Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

In Regency Bath, flowers speak louder than words. Someone is using them to lie.Clara Hartwell trusts flowers more than she trusts people. Camellias for admiration, violets for loyalty, heliotrope for devotion that never speaks aloud. Her work as a secret flower-writer creating floriography books...

A castle in ruins. A Viking's last secret. A choice that echoes through a thousand years.Baron Tim de St. Clere is days from losing everything when a retired U.S. Air Force officer arrives with a mysterious heirloom, a riddle pointing to a lost treasure...

Catherine West flees a broken engagement in Boston for the sanctuary of Paris, answering a vague yet earnest summons from her cousin's widow, the enigmatic Mme. Bender. Her transatlantic escape is interrupted by an officious matchmaker, who thrusts her into the company of Geoffrey...

What does it take to preserve the past? What will it cost to protect the future? Follow the echoes through time and find out...'This book is a love letter to strong women and to Scotland''Two timelines, past and present, weave together to reveal an...

"Previously published as The Circus as Custodian of a Mystery: The John Wilkes Booth Mummy"A vanished mummy. A family circus. A mystery that refuses to die.For generations, the story of the John Wilkes Booth mummy has haunted American folklore-an artifact whispered about in sideshows,...

"France, 1764... A series of brutal murders shakes the country. Survivors speak of a 'beast that resembles a wolf.' In three years, hundreds of victims would be counted, and a mystery never solved. What was the Beast of Gévaudan, really?""Blending short stories with historical...

The Real Roswell UFOSecrets, Myths, and the Cold War TruthIn the summer of 1947, debris fell near Roswell, New Mexico-and a legend was born.For nearly eighty years, the Roswell incident has been framed as a mystery too extraordinary to explain: alien craft, hidden bodies,...

The mayor of Prescott, Arizona Territory, is shot at the end of the annual Horribles Parade. Haseya has just started her amateur investigation business in town and is drawn into the investigation. Talented but inexperienced, Haseya attempts to solve the murder, then the sheriff...

It's 1776. The American Revolution teeters on the brink of collapse. George Washington and his Continental Army are on the run, suffering defeat after defeat. The British Army pursues them, bent on hunting the American soldiers to extinction. Across the colonies, the raging war...

April 29, 1585. Coroner John Derrick is summoned to the cozy village of Bramley to investigate a naked dead man found beneath a waterwheel. An unfortunate drowning, by all indications. But upon closer inspection, the case takes a macabre turn: The deceased is missing...

Something evil is plaguing the Ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria! Perfect for fans of Nick Drake, Wilbur Smith and Bernard Cornwell. Two murder cases. Are they connected? 275 BC, Alexandria Hanufer of Crocodilopolis, the captain of the Medjay police is being plagued by nightmares....

Internationally bestselling author Lyndsay Faye became enamored with tales of Sherlock Holmes and his esteemed biographer Dr. John Watson as a child, and later, began spinning these quintessential characters into her own works of fiction--from her acclaimed debut novel, Dust and Shadow, which pitted...

When Phoebe Threapleton is found dead on a four-poster bed in Bainbridge's department store with six long-stemmed white roses next to her, Inspector Best is baffled... How does the death in Newcastle of this young woman fit in with the other missing-girl cases in...

The most famous case of Sherlock Holmes' extraordinary career pits the master detective against an ancient legend stalking a family into early and brutal deaths...Author: Arthur Conan DoyleISBN-10: 1517619904ISBN-13: 9781517619909Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/03/2015Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.38d

The next thrilling novel from the bestselling author of The Dispatcher.Author: Ryan David JahnISBN-10: 0230757553ISBN-13: 9780230757554Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2014Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d

A newly discovered grave in the Welsh countryside delivers messages from the dead in the twelfth Josephine Tey mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Jacqueline Winspear. London, 1941. In the aftermath of the Blitz, Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose supervises the transportation...

Author: Jane Loeb RubinISBN-13: 9798898202637Publisher: Level Best - HistoriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/09/2026Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

Author: Benedict BrownISBN-10: 8419162523ISBN-13: 9788419162526Publisher: Heathdene BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2026Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

Author: Darrel SparkmanISBN-13: 9798895672730Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2026Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.66d

Author: Scott HameleISBN-13: 9798295898006Publisher: Schuyler & Sons PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2026Pages: 462Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Author: Scott KikkawaISBN-10: 1943756155ISBN-13: 9781943756155Publisher: Bamboo Ridge PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2026Pages: 280Format: Paperback

Author: Lynn MorrisonISBN-10: 1917361521ISBN-13: 9781917361521Publisher: Marketing ChairLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2026Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d

Author: Kelly OliverISBN-10: 1836175744ISBN-13: 9781836175742Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2026Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Nathan Dylan GoodwinISBN-10: 1917797117ISBN-13: 9781917797115Publisher: Novel GuysLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2024Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.47d

It's December 1926, and all of England is enthralled by the disappearance of mystery novelist Agatha Christie. Miss Pippa Darling, her cousin and best friend Christopher Astley, and Christopher's cousin Crispin, the newly-minted Duke of Sutherland, get in on the action as they speculate,...

