Historical crime and mysteries Books

An Unholy Trinity tells a scintillating, semi-fictional story about the world of espionage.The book is a composite of intelligence agents the author has known over the years, weaving the lives and deaths of a handful of people involved in the dirty...

Traveling secretary Hattie Davish is returning to her once-quiet hometown, where a deluge of deadly secrets leaves her feeling anything but welcome... When her good friend Virginia Hayward's father passes away, Hattie Davish rushes to her hometown of St...

Zigomar is a character dreamed up by Léon Sazie in 1909, two years before the now much more celebrated Fantômas. An evil, nefarious character, a criminal genius, Zigomar was so popular in his time that his picture could be found on...

Greg Dinallo’s previous novels, Rockets’ Red Glare, Touched by Fire, Purpose of Evasion, Final Answers, and Red Ink have earned him the title of “suspense pro” from the Chicago Tribune;...

This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1892 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'Cynthia Wakeham's Money' is one of Green's novels of crime and mystery. Anna Katharine Green was born in Brooklyn, New...

In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict in human history, the horrors of war have left an indelible mark on the world's conscience. In 1940, the chilling disappearance of thousands of Polish military officers, policemen, and intellectuals...

Have your ever stumbled upon a secret that changes everything? Martin Frost did, and his life unravelled into an adrenaline-pumping journey filled with mystery, intrigue, and forbidden love. In the fall of 1941, Martin Frost, a decorated soldier -...

A killer dressed as a plague doctor is prowling London's docks.Able seaman Humphrey Wilkes is dead, shot between the eyes by the murderer known as the Plague Doctor. When Samuel Pepys's naval colleague, Robert Drake, finds a black cross daubed on his...

An adventure tale with murder, intrigue, treasure and romance-amid intimations of a past where Phoenician triremes sailed the Mediterranean Sea-set in 1957 strife-ridden Lebanon. It follows freelance journalist Matthew Thorne from Montreal, Paris, and...

A non-stop, page-turning action-filled epic of sailing and exploration in the intriguing time of the Phoenicians. Based on historical fact and ongoing archaeological controversy. A book that explores the truth of where lies the fabled mountains and wide...

Rosemary and Larry Mild, have created an exciting new mystery series featuring reluctant amateur sleuths, Daniel and Rivka Sherman. The Shermans have given up successful professional careers as engineer and editor to become booksellers in The Olde...

Delia has been in search for a man she believes is her real father. However, she has been unable to find him. Was her mother telling the truth? Delia decides to go home to the man who raised her and a brother who has protected her.Lucas has loved Delia...

To stop a serial killer a detective will need to explore his own vices…Nathanial Bayard wants nothing more than to find the nobleman creating snuff pornography. If he fails, his career in the recently formed nobility taskforce will be over and as...

1653 - In the untamed wilds of Southern Africa, a fledgling colony fights against the unforgiving grip of nature and the specter of starvation. Amidst this crucible of hardship, a spirited, young woman emerges, seeking her place in a world where survival...

Glitz, glamour-and murder. Can the unflappable Lady Marigold outwit and outsmart a killer before more lives are derailed?Istanbul, 1922. Lady Marigold Grey-former British spy and daring adventuress-sets out for England after inadvertently robbing her...

From author Helen Goltz, the second book in the exciting series about love, fate, and putting to rest more than the dead, with a hint of magic, mystery and visions. Miss Phoebe Astin of The Economic Undertaker is not just a talented mortician, but a...

It is the summer of 1929 in central Alabama. Dunnigan prospers due to nearby industry and a booming economy. As train travel reaches peak popularity, the roads become more frequented by automobiles, and highway 31 brings all kinds of people to and...

Promising and undeniably engrossing novels... Mann knows how to deliver an espionage story. -Kirkus Review Like the best of Le Carré with a pinch of Follett, but with a much greater understanding of the real world than either of 'em! Complex...

untertauchen. Ger., verb, (1) to dive, plunge; (2) submerge (as a submarine); (3) to disappear, get lost (intentionally), to go underground.Untertauchen is an historical novel, based on the true story of a German Jewish couple who outlived Hitler's...

Mai 1144. Quelques mois à peine après leur mariage, Gareth et Gwen accompagnent le prince Hywel du Gwynedd dans une mission diplomatique en Angleterre. Dès leur arrivée, cependant, cette mission prend un tour inattendu et une nouvelle affaire de meurtre...

Montevideo, Setiembre de 1990 El Cáliz de Cork ha desaparecido de la Parroquia del Stella Maris y Dana y Roger, alumnos de ese liceo, ven la oportunidad perfecta para dejar de proyectarse como detectives cuando sean adultos y tomar su primer caso real...

The police don't want to catch the killer. So he'll have to.Tel Aviv, 1949 - A young Arab woman lies murdered in the city morgue and no one seems to care. The newspapers won't report it. The police won't investigate. No one is trying to solve the case...

