Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

Set in the 12th century, during the decline of the Seljuk Empire and the height of the Islamic Golden Age, The White Falcon is a historical novel that blends political intrigue and adventure with philosophical depth, exploring themes of betrayal, spiritual struggle, and moral...

In the shadowed hollows of 1890s Ashe County, North Carolina, the enigmatic Melungeons-descendants of African, European, and indigenous blood-face a world of whispers and prejudice. Sensationalized by journalist Will Allen Dromgoole, their myths of shifting skin tones and exotic origins ignite public fascination, while...

TRAIL TO FOLLOW A Gritty Western Adventure of Vengeance, Redemption, and Frontier JusticeWhen the West turns lawless, only the relentless survive.Sam Burke thought he'd buried his past along with the badge. But when ruthless cattle baron John Chisum's empire collides with a trail soaked...

In the summer of 1928, socialite Elizabeth "Beth" Davis arrives at the storied Jefferson Hotel in Richmond for a week of political gatherings and Southern society pageantry. While her husband attends Democratic meetings during a heated presidential election year, Beth begins to experience unsettling...

He is John Braun, Vatican Archivist ... and CIA deep cover agent. He has a genius for decrypting codes in the Archives ... and for deniable black ops in the dark of night. His life is one of research and history... and of anti-terror...

In the dark heart of the Cold War, one CIA officer stands between America and a bioweapon apocalypse.From Bogotá to the trackless jungle, Clara Verona races against time, betrayal, and her own haunted past to stop a conspiracy that could devastate America's cities. Against...

In the tumultuous year of 1897, the echoes of impending assassinations shadow Jay Garcia across the vast expanse of the land. Meanwhile, his son John, freshly graduated from Yale, thrusts himself into the tumultuous world of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, immersing himself in the...

Two men. Two death threats. One enemy still at large. DOUBLE THREAT is a gripping wartime suspense novel set in June 1944, just two weeks after the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy. Dr Roger Scarfield, a compassionate family physician who also treats soldiers in...

In the winter of 1932, Albany portrait painter Jonathan "Johnny" Wyckoff is shattered when his wife, Maria, is murdered after hours at her workplace. With the case stalled and his gift for capturing people in oils gone numb with grief, Johnny flees to Kinderhook...

The Chesapeake Syndicate novels chronicle the rise of power, loyalty, and survival in Prohibition-era Baltimore. In a harbor where politics, federal enforcement, organized distribution, and private interests collide, stability is never permanent - and control is always contested.At the center stands the Callahan family,...

A THEFT SO CLEANA Baron Artson ThrillerShe discovered the lie. Now the lie wants her dead.London, 1924. Dr. Camille Fournier spots a fatal flaw in a thirty-five-million-pound "masterpiece"-a painting the British elite have bet their entire fortunes on.When her colleagues start meeting with "accidents,"...

What if the apocalypse is not a prophecy... but a system?A hidden order known as the Purifiers believes humanity has reached its limit, and seven billion souls must cross over together to reset the planet. The system has worked for millennia. Civilizations rise, technology...

Deep in the deserts of Rajasthan lies Kuldhara - a village abandoned overnight more than two centuries ago. Empty houses, silent streets, and restless winds still guard a mystery no one has solved.When a group of young travelers enters the ruins in search of...

The year is 1885. Lucky McKenna and Chance Rudd, from the previous book, The Secret of the White Monkey's Tomb, are back again! These two buddies are three years older now, and are living on a ranch outside of San Diego with their benefactors...

When War Comes Home, Love Must Stand Strong This is a story of a community weathering the storms of two world wars. It is about the hardships endured., and the heartbreak that comes with conflict. It is also about the bonds of kinship and...

Ambition, deceit, and the inexorable march of progress forged one family's destiny in the crucible of early 20th-century America. Embark on an enthralling journey through time in this riveting saga that follows the fearless Garcia's as they battle for power and wealth. It begins...

