Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

London, 1890: It's a New Year, but murder never takes a holiday.The past reaches out to the unlikely investigative team of Angus Brodie and Mikaela Forsythe when a man Mikaela was once engaged to seeks her assistance to find his young runaway son.What starts...

In late summer of 1948, L.A. private detective Michael Garrett is hired to travel to El Paso, Texas, to represent his client at an auction. At stake is a jade statuette believed to be of great historical value but said to come with an...

It is 1943, and the Nazis control large parts of Italy. Colonel Anselm Bernhardt devotes his attention to stealing Italian art - and having his way with Italian women - but there is one great treasure that he covets even more.In present day, his...

CONFLICTING DESIRES AND A DANGEROUS CITYChicago, 1876: Martin was doubtless joking when he told Nell that if she got herself mixed up with a murderer for the third time, he'd disown her. Butwhen Martin himself is arrested for murder, Nell's dreams of a new...

Jodocus Temme (1798-1881) war ein deutscher Politiker, Jurist und Schriftsteller. Er verfasste u. a. zahlreiche Kriminalerz hlungen, die zum gro en Teil in Ernst Keils Familienzeitschrift Die Gartenlaube ver ffentlicht wurden und wichtige Anst e f r die Entwicklung der deutschsprachigen Kriminalliteratur gaben. Aus...

A client forsworn, a threatened town, and a Goliath of unimaginable proportions . . . Sherlock Holmes has survived a three-year vendetta against him by Moriarty's remaining henchmen. Wounded and bleeding, with Mycroft's help he clandestinely boards an Atlantic steamship. At the close of...

In 1946 Chicago, Nathan Heller--president of the flourishing A-1 Detective Agency--is hired to protect racing-wire gambling chief James Ragen, who is nonetheless shot down on the streets of Chicago. Not one to take such an affront sitting down, Nate goes after the killer, but...

In 1942, Chicago P.I. Nate Heller and his childhood pal, boxer Barney Ross, join the Marines and see bloody action together at Guadalcanal. Upon his return to gangland Chicago, the shell-shocked Heller--more dangerous than ever--is thrust into the midst of an inter-gang war to...

Everything was going smoothly on the set of "The High and the Mighty" until the cast and crew returned from lunch. With one exception. Wiley Wyckham, the bit player sitting in seat 24A on the airliner mockup, is among the missing, and without Wyckham...

Go on a crayon drawing and picture posting mission with Minnie Evans-the world's greatest crayon folk artist. Unravel the mystery of the Cape Fear shoe tree. The Cape Fear shoe tree, near Rocky Point, North Carolina, is a real tree and a real mystery....

England 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act...

Marriage can be murder.Rosemary Lillywhite can't wait for her brother, Frederick, and her best friend, Vera, to tie the knot.She's over the moon they've finally caved in and admitted their love for one another, but even more than that, she wants them out of...

Lizzy arrives at Hunsford to visit Charlotte, having mixed feelings to discover Darcy is in the vicinity to see his aunt, the formidable Lady Catherine. They are inevitably thrown together, and she starts to see a different side to him. When Miss Anne becomes...

"There's been a murder."... Those four words are bad enough, but when the craftiest of the three mob bosses utters them in the District Detective office, they carry a whole new kind of weight. Olivia Wainwright and Dallas Stowe are always prepared for the...

New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear premiere a captivating new mystery series packed with ancient myth.Archaeologist Dusty Stewart finds himself diving into a chilling excavation of an ancient massacre site when the echoes of an eight-hundred-year-old mystery reverberate,...

Part I of HEART OF WISDOM is an historical family saga featuring the immigrant Demsky family during the years 1920 through 1946 as they face the challenges of surviving life, love and loss in Newark, New Jersey. Part II is mainly Sora's story, youngest...

Sir Leonard Wallace, Chief of the Secret Service, sends one of his agents to Germany to obtain vital information from the Baroness von Reudath. Foster is told to feign infatuation with her, but the lines between reality and pretence soon blur as a result...

A foreign land grab in the Dakotas, a strangulation, an interrupted Central American cruise, a lecherous artist, a psychotic stalker, a living room shooting, drama in the Supreme Court, a Ponzi scheme, illicit lovers, an unauthorized portrait, a feigned suicide (or is it murder?),...

Having received intelligence regarding a dangerous band of anarchists planning to assassinate King Peter of Yugoslavia on his royal visit to England, the British Secret Service are hot on the trail of one of the key suspects. At the centre of the investigation is...

Two years after finishing his tour of duty in the Occupational Forces in Japan, Damson O'Reilly arrives in Siena, Italy. Sight-unseen at a local auction, he buys an abandoned Tuscan farmhouse in which he aims to write, paint, and start a new life.The house,...

Florence,1855. "The English are dying too much," the city's police chief observes. And members of the foreign community in this quaint Italian backwater, both English and American, are indeed dying at an alarming rate and in an extraordinary variety of ingenious and horrible ways....

From USA Today bestselling author Meredith Jaeger comes an emotionally resonant novel about two women whose lives intersect as one resists the gentrification of her San Francisco neighborhood, and the other, eighty years earlier, fights for her freedom in nineteenth-century America. . . ....

Summoned from his comfortable Toronto college life, Christopher Pokaik returns to visit the grandfather who raised him. Surprised by the evolving culture of the newly created Nunavut Territory, he's befriended by an Inuit RCMP Special Constable who helps him understand his Inuit roots. Despite...

As major financial centres are on high alert for the imminent collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, a young couple in New York is swept into an ancient financial plot. Around the world, strange and seemingly unrelated events - a murder in Venice,...

After the uprising in London, Lady Gwendolyn Crichton is settling into her new position as Royal Sorceress and fighting the prejudice against her gender and age that seeks to prevent her from fulfilling her responsibilities. But when a senior magician is murdered in a...

Although Sherlock Holmes had always refused to accept the potential influences of the supernatural upon the many cases with which he had been presented, there had certainly been a few which had sowed a seed of doubt within the mind of his friend and...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much. From the author of Fortune...

A stranger shows up at Moser Mansion Rest Home For Women in Locked Rock, Iowa claiming to be Melinda Applegate's nephew. She welcomes him with open arms, but Gracie Evans is sure the man is a crook out to steal Melinda's money. She sets...

Edinburgh, 1820s. On one side is the Old Town; ancient, crumbling and full of poverty. On the other is the New Town - elegant, refined and prosperous.When newly qualified Doctor Martin Elliot arrives, he discovers that the duality goes deeper. There is more darkness...

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...

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...

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...