Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff PickA January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA MagazineNew Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of...

Strange Karma, is a mystery/ thriller set in two eras: 1920s England and Tibet, and the present-day Himalayan mountains.Mountain climber Cynthia Graham learns, to her peril, that some inheritances can trigger a deadly avalanche of events that reverberate through time. She finds, in her...

On a blustery December night, Zana and longtime companion Iain Rauenwich nearly fall victim to the worst bridge disaster in history, the infamous collapse of the Silver Bridge into the Ohio River. Spotted at the scene is a winged, hulking black beast with searing...

Author: John BanvilleISBN-10: 8885789943ISBN-13: 9798885789943Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2023Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.64h x 5.82w x 0.95dLarge Print

FALL IN LINE, OR FALL IN A GRAVE Based on the true story of an Italian immigrant who ruthlessly fought his way into Al Capone's inner circle and expanded organized crime across the American WestIt's hard to believe Sal Liparello has survived long enough...

When a mother is charged with murder in a town already convinced of her guilt, can defense attorney Powell Harrison find truth and justice in a legal system where innocence is not presumed? Emily Lloyd, a young widow in Reconstruction-era Virginia, is accused of...

She is Catherine Weatherhead, and she is Madame Rostov. She will lie, though not with malice. She will deceive, though often with good cause. And she will change the course of history, for murder speaks to her. In Whitechapel, all talk is of Jack...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature' s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book's eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so...

The fate of the world is in the hands of one man and one sword. A battle is raging across the world from Panama City to Romania.Now immersed in the hidden world of the Templars, Father Jonathan Rose must face an uncomfortable truth as...

In 2008 Father Jonathan Rose discovers a secret that has been kept for 800 years.When FBI Agent Courtney Rose is brutally murdered and the police suddenly drop the inquiry her brother, Father Jonathan Rose, is forced to turn his back on the Church and...

Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after ﾉmile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective ﾉmile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol - the notoriously tough department of officers...

When a young woman's body is discovered lying in an alleyway off Carnaby Street, Detectives Stride and Cully do not realise that her brutal murder is only the beginning of a killing spree that will terrify the whole of London and leave them both...

Are second chances enough when the world is conspiring against you? High school best friends Rose and Dax each have a secret--they like the other in a way they shouldn't in 1920's Prohibition Era California. After sharing a first kiss, they're forced apart--each sent...

A sudden attack, a daring response...On the shore of Oslo Fjord, teenagers Kristian Thorsen and Helene Berg watch in shock and horror as their world is upended by a Nazi invasion.Driven apart by tragedy and trauma, Helene and Kristian take different paths to join...

"An early-autumn treat fit for late-night devouring." --Publishers Weekly "A taut gothic mystery with an intriguing twist." --Susanna Calkins, award-winning author of the Lucy Campion Mysteries and the Speakeasy Murders A Ghostly Window Into the Past Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago...

A compelling story of power, passion and intrigue based on real events, The Prime Minister's Affair is a terrific read - Nick Robinson, Presenter, BBC Today programmeAndrew Williams has fashioned a wickedly entertaining tale of political chicanery - Daily Telegraph London 1929. Very much...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER** SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS AND THE GUARDIAN* 'Hugely entertaining ... history and mystery mixed with brutal slapstick, thwarted romance and...

Harry Somers has seen his patron and employer, the Duke of Suffolk brutally murdered and his wife's mental state has been prejudiced by her experiences. Instead of having time to recuperate he is flung into the tumult of the popular uprising led by Jack...

In this crackling alternate history thriller set in the years after World War II--the riveting sequel to The Darkest Hour--London detective John Rossett joins forces with his Nazi boss to save the commander's kidnapped daughter as the Germans race to make the first atomic...

From Saddlebag Dispatches Magazine, the Award-Winning Home of All Things Western, comes West of Dodge, a new anthology bringing you the untamed spirit of the West in all it's wild glory. Join twenty talented writers-from legendary Western authors Dusty Richards and Velda Brotherton to...

WHAT IF ATLANTIS DOESN'T WANT TO BE FOUND?When an orb is discovered in the ruins of an ancient Mexican city, archaeologists around the world start to speculate. The orb's strange markings point to a civilization even older than the city itself - could this...