Historical crime and mysteries Books

As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, asks for his help to find an actress friend who’s gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit...

The year 1187 is one of the most fateful for the Christian crusades in the Holy Land, and one of the most disastrous. With an act of savage banditry, an infamous lord of the Kingdom of Jerusalem destroys the treaties that have made possible trade and a...

Return to Walkers' Mountain is a work of fiction, however, the Walker's story is true. Bev Freeman remembers the story since she was only 12 years old. She never knew the outcome of the man who murdered the family. The fiction story is centered with...

1819: Captain Lacey is drawn into affairs of the highest in the land when his friend Grenville is asked by the Prince Regent to look into odd happenings in his lavish abode of Carlton House. Objects of value have gone missing, paintings and sculpture...

London 1816Returning home through a London night in July 1816, Captain Gabriel Lacey spies a well-dressed, elegant woman hurrying to the middle of an unfinished bridge. Following her in curiosity, Lacey is on hand to rescue her from an attack by a...

August, 1961: CIA officer Karl Baier is back in Berlin just as the Wall is going up and the world appears to be on the brink of a new war. Baier must help a KGB defector escape East Berlin and find his brother's killers in return for information on...

Verity Lark is in a new flap!Bedeviled by Colson Hardwicke's treatment-summarily dumping her via tersely worded message!-Verity Lark is lying awake in her bed seething over his behavior when she hears a floorboard creak. Immediately alert to the presence...

~Winner of the 2019 Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/ Suspense~~Finalist for the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award~A Quest for RedemptionShattered by betrayal, former scholar Harry Kent finds new purpose as a policeman. Sent...

In the winter of early 1945, a young lady fled Krakow, Poland, to escape the fate of millions of women who fell prey to the advancing Red Army of the Soviet Union. Three decades later, she would face that enemy again, only this time, her enemy (and head...

Strange things are happening at Stamford House. It was not that Mr Fortey was particularly loved, but that he died in such a horrible way, and in the presence of almost the entire household. We must have been only a few feet away, yet no one heard...

1951.  Inspector Alun Ryga surveys the wreckage of the elegant Harley Street drawing room.  It's the home of retired dermatologist Sir Bernard Crompton, who's currently sailing his new yacht down the British coast from Scotland - or...

Sherlock Holmes has seen more violent death than most men, but this time it's different. This time the victim is Meg. Mrs Hudson's beloved niece.Soon the detective discovers that Meg isn't the only woman to die by this killer's hand. There are others...

In 2006 a bundle of hand written pages were discovered buried in a garden in the outskirts of Cullybackey near Ballymena, County Antrim. They had been penned by Charles Kinhilt a lawyer from Cullybackey, County Antrim. They had been sealed in sacking and...

When William Lorrimer is found dead from a gunshot wound to the head, the inquest has no difficulty in returning a verdict of suicide.  Lorrimer had lost the love of his life to another man, and he had written a letter to his former lover explaining...

Set in Alaska in the late fall immediately preceding Pearl Harbor, Murder Breaks Trail involves a Congressman, a Senator and his daughter, an Alaska politician, a pretty schoolteacher, an airplane pilot and a grocer on vacation-marooned near a small lake...

Helen Lipscomb seemingly has nowhere to go but down. Cashiered from the force, ostracized by most of her former acquaintances, and with no real connections left to the community, she's been getting by as a sort of unofficial investigator, doing piecework...

The action of the story all takes place in New York, beneath the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. There, in an odd little shop with an extensive underground connection, once used to help escaping slaves, old Mr. Crabbe conducts his peculiar and illicit...

In Belle Époque Paris, the morgue is the place to see and be seen ... "This morning I was called upon to photograph the dead again." So begins the story of Edouard Mas, a photographer's assistant with a detective's soul. Edouard's job is to take pictures...

Lady Edith Black harbors a secret past as a master criminal in this tale of love, crime, and adventure, with a jaw-dropping twist that will leave you stunned.Rescued from the slums of Victorian London, Edie finds herself ensnared in a web of crime...

Sean Reilly is an artist who drove an ambulance in the Great War and now finds it impossible to paint. Challenged by Futurists to spread their political creed in Fiume, a city on the western coast of the Adriatic, he agrees to go, hoping it will restore...

Legendary jewels. Explosive secrets. Queen Victoria's birthday is on the horizon, and everyone on the magical island of Ynis Witrin is caught up in annual festivities. The week-long celebration traditionally culminates with a grand ball, and this year,...

Unravel the Secrets of Love, Wealth, and Survival in a Historic Coal Town: A Tale of Three Women's Lives Intertwined in the Roaring Twenties and Beyond.In the heart of the picturesque town of Bramwell, nestled on the peninsula of the Bluestone River,...

Back cover:In the heat of the Colorado summer, the preacher and his wife's bodies are found on Cripple Creek. With two bullet holes in their chests and a revolver with Colt Bradford's initials on the pearl handle, Colt grapples with facing his future as...

