Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

In the fog-drenched streets of 1920s San Francisco, some demons wear pinstripe suits. Others wear the faces of children. Byron Hayes is no stranger to the darkness that lurks beneath the city's glittering façade. As the church's reluctant expert on the occult, he has...

Book I: Puabi, the Last Oracle opens not with discovery, but with disturbance.Beneath the sun-baked ruins of Ur, where centuries of dust have learned to lie convincingly still, a satellite scan reveals an anomaly no map remembers. Dr. Leila Sadeghi-archaeologist, skeptic, reluctant heir to...

Shadows from the Past is a dramatic and gripping tale that weaves together the brutal realities of war with an unexpected discovery in the mid-1960s. Through stark contrasts between heroism and betrayal, the novel explores how secrets from the past can change everything when...

Rome does not fall in a day. It bleeds first.In a Rome torn between republic and monarchy, ambition walks hand in hand with blood.When Prince Henry Robson prepares to crown himself king, a senator dares to conspire-not for power, but for liberty.Jamie Stuttgart, driven...

The Ghost survived the fire.But the past refuses to stay buried.After the bloody events of Blood of Eldoria, Viktor Kane is no longer just a survivor-he is a weapon shaped by loss, war, and secrets too dangerous to remain hidden. As his legend grows...

THE GOLDEN VIEN THAT VANISHED, By Best-selling author & playwright Sharon Abbas, Three riders. One map. And a vein of gold that shouldn't exist.In the scorched ghost-town of Last Chance, legends sleep beneath dust and bone. When a long-lost map surface etched in ash,...

During the sacred days of Pchum Ben, the past listens. Dara Chea has always believed history is something you carry, not something you conquer. As a guide at Angkor Wat, he knows its stones, its silence, and the stories that linger just beneath the...

Chicago, 1933.One boy. One can. A city full of secrets.Ivor Fink is just seven when he starts the Kicking Can Club with a gang of kids on the South Side of Chicago. But what begins as a simple game quickly unravels into something far...

A kingdom shattered. A prince forged in fire. A choice between vengeance and destiny. When the royal palace of Dabet is consumed by blood and flame, young Prince Teresa is the sole survivor of a brutal coup. Driven by grief, he sheds his name...

On the final night of the year, Ravenshaw Manor opens its doors for a grand New Year's ball, a night of tradition, appearances, and carefully observed civility. Snow gathers beyond the windows as guests arrive, unaware that the celebration will not unfold as planned.What...

A troubled vice detective is pulled into a deadly game of secrets and sabotage when a clandestine meeting between Elvis Presley and The Beatles turns into a murder scene. Los Angeles, 1965. Beneath the golden glow of Bel Air's most exclusive enclave, a singular...

A 700-year-old code. A modern financial apocalypse. The history of the world is about to be rewritten.Trapped in a "gilded cage" within the Vatican, historian Harrison Blake and his team are waiting for freedom. But when hacker Wyatt Lee decrypts a stolen file labeled...

"The Aqua Vitae Parallax"A Lost Ancient Relic. A Miracle Cure. A Faith That Changes Everything.When Steve Leisure survives an impossible avalanche on Mount Everest against all odds, he discovers something that will shatter his understanding of history, faith, and destiny: a 2,000-year-old shawl bearing...

Many people ask me where to begin in order to understand what James Alexander Smith narrated in The Last Paper Book. The answer is here.This is not an ordinary story; think of it instead as a necessary prelude. What Luca Sposito and Heron Robledo...

Book Three of The Ravenshaw Chronicles. In 1725, Edmund Ravenshaw slips into Kingston, Jamaica, wearing respectability like a coat. Posing as a shipping agent, he aims to turn stolen silver into clean profit through sugar, rum, and molasses, one stamped paper at a time....

Cassie's Song by Robert Barclay is a sweeping, emotionally charged novel that beautifully intertwines the lives of three unforgettable women, each on a path of resilience, discovery, and love. This story is "an anthem to the enduring power of love and the indomitability of...

