Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

This volume features 12 enthralling Sherlock Holmes stories, culminating in 'The Final Problem', which caused much uproar and controversy among the fictional detective's loyal fans. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes features famous characters such as the detective's brother, Mycroft Holmes, and the evil Professor...

In 1972 Pope Paul VI shockingly proclaimed, Through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered into the Temple of God. The Catholic Church has been infiltrated with evil traitors hell bent on its destruction. And KGB agent Rolf Wozack is poised to thrust...

For fans of Colson Whitehead and Wild Women and the Blues, Viper's Dream is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of midcentury Harlem, and one man's dreams of making it big and finding love in a world that wants to keep...

There have only been a few moments in history where mankind was on the brink of extinction. The Suez Crisis was one of them...Egypt 1956. Israeli forces overrun the Sinai and decimate the Egyptian military in a surprise attack. The Egyptian army is in...

A war and a president that changed America forever...Newly elected President John F. Kennedy is faced with numerous global events spiraling out of control - aggressive communist expansion, the nuclear arms race, the descending iron curtain, a clandestine invasion of Cuba, and, of course,...

John Smith, ex-smuggler and highwayman, and now Lord Fitzwarren, a respectable London ship owner, has an unscrupulous rival. Charles Shapland hopes to destroy his trading empire by any means possible.However, Smith and Bess, his wife, are prepared to defend their position. When Kate Rider,...

John Smith, ex-smuggler and highwayman, and now Lord Fitzwarren, a respectable London ship owner, has an unscrupulous rival. Charles Shapland hopes to destroy his trading empire by any means possible.However, Smith and Bess, his wife, are prepared to defend their position. When Kate Rider,...

Lido, New York. 1926.Blackmail is an easy game, especially when everyone at the Galliano Club has something to hide.Bootlegger Benny Rotolo has a fresh scheme to seize the Galliano Club and turn the humble neighborhood club into the finest speakeasy north of Manhattan.Blackmail.He'll use...

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame. Can a white man receive justice...

Family loyalties, deadly feuds, and international drug wars are brought to life in Ninie Hammon's new intergenerational tale inspired by the story of the Cornbread Mafia in rural Kentucky.Nobody knows what started the feud between the Hannackers and the McCluskys, but they've been enemies...

Have you wondered who is "the Fed" that hikes and drops interest rates?Lucy hopes you do. After haunting them for over one hundred years, she thinks introducing them to you will give purpose to her extended existence.Lucy intertwines moments of her own life in...

Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and...

"The devil is in the details and David Buzan masterfully brings all of those details to bear in creating one hell of a novel." -Tom McCaffrey, bestselling author of The Claire TrilogyThe most highly decorated Native American in the history of the United States...

At fifteen, Frank "Shane" McLean covets a commission in the Texas Rangers. With the shadow of civil war on the country's doorstep, he uncovers a dark family secret. His God-fearing father Kirby is an Illuminati henchman and hired assassin for the secret society. Kirby...

Algeria and France 1954. Encouraged by the Viet Minh triumph over the French at Dien Bien Phu, Algerian rebels seize the moment and rise in rebellion against their imperial masters. But Algeria is not Indochina; it is considered part of the homeland, and the...

"Ambitious, subtle, engrossing" (LES ECHOS)"An unforgettable novel" (PARIS MATCH) In October 1930, a young actress named Elissa Landi, touted by Fox Studios as the next Greta Garbo, sets foot in Hollywood. She has talent, striking looks and a mysterious background her mother, Karoline Zanardi...

Los Angeles, 1962. Dr. Wiley McCoy has a successful medical practice, movie-star good looks, and a substance abuse problem. When a young woman dies on his operating table, his life and career are destroyed. Romulo DaVinci is a conniving Voodoo shaman with supernatural powers...

The New Victorian Detective Thriller from the Author of The Darwin Affair Tim Mason's gripping new novel finds Inspector Charles Field hunting a ruthless serial killer who is terrorizing Florence Nightingale and her nurses in Crimea in 1855. But when the main suspect turns...

In the summer of 1920, a young woman is called to work as a governess at The Hibiscus, a grand and sweeping estate on Tybee Island off the coast of Savannah, GA. She is reeling from a recent tragedy, looking for employment and a...

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award--A spy mission to rescue a defector from Germany and prevent the Nazis from creating an atomic bomb--now in paperback! Nathan Silverman grew up in Berlin in the 1920s, the son of a homemaker and a...

Echoing the fiction of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, this deeply intelligent debut literary thriller--set within a world still reeling from World War II--explores how the actions of a few can change the course of history.British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Elderly writer Elias Lind...

A gifted psychologist is forced to hunt a serial killer or risk having a dark chapter of her past exposed-but her mission may mark her as the next victim...1890s London. Strong-willed Georgia Buchanan, a mind doctor and heiress, spends her time with the mad,...

Mission commander, Donna Kennedy, faces disaster for herself and her crew. In an event rivaling only Apollo 13, a space shuttle mission faces absolute failure. The Columbia is damaged in space and cannot safely return to Earth. Finding a way to bring the crew...

November 1939It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's...

