Historical crime and mysteries Books

Lestrade felt his heart fall through his rib-slats and hit the floor.“Bradstreet, please tell me you did not bring Mr. Holmes in while I was stark staring mad.”“What do you take me for? He came himself. Needed a clip of your hair...

Holmes being away for the day Watson receives an anonymous request for a meeting at Waterloo station. More for interest sake than any other reason, he attends the railway station and is confronted by a man whom appears in the last vestiges of physical...

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time is an unconventional and breath-taking tour de force that flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres. The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal...

Across Ethiopia and beyond, Sherlock Holmes encounters both the hideous and the divine, ripping asunder the fragile veil separating us from worlds unknown—all while in the company of the renowned Allan Quatermain. The last of Allan Quatermain's...

It is a cold London morning in 1887, and the discovery of a dead man in an abandoned house plunges Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson into a series of eight trying cases that will test the friendship of the two companions and threaten the safety of the...

Holmes and Watson have been handed the challenge of solving the London Tarot Killings. It is a shadowy episode equaling any dark conspiracy ever committed in the ancient city. Some fiend is brutally murdering random people in Lower Havering and pinning...

It's 1898. Kismet brings about a chance reunion at a London club between Dr. Watson and Colonel "Maiwand Mike" Fenlon, former military comrades from their Northwest Frontier days and the desperate Battle of Maiwand. A week later an urgent cable...

June 1946. London, England. A murdered man. A mysterious woman. A note in another language. Irene Holmes, daughter of the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, used her unique talents of deduction and observation to assist her childhood friend Detective Eddy...

A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take...

We all know about Jack the Ripper, the serial murderer who terrorized Whitechapel and confounded police in 1888, but how much do we really know about his victims?Pursued by one demon into the clutches of another, the ordinary life of Mary Ann...

5-star Goodreads Reviews for The King's Anatomist★★★★★ "This is a well-conceived novel with an interesting narrative approach that is surprisingly successful. Switching back and forth in time and using a narrator who is not the primary subject of the...

An impressive new novel from award-winning author Gregory C. Randall-a heartrending, enthralling mix of cold-case mystery and political suspense.In 1968, four people were killed in the explosion of a militant's hideout during an anti-war demonstration in...

PenCraft Award 2019 Winner - Historical Fiction"...flawlessly well-written mystery with a captivating plot that offers a dark perspective on family unity.” –IndieReaderJapanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe, 80, has protected the...

Two thousand years ago, ancient Sparta developed a training system called the Agoge that produced the fiercest warriors the world had ever seen. It was said that one Spartan soldier was the equal to four enemy soldiers, and Sparta's system was the envy...

My dearest Bassam,Come for me. I am taken away to a dark place. It is the end of my life. I have nothing but this script to console—and my thoughts of you. If these words find you when it is too late, let them comfort you for your life without me...

As a boy, Jim Falk watched helplessly as Old Bendy's Men dragged his father into the darkness. Now, Falk is lured by strange dreams to finish the incomplete work of his father, which was to rid the land of evil. He is hampered by his fears and...

Armand Lavarède is a penniless young journalist who inherits a fortune from a wealthy cousin on the condition that he must first travel around the world in under a year with only five "pennies" in his pocket. If he fails, the money will go his creditor,...

Harry George Alexander Bircham, an amoral man cast from a Wildean mold, and used to getting his way, will do anything to keep the affections and attentions of Charles Holland, a fellow student at Oxford-even commit murder. I Knew...

Ursula Marlow thought she was done with death, but when her fiancé, Lord Wrotham, is arrested on charges of treason, her world is turned upside down. It is the winter of 1913, and the British Parliament, unsettled on the question of Home Rule for...

Son the Knight is a story of a young prince who lives in earlier times in what is now modern day France. This intriguing tale follows the life of the prince from adolescence to becoming a very brave and resourceful young man.After struggling with the...

He wakes in a cemetery in front of a white marble gravestone that marks his resting place for the past three centuries. Although the letters are faded, he adopts the name Pilatus from the weathered stone façade. He realizes he is dead-alive and embraces...

En la ciudad italiana de Milán, han encontrado asesinado al arzobispo dentro del Duomo. El Comisario Jefe de la capital lombarda, Ricardo Arévali, será el encargado de la investigación del que será el primero de una serie de asesinatos que tendrán lugar...

The Mysteries of Deepdene Manor is a historical romance novel set in the year 1745 during the Jacobite Rebellion, also known as the '45. The book is written by Frank Mauduit and was first published in 1889. The story revolves around the mysteries and...

