Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

The year is 1819, and the murder of an African captive aboard the slave ship Liberty upends the world of fifteen-year-old Malachi MacKay. His inheritance stolen, betrayed into an apprenticeship to a tyrannical and unpredictable captain, he must navigate a sea of violence and...

In a world where history is a weapon, survival is a marathon, and the past is a debt that must be paid in blood. Ana Asher became a reluctant public figure when her magnum opus, Raping the Goddess achieved international acclaim. A field biologist...

After his US Navy service, Eddie Walsh worked as a manager in the aerospace industry. A year after he retired, he received a phone call from one of his subordinates in that final job. Amazing Stace. Her voice was slurred. Eddie asked, "Stace, are...

After his US Navy service, Eddie Walsh worked as a manager in the aerospace industry. A year after he retired, he received a phone call from one of his subordinates in that final job. Amazing Stace. Her voice was slurred. Eddie asked, "Stace, are...

Nathan Bedford Forrest is a product of a very dark time.He was an invincible man who had twenty-nine horses shot from underneath him in battle.He was also a man who became rich selling black people.Using one of my favorite books, A Christmas Carol, as...

London, 1852. The British Empire is approaching the height of its power. But in the shadows, a new kind of power is being built.Inspector Charles Frederick Field of the Metropolitan Police is accustomed to London's darker secrets. But when an apparently ordinary crime draws...

What if the beings humanity once called angels were not myths?On Mount Hermon, Enoch witnesses a light that should not exist. Soon, two hundred mysterious Watchers descend from the mountain and enter the human world, bringing knowledge that will transform civilization forever.But knowledge has...

In 1762, as the French and Indian War was raging across America, Benjamin Franklin returned to Philadelphia tasked by the British Prime Minister to stop a foreign plot threatening the British colonies in America. At fifty-six Franklin was a seasoned diplomat who knew nothing...

GHOST TRAILShe stole a fortune. She vanished into the mountains. Now the West's most relentless bounty hunter is following a trail designed to kill him.Federal bounty hunter Eldridge Sample has hunted the most dangerous outlaws in the American frontier, but his latest assignment is...

Bombay, 1952. When once legendary British film producer, Richard Boorman, working in India's film capital, Bombay, is found murdered, shot dead, his body stuffed into the trunk of his car, Persis, India's first female police detective, is tasked to find his killer. Working with...

Author: Scott ConnorISBN-13: 9798825137957Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2024Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Beatrice Wren cannot recognise faces.She's hidden this all her life, navigating Victorian London through observation of clothing and mannerisms, and the whispered memories of objects. Only one person's face has ever been clear to her: Grim's, a scarred locksmith and criminal who is using...

Washington, D.C., 2015Unofficially, Otis Thorne answers now only to the President of the United States.When a Cold War scholar is found dead after uncovering evidence of a forgotten intelligence program, Otis receives a call from the one man he cannot refuse: Callahan. What begins...

She has never once been wrong about a forgery. She was wrong about the man who asked her to sign one.Sloane Calloway reads paperwork the way other people read faces - she feels the lie in a provenance file before she can name it....

If you love old TV Westerns, you'll love this book!Author: Ira SchaferISBN-13: 9798186911180Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/12/2026Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.09d

EVERYONE KNOWS CAESAR. NO ONE KNOWS HIS KNIGHT.Consul Quintus Fabius Maximus dies in the dead of night. The Ides of March are seventy-four days away.Marcus Aemilius Lepidus - Magister Equitum, the second most powerful man in Rome, the right hand of Julius Caesar -...

Jaén, Spain. The early hours of July 13, 2006. It is 3:00 a.m. A young man flees in haste from the Plaza de Santa María. Left in his wake, the body of an older man lies sprawled before the Cathedral façade-face down, naked, and...

"The Vatican Plot" is an adventure of intrigue, betrayal, power and against it the whole struggle for good. Patrizia, a young woman who works at the Vatican Library, finds herself in the middle of a storm after inserting her nose where she doesn't belong...

