Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

1943. WW2 is raging in Europe. Kurt M ller is living in London. While working for British Intelligence he discovers a photograph of his girlfriend, Gudrun, among the possessions of a German agent. Then he gets a postcard from Gudrun, posted in Germany, and...

Ex-Cold War spies bite back . . .The darkest secrets of a Russian oligarch-a legacy from Stalin. A hidden batch of the CIA's Stinger missiles. And the insatiable Afghan thirst for revenge.★★★★★ "Just when I think Mr. Turpin can't get any better, he scores...

Angelo Perino lives life on the bleeding edge of speed and success--a race car driver of humble origins who dominates on and off the track. Loren Hardeman is the ruthless patriarch of an auto empire, fighting to keep his family from self-destructing under the...

From the bestselling author of Riders of the Purple Sage, comes another classic Western tale. The sun set across the purple sky over the Don Carlos Rancho while the warm Santa Fe breeze rustled through the grazing fields just off the trail. The Colonel...

Jefferson Tayte is good at finding people who don't want to be found. For years he has followed faint genealogical trails to reunite families--and uncover long-hidden secrets. But Tayte is a loner, a man with no ties of his own; his true identity is...

Ninth Book of TalonThe year 1191 is the beginning of the Third Christian crusade in the Holy Land, and one of the most significantUnder the vigilant protection of Lord Talon and his companions, the land of Kantara enjoys peace even as the tyrant Isaac...

Anne Boleyn is imprisoned in the Tower of London on false charges of adultery, high treason, and incest on the orders of her husband, King Henry VIII of England. Providence intervenes - she escapes her destined tragedy and leaves England. Unexpectedly, she saves King...

1946. When a shadowy organization fails to assassinate Mason Collins, they go after his colleagues, his friends, and the love of his life. Mason knows the only way to stop the killings is to cut off the head of the snake.Armed only with the...

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 a twisted as the streets of Tangier's medina.1946. Tangier, MoroccoAfter Mason busted up a...

1940: Con el mundo en guerra, Eleanor Trigg lidera un misterioso grupo de agentes secretas femeninas en Londres. Doce de estas mujeres son enviadas para ayudar a la Resistencia francesa. Nunca regresaron a casa.1946: Al pasar por la Estaci Central, en Nueva York, Grace...

A plot against England that even the genius of H. G. Wells could not have imagined.It's 1914. The Great War grips the world--and from the Western Front a strange story emerges...a story of St. George and a brigade of angels descending from heaven to...

A mutilated body. No witnesses. The only clue, a message, "Those who I have made suffer will become saints and they shall lift me up from hell."Winter, 1945. Munich is in ruins, and a savage killer is stalking the city.U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins...

It's 1936 and King Edward VIII must make a choice: keep his crown or marry Wallis Simpson. Wallis is a divorcee. If he marries her, he must abdicate. But what if he keeps her as his mistress and thereby keeps his crown? Would Wallis...

The New York Times Book Review said of The Yard, "If Charles Dickens isn't somewhere clapping his hands...Wilkie Collins surely is." Now Alex Grecian returns with his second novel of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad--and it's a gripper. The British Midlands. Inhabitants call it the...

Legendary thriller writer David Morrell transports readers to the fogbound streets of London, where a killer plots to assisinate Queen Victoria.The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters....

From the author of New York Time bestseller The Tourist...Olen Steinhauer's acclaimed crime series set in Eastern Europe has taken readers from the first shots of the revolution and through the chaos of the 1960s. Now, it is 1975, and one of the People's...

"Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor!" - Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice NetworkA brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and South, New York...

A New York Times best historical novel of the year, Victoria Mas's The Mad Women's Ball is a feminist literary thriller, adapted as a major film for Amazon Prime. "In this darkly delightful Gothic treasure, Mas explores grief, trauma, and sisterhood behind the walls...

Harald Sigurdsson, Norwegian prince, arrives in Constantinople in 1038 with 500 soldiers, whereupon he is offered command of the Varangian Guard, the Norse half of the Emperor's bodyguard. Harald, entangled in Greek lies and intrigue, hardly knows whom to trust: John, the real ruler...

A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles. Bombay, 1950 For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy of Dante's The Divine Comedy, has been safely housed at Bombay's Asiatic Society. But when it vanishes, together with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...