Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Lady Appleton's World: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories first published between 1999 and 2015 and newly edited by the author. They feature the adventures of Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, and other characters from Kathy...

A murderer is identified by a team of oxen. A dead man rises from a watery grave to indict his killer. A phantom hearse gliding through Melbourne's slums foretells violent death. A seamstress turns -detective to avenge her friend's homicide. A locked-tent mystery. Such...

When a young Chinese woman is murdered within the British Quarter of the foreign legation, Inspector Gong is ordered by the Imperial Court to solve the crime before the incident escalates into war between China and the foreign powers. The only problem? Inspector Gong...

"Superior... Refreshingly, Spencer doesn't make Redhead, who's capable of snark and petty malice, wholly likable. Readers will look forward to the further adventures of this distinctive lead" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review Private investigator Jennie Redhead is hired to investigate a murder that's left...

Debut novelist Michael Boccacino invites readers into the world beyond the realm of the living in Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling, a Victorian gothic tale of the strange and supernatural. But all who enter this house must beware--for there is a price...

They're used to solving murders. But until now the killer has always been human...October 1912. The inhabitants of Littleton Cotterell emerge from their homes after a week of torrential storms to the gruesome news that one of Sid Hyde's prized sheep has been mauled...

Discover the delightfully gripping new historical mystery series that's perfect for fans of Helena Dixon, Verity Bright and T E Kinsey. Agatha Christie is about to embark on a new, gripping murder case. But this time, she's not the author - she's a suspect......

Discover the delightfully gripping new historical mystery series that's perfect for fans of Helena Dixon, Verity Bright and T E Kinsey. Agatha Christie is about to embark on a new, gripping murder case. But this time, she's not the author - she's a suspect......

The King's mistresses are being murdered, one by one...When Samuel Pepys and his loyal inquisitors, Abby Harcourt and Jacob Standish, are summoned to King Charles II's court, they anticipate frivolous entertainment and unimaginable luxury. Instead, they find only death.One of the King's beloved mistresses...

Is evil decided at birth, or is it cultivated? In this rousing mystery thriller, readers may find an answer to the question of why villains choose the dark paths they walk.As a child, Buzz knew one thing for sure: his parents didn't want him....

In the Everglades, a senseless murder unearths long-buried secrets.When artist Hezekiah Freeman is found drowned in the shallow waters of Everglades National Park, Special Agent Alison Nance and Clarence Johnson are tasked with uncovering the truth behind his death. What initially seems like a...

A religious scandal. A deadly homecoming.Moustafa Ghani El Souwaim has come far in life. Raised illiterate in a remote village in the Soudan, he set out at sixteen to better himself. His journey took him to the great archaeological sites of Africa, where he...

When famed psychic Alicia Lysander is brutally attacked after leaving a seance at the home of an earl, Jason Redmond and Daniel Haze must retrace her movements to determine who might have had a motive to want Alicia dead. As they delve into the...

It is hardly surprising Verity Lark can't sleep at night with all the thoughts darting through her mind: her recent stay in Newgate, her debt to Colson Hardwicke, the horrible abuse suffered by the children at Fortescue's that her reporting on the orphan asylum...

Nurse Aggie Burnside is looking forward to a quiet vacation at a beach house in Morgan's Cove, Maine. But neighbors quarrel, old feuds erupt and someone dies. Can this amateur sleuth sift through the strands of deception to solve the crime? Massachusetts 1932. Aggie...

The Beggar King is the third book in Hangman's Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat...

The seventh chilling mystery in the bestselling Hangman's Daughter series.The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the prestigious Council of Twelve, the leaders of the empire's hangmen's guild--prestigious for...

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:...

The Poisoned Pilgrim is the fourth book in Hangman's Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.1666: The monastery at Andechs has long been a pilgrimage destination, but when the hangman's daughter, Magdalena, her doctor husband Simon, and their two small children arrive there, they learn that...

The mysterious sixth entry in the Hangman's Daughter series.It is 1670 and Simon Fronwieser is in the town of Oberammergau to bring his seven-year-old son to boarding school. As he bids his boy a tearful farewell, news comes of a shocking murder: the man...

FIVE STARS! "TOP TEN MYSTERY READS OF 2022" -Kathleen Costa, Kings River Life Magazine Mona Moon travels to Merry Old England to visit Brynelleth, Robert Farley's ancestral home, for the first time. Hoping to make a good impression, Mona finds she is rebuffed at...

THE ADVENTURE OF THE ASSASSINO PAZZO The Criminal Lunatic Asylum in Broadmoor held some of the most dangerous men in England. One of them escapes and soon wealthy French men and women living in London are being murdered and mutilated. Scotland Yard calls for...

With Free Love, the debut novel in her wickedly diverting new mystery series Annette Meyers wowed readers as she deftly brought the sights and sounds or Prohibition Era Greenwich Village to exhilarating life. Now this accomplished author returns to the roaring twenties, as snow...

Young married private detectives, Debbie and Jeremy Hadley, discover that Debbie's family, the Danforths, have a family secret. Grandma Marie Danforth summons them because she fears that alienated family members and underworld characters will attempt to wrest control of the secret from her. The...