A secret war began on a frigid winter night in 1944-and it never ended.When Nazi agents Erich Gimpel and William Colepaugh came ashore from U-1230, the world believed they carried cash, diamonds, and radio parts.They carried something far more dangerous.A fragment of the Bell.A...

In the isolated village of San Enrique, the night does not hunt wildly.It follows rules.People vanish without chaos. Blood is taken without waste. Fear exists-but only within carefully enforced limits. For generations, the Aswang have fed under a rigid hierarchy, bound by laws older...

1190 AD: three years have passed since Jerusalem fell to the Saracens, and the largest crusading army ever assembled marches to recover the city. In its ranks are six men, foot-soldiers, who belong to no great lord's household or retinue. When the army's leader...

Five years after the war, London is rebuilding itself from soot, silence, and ghosts.So are Robert and Jenny Henley-Finch.They are newly married, outwardly ordinary, and carefully avoiding the one subject that still lives in the shadows of their flat: the ritual that killed their...

Influence is supposed to feel like comfort.But comfort can be engineered. And when it's engineered, it always comes with a cost.Rowan Ash helped build the language that made Eden Vale irresistible-a viral wellness empire with a velvet voice and millions of followers who swear...

Sometimes when you take something, something gets taken from you. This is the story of a man who learns that lesson the hard way - through loss, through love, through the kind of choices that echo long after they're made. What begins as a...

DŌMâh: The OfferingBook One of GAR'ESH: The Hidden WorldThe site was never abandoned.It was sealed.Beneath South Garamesh, the earth opens into corridors that resist time, chambers that refuse decay, and inscriptions that will not remain fixed. The Institute names it a discovery. The markings...

The Concrete Court is no longer divided by whispers and shadows-it is at war.Old alliances shatter as rival kings, traitors, and forgotten powers rise from the streets. Every block becomes a battlefield. Every crown is earned in blood. As the city tears itself apart,...

Full Version (for main listing): In the brutal waters of the medieval Mediterranean, the sea does not belong to kings-it belongs to those ruthless enough to claim it.Adrian Valerio, known as The Ashen Wolf, is a feared pirate captain haunted by bloodshed and bound...

Venice, 1592. The brush is mightier than the sword-but only if the hand holding it is invisible.Jacopo Tintoretto is the lion of Venice, the greatest painter of the age. But the Master is a ruin, paralyzed by a secret stroke, a hollow shell propped...

The most valuable gold in history is a lie. The price of the truth is everything.Disgraced historian Dr. Harrison Blake believes the Church's foundation rests on a massive, five-hundred-year-old financial fraud. He only needs one piece of evidence-a cryptic cipher hidden in an ancient...

The War for Independence is won. The war for survival has just begun.Paris, 1783. The cannons have fallen silent, but the infant United States is drowning in debt. Benjamin Franklin knows that without hard currency, the fragile republic will be strangled in its cradle...

She Entered My LifeIn the heart of 1500 AD Prague-a city alive with art, ambition, and uneasy politics-two unlikely lives find themselves on a quiet collision course.Kristina Gardová, the refined and determined daughter of a once-prosperous noble family, hides her strength behind a violin...

"A deliciously camp debut mystery." PAUL MAGRS Death is no rehearsal... It is 1926 and Muriel Grey and Henrietta Partridge are women of a certain age who have known each other for more years than they care to remember. Blowsy Henrietta earns a crust...

A MUST-READ FOR FANS OF HAUNTING FAMILY MYSTERIESSome families pass down recipes.Others pass down secrets.When single mother Ava Davison loses the woman she believed was her mother, she inherits a key-and a truth that shatters everything she thought she knew. Ava was adopted. Her...

Some files are sealed for a reason.When a junior court clerk vanishes after accessing sealed judicial records, Inspector Arjun Sen uncovers a pattern no one wants acknowledged. Cases dismissed without explanation. Evidence quietly removed. Truth relocated rather than erased.As Sen follows the trail through...

This is where the legend begins. Harry Fox didn't start out as the world's foremost relic hunter. No, that title belonged to his father, the first Fox man to chase relics for the Italian mob. While his dad chased ancient artifacts and navigated the...

