Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Sherlock Holmes British Detective Series - Historical British Murder Mysteries Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson continue to delight readers with this mystery collection of short stories. As Watson relates the crime thrillers you'll find yourself being drawn in and becoming part of the adventures...

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo (1921) is a thriller by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thrillers, Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo is a story of mystery, murder, and international crime. Using his...

How far would YOU go to bring back a lost love? Alchemy is a chilling historical tale of mystery, murder and suspense and reveals an extraordinary decade in the life of a talented, sweet young and innocent genius, as he transforms into a monster....

"Greenwood fans will welcome her thoughtful second reinterpretation of a well-known Greek myth. Among Greenwood's other talents, she displays a gift for writing songs of the period." --Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewIn this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood's Delphic Women series, Greenwood...

From Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author, Katherine Webb, The English Girl is perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies, Kate Morton and Santa Montefiore. In a land full of secrets, you can make your own rules. Joan Seabrook has fulfilled her lifelong dream to...

This mystery novel, set in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the 1940s, involves Nazi spies, suspicious priests, malingering mailmen, and an entire cult of followers of the cowboy star Tom Mix. The action centers around the Ideal Cafe in Price Hill; the protagonist is a mild-mannered...

Paco LeSoto, a dapper detective, and Molly Mesta, a witty housekeeper/cook, team up as an endearing pair of sleuths.They encounter murder and mayhem among the residents of Black Rain Corners, a quaint Maryland town on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. A million-dollar painting...

BOOK #1 in the Pigeon-toed Horse Mysteries For Collin Mitchell, there is no peace. After a year of fighting renegade Utes, in the Black Hawk War, he returns to Salt Lake City, in the fall of 1868, hoping to forget the killing. Haunted by...

The English Civil War divided loyalties and families. When King Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, the nation struggled to heal the divide and rebuild a nation after nearly two decades of Civil War. Many had suffered under Cromwell's Commonwealth, lives...

A deadly game of power and revenge unfolds in ancient Rome.AD 58: Rome is in turmoil. Emperor Nero, obsessed with a new wife, plots to assassinate Empress Claudia Octavia. Vespasian must navigate this treacherous landscape, wary of Nero's new lover, Poppaea Sabina, a dangerous...

In this classic Regency Romance, reminiscent of the work of Jane Austen, Judith Harkness tells the tale of Maggie Trevor, the spirited daughter of a hero of the Napoleonic Wars. With a light touch and witty eye for human foibles, Harkness paints the fashionable...

The fifteenth chronicle in the Matthew Bartholomew series. There is something very amiss in the finances of Michaelhouse. Despite a new influx of well-heeled students, there is an acute lack of funds for the upkeep of the buildings, even for decent provisions. It is...

A potentially momentous discovery. A suspicious fire. A 50-year-old missing person's case. Are they connected? When Buddy Bolden died in a Louisiana insane asylum in 1931, a quarter century after his reign as the undisputed first "king" of jazz, he left behind no known...

A story about stories within stories, as four interconnected mysteries take the reader through the ages, from Shakespeare's day to a 19th-century Gothic former Priory, to 1920s Venice, and finally to 1940s California, from the internationally bestselling author of The Turnglass. We begin with...

January 1941. When Detective Inspector John Jago is called to a terraced house in London's Bloomsbury district, he finds the body of a woman who has been attacked and left to die - her crime, it seems, being kindness to strangers. Rosemary Webster had...

Author: Steve IsraelISBN-13: 9798998899577Publisher: Compass Rose PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/22/2025Pages: 394Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Author: Michael GryboskiISBN-10: 1962561968ISBN-13: 9781962561969Publisher: Little Creek BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2025Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d

Author: Patricia RiceISBN-10: 1636323367ISBN-13: 9781636323367Publisher: Book View Cafe Publishing CooperativeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

Author: Lady Harriet,Peter StephensonISBN-10: 1964700493ISBN-13: 9781964700496Publisher: Historium PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/18/2025Pages: 248Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: Anita DavisonISBN-10: 183678354XISBN-13: 9781836783541Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2025Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.70d

A widowed academic investigating these strange historical practices gets drawn back in time and into the year 1299 in Oxford. Join a cast of compelling characters-nuns, novices and outsiders-as they battle the forces of darkness. Enter their struggle against evil, clandestine organizations. Join their...

Romeo and Juliet (yes, that Romeo and Juliet) invite you to join them in celebrating the marriage of their elderly daughter, Rosie (she's 20!) to Escalus the younger, prince of Verona. Knives Out meets My Lady Jane meets Taming of the Shrew in Fair...

The owners of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are back, and more determined than ever to bring love matches to the residents of Post-WWII London . . . so something as trivial as a murder investigation isn't going to stop them! London, 1947. Spirited...

In Nolin Creek, the water runs deep and the secrets run deeper.​In the harsh landscape of a Depression-era Northern Ontario mining town, Finnish immigrant sisters Hanna and Essi Kivi scrape together a living as domestic workers, sharing a room in a disreputable boarding house...

An utterly unique, Victorian-era mystery with a clever play on the famous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale, where the monster becomes the hero, and lines are crossed along the way.Unbeknownst even to himself, the kind, gentle, quietly brilliant Dr. Jekyll has created an...

