Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

In this twisty Victorian detective thriller from the author of The Darwin Affair, Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingale's nurses in Crimea and women in London. Who is stalking Florence Nightingale and her nurses? Is it...

Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh is back and ready for adventure in Kate Khavari's next mesmerizing historical mystery. "A cleverly plotted puzzle" (Ashley Weaver) in the vein of Opium and Absinthe, this second installment is perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Sujata Massey. 1920s...

Why must a widow newly emerged from mourning be invited to every wedding in the realm?Lady Violet Belmaine ponders that conundrum while traveling from London to rural Scotland at the invitation of an old friend. Escorted by her dashing physician friend, Hugh St. Sevier,...

Lady Violet Belmaine is just finding her balance as a widow who has recently put off mourning when she's summoned to the family seat to celebrate a sibling's wedding. Hugh St. Sevier's escort makes the journey somewhat bearable, while Sebastian MacHeath's presence among the...

Lady Violet Belmaine emerges from two years of mourning less than enthusiastic about resuming her place in Polite Society. She's talked into attending a country house party by her French physician friend, Hugh St. Sevier, only to find that the house party guests are...

Scandal and slayings among Regency London's elite . . . Refusing to stand by while the wealthy men of London prey on their powerless scullery maids and other young women, Miss Emmeline St. Germaine has made it her mission to rescue the victims and...

A well-bred lady and lowly street hustler team up in a historical murder mystery set during China's glittering Tang Dynasty. Part of the best-selling Lotus Palace series.Impetuous and well-educated, young Lady Bai has always been the forgotten daughter between two favored sons. However, when...

While Lady Violet Belmaine is busy sorting out the odd turns her life has recently taken, Hugh St. Sevier repairs to his Kent estate in hopes of embarking on the placid life of a rural physician. Alas, for St. Sevier, the village of St....

In this 5th installment of the bestselling mystery series, Cleopatra Fox gets entangled in a web of betrayal and blackmail that leaves the high society matchmakers scandalized. When a notorious cad is bludgeoned to death with a candlestick in the library at the most...

A personal trip turns perilous for Elena Standish after the murder of a British spy forces her to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry. "An absorbing and calculating thriller/mystery that grabs the reader from the first...

Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon should be checking off their Christmas present list but instead they're listing murder suspects in this latest entry of the beloved Victorian Mystery series, now in paperback. Harriet Andover had no intention of dying young like her silly siblings...

Intrigue, espionage, and romance in the midst of the American Civil War.Maddie Cronin's game is seduction with plenty of bodies left in her wake - men of wealth, senators, generals, and even the vice president of the United States. Maddie has always been able...

Her opponents have her cornered, unless Sera makes an unexpected move...Seraphina continues to pick at the secrets entangling her. Then, during a ball, she spots a piece of enchanted jewellery eerily similar to the bracelet she once wore. But before she can find out...

Georgie is back and hanging the stockings with care when a murder interrupts her Christmas cheer in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series from Rhys Bowen. Georgie is excited for her first Christmas as a married woman in...

Ruby Proulx's new life in Orchard Beach, Maine, faces some sinister complications in the next Change of Fortune Mystery by Jessica Estevao...Free from the clutches of her con artist father, Ruby Proulx is starting to settle in at the Belden, her aunt Honoria's seaside...

The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a "ghostly" hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.A beautiful client arrives with a tale of...

FROM A USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR... BOOK 3 IN THE AWARD-WINNING WYATTSVILLE SERIESIt's 1946. The war is over. Millions of American soldiers are coming home and Benjamin Church is one of them. After four years of being away, he thought things in Alabama would...

This book is dedicated to all those who believe the real truth behind the JFK assassination has been ignored, or worse, covered up. This project is my attempt to answer three basic questions: Why was President Kennedy assassinated? Who benefitted? And who had the...

In 1928, deep in the woods near Indian Cave in Lawrence County Alabama, Mark Terry is killed. Six men are accused of his murder. But they have a plan. No one would pay for this murder. All they have to do is not tell...

Mystery is rife and so is the fun when a crew of quirky characters set out to solve a slew of crimes causing havoc in Regency London's Jewish community. In this second volume of Jewish Regency Mystery novellas, three Jewish holidays provide the background...

A dead spinster, a host of spies, and a hidden treasure smuggled back from France all provide Victoria Parker with her most perplexing inquest yet!Having now settled her differences with her romantic interest, James Kensington, Miss Victoria Parker is ready to embark on the...

A mysterious murder. A lost pharaoh. Sir Augustus Wall came to Egypt to escape his old life, but when a comrade from the trenches is found murdered in a Cairo hotel, Augustus realizes his past has finally caught up. Now he must discover the...

Schools for rich girls attract creepy men.Two hundred girls from wealthy families boarded at St. Elizabeth's College for Girls in Oxford.On 23 October, 1903, Miss Edlyn Ferenci, an upper sixth form student, returned to her room in the senior dormitory after the Vespers Service....

When Lillian Crawford is persuaded to investigate a mysterious death for a family friend, she thinks the case will be solved quickly. But as one surprise after another is unraveled, Lillian finds herself without the help of Felix just when she needs her brother...

After the terrible revelations of the past several weeks, Jane realizes she can no longer stay with her Pemberton relations. Fleeing to the countryside, she becomes a temporary guest in the home of her sister and brother-in-law. But danger finds Jane once more, when...

