Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Cover Art (c) Roger Kopman."Does the past change the future or does the future change the past?" Set in the Ireland, early 1970's. Strangely, for more than a year photo-journalist Natalie McKenna has been dreaming of another woman's life. This no-nonsense 30-year veteran of...

'As powerful and addictive as the first outing of Si Scott-Wilson's personable Regency graverobbers, What We Leave Behind leads its reader through a beautifully-realised and immersive world of stark necessities amid exquisite squalor, conjuring its Dandy-Horses, resurrection-men andits rich, steaming London in a persuasively...

Secrets and lies simmer to the surface in the third riveting Bow Street Duchess mystery. For years, the Duchess of Fournier has buried a shameful secret connected to her remarkable, if bizarre, ability. While Audrey's gift has helped her solve cases alongside the captivating...

The discovery of a young woman's body drifting down the Thames, her hair adorned with flowers and her legs wrapped in blue silk like a mermaid's tail, presents Lord Jason Redmond and Inspector Daniel Haze with a puzzling new mystery. Who was she, why...

Thief-taker Simon Westow must save one of his closest friends from a grim fate at the hands of the government in this compelling historical mystery. Leeds, May 1822. Thief-taker Simon Westow owes Davey and Emily Ashton everything - the siblings gave him sanctuary when...

Newly promoted Sergeant Arthur Diamond is glad of a little action, when not one, but two missing person reports are made in one day. Meanwhile the station's new lieutenant, Billy Doran, has challenges of a different kind. As the Doran sisters prepare for Maeve's...

Author: Anna Lee HuberISBN-10: 8200033856ISBN-13: 9798200033850Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/2014Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs

Lila Hilliard returns home to Chicago for the holidays only to find someone is stalking her. Her father and brother are trapped in a fire, and a man on a motorcycle tries to shoot her. As she desperately tries to figure out who is...

Lucy and Robert's joy in christening their new daughter, surrounded by extended family and loved ones who have gathered in the village of Kurland St. Mary, is only enhanced when Robert's aunt Rose — now the second wife of Lucy's father Ambrose — announces...

"Published in 2020 by arrangement with Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC/St. Martin's Publishing Group"--Title page verso.Author: Nicholas MeyerISBN-10: 143287621XISBN-13: 9781432876210Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2020Pages: 379Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.80dLarge Print

Return to Baker Street, where the world's most famous detective encounters four new cases that require his expert touch. London's super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, sets out with long-suffering Watson as the detectives of Scotland Yard are stumped yet again. Blood coats the street of...

Return to Baker Street, where the world's most famous detective encounters four new cases that require his expert touch. London's super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, sets out with long-suffering Watson as the detectives of Scotland Yard are stumped yet again. Blood coats the street of...

You love reading the stories of Sherlock Holmes. You have read the entire Canon, maybe more than once. But you still want more Sherlock. Now an entire new series has appeared: a new Sherlock Holmes Mystery inspired by and a tribute to each of...

It is the winter of 1942. In the wartime blackout, a midnight bus breaks down near the small, semi-rural town of Bexford North, 30 miles from Sydney. Outside the bus, a passenger screams as torchlight fall on the body of a soldier stabbed to...

Introducing private investigator Charley Field, the true-life inspiration behind Charles Dickens' Inspector Bucket, in an intriguing new Victorian mystery series. December, 1853. Having found fame as the inspiration behind Inspector Bucket in Charles Dickens' recent bestselling serialization, Bleak House, former Detective Inspector Charley Field...

SECRETS AND LIES Sherlock Holmes's latest case takes him to Paris in pursuit of Marguerite Hardy: a Frenchwoman who fled her London home in mysterious circumstances. Holmes discovers she left after receiving a mysterious letter, containing an obituary and the words "four for the...

A brand-new Sherlock Holmes mystery from acclaimed Sherlockian author David Stuart Davies, featuring the sinister Dr Caligari Sherlock Holmes has just uncovered the truth about the theft of a priceless ruby. The wealthy Lady Damury staged the theft and tried to frame her husband...

Burgeoning, brash and bold, a new Metropolis has burst forth from the golden soil of Terra Australis, proclaiming its virtues but harbouring many of the evils of old which have been attracted by fortunes won from the Earth itself. Shadowy figures menacingly emerge from...

You love the stories of Sherlock Holmes. You have read the entire Canon, maybe more than once. But you still want more Sherlock -- the real Victorian Sherlock. Now there is a new series of Sherlock Holmes mystery novellas, each one of them a...

Kevin Keefer took a leave of absence from Army Counterintelligence to search for the origin of the first military action of the Cold War, which occurred in Czechoslovakia in May 1945. Kevin was familiar with his fathers relentless efforts to uncover the circumstances surrounding...

Lizzy and Darcy are on their honeymoon in Bath when her mother and Kitty show up to surprise them. They have hardly recovered from that shock before they find a dead body in the women's changing room. The waters at Bath might heal, but...

Midwife Sarah Malloy and her private detective husband Frank discover that the cure is worse than the disease when they investigate the death of a promising young woman in this atmospheric, riveting mystery from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Murder on Bedford Street....

Also known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury...

