Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

A profound allegory of good and evil, and a deep exploration of human interaction, black and white, alternately beautiful and tender, cruel and unsettling.--GuardianAustralia's leading indigenous storyteller makes his American debut with this immersive and deeply resonant novel, set in the 1960s, that explores...

You only think you know the story of the monster and his creator. The monster never asked for life or even his mockery of one. Victor Frankenstein never asked if he should pierce the veil of death. His cousin Elizabeth never asked for her...

'A rollicking good read' IAN RANKIN'Employs a turbulent 1930s India as the canvas for a nefarious assassination plot complete with tiger hunts and shady maharajahs. A rollicking Raj-era mystery' VASEEM KHAN The second in the series of the Dabble and Harris thrillers! Set in...

Two young Vietnam vets are recruited by the President in the 1960's and given orders to locate the kidnapped daughter of a United States Senator. Hawk and Cowboy find themselves in Mexico, chasing down a dreaded cartel leader running heroin across the American borders,...

Russia 1948.Stalin is purging everyone he sees as a threat.Gulags and shallow graves are full of writers, scientists, artists, journalists, politicians, academics and poets.Ludmila Sirotovska, a young militia officer, comes to a remote outpost in Central Siberia to investigate a murder.On the trail of...

An Israeli Best Seller A Thrilling Tale of Love, Loss, and Revenge ​Set primarily in post-WWII Israel, Lone Wolf in Jerusalem is a suspenseful, action-packed novel that is a worthy contribution to Jewish historical fiction. Using drama, adventure, and romance, Diskin has created a...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: An earlier, shorter version of The Quest was published in paperback in 1975. In 2013, I rewrote The Quest and doubled its length, making it, I hope, a far better story than the original, without deviating from the elements that made the...

P. T. Deutermann's previous novels of the US Navy in World War II - Pacific Glory, Ghosts of Bungo Suido, and Sentinels of Fire - have been acclaimed by reviewers and readers for their powerful drama and authentic detail. In The Commodore, the Navy...

A disgraced agent. A missing battle plan. Will he find redemption or damage the Allies beyond repair?London, 1942. OSS Agent Conor Thorn is desperate for a second chance. After a botched mission in Tangier, Thorn knows failure is not an option. When confidential directives...

William Weber was on tour in Germany in the summer of 1931 when he chanced to meet a struggling politician, Adolf Hitler. Hitler soon discovered that Willy was a wealthy innocent and set out to exploit him in every way that he could. There...

From the writer who invented the popular Russian crime novel, Boris Akunin, a gripping tale of political subterfuge and murder in turn-of-the-century Moscow featuring the inimitable hero Erast FandorinAuthor: Boris AkuninISBN-10: 0802127827ISBN-13: 9780802127822Publisher: Mysterious PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/05/2019Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x...

When fugitive Italian monk Giordano Bruno--philosopher, magician, and heretical scientist--arrives in London, he's only one step ahead of the Inquisition. An undercover mission for Queen Elizabeth I and her spymaster provides added protection. Officially, Bruno is to take part in a debate on the...

Counter-intelligence agent Jacob Welker is on a special mission to find a group of scientists who could change the course of World War II in this smartly written historical espionage thriller. September 1939. Germany has declared war on Poland, and in German Pomerania, Professor...

A sleuth to rival Shardlake or Cadfael - a mystery that will chill your blood. A must-read for fans of Rory Clements and SJ Parris.'A satisfying, skillfully constructed mystery with richly developed characters ... A truly memorable and exciting read' Historical Novel Society Banff,...

The late 1920s... Convicted of murdering his father, Artiom Goriainov is serving a sentence of several years on the Solovki Archipelago. Artiom is a strong young man who survives all facets of the hell that is the Soviet camps: hunger, cold, betrayal, the death...

October, 1942. Rule breaker OSS Agent Conor Thorn is assigned a mission to help the Allied war effort when a key Swedish cryptographer stationed in England goes missing. Thorn is determined to find him before critical information falls into enemy hands. But his MI6...

