Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Hewey Calloway, Elmer Kelton's favorite footloose cowboy, has always been known to have a generous nature, readily giving to those in need. Time has finally mellowed Hewey and given him some wisdom that was lacking in his youth, but deep down, he's still the...

London, 1928. Lucy Darkwether has always made her own rules. After breaking off her engagement to pursue a degree in Ancient History, she's now the proud owner of London's newest antiquarian bookshop. So when a rival shop in Cecil Court is chosen to host...

Society in England is most unforgiving of a reversal of fortune, as Miss Caroline Morton, left penniless after her father's suspicious death, knows all too well. Once a lady, now a lady's companion, she is still enmeshed in the settling of the earl's estate--and...

Edinburgh, 1948. Welfare Officer Helen Crowther has enough on her plate between her hectic job, her complicated love life, and her growing reputation as a troublemaker. Last year's scandal did nothing to help with the disapproval she already gets as a woman in her...

May 1942. Thousands of American GIs are stationed across eastern England building airfields to bomb Germany. Cambridge is a 'liberty town' - a hot spot for 'Yanks' on leave. DI Eden Brooke is called to the aerodrome five miles east of the city when...

Her visions stopped. The murders didn't. Can she piece together the clues in time? Grief-stricken after Vera's death, Connie has left dreamwalking behind. But as World War II casts its shadow over England, secrets brew beneath the surface of sleepy Cornwall--and Crossley, the rogue...

Accused of a crime she didn't commit, Connie flees Cornwall in despair. But with Oliver Fox's help, she begins an independent life, complete with a fledgling romance. Connie's new world looks promising until she finds herself embroiled in yet another murder. Worse still, Felix...

Her dreams reveal everything, yet she's powerless to change what's coming. Connie Maxwell has a secret. Though broken in body, her spirit runs free. Dreamwalking might be useful if only she could control it. But it's one thing roaming the Cornish Coast and quite...

CHASE BAKER IS ON THE HUNT FOR THE GREATEST RELIC IN HISTORY! New York Times and USA Today bestselling Thriller Award winning author Vincent Zandri takes you into the world of of acclaimed Suspense Magazine Award winning Chase Baker action/adventure series, starting with the...

Pollard & Toye return for another village mystery! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. Expect the unexpected... The peace of the sleepy English town of Ramsden is disturbed when a corpse is discovered in highly peculiar...

Once more the unbeatable brains of Pollard & Toye are called in to investigate! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. All that glitters is not gold... The sleepy English village of Ambercombe is scandalised when an...

A classic cosy mystery from a master of the genre! Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, M C Beaton, Sophie Hannah and Faith Martin. How do you solve a village murder when everyone is under suspicion...? 1966, Rural England Shockwaves are sent through the...

David Donachie sails into a breach in the naval line, firing as he bears, with an exciting twist on the chronicles of the Age of Fighting Sail. Blending seagoing adventure with the mystery and twists of a whodunit, his Privateersman Mysteries series re-invents the...

BOOK 3 IN A GRIPPING SUPERNATURAL MYSTERY SERIES BASED ON TRUE CRIMES I don't know who I am, but he does - and he's coming for me. Connie's life is a mystery, her background unknown, her future unclear. Desperate for knowledge, she uses her...

Will Morvoren and Uxio discover a killer or a vengeful ghost? With the approach of the Samhain festival to honour the dead, the captain of a merchant ship tells Morvoren an eerie tale of a voyage plagued by misfortune, illness and death, wanting her,...

David Field is back with a brand new Victorian mystery series! Perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Emily Organ, Anne Perry and Robin Paige... Should you be afraid of the dead - or the living? London, 1892 Over two hundred years ago, in 1665,...

It's another mysterious case for Dr Carlyle and Matthew West! Perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Andrew Taylor, Anne Perry and Robin Paige... Is someone stealing children from London's East End...? London, 1893 When doctor James Carlyle attends a show at a local circus...

Dr Carlyle and Matthew West are joined by Adelaide and Inspector Jennings in another mystery! Perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Andrew Taylor, Anne Perry and Robin Paige... Has the Ripper returned to haunt London...? London, 1895 Matthew and Adelaide West are now happily...

"If you love Sherlock Holmes, you'll love Chantecoq!" In 1920s France, the king of detectives takes on a new batch of baffling cases in a series of traditional crime adventure thrillers.Hero? Or scoundrel?Jacques Moret is the dashing man of the hour: a fearless flying...

X Snow White is dead. IX Someone has put a pickaxe through her head. VIII Her father, the disgraced King Johannes Wynpenny, vows to hunt down her murderer. VII But then others die-more beloved fairy tale characters-and now it's clear that a deranged killer...

A self-made man set on revenge, and a beautiful heiress-stunned by the magnetism that neither wants to acknowledge-attempt to bridge the gulf between tradesman and nobility. Without ruining each other. Wealthy importer Blake Edison will stop at nothing to destroy the Duke of Somerset-the...

In 1952, a young newspaper reporter believes her father is dying of an unexplained illness.The doctors have no answers. His sudden collapse defies diagnosis. Yet in moments of delirium, he speaks of events from fifty years earlier-of a precise date, of people long dead,...

What could Morag have known that got her brutally murdered? When Ishbel agrees to help her lady's maid discover why a childhood friend was killed, she approaches Ewan to end the estrangement between them. Unwilling to let her face danger alone, Ewan agrees to...

Face Down O'er the Border is the tenth and final novel in the Face Down mystery series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth. The border of the title is the one between England and Scotland. In 1577, Susanna receives word that...

Doc.' Gordon, is many of the old books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text...

