Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Siskiyou: A True WesternWhen the federal marshal in Yreka is gunned down, Arthur Calkins has no choice but to pick up the badge he swore he'd buried forever.The town demands answers. The government demands blood. And the only man left to deliver justice is...

The Asylum (Series Prequel)The job presented to forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier, ought to have been simple and easy. But the surprise discovery of an additional marriage to his client's father leads Morton on an enquiry, revolving around a mysterious death in the county asylum....

Beyond the gilded ballrooms and salons of Regency London lurks a sinister web of intrigue and deception, and when a murder occurs within the scientific community, Lord Wrexford and Charlotte are the perfect pair to unravel it in USA Today bestselling author Andrea Penrose's...

Nothing disrupts an idyllic life like murder. When Philip and Marie Deflorette are unable to return to the United States after the Civil War, they become ensconced in England's high society. An introduction at a party to Lord Lytton, a statesman and bestselling novelist-lands...

A thrilling new series begins in 18th century London! Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor, S. G. MacLean, Michael Jecks and Laura Shepherd-Robinson. Augustus Swift is a man conflicted... 1795, London It is the age of the Enlightenment, yet political control is still firmly...

After one of her society friends sees a "ghost", Augusta Lockwood faces her most challenging investigation yet. Her efforts to unravel the truth behind the specter lead Augusta to delve into the shadowy world of séances and communications with the dead. At the same...

Every town has secrets. Some refuse to stay buried.In Moorestown, three-hundred-year-old oak trees shade the Colonial, Georgian, and Victorian mansions that whisper of forgotten histories. But when 16-year-old Parisol disappears, her best friend Lottie begins to see beyond the town's picture-perfect façade.With each clue...

As prosperity and great cultural changes sweep across 1920s Jazz Age America, Nola Ann Jackson learns more about developing her natural psychic talents from her aunt--talents that prove crucial when she investigates murder in her Black community--in this thrilling historical mystery written by a...

Bernice Chandler is a knight of the Order of Joan tasked with protecting the public from magical menaces. Today's mission: retrieve a Brownie No. 2 camera with unspecified arcane properties and return it to the Order for safekeeping. But another magical menace has appeared...

An ancient curse. A hidden treasure. A very modern murder... When Lady Cecily Ashcombe inherits the crumbling Ashcombe Hall, she vows to restore its lost beauty-even the overgrown Wild Garden whispered to be cursed. But when a treasure hunter turns up dead beneath the...

Cold rain falls endlessly, matching the striking carpenters' gloomy spirits as they walk the line. Their woe becomes terror when thugs thunder out the mill gate atop horses to club and ride down the men as they flee up the muddy road. From this...

It is a warm summer Saturday at 221B Baker Street, and Dr. Watson has very little planned for himself after a long week tending to the expanding list of patients his medical practice has brought to him, when a messenger comes dashing to the...

In a city of masks, no one is what they seem . . . Englishman Richard Hughes has survived a stint as a galley slave and is now a free man in Venice, where he enjoys a modest life as a fencing master. He...

When Augusta Lockwood and her friends form a society to investigate crime, they don't have long to wait before a murder falls into their laps. A disappearing gardener and the discovery of a gruesome crime scene launch a series of mysterious events that soon...

It only takes a few words to change the course of a life..."It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now." Cathy's immortal words had far-reaching repercussions. At just seventeen years of age, heartbroken and penniless, Heathcliff left behind all he knew and headed into...

As We Forgive Them (1904) is a mystery novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thrillers, As We Forgive Them is a story of espionage, mystery, and murder. Using his...

In this thrilling detective story, the mysterious Thunderbolt, a master of disguise and crime, embarks on a daring adventure to reclaim stolen wealth from corrupt financiers known as the "Big Six." With his valet Saggs by his side, the Thunderbolt navigates high-society intrigue, elaborate...

King Tut's Gold: Mystery of the Golden Water-Screw is historical fiction, written in the first person narrative. The main subject involves a 14 year old second year scribe, Ahmes-VI, who is invited to travel with his father, an irrigation engineer, to Nubia, the land...

Let Charlsie Russell spirit you away to eighteenth-century Spanish Natchez, where a young nation vies with an old for control of the Old Southwest and a haunted man fights for the love of a beautiful woman, threatened by an unknown evil. Gothic suspense against...

World War II has ended. The United States is locked in a Cold War with the Eastern Bloc. It's the time of mutually assured destruction, yet the atomic bomb isn't the only weapon to fear. And the Soviets have another enemy with whom to...

In Flanders in June 1917, a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his...

Author: Diane Wahn ShottonISBN-13: 9798999946515Publisher: Diane Wahn ShottonLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2025Pages: 292Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.66d

A string of deaths in the same bed at a hospital may mean murder! A nurse volunteers to spend the night in the bed to investigate..."[MURDER WITHOUT WEAPONS, by Means Davis is] an alternative classic that I wish I'd known about when I was...

1949. The Cold War is intensifying and rumours abound that the Russians are close to creating an atomic bomb. Beattie Cavendish, special operative for a covert section of GCHQ is sent to Scotland, to a listening station in the Highlands at Kilbray. Beattie's arrival...

On a quiet Sunday in 1955, three boys set out from their suburban homes to see a movie in downtown Chicago. They don't come home that night. Two days later their bodies are found in a local forest preserve. The brutal murders stun the...

Don't miss the next book in the enthralling new series from the number one bestselling author Santa Montefiore - coming soon! 'Santa Montefiore really knows these people inside and out. I couldn't put this book down' JULIAN FELLOWES, creator of Downton AbbeyThe moment Pixie...

