Historical crime and mysteries Books

Book 3 in the Heathcliff Lennox seriesHalloween 1921. A castle on a rock in a lonely Scottish loch, Braeburn has been crumbling for centuries. Someone tries to remedy the rot but uncovers a skeleton behind a wall. It wears a crown upon its skull and...

On 17th October, 1678, Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey, a justice of the peace, is discovered dead in a ditch at Primrose Hill, run through with his own sword.Suicide or murder? This has been the historian's dilemma for three centuries.King Charles II had...

A young German woman, thinking she can escape her memories of wartime Berlin, moves to London in 1954 under her new name of Charlotte Brown. The offer of a prestigious job at the National Gallery leads her to believe that she can establish a new life in...

When Angela Marchmont goes to Cornwall on doctor's orders she is looking forward to a nice rest and nothing more exciting than a little sea-bathing. But her plans for a quiet holiday are dashed when she is caught up in the hunt for a diamond necklace...

When Matt Howard's grandfather told him he must alter history to protect his newborn son, Matt thought the old man was crazy......Then he realised it was true.Overstrike spans 4 generations of a family haunted by the prospect of an approaching alternate...

Spanning events over thirty years, Volume I of The Papers of Sherlock Holmes relates narratives of Holmes and Watson's days in Baker Street, as well as particulars of Holmes's supposed retirement. Follow along as The Master and his Boswell travel from...

Victorian Englands most famous consulting detective is hot on the trail of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. But in Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Vampire, Jack is a vampire and Holmes refusal to believe it could be his undoing...

A murder in a man's world. A reporter determined to solve the crime. Will she end up above the fold, or get buried in the back?1948: Kingston, Canada-Charley Hall knows she's a better reporter than any man in the newsroom. Frustrated to be demoted to the...

The fact that women couldn't join the London Metropolitan Police was an injustice to Eleanora Galway. She found her way around such an obstacle: by forming a detective agency. When a note arrives from a duke concerning a mysterious and gruesome delivery,...

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...

The Race for Gold is Murder The 1928 Amsterdam Olympics set the stage for Ginger's latest adventure. Excited yet conflicted, Ginger faces a historic moment: women's debut in the games amid a British boycott. The plot thickens when an English sprinter is...

Eine Leiche auf dem Dachboden!Als Ginger Gold in ihrem ehemaligen Elternhaus Hartigan House in London eintrifft, macht sie einen grausigen Fund: Auf dem Dachboden entdeckt sie die jahrzehntealten sterblichen Überreste einer Frau.Ein ungelöster Fall, der...

Death isn't an act! It's been five years since Haley Higgins moved back from London to Boston, and in that time she's become a doctor of pathology and the assistant pathologist at the Boston City Morgue. In her position, she often assists in the solving...

Death's a jig!When a brutal dance marathon in the suburbs of Boston in 1932 turns deadly, Dr. Haley Higgins is surprised to discover the deceased is the widow of a man whose body still lies in the cold cabinets of her morgue. She has reasons to believe...

Death by Treason . . .When the body of a British National is found at the base of the common house tower in Boston, assistant medical examiner, Dr. Haley Higgins has no reason to believe it wasn't suicide.That is until Investigative Reporter Samantha...

Death by design. . .Investigative reporter Sam Hawke, alias Mrs. Samantha Rosenbaum, is the first on the scene-what luck!-when a body is found in the yard of St. Stephen's Church on Hanover Street in Boston.Dr. Haley Higgins, the assistant Chief Medical...

Seeing double is murder! If one wedding is good, a double wedding is better! Rosa and Miguel agree that walking down the aisle with Bill and Carlotta solves a lot of social and familial problems, but the drama is notched up when a dead body arrives with...

Murder's a bash!When Rosa Reed attends a birthday party in the spring of 1957, the Mexican fiesta turns deadly. It wasn't how Rosa wanted to celebrate with Detective Miguel Belmonte, nor how she hoped to be introduced to his large complicated family...

Murder's a trip!It's early 1957, and Rosa Reed and her new beau Detective Miguel Belmonte fly from California to London to follow up on the cold case: the murder of Rosa's good friend Lady Vivien Everleigh.The investigation is complicated, if not...

Murder's a wild ride!Rosa Reed takes a much needed break from her thriving private investigative work by joining her cousin Clarence and Aunt Louisa for a weekend getaway at the Black Stallion Dude Ranch near Santa Bonita, California. It's the beginning...

Murder's a wrap!Private Investigator Rosa Reed has finally accepted that her girlhood romance with Detective Miguel Belmonte has no hope of being rekindled, but when his actress girlfriend gets embroiled in a murder on her movie set, it's more than a...

Murder's a blast!Rosa Reed's holiday with the Forester Family in Santa Bonita has turned into an extended stay, and Rosa decides to make use of her Metropolitan Police training and sets up a private investigative business ~ just like her mother! But she...

