Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Twenty-three year old Kate Grainger inherits her father's undertaking business in Edinburgh Scotland in 1858. She is desperate to become a doctor but women aren't allowed to study at the prestigious University of Edinburgh. She seeks out a mysterious man to help her achieve...

Done Running is the second in a three-book series, "The JJ Mysteries." Jewell Johnson returns to the Linger Inn near Hayward, Wisconsin to recover from her injuries, establish new trusted friendships and move forward in her life. She uncovers more truths about her father's...

Stavros Odysseos, amateur detective, is at the airport in Cyprus on his way back to his home in New York when he meets Eleftheria, a Cypriot woman whose only son has been missing since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. For 29 years she has...

Max Gold has fantasized about 1930s "blonde bombshell" movie star Jean Harlow his entire life. All the world believes she died in 1937. Now it's 1989, and widower Max--video store operator and connoisseur of cinema--is certain he has seen her. Harlow has been revived...

THE YELLOW FARCE. It is the spring of 1906. Sherlock Holmes is sent by his brother, Mycroft, to Japan. The war between Russia and Japan is raging. Alliances between countries in these years before World War I are fragile and any misstep could plunge...

The monastery of St. Sebastian is safely tucked away from the turmoil of the early 14th century. What dangers could possibly await Conrad, a young novice preparing to join this community of devout monks? A simple act of kindness and duty turns his life...

Is a fact based Western set in Texas, nearly a decade after the civil war. A gruesome murder takes place which pressures the local sheriff to quickly find the murderer of a popular local family. The case goes cold until a local man, a...

There is much to learn about our country as you explore the role of widows during the rapid expansion of colonial America. To find a missing relative, a grandmother helps a granddaughter trace ancestors. They discover hardships faced by pioneer families as they made...

Siblings, Charlotte and Peter, have it all loving parents and a happy home until Their fragile world comes to a shrieking halt when their lives become derailed by a world war they have no business being in the path of. They find themselves in...

Ariana Santino is a young violin prodigy when she is first haunted by frightening dreams of a woman living in the nineteenth century. When she turns eighteen, the dreams stop, leading her to believe they are finally over. Seven years later, after she lands...

There's a lot of family history in the Morris clan, and young Jeremiah is only beginning to figure things out. The whole mess starts when Jeremiah visits Papa in Britain. It soon becomes freakishly apparent that most of Jeremiah's ancestors dating back to 1745...

The year is 1862, and the Fraser River Gold Rush is at its height. Miners dominate the little town of New Derby, and they are eagerly awaiting the arrival of bride ships from England. Scared, but hoping for a new life, three very different...

In the heart of the United States, there are thousands of people just like Sarah Johnson - average, good-hearted intelligent citizens who enjoy their lives, their friends, their family and their careers. Sarah grew up an only child, eventually to have two children of...

Bishop's Hill, South Carolina... the sort of quiet, sleepy town where everyone knows everyone else, and little of importance ever seems to happen. And then the dead body of a recently-returned village son is found abandoned along the roadside. To Sheriff Talmadge, the solution...

Nicola Claire's captivating new Gothic romance series continues with a dark and sinister London City at the end of the nineteenth century - brightened by a fearless and talented heroine and a loyal and secretive police inspector...Determined doctor? Interfering busybody? Fearless fighter?The London of...

Fisherman makes a find in a pond that tears a small town apart. As the mystery unfolds more people become involved and the conflict grows. A Trout Pond, like a small town, has big fish eating small fish. All kinds of creatures live in...

"Golden Legacy" blends historical adventure with modern-day mystery in an exciting novel that follows two time lines. Embarking on a harrowing treasure hunt, two daring heroines tackle the hazards of gold country more than a century apart. Although a stand-alone novel, readers who have...

In 1858 in Edinburgh Scotland, a 23-year-old woman named Kate Grainger inherits her father's undertaking business. It is a time when not much is expected of women, other than to be wives and mothers, and Kate wants to be neither. She wants to be...

A fiction and factual novel set in the 21st century and in the 19th century, this book details the trial of Lizzie Borden for the murders of her father and step-mother -- and has a novel woven in and around the factual chapters of...

Lord Robert Walsingham de Vere St. Simon's wife had disappeared. He demanded the services of Sherlock Holmes to find her. She is much younger than he is. Highly spirited. And American. Three days later the wife is accused of a vile crime.Now she comes...

In Ancient Athens in 461BC, aristocratic General Kimon has driven back the might of the Persian Empire and forged a new empire for Athens, making his city the commercial centre of the Eastern Mediterranean. Now he is struggling for his political existence against the...

Whom God Hath Sundered (1910-1913) is a trilogy by Oliver Onions. Published toward the beginning of Onions' career as a leading novelist and short story writer specializing in genre fiction, Whom God Hath Sundered is a largely unknown trilogy of crime novels deemed a...

As We Forgive Them (1904) is a mystery novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thrillers, As We Forgive Them is a story of espionage, mystery, and murder. Using his...

Whom God Hath Sundered (1910-1913) is a trilogy by Oliver Onions. Published toward the beginning of Onions' career as a leading novelist and short story writer specializing in genre fiction, Whom God Hath Sundered is a largely unknown trilogy of crime novels deemed a...

Jed snarled and went for his gun. The cowpoke across the table went for his. The stranger drew and fired at the adversary across from him; he spun and fell, his six shooter never even clearing leather. Then the stranger swung the barrel of...