Author: Matthew PequegantISBN-13: 9798642067178Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2020Pages: 326Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

In the dying embers of the American frontier, a fractured gang of outlaws clings to survival as the world they once ruled turns against them.Where Vultures Roam follows Colt Mercer - a weary, principled gunman haunted by betrayal and loss - as he struggles...

Don't Ask the Gods is the fourth short story collection St Rooster Books has released from New Orleans author Lamont A Turner, continuing a journey into an eclectic blend of classic horror, southern gothic, noir, and historical genre fiction. Like his previous books, Souls...

A widow marked. A hunter tested.Scarred by the Civil War and forged into a relentless bounty hunter, Stan Nelson arrives in Seymour, Indiana, on the trail of outlaws.When the infamous Stoker Gang robs a train and murders an innocent man, the town becomes a...

IN THE SILENCE OF THE VAULT, THE MUSIC BECOMES A WEAPON.Venice, 17th Century. The city is sinking, and Isabella Rossetti has found the frequency that will drag it down.Isabella, known as "The Composer," is the second of the fugitive Daughters of Padua. Hidden deep...

Betrayal is the deadliest toxin of all.Giulia Montanari survived the fires of the Inquisition, but in Venice, the water holds just as much danger.As a skilled apothecary, Giulia knows that the line between cure and poison is measured in drops. Now, faced with a...

An adventurous boy's curiosity uncovers a family secret in this heartwarming Christmas tale. In the snow-covered whaling town of New Bedford, nine-year-old Junior finds himself drawn to the one place he's been forbidden to go-the attic. But when his beloved grandmother hints that there...

Naram and the Cave of Winds: A Mesopotamian Tale of Fortune, Freedom, and FateIn ancient Mesopotamia, where kings claimed divine favor and empires rose from desert dust, one young man risks everything to choose his own destiny.When Naram, a humble grain-scribe, discovers a hidden...

Embark on the Adventure of a Thousand Echoes... "Whispers of Distant Ages - Tales of Mystery & Valor" Step beyond the veil of time and plunge into a world where forgotten swords still gleam, ancient secrets sleep beneath marble towers, and echoes of courage...

In the shadowed tombs of ancient Egypt, a secretive cult known as the Daughters of Eve guards a forbidden elixir that promises eternal life-but at the cost of unspeakable sacrifice. When Pharaoh Seti's court accuses the revered goddess Karina and her devoted disciple Ishtar...

Otis and the Good DoctorA Novel by Stacey Allanda BrownIn the shadowed corners of a Southern town brimming with secrets, Otis Baltimore animal collector, dreamer, and unlikely hero navigates a dangerous world ruled by race, power, and the thin veil between medicine and madness....

An Ukrainian historical detective where honor, espionage, and politics collide in a dangerous game of survival in Eastern Europe's turbulent frontier at the end of XVII century.1692. Baturyn - the capital of the Hetmanate, a city of power, secrets, and dangerous games. When a...

The thrilling conclusion of the Civil War and the quest for peace, The Bloody Path to Peace, finds the Mallory clan taking part in some of the bloodiest battles. Wilderness, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor. Will they survive the onslaught? What will they do when they...

The Man (or Woman) Undercover. For Queen and Country. For the Stars and Stripes. Descending into the shadows with other spies to duel for the future of the Free World.Violence and danger are never far away. Thrill Ride Magazine is an ongoing themed anthology...

Paris, 1891. A city of burning intellect, rising revolution, and shadows that understand more than the living ever will. In the heart of its archives, Élodie Moreau-linguist, historian, and reluctant prodigy-unlocks a manuscript older than the Sorbonne itself. Its pages writhe with shifting sigils,...

A young Jack Kerouac crosses paths with an enigmatic drifter tied to a series of cross-country killings, pulling him and fellow Beats Cassady and Burroughs into a deadly chase linked to long buried crimes. In 1951, restless and insecure after finishing the first draft...

In the fog bound shadowed streets of Victorian London, Detective John Graves, former Scotland Yard Chief Inspector, now private investigator - sharp-eyed, methodical, and quietly relentless - pursues the city's most elusive criminals. By his side stands Hartley, his loyal butler and former bare-knuckle...