Historical crime and mysteries Books

Ein Erbe, ein Fluch und ein ungewöhnlicher Zeuge - Patricia Peacocks erstes AbenteuerDer historische Cosy Crime für Fans von Rhys BowenPatricia Peacock ist überglücklich, das Erbe ihres lang verschollenen Vaters antreten zu können - befreit es sie doch...

... Le capitaine Ourson Tête-de-Fer, l'un des plus redoutables boucaniers de l'île de la Tortue, avait le matin même enrôlé un équipage de quatre cent soixante-treize Frères de la Côte, choisis avec un soin tout particulier parmi les plus redoutables...

Eine packende Welt aus Habgier, Eifersucht und Skrupellosigkeit, sondern zeigt uns ganz nebenbei auch die Abenteuerlichkeit des Lebens, die, wenn schon nicht in unserem wirklichen Leben, so doch einmal in der Literatur Wirklichkeit wird.Die...

Dortmund 1788Gerade in Dortmund angekommen und begierig darauf seine neue Stelle als Schulmeister anzutreten, wird Clamor Heinrich Aldenhagen in die Aufklärung eines Mordes verstrickt. Der Schuldige scheint schnell gefunden, aber ist alles so wie es...

Die Schwäbische Idylle beschreibt das Leben in einem auf den ersten Blick harmonischen Dorf. Mehr und mehr gleitet der Blick zu Eigenschaften, die nur Insider kennen können. Es menschelt, dramatisch, unerwartet, doch überaus nachvollziehbar. Unsere...

In The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, Anty travels to the timeless source waters of Glen Glennegie to help decide the fate of his family's favourite ferment, but an impossible locked room murder is only one of a multitude of mysteries that...

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers...

Enrico LoTrova always wanted to move to London and open his own bakery. When he finally lands a spot at 9/b High Street in Wimbledon Village, it is a dream come true, but when he thinks his career is about to take off, a series of unfortunate and...

In 1954, the French were defeated by Ho Chi Minh and his followers. Within months of the final battle, North and South Vietnam was divided. Peace didn't last long.How far would covert operatives and world leaders go to reunite the country... and how far...

Jakarta, Indonesia, 1968. A troubled U.S. embassy, a senior American diplomat vanished from a palm-fringed Indian Ocean beach, and a glamorous Russian ballerina mysteriously involved in a KGB plot against the embassy, all combine to create complications...

Have you wondered who is "the Fed" that hikes and drops interest rates?Lucy hopes you do. After haunting them for over one hundred years, she thinks introducing them to you will give purpose to her extended existence.Lucy intertwines moments of her own...

The novel takes place in 1920. Maxwell Cheyne, a First World War naval veteran and short story writer from Dartmouth, is lunching at a Plymouth hotel, where he is doped and his home burgled. A few weeks later, a gang, searching for a vital letter a...

In the year 1907, workmen digging at a local gravel pit were startled by unearthing a human skull that rolled down an embankment at their feet. The gruesome discovery made interesting reading in the morning issue of the Chronicle newspaper, but the good...

England, August, 1926For months now, Pippa's and Christopher's neighbor Florence Schlomsky, the manhunter with the teeth, has been roaming London society looking for an opportunity to trade her father's American fortune for a British title. Both the...

Truth or treasure? The sea guards its secrets. On the last night of 1888, the schooner Iona runs aground in waters known as the Graveyard of the Pacific. Battling a brutal storm, girl reporter Jo Felch and her friend Amity rush to the scene. Looters...

Set during the Opium Wars, this steamy and spellbinding Charlie's Angels meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon romance will leave you breathless.Their love is forbidden...and irresistible.The daughter of a half-Chinese duke and a lady fossil hunter, Lady...

His Last Bow, the penultimate collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, features eight mysteries written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, including "The Cardboard Box," the third and final appearance of Sherlock's portly older brother Mycroft, and "The Devil's...

Driven by a Dream... Chance brings producer/director Sir James Paxton to the Bournemouth Players, where the performance of an unknown actress fires his imagination and launches her on a dizzying journey from provincial theater to the post-war London...

Es 1961, y Fidel Castro está fortaleciendo su control de poder en Cuba. A 300 kilómetros de distancia, un misterioso hombre llamado Hiraldo recluta a cinco Norteamericanos para una misión desesperada. Cada uno tiene su propia...

Desperate to distance himself from the stolen loot buried behind his parents garden shed and still grieving the sudden loss of Max his first real girlfriend, Byrney has decided to go to France with the sole purpose of locating a certain war grave. Moved...