Some symbols are older than the stories that explain them.When a teacher at St. Aurelian's Academy begins to question the origins of the school's crest, he uncovers more than decorative history. Beneath stone foundations lies a hidden architecture - one built not just of...

Baltimore. 1920.Prohibition didn't dry up the harbor.It changed who controlled it.When liquor is outlawed overnight, dockworker Thomas "Red" Callahan sees what others don't: the city won't stop drinking - it will just drink differently. What begins as a quiet rerouting of three crates becomes...

History tells us Theodore Roosevelt was a force of nature. It doesn't tell us about the time nature almost broke him.In 1893, the future President published The Wilderness Hunter, including a chilling, factual account of a "goblin-beast" that stalked a trapper named Bauman. Historians...

Lord Rushlake and his family, visiting the country for Easter, find themselves once more caught up in a murder mystery. This time it's rather close to home, the victim being Lady Titania's friend and occasional suitor.All the usual members of the Team are present:...

What if falling into history meant you could never leave?When a ruined chapel on the Cornish coast triggers an impossible event, Tudor historian Katherine Morrison is pulled out of her own time-and wakes as Katherine Westmoor in 1536 England, trapped in a household where...

Dr. Sheila O'Neill is a young English Lit professor at a mediocre college, ostracized for her unfashionably right-wing views and crude jokes. Lacking allies in the workplace, she vents to an online friend Jake, a reclusive autopsy technician who shares her cynical worldview. A...

In the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea, the forest remembers everything.When a young anthropologist and a neuropathologist arrive in a secluded village, they are drawn into a mystery that defies both science and belief. Women begin to laugh without reason. Children stumble as...

Joe Cross is a wealthy smuggler who owns a luxurious casino in London and lives for adventure. In this second Joe Cross Adventure novel, Cross is approached by the United States President to find a techno-genius somewhere in the United Kingdom. He finds out...

Large Print EditionJoin the crew of the Panther in this thrilling continuation of the Tides of Fortune series. As tensions mount in San Francisco, Nick Van Doran and his crew are thrust into a desperate race against time. Their mission: to navigate the treacherous...

Best Short Story Collection - International Book Awards "A juicy collection of stories, with some great character development and a lot of original ideas. Recommended!"-Horror After Dark"I found this book to be an extreme delight. Bruns builds each piece with a subtle tension rather...

The pyramid is falling, and the secrets of the "Second Coming" are finally within reach.The Time Traveler Project has reached its most dangerous phase: the dismantling of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Matthew Heredia, driven by a desperate obsession, has pushed the world to...

Bavaria, 1438. After a young girl is found in a tanner's vat, the small town of Aichach turns from fear to fury. The Church urges repentance; the crowd wants a culprit. Barber-surgeon and war veteran Simon Schenk wants only to protect his family and...

Paris, August 31, 1997 A horrific high-speed car crash in Paris's Pont d'Alma tunnel extinguishes the life of the 20th Century's most beloved Princess when the Mercedes she is riding in collides with an inattentively driven Fiat Uno. André Dominelli, the driver of the...

A Norse-inspired epic of ancient guardians, rune magic, and the unity of clans.When a fissure opens in the frozen earth, an ancient hunger rises - threatening every clan of the North. To survive, the clans must unite and awaken the Iron-Shaped, an ancient guardian...

THE SISTER OF THE FLAMEA Dark Medieval Thriller of Faith, Vengeance, and Secret Love They burned her sister as a heretic.They called it justice.They were wrong.After the execution of Joan of Arc, France believes the fire has gone out. The Maid is dead. Her...

THE RATLINEBerlin is burning. The escape route is still running.In the ruins of 1945 Berlin, Dr. Hartmann gives a defeated leader a new name and a token that opens doors without leaving proof.New York City, October 1978: reporter Elliot Crane finds an unmarked envelope...

In 1887 Texas, nineteen-year-old Mabel Colter, daughter of a blacksmith, walked home at dusk through a dusty cattle town.When Harlan Pike - a hard-drinking cowboy with a reputation for charm in daylight and cruelty in shadows - cornered her in an alley, Mabel fought...

