Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

"Sharing lodging in the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva has eased some of the financial strain on Beryl and Edwina, but money is still tight in the lean years following the Great War ... So when the local vicar--and pigeon-racing club president--approaches them...

The gardens of Ranleigh are delightful in the summer - just the place to fall in love, or fall over a dead body. When Lady Althea accompanies her sister-in law, Jane, to a house party at Ranleigh, she hopes it will be a welcome...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Holly Hepburn's page-turning Baker Street Mystery series'When did you become aware something was wrong?''When the screaming began...'Harriet White is no stranger to odd correspondence. Ensconced in the basement of the Baker Street building society, her job is to reply...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Holly Hepburn's page-turning Baker Street Mystery series'When did you become aware something was wrong?''When the screaming began...'Harriet White is no stranger to odd correspondence. Ensconced in the basement of the Baker Street building society, her job is to reply...

Author: Kevin W. RyanISBN-13: 9798892217750Publisher: Fulton BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2024Pages: 138Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Dinesh DeckkerISBN-13: 9798339616849Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2024Pages: 134Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

Author: Grace CallawayISBN-10: 1960956264ISBN-13: 9781960956262Publisher: Colchester & PageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/19/2024Pages: 366Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.82d

This is the story of two ordinary people, Emma, a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital in London and Roger, a police detective.Emma and Roger live through extraordinary times and confront unimaginable hardship. It is an inspirational story that will transport you back to 1939,...

A killer dressed as a plague doctor is prowling London's docks.Able seaman Humphrey Wilkes is dead, shot between the eyes by the murderer known as the Plague Doctor. When Samuel Pepys's naval colleague, Robert Drake, finds a black cross daubed on his door, it...

A completely gripping cozy mystery story, perfect for fans of Verity BrightWhen a pantomime turns deadly, Iris investigates a cast of killers...Christmas, 1923. When reporter Iris Woodmore is sent to cover the Prince of Wales' visit to historic Winchester, she discovers more than just...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE"With its earthy prose and stunning attention to detail, this stands apart." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Very intriguing and atmospheric ... a fascinating read in the light of contemporary events." -Alexander McCall Smith, Bestselling Author of The No. 1...

Fourteen stories, all in classic style, introduce Holmes to new clients with strange and quirky problems. Clues to a fortune are hidden in a ludicrous painting, a modern mummy walks, and a novel tourist attraction holds the key to why an unattractive lady is...

August 1901: A fundraiser for a new Rhode Island Audubon Society brings Emma to Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, wife of Vice President Theodore Roosevelt. Listening to the speakers and...

There's no crying in baseball.But there is murder.And when the World Series is fought between two teams both from New York City, millions of dollars are bet.And lives are at risk.When a young man from the Yankees and a young woman from the Giants...

Poison. Power. Peril.Discover the Dark Side of the Decade That Roared.What killed the infamous flapper Rosalie Frazier? And was gay speakeasy owner Dash Parker's booze to blame?These are the burning questions in Dash's mind as he is forced to team up with an unusual,...

A spy thriller classic, soon to be a major motion picture starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitriona Balfe, and Laurence Fishburne Before Robert Littell vaulted onto the bestseller lists with his New York Times bestselling CIA novel The Company, The Amateur established him as...

Love Abounds and Abounds and Abounds is the second novel in a three-part Pride and Prejudice variation mystery romance series. It is centered on the Bennet family and the Darcy family and the Matlock brothers and their cousin Anne. There is love and romance...

A bold, unique sequel to Mary Shelley's classic work of literature from the author of Dracula's Child and The City of Dr Moreau. "He was soon borne away by the waves, and lost in darkness and distance." There are those who would swear that...

Will Our Thoroughbreds Ever Race is a Pride and Prejudice Mystery/Romance. Once again Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy find love while solving a crime together. This time the mystery centers around a series of thoroughbred horse thefts, which turn very personal when both Mr....

674 AD. Werburgh, great-niece of the Abbess of Ely, travels by night to save the abbey's treasure under a wayside cross in the kingdom of Lindsey.A cryptic inscription on the back indicates the location of the magnificent gold and garnet treasure. Becoming a family...

West to Donegal Bay takes the reader on a mystical adventure to two Irish islands - Arranmore in Ireland and Beaver Island in America. It is a story of a young man without a family, who retreats within, only to be thrust into a...

Following the murder of a chief 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad - the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom - Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the entire Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of the crime. It's up to Benjamin...