Murder, Mystery and a dog, and cat, of distinctionBook 9 in the Heathcliff Lennox seriesA mediaeval moated Manor, and a series of strange deaths. Scotland Yard take an interest, and decide Lennox and Swift can investigate, but nothing is as simple as it...

Long held secrets, revenge, and murder. Eliza Thomson Investigates...A suspicious accident, a hand-written note, and an old parish priest.A home coming doesn't go as planned in St Giles; a small village nestled on the east coast of Scotland.Widow, mother...

London, 1503In a city shrouded with dread, the arrival of Thomas Berrington, summoned by King Henry, sets the stage for a tale of sinister intrigue. London is gripped by terror, with whispers of demons roaming under the cloak of night, leaving a trail of...

Dave Hutchinson, a recently retired professional project manager has been hired to manage a special secret project on behalf of the Monticello Association, the owner of the Thomas Jefferson Cemetery at Monticello. In July 2022, Hutchinson is meeting...

At the palatial Hamptons estate of wealthy artist Alfonso Ossorio, Jackson Pollock's masterpiece, Lavender Mist, is the crown jewel in a fabled collection of modern art. When Ossorio's decision to sell the painting to finance his obsessive landscaping...

Time is the Ultimate DeceiverOn a cold morning in 2219, Cara Montgomery and her husband, Jackson, have a frightening encounter on the beach. An encounter that leads to a war with a depraved and relentless alien race, the Shapeless, changing their lives...

They survived the war - but are they prepared for the fight at home?In the aftermath of the First World War, the Cumbrian village of Waterbeck celebrates the return of its young men. But not all those who fought returned intact... Mercy Appleby, her...

October, 1650Traumatised Parliamentarian spy James Archer returns north seeking his sister Meg, missing in the aftermath of Newcastle's recent witch trials.Aloof, enigmatic Elizabeth Thompson draws him to investigate the ongoing killing of women who had...

West End theatre impresario Septimus Gooch is a man with many enemies, but when he's found dead in his leading lady's dressing-room the police put it down to an accident.The cast of Septimus's latest musical production at the Jollity Theatre are having...

It's fair to say that Freddy Pilkington-Soames is not having a good day. His grandmother is threatening to marry a lounge lizard, his old friend has lost her lover, a racehorse has been kidnapped, a priceless diamond has gone missing, and everybody seems...

When Douglas Westray, the son of an eminent aircraft manufacturer, is found shot dead in a locked room at a society ball, it seems obvious that it's suicide-after all, he had two failed engagements behind him, and had lost the family firm a prestigious...

When the Duke of Purbeck throws a house party to celebrate his daughter's twenty-first birthday and present her with a family heirloom, nobody expects that the weekend will end in murder. The fabled Belsingham pearls have a history steeped in blood and...

The ladies of Clerkenwell Central Hall are none too pleased at having their Temperance meetings disrupted by the rowdy Communists next door, but for Miss Olive Stapleton in particular, the uneasy coexistence proves fatal when she is found stabbed through...

When Hollywood star Dorothy Dacres plummets six floors from her hotel terrace on the night of her greatest triumph, it initially looks like a tragic accident. But her death is so very convenient to her many enemies that press-man Freddy...

It's 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyone-or so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous people with secrets to hide had every reason to wish him dead. But which of...

Nach seiner Rückkehr aus Südafrika wird Charles Knox für ein Wochenende auf den Landsitz von Sir Neville Strickland eingeladen, dessen schöne Frau Rosamund einst Charles' Verlobte war. Eines Nachts wird Sir Neville ermordet - doch wer ist der Täter? Der...

A WOMAN WRONGFULLY INCARCERATED. A DOCTOR FIGHTING TO FREE HER.London, 1864. Dr Felix Cowdrey is working in a London free hospital, and hating every minute of it. So many of his patientshave illnesses and injuries that cannot be treated, and his...

Wenn der Wahn ein Monster erschafft, gibt es nur einen Mann, der dem Morden ein Ende setzen kann. März 1483, und der Chirurg Thomas Berrington reist auf Aufforderung seines Meisters widerwillig nach Cordoba. Er rechnet damit, nur einen spanischen Prinzen...

May 1453: Lemster, the English MarchesWhen thirteen-year-old Thomas Berrington is attacked by a group of boys on his way home he believes it is just another beating he must take—until one of the boys is found dead, and Thomas is accused of the...

The vastness of India holds many secrets.     Some so ancient even their names are lost...With only an ancient set of cryptic directions as a guide, and the murderous Order of Icarus trying to find them, our group of adventurers must...

Charlie Chan is a Chinese Hero, solving mysteries with wit and courage. Biggers created the character because he disliked the negative stereotypes around Asian people at the time. S. T. Karnick writes in the National Review that Chan is "a brilliant...