The Sunday Times bestseller It is AD 25. Pirate ships strike terror in the hearts of those who brave the seas of the Roman Empire. When young Telemachus joins the crew of the merchant ship Selene, he's delighted to escape the rough streets of...

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...

"A great read-evocative of another era, engrossing from the first page, chilling." - Publishers Weekly "McDowell must now be regarded as the finest writer of paperback originals in America." - Stephen King "Michael McDowell has a flair for the gruesome . . . the...

Hangman's Beach is a skilful blend of romance and historical fact set around Halifax, Nova Scotia, while the Napoleonic Wars were shaking the world. In Halifax, the sight of executed deserters or traitors hanging on a beach became a gruesome and frequent sight. The...

Julia Probyn-an old friend of many readers-is sailing off the west coast of Scotland. On the desolate island of Erinish Beg, she and her cousin are startled to see a sky-blue pole rise up out of the ground at their feet. Military Intelligence sends...

Known and loved throughout Egypt as a work that celebrates the national character, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's Thebes at War tells of a high point in Egyptian history-ancient Egypt's defeat of Asiatic foreigners who had dominated northern Egypt for two hundred years. With a...

The Extraordinary Banana Tree is not a war story. It is a love story in the time of war. It is the story of the developing love between Cheryl Flynn, Assistance Chief of Intelligence for the Defense Attache's Office in Saigon, and Billy Dobson,...

It's 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store--marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a...

1311. Murder and mayhem prowl the highways and coffin paths of Medieval England . . . Hugh Corbett returns in the twentieth gripping mystery in Paul Doherty's ever-popular series. If you love the historical mysteries of C. J. Sansom, E. M. Powell and Bernard...

In his seventh gripping historical fiction thriller, author F. Mark Granato digs into his own career files to follow the journey of a young disillusioned corporate executive who has stumbled upon a treasonous conspiracy led by a ruthless CEO and his brutally loyal management...

In the novella, Appointment in Prague, one woman, a British secret agent, sets out in May 1942 to single-handedly send to hell the most evil Nazi alive--SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the SD, the domestic and foreign counter-intelligence wing of the SS;...

The titanic struggle begins in an unremarkable grove in the lands of an unremarkable tribe.The war which follows will last for centuries and shapes us still. 390 BC - A Greek trader embarks on his fifth journey to the forests of Hyperborea on behalf...

Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for 2019, and Finalist in the 2019 NGIBA, "the Sundance Film Festival of the publishing world." The Berlin Wall has fallen and the Soviet Union has disintegrated. Russia's experiment with democracy hangs in the balance as corruption...

Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker is a 1799 novel by the American author Charles Brockden Brown. In the novel, both Clithero and Huntly are sleepwalkers, although at the beginning of the book Huntly does not realize it. Sleepwalking is prevalent in the...

His razor-sharp intellect, uncanny powers of deduction, and knowledge of the criminal underground are legendary throughout London. He solves cases with the able assistance of his close friend and confidant. And, one day, he will become the arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes. Meet Professor...

It's 1940 and the British Expeditionary Force is caught ill prepared for the onslaught of the German Blitzkrieg and its deadly panzers. Caught in the desperate retreat to Dunkirk, Tom Harsker, son of a World War 1 ace, discovers he is a natural soldier....

Washington, DC, 1945.Lieutenant Ellis Voigt of the Office of Naval Intelligence is desperate to keep the secrets that threaten his life. The war overseas is going well for America, but Voigt can't escape a web of double-agents and undercover spies who follow his every...

The story of a Civil War soldier finding his humanity in the face of horrible savagery. Emerging from the Civil War a shamed and broken man, Stephen Latch turns to a life of thievery and murder. Still hoping to uphold the values of the...

