Historical crime and mysteries Books

A tale of War, Passion, Treachery, Violence, Friendship and Love. The Mystery and Pursuit of The Romanov Cross. A contradictatory genre, being a historical/contemporary Novel moving across several era's. Packed with fast paced action and intrigue...

Dr Ava Curzon returns in the breathtaking sequel to bestselling thriller The Sword of Moses.When the Turin Shroud is stolen in a violent assault, archaeologist and former spy Ava Curzon is plunged into a desperate struggle against an apocalyptic Russian...

Thomas Clarady is recruited to spy on a group of radical Puritans at Cambridge University. Francis Bacon is his spymaster; his tutor in both tradecraft and religious politics. Their commission gets off to a deadly start when Tom finds his chief informant...

"Baltakmens captures the flavor and scope of classic British fiction." --Kirkus Reviews"This atmospheric, character-driven, and plot-twisty bildungsroman is a worthy paean to Oliver Twist and Great Expectations." --BooklistIn the fictional 18th-century...

It all began on December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawai'i. Not only that the United States entered World War II, but a chain of events is set in motion that, fifty years later, becomes the setting for death. A family, a corporation, greed...

A partly historical mystery novel set in an English Edwardian retail empire and also in present day Obea - a beautiful but suspect fictional island, where the residents are covering up a murder and more besides. The protagonists risk danger and more to...

Her man carries terrifying secrets. But if she escapes, will the world treat her with any more kindness? 1857. Amelia Lawrence refuses to let her husband hurt her ever again. Attempting to flee India in the dead of night, her frantic exodus falters...

In the birth of a new French Republic, a man must risk his honor, his marriage and even his life in a battle between his ideals and his ambition.France, 1870. A frenzied mob brutally murders a man they believe to be a Prussian spy and a threat to the...

A forgotten kingdom. An abandoned pyramid in the heart of the Cambodian jungle. A priceless statue, and the men who would kill for it. Raised as a spy by his CIA agent father, Boran was trailing marks and running sources before he could drive a car...

L.A. private investigators Kit and Henry become entangled in the city's robust post-WWII occult trade when they're hired to track down Lillian, the estranged wife of a prominent physician, and her spellbinding "spirit" lover Tashin. Fresh from her...

Vengeance. Treason. Faith.           Set during one of the most tumultuous eras of European history, an explosive group of individuals-a prostitute bar maiden, a fresh-faced squire and his knight, a...

 "Pocas palabras bastan para contar el resto. Tras el examen del lugar llevado a cabo por expertos no quedó duda de que una pelea personal entre los dos hombres terminó, como no habría podido ser de otro modo en semejante lugar y situación, en un...

Travis discovers his newest get rich quick scheme in an abandoned riverboat.  Dreaming of the wealth and glamour she will bring, he becomes obsessed with rebuilding her. Darius sees only rot, decay, and their ruination in the old boat...

... Tankerne styrtede panisk gennem Susans hoved. Ligegyldigt hvad der skulle ske, var hun ikke forberedt på det. Hun så sig desperat bagud mod det beskyttende fængsel. Hun ønskede sig tilbage til fængslet. Ja, hun ville acceptere, at skulle blive der i...

Am Abend des 8. April 1928 bescheinen Lampions und Fackeln das festlich geschmückte Lahnufer. Die Gießener Schiffs-Kameradschaft feiert die Einweihung ihres neuen Schulschiffs. Doch der Festredner, ein ehemaliger Marineoffizier, erscheint nicht. Erst am...

"Simply unputdownable" -Kiersten Modglin, bestselling authorImpossible odds.A relentless pursuit.The brink of world domination.With her husband imprisoned in eternal purgatory, Julia O'Connor and her friends must use every tool in their arsenal to stop...

In the gripping novel set against the gritty backdrop of 1970s Chicago, two elderly men, wearied by their homeless existence, embark on a fateful train journey that promises a fresh start out west. Their story, deeply entrenched in the themes of a...

If it's not weddings, then hapless widows are expected to attending christenings... Lady Violet returns with St. Sevier to her family seat, and finds Derwent Hall at sixes and sevens upon the occasion of her nephew's christening. Other guests have...

Lady Violet has decided that life in noisy, crowded, busy London is simply not her cup of tea. Her search for a rural property to purchase must be set aside when she learns that Hugh St. Sevier has been accused of murder. Worse, the handsome physician is...

Having enjoyed her tour of the Scottish countryside, Lady Violet Belmaine is reluctant to return to London. Her escort, Hugh St. Sevier, suggests a detour to the Lakes, where his former army connections have invited him to renew old acquaintances. Violet...

James Denis gives Captain Lacey a task, to deliver a mysterious package to a man with an office near the Custom House on the bank of the Thames. Lacey, who has been drawn into danger delivering items for Denis before, opens the package to find a single...

The controversial research and public-spirited work of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) – English alchemist, astrologer, physician and free thinker – continues to divide opinions to this day. The College of Physicians despise his healing texts...

