Historical crime and mysteries Books

"There's something not right."On any given day in 1883 New Orleans, at 416 Royal Street, you will find a black door and a discreet bronze plaque engraved with "S&H Investigations", should you need such services. Within, you will be offered café au...

As the war was ending, everything changed. But for a few daring females, the stakes kept climbing. Will they win a life-or-death wager?Las Vegas, 1945. Thelma Miles is keeping score. Reeling from personal tragedy, the avenging widow wants payback. When...

". . . masterful, evocative, and original." -Georgina Petty, journalist and author of Top Dogs"A wonderful dance in a beautiful hall of mirrors taking the reader through the decades of glamour and war, love and espionage." -Sarah Ingham, PhD, author...

"...Deal composes the most exquisite symphony of voices from the past and present;"-Heloisa Prieto, author of The Musician"...a marvelous story of the power of love and family and identity."-Bret Lott, author of Gather the Olives: On Food and Hope and...

Austin is gripped by terror as a series of gruesome murders that rock the city. Bodies of prostitutes are turning up in the most shocking ways: throats slashed, disemboweled, skinned, and in some cases, burnt beyond recognition. Smyth, Abbott and...

When Professor Jason Marley began reading a new murder mystery, he was startled by the dedication: To My Beloved wife, Jayne Norwell Burke. Jayne had been Jason's college sweetheart. As he read the book, he became alarmed and afraid...

Con el turbulento telón de fondo de la ley marcial declarada en Carolina del Sur, una impresionante belleza de piel clara, Vanessa, vive en un orfanato católico para negros. Después de una serie de traumas raciales, Vanessa obtiene el certificado de...

Gea, oder Mutter Erde, erschuf das Universum und gebar die ersten Menschen. In Port de Soller werden sich Mamen und Toni ihrer grenzenlosen Macht bewusst, aber können sie den Lauf der Zeit und die Zerstörung ihrer Spezies verhindern? Toni weiß bereits,...

It begins in 1940 when the Spranger family is already temporarily split in two different directions. Florentine, wife and mother, brought her two youngest children along when she sailed to America to settle an inheritance. Her husband Julius and their...

Cable Girls meets Peaky Blinders meets TitanicThe girls had forged a bond together like iron that could not be broken. Claudia, Kiersten, Lina, and Florian were on the brink of making history with their powerful feminist movement, but then they suddenly...

In Christian tradition, the Holy Chalice is the sacred vessel Jesus used during the Last Supper. Over time, 12th-century Arthurian legends intertwined this artifact with the story of the Holy Grail-a mystical relic believed to possess miraculous powers...

Whispers in the Ivy is a gripping mystery steeped in family secrets, curses, and the eerie pull of the past. When Sarah Bevan inherits her ancestral home, Ivy House, she uncovers more than just a decaying mansion lost to time. Hidden within its...

Solving their own murders is the least of their problems...and the beginning of Stone & Steele, a reluctant yet surprisingly skilled investigative team.The Golden Age of Hollywood, 1938. Vivian Steele moved to California to start a new life. She...

When Emily Jones stumbles upon the lifeless body of Charles Reynolds in his grand estate, her peaceful small-town life is shattered. What begins as a simple delivery of documents spirals into a gripping mystery filled with secrets, betrayal, and buried...

Mojica dies in the pool at Las Palmas in the Termas del Arapey from a myocardial infarction. The death of the politician and former Tupamaro guerrilla leader, who was leading the polls for the upcoming presidential elections and was the head of the...

Jesus and Nefertiti have separated. After searching for her unsuccessfully in the desert, he decides to follow the pharaoh's army to find a way to join forces and finally attract the Bright Lights and travel through time again. Mamen and Toni continue in...

Aiden Mercer, once a celebrated detective, is now a man haunted by his past-a fateful night that claimed the life of his partner, Michael, and left Aiden drowning in guilt. Unable to move on, Aiden spends his days lost in cold case files, searching for a...

In the aftermath of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, a Russian nobleman, shrouded in the mystique of a warrior's spirit, finds himself embroiled in a daring struggle in Mongolia. His mission: to restore the monarchy amidst the chaos of revolution. With...

In this novel, the Bluthund Circle, an informal yet secretive group of researchers from a wide array of disciplines, blending cutting-edge science with ancient knowledge, is tasked with one of the most thrilling missions in history: finding the lost...

Inspector Rafael Fabelo, a young police officer in Las Palmas, finds himself entangled in a perplexing investigation after the body of a Portuguese man is discovered on Triana Beach in March 1935. His early leads run cold, but when a second murder occurs...

: In the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, a daring band of exiled nobles spirits away the imperial treasure aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, seeking refuge deep in Asia's heartland. Defeated by the Bolsheviks, they vanish into history, leaving behind...

