Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

March 1833. Kiera and her husband, Sebastian Gage, have decided to settle in Edinburgh for the winter with their infant daughter. This also allows Kiera to enjoy long hours painting in her studio, making progress on the portraits she soon hopes to unveil in...

Enter a shadowy world of crime in Elizabethan London with this twisty historical mystery featuring a queer sleuth and a dash of romance! When Queen Elizabeth I is nearly assassinated, the rebellious heir to a criminal legacy seizes an opportunity for a better life....

A few days before Daniel Haze is to be married, he and Jason Redmond are drawn into society's sordid underbelly when the son of Essex's most violent crime boss is found dead in an ancient wood. They must wade through a long list of...

A troubled sleuth.And a devious death.In a quaint English coastal town, secrets don't stay buried for long...When Veronica Vale takes an extended break to visit the Green Man pub in Faversham, she refuses to admit she's running from her issues at home. But trouble...

The BRAND NEW installment in Kelly Oliver's brilliantly addictive Detection Club cozy mystery series Paris, 1928: Agatha Christie and fellow writer Dorothy L Sayers board the Orient Express, bound for Constantinople. Christie in particular is looking forward to a break from recent dispiriting events...

Award-winning authors Win and Meredith Blevins deliver a soulful Western mystery in Moonlight Water, where lost dreams, ancient secrets, and unexpected love collide under the vast skies of the Navajo Nation.Robbie, a San Francisco rock musician reeling from heartbreak and a shattered career, leaves...

Sebastian Alder's sudden elevation from penniless army captain to Viscount Somerton is the stuff of fairy tales, but there are dark secrets to be uncovered and an unexpected second chance at love... From the smoke-filled chaos of Waterloo to the elegant halls of Brantstone...

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

Unlock the Secrets of Your Ancestry with 'Are You Related to Jack the Ripper? The DNA Discovery That Could Change Your Family Tree' Delve into the captivating world of genealogy and forensic science with this groundbreaking exploration of one of history's most infamous mysteries....

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...

The Werewolf of Bamberg is the fifth book in Hangman's Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.In 1668, hangman Jakob Kuisl, his daughter Magdalena, and her husband Simon travel to the town of Bamberg. But what was planned as a family vacation soon becomes a nightmare:...

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...

In Cambridge 1355 the colleges of the fledgling university are as much at odds with each other as they are with the ordinary townfolk. This tension has recently been heightened by the return of two well-born murderers after receiving the King's pardon, showing no...

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...

"An outstanding entry in an excellent historical-mystery series that deserves more attention"Booklist Starred Review Detective Inspector Tom Harper finds answers hard to come by in his latest, most challenging, investigation to date. Leeds, England. March, 1895. The day after his release from prison, petty...

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