Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing timesBefore Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just...

Embracing the true diversity of the Regency era, award-winning author Vanessa Riley brings readers a vibrant historical mystery starring an engaging heroine with an independent streak, a notorious past, and a decided talent for sleuthing in Murder in Berkley Square the latest novel in...

The iconic Bird Cage Theatre is alive with whispering spirits. In the heart of Tombstone, a town famed for its turbulent past and ghostly legends, the disappearance of waitress Lisa Callaghan unfolds into an enigma that defies explanation. Her last known location is the...

Celebrity. Husband. Father. In the cutthroat world of cattle rustlers and gunslingers, a lawman has to be quick, cold, and ruthless or he's a dead man... and Jonas V. Brighton is now a man with something to live for. Longing for a tranquil existence...

Locked away for over a century, this machine holds an alluring secret.After remaining sealed for generations, a hidden room is discovered in the basement of the famed Biltmore Estate. Within the musty, decaying confines of the hidden room, a large mechanical machine comes to...

Ursula Stannard faces the ultimate test in this gripping Tudor mystery. How far is she prepared to go to protect those dearest to her and save her own life? April, 1590. Ursula Stannard, the queen's half-sister and occasional secret agent, has just left Sir...

Murder is so sang-froid! When the Reed family-temporarily exiled to France-is once again safe, Ginger decides to turn the event into a much needed holiday. And the absolute cake is Ginger's reunion with her American friend Haley Higgins, who is working in France on...

Have Yourself a Merry Little Murder Clive Pippins, Lady Ginger Gold's beloved, elderly butler is apparently Christmas shopping when a body is found. To the shock of everyone in Ginger's household, the victim is the spinster cousin Pippins worked for during the years surrounding...

As America races toward the supposedly bright new decade of the 1950s, disillusioned white private dick, Matt Moulton finds himself faltering in the dark. Should he serve an amnesiac client whose recovering memories of paid murder intensify his own wartime guilt as an assassin?...

Badger Creek is the story of a middle age man questioning where he is in life. In 23 years, Andy Yarnell has gone from being a green deputy to the sheriff of Gros Ventre County Montana. Getting to this point, however, has not been...

Remarkable Power of Stimulus is the sequel to These Scattered Houses. Sherlock Holmes returns to London after three years away. Traveling from New York to Liverpool he faces death-defying challenges. He finds his city in the grip of a mass murderer and No. 221B...

Dr. Carrie Nelson works on a Montana reservation and is married to the love of her life, handsome surgeon Dr. Nate Holden. When a Native American newborn is abandoned at the hospital, they fight to adopt her, though tribal law is against them. Author:...

"There's a spy in England. Read Frankie's letter..." A dying man's words to Anthony Brooke at the height of WW1. Who is Frankie? Cover blown and the German army close, English secret agent Brooke's search leads him to a country house. In the English...

This classic crime caper established the antihero character of Ars ne Lupin, who is the archetypal gentleman thief. A master of disguise, Lupin demonstrates an effortless ability to transition between high society and his actual profession of burglar. Charming and dapper to a fault,...

London, 1888 He comes out of the darkness and fog and strikes Soon, the world will learn of Jack the Ripper and his bloody crimes. On the brink of suicide, young Albert Besame meets Arthur Machen, a writer whose tales of terror will one...

Cataclysm collects four more of Lyn McConchie's intriguing and entertaining Sherlock Holmes and Mandalay stories "Cat's Paw" When Miss Emily Jackson brings a small, second-hand table home, her brown Burmese cat Mandalay will not stop frantically scratching at the table top. What should she...

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** 'Tense. Moving. Morally complex. Zina Pavlou is wholly unforgettable.' Rachel Rhys'Impressive... worthy of Sarah Waters' The TimesTHEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME.London, 1954. Zina Pavlou, a Cypriot grandmother, waits quietly in the...

Things may seem bleak when your friends and family all died nearly 150 years ago, and worse, the group who did most of them in is still doing evil. The good news is you have a loving wife, a ragtag group of brilliant scientists,...

This royal visit is going to off with a bang...Edward, the Prince of Wales, is about to step foot on Kiwi soil and Grace is frantically finishing gowns for her wealthy clients to wear at the balls thrown in his honour. But then a...

In the bleak landscape of Depression Era Alberta, war veteran Fergus Muir finds solace in routine until a chance encounter with Cat Perkins, a troubled girl resembling his late wife. As Cat's world unravels, Fergus delves into the shadows of their small town, uncovering...

The fate of the allied forces lies in the hands of Joanna and the Watsons in the next Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery from USA Today bestselling author Leonard Goldberg.During a critical stage in World War One, the Governor-General of South Africa journeys to...

A reclusive woman living in outback Australia receives a letter acknowledging a terrible secret from her past. Thirty years before, she stole another woman's life. From the moment the letter is opened two women are on a collision course with destiny. From the London...

From Leningrad in the seventies to America and London in the present day, Kimberley Freeman's new novel follows the lives of two sisters, Lena and Natalia and their cousin, Sofi, as they move away from Russia and all they have known. Despite promising to...

London, early June, 1926The last Friday of every month, Christopher Astley, in the guise of his alter ego Kitty Dupree, has attended a covert drag ball somewhere in London. In April, the ball was interrupted by a police raid that Christopher escaped by the...

Tirza Libby, a respected and successful war photographer, tries to escape her past by retreating to a remote Scottish island. But even thousands of miles and four decades cannot erase the memories of a childhood summer in Maine: a community profoundly altered by war,...

