Historical crime and mysteries Books

In 1914 a world war started, caused by the visit of a very important person from a very big country to a very small, ineffective country. That was Archduke Franz Ferdinand visiting Sarajevo, but what if the little place was Salford, in the little country...

Clara Bardés, Enkelin eines berühmten verstorbenen Malers, wurde mit der Restaurierung einer Reihe von Gemälden beauftragt, von denen einige aus dem Mittelalter stammen und die in der Kathedrale Notre-Dame in Paris aufbewahrt werden. Bei einem...

The third Sebastian Foxley Medieval Murder Mystery by Toni Mount.A devilish miasma of murder and heresy lurks in the winter streets of medieval London - someone is slaying women of the night. For Seb Foxley and his brother, Jude, evil and the threat of...

Murder lurks at the heart of the royal court in the rabbit warren of the Palace of Westminster. The year is 1480. Treason is afoot amongst the squalid grandeur and opulent filth of this medieval world of contrasts. Even the Office of the King's Secretary...

La guerra, además de engendrar más guerra, también crea monstruos.Verano de 1936, isla de La Palma. Comienzo de la guerra civil española. Marcelina es una santiguadora, si bien sus vecinos creen que practica brujería. Unos días después del golpe militar,...

Der Roman spielt in den Zwanzigerjahren des letzten Jahrhunderts und beruht auf dem sogenannten „Giftmordprozess Riedel-Guala". Im Mittelpunkt des Geschehens, das banal beginnt und dramatisch endet, stehen ein Arzt, seine Frau und seine Geliebte. Der...

A cold case mystery within a historical mystery, The Barkerville Murders yields two unique settings, with strong characters and more than a dash of romance.In 1868, a boy's father vanishes on Barkerville's gold-rich creeks. Thirty-two years later that...

October 1883When cook Kat Holloway and the kitchen staff maintain the empty Mayfair house while the family resides in the country, Lord Clifford, Lady Cynthia's confidence-trickster father, arrives in London and asks Kat and Daniel McAdam for help. Lord...

In 1642 politicians secretly plotted to disband the army. Its commander Oliver Cromwell sends Luke to foil these plots and to find the murderers of three excise officers who stumbled across illegal ammunitions being stockpiled to use against...

The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition provides a vibrant backdrop for this exciting mystery. Emily Cabot is one of the first women graduate students at the University of Chicago, eager to prove herself in the new field of sociology. While she is busy...

In the thriving kingdom of Idaza, Mikalla is the adored Conjurer, the nation's chief storyteller. Using the shadows cast by the city's glorious ceremonial flame, he weaves the history and tales of Idaza for all to see, threading the people together...

Katsuhiro, 'Kats' Takemoto is a war hero turned private detective in the exploding metropolis of San Francisco in 1958. Drawn into a deadly cover-up, Kats investigates the US Navy, the west coast organized crime families and the Beat art scene of North...

A spirited lady detective. A buttoned-up spy for the Crown. A steamy marriage of convenience that threatens to lay bare their secrets...and their hearts.When her overprotective family tries to curtail her activities, spirited and independent debutante...

A bookseller finds an old diary containing a condemned man's last words-but can they be trusted? "A compelling book, superbly plotted" (Peter Lovesey, author of The Last Detective). Browsing through a collection of old volumes, a bookseller comes...

The patients survived the Great War only to face a new danger...In 1916, Sister Helen Hopgood was sent with a team of nurses to care for wounded soldiers at Merewood Farm, a temporary military hospital in Hampshire.Now the war is over, only five patients...

One moment the lovely young woman was walking through the Battle of Hastings exhibition at the British Museum; the next, she lay dead on the checkered museum floor, a Norman arrow protruding from her breast. Inspector Lestrade believed he had solved...

Why Meiringen? Sherlock Holmes readers have always asked, why did Holmes go to Meiringen? And did Moriarty follow him there? And if Holmes did not die in the Falls, what happened next? The familiar stories tell us little. For the first time this book...

Iceland 1940. Britain invades Iceland. Lieutenant Tom Marks is a British officer tasked with defending Whale Fjord. He meets Kristín, a young widow from a nearby farm, who has a small son. Tom is smitten.Iceland 2023. Inspector Magnus Ragnarsson is...

From the author of The Pilot's Daughter and The Final Hunt comes a thrilling, suspense-driven mystery set in World War II-era Seattle.Seattle, 1942. News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of young Max Ellis, heir to the...

"Passage to Moorea is one of the greatest adventure novels of our era." - BookBub"...a thoroughly engrossing, action-packed wild ride...an edge-of-your-seat thriller...an unforgettable read." - Midwest Book Review"Big and brash...a...

