode Island's Beacon Rock mansion hits stormy seas in the summer of 1900 when reporter Emma Cross, a lesser Vanderbilt, discovers a drowned corpse in Alyssa Maxwell's tenth Gilded Newport Mystery... As a reporter, Emma...

A murder shocks the small town of Walden. And it's only the beginning...Walden, 1921. Local reporter Iris Woodmore is determined to save her beloved lake, Waldenmere, from destruction.After a bloody and expensive war, the British Army can't afford to keep the lake and build...

#1 Historical Romance BestsellerWinner of the Maggie Award of ExcellenceFinalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award, the Golden Leaf, & the Passionate PlumeWill a lady from London's high society and a brute from its darkest streets defy destiny and find everlasting love?After the tragic...

From USA Today Bestseller Grace CallawayA spirited lady detective. A buttoned-up spy for the Crown. A steamy marriage of convenience that threatens to lay bare their secrets...and their hearts.When her overprotective family tries to curtail her activities, spirited and independent debutante Fiona Garrity decides...

Boston, 1966. Someone is killing Korean War veterans and Detective Jody Brae might know why."Gripping. Atmospheric. And hard as nails." - Colin Campbell, author of Beacon Hill and Snake PassOf all his regrets in life, Jody Brae wished he hadn't lost touch with his...