In the shadowed halls of power and madness, only the bold dare search for the truth.1890's Melbourne. In the flickering gaslight of Victoria Parliament's inner chambers, a prized symbol of government-the ceremonial Mace-disappears following a night of decadent indulgence involving parliamentarians and officials. Lady...

Dark secrets. Perplexing murders. A tangled puzzle.Leeds, 1826. Thieftaker Simon Westow is watching Frederick Fox - a local crook who recently returned to Leeds with his wife after receiving a mysterious pardon from the gallows. With the help of his assistants, Jane and Sally,...

Mixing Mystery and Romance in a Fizzy 1930s Cocktail!A high-society summer. A missing ring. A romance put to the test.Henrietta Von Harmon thought accepting Inspector Clive Howard's proposal was the hard part-until she discovers he's heir to a North Shore fortune and she's expected...

The cards are stacked against her, but she's never been one to fold.July, 1852. As the Fugitive Slave Act tightens its grip on the young nation, whispers of abolitionist activity ripple through Cape May.Widowed and savvy, Jeannine Holt is the hostess and owner of...

A gripping 1930s-set whodunnit and love letter to Golden Age crime, this sequel to A Queer Case features amateur sleuth Selby Bigge, who must solve a murder at Lady Malcolm's Servants' Ball in London's Royal Albert Hall. Perfect for fans of Nicola Upson's Josephine...

Sam Monroe thought his steamy love affair with Manhattan socialite Laura Nielson was dead and buried, but when she didn't show up after unexpectedly calling him late at night and asking to meet, he decides to investigate. He finds her naked on her penthouse...

Author: Andrew GrossISBN-10: 1250445299ISBN-13: 9781250445292Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2019Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.50h x 4.13w x 1.15d

Lose yourself in the pages of this thrilling Victorian murder mystery! For fans of Sherlock Holmes, Anne Perry, Elizabeth Peters and Victoria Thompson. The truth hurts, but secrets kill... 1896, England Seeing an easy way to pay off her debts, Julia McAllister takes in...

Julia McAllister returns in another Victorian murder mystery! For fans of Sherlock Holmes, Anne Perry, Elizabeth Peters and Victoria Thompson. Julia must unravel a sinister case from the past... 1895, London When Austin Forbes is shot dead, Julia McAllister is called upon in her...

Late 14th Century Wales. Trouble is brewing, but isn't it always?The Bishop of Draychester is missing a very expensive barrel of Gascony wine. A gift for the new king, stolen from the port of Tenby in the English stronghold of South Pembrokeshire. It's a...

This is a fictional biography of the German self-taught archaeologist, Max von Oppenheim, who discovered the ruins of the ancient city of Guzana at Tell Halaf in Syria at the dawn of the twentieth century.The consuming passion for archaeology makes this heir of an...

A killer is stalking the backstreets of Rome. Newborn babies are being snatched at night. A small boy is abandoned.Five slave women have been murdered on Market Day. With insurrection bubbling, the authorities don't have the resources (or the inclination) to follow up.In the...

CHARTER FOR MURDER - A TALE OF MYSTERY IN THE MONASTERY Set in the months leading up to the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, CHARTER FOR MURDER is a fast-paced murder 'who-done-it' where the victims are monks from Winchester's Hyde Abbey and the mystery is...

A young man returns to London from the family plantation in the Caribbean after an absence of six years to be at his father's deathbed - and to inherit his estate. But is the new arrival who he says he is, or an impostor?...

London, November 3rd, 1881. A young woman slips through the curtains of fog down Pendy Corner, to the 26th house in the row. She vacillates at the gate. For past that sullen door, she must seek the help of the distinctively eccentric and impatient...

The Society for Single Ladies is a crime-solving club founded by the wealthiest woman in London. Yet even Miss Angela Childers' charming detectives are not immune to the forces of love . . . Dorothea Rowland attends a country house party to investigate a...

Dado (Dado) grew up as a Viking princess in late 1100 AD. Her vicious Viking tribe, the Omkana's, reside along the northern shores of the Baltic Sea. Dado's world suddenly changes when her brutal and scheming father reveals the plan he had for her...

A professor's dismissal, a boxer's death, and a widow's secrets. Can Vita Carew solve the mystery? In 1903 England, Vita Carew's dreams of studying at Cambridge are shattered by a dismissive professor. But Vita's intellect proves invaluable after her brother and a visiting American...

Step back in time to 18th-century London with Charles Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge," a compelling work of historical fiction interwoven with mystery. This meticulously prepared edition brings to life a gripping narrative set against the backdrop of social upheaval. Explore the world of locksmiths and...

"I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant." --Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal The first in the delightful new mystery series set in the hidden heart of London's legal world--now in paperback. When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms...

Is nowhere safe in York? As the plague wreaks havoc on the city, Owen Archer must solve a puzzle involving scandal, theft, and murder sweeping through a local hospital. York, 1369. As pestilence rages through the city of York, strange things are afoot at...

The bizarre murder of one of Queen Charlotte's ladies-in-waiting rocks English society and pulls Kendra Donovan into her most dangerous mystery yet.September 1816-Kendra has finally made it to the altar with Alec, the Marquis of Sutcliffe. Unfortunately, their plans for a honeymoon in Venice...

Nate Towne and his sister Elsie serve the Boston Arena as manager and publicist. Their skill sets are challenged in February 1916 when the Arena receives letters and phone calls that seem to link gamblers with a mysterious and violent gang. Tensions and death...

In this issueFollow cover artist Akem's Selfie into myth and mystery with 'The Tales of Fanon and Gavroche' by feature author Renée Sarojini Saklikar.Make connections over seemingly impossible gulfs with 'Downwelling' by D Marmara and 'M4R1NR' by Mike Carson, and discover what the nighttime...