Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

The 2013 Midwest Book Award winner for historical fiction.One hundred years ago, Minnie Seamer's death shocked her rural Iowa community. A young farmhand found her body hanging in the barn on a rainy summer morning in 1913. The coroner ruled it a suicide, but...

Author: Maureen Anne MeehanISBN-13: 9798330481224Publisher: Maureen MeehanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2024Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

At the May Day dancing at Glasgow Cross, Gil Cunningham sees not only the woman who is going to be murdered, but her murderer as well. Gil is a recently qualified lawyer whose family still expect him to enter the priesthood. When he finds...

Cable Girls meets Peaky Blinders meets Titanic The girls had forged a bond together like iron that could not be broken. Claudia, Kiersten, Lina, and Florian were on the brink of making history with their powerful feminist movement, but then they suddenly disappeared without...

Henry VIII's court jester Will Somers turns reluctant inquisitor once again when a grotesque murder within the palace walls is linked to the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion in this gripping Tudor mystery. 1536, London. The gruesome murder of a servant in the king's palace,...

Author: Richard BlaineISBN-10: 1685127452ISBN-13: 9781685127459Publisher: Level Best - HistoriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

The future of Thorncroft House and its occupants is in the balance while a mysterious murder brings up a past best forgotten! An authentic Victorian murder mystery depicting upstairs-downstairs life in nineteenth century England. October 1861, England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeeper and...

Author: J. Edwin HollowISBN-13: 9798341252448Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/05/2024Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Author: John D. NesbittISBN-13: 9798895671375Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2024Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d

In the midst of World War II, as Hitler unleashes his most devastating attack on London since the Blitz, a sinister plot unfolds in the shadows. The British government faces a new threat: a rogue wing of the Irish Republican Army, determined to resurrect...

London provides fabulously deadly opportunities for a fledgling inspector in the twisty follow-up to Julia Seales's bestselling debut, A Most Agreeable Murder, hailed by People as "delightful cocktail...of wit, hilarity, and suspense!" After achieving her lifelong dream of solving a murder, bringing a killer...

Author: Michael McGarrityISBN-10: 132406627XISBN-13: 9781324066279Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2025Pages: 256Format: Hardcover

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...

This rare and spirited mystery novel was first published in 1956. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger and Edgar(R) Award-winning author Martin Edwards.As he walked away from the phone there was a puzzled expression on Blampignon's massive countenance. He was thinking:...

Step away from the modern world with The Continuing Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes: Omnibus Five, by C. Thorne, a collection of four short stories, a novella, and a bonus vignette, which is found nowhere else but in this volume! Come with us in The...

Spring 1941. It is the third year of war, and when the siren sounds the people of Cambridge trudge to the city's public bomb shelters. Crowded, smoky, often raucous, the shelters have become a way of life for the poor. At dawn the body...

Chinatown meets the Coen brothers in 1930s Omaha in this atmospheric noir by a native Nebraskan. Omaha, 1930. PI Jim Beely's life wasn't a peach to begin with. And now there's a dead guy in his backseat. The last thing he needs to deal...

September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool to New York on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. Posing as a passenger, Dillman is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line to keep an eye out for petty crimes. But after some uneventful...

"God and whiskey have got me where I am. Too little of the one, too much of the other." - David King, Chatham, Canada, 1895. Born a slave in 1847, but raised as a free man on the world-renowned, African-American Elgin Settlement near present-day...

To thwart an earl was Lady Pendleton's dearest desire, so she had taken it into her head to invite her two delightful young American nieces to England. Her brother, the pompous Earl of Cumberford, positively loathed the American branch of the family, and when...

Author: M. R. C. KasasianISBN-10: 1804366102ISBN-13: 9781804366103Publisher: CaneloLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2024Pages: 330Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.74d

Housekeeper Phyllida Bright is quite in her element at Mallowan Hall, the charming English manor that she keeps in tip-top shape. By contrast, the bustling metropolis of London, where her famed employer Agatha Christie has temporarily relocated, leaves Phyllida a bit out of her...

Housekeeper Phyllida Bright is quite in her element at Mallowan Hall, the charming English manor that she keeps in tip-top shape. By contrast, the bustling metropolis of London, where her famed employer Agatha Christie has temporarily relocated, leaves Phyllida a bit out of her...

Less than one year into her marriage to respected magistrate George Knightley, Emma has grown unusually content in her newfound partnership and refreshed sense of independence. The height of summer sees the former Miss Woodhouse gracefully balancing the meticulous management of her elegant family...

It's January 1932 and Shanghai is about to explode. Private detective Jack Ford doesn't think things can get much worse, and then a young woman looking for a missing brother walks into his life. The search takes him from swank hotels and clubs through...

Three visions of death. Two women trapped in a killer's lair. One chance to survive. The Summer of Love has been replaced by the Summer of Fear as a sadistic killer prowls the streets of San Francisco. Known only as 'The Gemini, ' his...

In the middle of an old mill's renovation, a tale of greed and betrayal unfolds. The discovery of hidden Civil War treasure ignites a deadly game of power, where trust is a liability, and every handshake hides a betrayal. As the body count rises,...