While visiting a London cemetery, Lillian Crawford and her twin brother Felix are witnesses to a violent crime. When Felix is mistakenly arrested as the culprit, it's up to Lillian, with some assistance from the handsome Eugene Osbourn, to uncover the truth. But will...

The distraught mother begging1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan for help is married to a man with plenty of reason to want the detective dead. He's a crime boss. Their past clashes left both nursing grievances. And Maggie killed one of his men to save...

The Red Jackal takes on his greatest foe yet when a mysterious new enemy threatens everyone and everything the Jackal holds dear.With his friends, family and most trusted allies under attack, the Red Jackal must risk his secret and his life to fight this...

When Lillian Crawford is approached by a potential client with an unusual and dangerous request, Lillian and her brother Felix are drawn into another game of shadows and deceit. With Lillian pining for the elusive Eugene Osbourn, and Felix struggling with secrets from the...

Commissioner Ben Towne grieves the suicide of his brother, the end of his marriage, and the gnawing recognition that his world of high-level college hockey is as crooked as the war he saw in Kuwait. But on this February weekend, on the eve of...

An intelligent, lightening-paced thriller set on two continents and within the hidden chambers of Marquette university, the majestic library of a Venice monastery, and the underground keep of the Heidelberg castle. With twists at every turn, the story sends smart and gutsy graduate students...

Lady Violet Belmaine is just finding her balance as a widow who has recently put off mourning when she's summoned to the family seat to celebrate a sibling's wedding. Hugh St. Sevier's escort makes the journey somewhat bearable, while Sebastian MacHeath's presence among the...

In Agatha Award-winning author Erica Ruth Neubauer's fourth wanderlust-inspiring historical mystery, it's 1926 and the adventures of vibrant, young American widow Jane Wunderly send her to Istanbul, Turkey, where the search for her archeologist father unravels secrets tied to a mysterious relic from the...

Set in the Downton Abbey era of post-WW1 England, Alyssa Maxwell's latest historical mystery finds sleuthing duo Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady's maid, Eva Huntford, investigating a murder at a house party attended by fashion royalty. This evocative, well-crafted historical series appeals to...

* A New York Post Best Mysteries of the Year * In Agatha Award-winning author Erica Neubauer's third wanderlust-inspiring historical mystery, young American widow Jane Wunderly understands there are worse fates than adventuring aboard a transatlantic liner with the only man who could change...

Five months after the end of the Civil War, Acting Navy Lieutenant Everett Townsend is awaiting discharge in Key West. The end of the war has left him uncertain about his future and full of regret about the end of his relationship with Emma,...

The truth lies in the walls of Ambletye Manor . . .'Expertly researched, vividly drawn, and so much fun! Absolute delight of a book, with a quirky supernatural twist. Five fabulous stars from me' JENNI KEERA thrilling regency tale - filled with mystery, romance...

'A wise and lyrical evocation of the lives of women in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest... A captivating read' SARAH BOWERThe second instalment in Carol McGrath's captivating The Daughters of Hastingstrilogy! 'Although this is the second in a trilogy it stands well in...

'A Sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple' - Lin Anderson 'Impeccable historical detail with a light touch' - Lesley Cookman, The Libby Sarjeant Series 'Euphemia Martins is feisty, funny and completely adorable' - Colette McCormick, Ribbons in...

"Rawhide Jake: Learning the Ropes is the first book in a trilogy on the Life and Times of Detective Jonas V. Brighton. Based on a true-life character (1847-1928), it rolls through the adventure of his time in the penitentiary, his first years as understudy...

Of Manners and Murder is the first in the delightful new Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings. "Evokes the shocking revelations of Wilkie Collins, the social acuity of Jane Austen and the comic melodrama of Oscar Wilde."--Wall Street Journal 1885: London, England....

"Retired" detective and police captain's wife Molly Murphy Sullivan tangles with Tammany Hall in the next in Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles's New York Times bestselling historical mystery series. New York, Autumn, 1907: Former private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is happy with her place...

New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen, now writing in partnership with her daughter, Clare Broyles, transports and enthralls readers through the incomparable Molly Murphy Sullivan. Wild Irish Rose, the next novel in this beloved mystery series, is cause for celebration for readers and...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read." -- Good Morning AmericaFrom the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White--a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer...

After a thirty-seven-year career as a law enforcement officer, Sam Robbins was settling into a new routine two weeks into his retirement, but this morning would prove to be anything but routine. On his morning walk he finds himself transported in time to the...

After a thirty-seven-year career as a law enforcement officer, Sam Robbins was settling into a new routine two weeks into his retirement, but this morning would prove to be anything but routine. On his morning walk he finds himself transported in time to the...

Meet a detective duo - a century apart!When new constable Steph is sent to mark time at a Liverpool police station on the verge of closing, she sees it as the death of her career. Then she meets Nora, the hundred-year-old ghost of a...

Having enjoyed her tour of the Scottish countryside, Lady Violet Belmaine is reluctant to return to London. Her escort, Hugh St. Sevier, suggests a detour to the Lakes, where his former army connections have invited him to renew old acquaintances. Violet is happy to...

"Delightfully twisty and chilling all at once -- murder mysteries are rarely this fun." --Jonathan Whitelaw, The Sun Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered--savagely beaten to death in his own study with a mediaeval mace. The murder calls home his...

One book can change your life. Finding an old manuscript in the attic has always been a fantasy of Sylvia's. She just never expected the fantasy to come true, or for it to lead her to answers about her mysterious family. The silver clasps...