Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Murder and Felix have the habit of turning up--and turning up together--in Virginia Freer's life, like some macabre set of twinned bad pennies. This time around, a broken leg and the resulting need for soothing ministrations have led Felix to take up residence in...

To find the one man who can fix the magic in Matt's watch, he and India are led to a convent where the nuns will do anything to keep their secrets private. Including murder? Matt and India must uncover the truth behind the disappearance...

It should be a happy time for India and Matt, but forces beyond their control conspire to ruin their future. A distraction from their troubles comes in the form of murder.When the editor of The Weekly Gazette is killed, controversial journalist and ink magician...

The arrival of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in London brings trouble. When the sharpshooter who beats Willie at poker is murdered, Matt and India investigate. Willie is convinced the victim cheated, but no one knows how until India discovers his secret - he...

India's study into the language of spells is interrupted by the arrest of her teacher for an unpaid debt. Before Matt can repay it for him, the powerful magician escapes from his prison cell. To make matters worse, the moneylender is murdered and the...

Written in 1864, this novel set in London depicts Victorian women under a new light thanks to "the initiative in works of progress" of the times, that challenged what was considered not to be "a woman's work". In this novel the English police started...

Instant New York Times and National Bestseller"A triumph. . . . Winspear creates in Elinor White (the 'White Lady'), a complex, endearing, achingly flawed hero. This is both fast-paced and thoughtful, bold and nuanced, a thriller that is thrillingly human. I loved it." --Louise...

In The Spanish Diplomat's Secret, award-winning author Nev March explores the vivid nineteenth-century world of the transatlantic voyage, one passenger's secret at a time. Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji are embarking to England in the summer of 1894. Jim is...

June, 1890. The gas workers are on strike and Leeds is close to breaking point. Detective Inspector Tom Harper is more concerned with the disappearance of 8-year-old Martha Parkinson. Then he discovers that there may be a connection between Martha's disappearance and the murder...

"I got completely and gratefully lost in its rich setting and memorable characters. You will, too." --Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Somebody's FoolEqual parts mystery and epic novel inspired by historical events, Foreign Seed plunges readers into the search for a...

Inspired by historical events, Foreign Seed traces the investigation into a missing American botanical explorer from the Yangtze River in 1918. Author: Allison AlsupISBN-10: 1684429978ISBN-13: 9781684429974Publisher: Keylight BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d

Death strikes England's foremost novelist, his latest tale only half told. Was he murdered because someone feared a ruinous revelation? Or was it revenge for some past misdeed? Set in the Kent countryside and London slums of 1870, Immortalised to Death embeds an ingenious...

The War may be over, but secrets linger.While World War II has been over for two years, its horrors linger within society, and chance encounters expose the still-festering wounds. Like most Americans, Beatrix Patterson and her husband Thomas Ling are trying to accept the...

"A master storyteller." -- New York Times Book Review Pittsburgh, 1847: A cholera epidemic rages, and young women are disappearing...Poe is devastated by the death of his beloved wife and travels to Pittsburgh for a change of scenery, reuniting with Augie Dubbins, now a...

May 1912. After the previous year's deadly heatwave, it's been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady's maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the village's inaugural art exhibition--and bicycle race--to look forward...

After leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city on the eve of Atlanta's 1881 International Cotton Exposition to partner with Atlanta's first African American police officer, Cyrus Underwood. The case they're assigned is chilling: a...

When a grieving Caleb Torrent discovers a series of family journals, he is drawn into an epic saga of violent retribution spanning over a hundred years and four generations of Torrent men.The recent sudden death of his father spurs Caleb on a journey of...

May 1912. After the previous year's deadly heatwave, it's been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady's maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the village's inaugural art exhibition--and bicycle race--to look forward...

Madame Midas (1888) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Madame Midas is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the...

Angel Sotiriou, a young private detective, is forced to flee New York to escape the Mafia. He returns to Greece, the land of his forebears, hoping to establish himself professionally in Athens. During the first years of the Second World War he finds himself...

The Doom List - you'd rather be dead than be on it: the intriguing new 1920s mystery featuring Irish-born cop turned private investigator Tom Collins. July, 1922. Newly-appointed 'movie czar' William H. Hays is about to arrive in town on a single-minded mission to...

Radio legend Jim French was already well known for producing excellent radio dramas, as well as creating Imagination Theatre and its "Movies for your mind" when, in March 1998, the first episode of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was broadcast, with adventures steeped...

In the tension along the U.S.-Mexico border, three months after Pancho Villa raided Columbus, New Mexico, a gruesome murder of a young couple at their ranch near the border takes place. All the locals immediately assume the murders were committed by Mexican raiders or...

Worthy of Trust and Confidence is a western historical fiction book based on a mystery dective U.S. Secret Service crime in 1898. Three kids enter the Mousegate at Walt Disney World and each one becomes embedded with one of the three main characters. They...

New Reader's Guide Edition With Discussion Questions "Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author." -SalonWho is Smokey Dalton?Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennessee's black community. He has almost no interaction...

Northumberland, 1809: A beautiful young heiress disappears from her locked bedchamber at Linn Hagh.The local constables are baffled and the townsfolk cry 'witchcraft.'The heiress's uncle summons help from Detective Lavender and his assistant, Constable Woods, who face one of their most challenging cases: The...

