Historical crime and mysteries Books

Featured in Town and Country's 'Must-Read Books of Summer 2023'.There is a certain hour, in the dead of night, when the orchid's scent can put you under a spell..."From the family shops of Little Italy to the bright lights of Dreamland, Nancy...

A masked ball, a dead body, a missing diamond necklace and a suspicious silver candlestick? Sounds like a case for Lady Eleanor Swift!England, 1920. Lady Eleanor Swift, adventurer extraordinaire and reluctant amateur detective, is taking a break from...

During World War 2, Ireland remained neutral. It might have been very different if those opposed to the government, including the IRA, had succeeded with a plan for the Republic to support Adolf Hitler's invasion of Britain. In other words, there was a...

Glitzy parties, sightseeing at the Statue of Liberty and strolls through Central Park with Gladstone the bulldog... Lady Eleanor Swift is loving her first trip to the city that never sleeps, until she witnesses a murder! After crossing from England...

It is 1904, and every day the coaches plyingbetween Lynmouth and Minehead scramble theirway up and slither their way down the 1 in 4gradient of Porlock Hill, the most feared hill in allof England. It takes six sturdy horses to drag aladen carriage to the...

Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family. Just a few days after the wedding, various incidents lead Valeria to suspect her husband of hiding a dark secret in his past. She discovers that he has been using a...

Murder's a Beach!A family holiday turns deadly at Brighton Beach. When Ginger and Basil and their family check into the Brighton Beach Boutique Hotel on a lovely warm day in June of 1926, a shocking discovery upsets their plans to relax in the sun and...

After seven years of surviving on the islands of the Pacific, the last remaining brother of Lord Fitzgerald has finally made his way back to England. To his surprise, the port now lays abandoned, the whaling fleets long since removed and the family...

'I have always thought that a little uncertainty in life adds spice.' Alec StanhopeIt is London, 1965 and wealthy Alec Stanhope dies leaving behind a house of mystery and suspicion. Annabel Staple inherits from a father she thought had died in...

Archaeologist Martin Day has always hated the illegal trade in Greek antiquities, and now he has a chance to make a difference. By working for Chief Inspector Andreas Nomikos on a case of suspected trafficking, he will not only be well paid to give...

1671, London is buzzing with news of Thomas Blood's theft of the crown jewels, but for Emily Cussons, his long-term mistress, the repercussions from his audacious crime will catapult her into the glittering court of Charles II. Glamorous, filled...

Colmar, 1353 CEGritta, Appel, and Efi managed to survive the Black Death, only to find that they are in desperate need of money. With limited options and lots of obstacles, they band together to become alewives - brewing and selling ale in the free...

Several months after arriving home from her service as a United States Army Signal Corps operator in the Great War, Arabella Stewart is focused on saving her family's resort. The first day of the season starts with excitement and anticipation but ends...

REAL POWER IS THAT WHICH IS EXERCISED BEHIND THE SCENES AND BEYOND SCRUTINY. The last decade of the millennium. Communism is gone, only to be replaced by the tyranny of a new breed of robber barons. An assassin's bullet leaves Temple, former...

The search for the Red Asscher continues to its conclusion. Read further escapades of Anya Pavlovitch as she undertakes her final mission.In Living in Fear, Anya escaped capture from the Japanese in Shanghai. In Living in Turmoil, she traded a precious...

Based on a true event, an incredible tale of a woman locked up in a psychiatric ward against her will and a daughter who refuses to give up searching for her.  When Mattie McAllister was eight years old, her father told her that her mother, Heather,...

It's Christmas, and Marine Lieutenant Oliver Wright wants two things--to duck a medical discharge and to be a homicide detective again if World War II ever ends. Neither will happen if he can't evade the Navy surgeon who wants to cut off his leg. He's...

A teenage Metis trapper, reared in the Canadian wilderness, is thrust into civilization in early twentieth century Saskatchewan. Lynes and his family and friends become involved in historical events and interact with actual Prince Albert residents and...

"Mayaguez and the Murder Ship" trace the marine exploits of First Mate, later Captain, Casey Flynn. Aboard the container ship Mayaguez, he was First Mate during the surprise capture of that vessel and crew by Cambodian communists in 1975. During the four...

