Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Jake Reynolds is an art thief. A master artist who can create an exact replica of any famous canvas, in intricate detail. So precise and elegant is his work that even today, hanging on the walls of the most prestigious museums and art galleries...

In 1870 London, the body of a postal clerk is found inside a pneumatic railway car, and surgeon Samson Light has been accused. Tommy Jones must abandon his many jobs to pursue the witness who can exonerate his former tutor. Inspector Morgan of St...

A curated collection of magic...and murder.When a set of bound manuscripts written on magician-made paper is brought to the Glass Library, Sylvia and the professor send the owner away. After all, the library collects books about magic, not containing it. But the murder of...

As Germany strangles under the tight grip of the Nazi Party, the frozen winter of 1940 brings even more reasons to fear the dark in the crackling new WWII crime novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow--perfect for fans of Philip Kerr's...

Author: Stephen SpotswoodISBN-10: 0593469046ISBN-13: 9780593469040Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black LizardLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2023Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d

Mysterious socialite Dorian Gray is at the centre of Sherlock Holmes' latest investigation in this astonishing, uncanny mash-up of Victorian mystery and horror. 1903. Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson have tickets to the newly arrived Circus of Amun-Ra. Holmes is puzzled by his...

One of the series of mysteries that represent the spirit of the Canadian people who have sought justice over the centuries. The Canadian Historical Mysteries will feature one book set in every Province/Territory in Canada.The year is 1924 and Prohibition is spawning a new...

A mystery with the fascinating Mitford sisters at its heart, Jessica Fellowes's The Mitford Secret is the sixth and final intriguing installment in the Mitford Murders series. It's 1941, and the Mitford household is splintered by the vicissitudes of war. To bring the clan...

Mariah Fredericks's The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America's most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime. "A masterful blending of fact and fiction that is as compelling as it is...

Two women. One chance to get it right... "This town has stories," Jo's mother said. "You're the one to tell them." Now her mother is gone, and Jo blames herself. In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, she sets out to prove herself...

The clear blue skies suddenly turn an eerie green and within a few seconds it begins nature explodes with a vengeance.Like most people, Silvey Rhoades pays little attention to the details about the weather. But when disaster strikes her home town, she's confronted with...

FINALIST FOR FICTION/MYSTERY, BRONZE MEDAL, 2023, INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDS FINALIST FOR 2023 HISTORICAL MYSTERY, "...ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST", BESTTHRILLERS BOOK AWARDS FINALIST FOR 2023 FICTION/MYSTERY, AMERICAN WRITING AWARDSA murder investigation in a small town zeros in on a young man who returns...

LONDON 1889When her soulmate, Jonathan August-Trelawney jilts her at the altar, Lily Pond is determined to live life on her own terms. Her friends and acquaintances aren't afraid of giving her their opinions. They encourage her to find someone else to marry and...swiftly. Your...

Arabella Stewart and her best friend, Ida Byington, look forward to a long weekend with college girlfriends on a remote Lake Erie island. Bootlegged booze and hidden grievances soon shatter the peace. When a gale knocks out electricity and telephone service, the women become...

It's January of 1704, and Matthew Corbett continues his mission to Italy, accompanied by Hudson Greathouse and former enemy Professor Fell. They seek Brazio Valeriani and information about the mirror created by his father, the sorcerer Ciro. Legend claims the mirror can be used...

A twelve-year-old boy witnessed a murder.But nobody believed him.Except Sherlock Holmes.Holmes quickly deduces that the boy was intricately connected to the victim and knows more than he is letting on.Eventually, Holmes solves the case in his mind ... and does nothing.Everybody was fooled. So,...

The voyage of a lifetime turns into a nightmare.When Katherine Schmidt sails for Europe in late 1929, she looks forward to a year of carefree travel thanks to an unexpected inheritance. But when a companion on her steamer is murdered and she becomes a...

