Historical crime and mysteries Books

"There is nothing like a glorious Texas Hill Country morning..." even for New Yorkers moving to Texas. John Boone became infatuated with Fredericksburg, Texas, on a work trip representing his New York computer firm. Bitten by the new adventure bug, laid...

“Madeleine’s inquisitive mind and candid voice are enough to keep us reading.” —The New York Times Book Review New York Times bestselling author Lene Kaaberbøl returns with her beloved protagonist Madeleine Karno—an...

Some awakenings don't begin with sleep. Some identities are built on silence. And some lies are too deeply woven to be unraveled without tearing everything apart.In Sleep Mode, Sarah believes she's helping shape the future of healing-until strange...

A San Francisco attorney becomes convinced his best friend will be murdered by a mysterious hippie out to inherit his wealth.A HIPPIE NOIR:What should an attorney do when, out of the blue, his best friend pressures him to draw up a will leaving his...

Upon learning from a high-ranking Chinese government defector that China has transferred nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, the American President orders the reopening of the US Embassy in Taipei and announces his support of Taiwan's quest to...

Gold Town is an historical novel with a female protagonist, set in the gold rush years of late nineteenth century Western Australia. It has elements of mystery and romance, set against the dramatic Australian outback landscape.In 1895, Nora Patterson...

She risks everything for the truth. He threatens her heart.Athena Taylor realizes a life dream when she and her sister open the Darkmoor Bridge School for Girls at beautiful Thorndale Manor in Yorkshire. But the standing of the ancient estate is...

A TEMPLAR CURSEAN ANCIENT PROPHECYA PULSE-POUNDING RACE AGAINST TIMEIn 1314, Jacques de Molay, the last Templar Grand Master uttered a curse as he burned at the stake. Within months, both men responsible for his downfall, the King of France, and the...

Cairo, 1949. Gilded lives, golden lies-and one young woman's search for freedom.Eighteen-year-old Leila lives behind the ornate gates of privilege in post-war Cairo, where appearances are everything and silence is survival. But when her engagement to the...

A graveyard ghost leads investigators to a corpse hidden in an abbey's wall.When Sheriff Zachariah Fitch hears about a corpse found inside the wall of Maltby le Marsh Abbey, he wants nothing to do with the investigation since that is where his estranged...

A tale of love, sacrifice and redemption. In this novel, Dr. Robert St. John, a Memphis coroner, is ordered to exhume the Elvis Presley grave site at Graceland. What he discovers there leads him to an Elvis impersonator in Paris who says he is the REAL...

The year is 2034, and scientific discovery has flatlined.Humanity believes it has reached the limits of knowledge. Advances are nothing more than faster, smaller versions of century-old inventions. Real breakthroughs are a thing of the past-until Dr...

How does it feel to be cursed in love? Honora Favre of Paris and Normandy, France was beginning to think she was born that way. The world was living through the darkest days of the 2020 pandemic. It was killing millions. Twice, destiny pulls the...

A farmer discovers a stone in the New Mexico desert engraved with the Ten Commandments-in ancient Phoenician Hebrew, a language dead for 2,000 years.Dr. Vivian Guthrie, director of the National History Museum, is thrust into a dangerous treasure hunt...

In Book 1 in the Whispers of Angel Series an unexpected adventure spanning North Africa, forces three unlikely allies into a race against time to uncover a holy relic capable of restoring the UNESCO-protected Rock Hewn Churches of Ethiopia. But the relic...

A sunken U-boat.A lost cache of Hitler's gold.Can Chase beat a band of Nazis to this hidden treasure?Chase's peaceful beach day is disrupted when he rescues the beautiful Rikki Talen from an attempted kidnapping. He finds Rikki being pursued by a group...

 "A woman on the run. A village haunted by whispers. A forest that devours children. And secrets worth killing for..."She arrives like a whisper of doom- her clothes stained with blood and her legs barely holding her up. Vishakha stumbles into...

A grand showcase for technology, art, design and . . . murder.Welcome to book one in the thrilling new Kier and Levett Mystery series by USA Today Bestselling Author Deb Marlowe.London, 1851, and the Great Exhibition is on. A soaring success despite...

Lady Violet and Sebastian MacHeath are trying to forge a cordial marriage out of unlikely beginnings. When they are invited to a summer house party, they accept, hoping to make the excursion into a belated wedding journey of sorts-or at least a respite...

