Historical crime and mysteries Books

Endgames! The closing moves in chess. While there are Queens and many Pawns, this book is not about the board game!Heaven very seldom intervenes directly in the affairs of mortals - animals or humans. This time it's different. Mary, Queen of Heaven has...

Valle de los Reyes, Egipto, 1880. Un joven arqueólogo inglés está a punto de descubrir la tumba de un importante dignatario egipcio que ha permanecido intacta durante casi tres mil años. En su interior le aguardan tesoros...

Edmund Harkins has gone missing. Few would confess to liking the man - a wife-beater and distinctly unsavoury character - so when some hungry pigs disinter his corpse in a shallow grave, there is hardly an outpouring of grief. However, this intensifies...

When Bampton's coroner, Hubert Shillside, does not return from a trip to Oxford, Master Hugh de Singleton is called. Concerned for his old friend, Hugh takes to the road to investigate. Travel is safer than in times hence but, out of sight of prying...

King Charles of France has announced that he is confiscating Aquitaine, and Prince Edward has sent for knights and men at arms from England to assist him in opposing the French king.Lord Gilbert Talbot is required to provide five knights, twelve squires,...

Master Hugh is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry, (with his wife, a daughter by a first wife, two knights, two squires, and assorted servants), has outstayed his...

Part One of a record breaking three-volume collection, bringing together over sixty of the world's leading Sherlock Holmes authors. All the stories are traditional Sherlock Holmes pastiches. This volume covers the years from 1881 to 1889, including...

Get ready for a journey to the Baskervilles - the hall shrouded in a fog of sinister mystery, and where the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend Dr. Watson encounter the most terrifying and deceitful of their opponents. Get ready to...

"In Vengeance of the Vanished Ones, don't miss this trip into Baja where mining interests and the need to preserve sacred rock paintings clash violently. Move over, Indiana Jones!" -Warren C. Easley, author of the Cal Claxton MysteriesDiscovering the...

"A fantastic work of historical fiction. If I could have scored it higher than five stars, I would have." -ReaderViews.com" A powerful, richly drawn historical thriller that is as terrifying as it is absorbing. Highly recommended." -BestThrillers.com...

In the next Lady Emily Mystery The Dark Heart of Florence, critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander transports readers to the legendary city of Florence, where Lady Emily and Colin must solve a murder with clues leading back to the time of the Medici...

Movies, action and excitementSisters Jean and Merle Cooper have limited time to change the direction of their lives. A scandal and police pursuit force them on the road to Hollywood California in 1913. Hollywood is bustling with people; movies are being...

In the eerie stillness of a moonlit night, a ravenkeeper is brutally murdered outside the Tower of London. The only potential witness, his daughter, missing...Scotland Yard Inspector Henry Field has few clues to follow but is determined to prove his...

Murder, magic and a day at the races...The City of Astreiant is packed with fair goers for the annual fair and the Dog Moon dog races are one of the main attractions. So a young noble going spectacularly bankrupt in a way that results  in rules...

Can you cheat death? Is retribution the right call? A no-win scenario turns ugly. What happens when everyday people find themselves in extraordinary situations?Seventeen stories set in New England, Las Vegas, the Arizona desert, a world with pixies, and...

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A local fisherman mysteriously disappears on Pyramid Lake and found weeks later with his throat cut. He is only one of a series of lake visitors who are murdered at the lake. Abbott, Smyth, and the intrepid Beth McDonald, join them to investigate...

Inspector Nigel Barrington, armed with wit, determination, and an arsenal of inventive gadgets, manages to arrest the infamous Spring-Heeled Jack.When the mask comes off, revealing a shocking identity, Nigel finds himself entangled in a web of...

Continuing the adventure of Jesus in Ancient Egypt. This time he will meet Lucius again, whom he has not seen since Stonehenge, and mixed feelings will come into play. Lucius has been possessed by a fanatical cruelty and Jesus will try to remedy his...

En el siglo XI, tras dejar las nebulosas costas de Markland, un drakkar vikingo es arrastrado hasta Yucatán, donde florece entonces la cultura maya. Al casarse con la hija de un jefe tribal, su timonel entra en conocimiento de un tesoro escondido en un...

"Jenseits des Schattens" - Eine düstere und fesselnde Geschichte, die Sie nicht mehr loslassen wird!Maximilian Winter dachte, er suche nur nach Antworten, doch er fand weit mehr, als er ertragen konnte. Geheimnisse, die längst vergessen sein sollten,...

It would take a pint-sized miracle to save this Christmas holiday. A 1920s prequel novella.December, New York City, 1923Officer Jax Diamond doesn't always play by the rules, and he's in the hot seat again with the captain of his precinct. So, when a...

Set against the background of the London Blitz, Peter Porteous lives over the Ha'penny Steps in Kensal Town. He has a day job as a factory supervisor, and he volunteers as an Air Raid Precautions warden. He spends a lot of time fire watching during...

