Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

* An American Booksellers Association "Indies Introduce" Pick!Haunting, gorgeously descriptive, and spellbinding, At the Edge of the Woods is a magnificent and assured debut novel that delivers all the resonance and significance of an instant classic.Laura lives alone in a cabin deep within the...

September, 1900.Inspector Sam Blackstone is still reluctantly seconded to the New York Police Department, and, to make matters worse, he finds himself in charge of an investigation no one else wants - the kidnapping of Big Bill Holt, a reclusive tycoon, and the brutal...

On a return flight from a dream vacation at the Sundial Inn located in the outskirts of New Orleans, Tim and Sara find themselves covered in bruises with no memory of the past three days. The mystery deepens once they learn the inn had...

An epic standalone novel of historical fiction tinged with mystery, set against the backdrop of medieval Germany's Peasant War from the best-selling author of the Hangman's Daughter series.In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment...

When amateur thriller writer Ryn Weaver is accepted for the prestigious Writer-in-Residence program at The New York Public Library, she never expected to stumble into a real-life mystery surrounding the famous children's book, Lillies in the Cellar. Inspired by Yara and her twin Yarrow...

The Christmas trees in Knightsbridge sparkle with festive joy, and there's nothing more fun than Christmas cocktail parties to ring in the new year of 1922.Camille Divine, known as Lady Camille Divine, has decorated her little house in Birdcage Mews with glistening decorations and...

After her professor's suspicious death, a PhD student uncovers dark machinations among her academic associates in this richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable (Joyce Carol Oates) Gothic mystery set between Scotland, Italy, and France.Fleeing a disastrous affair with a colleague in Boston, Isabel Henley moves...

Enter the world of Renaissance Venice, where the competition for fame and fortune can mean life or death, in this immersive novel of art and the Inquisition, for readers of Sarah Perry and Jessie Burton.Giorgio Giorgione Barbarelli's career hangs in the balance. A student...

In 1465 the world is a dangerous place for women who practice medicine. Even more dangerous for those who defy authority.Luccia Alimenti is a woman who does just that.As a daughter of one of the legendary female doctors called Salernistas, she travels Europe dispensing...

From the author of The Pilot's Daughter and The Final Hunt comes a thrilling, suspense-driven mystery set in World War II-era Seattle.Seattle, 1942. News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of young Max Ellis, heir to the wealthiest banking family on the...

"In war novels authors typically feature ships such as destroyers, battleships, or aircraft carriers, but not support vessels. By focusing on the support vessels, Parotti provides readers with a different view of the two wars and leaves them with an appreciation for the crafts'...

"This is what would happen if a trainee James Bond was asked to solve an Agatha Christie mystery, and it's brilliant." --Stuart Turton, bestselling author of The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle The raven had struck. And the thing was, she knew exactly who...

Who dares challenge the might of the Priests of Amun? A group of people are drawn inexorably together, and impelled by forces unknown to travel to Egypt to investigate what happened to the pharaoh Akhenaten who lived more than three thousand years before. Their...

A stranger in Sherborne fleeing justice from murder in another town causes a young apprentice working on the Abbey misericords serious injury.When young Luke, stepson to Matthias Barton, becomes involved with the felon an unhappy rift is revealed in the Barton household.The disappearance of...

Revenge can take a lifetime... In the dying days of World War Two, Pavel Romasko and his Red Army colleagues pick their way through the detritus of a dying Berlin. Stumbling upon the smoking remains of a Nazi bunker, they find something inside that...

The Times 2022 Thriller of the Year and Best New ThrillerWhen a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says,...

All his adult life Adrian Kramer had carried around with him a secret. But was it as big a secret, or one as explosive or life-threatening as the secret he stumbled into? Based on a true story and series of historical events, One Day...

A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights...

Postwar Nuremberg is set to host a historically unprecedented trial of the leaders of the defeated Third Reich. The whole world is awaiting a just verdict, but it is here where Soviet counterintelligence must wage a secret war against forces that seek to prevent...

In his quest for lost civilizations, American anthropologist, Dr. Jacob Walker, begins researching the strange stone walled circular structures scattered by the thousands across southeast Africa. The South African government believes these circles of stone are just a bunch of old cattle kraals. The...

What if Saddam Hussein......hadn't stopped with Kuwait?Project 19 might have worked.No one knows how close Iraq came to invading Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They wanted their money, and Saddam wanted revenge. In a world where the USSR ran a lend-lease program...

Father Jonah Barlow is dead. The respected Jesuit scholar of apocalyptic studies might have died from a fall in his apartment . . . or was he pushed? All that is known for sure is that the provocative manuscript he was working on-a book...

After losing both her parents and her long-time boyfriend, doll sculptor Isabel Joven is emotionally raw. When a mysterious gift-a vintage doll-arrives on her doorstep she is intrigued. But Isabel can't imagine the dark shadow this doll will cast on her life...In 1944, Etta...

1958 San FranciscoStruggling jazz musician and Beat generation youth, Frank Valentine, suffers a midnight beating, leaving his left hand paralyzed. Jobless, penniless, and desperate, he agrees to join his best friend, George, and three other buddies to work for a notorious gangster to earn...

In the year 1890, a deranged serial killer imitating London's infamous Jack the Ripper, is at large within the small Indiana towns of Jonesboro and Harrisburg. Using the name "Son of Jack" women of all ages are being mutilated while leaving no clues behind....

"I can't resist: The Swill is swell. It reads like the princely offspring of Chandler and Lehane. It's sharp, witty, violent. It's a sort of political/historical thriller, but what made it important to me is that it's really about family, all kinds of family."...

