Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Mick Powers, wanted in Saint Paul, is living on the lam deep in the quiet woods of Wisconsin. Just after New Year's, his phone starts ringing with phantom calls. Then one snowy afternoon, a dark sedan lumbers down his driveway. Mick's dogs go into...

California Dreamin'... It's the summer of '67 and all Liam Sol wants is to ride the perfect wave and to sleep with the prettiest girls. But when his father's murdered body is found washed ashore, his carefree life comes crashing down on him.After the...

A simple assignment to escort a young woman from Louisville, Kentucky to Washington City proves far more interesting and difficult than Merritt and Argent first thought. An astonishing array of delays points to both plain bad luck and deeper, murkier forces at work. In...

In this mystery novel set in central New York, sleuth Marty Fenton is drawn into the most complex and dangerous puzzle he has ever encountered.Author: Bob CohenISBN-10: 0925168394ISBN-13: 9780925168399Publisher: North Country BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1994Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.05w x 0.48d

A thrilling Regency murder mystery set in Bath! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Elizabeth Bailey and Ashley Gardner. When a fortune is at stake, anyone could be a suspect... 1797, Bath, England Devastated by the news of the death of her fiancé,...

London, spring 1849. Charles Dickens, the famous author, turns detective. He and Superintendent Jones of Bow Street must find the man who cut the throat of Patience Brooke, assistant matron at Urania Cottage, Dickens's home for fallen women - a man who sings as...

Inspector Singh is on a mission to China, against his better judgment. The son of a bigwig at the Singapore Embassy has been bludgeoned to death in a back alley in Beijing. The Chinese security insist that he was the victim of a robbery...

Queen Elizabeth's proposed engagement to a Catholic Duke is causing turmoil throughout the kingdom in the gripping new Ursula Blanchard mystery. July, 1579. Called upon to help a family friend who is horrified at the return of her errant husband after an absence of...

As plague stalks the streets of 16th century London, Christopher Marlowe is drawn into a baffling murder investigation where nothing is as it first appears. September, 1592. "Kit, I know we have never been friends, but you are the only man in London to...

Government girl Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be posted to London, but her journey across the Atlantic proves to be anything but plain sailing... February, 1944. Washington D.C. With the war entering its most dangerous phase, Louise Pearlie is thrilled to be reassigned to...

"I've been a scoundrel, a thief, a blackmailer and a whore, but never a murderer. Until now..." The year is 1929. As the world teeters on the brink of a global recession, Bletchley Park plays host to a rather special event. MI5 is celebrating...

Arthur Bayliss is the owner of a successful textile business in the north of England and a newly endorsed member of the Icarus Club. He is also a tyrant and a bully. When Everett Carr accepts an invitation to stay at Darton House, Bayliss'...

During his lifetime, a little-known mystery novelist achieves modest success. After his sudden death, his final novel is a best-selling sensation-especially in the enchanted town of Las Vegas, New Mexico. The story's historic setting, quirky characters, and bizarre events reveal lore and legends of...

New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns to Victorian Scotland in the latest in the genre-blending Rip Through Time series. Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Mitchell has grown accustomed to life in Victorian Scotland after travelling 150 years into the past into the body...

When Hans Holbein returns to London in search of royal patronage a secret from his past will define his future in a new, terrifying way.The story that he knows did not end at Bosworth. In the aftermath, Henry Tudor must try to secure his...

Ambition, intrigue, treachery, murder-another Byzantine mystery... 548 CE, Constantinople. The emperor Justinian, distraught from the death of his wife Theodora, has exiled John, the Lord Chamberlain. Soon after, an Egyptian magician tries to raise the empress from the dead. The unholy ceremony goes awry,...

548 CE, Constantinople. Emperor Justinian, distraught from the death of his wife, Empress Theodora, has exiled his longtime aide, John, the Lord Chamberlain. At the Church of the Holy Apostles, an Egyptian magician tries to raise the empress from the dead. As the unholy...

Euphemia Martins is back for another nail-biting adventure in the eighteenth instalment in Caroline Dunford's gripping mystery seriesEuphemia has recently returned from Edinburgh to her home in the Fens when spymaster Fitzroy announces his plan to host an extravagant Christmas party at White Orchards....

Eric Lloyd, a private investigator from Santa Monica, is called in to help investigate the serial murders of two young Indian women near a small rural town in southern California. The caller is none other than Erle Stanley Gardner, America's most famous mystery writer,...

The action of the story all takes place in New York, beneath the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. There, in an odd little shop with an extensive underground connection, once used to help escaping slaves, old Mr. Crabbe conducts his peculiar and illicit business,...

The thrill-packed adventures of this brilliant young secret agent of the U.S. Naval Intelligence Service find him in hot pursuit of the powerful "Scorpion," leader of an international spy ring whose deliberate aim is to plunge the whole world into war.How Don and his...

Meet BALDO SCARPA -- 67 years old, born in Sicily, a U.S. citizen since 1919. Sentenced to 5 years in 1924 for extortion. Paroled in 1927. Sentenced to 8 years in 1932 for manslaughter. Paroled in 1938. Sentenced to 25 years to life in...

Johnny Phelan had two corpses behind him--"Three and you're out, Johnny," the cops told him. "Out of this world, real gone cool on a marble slab . . . worth a hot quarter-million bucks in small kills . . ."So in the land of...