In the heart of Annapolis, Maryland, the salty tang of the Chesapeake Bay mingles with the whispers of history. Jack Harrington, a historian and amateur archaeologist, and his spirited research partner, Emily Caldwell, find themselves on the deck of "The...

Verloren im Labyrinth der Zeit stolpert eine junge Historikerin über ein verstecktes Artefakt, das die Geheimnisse einer vergessenen Zivilisation enthüllt. Als sie tiefer in die Vergangenheit eintaucht, verstrickt sie sich in eine gefährliche...

A menudo, Sherlock Holmes y yo estuvimos tan desbordados de trabajo que muchos de nuestros casos se quedaron sin publicar y nunca nadie supo de ellos. Ha llegado la hora de sacarlos a la luz y el primero que me ha venido a la mente fue el de la muerte de...

On the dusty streets of post-war Tel Aviv, a crafty killer roams free...Israel, 1949 - Private detective Adam Lapid knows how it feels to lose everything. His whole family died in Auschwitz. He barely survived. Now he spends his nights haunted by...

A chance meeting on a snowy platform, an old miser with a fortune worth killing for, and the wrong man found dead beside the fireplace.England, 1927. When Lord Edgington hears of a failed attack on an eccentric viscount, it's the perfect excuse to...

A scorching summer. A melancholic merchant. A mysterious murder.The date is 1208.Sir Aumary Belvoir, Lord of Durley and a king's constable and the warden of Savernake Forest, receives the strangest request. The self-important and vituperative vintner,...

A dead falconer. An abducted woman. And a boar spear.The date is 1208.The date is 1208 Step into the enigmatic world of Aumary Belvoir, Constable of the county of Wiltshire and the revered Warden of Savernake Forest. Amidst the lush tapestry of medieval...

Als Jens Krämer nach einem Autounfall wieder zu sich kommt, findet er sich in einer veränderten Umgebung wieder. Er scheint zwar noch am gleichen Ort zu sein, allerdings fehlt das Wrack seines Autos und die Autobahn, auf der der Unfall passiert ist. Es...

Elizabeth Caldwell is a hardworking, hardnosed homicide detective with a penchant for working alone - and a broken heart from the recent breakup with her ex-fiancé, Brandon Price. With her life in shambles, her apartment gone and now loving back home...

Hermynia Zur Mühlen: Im Schatten des elektrischen Stuhls. Ein Roman über den Klassenkampf der 1920er Jahre in den USAErstdruck: Merlin-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1929 unter dem Pseudonym Lawrence H. Desberry, aber mit dem Hinweis Aus dem amerikanischen...

“One of those books that brings to life a piece of the past that’s little known… It has the feel of a classic.” – The Glasgow HeraldSlave to Fortune is an award-winning historical novel. Tom Cheke’s world is...

It's 1825, and Henry Rockcliff has been living in self-imposed exile in France for nearly a decade. But when his former army commander asks him to investigate a series of mysterious shipwrecks in his native England, and introduce a revolutionary...

Are some mysteries meant to remain unsolved? Or can Skip Rhodes unravel the disappearance of an ambitious couple who rafted the dangerous Colorado River rapids in 1928?In Whitewater Honeymoon, set at Grand Canyon, a scandalous movie star and her mother...

Break a leg is supposed to be just an expression.It's Halloween, and Rosemary and her friend are headed to a castle in the country to watch someone be murdered!It's all in good fun, of course; Vera's theatre troupe is putting on a murder mystery weekend...

As the chill of winter sets in, the joy of Christmas is shadowed by a series of mysteries that will test Lord and Lady Percy like never before.Alnwick, Northumberland, 1813: Lady Percy's worries about spending her first holiday season as a new countess...

Book 2 in The Heathcliff Lennox seriesWho killed Sir Crispin Gibbons? A wedding invitation and news of mischief that could be murder, takes Lennox to the Earl of Bloxford's country pile. He soon finds himself in a world of...

Book 1 in The Heathcliff Lennox seriesIt's 1920 and Christmas is coming. Major Lennox finds a body on his doorstep - why on his doorstep? Was it to do with the Countess? Was it about the ruby necklace? Lennox goes to Melrose Court home to his uncle,...

Available post-free in the UK from the publisher's website, www.lifeisamazing.co.uk.When in 1887 Beeton's Christmas Annual included a story about a brilliant consulting detective written by an obscure doctor living in Southsea, Portsmouth, nobody could...

Kendrick Wroe is found dead in the frozen Shill Brook.Most suspect he has been poaching Lord Gilbert's fish, though Sir Hugh finds reason to believe this may not be so . . .Then one of Kendrick's friends is slain; another seems to be in mortal peril, and...