When murder invades Haydn's opera stage, scandal isn't far behind . . .Charged with ensuring that an imperial wedding transpires without mishap, composer Joseph Haydn has his hands full. Barely seventeen, Archduke Ferdinand Karl, the imperial bridegroom, is reluctant to marry. And the bride,...

Jack Fitzglens plans to seek out the infamous Talisman Chalice, steal it and create a dazzling piece of theater around it, but he uncovers something far darker. Scandal, secrets, and danger lurk in every shady corner. As past and present collide, can Jack find...

Mel Starr's latest novel is a thoroughly enjoyable medieval crime mystery. It may be enjoyed as complete in itself, or as part of the Hugh de Singleton series. When Hugh and Kate's new-born son is taken to the church to be baptized, they are...

Seven Shades of Evil is the ninth volume in bestselling author Robert McCammon's acclaimed series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, and this fascinating installment features a wide range of adventures undertaken by both Matthew and his friends over the years.From murder plots that...

Buried secrets. An ancient fossil. And one woman's determination to unravel a nineteenth-century mystery.Australia, 1847. The last thing Mellie Vale remembers before the fever takes her is sprinting through the bush with a monster at her heels--but no one believes her. In a bid...

Old scandals and destructive truths are exposed when a woman from Hugh Marsden's past is murdered in cold blood. Principal Bow Street Officer Hugh Marsden is used to living in the shadow of disgrace. First, as the illegitimate son of the late Viscount Neatham,...

The long expected death of Victoria Sedgewick's father-in-law draws Victoria back to the family's Yorkshire estate one final time. But what should have been a simple funeral turns dangerous as Victoria finds herself the victim of a set of eerie circumstances. Although the locals...

The town of Brighton is divided by controversy as an exhibition of fossils arrives at the town hall. The star attraction is an Archaeopteryx skeleton, the supposed missing link, but not everyone likes the idea of the fossil being on display, not least the...

What if the most celebrated consulting detective in the world, at the height of his powers in 1897, was on the trail of the ancient lost Crown of Scotland? The crown, its history lost in the mists of time, was torn from the head...

Young Winston Churchill, aged thirteen, is the cadet section of the Sherlock Holmes detective agency. He spends his Christmas holidays assisting Holmes and Watson in solving the case of the missing Apostles' papers, exposing the mad doctor of Hammersmith and tracking the 'Giant Moles'...

The Queen's spymasters in the newly created Special (Secret) Branch of Scotland Yard inform the Prime Minister that Her Majesty is at grave risk of assassination during the Jubilee procession to Westminster Abbey. Blood-oath Irish Republican fanatics have vowed to kill the Queen and...

When a twenty-year-old letter reappears hinting at clues to a crime, Mr. Singh hires Lady Rample to help him solve the mystery. Never one to pass up a good adventure, Lady Rample heads to Brighton with Mr. Singh and her Aunt Butty to discover...

When a young Chinese woman is murdered within the British Quarter of the foreign legation, Inspector Gong is ordered by the Imperial Court to solve the crime before the incident escalates into war between China and the foreign powers. The only problem? Inspector Gong...

The internationally acclaimed romance for those who dare confront the horror of true love.Rachel, an American biographer researching the life and work of Mary Shelley, is consumed by the escalating threads of her investigation. Shards of Shelley's creation are exhumed from the past. Aspects...

Surviving multiple yellow fever epidemics in Memphis, a young man abruptly leaves home and heads into the western frontier. His journey leads him to an Army enlistment where he goes on to become a war hero of the Spanish-American war. Stricken with malaria in...

In 1982, Lisa Wycherly was broke, out of work and desperate. So when Sid Hackbirn offered her a job as his live-in secretary, she jumped at it, little knowing just how dangerous it would be. Living at Sid's house was scary enough, given Sid's...

Missouri Territory, 1846: Driven by angry mobs, thousands of Latter-day Saints flee their homes in the eastern United States. They gather west of the Missouri River to wait out the winter and hope they survive hunger and disease. A church leader unveils a shocking,...

