Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

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...

A tale of War, Passion, Treachery, Violence, Friendship and Love. The Mystery and Pursuit of The Romanov Cross. A contradictatory genre, being a historical/contemporary Novel moving across several era's. Packed with fast paced action and intrigue. From the time of original Romanov Tsar, to...

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...

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Japan was undergoing a period of rapid modernisation and industrialisation, based largely on imported Western technologies, as it began to flex its military might. In order to foster a sense of national unity, the authorities cultivated the...

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...

Scandal, murder and treason... Athelstan and Cranston are back with a bang.Winter, 1379. French privateers are attacking the southern coast and threaten London itself, the very heart of the nation.The situation becomes dire when an English flotilla of warships, with the colossal God's Bright...

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...

Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Lost Melody - YASİN GÜNEŞA melody has gone missing in the fog-wrapped arteries of Victorian London - and where a song disappears, memory, motive and murder often follow. When a silent music box and a pressed carnation...

Plowman's PlightAn outlaw plowman falsely accused of murderAn alchemist's virgin who is more than she seemsA fiendish murderer hiding in open sightCathar country, (now) southern France, year: 1200.When the woodcutter's only daughter is murdered, the bailiff tries to arrest Bertwoin the Plowman, who flees...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are asked to investigate mysterious hauntings that are taking place at a waxworks museum. The owner of the museum, Mr Chamberlain, has received reports of objects moving on their own, eerie sounds echoing through the walls, and ghostly...

Discover a BRAND NEW page-turning cosy mystery series from Michelle Salter A murdered suffragette. A missing politician. A stolen artwork. London, 1910 Coral Fairbanks is a contradiction. As well as a suffragette, she's a bit-part actress and nude model, earning her the disapproval of...

In the shadows of the House Nassau, secrets hide in plain sight! In June 1920, sixteen-year-old Michael Nassau's life transforms as his father, Robert, inherits the title of Earl Nassau and the grand House Nassau. But beneath the palace's opulent façade, a dark plot...

How does it feel to be cursed in love? Honora Favre of Paris and Normandy, France was beginning to think she was born that way. The world was living through the darkest days of the 2020 pandemic. It was killing millions. Twice, destiny pulls...

Early November 1963 provides no indication of the tragic events set to unfold. For Washington Post political reporter James Kane, a man who has dedicated his life to digging for the truth, there is no reason to suspect that the secretive leads he is...

Shadowboxing with the Devil In 1978, Detective Lieutenant Bobby Richards takes his family on an outing to the San Francisco Headlands, where his sons briefly go missing. He soon finds them near a wildly painted VW bus, totally mesmerized by strangers whose appearance easily...

She's on the rise to fame and fortune, but her sudden notoriety comes with some deadly consequences. The Wild West Show's dazzling arenas have never witnessed a sharpshooter like Annie Oakley. As she gains renown, aspirations of saving her family's farm seem within reach....

Determined to prove herself in the world of academia, Adelia Grey finds herself stuck at the cusp of greatness. Relationships, ambition, and a centuries old family secret only make her journey more difficult. Throughout her life, Adelia has found herself drawn to the story...

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the...

In the realm of classical music, few works possess the intrigue and fascination of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem. Its haunting melodies and enigmatic history have captivated audiences and scholars alike for centuries. From the moment it first echoed through the halls of Vienna's churches...

Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe is the first in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series, set in the early 1580s in England and Muscovy. It's a spinoff from Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down Mysteries. Rosamond, estranged foster daughter of Susanna, Lady Appleton (the sleuth...

What secrets lie in the ledgers of the Royal Government Bank?After Harry Paterson is summoned to London following his father's murder, he finds out that the late Lord Elliot Paterson had discovered hidden information dated all the way back to 1936... and a vast...

Something mysterious and scary is loose in the British Museum, and a rapid solution is needed. Something connects the events to malevolent forces that menaces realm beyond our own... and all mankind.Only one man has the power to defeat this fearsome threat, so the...

The Riddle of the SandsThe Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was...

