Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Will Our Thoroughbreds Ever Race is a Pride and Prejudice Mystery/Romance. Once again Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy find love while solving a crime together. This time the mystery centers around a series of thoroughbred horse thefts, which turn very personal when both Mr....

674 AD. Werburgh, great-niece of the Abbess of Ely, travels by night to save the abbey's treasure under a wayside cross in the kingdom of Lindsey.A cryptic inscription on the back indicates the location of the magnificent gold and garnet treasure. Becoming a family...

West to Donegal Bay takes the reader on a mystical adventure to two Irish islands - Arranmore in Ireland and Beaver Island in America. It is a story of a young man without a family, who retreats within, only to be thrust into a...

Following the murder of a chief 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad - the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom - Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the entire Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of the crime. It's up to Benjamin...

When the body of a mysterious Englishman is found floating in New Orleans' New Basin Canal, Benjamin January uncovers a link to another unsolved murder in Paris nine years before. Now he must unravel the earlier murder in order to solve this second killing....

Why would elderly Gerhard Uxkull concoct a tale of Nazi atrocity on the remote island of Delphi, off the coast of Donegal? And why now, just when Irish-American billionaire Shay Govern has tendered for a prospecting licence for gold in the area? When a...

When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge, set on by an angry mob, she assumes involvement with her will be brief. She has no idea that the woman, alone but for her infant child, brings both mystery and peril. Then...

1838. When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - claims to have found the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January refuses to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, a place full of dangers. But others...

Author: Tj O'ConnorISBN-10: 1685127584ISBN-13: 9781685127589Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 298Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

Author: Tj O'ConnorISBN-10: 1685127614ISBN-13: 9781685127619Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

Author: Tj O'ConnorISBN-10: 168512755XISBN-13: 9781685127558Publisher: Level Best BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.71d

Author: Robert McCammonISBN-10: 1941971377ISBN-13: 9781941971376Publisher: Lividian PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2024Pages: 456Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.02d

Author: Bruce AlexanderISBN-10: 0425171205ISBN-13: 9780425171202Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1999Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 6.79h x 4.23w x 1.20dReview Citation(s): Ingram Paperback Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 28

Author: Jeanne M. DamsISBN-10: 1448314771ISBN-13: 9781448314775Publisher: Severn HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2025Pages: 240Format: Hardcover

American expat Tabitha Knight has found a new life in postwar Paris, along with a delightful friend in aspiring chef Julia Child. Yet there are perils in peacetime too, as a killer infiltrates one of the city's most famous fashion houses. If there's one...

Living in Greece at the turn of the twentieth century, widow Minnie Harper struggles to find her place in a swiftly changing world. But when a local woman is murdered, her resolve is put to the test in a race to shed light on...

Author: Jefferson GlassISBN-10: 1639775455ISBN-13: 9781639775453Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2024Pages: 346Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.86d

First in a dazzling new historical mystery series featuring Ruby Proulx, a psychic with a questionable past who suddenly finds her future most uncertain... Canada, 1898. The only life Ruby Proulx has ever known is that of a nomad, traveling across the country with...

Author: Kate KhavariISBN-13: 9798892420426Publisher: Crooked Lane BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2025Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbs

On the eve of World War II, an expatriate detective living in England receives an invitation to a mysterious party in Luxembourg. The guests are all men he's never met before. The host is an enigmatic Swiss banker whose name he encountered in a...

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...

Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. John Watson return in forty-one new classic pastiche adventures. Spanning Holmes's career, the tales chronicle adventures that are by turns whimsical, mysterious, and dangerous. In Part 1, Tales of Light, Holmes is presented with quirky clients and...

Author: Paul ColtISBN-10: 1633739864ISBN-13: 9781633739864Publisher: Hat CreekLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2024Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d

'Off the Rock - Escaping Alcatraz' by award-winning author Tom McAuliffe is a gripping narrative that delves into one of the most legendary prison escapes in history. In 1962, three inmates-Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin-achieved the impossible by breaking out of...

A victim of exclusionary sexism at the nation's top technology institutes, a pioneering computer scientist is called home to deal with the mysterious death of her father, a steel mill superintendent in Youngstown, Ohio.Returning to her industrial hometown, she is reunited with her college...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much. From the author of Fortune...

These stories are all set after the events of Narrelle M Harris' The Adventure of the Colonial Boy. The collection begins with "The Swordmaster's Secret", a few months after Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson return to London in 1894. The two men, newly...

