Historical crime and mysteries Books

Book 1, Vampire: Find my Grave, is only available free online.Illuminati, Ordo Lupus, Catholic assassin sects and Templar knights all come together in the terrifying, violent clash climax to the An Ex Secret Agent Paranormal Investigator Thriller...

A fire destroys a church rectory in Brooklyn in 1915 and a valuable painting is lost, a Raphael, but was it arson to disguise the theft of the painting? A pacifist running for Congress in Brooklyn receives a death threat, but when he ignores it, his...

KILLING EVE meets THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLDA Cold War spy's deceits rise through time to haunt his American son, in a dual narrative split between postwar Berlin and early twentieth-century New York City. Past becomes prologue as a father's...

A Tale of Love and RevengeSet Against History's Bloody Backdrop...In the year 1060, young Brand Holgarsson's family are wiped out in a Viking raid arranged by Brand's treacherous uncle Malgard. Malgard is named thegn of the town of Stybbor in...

"...a masterful blend of mystery and metaphysics, spirituality and social commentary. Jackson takes us beyond Dan Brown and Stephen King"In The Savion Sequence, historian Brigham Elijah embarks on a mind-bending journey triggered by his uncle's...

A distinctly unfortunate inventor discovers that he doesn't exist. Finding himself in this nightmare situation he consults Sherlock Holmes and presents the sage of Baker Street with one of his most baffling challenges.Is it a simple case of amnesia or...

When Sherlock Holmes recovered a compromising photograph and saved the reputation of the King of Bohemia he thought the case was closed. However, the attractive villainess, Irene Adler - now a respectable married woman - summoned Holmes a year after her...

Ten years on from Holmes and Watson's sleuthing days, something is amiss at the prestigious and exclusive Abbey School.Young Lord Whitechurch is accused of stealing money from the headmaster's office. But as one of the wealthiest pupils, the question...

It is the story of two young children, born into the poverty-stricken years of the Isle of Man, when drunkenness and smuggling were rife. Two children who were imprisoned for the heinous crime of stealing a scrap of food to keep themselves alive.Daniel,...

The arrival of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in London brings trouble. When the sharpshooter who beats Willie at poker is murdered, Matt and India investigate. Willie is convinced the victim cheated, but no one knows how until India discovers his...

The Great War never relinquished its hold on Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, leaving him haunted and isolated, unable to forget. In the spring of 1920, he's dispatched to Berkshire to find a missing man whose war work is so secret even Rutledge...

New York, 1943: Aspiring actress Rosie Winter has been marooned in New York throughout the war. Now, faced with the news that her ex-boyfriend Jack might not be coming home again, she's desperate to leave the home front and head for the war front. So...

It's tough shooting for stardom when there's a war on. But Rosie's got enough pluck for two: she's willing to stumble around in a Broadway dance chorus that she has no right to be a part of, in a musical that's got "flop" written all over it. And all the...

As a stocky Thessalian merchant from Farsalos arrives in a small town seeking shelter, he is led to a building where he is welcomed by a servant-like elderly man. After Kloppas introduces himself, he finds it strange that the old man does not tell him...

America's bloody Civil War is over, leaving a legacy of bitterness, repercussions, intrigues, and many forms of villainy, not all acted out on the American continent. When the last ship of the old Confederacy docks in Liverpool, England, in 1865, the...

Archie Prescot has traveled across the country to design the now-iconic Spokane clock tower for the new Great Northern Railroad Depot. When his talent for creating unique clock chimes connects him with a local patroness, he is thrilled, until she is...

Can Samuel Pepys save his sister from the hangman's noose?As the inferno of the Great Fire devours London in 1666, another firestorm rages in the tranquil village of Brampton, where Pepys's sister, Paulina, stands accused of witchcraft.Pepys summons his...

"Beautifully written and impeccably researched,.... the story is certain to captivate fans of both manor fiction and cozy murder mysteries, many of whom will not foresee the villainy that Stasz unveils." Kirkus ReviewsFate sends young Kenal Gundry, who...

In 1955, at the height of alarm over the Emmett Till murder in Mississippi and after the Supreme Court ruling against school segregation, Associated Press reporter Rachel Feigen travels from Baltimore to Tennessee to report on a missing person case. Guy...

No one knows what happened to Theodosia Burr, the fiery daughter Aaron Burr serenades in Hamilton: An American Musical. When she disappeared she fell into an in-between called Nowhere. For her soul to rest, she has one assignment: Help someone navigate a...

Secrets can be deadly.A killer prowls the sands of the unfinished Great Pyramid, and only one man can stop him.Egypt's Grand Vizier, Hemi, orders his life with justice, truth, and the precision needed to engineer the pyramid he's been tasked to...