An acquaintance with death Haunted by her family's unsolved murder sixteen years ago, Leonora Spencer is familiar with death. As an assistant in her elderly uncle's London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner reports. She also isn't opposed...

Inspired by the true story of Frances Glessner Lee, whose miniature replicas of crime scenes are still used to train forensic investigators today, this follow up novel to Death in the Details continues the adventures of intrepid amateur sleuth Maple Bishop. Maple Bishop has...

*A USA Today bestseller* Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in this dazzling next installment in a captivating Regency-era mystery series with a feminist spin. 21 June, 1815. London may be cheering the news of Napoleon's surrender at Waterloo, but Lady Petra Forsyth has little to...

When Fredericka Wing arrives in South Sutton, Massachusetts, a tiny New England town, it seems an ideal place for a working summer vacation. She plans on managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore while working on her own writing. She never dreamed she would find a body...

Shrewsbury, 1866. Julian Lockyer is an imposing gentleman in his late fifties. Having reserved a room for the night at the Station Hotel, he asks to be called early in the morning because he has a train to catch. Repeated attempts are made to...

Shanghai 1927. Pearl of the East or Whore of the Orient? Depends on who you ask. It's a cesspool of poverty, thronged with refugees, gripped by civil war. But for some it's still a fever dream: jazz clubs, film stars, and opium dens, celebrities...

When a film star is poisoned in Prohibition-era Philadelphia, private investigator Edie Shippen is on the case in the second Deadly Twenties mystery, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Rhys Bowen. Philadelphia, 1921. Edie Shippen has officially started her new career as a...

In the early twentieth century a bear frightens a team of horses into plunging to their deaths from off a hill near a proposed railroad route through wilderness Alaska. In 1974 young Californians Thomas Findlay and Emily Wells dig post holes for a cabin...

FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYWHEN SATAN WHISPERSA KINGDOM CRIES OUT FOR ITS SAVIORA darkness is spreading across the Kingdom of France, scores turning against God and embracing the teachings of Satan.For he has found a portal and now...

'Clever, funny, ingenious and endearing' Lissa Evans'The most audacious plot ever... gritty, engrossing and great fun' Beth Morrey'A great story, fast, dramatic, funny, full of the sounds and smells of Elizabethan London' Andy HamiltonMurder Most Foul is a dark, witty and fast-paced novel, from...

Author: Shaina SteinbergISBN-10: 1496747917ISBN-13: 9781496747914Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2025Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbs

Author: Carolyn HainesISBN-13: 9798992292800Publisher: Kalioka PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2025Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d

Author: T. F. TroyISBN-10: 1962465845ISBN-13: 9781962465847Publisher: Historium PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2025Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

Social standing is everything in Regency England--and no one knows better than Miss Caroline Morton, a lady's companion from a disgraced line. But when she has a chance to claim what's rightfully hers, the one obstacle in her way is a dangerous murder mystery...

Author: Mary LancasterISBN-10: 1965539777ISBN-13: 9781965539774Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2025Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.53d

Barbara expects her life to settle down, now that she has returned to Cobbsville with all her old secrets laid to rest. But instead, she comes home to find an unexpected new member has joined the Hollis household - and brought along a deadly...

Author: Louise MinchinISBN-10: 1035407485ISBN-13: 9781035407484Publisher: HeadlineLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 304Format: Paperback

When a film star is poisoned in Prohibition-era Philadelphia, private investigator Edie Shippen is on the case in the second Deadly Twenties mystery, perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn and Rhys Bowen. Philadelphia, 1921. Edie Shippen has officially started her new career as a...

Author: Jennifer Lamont LeoISBN-13: 9798990164727Publisher: Mountain Majesty MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2025Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d

The Ryukyu Islands, a center of diverse cultures, have absorbed martial arts techniques from various nations, giving birth to the distinctive and deadly Okinawan martial arts.This fusion, a product of centuries of trade and cultural exchange, has created a unique style forbidden for use...

In 1946, as Los Angeles shifts from war to peace, struggling P.I. Kit Comfort and her partner, notorious ex-cop Henry Richman, can't afford to say no, even when the job involves a lovelorn secretary and her wayward Army vet lover. Their routine missing persons...

Delve into the world of fourteenth-century England in this thrilling historical mystery, the sixteenth in the brilliant Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton.Mel Starr's latest novel is a thoroughly enjoyable medieval crime mystery. It may be enjoyed as complete in itself, or as part of...

Delve into the world of fourteenth-century England in this thrilling historical mystery, the sixteenth in the brilliant Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton.Mel Starr's latest novel is a thoroughly enjoyable medieval crime mystery. It may be enjoyed as complete in itself, or as part of...

In the heart of Annapolis, Maryland, the salty tang of the Chesapeake Bay mingles with the whispers of history. Jack Harrington, a historian and amateur archaeologist, and his spirited research partner, Emily Caldwell, find themselves on the deck of "The Sea Whisperer," savoring a...

A gruesome trophy. A fateful promise. A desperate search.Jack Rogan, celebrated author and incorrigible adventurer, finds himself drawn into a haunting mystery when Tristan, a close friend blessed with psychic powers, seeks his help.As his notorious uncle's life is ebbing away beside him, a...

Author: Amy E. LillyISBN-13: 9798218061043Publisher: Old Crow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2022Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d