Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

The year 1187 is one of the most fateful for the Christian crusades in the Holy Land, and one of the most disastrous. With an act of savage banditry, an infamous lord of the Kingdom of Jerusalem destroys the treaties that have made possible...

Laura Wingate's life in New York City was falling apart. The man she hoped to marry would not commit, and her job as a museum exhibitions manager was growing stale. Needing to reevaluate her future, she travels to Magnolia House located near Alexandria, Louisiana....

*** FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY ***A MISSING DA VINCI. A TERRIFYING GENETIC BREAKTHROUGH. A PAST AND FUTURE ABOUT TO COLLIDE!USA Today bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy delivers another torn from the headlines thriller in Saint Peter's Soldiers.In World War Two...

Painting a vivid and terrifying picture of war-torn Europe during World War II, this tale chronicles the lives of Anna, a Krakow university professor, and her husband Jan, a Polish cavalryman. After they are separated and forced to flee occupied Poland, Anna soon finds...

GIUSEPPE VAZANNO is one of the wealthiest and most beloved landowners in 1911, post-feudal Sicily. His lemon orchards provide work for the Sicilian peasants, a rich life for his brothers and their families, and a peaceful oasis for his wife Maria and their two...

From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes a hard-edged look at the seductive, high-stakes and often hypocritical world of religious revivalism and televangelists....Spellbinder is the story of a genuine and charismatic believer known as "Preacher," who returns...

The Wrath Of Palzora is a story of love, lust, hatred, greed, deception and murder. Set in the early days of Oklahoma statehood, it begins with the mysterious death of a farmer who fell dead while drawing water from a well in Lincoln County,...

In this sequel to "Bandita Bonita, Romancing Billy the Kid," the Lincoln County War is far from over and William H. Bonney is now the most wanted, notorious outlaw in the New Mexico Territory. Elucia Howard, now christened with the celebrated moniker, Lucy "Lucky...

A soldier returns home to find his parents displaced and their property stolen in this classic Western. "He leaned propped against the rail of the great ship, in an obscure place aft, shadowed by the life-boats. It was the second night out of Cherbourg...

Louis L'Amour's Western stories are beloved worldwide. Now, collected together for the first time in a single volume, are three of his finest tales of the West. The texts have been restored to their original appearances in magazines. In "The Lion Hunter and the...

Twenty years after he survived Vietnam, Daniel Mulvaney's memoir about it is a best seller. But success brings unforeseen attention. An invitation from a mysterious Vietnamese, to return to the land that nearly took his life, takes Danny back to when an idealistic kid...

A strange and mysterious gem named the Sphinx Emerald leaves its trail through history: a witness to many historic events and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous men such as Alexander the Great, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, Leonardo da Vinci, Cardinal...

A WW2 spy story. 1943. Kurt Muller and a young colleague parachute into southern Germany to rescue a British-Canadian agent. The Allies have won the battle of the Atlantic, and German forces are retreating on all major fronts. The war in Europe is effectively...

"The research is impeccable and the writing full of verve." Antonia Senior, The Times1642.England has been plunged into a Civil War.Blandford Candy is sent to London, after an illicit affair, and joins the Roundhead army to fight against the King, taking part in the...

A vacation to the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida, quickly turns deadly for brothers Jon and Michael Rickner as an antiquities dealer is brutally murdered in his shop just minutes after meeting with them. Moments later, Jon and Michael discover an original Edison...

Praise for Mark Ciabattari's Rizzoli saga: ""With unerring irony, Ciabattari paints a shimmering, disorienting world in which the lines between dreams and reality are systematically skewed." -Publishers WeeklyAuthor: Mark CiabattariISBN-10: 1599540967ISBN-13: 9781599540962Publisher: Bordighera PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2016Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

An ENGAGING and PROVOCATIVE new novel that CHALLENGES all the political, social, and economic INADEQUACIES of the AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS System. In a dazzling display of political insight and masterful storytelling, Sylvester Stephens presents a new novel about what has been wrong throughout America's...

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common...

Grapes of wrath By Boyd Cable is the life of a private soldier during World War I.Author: Boyd CableISBN-10: 1545134766ISBN-13: 9781545134764Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/06/2017Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d

Austria, 1944 Former policeman Friedrich Moeller never expected to be released from prison, or see his family again. But the Gestapo needs a man-hunter to apprehend an Allied agent who has killed three men, and worse, absconded with Top Secret Luftwaffe documents which detail...

London, 1812: Treacherous gangs roam the capital, and not even the Palace of Westminster is safe. When Detective Stephen Lavender is called in to investigate a highway robbery and a cold-blooded murder, both the cases take a dangerous and disturbing personal twist.And when Lavender's...

The discovery of a lost Caravaggio painting yields centuries of deadly secrets in this pulse-pounding novel of historical intrigue and modern-day suspense...In seventeenth-century Rome, an arrogant and reckless artist named Caravaggio drinks and brawls his way through his violent, insatiable life, all while painting...

"Welcome to the bloody end of bleeding Kansas..."Based on true events, this unforgettable novel tells the story of the Bloody Benders, a family of grifters and thieves running an isolated feed store on the Kansas plains, boarding travelers along the Great Osage Trail.Beautiful Kate...

The third thrilling archaeological adventure with Alicia Myles from No.1 bestselling Amazon author, David Leadbeater. Full of intense action and rich pirate history, Alicia Myles and the Gold Team follow four-hundred-year-old clues in their search for the long-lost treasure hoard of the fabled pirate,...

