Historical crime and mysteries Books

Ein Roman über Rache, Liebe und Freundschaft und die magische Kraft der Musik - Es ist Frühling, und im Paris des Jahres 1926 pulsiert das Leben, die Menschen feiern, als gäbe es kein Morgen. Bis eine Reihe mysteriöser Todesfälle die Metropole...

Berlin in den 20er Jahren. Glitzerndes Nachtleben, drohende Unruhen und Massenelend. Die Fieberkurve der Inflation steigt immer schneller.Im Tiergarten wird eine ermordete Prostituierte gefunden: hingerichtet mit einem Genickschuss. Kurz vor ihrem Tod...

Le prix de poésie Lucien Laborde présente une sélection de textes issus de ce concours devenu international grâce au site http://femmesdescontinents.kazeo.com Les auteurs sont : Catherine Bourassin (92), Guy Vieilfault (77), Sandra Monteforte Gardent...

An award winning book by Peter King, first in the series.Peter Holroyd, a solitary scholar of Ming and Qing Dynasty maritime history, faces a seismic upheaval when his university threatens his funding and the possibility of tenure...

"Parsons and tyrants friends take note. We have born your oppreshuns long enough. We will have our parish rights or else Bloodie Bones will drink your blood". When Lord Oldfield encloses Barcombe Wood, depriving the people of their ancient rights to...

Omar's Choice draws us into the shadowy role of ISIS in the bloody Syrian conflict. The story, begun in The Syrian, Damascus Street and An Ambassador to Syria, follows Omar, now a member of ISIS and John, a CIA operative, as they...

In the heart of London's prestigious Harley Street stands a foreboding mansion, shrouded in mystery and whispered tales of dark secrets. "The Black-House" is a place where shadows linger, and the echoes of its past reverberate through its halls.Renowned...

J'ai été captivée dès le début avec cet alpha sexy et ces sombres promesses sensuelles, le tout mêlé à une romance et à un mystère captivant. - Nicola, GoodreadsIl est prisonnier de son passé Gabriel Ridgley, marquis de Tremont, est surnommé le Marquis...

When a childish prank is linked to murder, Lady Anne Addison must investigate the death of a young woman at the hands of a ghoulish fiend . . .As her wedding to Lord Darkefell approaches, Lady Anne is summoned by a local girls' school to help them with a...

When I agree to visit Grenville in his villa near Rome, I scarcely imagine that I immediately will become embroiled in mystery and mayhem. James Denis has requested that I purchase an antique from a collector, one Conte de Luca. Before I can approach...

In a new mystery from Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell, midwife Rose Carroll confronts a killer on the cusp of a new age . . . As the nineteenth century nears an end, midwife Rose Carroll can see signs of progress and change everywhere in...

A new book in the Agatha Award-winning series by Edith Maxwell! Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must turn her investigative skills on her own family when a young woman's murder stuns a New England community . . . Following a long betrothal, midwife...

Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must fight bias and blind assumptions to clear the name of a friend when a murderer strikes in nineteenth-century Massachusetts . . .  "Elegant and well-crafted, rich in period detail, Edith Maxwell's latest foray is...

Lady Georgiana Spencer. A dream-shattering realization. A masked murder. Can Lady Spencer rise above her disappointments and save an innocent house maid from the hangman's noose?Georgi has been admitted to Grantabridge University, one of only four women...

A Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death during a society ball. The prime suspect: Lacey’s former commander, Colonel Brandon.Instead of denying the charges,...

Connie Shelton’s bestselling Samantha Sweet mystery series begins when Samantha is given an ancient carved wooden box from a woman reputed to be a bruja, a witch. Immersed in the series, readers have wondered: Where did the box come from? When did...

USA Today bestselling author Connie Shelton takes her readers on a wild trip, in distance and in time, in the fifteenth installment in her original series. Charlie Parker and her husband Drake Langston accept a job with Gold Trail Adventures in...

London, 1593. An anonymous ballad calls for violence. The mayor offers 100 crowns for the author's name. Thomas Clarady wants that money and drags Francis Bacon in to help.Then the authorities turn on two popular playmakers. One is tortured. Another is...

Starting with a dramatic scene that pits Helen Meeker against a cranky and very hungry alligator, Bottled Madness takes readers on a dangerous but thrilling ride through the next episode of "In the President's Service." From explorers to politicians to...

"A very hot and perfectly paced page turner, all the way to happily ever after." -NPRWinner of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense & the Passionate Plume AwardHe saved her life when she was a girl. Now she is a woman...

Not even the imminent threat of a Japanese invasion can stop the notorious Lady Emily Gascoigne-Ridley from courting disaster – or even death – wherever she goes. When she decides to spend the winter of 1943 in Bexford North, simply to spite...

'Everything harks back to the flood,' or so the constable of Wisbech Castle claims. The market baker Alured is dead. In the midst of a ferocious blizzard, Roger of Abynton, the bishop's seneschal for the Isle of Ely, arrives in Wisbech. He soon finds...

In this volume, The Sign of Four, the second story featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, is retold in just twenty-six words, wherein the first word begins with A, the last with Z, and the story proceeds as...

Hampshire, 1943.Kim Maxwell has been languishing in the 'cooler' in what she sees as punishment for getting caught - and tortured - by the Nazis, before being freed by Resistance fighters and smuggled back into England. Now she is sent for by the head of...

