Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

A 300-year-old legend. Fathoms below. And the search might kill them all...Days and nights in unforgiving seas. Stuck aboard a rundown trawler. Two crew he can't control. And a despicable owner that doesn't care to know their names.Not where Jed thought he'd be.But on...

Amy Romano, a flamenco dancer in Tampa's Latin district, is on the run. The mobsters think she's a snitch for J. Edgar Hoover's moonshine-busting G-men. They want her head. The G-men think she's an accessory to the murder of an agent, and they're hell-bent...

'An insightful, frighteningly intelligent thriller... a gem of a novel' Robert DinsdaleMoscow, 1932. Gareth Jones, a young Welsh reporter, arrives in the Soviet Union excited to see for himself how Josef Stalin is forging a new civilisation.He meets American and British journalists who acclaim...

They thought she was insane. But what if she was telling the truth?1942, New Zealand. Edith's been locked away for a long time. She was just five years old when she was sent to Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. Fifteen years later, she has few memories...

Welcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer... Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set...

"Superb...an appropriate homage"--Marilyn Stasio, New York TimesThe much-anticipated final installment in Ariana Franklin's popular Mistress of the Art of Death historical mystery series, finished by the author's daughter after her death.England. 1191. After the death of her friend and patron, King Henry II, Adelia...

Romance...adventure...action...Christian values. Everything you'll want for the perfect binge-read!A boy-king the world never knew about. A missing relic said to have proven his death. An unknown enemy with a deadly secret.When a series of anonymous letters lure archaeologists Alex and Sam into a hidden...

Mid-1940, the darkest of the nights for Britain during WWII. Adolf Hitler's unstoppable military has conquered most of Europe, including France, only twenty miles from the English coast. It is now set to conquer the island-nation itself. Plotting to aid this onslaught, a German...

The letter was short. A name, a time, a place.Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder plunges readers into the heart of London, to the secret tunnels that exist far beneath the city streets. There, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett's Investigations...

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a...

Nelson Mandela buried a gun at his secret hideout shortly before his betrayal by the CIA and capture by the South African Police. The gun has never been found. This tantalizing and historically documented fact is the catalyst for a high concept novel about...

ANCIENT MYTH MEETS DARK SCIENCE, AND GODS AND KINGS WILL RISE AGAINFollowing the events of The God Extinction and The Hidden Persuaders, Dr. Dan Kotler finds himself embroiled in a plot that turns out to be "the family business." Kotler's grandfather-Richard Kotler-has resurfaced, along...

1996: Sergeant Nick Adair defends British Army border post "Hotel 55" from being overrun by the IRA, but the only witnesses to his bravery tell a different tale, with themselves as heroes and Adair castigated as a coward. 2021: After a five-year stint with...

Anna, a young American studying in Chicago falls in love with fellow-student Nouri, the son of a wealthy Iranian family. Despite their cultural differences, Anna, whose parents are divorced and remote, eagerly moves to Tehran where she is embraced by Nouri's family. A few...

Revel Knox is a man on the run. Is he good man or bad man? Did he kill in cold blood or was it in self-defense? What is it about the key, and who is the man pursuing him? "If you are not a...

Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian...

A gripping thriller of love and espionage in World War Two France inspired by the true story of Australian SOE heroine, Nancy Wake.February 1933: When her aunt gifts her two hundred pounds, twenty-year-old Nancy Wake embarks on a world cruise. Afterwards, she becomes a...

A movie set, a mysterious death and a note signed by 'The Head Hunter', Edgar Wallace offers the ingredients for a thrilling detective fiction. Edgar Wallace, the original writer of King Kong and hundreds of vintage crime, science fiction and adventure novels, created The...

Their rivalry will change the world forever.As competition for the imperial throne intensifies, Constantine and Maxentius realise their childhood friendship cannot last. Each man struggles to control their respective quadrant of empire, battered by currents of politics, religion and personal tragedy, threatened by barbarian...

A deadly legacy of the Cold War . . .A mysterious Nazi source. A desperate escape bid through northern Russia. And life-threatening secrets being leaked by a mole at the heart of Western intelligence.In the fifth book of this thriller series, ex-CIA war crimes...

It is not an easy life for an English juggler in Twelfth Century Spain. Survival means juggling, not only his knives, but dancing nimbly between the clash of cultures of the sophisticated Moors who conquered the land centuries earlier, the Christians who stubbornly fight...

On the table of psychiatrist Robert Cavendish lay a strange set of papers, claimed to be the journal of the infamous Whitechapel murderer whose crimes instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London.Delving deeper into the journal, Robert is convinced of its authenticity, and...

"Tommy Carbone brings you right to the Maine woods in his new novel. You're not going to want to stop reading." - George Smith, Maine's Bangor Daily News, Book Reviews.A Maine Mystery Are there spies in the woods? Have the poachers stolen from the...

The Nazis have the key to the ultimate weapon.Can a special squad of British operatives destroy their plans before the Third Reich rules the earth?1944, England1944, EnglandCalum Auger can see ten seconds into the future. Desperate not to die in the air over Germany,...