"A sterling achievement, compelling from the first scene to the last." -Shirley Miller Kamada, author of No Quiet Water1939: As Hitler's Panzers storm the Polish border, a small boy boards a train bound for the British countryside where strangers will...

Katelyn Took came home to settle her grandmother's estate, only to discover not only did Gram leave seventeen cats. But Ruth Beauregard, a childhood chum, had moved in. Ruth was confused, penniless, and abandoned by her in-laws because they believed she...

A THIRTY YEAR OLD MURDER... Old Town, Edinburgh, in a squalid tenement where poverty, rats, and disease are rampant, a young woman who worked in a local tavern lies dying. Just another number and bound for a pauper's grave in Greyfriar's kirkyardA BOY...

What is real or only an illusion?Ghostly images that appear and float across the stage, objects that levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant who disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at...

What is truth?For nineteen years, Joshua Webb has been asking that question in the pages of his newspaper, The Paradise Ledger. He's been called a madman, a lunatic and an anarchist, but now he has stumbled upon a story so huge that it could shake the...

A world of mystery and intrigue in Dundee during the year 1919. And a new sleuth unlike any other currently in print.Kirsty Campbell, former suffragette and a policewoman in Britain’s newly formed women’s police service, returns to her...

John Hall was born in Leeds and worked for twenty-five years as an analytical chemist before embarking on a career as a writer. His stimulating Sherlock Holmes novels are written with a wonderful knowledge of his subject and are highly popular with...

London, February 1896. A bright crisp day is the first hint of the spring to come, a welcome intrusion into the winter gloom of the great industrial city. But as Watson welcomes the sun and tries to cheer up a restless Holmes, there is an urgent knocking...

A Ruthless Avenger, written by Mrs. Conney in 1896, is a novel that tells the story of a young woman named Ruth who seeks revenge against the man who wronged her family. The story is set in the late 19th century and takes place in England.Ruth's family...

Tras la revolución bolchevique de 1917 un noble ruso rodeado de un aura de guerrero místico prosigue la lucha en Mongolia y logra restaurar la monarquía en esa república. Antes  de caer en manos de los comunistas...

In the past, a murder at Villa Adele in 1901 deceives the Monte Carlo commissioner of police causing the death of an innocent man. In 1951, new evidence is disclosed along with lost treasure fortune seekers are willing to kill for.

SINOPSIS AVENTURA AFRICANAExotismo y romance. Una bocanada de aire fresco; aventuras al estilo clásico y eterno.1892 en el África colonial. Un oficial francés recorre Tanganica en el África Oriental Alemana para realizar...

Nuclear physics after years of developing the Atomic bomb hides in shame as a circus clown, but laughter turns deadly when the real anarchists stepped out from behind the masquerade. 

Trapped by rising flood waters on his farm, and doing his best to care for his growing family, including his pregnant wife, Mette, Frank Hardy gives shelter to two other families. When one member of the sheltering families is found stabbed...

When King Henry of France and Pope Innocent decreed in the early fourteenth century the end of the Order of the Temple and burned alive their main leaders, they could not achieve one of their main objectives: to seize the Order´s treasure. It was...

By the Christmas of 1943, World War Two was in full swing. Sue Lee was stuck in a hostile situation at an airbase in Cuba. Suddenly, he dashed forward and swiped downward with his knife.

The Quincunx Case is a mystery novel written by William Dent Pitman and originally published in 1904. The story revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy man named John Minute, who leaves behind a fortune and a number of potential heirs...

The Power-House is a novel written by John Buchan and published in 1916. The story follows the adventures of an unnamed protagonist who is recruited by a mysterious organization called The Power-House. The organization is a group of wealthy and powerful...

The Mynns' Mystery is a classic mystery novel by George Manville Fenn, first published in 1891. Set in Victorian England, the story follows the Mynns family, who live in a large and imposing country house. When a mysterious stranger arrives at the house,...

The Blue Scarab is a novel written by David Graham Adee and first published in 1892. The story revolves around the discovery of an ancient Egyptian artifact, a blue scarab, which is believed to have magical powers. The protagonist, a young American named...

It's 1978. Mid-career diplomat Rob Kingman is hand-picked from a sleepy government job in Canada to take on an assignment in Rome, where a national political crisis triggered by the kidnapping of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigade terrorists...