Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Does the truth really set you free?A missing serving girl. A swindled nobleman. An Irish mobster.London 1811. When her stepcousin Alexander Dovefield, the future Baron of Newark, asks for her help to find a missing serving girl from his favorite gambling hell, Lady Zoe...

When a man is found dead, and the mortician claims he was killed twice, the law cannot figure out who could have committed such an unusual crime. With very little evidence leading to who the killer might be, Esther Rose O'Riley and Collette Sandoval...

A case too cold, a killer too bold. Some mysteries are worth breaking the rules for...even for a lady.Mineral Wells, Texas - 1925Lady Anne Worthington, an English countess and ingenious inventor, returns to Mineral Wells determined to build a future on her own terms:...

In a town famous for healing waters, one sip could mean murder.Mineral Wells, Texas, 1924Lady Anne Worthington, an English countess and brilliant inventor, has been shipped to America to find a wealthy oilman husband. But the independent Lady Anne has other plans-and they don't...

Historical crime set in 1st century AD RomeAuthor: David WishartISBN-13: 9798317463359Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2025Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

In this imaginative cozy mystery, the search for a missing maid leads Miss Caroline Bingley from Jane Austen's beloved Pride & Prejudice into murder and mayhem in the gritty underbelly of Regency London.Two years after her brother Charles Bingley weds Miss Jane Bennett, Miss...

During the untold millennia before patriarchy was conceived, the world was a very different place. Nothing concealed stays buried forever.For Fans of Archaeology Adventure and Historical Thrillers THE ARKANA MYSTERIESThe forgotten past refuses to stay buried in an artifact hunt spanning continents, centuries, and...

Gold: the elusive prize so many men and women have dreamed of, and for which so many have died.Of all the great treasures, none has been more coveted and sought after than the lost LaDura. In the turbulent twenty-first century, the long-lost Medallion of...

Come into the East End of London, 1888. Walk the streets of Whitechapel and slums of Spitalfields, side by side with history's most notorious serial killer.Overhear his plans, and listen - or try not to - to his secret thoughts as he waits in...

BURIED PIRATE TREASURE, WISECRACKING KELLAND HEROINE LEAD TO ROMANCE, ADVENTURE & MURDER IN THIS EXCITING KELLAND NOVEL SET ON PROHIBITION-ERA LONG ISLAND!BESTSELLER TOP 1% OF ALL KINDLE TITLES"A refreshing, entertaining story written by a master storytellers, and one of Kelland's best novels," Allentown Call-Leader"Combines...

Walter Gladstone came to Paris in the spring of 1923 to write the great American novel but instead wound up dead in an artificial lake. When the police dismiss the death as a drunken accident, Max is hired to find out the truth, but...

Winner of the 2004 ForeWord Book of the Year Award Toronto in 1856 is industrializing with little time for scruple or sentiment. When Reform politician William Sheridan dies suddenly and his daughter Theresa vanishes, only one man persists in asking questions. A former suitor...

Mystery in History A naive teenager. A sister with secrets. A corrupt patrician. Argolicus unravels the threads. When Argolicus leaves Rome to retire to his estate in southern Italy, his powerful friend Boethius asks a small favor, deliver a book to a young man...

Lyn McConchie transports us to Victorian London, where Sherlock Holmes and John Watson must solve two cases involving Poisonous People. Maid and occasional cook Mary Fellowes has been accused of attempting to poison her employers and the evidence against her is damning-or is it?...

Russ Farran has a plush mansion and millions stashed away in the bank, all garnered from his 1950s Los Angeles aeronautics empire. But that empire is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, due to a series of persistent labor strikes that seem to be...

Nominated for the 2016 Forest of Reading Evergreen AwardNominated for the 2014 Victoria Book Prize An Englishwoman's mysterious death in 19th-century West Africa haunts those left behind. Letitia Landon, "Letty" to her friends, is an intelligent, witty, successful writer, much sought after for dinner...

Prohibition takes the battle, along with the party, to the streets. Jack McCloskey returned to Windsor, Ontario, from the Great War shell-shocked and battling inner demons. Channeling his energy into amateur fights, he's noticed by a gangster sidelining as a boxing promoter. After a...

In the mid-1920s, Torontonians move to the beat of the Jazz Age and war is the furthest thing from their minds. Then a fatal grenade explosion breaks the rhythm. Police detective Paul Shenstone believes it was an attempted assassination and uncovers dangerous secrets about...

Friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan is caught in a politically charged race against time! He must uncover the truth behind numerous gruesome murders in this tense historical mystery set in medieval London. Normandy, 1358: The Free Company of the 'Via Crucis - the Way of the...

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1878. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to...

The official prequel to the hit television show France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party...

From the award-winning author of the Kate Shugak Mysteries, a thrilling new detective series set during America's wild boom time and frontier expansion of the nineteenth century. WELCOME TO THE GILDED AGE. WHERE NOT EVERYTHING GLITTERS. 1890: the Gilded Age, a period of financial...

Delve into the chilling world of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," a masterwork of gothic horror and supernatural mystery from H.P. Lovecraft. This meticulously prepared edition brings to life a classic tale steeped in occult secrets and historical intrigue. Explore the dark side...

Murdered Sleep is a historical mystery in which actor Dade Wyatt, touring through Teddy Roosevelt's Washington with a prominent Shakespeare company, reluctantly resumes an old role of murder investigator when a fiery populist Congressman is found beaten to death after a very public insult...

