Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

The most dramatic installment yet in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost and Parker series, as Will scrambles to solve a shocking murder before Lillian takes the fall for the crime. NEW YORK CITY, 1947: Wealthy financier and ghoulish connoisseur of crime, Jessup Quincannon, is dead,...

Clive and Henrietta return for Christmas!Clive and Henrietta (and baby, Teddy!) return to Highbury to spend Christmas with the family. Clive's mother, Antonia, schemes to increase her social standing at her club by introducing the pair during the annual Christmas ball as the newly...

After solving the mystery behind the Beast of Blindburn, Agrippina Greystone is asked by her friend Richard to accompany him to Essex and uncover who-or what-is tormenting his uncle, Eugene Bolten. Plagued by whispers and the ghostly apparition of a woman in black, Richard's...

A CITY'S SOUL HANGS IN THE BALANCE AS A KILLER'S WRATH IS UNLEASHED Kansas City - 1893On the cusp of the 20th century, as Kansas City transforms from a lawless frontier boomtown into a burgeoning metropolis called the "Paris of the Plains", the city's...

Movies, action and excitementSisters Jean and Merle Cooper have limited time to change the direction of their lives. A scandal and police pursuit force them on the road to Hollywood California in 1913. Hollywood is bustling with people; movies are being made and Jean...

Movies, action and excitementSisters Jean and Merle Cooper have limited time to change the direction of their lives. A scandal and police pursuit force them on the road to Hollywood California in 1913. Hollywood is bustling with people; movies are being made and Jean...

The novel takes the reader into the world of 1870, from the seamier side of London to the palace of Queen Victoria. Charles Dickens struggles to complete his last novel while in the throes of an amorous liaison, all the while people are plotting...

The kingdom teeters on a knife edge, and one man would throw it into chaos...Autumn, 1379. The power of the crown is invested in John of Gaunt, and the kingdom is seething with discontent. The French are attacking the southern ports and the peasants...

Desperate times lead to hasty vows . . . A gripping historical mystery of secrets and romance - perfect for fans of Eve Chase, Louise Douglas and Tracy Rees.'Expertly researched, vividly drawn, and so much fun! Five fabulous stars from me' JENNI KEER on...

Opportunity for Evil is the second book in a trilogy with C. E. Hall as a fire investigator and FBI consultant. The local fire chief has called C.E. Hall to investigate the cause of a small fire in a print shop. When a body...

Florence, 1553. An assassin sent by Arma Dei disappears into the night, with him a collection of heretical art and writings.For five centuries the satchel, containing sketches and writings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and many others, is pursued by kings, popes, princes, and...

In London, 1666, drinking coffee can get you killed...The case of Samuel Pepys's missing pocket watch escalates rapidly when Eustace Blount, poet, satirist and wit, is found murdered in Rose's Coffee House on The Strand.Blount was a prig, a poseur and a parliamentarian -...

"Anyone who hasn't discovered Phryne Fisher by now should start making up for lost time." --BooklistPhryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things--dancing to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers at the Green Mill, Melbourne's premier dance hall. And she's wearing a sparkling...

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining...

In this debut mystery, DCI Lilian Wyles, the first woman detective chief inspector in the CID, is determined to find a killer with the help of the four queens of crime, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham, perfect for fans...

Ready for a trip to the sun-soaked French Riviera? But beware-this "sunny place for shady people" hides dark secrets. In The Riviera Mystery, Marjorie Swallow and Mrs. Jameson embark on a dream vacation aboard the famous Blue Train, only to be swept into a...

In the inner sanctum of an elite 1960's boarding school, boys test their boundaries and class when they welcome an outsider.One New England boys' boarding school, a bastion of the WASP aristocracy, has been holding out stubbornly against pressure to diversify. Grudgingly, St. Philip's...

A decade after the destructive eruption, Flavia Albia finds herself investigating family secrets and possible crimes buried in the ash of Mount Vesuvius.In first century Rome, Flavia Albia--daughter and successor to Marcus Didius Falco--is once again faced with uncovering the truth. Quite literally. Only...

Verona, Wisconsin, June 2000. A farmer vanishes in a hayfield and a driverless tractor rumbles down a country road.The farmer is not the first to disappear in the field, so rumors abound. As days pass, the police lose interest, believing the man ran away...

A shocking event.And an uncertain future.Veronica Vale prides herself on being logical and adaptable. But when sometime friend and often thorn in her side, Inspector Jacob Templeton, is grievously injured, she discovers unresolved feelings that refuse to leave her alone. Pesky feelings.Dealing with her...

Author: Iris JohansenISBN-10: 1250378745ISBN-13: 9781250378743Publisher: St. Martin's GriffinLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2016Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.78d

In this fascinating historical thriller, a British journalist (and former spy) is adrift in McCarthy-era Los Angeles--until his research into a wartime conspiracy brings him face-to-face with the perilous instability of a post-Stalin Berlin. John Russell, an English journalist who specializes in human-interest pieces,...

London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is the first woman to hold the position at University College of London. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition to the Amazon....

They thought they knew the meaning of sacrifice. But the hardest choice is yet to come. Sugar heiress Leilani Manolo and French wine maker Aristide Laurent defied death and found magnetic attraction during a turbulent San Francisco winter, but accepted a future together wasn't...

