Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

Most detectorists hunt by feel. Earl Boggs hunts by research.When a Franklin relic dealer offers him first look at a private sale inventory - forty-one pieces, authenticated provenance, serious money - Earl reads it the way he reads everything. Carefully. And what he finds...

Power, in its grandest and most imposing forms, often presents itself as an immutable fortress. We are taught to view history as a massive, slow-moving river steered by vast socio-economic shifts, demographic tides, and enduring institutional frameworks. We build empires out of steel, law,...

The past never truly dies. It only lies dormant, waiting to awaken.Estelle is an archaeologist who has always searched for answers beneath the earth, convinced that history is written in stone. But when a mysterious black tablet-cold, ancient, and impossible to decipher-is uncovered in...

She built something that could not be stopped. They found a way to stop it.Hollywood, 1940. George Antheil is an avant-garde composer better known for scandal than success when he meets Hedy Lamarr at a dinner party, and discovers that the most famous actress...

Tom Cassidy is on the run, chased by killers from Saigon to Hanoi. Can he find the Black Elephant while keeping a step ahead of a feared hitwoman? And can he manage to hold onto the love of his life? Find out in the...

Three thousand years ago, Ptahmose sealed the Sands of the Damned and the prisoners in it.Now he is free.Awakening in modern Cairo after centuries of imprisonment within the Sands of the Damned, the former high priest of Thutmose III finds a world transformed. The...

Tom Cassidy's investigative reporting into corruption in an aid program to the French in Indochina is interrupted by the visit to Vietnam by JFK and RFK in 1951 (that trip is historical fact). Soon Cassidy is searching again for the identity of his source's...

Spring, 1940. As the British, Commonwealth, and French armies crumble under the shock of the German advance, two soldiers find themselves stranded behind enemy lines with no clear way home. Captain Ben Frost, young, determined, and newly blooded, must rely on the hard-won experience...

For more than thirty years, Tulsa buried a secret beneath the polished floors of one of its most respected Masonic lodges.Now the dead are demanding to be heard.When Past Master Robert Jenkins is found murdered inside Harmony Lodge No. 27 after proposing a controversial...

Every coincidence hides a causality. Chloe Santillana was twenty-five, with a life that let itself drift - until an impossible document crossed her path: the lost record of an interrogation of Juan Sebastián Elcano, the first captain ever to sail around the world, which...

The Limehouse Heresy A priest hangs dead inside a Limehouse mission chapel. Nearby, a message has been written upon the wall, calculated to turn neighbour against neighbour and transform murder into something far more dangerous: The Juwes are the men that will not be...

Veteran detector Earl Boggs knows better than to cross a fence line onto federal land. But when he spots signs of fresh digging, just inside the boundary of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, he takes note-and walks away.Two days later, a Cobb County detective...

It is 2001, but there is no United States of America. Instead, after a southern victory, only the Confederate States exist from coast to coast, north to south. But this is a dark society with terrible secrets, and one man, a southerner working for...

Title: The Needle's ShadowTagline: A new shape is taking form. And this time, the pattern bleeds.Author: Robin WickensSeries: The Corset Conspiracy Series - Book TwoDescription: After the sinister fall of the Circle of Thorns, the Locke Rowe Institute blooms into a sanctuary of creativity...

Two German dictatorships. One witness who refuses to forget. A tunnel dug for freedom - and for revenge.Berlin, May 1945. The Reich is collapsing. Sixteen-year-old Lotte Spillmann - daughter of a Jewish leather merchant murdered in Sachsenhausen - witnesses a fanatical Hitler Youth unit...

Hampshire,1817. Martin Bartholomew is a former army captain who inherited a country estate he didn't expect and a talent for attracting trouble he would happily do without. His new wife Marianne is considerably better prepared for both. When the senior partner of a respected...

America was built by dreamers.Some arrived with money.Most arrived with hope.In 2092, historian Emma Brooks discovers a damaged registry book hidden within the archives of Ellis Island. Among millions of immigration records, one mysterious entry captures her attention-an entry that should not exist.The discovery...