Mit Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show kommt Ärger nach London. Als der Scharfschütze, der Willie beim Pokern schlägt, ermordet wird, ermitteln Matt und India. Willie ist überzeugt, dass das Opfer gemogelt hat, doch niemand weiß, wie, bis India sein Geheimnis...

1862. A group of brides from Australia have arrived in British Columbia, and love is in the air - until their new-found happiness in the prospectors’ town “Run’s End” is shattered when the hotel-owner is murdered. To make matters...

Invitation from a Mobster is inspired by real events. It tells the story of one of the most important and feared journalists of the 1990s and is set during the Wild West Gold Rush era of Czech politics following the Velvet Revolution. Vitas is a...

One horrific crime. One missing suspect.When an officer is called to a house, he discovers a chilling and bizarre crime scene. Sitting at a dining room table, as if enjoying their evening meal, he finds the decomposing bodies of an entire family. ...

Murder, blackmail, and a maze. Eliza Thomson Investigates...An anonymous victim, a missing murder weapon, and a trail back to Moreton-on-Thames.An unexpected finding disrupts the church day out to Hampton Court Palace, the former home of King Henry VIII...

A literary family drama with a murder at its heart.When Mercy Mulcahy was 40 years old, she was accused of killing her elderly and tyrannical father. Now, at the end of her life, she has written a book about what really happened on that fateful night of...

After the Redacted stories, the Redacted plays. Dramatisations of the works of Arthur Conan-Doyle, Shakespeare, Sophocles, and of Orlando Pearson.A Scandal in Nova Alba - Did Macbeth really kill King Duncan? Sherlock Holmes investigates.The Baron of...

In this series of five short stories, Holmes and Watson continue their late investigations into dark crimes in 1920/30s London, joined by their excitable housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson, and by Jasper Lestrade of...

Volume IX contains the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first full-length Thorndyke adventures, published in 1938, 1940, and 1942, respectively. With each subsequent narrative, Thorndyke's skills and abilities grown and amaze. The Stoneware Monkey...

In this volume, Sherlock Holmes’s most famous case, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is retold in just twenty-six words, wherein the first word begins with A, the last with Z, and the story proceeds as the alphabet progresses. The text is...

In this series of five short stories, Holmes and Watson continue their late investigations into dark crimes in 1920s London, joined by their excitable housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson, and by Jasper Lestrade of...

London, 1924: When Alfie Barrington is stabbed to death outside his club, suspicion quickly falls on his widow, the lovely Sarah - and on her former beau, Enoch Hale. The American journalist has an alibi, but he doesn't know her name and Scotland Yard...

Ok, so you have won a few Sherlock Holmes quiz prizes, but what if your life depended on your knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes stories? That's the shocking fate facing a woman who is tied to a chair - if she can't answer, she dies. As the questions get...

Doctor John Watson is visiting the village of St Andrews, Scotland, on a much-needed holiday. Still saddened by the loss of his good friend and companion, Sherlock Holmes, he seeks to put his life back in order. Believing that golf on the famous "Old...

The Lufton Lady reveals an episode from the early career of Sherlock Holmes an incident that proves the great detective had a heart as well as a brain. The story is told mostly in excerpts from the journal of an aristocrat who finds himself caught up in...

Murder's a spectacle!When Ginger Reed ~ aka Lady Gold ~ and Basil Reed's son Scout runs away to join the circus, it's not all fun and games. As a disgruntled teen unhappy at boarding school, Scout intends to work with his cousin Marvin, newly (and...

A FAST-PACED MYSTERY SET IN OLD HOLLYWOOD-WITH TWISTS AND TURNS THAT NEVER END.It's the 1920's, and Lucas Hallam is something of a legend: a Texas Ranger turned Pinkerton agent turned Hollywood P.I. So, when the occasion arises, Hallam saddles up and...

The Lovely Bones meets the Wild, Wild West in this haunting tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption inspired by the true story of a much-sought-after nineteenth-century prostitute who longs to return to respectable society-but instead endures the...

"Chris Kelsey hits another home-run with this fast-paced and enthralling mystery starring Emmett Hardy." -Sublime Book ReviewIt's August 1974. The oil-producing states of the Middle East refuse to sell their oil to the United States, igniting a worldwide...

Are we the survivors of a highly evolved vanished civilization? One that preserved the essence of its high technology in a Hall of Records located under the Giza plateau?Professor Allan Parker, an American Egyptologist, makes an incredible discovery in...

While visiting the United States, the wife of young British aristocrat Lord Waldmere goes missing in New York City under mysterious circumstances. When Lord Waldmere tell his story to Nick Carter, Nick accepts the case and launches his investigation.

A gripping mystery novel about a man who uncovers a dark secret in his town's history. When he is elected borough treasurer, he learns that there is a large sum of money missing from the town's coffers. As he investigates the matter, he discovers that...