Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. August 1939. For decades, local children have feared Creepy Cottage, a derelict house rumored to swallow intruders whole. But after a violent summer storm collapses an end wall, the ruins...

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. May 1939. A black-tie civic awards ceremony promises a dull evening for Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin - until the 'Businessman of the Year', called away to answer the telephone,...

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. March 1939. A quiet Sunday morning turns deadly when the Reverend Villiers is found poisoned, propped up in the church's lychgate. With a cryptic scripture reference scrawled in chalk beneath...

Wells Fargo Special Agents Ben Stone and Shotgun Murphy head to California after a deadly stagecoach robbery points toward former outlaw Octavio Chavez.But the evidence doesn't fit.As the detectives dig deeper, they uncover a scheme involving false accusations, hired gunmen, and a ruthless land...

A dead Mardi Gras queen. One killer hiding in plain sight...Stewardess Patty Byrne thought a Mardi Gras layover in New Orleans with her best friend and her boyfriend would be the adventure of a lifetime. She was right-just not the kind she planned.When the...

Is the Enfield Poltergeist the most documented haunting in history-or the most successful hoax?In August 1977, an ordinary semi-detached council house in North London became the epicenter of a global mystery. Moving furniture, unexplained knocks, terrifying audio recordings, and a child speaking in a...

Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. January 1939. When clothing-factory heir Edward Handlsey is found murdered in a snow-covered Kentish town, mill worker Amy Rowlings finds herself at the top of the suspect list. The man...

An Anglo-African bridegroom disappears on the day of his London wedding in 1906, and Carolyn Wells, an American mystery writer who is visiting the bride's mother, enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes to find the missing man. With inspiration from the classical music of...

Hot tea, whispered secrets, and a murder that has the whole village wondering who they can trust.Josephine "Josie" Fairleigh left London behind to run her late aunt's tea room in a sleepy Cotswolds village, and in eighteen months she's turned Bluebell Tea Room into...

" ... it started off by finding a few floaters in the harbour, but that caused a huge amount of attention in the press. It's only a theory that they're linked, but we've found six men, almost skeletons, in the past seven months dumped...

In 1762, as the French and Indian War was raging across America, Benjamin Franklin returned to Philadelphia tasked by the British Prime Minister to stop a foreign plot threatening the British colonies in America. At fifty-six Franklin was a seasoned diplomat who knew nothing...

A young couple's elopement takes a dark turn when their car breaks down near the Green Dragon, an inn shrouded in eerie silence. Warned by a drunken tramp that the dragon on the sign changes its eye from yellow to red, and that no...

Bombay, 1952. When once legendary British film producer, Richard Boorman, working in India's film capital, Bombay, is found murdered, shot dead, his body stuffed into the trunk of his car, Persis, India's first female police detective, is tasked to find his killer. Working with...

1595. A former thief and a famed astrologist are engulfed by persecution and murder during England's Golden Age, in this new historical mystery series set during the colorful Tudor Era. 1595. An aging Sir Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, heading south on a doomed...

Beatrice Wren cannot recognise faces.She's hidden this all her life, navigating Victorian London through observation of clothing and mannerisms, and the whispered memories of objects. Only one person's face has ever been clear to her: Grim's, a scarred locksmith and criminal who is using...

The incomparable Lady Darling returns in her second adventure with Beatrice, her reticule-sized poodle, in tow as she sets about to right a terrible wrong whilst mending a pair of broken hearts. But in the middle of her matchmaking machinations and societal obligations at...

A mother's secret. A missing woman. A city built on shadows.Ten years after inheriting her mother's hidden legacy as one of the Gemini, Lady Eliza Ashbourne walks the line between society's expectations and the clandestine world she was born to serve.When her friend, Lady...

Women who are getting stronger do not fall down their own porch steps.Margaret Okafor was fifty-eight years old, rebuilding bone, and six weeks out from a scan that made her physiologist go very still at her desk. On a wet Tuesday in October she...