An old and dilapidated inn in upstate New York provides the setting for this gothic mystery involving two couples in eighteenth-century Revolutionary America. Told through the diary entries of an innkeeper named Mrs. Truax, this chilling tale concerns Edwin Urquhart, who arrives with his...

Strange indeed is human nature The Valley of Four The Fourth Adventure written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. From the annals of Dr Watson comes this dark case for Sherlock Holmes' and one of his early...

A San Francisco attorney becomes convinced his best friend will be murdered by a mysterious hippie out to inherit his wealth.A HIPPIE NOIR: What should an attorney do when, out of the blue, his best friend pressures him to draw up a will leaving...

England, September 1926An engagement party at venerable Marsden Manor serves up annoyances big and small for Bright Young Thing Philippa Darling and her cousins, Christopher and Francis Astley. There's the scheming Lady Laetitia Marsden, now engaged to Christopher's and Francis's cousin (and Pippa's personal...

What if a kiss could make you weep forever?The inhabitants of the teeming city of Landan are readying for King Victor's jubilee. But, away from the bunting and souvenir tea-towels, a conspiracy is brewing. People are killing themselves for no apparent reason. A man...

In the late summer of 1817, sailors spot what they think is a sea monster swimming off the New England coast. As reports suggest that the monster is working its way south, the Superintendent of Patents assigns his chief clerk, Cassius Lightner, to help...

Summer 1206. Before it was renamed, Bury St Edmunds was known as Bedricksworth after the ancient family who lived there. Now the last surviving member of the Bedrick clan, Arnulf, wants an heir to carry on the family name. Marrying for a fifth time,...

"The author weaves the narrative thread between serious and funny ably and offers a compelling 19th-century mystery plot as well." - Kirkus Reviews Cassius Lightner, Chief Clerk of the tiny US Patent Office, and his unconventional English fiancée, Amanda Crofton, return in a sequel...

In 1815, a Vermont businessman ships a giant cheese to Washington, D.C. to honor America's greatest military hero, Tennessee's General Andrew Jackson. The cheese vanishes. The government receives a ransom note. Payment isn't an option. If news of the cheese's disappearance becomes public, north...

In a riveting new novel in a Victorian-set mystery series brimming with authentic atmosphere, Dr. Julia Lewis, Scotland Yard's first female medical examiner, and her partner, Detective Inspector Richard Tennant, investigate a string of murders in the art world. London, 1867: Among the genteel...

A surprise inheritance. A hidden past.Brisbane, 2024 Barista and budding artist Mia Curtis is shocked to receive a package all the way from England informing her she's the heir to her late grandmother's cottage. Feeling lost in her own life, Mia travels across the...

Jacquie Pham's transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920's French-colonial Vietnam that meshes the structural brilliance of Lucy Foley's The Guest List with the historical vitality of Vanessa Chan's The...

For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medieval monk's cases with beautiful new series-style covers. ------------------------------------ The winter of 1353 has been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the...

Fame is a dangerous game. As her brother lies in a coma after a near-fatal car accident, twenty-two-year-old Grace Brighton climbs the Hollywood Sign to make a desperate wish for his recovery. She loses her footing and plummets to the ground below--only there is...

Libertus accepts a contract to install a pavement for Genialis, a self-important citizen from a nearby town, in the house of the customer's intended but unwilling and young bride, Silvia. However, the winter is exceptionally severe, and although the mosaic is laid in time...

A compelling new mystery for Libertus, set against the backdrop of the Roman Empire in turmoil and fighting for its survival . . . Libertus is passing the villa of his patron, Marcus Septimus Aurelius, when he sees an elaborate travelling carriage which has...

Step back in time as modern-day Sheriff Jack Withers takes on the case of his lifetime. Seven dead men found in his jurisdiction high in the Wyoming Mountains more than a hundred years in the past. Modern day forensies and techniques can only go...

Author: Glenn CooperISBN-13: 9798992574531Publisher: Lascaux MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/19/2025Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Author: Deb MarloweISBN-10: 1969349255ISBN-13: 9781969349256Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2025Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.51d

Author: Ray WellingISBN-10: 1958861782ISBN-13: 9781958861783Publisher: Sager Group LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2025Pages: 358Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d