In 1940, England is desperate and fearful. The threat of a German invasion is real, and many German Nationals are interned in camps across the country. One such is on Prees Heath, near the small town of Whitchurch in Shropshire, where Tom Tyler is...

When a mutilated corpse is discovered in the sleepy English village of Croxton Ferriers, Jack Haldean finds an odd clue at the scene of the crime: a black marble chess knight with crystal eyes. Is murder just a game? It could be - to...

When Langham's literary agent receives a cryptic letter inviting him to spend the weekend at the grand Cornish home of successful novelist Denbigh Connaught, Charles Elder seems reluctant to attend. What really happened between Elder and Connaught during the summer of 1917, nearly 40...

An "amazing"* debut historical novel (*Ariana Franklin, national betselling author of Grave Goods) Paris, 1686 When The Bishop of Marseilles discovers that his young cousin Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been helping heretics escape the king's dragoons, the bishop sends...

In I.J. Parker's newest mystery set in eleventh-century Japan, Akitada disguises himself as a prisoner to solve the, murder of a prince As her audience grows with each evocative historical thriller featuring Sugawara Akitada, I. J. Parker returns with a gripping tale of political...

Asta, the dog from the popular Thin Man series, has vanished, and production for his next film is pending. MGM Studios offers a huge reward, and that's exactly what young private detectives Babs Norman and Guy Brandt need for their struggling business to survive....

A dogged investigation... Lord Julian Caldicott is summoned to the country home of a family friend to look for a prize foxhound who's gone missing. The purloined canine turns out to be only the tail of a series of puzzles involving family secrets, slander,...

Midnight assignations, dresses fit to meet the queen . . . and murder most horrid! Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion investigates a puzzling death in this thrilling historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London. London, 1668. Printer's apprentice Lucy Campion is suspicious when she meets a...

Step into the thrilling world of 1940s comic book superheroes with the debut issue of Detective Dime Novels! Join the daring adventures of Doctor Thaddeus C. Harker, a scientific criminologist armed with wit and Texas charm. As he travels the country, solving mysteries and...

Alone and in a new, unfamiliar place, a young witch discovers a murderous plot to turn the tide of the Civil War--which also might be the key to getting her powers and place in society back, if it doesn't kill her first. After using...

Bringing a vibrant edge and welcome diversity to the Regency genre, this exciting historical mystery from award-winning author Vanessa Riley features an engaging heroine with an independent streak, a notorious past, and a decided talent for sleuthing . . . Pressed into a union...

When You Fight Death, You Don't Always Win!Mobile, Alabama is a supernatural hotspot! Carrie Jo Stuart's dream catching has gotten out of control and threatens to wreck her happy home. She decides to tell her husband a secret that changes everything, but Ashland has...

A love betrayed. A friendship shattered. A miscarriage of justice? It is 1207. A young woman arrives at Durley village, deep in Savernake Forest. It seems she has walked the many miles from Hereford seeking the father of her unborn child. She swears that...

For the twentieth anniversary of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere reissued the books with beautiful new illustrated covers. ----------------------------- Matthew Bartholomew, unorthodox but effective physician to Michaelhouse college in medieval Cambridge, is as worried as anyone about the pestilence that is ravaging Europe and...

A Hostage to Heritage is Book 3 in the Michael Stoddard American Revolution Mystery series and an Indie Book of the Day Award winner. If you like Diana Gabaldon, Bernard Cornwell, and Jim Butcher, then you'll love this twisty, riveting mystery novel."Author Suzanne Adair...

Daniel Pitt prosecutes a beloved philanthropist whose good deeds may hide dark--and dangerous--secrets in this gripping mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. Working his way up at London law firm fford Croft and Gibson, Daniel Pitt is named junior counsel on...

When an exhibition featuring London's top engineers results in sudden, violent death, Victorian writer-sleuths Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens investigate. "Victorian whodunits don't get much better than this" - Publishers Weekly Starred Review March, 1859. After the 'Great Stink' of the previous summer when...

Jens a professor of linguistics at Trondheim University makes a breakthrough in bird communications. Hoping a similar break-through in delphinidae communications will occur, the Oceanic Sea Mammal Research Institute in Kristiansund, Norway convinces Jens to leave the University. Where he successfully communicates with a...

Rosalindenstra e 36 was built at the turn of the last century and withstood the vagaries of time and two world wars. Its occupants suffered through inflation of unheard proportions, times of depression, hunger, deprivation, and the highs and lows of their lives. Were...

Amidst the chaos of chasing a murderer, can Elizabeth and Darcy still experience the euphoria of falling deeply in love? Their quest is shrouded in mystery, and the outcome is uncertain - will it lead them to a delightful destiny or their doom?When Lady...

Jane Black is plain and smart, a combination sure to kill any prospects found in a London season.Pretending her wallflower status is of no concern, Jane focuses on the quiet country life she's planned even as she struggles with the vow she made to...

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....

Lady Emily Black will do anything for redemption. Haunted by a tragic mistake in her past that endangered her family and nearly cost the life of the only man she could ever love, Emily now lives a life of exile that just so happens...

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing timesBefore Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just...

A murder. A good and caring community. And no detectives. Anna Gillis has been murdered. Angus MacDonald, church elder and de facto leader of the community, brings the small group of Scottish settlers together as they seek to uncover the wrongdoer. Old Annie, the...