A kingdom stands on the brink of war. An ancient secret lies hidden beneath its soil. One legendary stone could change the fate of an empire.For centuries, the Crimson Stone of Vijaygarh has remained hidden, protected by generations of rulers who understood that some...

Can one reckless wager change a forgotten lady's future... or destroy the only love either of them has ever known?For three London Seasons, Lady Cressida Wycliffe has perfected the art of disappearing into the background. Quiet, intelligent, and devoted to her family, she has...

EVERYONE KNOWS CAESAR. NO ONE KNOWS HIS KNIGHT.Consul Quintus Fabius Maximus dies in the dead of night. The Ides of March are seventy-four days away.Marcus Aemilius Lepidus - Magister Equitum, the second most powerful man in Rome, the right hand of Julius Caesar -...

In Northwest Washington, between the Salish Sea, the Skagit Valley, and the North Cascades, stories have gathered for generations-stories of strange lights, shadowed figures, missing people, old legends, and encounters that refuse to be neatly explained.Skagit Triangle explores the mysterious region stretching through places...

Humanity was warned.Not by a single sign, and not in a single moment, but through every pattern it chose to ignore. Every compromise. Every cruelty.Inspired by the album "The Sky Was Colored As Hammered Lead" by A World Worth Burning, this story follows a...

1965. Daniel McAuliffe is a struggling young writer in Albany, California, balancing odd jobs on the waterfront while dreaming of a career built on words.When an aviation magazine publishes his article about a Royal Air Force pilot who showed mercy to a defeated enemy...

March 1940James Given moves to France to start a new life.But when the village librarian dies under suspiciouscircumstances, Given is pressed to investigate thepossible murder. As he questions the locals, it becomes apparent aspy is in hiding nearby. With the Second WorldWar intensifying and...

During the Great Depression, many people looked for a fast way to get rich. For some men, breaking the law to make money appeared to be the fastest way to get it. Nothing stopped them from trying. This is the story of men who...

When Old Glory Pentecostal burns to the ground outside Bell Branch, Texas, fire investigator Elias Rusk expects a ruined sanctuary, wet ashes, and one more long morning of looking at what heat leaves behind.What he does not expect is a missing woman's handbag in...

A duke intent on finding a treasure. A Spanish woman with nothing to lose. A legacy in the making.Edward, Duke of Sheffield, is expected to find a bride and take on the duties of his noble title. He would much rather, however, chase adventure...

After surviving an assassination attempt in Sydney, HRH Prince Alfred, accompanied by his pet baby elephant, Tom, arrives in colonial New Zealand in 1870. The authorities are on high alert as there are Fenian troubles in the goldfields. Aging Armed Constabulary Sergeant Patrick Kelly,...

The acclaimed comedic Western trilogy reaches its conclusion.Some men keep the peace with a six-shooter. Marshal Theodore Pembroke keeps it with a telescope, a chalkboard, and a truth he has never dared say aloud.Two years after an accident of paperwork turned a Yale astronomer...

Lady Cecelia Pembroke has solved four murders. She never expected the fifth one to be waiting behind a locked garden gate.When Cecelia arrives at Wisteria House for a quiet weekend of sorting old estate papers, the last thing she expects is a wisteria-draped manor...

Three years after hired guns rode into Johnson County, nobody was convicted. The ground still knows what happened. So does the man who made sure a new crime looked like an old one. Johnson County, Wyoming. April 1892. The Wyoming Stock Growers Association loaded...

The Great Kentucky Meat Shower takes readers on a thrilling journey into one of America's most bizarre unsolved mysteries. In 1876, chunks of raw meat rained down from the sky over a quiet farm in Kentucky, baffling scientists, locals, and the nation. Was it...

Butte, Montana. Summer 1894. The richest hill on earth is also the most dangerous - not because of what's underground, but because of what's happening above it. Marcus Daly and William Andrews Clark are fighting for control of Montana's politics, its newspapers, and its...

