Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

"Ward Just took time off from the editorial page of The Washington Post to write his first novel, A Soldier of the Revolution, the story of a young man who is sent to South America to work for an Ameri"Author: Ward JustISBN-10: 1586480979ISBN-13: 9781586480974Publisher:...

It's early in the Second World War, and most of Europe is occupied by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, aspiring to establish a thousand-year empire. The occupied countries will be robbed of their art treasures, the items to be exhibited in newly built German...

This book is a fictional story about two hundred acres of land that was stolen from an African American family who obtained land thanks to the Homestead Act. In the 1800s, Veronica Williams' great-grandfather was deceived, and this is how this brave descendant regained...

WWI veteran Spicer leaves his native New York to join a Soviet spy service to combat fascists in Weimar Germany during the late 1920s. Despite his loyalty to the cause and successful exploits on its behalf, his moral principles and his devotion to a...

Girl with Parasol is a suspenseful novel about looting of Jewish-owned artworks by the Nazis during World War II. These crimes hit the headlines in 2013 with the discovery of an art cache in Munich, and in 2014 with the release of George Clooney's...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi's brilliant and thrilling historical novel Wolves of Rome is perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow's Eagles of the Empire series and Ben Kane's Eagles of Rome series.Author: Valerio Massimo ManfrediISBN-10: 1509878998ISBN-13: 9781509878994Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2019Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.70h x...

Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy and right hand man, flew to Scotland on a mysterious peace mission in 1941, which has never been convincingly explained. Rick Coleman, an investigative journalist, determines to uncover the secrets. Taking place in the now, but with flashback chapters which...

It is 1936 as track star Dietrich Becker trains for the Berlin Olympics. Supported by his wife and an unknown benefactor, Dietrich is hiding a dangerous secret: he is Jewish. But when he unexpectedly loses to the legendary Jesse Owens, a humiliated Dietrich crumbles...

Trouble comes to the Botai at the peak of their power. Recent raids on shepherds and travelers have started again in a similar pattern to attacks made by the Smolens villagers years ago. Even worse, the Botai have lost their access to tin, the...

During World War II, as the Allied armies advance into Germany, the very wealthy Baron von Braunstein believes Germany will lose the war. His two sons having been killed, he arranges to get his only remaining child, a daughter, out of Germany and into...

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Red Shadows' is a story that follows the adventures of the puritan explorer Solomon Kane. Robert Ervin Howard was born...

This book contains Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novella, "The Corsican Brothers - A Novel". It is the tale of two brothers who, after being conjoined and separated when very young, are still able to sense the spine of the other. A moving story that has...

A thrilling collection of the 20 most challenging murder cases solved by Arthur Conan Doyle's remarkable detective, Sherlock Holmes. Join Sherlock Holmes in this new collection of classic short stories as he investigates cases involving murder and foul play. In these tales, Holmes uses...

Set in the vast and rugged moorland of Dartmoor, this gripping short story follows Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as they attempt to discover the truth behind the disappearance of a phenomenal racehorse, Silver Blaze. When the prize-winning racehorse Silver Blaze goes missing the...

Have you ever wondered why the world did not end on December 21, 2012, as predicted by the Mayan calendar? Diego DeLorean, who was one of the wealthiest men in the United States, begins his journey from El Paso, Texas, all the way to...

On 21st November 1974, a child's life is blown apart. What comes out of the rubble? Danny Cronin is a ten-year-old boy from a Northern Irish Catholic family living in Birmingham, far away from The Troubles. Danny wants to be an astronaut when he...

Edgar Manley is a peculiar child who feels threatened by the world shifting around him. On one especially dreadful day, he receives news of his father's death and that guardianship will be passed to his estranged uncle. That night, while fast asleep, his mind...

An undercover Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer who opts to protect the mysteries of history and its wealth within India allied with the NSA and CBI lands up fighting against the time because Kali Yuga is ending by April 2030. Subsequently, a faceless International...

It is the early 1980s. The most sensitive clandestine document on the planet is missing, and to find it, the free world can turn to only ONE man: STEEP DANGERHILL, SPY FOR HIRE!But when he discovers a manic Romanian noblewoman, he may find more...

In June, a call was made to Cincinnati police regarding some suspicious letters a man found while cleaning out his grandfather's attic. The man wishes to remain anonymous but has allowed the story to be told. The letters were from his grandfather's brother, William...

'What a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMESDANIEL PURSGLOVE BOOK THREEFrom the stark Yorkshire landscape to the dark underbelly of Jacobean London, Daniel Pursglove's new mission sees him fall prey to a ruthless copycat killer... London, 1607. As dawn breaks, Daniel Pursglove rides north,...

Magdalena von Herff barely knows what name to use before men begin to exploit her beauty, intelligence, and talents, but she soon realises that none are there to help her, except perhaps one-her enemy. Becoming Helen is a 1930s tale of deceit, disillusionment, and...

Legend has it that when Nikola Tesla died, he was on the verge of discovering a new technology of earth-changing potential. Upon his death, his papers were seized by the FBI; their mysteries, hidden away forever.The legend is wrong.When Tesla's work resurfaces decades later...