The Mystery of Grange Drayton is a novel written by Eliza Kerr and originally published in 1884. The story is set in the English countryside and follows the investigation of a mysterious death at the Grange Drayton estate. The main character, a young...

In the early 1960s, Hallowell, Maine was a sleepy small city on the Kennebec River. Dip Barrett ran a beer store where he socialized with local criminals and took bets for horse racing tracks around the state. His business and the community are turned...

What if ... The Romanov Dynasty is a novel written around Nicholas II and his family. It begins with the love story of Jacob Abram, who leaves Germany for Russia, running to escape the imminent death threats that he and many Jewish people experienced. He...

When Monteverdi's lost operas surface, so does a killer desperate to possess them. . .Preoccupied with preparations for the opera season at Eszterháza, Kapellmeister Joseph Haydn receives a curious request from a friend in Vienna. Kaspar, an...

Dive into the enigmatic world of Ravenwood Manor, where the echoes of the past reverberate within its ancient walls. In "The Secret of the Hidden Room: A Mystery of Intrigue," follow Evelyn, a determined detective, as she unravels the veil of secrecy...

A Deadly Game in the Heart of a Historic City: Where Shadows Whisper Secrets and Every Corner Holds a Clue. In the echoing alleys of New Bedford, a city steeped in history and immortalized by Herman Melville's "Moby Dick", a sinister plot begins...

In the pulsating heart of historical Philadelphia lies a tale of valor, mystery, and intergenerational quests for justice. The Riders Of Fishtown introduces readers to the formidable Delano lineage. Eddie Delano Sr., an esteemed figure in the elite...

While the armies of Moscovy bear down on western Europe, powerful political forces debate the future of the nation of Francia, and the Church plots seditiously with its own self-interests. Within the mysterious house of the minister a horrific contract...

He's a high school English and Theater teacher who always secretly wanted to be a cop. So when Monty Farraday is summoned, for reasons unknown, to meet with principal Reginald Brandenburg prior to the start of the school year during the unpredictable...

Quien sostenga que los jóvenes ya no leen, no puede estar más equivocado. Las pantallas han reemplazado mucho del tiempo ocioso que los jóvenes de la era pre-celulares y pre-internet dedicaban a leer, es cierto, pero existen, y no en poco número, los...

A string of murders, an ancient curse and a castle full of secrets.England, 1926. When esteemed detective Lord Edgington and his novice grandson Christopher plan a trip to the beautiful Forest of Dean, they hope for nothing more than a relaxing weekend...

Leonie und ihre Freundin Patricia entdecken zufällig in einem Haus mysteriöses und begegnen übernatürlichem. Doch sie lassen sich nicht abschrecken und erlösen damit eine Seele.

Anty Boisjoly takes on his twistiest test to date in a tale of curses and crows, crypts and conspiracies, concealed corridors and clever killers, delivered with a generous overpour of locked room murder and bouyant Boisjoly badinage.The ancient curse of...

L'uchronie d'une double enquête, celle, conduite en 94, par Flavius Josèphe en Palestine sur les traces de Judas et celle, menée en 2021, par un exégète danois nommé YHWH sur le codex laissé par Flavius Josèphe toutes deux interrogent les circonstances...

There have only been a few moments in history where mankind was on the brink of extinction. The Suez Crisis was one of them...Egypt 1956. Israeli forces overrun the Sinai and decimate the Egyptian military in a surprise attack. The Egyptian army is in...

On a summer night in 1932, twelve-year-old Joel Fitchett wanders into an East Texas diner badly beaten and carrying his unconscious brother, Clancy. Though both boys claim they have no memory of what happened, the horrific details are etched into their...

It's the winter of 1945 and Christmas is just around the corner, but Mickey Matthews cannot yet celebrate. A phone call sends him to solve another mystery - a cold case located in California. But when Matthews discovers that two actresses vanished under...

A mysterious Ojibwa petroglyph has carried Justine Cook back in time to the moment her unseen enemy is born. But something is wrong... Separated from those she loves, she finds herself in a strange world surrounded by people she has only known in dreams,...

Pinkerton agent Garrett Lyons arrives in Chicago in 1882, close on the trail of the person who murdered his partner. He encounters a vibrant city that is striving ever upwards, full of plans to construct new building that will "scrape the sky." In his...

SET IN CRETE, 1941, IN THE SHADE OF THE MOUNTAIN IS AN EMOTIONALLY COMPLEX STORY. As the youngest son growing up on a vast South Australian sheep station, Andrew Mitchell earns his living by being a gambler, fighter and a conman. He certainly knows...