The Hollow Files: The Last Train Through Raven PassBy Nicole HobbsSome journeys never reach their destination. Some stories are simply waiting for someone to finish them.After uncovering the truth behind the Carnival at Ash Hollow, horror novelist Caleb Walker returns home believing another mystery...

A whispering teapot. A frozen canal town. A woman who never stays. Maren Solly has spent twenty years perfecting the art of leaving. Eleven cities. Countless temporary homes. No roots. No regrets.So, when she inherits a crumbling stone cottage at the edge of the...

Three days before the Cherokee Outlet Land Run, a U.S. Army paymaster is ambushed on a remote Oklahoma road. Two Buffalo Soldiers die fighting. Twenty-eight thousand dollars vanishes. And a Kansas homesteader found camped nearby is sitting in the Kingfisher jail - the most...

The Hollow Files: The Church Bell at MidnightBy Nicole HobbsSome warnings are meant to save you.After uncovering the truth behind the haunting of Devil's Creek, horror novelist Caleb Walker is ready to put the Appalachian ghost stories behind him.Then another file finds him.Armed with...

The river remembers. Long before maps divided the land, before kingdoms rose and fell, before the first church bell echoed across the valley, the River Bann flowed through the heart of Ulster, silent and unbroken. It carried the whispers of forgotten peoples, the laughter...

The Hollow Files: Devil's CreekBy Nicole HobbsSome voices should never be answered.After exposing the truth behind The Woman on Black Ridge, horror novelist Caleb Walker believes his investigation into Appalachian ghost stories has finally come to an end.Then an anonymous package arrives.Inside is an...

Six weeks before Wounded Knee. One man had to be silenced. One had to be blamed.November, 1890. Pine Ridge Reservation, Dakota Territory. The Ghost Dance has spread across the plains - a prayer, a ceremony, a last hope that the old world might be...

Rome is under siege, and fear has become more dangerous than the Goths outside the walls.In A.D. 537, Belisarius holds Rome in the name of Emperor Justinian while the Ostrogoths camp beyond the Aurelian Walls. Inside the city, hunger, rumor, old aristocratic pride, and...

When Scott returns to the Kentucky hills, he expects quiet trails, familiar ridges, and the comfort of old land. Instead, he finds a valley waking from centuries of sleep.Thin places - seams in the world where memory breathes through - begin to open one...

Secrets of Ancient IndiaWhat if everything you thought you knew about India's greatest monuments was only the beginning?Why are hundreds of human skeletons scattered around a frozen Himalayan lake?How did ancient engineers place an 80-ton stone on top of a temple a thousand years...

The river was supposed to be a break - a slow drift through ancient towns, vineyards, and quiet mornings. But from the moment Scott, Angie, Liz, and Annette step aboard, something beneath the surface begins to stir. The dreams come first: vivid, impossible, and...

The River Before Names follows Owen Mercer, a 27 year old fisherman from Evansville, Indiana, who vanishes one morning while fishing the Ohio River and wakes in the same land in the year 1412. There are no roads, no city, no rescue, and no...

RCMP Sergeant Alex Houston and her police service dog partner Silver are assigned to protect a VIP and her niece against threats from an organized crime group but an attack, should one arise, could be from anyone, anywhere, at any time. Complicating matters further,...

From bestselling historical fiction author MJ Porter, a gripping historical mystery set in 1940s Erdington, for fans of Helena Dixon, Emily Organ, L.B. Hathaway and Michelle Salter.Erdington, September 1944As events in Europe begin to turn in favour of the Allies, Chief Inspector Mason of...

Author: Peter MayISBN-10: 1529418917ISBN-13: 9781529418910Publisher: RiverrunLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2026Pages: 432Format: Paperback

A letter with no postmark. A wax seal pressed in haste. An old friend who writes a single, chilling word: fear.When Thomas Ashworth is summoned to Ravenswood Hall for a weekend gathering of old acquaintances, he expects awkward reunions and stale brandy-not a host...