A difficult problem, a city's quietest secrets, and a detective mind that refuses to surrender. Anna Katharine Green's classic unfolds as a meticulous study in deduction, where a seemingly ordinary case erupts into a layered moral dilemma. The novel blends the suspense of victorian...

A crisp, urgent invitation to walk the fog-wreathed streets of elm grove again. A tale that feels both freshly unnerving and proudly old-world, The Detective's Clew: The Tragedy Of Elm Grove draws you into a turn-of-the-century America where a keen mind untangles danger from...

Captured by the enemy during World War Two, Percy Crow escapes in the bilges of a freighter from Soviet Russia to Hamburg.There, he sells his secrets to the head of British Intelligence. But when Lord Maudlin Paterson hears Percy's account of the royal family's...

Two women at opposite ends of the social scale, both brutally murdered. Principal Officer Dan Foster of the Bow Street Runners is surprised when his old rival John Townsend requests his help to investigate the murder of Louise Parmeter, a beautiful writer who once...

Jewels and treasures hold no worth when held against the lives of loved ones. Though thrilled to adventure again, the Countess of Archewyne worries their unexpected trip to India will delay her first official mission as a new king's agent. But when Emmaline is...

Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks straight into a mystery when one day a fire starts in one of the upper rooms of his house and she...

Berlin, September 1948: the first great skirmish of the Cold War. Fearing that Washington and London are planning to establish a separate western German state, Stalin has ordered the Red Army to close all land routes into the city from the west in an...

Paris. Early Summer, 1789. A desperate man stalks his faithless wife, but all he achieves is getting his own throat cut.This is the first of a series of murders as Paris explodes into the French Revolution. The Eighth Prisoner is a Standalone Historical Crime...

Amid the chaos of World War II, alliances are tested, secrets are buried, and survival comes at a steep price. Between the Hunters & the Hunted is a masterfully crafted historical thriller that plunges readers into the heart of wartime espionage, political maneuvering, and...

When one of Edward VI's council members is poisoned, Elizabeth fears a plot against her brother the king. Her fears worsen when whispers surface that she herself is responsible. With no one she can turn to at the palace, she asks her old friend...

In a throwback to the literary era of Mike Hammer and Shell Scott, Denver private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where the women are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips, and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. So when...

The healing waters of the Solomon Spring hold no miracle cure for murder... - A child custody battle turns deadly on a windswept winter prairie in 1878. - A man begins a quixotic search for lost love in an effort to mend his shattered...

Undaunted is the coming of age story of Stan Turner and how he came to be a criminal defense attorney. When he was very young in the 50's growing up in Southern California he always loved to go to the county fair. One year...

Sheffield, England, 1912. When a mute criminal known as 'the Street Arab' is taken into custody, police call on court missionary, Robert Elliott, to try and unravel the enigma. With the help of Mary O' Driscoll, a sharply perceptive nurse, Elliott reveals the prisoner...

A PAST WELL HIDDEN...At a reunion of Spitfire pilots from the Battle of Britain, Georgia and Peter Marsh discover that a murder, as yet unsolved, took place in the 1970s, and make it their mission to uncover the truth of the matter.The victim was...

DELAMAR, NEVADA, 1907THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR IS OVER BUT A NEW CONFLICT IS RAGINGacross the western United States. Wealthy mine owners and their political allies in CrippleCreek, Colorado, and Butte, Montana, have paid for state and private armies to brutallysuppress striking miners, so when a...

In The Dangers for Spies, a former double agent's past causes present dangers.Once the toast of Paris, Eugenie DesChamps lives in a bucolic English village, paints landscapes, and flirts with Charles Audley, a secretive cryptographer for the British government.Eight years ago Eugenie courted danger...

SHANGHAI, 1937. Someone has killed the Yellow Swan Who murdered that beautiful, beguiling, erotic half-Japanese, half-Chinese nightclub singer with whom all of Shanghai is enthralled.Was it one of her jealous lovers? Was it the nearby, hovering Japanese military who thought she was a spy...

...That fog mixed with smoke, the stench of burning, the smell of blood, sweat, and urine, the scent of death. Was that God's intention? Rogier was holding his sword, shaking from exhaustion, and painfully breathing. The ground around him was soaked with blood. His...

"[A] delightful hot toddy of a winter's read." --LA TIMES It was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes in this delightful Dickensian romp, with the canonical author teaming up with a famous upstart to solve a devilish murder. In Victorian...

A chilling locked-room mystery! Impossible for the murderer to escape...yet, he did.Powerful officials conspire against Chief Bucky's attempt to solve the case, including the KKK, whose members particularly resent Bucky's friend, Charlotte, a Harvard-educated "Negro" lawyer. When they drag her off to a hanging--her...

New York is paralyzed by a string of bizarre murders-victims dropping dead without a mark, as if struck by an invisible force. As panic spreads, only Prince Zarkon and his elite Omega team have the skills to trace the killings to their sinister origin....

An intruder has broken into Pendywick Place, attempting to steal back Victoria's torn page. This spurs Basil and Victoria to strike up an alliance with Lord Fred Brody and his siblings-and it sweeps them to the bustling city of Bath in pursuit of the...

Steampunk. Mystery. Romance. She will do anything to retrieve her memories, even if it means crossing the galaxy. Felicity is a young lady betrothed to a British noble of rank and fortune who will someday inherit a space station. Her life should be happy...

Renaissance artist, Roberto Robertini, and his young apprentice Felicia, are forced to leave Florence in a hurry. They think themselves lucky to find passage on a ship bound for England, unintentionally becoming passengers number 12 - and unlucky 13. The passage is made unpleasant...