Author: Dana StabenowISBN-10: 1035916649ISBN-13: 9781035916641Publisher: Head of Zeus -- An Aries BookLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2026Pages: 272Format: Paperback

Artemis Bookbinder, an academic with an NYPD background, has an obsession for an unsolved case: the robbery of the Gardner Museum in Boston. A painting is found, alongside a very dead body. Artemis, a lifelong germophobe, must navigate the outbreak of the pandemic as...

"A new book by Elly Griffiths is always a cause of delight, and this series promises to broaden our horizons. Ali Dawson will capture readers' hearts." --Mick Herron Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to...

Tom Bracken was a good detective in Chicago. Good enough to know that if you're going to make enemies, you should do it spectacularly well or not at all.Which is how, in the winter of 1883, he finds himself exiled to Cypress Run, Florida:...

The Streets of London Rarely Bother to Hide Their Ugly Secrets...There's nothing new about soiled doves meeting a dirty end, but when society and its broadsheets sensationalize a string of brutal slayings attributed to a 'gentleman' they named Jack, the horrors just seem to...

" [Fredric Brown is] my favorite writer of all time." -- Mickey Spillane " [Ed & Am are] an engaging pair of detectives . . . [Brown is] a real pro-- a natural storyteller." -- New York Times Ed Hunter and his Uncle Am...

The sea remembers what humanity has forgotten. And now, the graves are open.You are Professor Erasmus Hartwell, a scholar of ancient languages at the infamous Miskatonic University. When violent storms erode the cliffs near the decaying seaport of Innsmouth, they expose something that should...

Set in post-WWII Paris, the wife of an American foreign correspondent stumbles on the body of her murdered classmate at culinary school and becomes tangled in a web that stretches from the halls of diplomacy to the city's underworld. Paris, 1949. It's been five...

Locked-room tension, unexpected inheritance, secret identities, and a sharp female sleuthing duo collide in this suspenseful Golden Age mystery set in storm-bound 1920s England. A fortune waits. So does a killer. When columnist Flo Hammond arrives at remote Standings House in the Cotswolds for...

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Experience timeless classics like never before in this Grand Type Collector's EditionWith clear, easy-to-read formatting, this edition is designed for readers who prefer or require larger text without sacrificing the excitement of the original.Large Print Features: 18-point font: Generously sized text for maximum readability...

Claude Monet, weary of painting haystacks and cathedrals and lily ponds, finally pursues his real passion: criminal investigation. And after two long months of waiting, he has his first case. He's called in to investigate the theft of two unremarkable paintings from Galerie Neuf...

"The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself." ― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage Of Human Bondage (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham renders the story of Philip Carey who is born with a club foot. He loses his parents at...

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During the miners' strike in the 1980s, a worker is killed in the striking coalfields of Wales. Some months later, a government minister thought to be connected with the death is also shot. Lewis Redfern--once a radical but now a political analyst and journalist--pursues...

Sure, Ron Green had made a mistake, but it wasn't one that millions of other guys hadn't made before him. And maybe he deserved some sort of punishment, like his wife leaving him or his kids hating his guts. But this? Being the main...

It's Passover. Gamaliel and his physician friend, Loukas, are crime-solving a third time--reluctantly. Pontius Pilate has been accused of murder. He denies the crime. If convicted, he might escape death but would be removed from Judea. Those rejoicing urge the Rabban to mind his...

Murder is unthinkable to The People--a Paleolithic tribe crossing Alaska. For The People, among the first undocumented immigrants to enter the Americas, murder isn't merely tragic, it's forbidden. Murder poisons the entire tribe and puts it at odds with nature, the Spirits, and the...

The child Judas, illegitimate offspring of a Jewish woman and a Roman soldier, struggles to understand his mother's god, a god who allows terrible things to happen to him and his family. Despairing, he becomes a survivor in the brutal streets of the first...

This gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane. New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan's hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time...

History remembers the voyages of Captain James Cook as triumphs of navigation and discovery. His journals chart new lands, record scientific wonders, and map oceans once thought impossible to cross.But journals are careful things.They record what must be known... and often leave unwritten what...

Author: S. M. KlassenISBN-10: 1967523029ISBN-13: 9781967523023Publisher: Hobbins & Donavon PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2021Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.55d

Author: Michael SinclairISBN-10: 1783243988ISBN-13: 9781783243983Publisher: Wordzworth PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2026Pages: 330Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Angela StrangerISBN-13: 9798235467415Publisher: Angela StrangerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2026Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d

Author: Leonard GoldbergISBN-10: 1250485150ISBN-13: 9781250485151Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2023Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 0.84d