Alexander's epic quest continues through the heart of Asia and on towards the mystery of India. The Macedonian Army march in search of limitless glory, crushing resistance at every turn. The beauty of Babylon is ravaged, the Palace of Persepolis burnt to ashes. An...

Continuing the international bestselling saga of Alexander the Great, The Sands of Ammon brilliantly describes his quest to conquer Asia, the limitless domain ruled by the Great King of the Persians. In a seemingly impossible venture, the mighty Alexander and his men storm Persian...

Author: Valerio Massimo ManfrediISBN-10: 144727671XISBN-13: 9781447276715Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2016Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.20d

Author: Valerio Massimo ManfrediISBN-10: 1509853510ISBN-13: 9781509853519Publisher: MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2017Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.04d

A bullet barely misses Manhattan society writer Louisa Delafield, and her publisher insists she leave the city for what seems like an easy assignment in Florida until a wedding guest winds up dead with a stolen diamond in his hand.Louisa investigates the mysterious death,...

A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters. "Wonderfully entertaining and slyly...

The Bradshaws, who readers first met in Hot Winter Sun, are living a peaceful life in Restoration England, under the gay and clever King Charles II. A season is launched for their unusually beautiful and high-spirited daughter, Julia. However, after an unexpected visit from...

Rome, 6th Century BC, is a brutal place.Battles with neighbouring tribes are common and kings can be easily thrust from their thrones, through diplomacy or at the point of a sword, it doesn't really matter.When Lucomo, first of the Tarquins, is brutally murdered by...

Heart of Darkness, a book by Joseph Conrad, was first published in 1899 in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and later in Conrad's Youth and Two Other Stories (1902). Heart of Darkness considers the terror of Western colonialism, portraying it as a peculiarity that damages not...

The estranged grandson of a wealthy collector of human curiosities becomes fascinated with teenaged twin sisters, leading them into a web of dark obsessions. A dazzlingly dark gothic novel from the bestselling author of The Somnambulist. ' Mysterious, sometimes shocking, full of surprises and...

Orphaned as a small child, Cathy is raised by her paternal uncle and already has an ex-husband by the age of twenty-eight.Cathy runs her online crystals and essential oil business, from her small cottage in Green Valley, in the Northwest of England.A letter from...

As Germany strangles under the tight grip of the Nazi Party, the frozen winter of 1940 brings even more reasons to fear the dark in the crackling new WWII crime novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Scarrow--perfect for fans of Philip Kerr's...

The year is AD655. With allies in every kingdom, the great warrior king, Penda of Mercia, stands in a position of power throughout Britain.Just one kingdom stands aloof, that of Bernicia to the north. Ruled by King Oswiu, the brother of the long-dead King...

In a studiolo behind a church, six women gather to perform an act that is restorative, powerful, and illegal. They paint.Under the tutelage of Leonardo da Vinci, the six show talent and drive equal to that of any man, but in Renaissance Florence they...

Another Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble, Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome, Storey tells of its...

What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain--in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos.Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a...

Nostradamus is, without question, the most famous prognosticator of all time. But what if his prophecies had help? Benson Crow is a sci-fi writer who finds himself thrust into the middle of a prophecy that could mean the death of untold numbers of people....

*** FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY ***IT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST SCANDALS IN THE KINGDOM OF FRANCE'S HISTORY.AND ONE TEMPLAR KNIGHT PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE.When a woman arrives at Sir Marcus de Rancourt's new home, claiming to...

"A meticulously crafted portrait of our violent national past."--Washington Post Book WorldNow available with a contemporary look, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane's epic, unflinching tale of Prohibition, the Roaring Twenties, and one man's rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast's...

In this tour de force--part historical thriller, part modern adventure--from the New York Times bestselling author of I, Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger uncovers why World War II's greatest sniper was erased from history...and why her disappearance still matters today. Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was once...

"A brilliant novel written with the authority of a scholar and the skill of a gifted storyteller." -Peggy Webb, USA Today bestselling author of The Language of SilenceAn unforgettable story of two courageous couples who risk everything for truth.Amid a revolution, archaeologist Christopher Jordan...

Taking us back in history to a place where autopsies were blasphemous, coffee was an exotic drink, dried toads were the recommended remedy for the plague, and the devil was as real as anything, New York Times bestselling author Oliver Pzsch's The Hangman's Daughter...

An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a top secret invention in this New York Times bestselling novel from Amanda Quick. Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning...

The New York Times bestselling classic of alternate history, a murder mystery set in a world where the Nazis won World War II--for fans of The Plot Against America and The Man in the High Castle Berlin, 1964. The Greater German Reich stretches from...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Hailed as "a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes" by The Boston Globe, Flavia de Luce returns in a Christmas mystery from award-winning author Alan Bradley. In spite of being ejected from Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada, twelve-year-old...

Along the notorious Rogue River, gold seekers, crazed by the discovery of nuggets that made them rich overnight, are at war with one another. The river itself swarms with salmon, bringing along with them another kind of wealth and violent fighting between fishermen and...

In this historical novel, Billy Old and Jeff Kidder were Arizona Rangers at the turn of the twentieth century and best friends. In 1908, while acting in the line of duty, Kidder was murdered by five crooked Mexican policemen. No charges were filed against...