As long-buried secrets begin to surface, powerful forces emerge from the shadows, willing to do whatever it takes to keep the truth concealed. What begins as a search for answers quickly becomes a dangerous journey through historical records, ancient clues, and forgotten corridors of...

I waited for you.Four words engraved on the back of a Royal Navy medal. A grandfather who died in silence after a lifetime spent waiting for someone. A grandson who opens a trunk in a Norfolk attic - and does not yet know he...

The chamber was sealed in Roman London for a reason. So was everything inside it. When a Thames foreshore excavation uncovers a hidden vault beneath the ruins of Londinium, Dr. Layla Hassan expects pottery shards and coin hoards - the usual currency of urban...

The Quiet Exit is a chilling supernatural horror novel by Martins that transforms the mundane routine of a daily commute into a haunting descent into the unknown. Set in the town of Hallow Creek, the story centers on the Greywood Tunne,1.4-mile stretch of concrete...

Nigeria has monsters. The problem is that some of them run the country.When a respected Lagos resident is found dead with two mysterious puncture marks on his neck, journalist Iyanu Coker-Okafor suspects foul play. The authorities dismiss it as natural causes.She refuses to let...

Paris, December 22, 1793. In a workshop on the rue Saint-Honoré, Victoire Moreau melts aristocratic jewelry for the Committee of Public Safety. Tonight, a messenger knocks with a letter sealed in fleur-de-lis wax and three words inside: They know everything. Run.Victoire is not just...

Eighteen months after becoming the unified guardian of both chains, ex-FBI agent Meera Desai has built a quiet life running a heritage consultancy in New York with her partner Claire Whitfield. The ancient knowledge is being released responsibly. The system is working. Then a...

Six people have vanished from Salem's history. No graves. No names. No memory that they ever existed. When the Archive sends investigators Mara Farrow and Tobias Renn to Salem in 1692, the mission seems clear: find the mechanism behind the erasures, stop it before...

England, 1923. Two women share the same face. Only one of them is real.When society hostess Vivienne Ashworth is found dead in her locked drawing room, a silver-handled letter opener buried in her chest and her expression frozen in disbelief, the local constabulary concludes...

Six months after standing in an underground chamber in Kerala and holding knowledge that could reshape the world, FBI Art Crime agent Meera Desai is back in New York, guarding a secret that has been hidden for 2,300 years. When a Harvard scholar is...

Set during the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE, Echoes Through Eternity: Marcus follows a Roman centurion whose single act of compassion changes the course of history. Ordered to enforce Rome's brutal siege, Marcus instead defies his commanders when he saves Hannah, a young...

In 1938, Colin Farr walks into Rick and Rose Sinclair's Savannah antique shop with an incredible proposition. He wants them to finance and join him in finding the lost Egyptian city of Crocodopolis. The three will then share the riches legend says are buried...

Sherlock Holmes, the world-famous detective who was also Jack the Ripper, has retired and left London for the thrill of Chicago. There he befriends an interesting man who introduces himself as Dr. H. H. Holmes. Sherlock Holmes will discover many dark things about Dr....

THE WYNTHORPE PROTOCOL: FILE 16 - OPERATION CORVUS'A secret is a weight that eventually breaks the spine of the man who carries it. I simply provide the gravity.'THE GRIMOIRE IS OPEN.Vienna, 1931-1933. The city of music, marble, and Freud is being hollowed out by...

A man stood where he had always stood.And said something no one was prepared to hear. The Devil, the Preacher, and His Sister is a quiet, psychological study of one of Edinburgh's most unsettling true stories the confession of Thomas Weir. Not a trial.Not...

A murdered glassmaker. A hidden cipher. A city where every mask hides a sin.Renaissance Venice is dressed for Carnival, but beneath the music, lanterns, and painted faces, an old crime is beginning to breathe again.Luca Vettori, apprentice to the murdered Murano glass master Tommaso...