"The days when the Wildpark near Potsdam was a place for hunting game are long since a thing of the past. Yet, the discovery of a dead man at the break of dawn calls Inspector Stein into the depths of the forest. His investigations...

Author: Paul WilbornISBN-10: 1964239443ISBN-13: 9781964239446Publisher: St. Petersburg PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2026Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

Author: Golden AngelISBN-10: 1958188239ISBN-13: 9781958188231Publisher: Golden Angel LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2026Pages: 394Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Author: Leia K. KayISBN-13: 9798999448057Publisher: Leia Kay LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2026Pages: 406Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.90d

Author: Russell Thayer,M. E. ProctorISBN-13: 9798902431831Publisher: Cowboy Jamboree PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2026Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d

Author: Eunice Mays BoydISBN-13: 9798898201234Publisher: Level Best - HistoriaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2026Pages: 234Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Author: Alice CampbellISBN-10: 1667666754ISBN-13: 9781667666754Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2026Pages: 314Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d

Author: Alice MondayISBN-13: 9798992545838Publisher: Jewel C Parker PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2026Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d

For years, Lady Cassandra Sinclair has harbored a scandalous secret and a painful loss. Unwilling to trust a man again, and determined to remain single, Cassie throws herself into a confidential project-a private home for pregnant, unwed women. Hope House is now her sole...

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. New York, 1920. Zelda Fitzgerald is bored, bored, bored. Although she's newly married to the...

In the Midnight Hour An inquisitive bachelor. A mysterious widow. A dangerous partnership in Regency London. Idle heir to an earldom, Viscount Northwood drifts through life with little purpose-until a shocking murder shatters the calm of his quiet London square. His prime suspect? The...

This enthralling sequel to The Return of Moriarty is perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Laurie R. King. Here is a mystery fit for the late Sherlock Holmes, and his surviving nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, is just the shadowy genius to take it...

A corpse in the ale. A scandal in society. A love neither expected.Lancashire, 1862. When a body is discovered floating in a vat of ale, Inspector Halliwell wastes no time in probing the town's most prosperous brewery. Every worker is a suspect-including Jacob Longworth,...

When Nina finds the dead body of a woman who could easily be her twin, she must divide the men in her life into two groups: the ones she can trust and the ones who might be the killer. A refreshing new take on...

A BRAND NEW, beautifully atmospheric and utterly spellbinding historical mystery of forbidden love and haunting secrets, set in a crumbling inn on the wild Cornish coast ✨Author: Lauren WestwoodISBN-10: 1806562286ISBN-13: 9781806562282Publisher: Boldwood Books LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d

This Christmas, peace on earth will have to wait-there's a murderer in the drawing room. When Lady Margot Blackwell reluctantly agrees to host the BBC's festive broadcast at her ancestral home in Crayford, she expects little more than microphone mishaps, gossiping villagers, and too...

A daring rogue pilot. A shattered world still reeling from war. A hunt that uncovers more than anyone bargained for.From the Caribbean skies to the depths of an uncharted island, this six-book epic collection throws you into a high-stakes game of survival, secrets, and...

The village of Mill-Upon-Mortlake is in fine fettle over their cricket prospects, so much so that the upcoming match is rapidly taking on a festival air. Children are collecting for a bonfire and fireworks. The members of the cricket team are local heroes, and...

Forget icebergs-on this voyage, murder is just the tip of the icepick.RMS Oceanic, New Year's Eve, 1924Private Investigator Penelope van Keesler is ready to ring in the new year with elegance and adventure aboard the luxurious RMS Oceanic. With her poodle Ginger in tow...

When a vicar mysteriously goes missing in the small, picturesque English village of Stanton Parva, the locals are in turmoil. Two days later, a man is found dead. Are these two events linked, or separate incidents? Detective Inspector Peter Riley is on the case,...

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The...

"It's one of my favorite vampire books." -Vine VoiceWhen Dr. Julian Hemmings agrees to apply the controversial techniques of his mentor Sigmund Freud to the deeply troubled Lucy Westenra, he begins a descent into a world of gothic horror that prompts his own self-analysis...

If people would only stop trying to kill him, Halvar the Dane might finally manage to do what he was sent to the island of Manatas to do-get the fugitive Leon di Vicenza on a boat back to Al-Andalus. And he didn't intend to...

Who killed the captain? It's not bad enough that Halvar is stuck in Manatas while Don Felipe is off exploring the New World. Now he's got a dead ship captain on his hands, a noblewoman and his virago wife complaining about their living accommodations,...

Cissy tries to put her feelings away and consider Brandon, but despite his continued interest, she realizes it is Ryan that holds her heart. Ryan, who was attracted to Cissy even before he met his wife, is free to pursue her at last. When...

A followup to Grave Consequences in Erlanger, KY., Author Mike Due once more takes true local histories along with exagerated fiction, and places them in a blender with the controls set to puree. The result is a satisfying mystery smoothie set against semi-true histories...

In this chilling psychological tale set in revolutionary France, a young couple confront their darkest fears. Looming above them, between healing and oblivion, lies the French Republic's most shocking secret.FRANCE, 1794 - The Reign of TerrorJulien d'Aureville, a young boy from a broken home...