Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

As we approach the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance on that sultry afternoon in July 1975, Lew Paper has crafted a fast-paced historical thriller which raises new questions about the reasons for the abduction. The book commences with a startling premise: What if...

It's the start of summer in Dartmouth, 1973. Fifteen-year-old Donnie is looking forward to hanging out with his friends, and less enthusiastic about a summer job. On his way to the job interview, he becomes the only witness to a murder. For Donnie and...

Cathy Pegau's sharp, captivating mystery about two women in turn-of-the-century New York solving murder and fighting the heteropatriarchy. There can be a blurry line between what is ethical and what is legal.Margot Baxter Harriman took the reins of B&H Foods after her father passed....

Rome, 58 AD.  Aemilius Valerius is on the up and up. His reputation has been rehabilitated, he has established a fledgling career, and he has new friends in very powerful places. When one of those new friends, the poet Lucan, is attacked, Valerius is...

From the author of The Lindbergh Nanny comes an evocative mystery about the 1920 murder of the gambler Joseph Elwell, featuring New Yorker writer Morris Markey and Zelda Fitzgerald. At the dawn of the Jazz Age, Morris Markey arrives in New York to become...

A gripping 1920s-set whodunnit, this debut features a queer sleuth who must solve a murder in a mansion on London's Hampstead Heath without revealing his sexuality, lest he be arrested as a criminal. The Selby Bigge mysteries series debut, it will leave readers eager...

Someone has stolen the wine, but Lizzy is stealing Darcy's heart.On an arranged visit to Pemberley with Aunt and Uncle Gardiner, Lizzy and Darcy grow closer until her visit is overshadowed by a costly theft from the wine cellars. With her aunt and uncle's...

Something is troubling Inspector Henry Cutter. Sergeant Gideon Bliss is accustomed to his ill-tempered outbursts, but lately the inspector has grown silent and withdrawn. Then, the murders begin. The first to die is the elderly Sir Aneurin Considine, a decorated but obscure civil servant...

When a daring heist in San Francisco nets sixty thousand dollars in diamonds and precious stones, the stakes soar higher than ever for Colonel David J. Crook's Great Western Detective League. With Comprehensive Insurance Company footing the bill, veteran investigators Briscoe Cane and Beau...

The BRAND NEW beautiful historical novel from Victoria Scott, perfect for fans of Evie Woods, Kate Storey and Rachel Burton. A secret buried for decades... A story that will change everything. 1940: When twenty-one-year-old Nita Bineham is offered the chance of independence, away from...

A page-turning historical mystery, perfect for readers of Eve Chase, Lulu Taylor and Rachel Burton. If you save a crumbling mansion, will it mend a broken heart? A month ago, Amy Wood had her perfect home, perfect boyfriend and perfect job in London. Now...

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost. July 1815: The Prince Regent's grandiose plans...

Based on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone--and no one--seemed to know.At the start of a new century, a shocking...

Five years ago, Henry, Lord Glossup, was suspected of murdering his late wife. Although he was exonerated and the true murderer caught, Henry has been accused of murdering a lady again, in the same fashion. He appeals to Barnaby and Penelope for help, as...

A visit to relatives in Newport is supposed to give Sylvia time to rest and consider the latest revelation about Miles' past. But when a picnic hosted by the local yacht club ends with a mysterious death, Sylvia is drawn into a dangerous investigation.Author:...

When Sylvia's sister disappears unexpectedly, Sylvia doubts the official story. Joan wouldn't run off to California to become a film star without first saying goodbye to her family. Clearly, she's in some sort of danger and it's up to Sylvia to find out what....

Sylvia and Miles travel to London to investigate the murder of Miles's late wife. At last, Miles is about to solve the crime that has haunted him for so long. There's just one problem. The killer is dangerous and cunning. With Miles tracking down...

Destiny, prophecy and murder weave an intricate web in this beguiling historical mystery. Could a dark prophecy spell danger for Tabitha De Vallory and her unborn child? Cheshire. May Day, 1753. Tabitha De Vallory believes her life is perfect: she has an imposing home...

A childhood nemesis. A threat seemingly from beyond the grave. Murder by Monday... A mysterious letter sends Carl Brooke and Rutherford Nordlinger off to the aid of a man who, accused of murder, is now threatened by the man he is said to have...

A haunting, unsolved murder. A father seeking redemption. A son committed to helping him get it. Did America's most notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy, kill Janet Leigh Lester? That's the conclusion Jack Jordan, John's father, reached back when he first investigated the case, but...

2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it's been In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon,...

While people across the world were engrossed in the discovery of King Tut's tomb, the community of Slocum, Kentucky, was caught up in the murder of one of its own. In 1927, Alvin Clemens, a 41-year-old husband and father was murdered in his home....

Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's...

One of London's first forensic detectives chases a grisly killer in this stunning debut mystery rich in period detail and sinister intrigue. London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the...

Pete Dana tracks the hidden danger that threatens his life in a peaceful New England seaside town.Author: John Stephen DohertyISBN-10: 1479425141ISBN-13: 9781479425143Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2024Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

Set against the backdrop of London's dangerous East End in 1888, Victorian propriety and passions collide when a beautiful widow makes a wager with a wounded police detective bent on solving the Ripper mystery. Unlucky in love and estranged from his family, Detective Sergeant...