Intrigue and Danger Dance Hand in Hand in Dancing Angels, a Historical Cozy Mystery from Alice Duncan-1927, Los Angeles, California-The Murray Dance Studio becomes a hotspot for murder when one of its talented dancers, Lucille Murray, is found dead. The once vibrant and glamorous...

In Kansas City on Columbus Day 1931, Deloris Markham, amateur sleuth, discovers the body of Slick Sam Sloan, a grifter, a conman, and a lady's man. His favorite game was the Kansas City Shuffle, but did he go too far? Who stabbed Sam? Was...

Jim Yarrow, a wounded World War II vet, sees his luck change when he finds work as a police officer. He now thrives in his beloved hometown on the Merrimack River. Content with his job, his long-term friendships, and his wife and kids, he...

The gripping new historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. In Cleopatra's Egypt, the clouds of war are on the horizon. Cleopatra, all-powerful ruler of Egypt, has found her most able and trusted agent in Tetisheri, her Eye of Isis. So...

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...

The lure of gold changes people. Greed, suspicion, mistrust; all of it develops from the love of the yellow metal.Reece is a drifter. A man with a past, seeking peace and quiet after the horrors of the War. He finds none of these in...

After millionaire Malcolm Capshaw hires Joe Cutler and his team to search for a fabled artifact, they enter a maze of lies, murder and betrayal. The real purpose of their search is soon exposed, as an old London crime family displays an unusual interest...

Dundee, 1860s. Sergeant George Watters and his team investigate the murder of a local banker, found dead on the 13th tee of a local golf course.Illicit prizefighters, merchants and prostitutes all seem to be somehow connected to the murder, and even the toughest of...

A loyal Southerner embroiled in John Wilkes Booth's plot to kill President Lincoln struggles with a dilemma that is tearing him apart. But should he avenge the South as a hero, or back out as a coward and avoid an unforgiveable sin?We know about...

Ready for a snowy ride aboard the Train Blanc? Murder and mayhem await.November, 1935.With its velvet sofas and bone china teacups, the Train Blanc is a haven of 1930s luxury. But for Ruby and Fina, the trip holds some shocking surprises - not least...

Perry Adams, failed academic turned mailman, suddenly finds himself caught in a web of sex, a million-dollar mail theft, a congressional fraud investigation - and murder. Can Lemuel Penn, a plain Quaker apple grower, rescue him? And can Penn do it without applying some...

Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how to blend in at all levels of society; from her father, she learned the tricks of their mutual professional trade. But her wits and (frequently)...

Sycamore Mill In 1963 the rural community of Jasper is thriving during a construction boom. Many of the citizens' lives intersect at the Sycamore Glen golf course. The new owner is investing heavily in the course and it is garnering a great deal of...

Part murder mystery, part love story, Saving McNamara is a record of Sarah Costa's search for truth.After her father's death in 1967, Sarah rescues a young army lieutenant from drowning, then leaves Hawaii to study nursing in San Francisco. In a city haunted by...

Freddie and Kathy are happily enjoying their newly-married bliss when Freddie's sister, Honoria, finds a dead body in her apartment. Honoria had taken the young woman in as a favor to a friend but it soon becomes clear that the favor caught up. Honoria...

Fascinating Rhythm is set in December of 1924. A senior editor at Healcroft House Frank Selby turns up dead in his apartment. Problem is, his secretary, Kathy Briscow, never mentioned that he hadn't been at work for the previous three days. Seems he only...

KILLING EVE meets THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLDA Cold War spy's deceits rise through time to haunt his American son, in a dual narrative split between postwar Berlin and early twentieth-century New York City. Past becomes prologue as a father's secret...

When Sir Charles Browning, a young aristocrat, apparently abandons his wife, leaving her destitute and ostracised, Sarah Kedron, a successful playwright and feminist, agrees to help the young wife by finding out what has happened.James Brewster, the editor of her father's weekly periodical, assists...

Who wanted them dead? On the eve of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, as the Skyscraper Wars rage among the moguls of industry, six authors known as The Murder Club spend their evenings spinning plots for their new mystery novels in a little...

An escaped assassin. A group of cannibals on the run. A threatening letter. Newspaper reporter Alec Lonsdale is on the case in this compelling Victorian mystery. "All Londoners will see what the Watchers are capable of on Christmas Eve ..." December 1882. Attending the...

She's stolen gems, purses, and hearts--but can she steal her life back from the thieving ring that's claimed it? Victorian London comes to vivid life in this riveting heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman's heroic plan to escape a...

"I sat on the couch with my forearms on my knees and my fingers interlaced and considered the meaning of what I'd discovered in the steamer trunk. The trunk had traveled with me from France. I'd seen the stevedores in Cherbourg carry it up...

Discover the first in a BRAND NEW gripping Tudor mystery from bestselling author John Pilkington. Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor and S J Parris. 1594, Bishopsgate Ward, London. Within the walls and without, unease and uncertainty lurk beneath the noise and bustle of...

Masked balls, duels and murder: musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January is caught up in a shocking crime in this gripping nineteenth-century mystery set in New Orleans. February, 1841. It's Carnival season in New Orleans. Free man of color Benjamin January...

"I sat on the couch with my forearms on my knees and my fingers interlaced and considered the meaning of what I'd discovered in the steamer trunk. The trunk had traveled with me from France. I'd seen the stevedores in Cherbourg carry it up...