1958 San Francisco: Beatniks, Eisenhower, Fillmore District jazz and Major League baseball. As Mayor George Christopher fights an influx of organized crime and redevelopment begins to transform the city, racial and political tensions rise when a Black real estate magnate is murdered.Kay Schiffner is...

People are disappearing. I spoke to my neighbour yesterday, we laughed at some nonsense, and today he is gone. We only discovered he was missing because the dog wouldn't stop howling and we all knew he would never leave his beloved pet. So I...

Responding to an urgent plea from a troubled family friend, the Earl of Wrexford journeys to Oxford only to find the reclusive university librarian has been murdered and a rare manuscript has gone missing. The only clue is that someone overheard an argument in...

The year is 1885. Hank James has been in Canada several months panning gold from a stream near Roswell, British Columbia. When he hears a prizefight will be held in town, he attends, along with everyone for miles around. With a little help from...

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The most dangerous thing a lady can possess is a profession.Ten years ago, Penelope Paiget promised she'd wait for Samuel Black. But ten years ago, she was only a genteel, impoverished paid companion, forced into service after her father's death revealed his insurmountable debts....

Book 3 of the Frances McFadden series: In February of 1942, Canada is at war against Nazi tyranny and Ottawa is mired in a vicious winter.Frances McFadden, personal secretary to the Governor of the Bank of Canada, is about to leave on a much-deserved...

A corpse. A wrongly accused hunter. A crippled painter with an unquenchable thirst for justice. In the year 679 AD, Xh l, a painter, a sculptor...and a cripple, discovers the dead body of a wealthy merchant just returned from a trade expedition to the...

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels. The various strands of the plot combine to produce...

Baron Herbert's return from crusade should have been a joyous occasion. Instead, he grows increasingly morose, withdraws from his family, and refuses to share his wife's bed. When his sons begin to die in strange accidents, some ask whether Herbert harbors a dark sin...

In the late summer of 1274, King Edward has finally been anointed England's ruler, and his queen contemplates a pilgrimage in gratitude for their safe return from Outremer, a journey that will include a stay at Tyndal Priory. Envoys are sent to confirm that...

This is the third novel in the action-packed Marc Edwards mysteries, set during the rebellions of 1830s Upper Canada. A follow-up to Turncoat and Solemn Vows.Author: Don GutteridgeISBN-10: 1476756449ISBN-13: 9781476756448Publisher: Touchstone BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2013Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d

The summer of 1276 at Tyndal Priory is passing peacefully until a villager's corpse is found floating in the millpond. The murder victim, a newcomer, was greatly disliked in Tyndal. Yet no villager wants to see one of their own hanged for the deed....

The opening scene in this story, set in California during the early 1980s, instantly propels readers into the world of Maggie McIntyre, a woman whose occupation as an auto mechanic makes her unusual and somewhat of a mystery-especially to Bett Holman, the young lesbian...

Author: Laura Jensen WalkerISBN-10: 168512559XISBN-13: 9781685125592Publisher: Level Best - HistoriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2024Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

Author: Alyssa MaxwellISBN-10: 149670326XISBN-13: 9781496703262Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2017Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d

A locked room. A double-suicide. A pistol found clutched in the Crown Prince's hand. A pair of suicide notes, in the victims' handwriting. Surely, there is no mystery here, Mr. Holmes....In the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling, just outside Vienna, the body of the...

A cruise down the Nile, a camel ride around the pyramids, lunch in the shadow of the Sphinx... And a very dead body!1924. Lady Eleanor Swift and her butler Clifford are touring the great, ancient sights of Egypt on a much-anticipated extended vacation. But...

In a sleepy town plagued by deception, one cowboy forces its inhabitants to lay their secrets bare.When Dunbar's curiosity about the tragic death of a young man in Cantera piques suspicion, he sets off a chain of events that unravel long-held secrets. With the...

A victim of exclusionary sexism at the nation's top technology institutes, a pioneering computer scientist is called home to deal with the mysterious death of her father, a steel mill superintendent in Youngstown, Ohio.Returning to her industrial hometown, she is reunited with her college...

London, 1503In a city shrouded with dread, the arrival of Thomas Berrington, summoned by King Henry, sets the stage for a tale of sinister intrigue. London is gripped by terror, with whispers of demons roaming under the cloak of night, leaving a trail of...

In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as "old maids" to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. To most of...

Legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Doctor Watson were an inseparable pair from the 1880s until the interwar era of the twentieth century. Now they are back with eight new adventures, in which the good Doctor recounts the most curious investigations he...