From the Author of The Afterlife SeriesClaude Deering is a unique man with a unique occupation. He lives a peaceful existence; drinking coffee, contemplating life and taking photographs of deceased people for a living. The year is 1877 and living in the woods on...

The narrow, ordered life of a gentle but reclusive English artist, Jane Block, is disturbed when a bequest, intended for her dead mother, passes to her. Mystery surrounds the nature of the inheritance and Jane is led on a sinister trail to secrets of...

Author: Linda BuxbaumISBN-10: 1503523004ISBN-13: 9781503523005Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2014Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

An English village slumbers on the Surrey/Sussex borders, but the pastoral exterior hides a number of nightmare secrets. The return of a young man, Philip, after a long absence stirs memories of the horrific murder of his mother and uncle years earlier and of...

In The Problem of the Singular Stradivarius, Part I of The Sequestered Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Holmes is called upon by world-renowned violinist Joseph Joachim to investigate the sudden deterioration of his priceless Stradivarius. Before the mystery winds through its unique and perplexing turns,...

Trained as a military policeman and shipped off to South Korea, he believes that fate has spared him the horrors of a burgeoning war in Vietnam. But instead, he's thrust into a different kind of war-one that would shake his core beliefs and cripple...

A blending of the history and folklore of southern New Jersey create the background for the Barren Spirit, and the phenomenon of hypnotic regression into previous lives creates the story. Intertwined throughout the story are tales of a real pineland folk hero, Joe Mulliner....

THE STAKES GET HIGHER AS A TRAP IS SET. Nadia is severely shaken by the recent tragedy but, as the Legacy of the Watchers continues, she will turn to BEACON for comfort, immersing herself in plans for an extravagant masquerade ball to raise funds...

Many historians believe that the author of the Declaration of Independence had an affair with his female slave, Sally Hemings. That she gave birth to six, maybe seven, children. Other scholars disavow any such relationship, pointing to the circumstantial nature of the evidence and...

Wounds and prejudices stemming from the Civil War, the Great Depression and other conflicts run deep in the Ozark hill country. These frailties, like the scab of a putrid wound, will from time to time reopen and ooze pus. In the tumultuous year of...

Kenneth Mayhew is headed for Havana and fun in the sun instead of going home for the family reunion. The high sea is a great place for romance, but in spite of the charming company, the SS Valbenara turns out to be a ship...

On returning to England, Colonel Simmons of the York and Lancaster regiment and his Orderly, Corporal Patterson, stumble across a mystery that will change their lives. A beautiful summer house, a missing fisherman and two daughters struggling to maintain their father's legacy. Will Simmons...

In the summer of 1941, the United States is only months away from being at war. Despite nearly two years of military build-up, America is ill prepared to combat the conflagration that has spread across Europe and onto the Atlantic's high seas. In Berlin,...

Author: R. D. FrancisISBN-10: 1493133012ISBN-13: 9781493133017Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2014Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

There are some who might say adventure is a young man's game-but is age the only indicator of youth? Can someone be brave and wild at an older age, as well, especially if filled with passion? Along the beaches of the Dead Sea, a...

For the last three years, former investigative reporter Nick Lanouette-a recovering sex addict struggling to stay on the wagon-has been attempting to start over with his wife in Portland, Oregon. But after he receives a call about a shirttail Mafioso possibly being framed for...

In 1941, Catherine Sorensen is a receptionist at the New York accounting firm where her father works. She feels great about her life. Jobs like hers are hard to come by for young women as the Great Depression lingers on. Catherine wants to be...

What started out as an enjoyable Christmastime house party at Sir John Tittleton's luxurious London home has turned into a veritable nightmare. A stranger has been found in the back alley, stabbed to death, and everyone in the house is a suspect. As Jessamine...

The year is 1866. Doctor James V. Dougherty and Medical Steward Sean McBrien (whose earlier adventures you can find in "The Haystack") are now discharged from the Union Army and live in Penrose Valley in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Dougherty is now married to Genevieve...

What Will Happen if Abortion is Outlawed? Texas recently passed a law doing that. The Supreme Court has twice refused to declare this law unconstitutional. No one under sixty will know or can remember when abortion was illegal in the US. Women who lived...

"The Witch of Maple Park" is compelling fiction inspired by a true story. The True Story: On Christmas Eve, 1843, on Staten Island, N.Y., Emeline Houseman and her baby are gruesomely axe murdered and dismembered. Her sister-in-law, Polly Bodine is accused of the crime...

Terror fills the air on planet Beinan as unseen serial murderers bomb healing centres planet wide and assassinate the mighty and the humble for reasons known only unto themselves.Caught up in the conspiracy is Lord Knight Elendir, the son of two murdered healers whose...

This book is a work of pure fiction born in the aftermath of the greatest terrorist assault on American soil. The central figure is a self-effacing theoretical physicist, a scientist with a brilliant mind. He goes about his daily business intentionally oblivious of the...

A depressed detective, still in mourning for his murdered wife, stumbles into a money-laundering scheme when a book is sold to him by mistake at a library book sale. The intended recipients, a trio of drug dealers, try to find him and the book....

Egypt 1220 BC. A horribly mutilated body is found in the Memphis Palace, with enigmatic clues. A dangerous cult is performing sadistic serial murders. Nikolas and his associates struggle to solve the case before the next victim dies on the night of the full...