'Gooden may be the best history-mystery writer going.' Booklist London 1874. Newlyweds Tom and Helen Ansell attend a London seance at which Ernest Smight, a fraudulent medium, is unmasked. It's good preparation for a visit to the city of Durham, where Helen is tasked...

A Postmodern re-imagining of the Great Detective as a traumatized polymath and an Indian doctor. Charlotte Holmes & Dr Watan investigate a new courtesan who may be a Maharaja's illegitimate daughter and Branwell stumbles upon a plot to assassinate the new King. Loyalties are...

Ben Bones, Genealogical Consultant and Articulator of Family Skeletons, has been contacted to trace and claim a Confederate soldier's Civil War pension and an expected 150 years of accrued interest.Sounds like another simple research job. But it's never as simple on the inside as...

"Margaret Starling wasn't the sort of woman anyone expected to be murdered. She was on the advisory board of the London Angel Alms Society, she was an active member of St. Peter's Church, and, best of all, she was always willing to lend a...

When poison fells an arrogant and rude businessman in public, Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon both realize they are looking for a deranged maniac in this all new installment in the beloved Victorian Mystery series On a cold night in February, the popular Lighterman's...

Lord Westfield's Men, the most successful troupe in London and a prime target for jealousy and resentment, are plagued by a series of practical jokes. But when one of their actors is murdered, the humour turns distinctly sour. Appalling events continue: Lawrence Firethorn, actor-manager,...

Lucius Dixon sat alone in a wooden straight back chair on the third floor of the law library at the University of Virginia. In a few moments, he would be faced with the first of many decisions that could lead to his immersion in...

Author: Karen EngstromISBN-10: 1964354021ISBN-13: 9781964354026Publisher: Salty Books Publishing Company, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2024Pages: 330Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.74d

Captain Jim Agnihotri and Lady Diana Framji return to India as they investigate a murder amidst colonial Bombay's complex hierarchy in March's fourth mystery. In 1894 colonial India, Lady Diana's family has lost their fortune in a global financial slump, but even worse, her...

Author: Jefferson GlassISBN-10: 1639775471ISBN-13: 9781639775477Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2024Pages: 348Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d

Death at a Highland Wedding is the fourth installment in New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's gripping Rip Through Time Novels. After slipping 150 years into the past, modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson has embraced her new life in Victorian Scotland as housemaid...

"This sublimely nerve-racking tale takes hold and never lets go." - Kirkus ReviewsSomething always has to die for something greater to be born.Surrounded by family secrets, suspicious deaths, and her own repressed memories, fifteen year-old Clara Willenheim lives as a prisoner in her ancestral...

Be careful what you wish for . . . Introducing Hollywood script supervisor Evelyn Galloway, who's drawn into a murder investigation after landing her dream job on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. 1939, Los Angeles. Evelyn Galloway can't believe her luck! On her first...

Summer, 1969, Davison City Minnesota. Best friends Beth and Evie, both age thirty, are helping to convert a closed movie theater, The Majestic, into a live theater, when a local radio shock jock and farmer, Vern Cedar, steps into the scene. He gets into...

When students of St Ignatius go missing, painter and amateur sleuth Georgia O'Keeffe must infiltrate the school to figure out what's going on in this thrilling historical mystery set in 1930s New Mexico from multi award-winning author Kathryn Lasky. New Mexico, 1936. Settling in...

On February 27, 1903, Buffalo residents awakened to the shocking headlines that Ed Burdick, the wealthy manufacturer, was found brutally murdered in the den of his home. The generous young father of three was at the center of a lurid scandal involving Buffalo's young...

Author: Julie WestonISBN-10: 164599581XISBN-13: 9781645995814Publisher: Encircle Publications, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2024Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d

Author: G. R. PidgeonISBN-10: 1917449232ISBN-13: 9781917449236Publisher: Bloodhound BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/29/2024Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.65d

Author: Darrel SparkmanISBN-10: 1639773401ISBN-13: 9781639773404Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/26/2024Pages: 294Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.73d

Author: Laurie R. KingISBN-10: 0593496612ISBN-13: 9780593496619Publisher: BantamLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.19w x 0.63d

Welcome to Hollywood of the 1920s: a world filled with glamour, fake names . . . and the occasional felony! July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beautiful silent-movie star sister-in-law, young British widow Emma...

Author: Harriet F. TownsonISBN-10: 1399731513ISBN-13: 9781399731515Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2025Pages: 304Format: Paperback

I'm the eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet. Yes, that Romeo and Juliet. No, they didn't die in the tomb. They're alive and well and living in fair Verona with their six wildly impetuous children and me, their nineteen-year-old daughter Rosaline... "Fun, funny, charming,...

The horrors linger beyond the castle walls...When Detective Charles Maddox is requested to look into the mysterious Baron Von Reisenberg, he welcomes the chance to trade London streets for a castle in the Viennese countryside.Though the Baron is the subject of macabre legends, Maddox...

Author: S. C. PerkinsISBN-10: 1250385008ISBN-13: 9781250385000Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/28/2020Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.38w x 0.79d

She headed west looking for adventure. Love was never part of the plan... Clarissa Ferguson refuses to become a socialite and marry someone just to appease her mother. She craves more out of life. So, when she sees an advertisement for female Pinkerton agents,...