Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Does love conquer all? Nell's not so sure.Adjusting to wedlock isn't easy for a woman whose initial aversion to the married state took her to the Poor Farm. When a tragedy out of the blue prompts her to repay past debts, her charitable instincts...

The year is 1955. Eisenhower is President. Al Kaline and the Dodgers still own Brooklyn. And Elvis is driving a truck. Up north in Alaska, the Cold War heats up fast when secrets are stolen from a Dew Line Radar Station. What the new...

INSPIRED BY TRUE STORIES OF DEPRESSION-ERA SING SINGA Brooklyn stickup artist, his taxi-dancing wife, a murderous newspaperman, a risk-taking warden, and a wife with a dark past converge in 1930s Sing Sing heading toward death, redemption-and Ebbets Field. Award-winning author David Pietrusza's Dance Hall:...

Murder Season in the Hamptons: Glowing Sands is the sequel to last year's successful historical fiction; Murder Season in the Hamptons. This murder mystery chronicles the historical events that lead to the hunt for a psychopath determined to unleash an indescribable horror upon eastern...

After helping Prince Kung avert an international disaster and negotiating with Inspector Gong's mother for his betrothal to Concubine Swan, Lady Li takes a well-deserved evening to enjoy the first public performance by a female Peking opera performer. But her relaxing night out takes...

Locked Rock, Iowa is lively again with Gracie Evans and her friends antics. Enjoy this story about Moser Mansion Rest Home for women residents when they attempt to make conditions better for women in 1905. What do you know Gracie Evans, Moser Mansion resident,...

Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa has become a spooky place. One of the residents, Libby Hook, sees ghosts in the middle of the night, roaming around the house with her. She has everyone living in the mansion awake and...

The Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women residents are summoned to appear at thecounty seat to testify against Mavis Jordan at her murder trial. The county seat turnsout to be a deadly place for Gracie Evans. A mysterious man stalks her with theintention of...

An American version of Miss Marple in 1903, Gracie Evans, a retired, spinster farmer, tries to resign herself to the fact she now lives in Moser Mansion, a rest home for women, in Locked Rock, Iowa. That small town is never going to be...

Bank robbery. Jailbreak. Massacre. Alone, each would send good folks reeling. But when all three occur the same night in a small South Texas town leaving no eyewitnesses, it could be the end of the world. Sheriff Dell Hoffman is charged with bringing the...

An American version of Miss Marple, Gracie Evans is homesick and tired of retirement. She's bored with living in the Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa. Spring brings back pleasant memories so she prays to God to give her a...

Court jester Will Somers is drawn into another gripping and entertaining mystery when malevolent forces strike again at the court of Henry VIII - and Anne Boleyn is the target.1536, London. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is in peril. In the mid of night,...

An exciting standalone Cthulhu Casebooks narrative, a thrilling tale of mystery and dread, from the New York Times bestselling author.It's 1929 and an ageing Dr. John Watson, conscious of his imminent demise, finally sits down to write a fresh chronicle disclosing the true events...

Darriby Hall is famous for entertaining busybody aristocrats, tales from distant lands and a dead body... every now and then.England, 1926Just days before Lord Darriby-Jones is scheduled to enlighten the world at the Annual Limacology Symposium, his secretary unceremoniously bids adieu to her employment....

A ForeWord Book of the Year Finalist and winner of six literary awards.In the South before the Civil War, one man's radical ideas and breakthrough invention threaten the townspeople's privileged way of life, based on slavery and power. The result is murder.Tom Edmunton, the...

A new Notorious Bachelors novel from Emma Wildes When blackmail turns to murder, Madeline May turns to the notorious Viscount Altea, a man used to dealing with men of ill repute, and a man she despises with every fiber of her being. From the...

Lady Swift has been cordially invited to a huge royal celebration in Little Buckford to toast the King's birthday... but wait, is that a body in the village hall? Lady Eleanor Swift and her loyal butler Clifford are busy lending a hand with preparations...

- It's 1940 and the world is in turmoil. An ordinary lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio is called- upon by his country to infiltrate the highest levels of the Nazi hierarchy in a covert operation that could help determine the outcome of the war. His...

A witty, feminist mystery set in the heart of nineteenth-century London, this daring adventure featuring an intrepid woman detective will thrill fans of Deanna Raybourn and Katharine Schellman. London, 1894. Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children...

Dr. Randall Archer is a misfit... ...in the brutal blue-collar home where he grew up. ...as a sixteen-year-old escaping to college, then medical school, on a full scholarship to Harvard. ...in the highest echelons of Boston society, where the woman he marries and the...

DISCOVERY UPENDS EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT MEMORY AND GENETICS. IT MIGHT COST KEY MURPHY HIS LIFE.Key Murphy is a freak, a prodigy. He has visions so real he's diagnosed with PTSD. Key learns that his visions might be caused by a mutated gene which...

In post-World War II England, former Secret Service operative Mirabelle Bevan becomes embroiled in a new kind of intrigue . . . In the popular seaside town of Brighton, it's time for Mirabelle Bevan to move beyond her tumultuous wartime years and start anew....

Time: the late nineteenth century. Place: the city of New York, a mecca for the ambitious and the corrupt where the poor barely survive on the wages for their fourteen-hour work day. Crime is at its highest, higher than it will be in all...

Senior Lieutenant Pavel Matyushkin has a problem. Several, actually. Not the least of them is the fact that a powerful Soviet boss has been murdered, and Matyushkin's surly commander has given him an unreasonably short time frame to close the case. Then there is...