"I am Neb-Heka-Ra... I declaim now that my curse shall fall upon he who disturbs my rest. I call upon the Gods to witness and avenge such impiety..."A trio of bizarre deaths, starting with that of a renowned surgeon, sends Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John...

Burgeoning, brash and bold, a new Metropolis has burst forth from the golden soil of Terra Australis, proclaiming its virtues but harbouring many of the evils of old which have been attracted by fortunes won from the Earth itself. Shadowy figures...

Death is so cryptic!In 1932, Boston's chief medical examiner, Dr. Haley Higgins is called to view bones at the crypt at King's Chapel. Finding old bones in a crypt isn't unusual, but finding new bones is! Together with her good friend and investigative...

Los Angeles, the City of Angels. A place of glamour, dreams, and dark secrets. Spencer, his wife, and young daughter arrive to paint the town red with visits to Disneyland, Universal Studios, and Hollywood Boulevard. But fate has other plans.Without...

When Augusta Peel finds a mysterious letter in a book she's repairing, her enquiries take her to Baker Street. But events turn sinister when she learns the address is linked to a missing person.Enlisting the help of Philip Fisher and his detective...

A gigantic bird returns from extinction.Birds in Mumbai wearing jewels from a medieval kingdom.A medieval kingdom that mysteriously collapsed 300 years ago.When a giant bird, long thought to be extinct, makes a surprise visit to Mumbai, all hell breaks...

It looked like another fluff piece... until a private showing becomes a very personal murder.1949: Kingston, Canada-Reporter Charley Hall longs to keep her independence. Juggling expectations to remarry and have children with her demotion to the women's...

Desperate to prove herself, just how far will she go to get the story?1948: Kingston, Canada-When the man who replaced her on the Kingston Tribune's city beat, asks for help with a story about corruption at City Hall, reporter Charley Hall grudgingly...

Clever boy. Genius serial killer. True story.Ithaca, NY, 1846. As a weakling in a frontier-toughened town, young Albert Jarvis is relentlessly denied his only desire-a hint of love from his stone-hearted Pa. Then a captivating stranger, accused of...

It's 1926 and young Emma Schumacher is feeling stuck in a small English seaside town. Her Aunt Sybil's friend is visiting, and the two friends simply cannot stop fighting. It's enough to drive everyone in the house mad. Emma takes solace in a new...

With her family in fragments and hopes for a relationship with the charming Lord Braedon in peril, death and heartache cling to Lady Ravenna Birchfield like a shadow. Yet, life must go on in her charity work and in providing a home and guidance for her...

In late September 1948, LA private detective Michael Garrett is hired to find another detective who has apparently gone missing. Garrett soon finds the missing man alone in his office, sitting behind his desk with a bullet hole in his chest...

Undertakers know a lot of things... Carrie Lisbon knows how to dress a body, what kinds of flowers to use in funerary tributes, and which embalming preparations are best. What she doesn't know is how to navigate the social strata of Hope Bridge, the...

Philadelphia, June 1780. George Washington's two least likely spies return, masquerading as husband and wife as they search for traitors in Philadelphia.   Months have passed since young widow Becca Parcell and former printer Daniel...

While traveling in France, Carrie Mitchell meets a boy, Jacques, who changes her life. While sightseeing, Jacques goes missing and Carrie is thrown into an intrigue that dates back to World War II.She is dangerously caught up with Jacques's father, the...

England 1604. At a remote palace in the dead of winter, William Shakespeare and his acting company are invited to perform for King James. When a killer tries to assassinate the king, a priest is murdered by mistake. Feeling he can trust no one inside the...

"A strong mystery that clearly shows some secrets, like a few bodies, can't stay buried." -Kirkus ReviewsAfter a kidnap-for-hire plot results in the death of a young boy, Burr police chief Emmett Hardy blames himself and has an alcohol-fueled breakdown...

As summer winds down in Chicago's Levee District, the crime rate continues to soar. With the murder of an entire prominent family, in what appears to be a robbery, Patrick Moses must look for a killer who had left very few clues. With the prosecution of...

 In 1880, eight-year-old Raju and his family board a ship from India to work on the sugar cane plantations in South Africa. Little does Raju realise how this new journey to the ‘Dark Continent’ of Africa will change his life forever...

Kannst du den Männern, die an deiner Seite reiten, immer vertrauen?Am Grab ihres ermordeten Vaters Sheriff Townsend stehend, schwört Elli, dass sie Gerechtigkeit über dessen Mörder bringen wird. Unglücklicherweise ist der einzige Mensch, der ihr dabei...

A Country Doctor and Ex-Ballplayer Save "The Bambino" from Thugs, the Baseball Commissioner, and Himself in the Historical Fiction Novel, The Babe Ruth Conspiracy, from Author David O. Stewart--New York City, 1920-21--In 1920, Babe Ruth--larger...

When two cowboys, Dud and his Uncle Ponder, discover a treasure map, Dud decides to take his nephews on an adventure, hoping the boys will find wives so they won’t end up lonely old bachelors too. Ponder refuses to go, accusing Dud of using it as...

The Secret Bureau (1849) is the first volume in a series of four that tells the story of the Hulet family which, for generations, has headed the government's spy network, the Secret Bureau, that intercepts and opens all private mail. It follows the...