"I just need a trusted messenger," Winston Churchill said. "President Wilson and Senator Lodge know me and have some small respect for me. They will listen. They must. The ties between the recent terrorist attacks and the current massive labor strikes are undeniable evidence...

The ruthless reign of Henry IV and the clerical tyranny of Archbishop Arundel keep Brother Chandler and his friends under constant threat in this gripping medieval mystery featuring friar-sleuth Rodric Chandler. "Clark's use of period detail is unparalleled, and the plot remains taut and...

Granada, Spain 1887. A brief respite in Spain brings the opportunity of a lifetime when botanist Linnea Wren is invited to contribute to the restoration of the Alhambra gardens. But before she can begin digging, a body is found in the Generalife, and Linnea...

Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham have to hunt down an escapee from a French asylum, in this new, gripping World's End Bureau Victorian mystery from critically-acclaimed author Alys Clare. London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to...

It is the early 1340s, a decade full of possibilities and freedom. Father Bernard arrives in the valley village under the three mountains, his holy orders in hand, charged with reestablishing the church of St. Cyprian's and bringing its parishioners back into the fold....

I reach for my scotch glass. Empty. I slam it down and check my pockets. My hand fumbles with my pack of Woodbines. Damn. I need a ciggy, bad. I shake a smoke out and put it to my lips. I strike a match,...

"The Bull Is Dead." Ariemme is a daughter of the Pasithea. But unlike her Mother, who can speak with bees and bulls, call the rains, and hear the cracking of the earth deep down, Ariemme barely understands the speech of birds and serpents. She...

Mona Moon and her new husband, Robert Farley, Duke of Brynelleth are on their honeymoon at last. They are invited to a weekend party by an old friend of Robert's family-Lady Eustacia. Mona and Robert arrive in a substantial downpour to find several other...

"All That Glitters is an excellent read... a great mystery to solve!" -In D'Tale Magazine, October 2020Becoming governess to a robber baron's deeply troubled daughter is not the life Sarah Anne Mercer had envisioned, but she must face this reality with grit and determination...

How does the return of a man once thought lost challenge the very fabric of intellect, faith, and redemption? As Sherlock Holmes reemerges from the shadows of Europe to confront both old foes and inner demons, what truths will he and Dr. John Watson...

The BRAND NEW instalment in Holly Hepburn's page-turning Baker Street Mystery series'When did you become aware something was wrong?''When the screaming began...'Harriet White is no stranger to odd correspondence. Ensconced in the basement of the Baker Street building society, her job is to reply...

Kevin W. Ryan is a seventy-seven-year-old first-time novelist, who spent a year as an interim president/CEO of Wyndham Community Hospital located in Willimantic, Connecticut, in the mid-1990s. He immediately became enthralled with the history and beauty of the city and its surrounding countryside. After...

New from USA Today & International Bestseller Grace Callaway"This book is the grab-a-fan, oh-my, on-fire kind of scrumptious." -Reader Review When a wounded lord hires a housekeeper in disguise, secrets smolder and sparks fly in this grumpy sunshine, enemies to lovers, spicy and cozy...

Fascism is not extreme enough for some. In an alternative, in 1937, Britain is drifting towards dictatorship, and Hugh Clifton is trapped in his role as a fascist intelligence officer. He leads the agents of Room Z against far-right groups to stop the country...

Sheriff Chet Harbison and his deputies put their investigative skills to the test in April of 1931 after the trampled body, identified as Hillsboro Police Chief Hamilton Bliss, is found under the Sandy Creek Bridge just outside of Hillsboro. On the same day, his...

How far would you go to protect someone you love who cannot see the life or death danger they are facing? Elvis Presley is beloved worldwide, but none are as devoted as Liz Phillips. He communicates with her through his music and movies, and...

The fifth and final installment in the Electra McDonnell series brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon, Portugal to rescue a key group of escaped POWs.Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission yet: go...

In 1969 London socialite Katherine Fletcher is dispatched by her family to attend the funeral of her bachelor uncle in rural Kilkenny. She soon discovers that she has no idea who, if anyone, she can trust and that nothing is as it seems. In...

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a calamity has occurred. Old Dr. Robinson, a known 'menace on the roads', has met his end in a collision with a jeep on a hazardous junction....

Diver Ulysses Vidal finds a fourteenth-century bronze bell of Templar origin buried under a reef off the Honduras coast. It turns out it's been lying there for more than one century, prior to Christopher Columbus's discovery of America. Driven by curiosity and a sense...

Anna Fort wants to be a supportive wife, even if that means accompanying her husband for the winter of 1918 to a remote, frozen island estate so he can finish his book as the guest of an eccentric millionaire. When she learns three girls...

The man lying in lower ten was on his back, his face illuminated by the early morning sun. But the light had no effect on him. A small red stain marred the front of his pajamas and trailed across the sheet. His half-open eyes...

'A grisly period detective story.' The TimesLondon, 1850: The Dickensian streets grow darker by the day.Private investigator Charles Maddox is surprised when he is approached by Edward Tulkinghorn for help. The feared and shadowy attorney offers Charles a handsome price he can't refuse to...