Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

"Macbain's debut novel convincingly re-creates everyday life in ancient Rome, weaving real and fictional characters with aplomb." --Kirkus ReviewsWhen the body of Sextus Verpa, a notorious senatorial informer and libertine, is found stabbed to death in his bedroom, suspicion falls on his household slaves--a...

The spring of 98 AD is a time of optimism in the turbulent frontier province of Britannia. The season looks set fair for peace and prosperity, and business is brisk at Aurelia Marcella's inn on the road to York.But soon a wagon arrives bearing...

In January 532, mobs ruled Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire. Against a backdrop lit by raging fires, John, Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, must find those who would use the Nika Riots to dethrone the emperor. But are the ringleaders still in the city--or...

Pucci Lewis was used to ferrying fighter planes and undercover work. But it is the dark hours of WWII, and Hollywood's biggest stars, studio moguls, and Washington bureaucrats are working hand-in-glove to merge entertainment and propaganda. Pucci has been dispatched to the First Motion...

"Parker is proficient in showing the crossroads between civilization and the frontier, including emerging new roles for women. A cliffhanger ending sets a promising stage for the next installment."--Publishers WeeklyIt's the summer of 1880, and potential investment in Leadville's silver mines has brought former...

"In this third in a series, set on a farm in 1914 Oklahoma, Casey lovingly portrays the Tuckers' close extended family, immersing the reader in both the domestic aspects and the harsh realities of everyday farm life." --BooklistWho killed Uncle Bill? Alafair Tucker is...

"Phryne's fans get everything they could possibly want from this installment in the long-running and ever more popular series: a fast-talking, tough heroine; an engaging cast of supporting players; a couple of really nifty mysteries; and plenty of fun." --BooklistPhryne Fisher is on holiday....

From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Flying Too High, the next historical mystery featuring the unstoppable amateur sleuth Phryne Fisher. And this time around, she takes to the air..."...the incomparable Phryne Fisher...beautiful, wealthy, sophisticated, but, above all, daring and intelligent..."--Library...

"Excellent...oozes with suspense and intrigue." --BooklistAs the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory. The dagger in the man's chest is engraved with a strange, cursive...

The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family's past.... Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad he'd...

"Imagine an Agatha Christie mystery set in the late thirteenth century, and you'll have a pretty good picture of this very well executed mystery."--BooklistIt is Spring 1282. England is at war again with Wales. As Baron Hugh of Wynethorpe, a veteran of fighting in...

"Parker wraps up the mystery deftly but leaves Inez's future sufficiently unresolved so that readers will eagerly await the next installment."--Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewAutumn, 1880, in the Rocky Mountains brings frost, snow, and the return of Inez Stannert to Leadville, Colorado, where she is...

"Royal amplifies and deepens her series characters in the service of a clever plot that elevates her work to the top rank of historical mystery writers." --Publishers Weekly Starred Review for Satan's Lullaby, eleventh in a medieval mystery series recommended by Sharon Kay Penman...

John, former Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian, has been exiled from Constantinople to a rustic estate John has long owned in Greece, not far from where he grew up. But exile proves no escape from mystery and mayhem. The residents of nearby Megara make...

"Casey's skill at making you care about the injustices of a time and place not often covered in history books is second to none. The admirable mystery is the cherry on top." --Kirkus ReviewsThe U.S. has finally entered the First World War and scheduled...

"Ifkovic successfully blends homicide with a loving homage to Budapest on the eve of World War I." --Kirkus ReviewsIn 1914, as rumors of war float across Europe, Edna Ferber travels to Budapest with Winifred Moss, a famous London suffragette, to visit the homeland of...

"The second in Greenwood's Delphic Women series offers a far different premise on a familiar story, crammed with well-researched detail, fascinating characters and erotic scenes." --Kirkus Reviews STARRED reviewFrom Mount Olympus, Aphrodite, the goddess of love, yawned. Even perfection can be tedious."My Lord," she...

Budapest, 1956. In this darkest year in the modern history of Hungary, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only...

Budapest, 1956. In this darkest year in the modern history of Hungary, a national uprising against Soviet occupiers and their reign of terror is underway. Eleven-year-old Evike and her firebrand mother steal deep into battle zones in support of civilian freedom fighters armed only...

"A vivid, atmospheric mystery about 1951 Hollywood...this is a winner." --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling authorIn June 1951, Edna Ferber heads to Hollywood to support her friend Max Jeffries who has found himself blacklisted after the McCarthy hearings in Washington rattled Hollywood with...

Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family. Instead he finds his merchant brother Alessandro imprisoned on a trumped-up smuggling charge, a capital crime in 1740 Venice. The senator who controls Alessandro's fate is determined to have a Venetian...

Pull up a chair and relax. We'd like you to meet Glenn Bowman, one of the toughest-and smartest- private eyes in New York. This time he's got himself involved in trying to keep alive the current heart-throb of Broadway-Pierre Dupray. Dupray is so certain...

Following the enthralling 18th century Chinese mysteries Jade Dragon Mountain and White Mirror, comes Elsa Hart's next Li Du adventure in City of Ink.Li Du was prepared to travel anywhere in the world except for one place: home. But to unravel the mystery that...

"Amato's narration is easy to listen to, and her accents are excellent." -- AudioFile Magazine From New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander comes the latest installment in the Lady Emily series. Death in St. Petersburg is a gripping new audiobook that will mesmerize...

There is but one Paris.Vincent Van Gogh Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris, she quickly realizes, is no place for a light...

Winner of the Nero Wolfe AwardMary Russell and Sherlock Holmes return in a series the Chicago Tribune calls "as audacious as it is entertaining and moving."It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice, now an Oxford graduate with a degree in theology--is on...