Five desperate young women...Katie, Joanna, Eve, Evangeline, and Adelaide meet on a stagecoach on their way to Cheyenne, Wyoming as mail order brides. As they talk to each other, Katie and Adelaide become suspicious. Are they correct to be suspicious or are they overreacting?One...

Among Ranger McIntyre's problems is Small Delights Lodge, a resort inside Rocky Mountain National Park. Someone has taken a shot at the owner, tried to electrocute him, set a bear loose at his door, sabotaged his boat, and disabled the brakes on his car.Suspects...

In a gripping historical novel of suspense and romance, two women fight to defeat the enemies of the precarious Tudor monarchy by uncovering the secrets of the dead.... London, 1501. In a time of political unrest, Varina Westcott, a young widow and candle maker...

In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd.Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake...

Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley's guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England: quaint villages, eccentric locals--and murder ...It is 1937, and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for...

A serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia in Jenny Adams' debut historical mystery, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Rhys Bowen. Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she's shocked to...

It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner. The transatlantic steamship La Provence' was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man. The passengers constituted a select and delightful society. The...

Sister Fidelma returns in the thirty-first Celtic mystery by Peter Tremayne. Ireland. AD 672. The body of a dead man has been found on a lonely mountain road and taken to the isolated abbey of Gleann Da Loch for a proper burial. The abbot...

When a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series. England 1912. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known. Despite...

Another Christmas Novella for the Notebook Series!!Bells are ringing, people are singing, and Christmas is coming. The family is planning a wedding for Christmas Eve. They are all working to make it special.Before that can happen, an invitation arrives to a party. Emma is...

Author: Barbara DavisISBN-10: 0451418778ISBN-13: 9780451418777Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2013Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2013Romantic Times 10/01/2013 pg. 48 - Excellent

Scotland Yard's Murder Squad--and Jack the Ripper--return, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit. In The Devil's Workshop, London discovered that Jack the Ripper was back, sending the city--and Scotland Yard's Murder Squad--into chaos. But...

A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights.When London's finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having...

The ninth mystery in the critically acclaimed Joe Sandilands series, a story of murder, mystery and espionage against the backdrop of the Romanov murders and the disappearance of the Tsar's fortune. It's 1922. Joe Sandilands is just back in England from his trip to...

In this fascinating historical thriller, a British journalist (and former spy) is adrift in McCarthy-era Los Angeles--until his research into a wartime conspiracy brings him face-to-face with the perilous instability of a post-Stalin Berlin. John Russell, an English journalist who specializes in human-interest pieces,...

A thrilling literary fiction whodunit for fans of Delia Owens and Jacqueline WinspearWorld War II is raging overseas, but life remains painfully quiet on the rugged New England fishing island of Fourth Cliff. With most of its able-bodied male inhabitants away in the service,...

In 1554, scores of English Protestants fled into exile on the Continent after Mary Tudor took the throne and returned England to Catholicism. Sir Henry Ingram and his daughter Cordell were among them, but Sir Henry is not all he seems. When he dies...

Be wary of what you wish for. . .Award-winning author Patricia Rice brings you the first of a light-hearted Regency romantic mystery series set in Wycliffe Manor...n Regency England: The descendant of adventuring-dead-aristocrats, Clarissa Knightley supplements a modest inheritance by penning gothic novels that...

On September 23, 2018 two seventeen-year-old high school sweethearts returning home from a celebratory birthday date are discovered dead. Their car found off the road, in a vacant horse pasture in front of an enormously old deciduous scarlet oak, on the lavish estate of...

Every person in France is fully aware that Bonheur means happiness and well-being. But how does a wretch convicted of a petty crime find happiness or even survival in a prison known for its inhumanity? That place robbed me of my youth, my teeth,...

In English society, the rules of engagement have stood the test of time. Until a Reckless Bride falls in deeply, scandalously in love... CAN AN INDECENT PROPOSALWhen Lady Claire Jellicoe agreed to a walk in the moonlight, she never imagined her titled companion might...

1851, Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr. Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his lips and eyes stitched closed. The police direct their attention towards Angel Meadow's inmates, but to Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain...

One morning before dawn in the stables of her country estate, Lady Truelove meets a violent death in an encounter with a dangerous horse. Classified as "death by misadventure," this appears a gruesome accident. But Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul play--a misgiving...

WE Americans were right in the middle of the CIA's war in Viet Nam. Special security-risk detainees started wandering off from our spy prison in Eastern Europe. Agent Adam investigates the leak and sanitizes the situation. He is granted two month's vacation as his...

Mirror of the Eye concludes the Third Eye Trilogy with continued switchbacks, turns and action all the way to the end. A twist leads Clay and Shali in a totally different direction with the regression protocols. Gaining experience from the past, they discover new...

Yuri and the Arius team are invited to investigate the murder of two Colombian nationals and ninety-year-old man with ties to a secret organization within the Third Reich by an American Secret Service agent. Hot on the trail of suspects, Yuri gets duped into...

Someone's trying to frame this ambitious theater performer for murder. Can she get back to her adoring public and escape the noose?1885. Arabella Pryce is struggling with heartbreak. And with her recently deceased husband's will demanding she leave her celebrity behind and refurbish her...