Author: Samantha SorelleISBN-10: 1952789206ISBN-13: 9781952789205Publisher: Balcarres Books LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/17/2024Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.57d

Author: Jess ArmstrongISBN-10: 1250374650ISBN-13: 9781250374653Publisher: Minotaur BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/04/2025Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

The Investigative Countess, Rapier Sharp Logic paired with Great Insight and Boldness. A Private Inquiry Agent.When the dowager countess receives her first assignment as a private inquiry agent from Tuchinsky, an East End gangster, she immediately throws herself into the case with gusto. Meanwhile,...

Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour.Who is this mysterious woman from Wolf's past who can so easily summon him to her side?When Lady Arlene...

The BRAND NEW beautiful historical novel from Victoria Scott, perfect for fans of Evie Woods, Kate Storey and Rachel Burton. A secret buried for decades... A story that will change everything. 1940: When twenty-one-year-old Nita Bineham is offered the chance of independence, away from...

Crime novelist Raymond Chandler meets philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in a remote corner of County Galway in 1948. As the two notoriously-reclusive men develop an unlikely friendship, they stumble into a conspiracy that involves former Nazis, the US House Un-American Activities Committee, and a cat...

Pirates in Penzance? Queen Elizabeth's half-sister and secret agent Ursula Stannard takes on a dangerous new mission involving mysterious disappearances and murder in Cornwall in this gripping Tudor mystery.1594. Ursula Stannard is attending on her half-sister, Queen Elizabeth, when she receives an urgent summons...

An otherwordly place. An unnatural monster. A grisly murder...The date is 1205.Aumary Belvoir warden of the forest of Savernake and the king's constable in the county of Wiltshire has barely been able to conclude his last inquiry before he is called again to investigate...

The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his associate Elizabeth Bennet continue...The Apparition at Rosing's ParkNewly-married Charlotte Lucas, now Mrs. Collins, has invited Lizzie to stay with her for a short while. At the same time, Lady Catherine de Bourgh is facing a mysterious problem...

A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of 2018 A GUARDIAN BEST CRIME BOOK AND THRILLER FOR 2017 Longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award for 2018 The Accident on the A35 returns to the scene of Burnet's accomplished first...

Jack Novac, Indy 500 winner, plans a new assault for the 1934 Championship with his two fabulous Miller front drive race cars. Then the rules change and his Millers are not eligible. When a retired army general offers to sponsor Jack on a barnstorming...

As Glasgow is buried under snow, a killer is on the loose and a deadly secret threatens to take Brodie to the edge of sanityIt's 1947 and the worst winter in memory: Glasgow is buried in snow, killers stalk the streets, and Douglas Brodie's...

The mysterious Russian invasion hoax that shook colonial New Zealand.In January 1873, New Zealand, in a sparsely populated coastal community on Wellington's south coast, the peaceful lives of Owhiro Bay residents were shattered with the discovery of two brutal and senseless murders.Under cover of...

A boy coming of age in a time of war...the love that inspires him to survive. For ten year-old Jeremiah Prins, a life of privilege as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies comes crashing to a halt in 1942....

DI Herbert Reardon investigates the murder of an enigmatic woman who was about to leave her comfortable life behind and mysteriously disappear in this page-turning 1930s historical mystery with gasp-worthy revelations. 1935, Templewood, Worcestershire. Judge Waring's glamorous wife Emilie is mysteriously missing and no...

Author: Jenny WheelerISBN-10: 1067012249ISBN-13: 9781067012243Publisher: Happy Families LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2024Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d

Author: John D. NesbittISBN-13: 9798895675144Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2025Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.70d

Author: John DeguireISBN-13: 9798990870956Publisher: JohndeguireLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2024Pages: 362Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

Step into 1897 Victorian London: Unravel Love and Intrigue with The Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery Series, where Mystery meets Romance with a splash of Humour.Wolf had hoped he could put his thief-taking life behind him when he unexpectedly inherited an earldom.Jeremy Wolfson Chesterton,...

It was a simple choice: The stranger or the hangman. On the eve of "Dr." William Johnson's execution, a rough, mysterious man comes to Newgate Prison demanding his release. The stranger calls himself Detective Coombs. He claims Johnson is his assistant and helped him...

In the winter of 1893, William Smith awakens to an intruder in his Medford home. Paralyzed by a sinister drug, he faces a familiar yet shadowy figure intent on framing his death as a tragic suicide. As William's life flashes before his eyes, he...

Five years ago, Henry, Lord Glossup, was suspected of murdering his late wife. Although he was exonerated and the true murderer caught, Henry has been accused of murdering a lady again, in the same fashion. He appeals to Barnaby and Penelope for help, as...

During the untold millennia before patriarchy was conceived, the world was a very different place. Nothing concealed stays buried forever.THE ARKANA SERIESThe forgotten past refuses to stay buried in an artifact hunt spanning continents, centuries, and lost civilizations. The prize is a cache of...

Facing his most cunning foe, can Robert serve the Lord, save the king, and forestall civil war?It's 1630 and there's a bounty on the head of King Charles I. English cities are plastered with pamphlets and posters promising riches and honors to whoever kills...