Best of the West 2019 - 1st Place in Mystery by True West Magazine 2018 - CIPA EVVY Winner for Mystery/Crime/Detective 2018 - CIPA EVVY 2nd Place for Historical Fiction In the next book in the Silver Rush mysteries, Inez Stannert struggles to solve...

"Boss, we have a problem..."It's never good when a party gets interrupted by those five words. Olivia Wainwright, Big Town's District Detective, has a target on her back. Not from her own doing, but simply because of something Alan did before she even worked...

Hollywood intrigue, glamor . . . and murder: Enter the roaring twenties in this thrilling Silver Screen historical mystery, starring two very different female sleuths."Excellent . . . Everything feels just right: the characters are abundantly human, the mystery is beautifully constructed, and the...

For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering woman doctor as she investigates the disappearance of a young patient who is presumed dead.Philadelphia, 1875: It is the start of...

Woodstock promoted itself as "Three Days of Peace and Music". Due to massive traffic delays and sporadic horrible weather, it actually took place over four days from Friday, August 15 to Monday, August 18, 1969. But it wasn't just four ordinary days in the...

In the 1920s, song-and-dance man August La May, formerly known as Avram Landenberg of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, thought he was living a grand life on the Orpheum Circuit in vaudeville, traveling the country with his gal Violetta and daughters April and...

A sudden attack, a daring response...On the shore of Oslo Fjord, teenagers Kristian Thorsen and Helene Berg watch in shock and horror as their world is upended by a Nazi invasion.Driven apart by tragedy and trauma, Helene and Kristian take different paths to join...

The death of a humble clergyman in 1877 leads amateur sleuths Violet Paget and John Singer Sargent into a medieval world of saints and kings--including the legendary Arthur--as they follow a trail of relics and antiquities lost since the destruction of Glastonbury Abbey in...

Since the new Duchess of Kesgrave cannot be swayed from her unfortunate interest in dead bodies, Lady Abercrombie decides to confront the matter head-on by hosting a murder mystery dinner party.Gathering together several of society's most influential members, she concocts an amusing puzzle-play, assigns...

The City of Light is surging back to life in the wake of war, and its citizens are seizing every opportunity to raise a glass or share a delicious meal. But as American ex-pat Tabitha Knight and chef-in-training Julia Child discover, celebrations can quickly...

Susanna Gregory, author of the Matthew Bartholomew series of medieval mysteries, has created another compelling fictional detective set in Restoration London. -------------------------------------------- The first adventure in the Thomas Chaloner series.The dour days of Cromwell are over. Charles II is well established at White Hall...

The people and businesses of London are quickly recovering from the ravages of the plague, none faster than the Court of Charles II where excess, corruption and debauchery has rebounded at a frenetic pace. In Westminster, in the haphazard corridors of White Hall Palace,...

First in a brand-new historical mystery series featuring Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty. May, 1471. The Wars of the Roses are reaching their bitter and bloody climax. Edward of York has claimed the English throne, and...

The ruthless reign of Henry IV and the clerical tyranny of Archbishop Arundel keep Brother Chandler and his friends under constant threat in this gripping medieval mystery featuring friar-sleuth Rodric Chandler."Clark's use of period detail is unparalleled, and the plot remains taut and brisk...

Ty Dawson is a small-town sheriff with big-city problems, in this riveting crime thriller from the award-winning author of Fistful of Rain. As lawman, rancher, and Korean War veteran, Ty Dawson has his share of problems in the southern Oregon county he calls home....

1866. On a train bound for Portsmouth, an elegant woman shares a first-class compartment with a gentleman in a celebratory mood. Giles Blanchard reveals his lecherous side as the journey gets underway, but he will never reach his home on the Isle of Wight...

As featured on the Talking Tudors podcast.'Right up there with C J Sansom... A brilliant historical thriller' Philip Gwynne Jones'Thoroughly engaging... beautifully written' Zoe SharpFinding the battered body of a young boy was not unusual in Bloody Mary's cruel England. However, the stabbed tongue,...

Ty Dawson is a small-town sheriff with big-city problems, in this riveting crime thriller from the award-winning author of Fistful of Rain. As lawman, rancher, and Korean War veteran, Ty Dawson has his share of problems in the southern Oregon county he calls home....

While hosting a group of academics at Thorncroft House, Harriet and Matthew Rowsley find themselves confronted with bigger - and bloodier! - issues than unruly guests . . . The fifth instalment of the Harriet and Matthew Rowsley Victorian mystery series sets in England...

The notorious Opium-Eater returns in the sensational climax to David Morrell's acclaimed Victorian mystery trilogy. 1855. The railway has irrevocably altered English society, effectively changing geography and fueling the industrial revolution by shortening distances between cities: a whole day's journey can now be covered...

Detroit, 1941. With the nation on the brink of war, four people unite against the treachery that threaten's America's "arsenal of democracy."Eva Szabó, a young immigrant, goes undercover at the Ford Rouge Assembly plant to expose the company's campaign of anti-union violence. Her boss,...

Charlotte Pitt's clever grandmother investigates the sudden disappearance of her dear friend in this chilling holiday whodunit by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt's grandmother, accepts her longtime friend Sadie's gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her...

Twenty or so years have passed since the arrest of the evil one. Now, in Marquette Island, View from the Snows, Sheriff George is confronted with a dead body and various robberies. The crime leads George to one person. However, he is not to...

"Remarkable stuff. Fans of Bill James' Harpur and Iles saga of cops and robbers are in for quite a treat" - Kirkus Reviews Starred Review Sergeant-Detective ﾉmile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set...