Come along to the Jazz Age as it bursts onto the scene, 100 years ago, and yanks the Victorian era off of life support to give us the turbulent years of the 1920s: a time with no plan and no direction, but loaded with energy and creativity, and a madness...

KISS ME DEADLY, Book 2, Midnight Sleeper Series, continues the suspense with Beau LaHood and friends as they slip into the perilous intrigue of 1920s Prohibition as international politics and grievances are boiled up from the cauldron of World War 1...

Concerned about an elderly woman in an upstairs window, the ever-critical Giselle Dougal heads to the police station, where the fabulously good-looking Zoltan Baker looks into the matter.Soon afterwards, Giselle leaves Dunedin for what she assumes will...

It should be a happy time for India and Matt, but forces beyond their control conspire to ruin their future. A distraction from their troubles comes in the form of murder.When the editor of The Weekly Gazette is killed, controversial journalist and ink...

"Brennan impresses with this atmospheric whodunit" - Publishers Weekly"A series of grisly murders disrupts Victorian London's covert gay scene in Brennan's historical thriller" (Kirkus Reviews), stirring an obsessive hunt for clues and culprits in this...

When a wealthy man is killed in his own home, detective Octave Mirbeau sets out to unravel the mystery. But when all evidence points to the man's own wife and her lover, Octave finds himself drawn into a web of deceit and betrayal. Set in late 19th...

Peg Brennan hasn't held a sword since the day she was captured at sea and imprisoned ten years earlier. But as her fingers slide around the hilt of the rapier laying in the dirt beside her, she knows that the quiet life she has created for her...

Even in the prospering colony of New South Wales, it would be far-fetched to think a convicted man could consider marrying the daughter of a wealthy property owner. But Remy has larger problems to contend with than Sara's bigoted father. Forced to leave...

Should one change the past lives of historical people? Hardly. The problem is well understood to be a butterfly effect. However, can past historical personalities change lives in the present? Mickey and Loni Peronne need to find the answer to that...

Pauline only wanted love and happiness in her marriage. Instead, she and her six, soon to be seven, children suffered abuse. The choice she's about to make may free them from death-but will it cost her everything else?In the rural South in the...

In the dark depths of history, ancient secrets lie buried, waiting to be unearthed by those brave enough to seek them. New Blood Order: Cain's Blood is a gripping thriller that delves into the mysterious origins of humanity, intertwining ancient...

Meryton is atwitter with the arrival of Mr. Bingley and his friends, but Mr. Darcy leaves a bad first impression on the attendees of the Assembly ball. It's almost enough to detract from the theft that occurs while everyone is inside dancing. Soon...

It's June of 1947 and the Spanish moss is twirling in the sea breeze beneath the limbs of a massive live oak somewhere in Daytona Beach, the World's Most Famous... And Tom Jarrell is having a hard time coping with each day. He's recently been made a...

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It is the dawn of the Second World War, but life in the small town of Fielding carries on in its uncomplicated way. For young Eva, life is about to change, as her dearest friend Annie vanishes and people claim to have never known her at all.Desperate to...

Kansas City, 1922: a hub of jazz music and the mob. While the Kansas side of the city had Carrie Nation and prohibition, on the Missouri side the Irish Pendergast brothers kept the liquor flowing.Claire O'Connor is a young newspaper reporter, hungry to...

Florence, 1677. While Sam assumes a new identity as part of his mother's Cardinale family, Raphael introduces his new family to his Florentine one, only to unearth life-changing revelations.Meanwhile in London, Noah seeks revenge on those behind the...

Wenn der Tod zum Tee bleibt – ein Fall für die Countess of HarleighDer spannende Auftakt zur historischen Cosy Crime-Reihe für Fans von Rhys BowenLondon, 1899: Frances Wynn, die wohlhabende Countess of Harleigh, genießt ihr Leben...

Le bandit Karl Kressler, ancien associé de Francis Drake, banquier richissime, cherche à s’emparer de la fortune de celui-ci et de sa fille Margaret. Individu sans scrupules et cruel, il ne recule devant rien pour parvenir à...

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1366. Empörte Bonner Bürgersöhne sind um die Sicherheit der Stadt besorgt und wollen deshalb die Treppen abreißen, die einige Stiftsherren sich an der Stadtmauer gebaut haben.Josef, ein Knecht des Endenicher Probsthof, wird...

Louis Weinert-Wilton: Die weiße Spinne. Ein KriminalromanErstdruck: Leipzig, W. Goldmann, 1929.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2017.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Odilon Redon, Die...

Magdeburg, September 1368, die alljährliche Herrenmesse steht vor der Tür. Handeltreibende von nah und fern kommen in die Hansestadt. Noch hat die Messe nicht begonnen, da wird ein Toter gefunden. Ratsmann Honstein soll der Meuchelmörder sein. Doch der...