Brother and sister, Sean and Colleen Callaghan share a relationship of love, loyalty, and perseverance. Their early childhood in a dysfunctional orphanage run by sisters focused on corporal punishment created a bond that carries them through a hard...

Dublin, Ireland 1918When WWI veteran-and part-time private detective-Tommy Conlon is hired to find the troubled daughter of a wealthy Irish businessman, he uncovers a mysterious cult whose army of followers are willing to do anything to keep their...

Boston, 1966. Someone is killing Korean War veterans and Detective Jody Brae might know why."Gripping. Atmospheric. And hard as nails." - Colin Campbell, author of Beacon Hill and Snake PassOf all his regrets in life, Jody Brae wished he...

"Tightly plotted with break-neck pacing, Leahy's immersive historical crime drama, Enemies of All, is a winner!" -James L'Etoile, award-winning author of Black Label, Dead Drop, and the Detective Penley seriesIn the early 1940s, NYPD Dan Brady, an Irish...

Lucien Grey, Viscount Ware, returns to London from his family's country estate to discover his friend and fellow spy Andrew Sherbourne is a fugitive from a charge of murder. And Sherry is hiding in Lucien's townhouse with Fanny, a small child of two or...

"This tasty 1950s L.A. noir crime novel goes down smoother than an Old Fashioned. Highly recommended." -Best Thrillers Los Angeles, 1954.Sending a pair of mass murderers to the chair got his name in the papers, but veteran fighter pilot turned...

Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is one of the first adventure stories set in and around the Antarctic, which at the time was a place of mystery and the unknown.Pym takes us on an adventure across the...

Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring '20s and introduces us to Hungarian PI, 8 Ballo, who is hired to find the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The search will lead him to cross paths with Dorothy Parker, Zelda and F...

When Sir Agravain leads a dozen knights to arrest Lancelot in the queen's chamber, he kills them all in his own defense-all except the villainous Mordred, who pushes the king to make war on the escaped Lancelot, and to burn the queen for treason. On the...

A dead woman. A literary treasure. A dangerous quest.Thomas Knight, the protagonist from On the Fifth Day, returns and is faced with a centuries-old mystery surrounding a long-lost - and now priceless - Shakespearean play. To find it, Thomas will...

The Secret Guardians completed their deadly mission in the London Underground. Now, they must rush to save the planet from total devastation. To do this, Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Einstein, hunky former MI5 agent, David Smythe, Dr. Raven "Bones"...

With his trusty ice pick in hand and his loyal-though erratic-sidekick riding shotgun, superstar lobotomist Dr. Walter Freeman drives his Lobotomobile coast to coast across post-war America, determined to save the country from its own troubled mind...

Four men have been marked for death by the vengeful Hindu who earned the name of the Rajah from Hell. A serialized novel by the "King of the Pulps"-H. Bedford-Jones-which includes all of the original pulp illustrations.

In the midst of the shadowy world of government corruption and the sex trade in the late-twentieth-century USSR, Mitch Galichin risks his life and puts his family in jeopardy in order to expose a human trafficking ring that reaches into the highest...

“The novel combines the mystery and honesty of Craig Johnson’s Longmire with the first-person narration of a fiercely independent Oregon character.” —Sheila Deeth, author of John’s Joy  Winner of the...

The second Sheriff Dawson mystery has “lots of twists and turns that stretch back over years, then a mind-blowing ending that puts everything into place” (Killer Nashville).  Winner—2019 Best Book of the Year, Killer Nashville...

Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie...

If you love historical thrillers, this novel will cut your breath from the beginning.Anchored in remote medieval origins and using a genetic distinctive feature as a red thread, the story starts in a castle in Nazi Germany, a SS training and command...

In the year 53 b.C. a Roman army is defeated in Asia Minor. A legion survives and settles in China. At the present time an Italian historian travels to unveil the mystery of the fate of those 10,000 men near the Gobi Desert. In that endeavor he finds the...

Un geólogo canadiense regresa a África después de diez años para reanudar la prospección en busca de yacimientos de coltán, un mineral imprescindible para la fabricación de teléfonos celulares y...

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...