From December 1884 to December 1885 a series of murders occurred in Austin, Texas which became known as the Servant Girl Annihilator murders. One of the suspects was a Malay cook, known only as Maurice. Before he could be apprehended, Maurice disappeared. It is...

Summoned to Edinburgh after another inexplicable vision, Dr. Peter Ainsley and his sister, Margaret Marshall, are shocked to discover their good friend, and Margaret's secret lover, has been arrested for murder. Dr. Jonas Davies, a celebrated surgeon and newly appointed professor at the University...

Lies, desperation and an offer she can't refuse send impoverished widow Lady Catherine (Cat) headlong into marriage with the man who killed her husband.Guilt and desire battle within Hughe, Lord Oxley's, soul. When the enigmatic leader of the Assassin's Guild learns that the widow...

A unique Irish detective thriller. A rare insight into Gaelic culture. Nobody knows much about reclusive Irish historian Muiris (Mos) O'S illeabh in except that he doesn't share his secrets freely. Mos, however, has a "sixth sense for history, a unique talent for finding...

New Mystery by Edgar-Nominated Author In 1921, young jazz pianist Eve Riser witnesses the accidental killing of a bootlegger. To cover up the crime, she agrees to deliver a letter to a man named Rudy Hardy in Chicago. But when Eve gets to Chicago...

The indomitable Baroness Bligh packs up her friends and family, along with her pets and the Chief Magistrate of Bow Street, for a relaxing country Christmas which -- as often is the case with Dulcie -- turns out to be nothing of the sort....

San Francisco radio news reporter Parker Atkins is back in Los Angeles where, in a previous and less sober life, he was an LAPD detective. Now in L A to cover a story on off-shore gambling ships, Atkins stumbles into the middle of a...

Persephone 'Percy' Cole joins the ranks of other gumshoes such as Sam Spade, Lew Archer, and Phillip Marlowe. This five-foot eleven, full-figured gal has the same hard-boiled, take-no-prisoners attitude, but with a difference. She's a shamus with a wicked sense of humor and the...

London 1868 - The newspapers call him The Surgeon, a killer targeting pauper children in Limehouse district leaving their bodies discarded in death as they were in life. Discouraged by the lack of physical clues Dr. Peter Ainsley joins Scotland Yard's Inspector Simms as...

Peter Ainsley's mother, Lady Charlotte Marshall hasn't been seen or heard from in three days. While Inspector Simms of Scotland Yard is unofficially investigating her disappearance Ainsley is loathed to reveal knowledge of his mother's affair despite it being the best lead to her...

Cole's heart is dark. He's a mystery, even to those closest to him in the Assassins Guild. All anyone really knows for sure is that he's ruthless, grim, and cares little for his own life. So when he loses his memory during an attack...

Hytwen and Ortwen: two remote villages on the southern edge of the Empire of Harion. Separated by a misty lake. And a deadly family secret. When ex-Imperial Investigator Bander arrives in the village of Hytwen, ragged and half dead after a savage attack on...

Marcellus Hightower, the young boy in the novel, THIS IS ADAM, returns to his hometown as a grown man in DEVIL'S ELBOW. He seeks answers, turning for help to Adam Atwell, his surrogate father. Adam, a black man in the segregated South, shares with...

Lorie is intrigued when, in the spring of 1967, she discovers her great-grandfather's diary from 1899 in which he writes about meeting Gustave Whitehead, an airplane inventor, along with an article from the New York Herald about Whitehead's early successful flights on August 19,...

SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH- A sequel to The Saratoga Deception November 1777- A double agent working under the Governor of Connecticut is murdered, but not before muttering a cryptic phrase: "French mission... Charts... Passage below structure..." Who killed the spy? Was his position...

Adam Schwartz is a motivated high school teacher bothered by the lack of his students' creative ideas in their attempt to write essays for their college applications. Together with his best friends, Drew, a twice-divorced attorney; Kenny, a senior trade consultant in a real-estate...