Upon the death of his uncle, Ernest Selby, a young man from Iowa, inherits the Red Rock Ranch in Arizona. When he learns that the ranch's twenty thousand cattle have dwindled to six thousand he suspects foul play. Ernest decides to go under cover...

In the early 1500s, twenty-four year old Spanish Captain Luis Escudero is already a legend in Spain's professional army, living and fighting in her battles, gambling his life on the slim chance that one day he'll have enough money to travel to that strange...

"Not lyrical, but accurate, Insubrecus. All these stories and reports of Romans, Belgae, Krauts, and whatnot have become a knot I do not have time to unravel, so I'm just going to slice it open!" Caesar announced. "Tomorrow at dawn, this army marches on...

GOLD MEDAL WINNER: Readers' Favorite Book Awards 2017: Best Fiction Audiobook WINNER: 11th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards - Movies & TV Category Amazon #1 Bestseller (Kindle) What if Stanley Kubrick left behind more than just his classic films? What if he also left...

In Russia the Bolshevik revolution is in full-swing while the supposed Great War is destroying Europe in ways never before imagined. Fulltime lovers and part-time enemies, British spy Jack McColl and progressive American journalist Caitlin Hanley, have seen their relationship survive this far but...

Romantic suspense amid the chaos of a world at war. The year is 1940. As England braces for invasion and the German army overruns Europe, two American sisters in Paris risk their lives to save a downed British airman from Nazi arrest. Linda Rossiter...

Writing Arrow in Paradise has been a labor of love. Composed while living on the banks of the Yaak River in a once-notorious bar called the Hell Roaring Saloon (which was converted to a home in 1998), the novel captures the essence of this...

THE EVIL WRATHCambodia, 1978: Amid the Khmer Rouge's crazed genocide, soldier-of-fortune Jack Elliott is given the impossible task of rescuing a family from the regime.THE PAINFUL TRUTHEighteen-year-old orphan and budding journalist Lisa Robinson has received the impossible news that her father is, in fact,...

Former U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins grapples with a web of lies, secrets, and murder as he races against time to save the lives of abducted teenagers in a case as twisted as the streets of Tangier's medina.1946. Tangier, MoroccoAfter Mason busted up a...

Mason Collins investigates a dangerous web of co-conspirators in a case that will take him from a Hollywood-style nightclub and a speeding train, to the icy slopes of the Bavarian Alps.When the Third Reich collapsed, the small town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen became the home of...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ashes to Ashes When the assistant manager of a hardware store in rural New Jersey shows up at the offices of Cubbage & Wakeham, an elite New York auction house, with a worn musical manuscript he hopes to...

Spain 1808. A remarkable debut novel, Napoleon's Blackguards introduces Captain James Ryan - brutally courageous, but haunted by the horrors of war - wanted by the British for his part in the 1798 Irish Rebellion, he escapes to France and joins Napoleon's Irish Legion....

(Did one or more of the Tsar's children survive the 1918 brutal massacre in Ekaterinburg?In 2002, Deputy Sheriff Roo Yoder is thrust into the hunt for a hundred- year- old treasure and a killer when his high school friend, now a successful financier, is...

DECLARED AN ENEMY OF ROME, ARRIUS MUST NOT ONLY FACE GENERAL ARVINNIUS'S RE-LENTLESS EFFORT TO FIND AND EXECUTE HIM, BUT ALSO THE HOSTILITY AND DISTRUST OF THE NATIVE TRIBES NORTH OF HADRIAN'S WALL.General Arvinnius gave the tribune a hard look. "Querinius, Arrius is to...

Venice is sinking. As engineers struggle to save the city from its watery fate, a metal chest is discovered beneath the surface of a murky canal. Tossed into the waters in 1355, it contains the long-lost possessions of none other than the famed explorer...

LIONS OF THE DESERT is the true story of the WWII 1941-1942 Desert War in North Africa and Operation Condor, a story that has captivated the minds of authors, historians, and filmmakers for three-quarters of a century. The story is told through the eyes...