Author: Ellen YardleyISBN-10: 1420526421ISBN-13: 9781420526424Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/13/2025Format: PaperbackLarge Print

In a kingdom shadowed by murder and secrets, survival is anything but simple.When Audra Dione discovers her closest friend brutally murdered, she's pulled into a web of deception that stretches from the palace to the darkest alleys of Althenia. Haunted by secrets from her...

In a world veiled in secrets, where ancient beings walk among us, a forbidden love ignites a conflict that could shatter the fragile peace between humans and Nephilim.Eliana, daughter of a Watcher, a protector of humanity, finds her loyalties torn when she falls for...

A second collection of twelve cases for M. McDonnell Bodkin's insightful but self-deprecating detective Paul Beck, a man who claims no more genius than "a little common sense," and says of himself that "I just go by the rule of thumb, and muddle and...

Minnie Harper isn't used to putting herself first. Not after she moved away from England only to be left raising two children alone on the Greek Island of Corfu following her husband's unexpected death. But with her daughter begging to be sent to school...

Dieppe, Normandy, 1897. Swelling the insular English colony this summer are the Impressionist artists Edgar Degas and Walter Sickert, the newly freed Oscar Wilde, the lecherous Prince of Wales... and a ruthless killer. Art-loving detective Emile Blanchet's first murder investigation threatens to shake the...

Archaeologist Martin Day has always hated the illegal trade in Greek antiquities, and now he has a chance to make a difference. By working for Chief Inspector Andreas Nomikos on a case of suspected trafficking, he will not only be well paid to give...

Lady Bridgerton meets Miss Marple meets The Thursday Murder Club in this charming, Victorian-set mystery series from bestselling and prolific author Colleen Gleason (who also writes historical mysteries as Colleen Cambridge).The widowed marchioness of Darling has successfully married off all of her children, and...

Sheriff Louis Radisson is trying to figure out why bodies are missing from the Bayfield cemetery. Navaho FBI agent Benjamin Tuba is on the trail of a tattooed serial killer and Ojibwe pain-in-the-butt Sam Grant is having visions of frogs and witches. Behind it...

The spellbinding initial exploits of detective Shadwell Rafferty--now available in paperback Shadwell Rafferty's last case may have led to his murder, but naturally--and fortunately, for followers of the indefatigable St. Paul detective--there's more to the story. Mysterious Tales of Old St. Paul gathers three...

An emotional and sweeping historical novel spanning decades in the lives of two families from different religions on the island of Cyprus.Author: Nadia MarksISBN-10: 1509889728ISBN-13: 9781509889723Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2019Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Harriet Morrow, a spunky, bike-riding, independent, lesbian P.I. in turn-of-the-20th century Chicago, is back on the case in this brilliant historical mystery inspired by a real-life Windy City detective - from the acclaimed author of the Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and Lefty Award-nominated Devil's Chew...

He's cheated death...Lord Julian Caldicott is summoned by his estranged mother to search for old love letters she has misplaced. Julian soon realizes the letters along with other items of sentimental value have been stolen. The thief is preying on wealthy women, purloining mementos...

The Malice Domestic cozy anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition -- 29 original tales with historical settings! Included are: The Blackness Before Me, by Mindy QuigleyHonest John Finds a Way, by Michael DellSpirited Death, by Carole...

Author: Anne MarchantISBN-13: 9798231075027Publisher: Anne MarchantLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2025Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d

Author: Linda StratmannISBN-10: 1800553897ISBN-13: 9781800553897Publisher: Sapere BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2021Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.50d

Author: Tracy GrantISBN-10: 164197334XISBN-13: 9781641973342Publisher: Nancy Yost Literary Agency, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/22/2025Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d

A relic stolen from the Vatican Secret Archives leads Detective Angelo Marquez to S.W.A.T. Officer Ann Polites, and together, they uncover secrets about a 40-year-old murder involving the Vatican, the Mafia, and an archbishop whose career has been riddled with scandal. Detective Angelo Marquez,...

When bodies are found floating in the harbour, this mystery is not going to be a day at the beach. Lady Sarah, exhausted from all the revelations of the last few months, is in desperate need of a day out away from mystery, intrigue...

From USA Today Bestseller Grace Callaway comes a steamy enemies-to-lovers historical romance with a secret identity, a cozy village that might be cursed, and a love worth fighting for!The only thing hotter than their animosity is their attraction.Lady Gigi Harrington has a plan: save...

As a crucial witness to the "biggest scandal" early-nineteenth-century Fairmount has seen, lives hang on the balance of Chester Carter's true and complete testimony.Chester is an unambitious - or independent- minded - apprentice to Mr. Tate of Tate's Banking and Loans when he witnesses...

When a mission of critical importance arises, Lord Lynsley, the enigmatic head of Mrs. Merlin's Academy for Extraordinary Young Ladies, is forced to take on the assignment himself. But when things take an unexpected turn, he has has no choice but to ask for...

Can your sleuthing skills help identify the murderer of a Hollywood starlet? Use all of your wits as you immerse yourself in this murder mystery set against the glamorous backdrop of Hollywood's golden era. Los Angeles, 1958: the brightest and best names in Hollywood...

Author: Frank J. Jr. InfusinoISBN-10: 1506914985ISBN-13: 9781506914985Publisher: First Edition Design PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2025Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Pure Lies is a story about two women, separated by three centuries but connected by a legacy of greed, depravity and deceit--a legacy which threatens to make them both victims of the Salem witch trials.1692, Salem, Massachusetts Born in a time and place of...

Friar-sleuth Brother Athelstan is caught in a politically charged race against time! He must uncover the truth behind numerous gruesome murders in this tense historical mystery set in medieval London. Normandy, 1358: The Free Company of the 'Via Crucis - the Way of the...