Every Londoner has money worries. Talented artist and some-time sleuth, Seb Foxley, is no exception.When fellow craftsmen with debts to pay are found dead in the most horrid circumstances, fears escalate. Only Seb can solve the puzzles that baffle the authorities.Seb's wayward elder brother,...

Author: Historical NovelISBN-10: 8027340462ISBN-13: 9788027340460Publisher: E-ArtnowLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2021Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.41d

Her man carries terrifying secrets. But if she escapes, will the world treat her with any more kindness? 1857. Amelia Lawrence refuses to let her husband hurt her ever again. Attempting to flee India in the dead of night, her frantic exodus falters when...

2nd Edition - Carol Award Finalist, Selah Award Winner !! (Best Historical Fiction) It's October, 1962. Life is simple. The world makes sense, and all families are happy. When they aren't, everyone knows you're supposed to pretend. With their family about to collapse, Colt...

Former Munich police detective Willi Geismeier is drawn out of hiding to find a deranged serial killer. Former Munch detective Willi Geimeiser is a wanted man. He sacrificed his career and put his life on the line by exposing a high-ranking Nazi official as...

This book sparked shocking conspiracy theories about a historical incident. Here's why...The novel follows John Rowland, an alcoholic former US Navy officer who works as deckhand on the Titan. "She was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In...

The struggle to develop a 2,000-acre pristine university research forest into an ultra-exclusive golf enclave becomes a conflict involving Native Americans who believe the land is theirs, unscrupulous and corrupt people who envision huge profits, and people who live near it and want to...

Paul Doherty's twenty-second medieval mystery featuring Sir Hugh Corbett is a gripping and gruesome tale of murder and mayhem sure to appeal to fans of C. J. Sansom and Bernard Cornwell. 1312. Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, has returned from the...

London, England...1952. The country is quickly recovering from the ravages of World War II, but a certain group of people won't let the hatred die. The fight continues. Murders are being committed throughout Europe as a result of a particular heroic action taken during...

"Captivating." --The Washington PostNamed a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America - BuzzFeed - PopSugar - BookRiot - LifeSavvy - CT PostFrom "a master of historical fiction" (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York...

A family's secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American government--all are linked by a single puzzling possibility: What if everything we know about the discovery of America was a lie? What if that lie was designed to hide the secret...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFour presidents of the United States have been assassinated--in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963--each murder seemingly unrelated. But what if those presidents were all killed for the shocking same reason: a clause contained in the United States Constitution? This is the...

International Bestseller#1 U.K. BestsellerThe Wall Street Journal BestsellerLos Angeles Times Bestseller In the summer of 1909, Sigmund Freud arrived by steamship in New York Harbor for a short visit to America. Though he would live another thirty years, he would never return to this...

Oppenheimer's first full day at the motel was devoted to television. He located the remote on the bedside table, where it sat beside the enigmatic telephone with its sheet of intricate numeric instructions, and eventually by pressing the button marked power discovered its function....

From the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes an absorbing, atmospheric exploration of one young woman's friendship with a volatile artist and her place in the controversy that consumes him. Jane Harris's Gillespie and I presents a strongly voiced female protagonist evocative of...

"Crichton's ultimate adventure."--San Francisco Chronicle "Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action....A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure."--USA Today "Riveting....Great entertainment....The pages and minutes fly by."--Cleveland Plain Dealer #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of...

It is 1951, and Jean-Luc Gu駻y has arrived in Indochina to investigate the murder of his brother, Olivier, whose body was found floating in a tributary of the Saigon River. As an avid reader of detective fiction, Gu駻y is well aware of how such...

Kent, England, 1762. Bloody smuggling wars are raging on England's southern coast. It's a time of daring men and bold women, and deadly skirmishes between rival gangs and the law.John Smith, a man both hanged and drowned, returns to his home village, swearing vengeance...

Vengeance. Treason. Faith. Set during one of the most tumultuous eras of European history, an explosive group of individuals-a prostitute bar maiden, a fresh-faced squire and his knight, a substance-abusing bard, five revolutionists, and two fugitives-find themselves trapped in an inn during a catastrophic...

In Robert Goddard's third novel, a bestseller in the United Kingdom and now back in print, is a masterful exercise in suspense set in Victorian-era England. On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, thirty-four-year-old husband and father William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in...

Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer's entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English...

In "one of the great espionage novels of our time" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child), a young woman goes on the run after discovering a dark truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin, only to be murdered...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "A feverishly paced action adventure" (The New York Times) about a long-lost Shakespeare work and a killer who reenacts the Bard's most bloody murders On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor...

In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But...

In the year 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman sits by the window, watching as enemies gather below and fires spread through the night. As she calmly awaits her fate, she begins to write, carefully setting down...

Someone has discovered a Nazi weapon of incredible power. And their intentions aren't good. In the final days of World War II, a mysterious German U-boat was seen by a United States naval vessel in the Atlantic Ocean, just north of South America. Before...