"Narrator Barrie Kreinik artfully portrays colorful people -- locals and immigrants -- who call New York City home in the nineteenth century." -- AudioFile Magazine In Murder on Millionaires' Row, Erin Lindsey's debut historical mystery, a daring housemaid searches Gilded Age Manhattan for her...

Dive into the thrilling world of espionage with John T. McIntyre's "Ashton Kirk, Secret Agent," a classic of early 20th-century American fiction. This meticulously prepared edition brings back a captivating tale of mystery and intrigue, where a skilled secret agent navigates a treacherous landscape...

In the shadows of WWII a raucous adventure abounds in Jerome Mark Antil's heartfelt coming-of-age novel set in upstate New York during the 1950s. Kids growing up during WWII grew up fast. They had to. Imagine spotting escaped Nazi prisoners of war under a...

A thrilling adventure at the court of Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII! For fans of S J Parris, Andrew Taylor, S W Perry and Andrew Swanston. The Tudor Court is in turmoil... 1536, London Thief Gwynnie Wightham has a new master in Elric...

Ursula's visit to her Devon relatives leads to murder, mayhem and a possible plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots in the latest Ursula Blanchard Tudor mystery. February, 1586. When the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, learns that Ursula is to visit her relatives...

An intriguing case of higher education and lower morals: the entertaining new Albert Campion mystery. Suffolk, 1970. Albert Campion is back in Black Dudley, once the scene of murder and mayhem but now home to the brand-new University of Suffolk Coastal. Appointed to the...

In January 1953, eleven scientists convened by the CIA watched film footage of unidentified objects and voted unanimously to suppress what they had seen. The vote was unanimous. The panel was not.The Eternal Watch follows seven voices across seven decades: a physicist who signs...

What if the DNA on the Shroud of Turin was real - and someone cloned it? What if the most dangerous deception in human history wasn't a conspiracy theory... it was a plan 2,000 years in the making? When Seattle abortion doctor Karl Resnak...

Lost treasure in the Gulf of Mexico leads to murder in a small town in coastal Texas, from a New York Times-bestselling author.Legend has it that a trove of Aztec gold lingers in the waters off Padre Island. And when a recent hurricane shifts...

Victoria Twead is the New York Times bestselling author of the popular Old Fools series. Ageing bachelors, the Captain and Sixpence, are inseparable. They've been close friends and companions for decades, and are enjoying their twilight years together at Sixpenny Manor. When Babs arrives...

A Gothic masterwork of nineteenth-century Naples - now in its first modern English translation. Naples, 1840. In the anatomy hall of the Hospital for the Incurables, a young medical student stands over his dead sister's body and makes a vow. What follows is one...

A brutal murder in a quiet Tuscan village. A world-famous maestro under a cloud of suspicion. A wounded war hero ordered to uncover the truth-before history writes the wrong man into infamy.In the autumn of 1935, celebrated country doctor Alberto Rinaldi is found savagely...

Author: Bruce RuleISBN-10: 1835417833ISBN-13: 9781835417836Publisher: Titan Books (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2026Pages: 288Format: Paperback

Lovers and loyalties are tested when scandals come to light.Memoirist Professor Gavin Nash and his friend Oscar Barratt travel to the picturesque shores of Italy's Lake Como in search of a rare book said to contain the spell for a magical tattoo. It's been...

The Scarlet StudyA Noir Holmes Story Volume OneWhen a case refuses to explain itself, explanation becomes a liability.In The Scarlet Study, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson confront a mystery defined not by spectacle, but by silence, where motive is obscured, evidence resists interpretation,...

The Sign of the FourA Noir Holmes Story Volume TwoSome cases resist explanation. Others demand a verdict before the evidence is heard.In The Sign of the Four, Sherlock Holmes faces a mystery shaped less by concealment than by permission where violence is not hidden,...

Nominated for the Daphne du Maurier Award*New, 2026 Edition*New York City, 1907. Dr. Genevieve Summerford is cheering on her Tammany sweetheart at a rowing race on the East River when the body of a young Italian woman is found in the water, bringing the...

In this witty historical murder mystery set in a San Francisco hotel, an unlikely trio of amateur sleuths must uncover a killer before another guest checks out for good.In 1905, the Grand Mallard Marquee is well known for its iconic style, as well as...

When murder isn't her only problem. It's 1873 on the Murray River and while Emma is well aware that death is just part of life's process, helping her friend Bea nurse her terminally ill mother on their neighbouring sheep station wasn't supposed to be...

Robin Hood is a murder suspect in this riveting historical thriller! Perfect for fans of S D Sykes, E. M. Powell, Karen Maitland and S J Parris. All is not as it seems...1322, Yorkshire, EnglandSir Richard Lee, Sergeant-at-Law, has been sent to Sandal Castle...

A collection of gripping historical tales, "Revenge!" by Robert Barr explores the darker side of human nature through the lens of retribution. From meticulously planned schemes to impulsive acts of vengeance, each short story delves into the motives and consequences of seeking revenge. Set...

A deep dive into known history, research, and facts about the Shroud of Turin.Author: Clifford HarperISBN-13: 9798284289747Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2025Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

Serpent's Creek was a quiet town- until it wasn't.Three Pinkerton detectives - a former Cavalry captain, an ex-slave, and a half Apache - are sent to rid the town of a religious cult and its fanatical leader whose men are raping and killing townsfolk....

When a university professor is killed, Armada gets a lesson in murder. Salamanca, Spain. 1661. Domingo Armada is back! This time to investigate the brutal killing of a professor in the ancient university town of Salamanca. The man's death comes just before a contentious...