After the Flood washed the giants from the earth, something learned how to survive without a body. And in Babylon, it finally found a way back.Ruth is a river-born weaver who carries a quiet legacy passed down through patient hands. What begins as a...

The Odyssey ReinterpretedA Johnny Crumb AdventureBy Jack CanemA forgotten science. A dangerous discovery.When a private film research project uncovers a series of uncatalogued Greek fragments, no one expects them to change the meaning of one of the world's greatest epics.But as the fragments are...

A Silence Left OpenThe Shadow Myth - Book Twoby Samuel LudkeEli Mercer refused to stop time.Now the world must live with that choice.As societies fracture under uncertainty, a powerful regime offers peace through perfect stillness-and builds a flawless city where suffering ends by never...

He called it the Cradle. The syndicate called it a resource. The earth calls it a wound. Australia, 1930. To the Richardson syndicate, the deep earth reservoir in the Stuart Range is a payday. To Joanne, it is her father's legacy, a place he...

Til and Maeve Duprey managed to survive a train wreck on the way to his last assignment. Imagine his excitement when he is offered a plum post at the foreign office of an international news service. While he's covering assorted stories, Til winds up...

An ancient effigy. A warning carved into the earth. A secret that will rewrite history.The Serpent's Mound was never just a park. It was a lock.When historian Harrison Blake uncovers a copper tablet buried within the jaws of the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio,...

Six western short stories with a sting in the tail.Once Upon a Time in Mirage - Tucker Crowley and Durango Jones share a cell in the jailhouse, and they both have a story to tell.Last Throw of the Bones - Bounty hunter Broughton McKay...

As humanity entered the age of invention in the early twentieth century, progress came at a devastating cost. The First World War, Bolshevik revolutions, Stalin's Terror Famine in Ukraine, and the rise of National Socialism pushed the world to unprecedented extremes, revealing how modern...

The Cosmic Rule We Never Understood Until It Was Too LateWhy have we never seen aliens? The answer is not in the stars, but in our own violent history.From the moment the first human used a rock as a weapon, a pattern was set....

Skull Pepper HideawayBook Two of the Mercer Bloodline SeriesIn the late 1860s, seventeen-year-old Silas "Sly" Mercer leaves the worn fields of his Arkansas home and heads west, driven by a quiet certainty that his life is meant for more than inherited land and unanswered...

Ötzi the Iceman fights for his life on the side of a mountain, He must return to his family and the love of his life.Author: O. N. Kopp,Eliot KoppISBN-13: 9798244686739Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2026Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.11d

It is often difficult to uncover what lies behind a murder in a land as ancient and intricate as Italy, where black and white are seldom entirely distinguishable.A body hideously mutilated, clues echoing from a distant and mysterious past, and a Carabinieri Maresciallo forced...

Before the city learned his name, Arthur Bell learned its secrets.In the fog-choked streets of Victorian London, progress casts long shadows. Smoke coils above the Thames, machinery hums beneath cobblestones, and crime adapts as quickly as the city itself.In Shadows Along the Thames, a...

A historical literary thriller dealing with love, death, fear, and solitude.What would you do if you accidentally killed someone?When two bodies end up in the Danube River, Jon Mantler, a quiet and resourceful man from rural North America, finds himself drawn into the shadowy...

Large Print EditionWhere can you run when you need to escape your past? The Caribbean isn't a place where Nick and the crew of the Panther can sail freely any longer, so they set off on their biggest adventure yet: Around Cape Horn to...

A lost notebook. A vanished past. A darkness that never stopped growing.When investigators recovered a ruined composition book near the Sand Run caves in 2021, they expected weather-damage and rambling notes.They did not expect this.They did not expect him.The Lost Diary of Gil Stanford...

A cursed coin. A city drowning in sin. A darkness that wears a familiar face. In the rain-slicked streets of 1920s San Francisco, spiritual private eye Byron Hayes is no stranger to the darkness that lurks behind mortal eyes. When a corrupt slumlord's car...