Volume One in the Anthology Covering Every Judicial Execution from 1900 to 1904 InclusiveAuthor: John J. EddlestonISBN-13: 9798186661054Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2026Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.84d

1965. Daniel McAuliffe is a struggling young writer in Albany, California, balancing odd jobs on the waterfront while dreaming of a career built on words.When an aviation magazine publishes his article about a Royal Air Force pilot who showed mercy to a defeated enemy...

Two of the nuns making the Bayeux Tapestry fall from the tower of the Priory of Saint Thomas the Apostle in Kent, England. So, Abbess Eleanor and her pupil, Therese, are sent from Normandy, France to investigate. Intrigue embroiders tensions between Royals, Bishops and...

A brutal knife attack in Holy Trinity Park leaves devastation in its wake and forces WDC Elizabeth Hines to face her personal trauma in Jonathan Peace's dark psychological crime series featuring Louise Miller. May, 1990. Linda Hargreaves, out for a morning jog, is assaulted...

A companion short story to the Blood of Kings, Heart of Shadows series. One Girl. One City. One Invasion. Perfect for readers seeking an immersive historical read in a single sitting.If you loved the world, here's even more: Hermannstadt, 1241: The Mongol InvasionThe prosperous...

A dead engineer. A shadow defense contract. And a conspiracy buried deep beneath Denver's biggest brewery.The war might be drawing to a close, but the shadows in 1945 Denver are darker than ever. Private investigator James Staphano and his partner Mike Dunne are hired...

The Manhattan Project Had Many Secrets. Murder Was One of Them. September 1944. Britain is under attack. One brilliant scientist is dead. The truth could change history.When eminent Cambridge physicist Professor Anthony Ralston collapses and dies from potassium cyanide poisoning during lunch with his...

A sweeping historical epic spanning three decades-from the chaos of the Russian Revolution to the ashes of post-war Europe.In the frozen autumn of 1917, as Petrograd burns and the old world crumbles, nine-year-old Prince Vladimir Obolensky overhears a fragment of conversation that will change...

The Hollow Files: The Last Train Through Raven PassBy Nicole HobbsSome journeys never reach their destination. Some stories are simply waiting for someone to finish them.After uncovering the truth behind the Carnival at Ash Hollow, horror novelist Caleb Walker returns home believing another mystery...

The Hollow Files: The Church Bell at MidnightBy Nicole HobbsSome warnings are meant to save you.After uncovering the truth behind the haunting of Devil's Creek, horror novelist Caleb Walker is ready to put the Appalachian ghost stories behind him.Then another file finds him.Armed with...

Catherine Marleau has solved murders in five different centuries, in five cities that weren't hers. She thought she understood what the ring asked of her: find the truth, leave it where it can do good, and go.This time, the ring sends her home.Montreal, July...

Catherine Marleau has solved a murder in a French château, saved innocent women from the witch trials of Alsace, and confronted the limits of justice on a Caribbean plantation. She thought she understood how the ring worked.New Orleans, 1840, teaches her something new.When a...

Catherine Marleau has solved a murder in Renaissance France. She's saved innocent women from the witch trials of seventeenth-century Alsace. She thought she understood what the ring asks of her.Martinique, 1724, teaches her otherwise.When Édouard Fontaine is found dead in his own distillery, the...

What starts as curiosity turns into something far more dangerous.When a group of university students in 1564 London stumble across a hidden cave, they expect little more than adventure. What they find instead is something buried for a reason-ancient treasure, forgotten pathways, and a...

Mary is a young woman of sharp wit and free spirit, raised among duties she never chose. When she discovers that her father has negotiated her hand in marriage, she understands that, for women of nobility, dreams rarely survive politics.Far from seeking titles or...