A weapon that kills gods. A betrayal that could bring down the Vatican.Deep in the caves of Jotunheim lies an artifact that was never meant to be found: the mistletoe arrow that once felled Baldr, the Norse god of light. Archaeologist Laura Stevens and...

Twelve men dead on a stone altar. One corporation. Fifty billion dollars. And a curse that has been collecting for five hundred years.The corporation called it a survey mission. The tribes who found the bodies called it something older.Benny Blunt investigates lost artifacts for...

The 144th HourDr. Alina Vesper doesn't believe in the soul.Then she receives a text message from a woman who died in 1927.You have 144 hours. What the Church buried in 325, you must exhume.Now she's racing through cathedrals, crypts, and forbidden archives-chasing an ancient...

Plymouth, 1930. A young labourer. A mysterious airman. A wager that will uncover a legend.History and humour go literally hand-in-hand in an unbelievable tale based on actual events. The world's first "who is it?" mystery for lovers of Daphne du Maurier, Agatha Christie, Dorothy...

After getting involved in a saloon room brawl in Fort Lord, Dalton is arrested. His situation worsens when an unsympathetic judge sentences him to a year in jail unless he takes the alternative of signing up with the Plains Cavalry.Dalton reckons that anything will...

When Dalton rides into Lonetree looking for work, he arrives in a town crippled by the local outlaw: the Sundown Kid. The Kid has a tight hold over the town, but Dalton's desperation for employment means he lands the task of resolving the newest...

Nathaniel McBain and Shackleton Frost are escorting a prisoner to Beaver Ridge jail when they meet Shackleton's old friend Dwight Colfax. After relaying the message that their next assignment is in Redemption, there's a terrible accident and Dwight accidentally shoots Shackleton.With Shackleton not being...

Tales about the specter of the night known as the Prairie Man were told to frighten children, but one day those tales nearly led to a tragic accident for Temple Kennedy. His friend Hank Pierce saved his life, Temple vowed that one day he...

Dalton is delighted when his friend Melville Ashdown helps him to find work in Pearl Dale, but the town is coming under the control of vigilantes who have appointed themselves as judge, jury and executioner. When Dalton fails to stop a man from becoming...

The whole town turns out to watch the first train journey when the bridge at Silver Falls is completed. The atmosphere is joyous, but the day turns sour when Kane Cresswell and his bandit gang arrive. They raid the train and, in the ensuing...

After serving ten years in jail, a reformed Matthew Jennings returns to Snake Ridge to reconcile with his respectable family, but he finds his brother lying dead and his father won't speak to him.To track down his brother's killer, he secures a position as...

The songs you know by heart were written by men whose names were never allowed to appear on the label.In 2023, Smithsonian researcher Sarah Rivers is digitizing music archives from the 1960s when she finds something that shouldn't exist: a memo. One page. Specific...

Set across two timelines spanning October 1912 and the present day, this story explores how a single week inside a grand hotel can echo across more than a century. In 1912, Milwaukee becomes a focal point of national tension as Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for...

London, 1915.A private invitation. Eight strangers. One absurd proposition: Circle the globe in forty days and claim a fortune.It begins as a spectacle. Newspapers bite, investors circle, and the competitors scatter across a world already tearing itself apart. Steamships, railways, early aircraft, improvised routes...

In November 1963, just weeks before the JFK assassination, President John F. Kennedy quietly approved a plan to begin pulling American troops out of the Vietnam War. A draft address to the nation-a secret Vietnam withdrawal speech-was prepared for December, a moment that could...

She sees what humans miss... even the dead. She followed the scent... and found a ghost. The past does not disappear. It waits... until someone is willing to listen... Cerys is no ordinary dog. A Border Collie with a sharp eye, a sharper wit,...

In the frozen heart of the Klondike, the deadliest weapon on the goldfields isn't a gun - it's a pen.The Yukon Territory, 1897. Eighteen-year-old Maeve has a gift her late father swore she would use only to tell the truth: she can draw a...