In 1962, Dot Morgan was told the best thing she could do besides being a nurse or teacher was to learn to type. While attending secretarial school, she decides to rub elbows with an elite ladies' club to help her father with a struggling campaign for...

In post-WWII San Francisco, Dune House is an oddity-a sprawling, heavily-gated mansion with no telephone, no radio, and no electricity. The city is abuzz when it learns that Julia Paget, the rich, reclusive mistress of Dune House, is conducting a search...

They call themselves the Big Five and a Half. In the aftermath of World War II, six high school students-rich, ambitious, handsome-are groomed for ultimate success by their teacher, Mr. Northcliffe. At their farewell picnic in Mariposa, they plan to...

"Once again, David Philips has produced an intriguing counter-history in a narrative that would rival the efforts of Hollywood legends." -Carolyn Korsmeyer, author of Little FolliesIf you think Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are the...

Things may seem bleak when your friends and family all died nearly 150 years ago, and worse, the group who did most of them in is still doing evil. The good news is you have a loving wife, a ragtag group of brilliant scientists, and a whole new...

"A near-perfect, highly quotable revenge thriller for the AI-powered era. God's Ponzi is one of the year's top legal thrillers." -BestThrillers.comGregory Portent demands revenge.Revenge is best served cold and when the prey begs to be the target. With...

"[An] engrossing tale...imbued with the flavor of English medieval life, Robb's story melds true events with fiction to create a gripping historical mystery." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLYBased on an enigmatic entry in the records of Clementhorpe Nunnery, this...

"As always, Candace Robb writes a powerful story intertwined with genuine characters of the day." --HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW Archbishop Thoresby of York, the second most powerful cleric in England, lies dying in his bed. The end of his life is seen by the...

Imagine you are a die-hard rebel soldier at the closing of the Civil War. What you are fighting for is sacred right? After all, how can the southern economy survive without slavery? If there are no slaves, who will pick the cotton? And who are these...

FROM FIRST-RATE STORYTELLER TERRENCE MCCAULEY COMES THIS GRITTY AND JADED HUNT FOR A DIABOLICAL VILLAIN RUNNING RAMPANT ON MANHATTAN'S STREETS. It's 1927, and corrupt NYPD Detective Charlie Doherty has been ordered by Chief Carmichael to hunt down a...

Award-winning author Patricia Rice brings you another light-hearted Regency romantic mystery set in Wycliffe Manor...At Gravesyde Priory, each new arrival is either a blessing-or a threat. . . Wycliffe Manor has been neglected for decades...

Pearl Zane Gray studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania on a baseball scholarship, and later played with a minor league team. He met and later married Lina Roth, whose inheritance helped support his efforts to become a writer. He pioneered...

The Civil War comes to an end as the South—and the hopes of freedpeople—buckle under Reconstruction in this “powerful saga of ongoing strife” (Midwest Book Review).  A 2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist   With the...

Who is a Sherlockian? And how does one join the ranks of Sherlockians? <P> In "About Being a Sherlockian," sixty essays explore what it is to be a Sherlockian and celebrate the enduring friendships created. From collecting to chronology,...

There was a ghastly murder in New York City, and Mark Twain's address was in the dead man's pocket. But even more alarming was that Twain had just received a message sent by anold friend from his riverboat days -- and the handwriting matched the...

A frightened girl keeps a fatal appointment in a deadly desert hideaway.Judy was very beautiful, very much in love and very much married to the wrong man. A speedy divorce seemed the only solution to everybody's problems, but little did she imagine that...

She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold-blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim...“A prime mystery...told with Leslie...

To millions of loyal readers, Myron Kane was a great man, a genius, a truth-teller. But to everyone who knew him personally, Myron Kane was a man with the touch of death, whose razor-edged pen could destroy a reputation, a life, a soul -- and never...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

Rescue her daughter, destroy her dragons, defeat his demons, go back to his lonely life. How hard can it be?When Susan Cunningham’s daughter disappears from school, her pleasant life as a fashionable, dashing, and respectable widow is shattered...

She wants to negotiate a comfortable marriage; he wants her in his bedNaval captain Jules Redepenning has spent his adult life away from England, and at war. He rarely thinks of the bride he married for her own protection, and if he does, he remembers...

400 years after the Pilgrims first landed on Cape Cod, a business lunch for leaders of GreenHome LLC and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe leads to murder. Or does it? Stopping at a yard sale on their way to Leo's Back End, property developer Harriet Benbow...