When an injured man appears at the home of Sir Tobias, Coroner of Dorset, claiming to have devastating news of his son-in-law, he is compelled to investigate for the sake of his daughter and grandson.Matthias Barton is drawn into the investigation and travels to...

Sherborne in 1436 was a quarrelsome town, the townspeople and the Abbot at loggerheads over the narrowing of the entrance to Allhallows, the chapel-of-ease attached to the Abbey, and the positioning of a font in the same chapel. Against this background, a young man...

When the death of Cosimo de Medici spurs power-hungry aristocrats into action, can a young Florentine stop his birthplace from plunging into chaos? Florence, 1464. Nico Argenti is glad to be home. Returning with a Doctor of Law degree, he eagerly awaits his introduction...

Martin Kerner blew it. A whiskey stained semester torpedoed his shot at the law degree he'd worked his whole life towards. With one final opportunity for redemption, what stands in his way is not a person or a thing. It's a place. DETROIT. A...

A KGB killer, a beautiful young prima donna with a wild past and a Midwestern deputy sheriff who has lost his way collide in a desperate search for a lost archive worth billions of dollars, containing documents that could change the course of history....

'The book is a bravura performance, exhibiting the virtuosity that has lit up all Sinclair's work.' - C.P. Snow, Financial Times 'This is a rich and satisfying hybrid work - part fiction and part biography. Its hold on the reader stems, at least in...

Dieter, the orphaned son of a music professor, becomes the resident "piano man" in a pub favored by students and Nazi military personnel.Sofie is the indulged daughter of a prominent Wehrmacht general and a graduate music student at Berlin's finest university. She serves as...

Ambrose Lincoln is one of the government's prized operatives, a trained assassin, a man whose past is continually erased by mind control tactics and shock treatments. His days have no meaning. He no longer fears death. As far as he is concerned, a man...

WHEN REVENGE IS THE ONLY REDEMPTIONThomas Berrington has come to the high mountains of Spain's Sierra Nevada in search of an escape from the loss that haunts him. Standing at the boundary between life or death he cannot decide which to choose.When his friend...

THE RED DRAGON OF WALES IS COMING... It is autumn 1483 and Richard III is king of England, but rumours about the fate of his nephews are rife and dissent is beginning to grow. Waiting in Brittany, is the exiled Lancastrian heir to the...

For archaeologist Maxine 'Max' Falkland, life in early-50s London is difficult enough as she tries to move on from the death of her brother, an RAF pilot shot down over Korea. But, when she meets John Knox things get more complicated, before they get...

In the newest high-stakes historical thriller from master storyteller Davis Bunn, skepticism vies with faith amid the grit and grandeur of post-World-War-I Europe. It s 1923, and a resilient Paris is starting to recover from the ravages of World War I and the Spanish...

2020 ITW Thriller Awards Finalist"A timely edge-of-your-seat terrorism thriller that plays on every parent's worst fears. This cinematic thriller is destined for TV." -Best ThrillersErik Petersson works with the High-Risk Traveler Task Force, an organization that prevents radicalized individuals from joining extremist groups. Disciplined...

A recreation of the world of the late Roman Republic to tell the story of Gaius Marius Insubrecus, a young man caught between two worlds, that of Rome and that of Celtic Gaul, as he tries to navigate through war, treachery and intrigue of...

What if Adolf Hitler didn't die in 1945? That's the premise of the thrilling new novel Hexenkessel: The Second Coming. Peter Thomas McDougall's stunning book interweaves two stories. The first tells the journey of Hitler up until 1945, and the assistance given by the...

In Old Gate, Virginia, stands a grand house built by Randolph Bliss, a charming New York carpetbagger who, in 1878, shook off dire warnings to build his home elsewhere. For the ground beneath Bliss House is tainted with the kind of tragedy that curses...

Set in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time. North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of...

There aren't many things in this world Marco Arrigoni would kill for, but there are even fewer things he would die for. The package is one of them.-----Following an earthquake in Istanbul, all hell breaks loose when Marco, a jaded priest, unearths beneath the...

"Boggs is among the best Western writers at work today. He writes with depth, flavor, and color." --Booklist "Boggs' narrative voice captures the old-fashioned style of the past." --Publishers Weekly Against the backdrop of the War for Independence, two intriguing storylines emerge. Stuart Brodie...

In 1972 Pope Paul VI shockingly proclaimed, Through some crack, the smoke of Satan has entered into the Temple of God. The Catholic Church has been infiltrated with evil traitors hell bent on its destruction. And KGB agent Rolf Wozack is poised to thrust...

This is the Anastasia, a candle, along with St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church become a symbol of hope and light after the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Anastasia tells her life story from the original churches opening, through the events September 11, 2001,...

What if Holden Caulfield were around when John Lennon was shot?In 1980 John Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman, who believed he was Holden Caulfield, narrator of the classic "The Catcher in the Rye." After the shooting, Chapman remained on the scene calmly...

On a sweltering summer day, the streets of Old Madrid that once resonated with the laughter of children playing are empty and silent. But inside the apartment buildings there is life as families faithfully wait for updates about an army uprising in Spanish Morocco....

PW Pick 2013"Australian author Greenwood, having made a name for herself with the lighthearted Phryne Fisher series, succeeds brilliantly with this gripping thriller set in ancient Egypt." --Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewEighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs...

Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian...

An astonishing debut in historical fiction, hailed as "part The Da Vinci Code, part The Other Boleyn Girl," (Woman's Day), The Crown follows one nun's dangerous quest to find an ancient relic during Cromwell's reign of terror.Joanna Stafford, a Dominican nun, learns that her...