The Empire by George Mavro What if 15 soldiers with todays technology and equipment traveled back in time to 1453 Constantinoplis in just prior to the siege. We know they can but will they agree to significantly influence the events and outcome? While escorting...

From the pen of Eric Wentz comes another thriller etched in the burning sands of Central Asia. Preying in Iran, A Tapestry of Wounds delivers a thrilling and yet a disturbingly good read. Wentz reveals the dark underbelly of international sex trafficking across continents...

"A galloping adventure." -- The Wall Street JournalFrom the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliantly imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King...

For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terrible's magnificent Library of Gold -- a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Now one of the volumes, The Book of...

John Smith, ex-smuggler and highwayman, and now Lord Fitzwarren, a respectable London ship owner, has an unscrupulous rival. Charles Shapland hopes to destroy his trading empire by any means possible.However, Smith and Bess, his wife, are prepared to defend their position. When Kate Rider,...

1934: Something is deadly wrong with the lake...When Chief Petty Officer Charles Emery receives a cryptic, urgent message from his old mentor, Captain Donovan, he immediately responds - and finds himself in a lake-side resort town in the grip of an unknown terror. Someone...

When a courier for Sweden's Press and Military Office is killed on his final mission, the Norwegian government-in-exile appoints a writer to find the missing documents ... breathtaking WW2 thriller. **International NUMBER ONE bestseller** ' A stylish stand-alone thriller from the godfather of Scandi...

With the Czarist empire in turmoil, a young Mennonite couple in what is now Ukraine adopts a Russian baby. Over the next years their lives twist, alter, and face very unexpected challenges. Amalia and Isaak Albrecht's new family is not at all what they...

In 1851, Paul Cassian joins a mining crew on a journey to newly discovered gold mines in Oregon Territory. Instead of discovering riches, they find themselves fallen prey to supernatural forces bent on trapping them to toil forever in the mines deep in the...

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict in human history, the horrors of war have left an indelible mark on the world's conscience. In 1940, the chilling disappearance of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, and intellectuals foreshadowed a monstrous atrocity that would...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a "powerful, immersive" literary noir about two female World War II correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe (Caitlin Horrocks). Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist...

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author, Steve Berry, comes the latest Cotton Malone adventure, in which the discovery of a lost historical document challenges the global might of the United States. King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed...

Ghost of a Storm is a gothic love story that spans almost a century. The story revolves around a magnificent Stanford White mansion that stands over the cliffs in Montauk, NY. On September 21, 1938, Montauk was devastated by a nor'easter. The Stanford White...

Will her solitude cost her everything?For twenty years, Sophia has guarded the Lighthouse of Alexandria, alone in her task and in her heart.Her pain and loss keep her hidden and isolated, even as the elderly scholars she funds in the famed Library try to...

Brutal violence has swept across a strife-torn Poland, a spark that could set the Soviet prison of Eastern Europe ablaze.Desperate to avoid history repeating itself, the West has dangerous plans, and Bill Cable, now the British Ambassador in Vienna, finds himself in grave danger....

What awaits Brandy in the Devil's Bed?While touring an old castle in France, Brandy Petracus finds an old Templar Knight graveyard. Long forgotten by the world, this ancient cemetery is known to the locals as the Devil's Bed, and its occupants do not rest...

Paulette Monot, vampire-adventuress, having survived the Matabele War in Africa, leaves England to travel in the opposite direction: to America, there to recuperate, make her fortune, and keep a low profile. So much for good intentions. When she finds herself strongly attracted to Lucy...

Mason Collins investigates a rash of murders only to discover a web of co-conspirators more dangerous than anything he's ever encountered, in a case that will take him from a Hollywood-style nightclub and a speeding train, to the icy slopes of the Bavarian Alps....

History isn't what it used to be, as photographer Sam Dawson quickly discovers while attempting to unravel the truth surrounding the fatal shooting of a fourteen-year-old boy more than a century ago. Past events and lore compete with stark facts that may have saved...

"No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone."Regarded as one of greatest English novels of the...

Second in the thrilling new Kit Marlowe historical mystery series - November, 1583. Desperate not to let the Netherlands fall into the hands of Catholic Spain, the Queen's spymaster orders Cambridge scholar and novice spy Christopher Marlowe to go there to assist its beleaguered...

In this stunning thrill ride, perfect for fans of Steve Berry, a poem holds the key to unlocking the past- and to eliminating the future.Author: Seth MargolisISBN-10: 1682300560ISBN-13: 9781682300565Publisher: Diversion BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2016Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly...

Simon Fraser, 25th chief of one of Scotland's most prominent clans, became a great British commando leader in World War II.Felix Haynes' third historical fiction novel imagines an earlier, 1930s rise to greatness for the man Winston Churchill called the handsomest man to cut...

"The Edenic is a gripping, hard-hitting work of fiction, into the world of unadulterated power and greed." The time has come for the Matuses, chosen by God to preserve the parable, "The first will last and the last will be first." "EXCITEMENT of a...

This book is unusual, since it deals with the counterfeiting of gold coins and gold bars circa 1900. Most Americans, outside of coin collectors, don't realize that gold coins were once a common form of currency in our country. In the book is a...

"A Descent into the Maelstr m" is an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form...