When the body of a mysterious Englishman is found floating in New Orleans' New Basin Canal, Benjamin January uncovers a link to another unsolved murder in Paris nine years before. Now he must unravel the earlier murder in order to solve this second killing....

Why would elderly Gerhard Uxkull concoct a tale of Nazi atrocity on the remote island of Delphi, off the coast of Donegal? And why now, just when Irish-American billionaire Shay Govern has tendered for a prospecting licence for gold in the area? When a...

When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge, set on by an angry mob, she assumes involvement with her will be brief. She has no idea that the woman, alone but for her infant child, brings both mystery and peril. Then...

1838. When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - claims to have found the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January refuses to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, a place full of dangers. But others...

Author: Tj O'ConnorISBN-10: 1685127584ISBN-13: 9781685127589Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

Author: Tj O'ConnorISBN-10: 1685127614ISBN-13: 9781685127619Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Tj O'ConnorISBN-10: 168512755XISBN-13: 9781685127558Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d

Author: Robert McCammonISBN-10: 1941971377ISBN-13: 9781941971376Publisher: Lividian PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 456Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.02d

Author: Bruce AlexanderISBN-10: 0425171205ISBN-13: 9780425171202Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1999Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 6.79h x 4.23w x 1.20dReview Citation(s): Ingram Paperback Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 28

He took on Sherlock Holmes and lost. Now he wants revenge. In 1888, Sherlock Holmes slayed the spectral hound haunting the Devonshire moor, thereby laying to rest the curse of the Baskervilles once and for all. The perpetrator escaped into the night and was...

Author: Jeanne M. DamsISBN-10: 1448314771ISBN-13: 9781448314775Publisher: Severn HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 240Format: Hardcover

American expat Tabitha Knight has found a new life in postwar Paris, along with a delightful friend in aspiring chef Julia Child. Yet there are perils in peacetime too, as a killer infiltrates one of the city's most famous fashion houses. If there's one...

Living in Greece at the turn of the twentieth century, widow Minnie Harper struggles to find her place in a swiftly changing world. But when a local woman is murdered, her resolve is put to the test in a race to shed light on...

Author: Jefferson GlassISBN-10: 1639775455ISBN-13: 9781639775453Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 346Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d

First in a dazzling new historical mystery series featuring Ruby Proulx, a psychic with a questionable past who suddenly finds her future most uncertain... Canada, 1898. The only life Ruby Proulx has ever known is that of a nomad, traveling across the country with...

Author: Kate KhavariISBN-13: 9798892420426Publisher: Crooked Lane BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbs

On the eve of World War II, an expatriate detective living in England receives an invitation to a mysterious party in Luxembourg. The guests are all men he's never met before. The host is an enigmatic Swiss banker whose name he encountered in a...

Based on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone--and no one--seemed to know.At the start of a new century, a shocking...

Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. John Watson return in forty-one new classic pastiche adventures. Spanning Holmes's career, the tales chronicle adventures that are by turns whimsical, mysterious, and dangerous. In Part 1, Tales of Light, Holmes is presented with quirky clients and...

Author: Paul ColtISBN-10: 1633739864ISBN-13: 9781633739864Publisher: Hat CreekLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d

'Off the Rock - Escaping Alcatraz' by award-winning author Tom McAuliffe is a gripping narrative that delves into one of the most legendary prison escapes in history. In 1962, three inmates-Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin-achieved the impossible by breaking out of...

No woman in Hell's Kitchen is as tough as Battle Annie. Known as the sweetheart of the notorious Gopher gang, Annie makes a living as a brick hurler and brawler, always working for the highest bidder during the railroad strikes of the 1890s. An...

A victim of exclusionary sexism at the nation's top technology institutes, a pioneering computer scientist is called home to deal with the mysterious death of her father, a steel mill superintendent in Youngstown, Ohio.Returning to her industrial hometown, she is reunited with her college...

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...

These stories are all set after the events of Narrelle M Harris' The Adventure of the Colonial Boy. The collection begins with "The Swordmaster's Secret", a few months after Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson return to London in 1894. The two men, newly...

1958 San Francisco: Beatniks, Eisenhower, Fillmore District jazz and Major League baseball. As Mayor George Christopher fights an influx of organized crime and redevelopment begins to transform the city, racial and political tensions rise when a Black real estate magnate is murdered.Kay Schiffner is...

People are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew he would never leave his beloved pet. So I...

Responding to an urgent plea from a troubled family friend, the Earl of Wrexford journeys to Oxford only to find the reclusive university librarian has been murdered and a rare manuscript has gone missing. The only clue is that someone overheard an argument in...