En medio del caos de la Revolución Rusa de 1917, los bolcheviques ejecutan a la familia del Zar Nicolás II, desatando la oposición de sectores que rechazan el nuevo régimen comunista. A través del Ferrocarril Transiberiano, los rebeldes trasladan el...

When the clock strikes murder, it's a night to die for. Dallas, 1924Fashionable detective Penelope van Kessler is working her final case with the Heist Society. They just don't know it yet. When a friend of her late husband offers her a job as St. Louis'...

Face Down Below the Banqueting House is book eight in the Face Down mystery series featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. In 1573, Queen Elizabeth is on a royal progress in Kent and plans to visit Susanna's...

Muere Mojica en la piscina de las palmas en las Termas del Arapey de un infarto al miocardio. El fallecimiento del político y ex guerrillero tupamaro que lideraba las encuestas para las próximas presidenciales, líder del sector Movimiento Popular dentro...

En esta fascinante obra, la leyenda del Santo Grial cobra vida de una manera nunca antes vista. Según la tradición cristiana, el Santo Cáliz es el mítico recipiente que Jesús usó durante la Última Cena para servir el vino. A lo largo de los siglos, esta...

If you love historical fiction, this novel will seize your imagination from the very first page. In the eleventh century, a Viking longship, swept from the misty shores of Markland, finds itself drawn to the vibrant heart of Mayan civilization on the...

After losing her beloved daughter Mnemósine, Mamen appears in the Judean desert. Candy, the Time Traveler, is waiting for her. They find themselves in the time of Jesus of Nazareth, and both expect to witness the historical moment that will start the...

When Lucia Hawthorne, a woman bound to the paranormal by a terrifying childhood encounter, is drawn to the ominous Everwraith Manor, she knows her arrival is no coincidence. The mansion, long whispered about in the forgotten village of Willowgrove, holds...

En "Bajo la Sombra del Águila", una serie de espeluznantes asesinatos rituales en todo el mundo enciende las alarmas en el gobierno de los Estados Unidos, especialmente en regiones volátiles. Desesperadas por comprender la naturaleza críptica de estos...

Whispers from the Docks: The Chase Through the William Pace HouseIn the shadowy depths of Annapolis' historic district, the air is thick with secrets and the echo of footsteps from the past. When detectives Jack, Emily, and Nora stumble upon the gruesome...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are asked to investigate mysterious hauntings taking place at a waxworks museum. The owner of the museum, Mr Chamberlain, has received reports of objects moving on their own, eerie sounds echoing through the walls, and...

Unsere Heldin, Jasmine Jacotet, Assistentin der Archäologie, spazierte zusammen mit ihrem Hund am Fusse des Creux-du-Van, Kanton Neuenburg (Westschweiz) auf eine kleine Erhebung zu, um dort zu picknicken. Ein wenig später, als der Hund unentwegt in einer...

Seven Shades of Evil is the ninth volume in bestselling author Robert McCammon's acclaimed series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, and this fascinating installment features a wide range of adventures undertaken by both Matthew and his...

The Hound of the Baskervilles, which saw the return of Sherlock Holmes eight years after his apparent death at the hands of his nemesis Moriarty, is often considered the greatest mystery novel in the English language. It became Arthur Conan Doyle's most...

#1 NYT-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns with her favorite sleuths to unravel a tangled web of family secrets and expose a murderer.When Lord Meriwell collapses and dies at his dining table, Barnaby and Penelope Adair are summoned, along with...

Wenige Tage vor der Hochzeit gerät das Ministerium in Turbulenzen, als erneut ein Mord von einem Gestaltwandler begangen wird. Doch diesmal stellen die Zeitungen die Verbindung zu Werwölfen her - und zum Ministerium. Plötzlich stehen Lichfield Towers und...

A perplexed sleuth.And an ice-cold slaying.Step into 1920s London, where the festive season is in full swing. Veronica Vale is looking forward to Christmas at the Swan Tavern with her dear friend Ruby, her dog Benji, and a group of friends, old and new...

Arabella Stewart, grieving the losses of her parents and brother, returns home from serving as an operator in the Great War to find Ballantyne, her family resort, and Moreley, her small hometown in precarious positions. Another impediment arises when she...

"President Lincoln is assassinated in his private box at Ford's!" When those harrowing words ring out during a children's entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes...

'There's a body! Down by the bridge!' It's November 1900 in rural Hope Bridge, New York. The town is bustling with the chaos of construction workers, steam engines, and horse-drawn wagons as a new iron trestle rises over the Duncan Creek. Amid the...

It is the mid-1930s in the English village of Vale Thorn. Sir James Ravenwood, a collector of macabre artefacts and an expert in the occult, is hosting a weekend party at his country house, Warlock's Gate, in order to celebrate the unveiling of his...