In the year 1896 pure evil stalked the land: Tom and Jack Milford were soon to be rich men by their standards."Please," the farm wife begged, "Don't hit my husband anymore. I'll tell... I'll tell," she screamed. "There's a loose floor board under the...

When Cass goes to visit her one-hundred-year old great grandmother to invite her to Cass' wedding, she is unaware that the history Matilda tells her about the 1920s was more than just a recalling of family and friends, but rather a conditioning to prepare...

The Cross and the Crown Series Book 2 It's midwinter in 1539, and Catherine Havens Overton has just given birth to her second child, a daughter. The convent in which she was raised is now part of the Overton lands, and Catherine's husband William...

New York, 1850. Two clipper ships depart on a race around Cape Horn to the boomtown of San Francisco, where the first to arrive will gain the largest profits and also win a $50,000 wager for her owner. Sapphire is a veteran ship with...

In this stunning novel, C. W. Gortner brings to life Juana of Castile, the third child of Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand of Spain, who would become the last queen of Spanish blood to inherit her country's throne. Along the way, Gortner takes the...

Sworn Brother continues an utterly compelling journey back in time to a Viking world that is brimming with wonderfully crafted characters and their insatiable hunger for riches and renown.Author: Tim SeverinISBN-10: 0330426745ISBN-13: 9780330426749Publisher: Pan PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2006Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 7.77h x 5.11w x...

THREE WOMEN. ONE MISSION. ENEMIES EVERYWHERE. May 1944. When spy Elisabeth de Mornay, code name C馗ile, notices a coded transmission from an agent in the field does not bear his usual signature, she suspects his cover has been blown - something that is happening...

"A first-class historical thriller . . . Bishop's spirited and richly detailed story is a tour de force" - David Baldacci on City of Vengeance'Aldo is a fascinating and charismatic character' ANTONIA HODGSONFlorence. Summer, 1538. A night patrol finds a rich merchant hanged and...

*Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023* Set in Renaissance Florence, The Darkest Sin is an atmospheric historical thriller by D. V. Bishop and is the sequel to City of Vengeance.'He is fast becoming a serious rival to C. J. Sansom and S. J....

As WWII rages overseas, a serial killer preys on women working in Seattle's factories in this provocative blend of vivid, richly detailed historical fiction and taut suspense from New York Times bestselling author Kevin O'Brien. "Tantalizing...had me guessing and turning pages right up to...

How could Anthony and Maria possibly have known that taking the new French ambassador and his wife to his posting in Tunis, aboard their new yacht, would lead to this. The set of circumstances that would bring them here, sitting sipping wine and watching...

Author: Joseph ConradISBN-10: 1644282976ISBN-13: 9781644282977Publisher: Rare Bird BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2024Format: HardcoverAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 9Point Value: 10Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 8659 / Heart of Darkness

Delia has been in search for a man she believes is her real father. However, she has been unable to find him. Was her mother telling the truth? Delia decides to go home to the man who raised her and a brother who has...

Greenland, 1408. Norse villagers at the end of the settled world struggle to endure an endless winter, but an unholy predator from the arctic steppe soon makes the weather the least of their concerns.Author: Timothy BryanISBN-13: 9798986554921Publisher: Timothy BryanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2022Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize:...

It is 1855 in San Francisco when Bonita's Quest begins. From page one we find ourselves in the midst of Bonita Kelly's fight to clear her parents' names and claim her rightful place at her daughter's side. The fight carries her from San Francisco...

A phone call prompts Bill Lammiter, a young American playwright, to follow a former girlfriend to Rome. There Lammiter saves a mysterious Italian girl from a beating and the fat is in the fire. A kidnapping, a battle in a Renaissance villa, a shrewd...

Just another routine overseas assignment. That's what successful young New York architect Ken Strang thought when a national travel magazine sent him to Europe to sketch Greek ruins.What he did not know, until it was too late, was that from the moment he boarded...

Philadelphia, 1777, during the American Revolution. Abigail St. Clair knows many secrets, and the damage done if those secrets are revealed.She arrives in Philadelphia during the British occupation with her new husband, a minister for the Anglican Church, knowing she'll soon confront her former...

Philadelphia, 1777, during the American Revolution. Abigail St. Clair knows many secrets, and the damage done if those secrets are revealed.She arrives in Philadelphia during the British occupation with her new husband, a minister for the Anglican Church, knowing she'll soon confront her former...

Philadelphia, 1777, during the American Revolution. Abigail St. Clair knows many secrets, and the damage done if those secrets are revealed.She arrives in Philadelphia during the British occupation with her new husband, a minister for the Anglican Church, knowing she'll soon confront her former...

Philadelphia, 1777, during the American Revolution. Abigail St. Clair knows many secrets, and the damage done if those secrets are revealed.She arrives in Philadelphia during the British occupation with her new husband, a minister for the Anglican Church, knowing she'll soon confront her former...

Philadelphia, 1777, during the American Revolution. Abigail St. Clair knows many secrets, and the damage done if those secrets are revealed.She arrives in Philadelphia during the British occupation with her new husband, a minister for the Anglican Church, knowing she'll soon confront her former...

A novel based on the shocking true eighteenth-century story of a Scottish noblewoman whose own husband faked her death and exiled her to a remote island, where she could never be found.Edinburgh, January 1732. It's the funeral of Rachel, wife of high-ranking aristocrat Lord...

Paris, 1954. Eli Cole, American attaché, wants only one thing: to avenge his wife's murder. But the trail has gone cold. After two years, drinking to his beloved Liana's memory is all he has left - until the secrets she took to the grave...