The Edgar Award-winner's colonial series continues as Scottish exile Duncan McCallum uncovers a loyalist conspiracy--"Historical mystery at its best" (Booklist, starred review). The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent marks the first organized resistance to English rule, someone is kidnapping and killing...

"Very highly recommended!" --Jim Harris, Pacific Northwest Writers AssociationIt's the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition is the law of the land. A rumrunner's boat is found adrift near the United States-Canada maritime border of Puget Sound, its crew missing, its cargo hold riddled with bullet holes...

France, 1944. Agent Kim Maxwell has a new mission. She's investigating the death of Bernard Leblanc, a local SOE leader. It looks like an accident, but Kim knows better . . . Her HQ is the Bistro Le Renard Rouge. The Red Fox. And...

A matter of matrimony... Lord Julian Caldicott is summoned to the family seat by his ducal brother, whose bachelorhood is imperiled by the very determined Lady Clarissa Valmond. As the only titled Eligible the hostesses avoid including on their guest lists, Julian has little...

A reluctant DuchessLady Anna Trevallyn may be a Duchess by name but she is unlike any other titled female in Boston society. When her best friend Libby disappears unexpectedly from a soiree at her stately home, Anna ignores advice to leave it to the...

THE WATERS ARE RISING AND SO IS THE BODY COUNT Marooned amidst rising flood waters on their horse farm, Sergeant Frank Hardy and his pregnant wife Mette shelter two other families. But when Frank finds his own carving knife in someone else's throat, and...

Author: Ashley WeaverISBN-10: 1432872885ISBN-13: 9781432872885Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/08/2020Pages: 553Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00dLarge Print

Return to Walkers' Mountain is a work of fiction, however, the Walker's story is true. Bev Freeman remembers the story since she was only 12 years old. She never knew the outcome of the man who murdered the family. The fiction story is centered...

On a stormy night in March 1941, Maisie Rose Hawkins leaves her drunk husband, Stan, out in the rain--and he disappears. Detective Sergeant Bob Robbins and young PC Laurie Oliver are called out to investigate and discover that Stan's small fishing boat is gone,...

"Edgar-winner Pattison combines action, period details, and a whodunit with ease in his impressive third mystery set in Colonial America." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life...

It seems J.T. and Mickey will never learn. This summer they've decided to break the record (for the most original pranks) of the immortal Judd and Howie. They begin their quest by setting off cherry bombs in their sixth-grade classroom, then progress to dropping...

Armand Lavar de is a penniless young journalist who inherits a fortune from a wealthy cousin on the condition that he must first travel around the world in under a year with only five "pennies" in his pocket. If he fails, the money will...

The Police Agent (1867) is a milestone in the development of crime fiction. Its eponymous hero, the cunning Mr. Porion, a.k.a. P re Cinnamon, does not employ his detective skills to pursue a vampire-like serial killer intent on bleeding children, but rather to protect...

On a miserable rainy evening a desperate father enters 221B Baker Street. His daughter has been kidnapped and spirited off the North America. The evil network who have taken her have spies everywhere. If he goes to Scotland Yard they will kill her. There...

When Amory Ames' husband Milo receives a troubling letter from his childhood nanny, Madame Nanette, the couple travels to Paris to solve a mystery. Her employer, parfumier Helios Belanger, died suddenly just before the release of his highly anticipated new perfume. And Madame Nanette...

When a World War II widow inherits a dilapidated English estate, she uncovers a diary written by an adolescent girl named Maude Gower. Looking for answers, she begins reading, only to unravel more questions about the mysterious past and many secrets hidden deep within...

It's 1913. The move to Cumberland is he brother Billy's idea, and it's a good one. Th little mining community on Vancouver Island is quiet, and it's a change - exactly what nineteen-year-old Heather Foster needs after her mother's death. It isn't long however,...

Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery. London, August 1881. After a difficult few months, the World's End Investigation Bureau is...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and The Financial Times From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that...

India and Matt thought all their problems would come to an end once they found Chronos. But the watch magician brings with him as many questions as answers, and a load of trouble. To fix Matt's magic watch, they must find an old diary...

Seattle, 1956 Inspector Michael Riggs doesn't believe in "women's intuition," but when Margaret Baker insists that her friend, Ruby, would never willingly have jumped off a bridge to end her own life, Riggs reluctantly agrees to re-examine the closed case. Riggs wants to give...

A sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt's family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress the gossip...

To investigate the source of gossip about Cyclops, Willie does the unthinkable - she dons a dress. However her plan goes awry when she's kidnapped by a disgruntled magician with the power to detonate gunpowder at will. The magician forces India and Matt to...

Are curses real?After a toymaker magician gives a lecture at a collector's club soiree, an important spell is stolen and a man is found strangled. The investigation into his murder leads India and Matt to the colorful and dangerous world of the Romany gypsy...

With knowledge of magic becoming more widespread in London, magicians find themselves highly sought after. Consumers want to buy their wares and so seek out magicians among their acquaintance. India's rare magic is in demand from Matt's family, the Collector's Club, and other magicians...

A Victorian era murder. A modern-day family researcher. Can she unravel a governess's entanglement in a dark family secret? Ireland, 1895. Polly Brady hopes to escape her oppressive past by accepting the position of governess at Colgrannagh, an old house in the Wicklow mountains....