England, 1520. A kingdom built on power. A court ruled by secrets.When Thomas Ashcombe arrives at the court of Henry VIII, he hopes to make his name among England's nobility. Instead, a chance encounter draws him into the investigation of a mysterious disappearance and...

The river was supposed to be a break - a slow drift through ancient towns, vineyards, and quiet mornings. But from the moment Scott, Angie, Liz, and Annette step aboard, something beneath the surface begins to stir. The dreams come first: vivid, impossible, and...

The novel 'Like Butterflies' is a historical fiction by Nigerian author Abeeb Lekan Sodiq, that follows the defiance of an enslaved royal princess, Sisi, from the 19th-century Oyo Empire in western Nigeria, who boldly inspired a rebellion against her local slaver. It showed how...

England, 1586. War with Spain looms in the shadows, and the deadliest battles are fought not on the seas, but in silence. When trusted sea captain Sir Henry Abel is entrusted with a secret mission by Queen Elizabeth's elusive spymaster, he expects danger. He...

A girl. A goddess. A question that will cost everything.1913 Crimea. Thirteen-year-old Oksana Mangupli enters the legendary cavern of blue light and answers an ancient calling from a forgotten goddess.Born into a Krymchak family bound by duty, honor, and obedience, Oksana is expected to...

It's the Depression and things are tough all over. Private detective Lazarus Flynn takes on a simple job to pick up a valuable artifact in New York City, only find himself the chief suspect in a murder. As he struggles to clear his name,...

What if truth isn't taught... but remembered?When two treasure hunters are found dead at the bottom of Portugal's mysterious Initiation Well, Myriam is drawn into an investigation unlike anything she has ever encountered.The brothers had claimed to discover one of history's greatest lost relics.But...

Ride hard. Stand firm. Never surrender.Texas Ranger Captain Clay Maddox has spent two decades hunting killers, but nothing has prepared him for the man who calls himself El Rey.Across the Texas borderlands, ranches burn, towns fall, and gold crowns are left beside the dead...

Beneath every myth is a warning. When a series of earthquakes opens a hidden passage deep inside Black Mountain, a survey team discovers something impossible: a massive stone door buried far below the earth, carved with images from forgotten underworld traditions. Silent dead. Chained...

An impregnable fortress. A fleet to build in record time. A deadly betrayal in the shipyards of Rome.Spring, 49 BC. Civil war between Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompey is tearing the Republic apart. Caesar must march to Hispania, but on his route stands the...

At fourteen, Margo treats life like a video game where mistakes can be erased with a keystroke. She doesn't yet understand that some errors cannot be undone. Born and raised in Russia, Margo Ruseena falls for Zahar Olovsky, a young KGB officer who becomes...

Five standalone stories.Five unforgettable journeys.Spanning a millennium, these five stories occur against the backdrop of seas and oceans. They start with the Polynesian cultural expansion across the Pacific in the 1200's, continue with Cornish smuggling in England in the 1700's, then propel us into...

Dalton had long given up on his quest to find his sister when he arrives in Clearview and finds that one of the candidates running for town mayor is Amanda Dalton. As one of the few things he knows about his sister is that...

In the quiet village of Brambleford, some stories are never meant to be read twice.When bookseller Violet is drawn into an old parish record and a long-buried land dispute, she expects a local mystery - not a history of fraud, disappearance, and a death...

He steals from the untouchable. He vanishes into daylight. He's never met a lock he couldn't open-until the one door that leads back to himself.Kael Tarrow has worn nineteen names and left no fingerprints. For fifteen years, he's moved through the mansions of the...

A village burned. A name erased from the records. An inheritance that cannot be surrendered.When the shogunate's soldiers ride into Ashibara, they are looking for something specific. They find it under his uncle's floorboards. By the time Kenji understands what it is - a...

The ground always tells you. Sometimes you wish it wouldn't.Earl "Digger" Boggs knows how to read soil. He can tell a period burial from a fresh one, a relic scatter from a disturbed site. When he and his wife Rayleen join a preservation survey...