Into the Night and Fog is the first story of a trilogy, followed by The Gypsy of Berlin and The Book Finder. In this historical mystery, it is 1941, wartime Germany, and a German official compels former crime reporter Thomas Rost to find a diary,...

In the year 1911, at Sandford Abbey, a grand estate, Lord Sandford vanishes into thin air, leaving everyone perplexed. Amongst the chaos, Marie Wilder, an orphaned lady's maid to the Earl's daughter, Lady Annabelle Croydon, finds herself captivated by...

Crystal ball reader Isadora wants to prove she's up to the leadership responsibility of keeping Philadelphia staff safe from Hitler's occult attacks until their team leader can return from special assignment in D.C., but a Nazi spy murdered and assumed...

Two women. One chance to get it right..."This town has stories," Jo's mother said. "You're the one to tell them." Now her mother is gone, and Jo blames herself. In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, she sets out to prove herself as a girl...

Little Italy, 1946 – Während Sophia Mancini und ihr Bruder Angelo die Eröffnung ihres Detektivbüros feiern, wird der aufbrausende Küchenchef Vincenzo Moretti erstochen. Statt der wunderbaren Marinarasoße ist nun Mord in...

★ He's Nuts About Her But Hiding It. She Already Knows. ★Sawyer Finn is the perfect candidate for the Company. But he isn't prepared for a life in the shadows.Jenny Nicolay has been lied to her entire life. Now she's ready for answers.Following the...

A group of researchers from the Bluthund Community is given the mission to find the lost tomb of Genghis Khan, who died in the 13th century. Genghis Khan was the creator of the greatest empire in the history of mankind, which stretched from China to the...

Seventeenth-century Spain, either gifted or cursed, Jacobo is born with an ability to embed part of his soul within the sculptures he makes. He takes on his skill upon a journey of life and gets a job as a sculptor in a peculiar castle near Barcelona...

Levin Schücking (1814 - 1883) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und Journalist. Aus dem Buch: "Bleib hier, Anton, hier!" rief Herr von Driesch, der blaß geworden war und zu zittern anfing. Die Zweige des Gebüsches öffneten sich, und Türk, der andere Hund,...

Der Protagonist des Romans, Leutnant Theodor Lohse, hasst Sozialisten und Juden. Er beginnt nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg als Student der Rechte in Berlin und verdingt sich als Hauslehrer bei einem jüdischen Juwelier. Das Sich-Einfügen ins ungewohnte zivile...

Aus dem Buch: „...Doktor Windmüller kam eben von einer Reise zurück, die ihn für etwa vierzehn Tage nach England geführt hatte. Diese kurze Zeit hatte genügt, ihn ein Rätsel lösen zu lassen, das die höchsten Personen des Inselreiches geängstigt, bestürzt...

Aus dem Buch: "Mrs. Greta Gurden gestattete sich selten den Luxus über Beleidigungen nachzudenken. Sie war nicht philosophisch veranlagt, und es war reine Notwendigkeit, daß sie alle kleinen und großen Unannehmlichkeiten übersah und sich nur mit...

Aus dem Buch: „...Doktor Windmüller kam also nach Venedig, um sich auszuruhen - eine Woche oder länger, wenn's ging; er kam, um sich an den Kunst- und archäologischen Schätzen zu erfreuen, um er selbst zu sein, in einem Hotel abzusteigen wie andere...

Herrn Arnes Schatz handelt von einem grausamen Raubmord im Bohuslän des 16. Jahrhunderts und von der Unausweichlichkeit, mit der das Verbrechen gesühnt werden muss. Drei schottische Landsknechte im Dienst des schwedischen Königs waren wegen des Verdachts...

Em cima da mesa do psiquiatra Robert Cavendish encontra-se um estranho conjunto de papéis. Supostamente é o diário do infame assassino de Whitechapel, cujos crimes instilaram terror nas ruas da Londres vitoriana.Examinando o diário a fundo, Robert fica...

Reesor Siding, Nord de l’Ontario, nuit du 10 au 11 février 1963. Un affrontement en forêt fait trois morts. Quelques semaines avant la nuit du drame, les travailleurs de la Spruce Falls Power and Paper Company déclenchent une...

"Lizzie Borden took an axe,Gave her mother forty whacks,When she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty one."Did Lizzie Borden really murder her parents?On the morning of August 4, 1892, Abby and Andrew Borden were brutally murdered in their...

The idea for a new television reality show and the majestic area surrounding the old fishing village seemed like a perfect scenario. The chosen contestants were on the hunt for the unknown reason that the villagers mysteriously disappeared. Did the crew...

During the summer between fifth and sixth grade, Ethan Hinsdale and Gavin Porter wanted to build a treehouse in a tree on elevated ground. They didn't expect to find that their choice for a location turned out to be an ancient Native American Mound. Now,...