What if your friend was murdered and the police wouldn't investigate?Israel, 1950 - When private detective Adam Lapid runs into Yosef Kaplon on a crowded Tel Aviv street, he can hardly believe his eyes.The last time they met was in Auschwitz. They were...

In 1952 there were children everywhere. Or so it seemed to Daisy Hayes, blind since birth, who at the age of 29 had just tied the knot for the second time-to an intercontinental pilot. But on their first flight as a married couple an engine broke...

Witch-hunt in the Middle Ages, witch trials in the early modern period, strange agricultural methods, conducted under the leadership of Academician Lysenko, the Great Purge in the Soviet Union in the late 1930s - what do all these events have in common?...

Der Roman ist im niederrheinschen Grenzmilieu zu den Niederlanden angesiedelt. Er spielt in den 20er Jahren des vorigen Jahrhunders, als in der gravierend sich unterscheidenden Wirtschaftspolitik in den Niederlanden und Preußen der Grenzschmuggel seine...

'A masterpiece. A historical feast.'  C.M.T.Stibbe, Chasing Pharoahs 1151: the Holy Land From the Winner of the Global Ebook Award for Best Historical Fiction Estela, the troubadour, is following the destiny of...

The second Book in the award winning Res Gestae series featuring Ancient Rome's foremost family; Augustus, Livia and AgrippaIN THE HANDS OF THE GODS MARCUS RUTILIUS CRISPUS A LOYAL MANSo reads the inscription on the grave of the man ordered to...

*** FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY ***IT IS ONE OF THE KINGDOM'S GREATEST SHAMES.BUT CAN ONE LONE TEMPLAR KNIGHT BRING IT TO AN END?A desperate husband and father commits a heinous crime to protect his family's...

Death is just a close shave away. It is February 1918. Somewhere in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, the Death Mask Murderer is lurking, engaged in a ritualistic killing spree: shaving the heads of young women, strangling them and creating a...

Former U.S. Army investigator Mason Collins grapples with a web of lies, secrets, and murder as he races against time to save the lives of abducted teenagers in a case as twisted as the streets of Tangier’s medina.1946. Tangier, MoroccoAfter Mason...

Nineteenth Century Van Daimian sleuth, Caspian Hunter, is a colonial lawman deeply immersed in the life and crimes of Hobart Town, where convicts transported from Mother England form a majority of the population. Caspian and his decidedly unconventional...

South Regent Mansions has all the modern conveniences . . . including murderLondon, February, 1924. Discreet sleuth for the high society set, Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she's made several friends,...

James Starr, a busted-up bronc rider turned politician, can barely saddle his own demons when he finds himself at the center of a high-stakes game of power and lies. With the world embroiled in the Great War, power-hungry forces threaten to tear apart...

Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has grown close to.With the aid of Lucius Grenville,...

When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer.The dead man is Colonel Hamilton Isherwood, a man Lacey clashed with...

1941: Two Brothers, One Woman, One WarTad, elder son of Russian-born political refugee Alexei and Japanese-born Kimi, flies planes for the U.S. Navy; his brother, Koizumi, is a fighter pilot in the Imperial Navy of Japan. When Koizumi visits his family...

454 AD. Northern Italy.Dux Ambrosius Aurelianus has served the Roman Empire with distinction.His bucellarii, a small band of irregular soldiers, have helped to bring a fragile peace to the beleaguered empire in the west. But, with the empire now at...

DESIRE, REVENGE & MURDERA DETECTIVE FIGHTING FOR SURVIVALIn an untouched corner of Craynebrook, the lifeless body of a local farmer is found, his blood mingling with the mud of Blackbird Farm. For Detective Inspector Matthew Stannard, still nursing...

Rex Harpham’s debut novel takes Holmes and Watson to the Highlands of Scotland where in the words of the great detective “it is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more...

Wreythville’s cemetery had rested quietly beneath South Holston Lake for decades, but now a drought and receding waters have exposed an island of graves.  Those coffins should have been moved when the dam was constructed, but no one, certainly...

Never guessing that their very lives might be in danger, well-to-do women come from all over the country to stay at guest ranches around Reno to establish the six weeks' residency required for a quickie Nevada divorce in 1955.When a Circle E Ranch...

Um italiano desconhecido chega a Tamarisk Bay e traz com ele mistério e intriga...Decorre o ano de 1970 e é Páscoa na cidade à beira-mar de Tamarisk Bay. A detetive amadora e bibliotecária profissional Janie Juke acabou de ser mãe e está a dedicar algum...

In 1973, Sir Jack Carteret, Director-General of MI5, is buried in a lonely Somerset graveyard. Was he the traitor who laid bare his nation's secrets to the Soviet Union? Or is there, as many believe, an agent or ring of agents still in place, silently...