Murder is so sang-froid! When the Reed family-temporarily exiled to France-is once again safe, Ginger decides to turn the event into a much needed holiday. And the absolute cake is Ginger's reunion with her American friend Haley Higgins, who is working...

Murder's a knockout! Despite her misgivings and general distaste for fighting sports, Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known as Lady Gold, agrees to attend a boxing match to support her adopted son's cousin, a street fighter who's quickly risen in the ranks.But...

Murder's a piece of cake!Wedding bells are ringing in Belgravia, and Ginger couldn't be happier to attend the nuptials of Felicia Gold and Lord Davenport-Witt. If only she could put her mind at ease about the things she knew about the groom's past.When a...

Murder's frightfully unlucky!Mrs. Ginger Reed, known also as Lady Gold, settles into homelife with her husband Chief Inspector Basil Reed, son Scout and newborn daughter Rosa, but when an opportunity to join a dinner party at the renowned Savoy Hotel is...

Murder's a pain in the aria!Nothing ruins a night at the opera faster than a duchess falling to her death. Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known by some as Lady Gold, is at the Royal Albert Hall with her husband, Basil Reed, a chief inspector at Scotland Yard,...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleMurder's a Deadly SecretMrs. Ginger Reed-the former Lady Gold-thought her past was dead and buried, but when...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleCadavers can be deadly...Unregistered corpses are showing up amongst the cadavers in the mortuary of the...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleFor fans of Ginger Gold and Basil Reed - this is the wedding you've been waiting for! The bride and groom...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleEspionage, intrigue...murder...It's 1924 and war widow fashionista Ginger Gold's new Regent Street dress shop,...

"Clever and entertaining, you'll love this charming Golden Age mystery series. And the fashion is to die for!" - Molly C. Quinn, actress, CastleA poltergeist guilty of murder?In order to keep Bray Manor afloat financially, Felicia and Ambrosia have...

There's a skeleton in the attic!After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic...

Murder is a hit!It's the summer of 1956 and Private Investigator Rosa Reed (former Woman Police Constable from the London Metropolitan Police) attends her first rock and roll concert featuring the young and upcoming music sensation Elvis Presley. The...

'All men have enemies, but I had more than most.'Simone da Benno, fresco painter and enfant terrible of the Medici Court.The Year of Our Lord 1488.After his latest misdemeanour, namely trying to steal his rival's prize student ~ a talented lad called...

When an ancient myth becomes a modern nightmare, the search for truth leaves a trail of blood.Friday night, as the first star illuminates the sky, an orthodox Jewish family gathers to embrace the tranquility of Shabbat. But tonight, things will be...

If she can't clear her friend's name, he'll go down for murder. But it's her own past that threatens to drown them all.1948: Kingston, Canada-When reporter Charley Hall's childhood friend, Dan Cannon, is found standing over the badly beaten body of his...

"A solid series starter that never flags in its sprint to a sinister climax." - Kirkus Reviews"OUR VERDICT: GET IT" "An insurance investigator is the only thing standing between a high-powered law firm and its billion-dollar payday in Hemming's thriller...

"Saboteur is a well-crafted historical thriller that successfully blends fact with fiction. I wholeheartedly rate this book 5 out of 5 stars." - Macreen Ouko OnlineBookClub.org"A fine work of historical fiction, smartly conceived and elegantly executed...

Does she have the prescription to stop a murderer? Or will the cure be the death of her?1948: Kingston, Canada-A school reunion turns deadly when several of Kingston's nurses suddenly fall ill and one dies. And then it happens again. And again. Like...

Savage appetites and opulent vices are a way of life in Crescent City, a metropolis split among werewolves and humans. As one of its most beautiful socialites, Cora Marshall thrives on scandals and the attention they bring. Yet even she is stunned by her...

Brand-new lawyer Michael O'Brien has no clue the case his law firm handed him is a total loser. That's because he would rather chase women, play basketball, or do almost anything other than practice law. O'Brien is struggling with the drudgery first-year...

FOR THE PAST TWENTY YEARS, a scientist was plotting to annihilate what he hated most: all Abrahamic religions and those who follow it. His obscure plan calls for a religious war of Muslims, Christians, and Jews where they could all destroy one another...

Rival legends - the police forces in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic - form an uneasy alliance as homicide detective Adam Kincaid tracks a serial killer during the brutal civil war known as The Troubles.Each murder duplicates the medieval-torture...

In Book II – SONS OF CUBA – HOMECOMING Felipe and his handful of rebels are forced into exile by the Batista government. With the help of Ileana Calleri, a Cuban National living in Mexico, a training camp is established in the shadows of the...

It's 1946, and on a hot spring night in Phoenix, Arizona, things are only beginning to heat up at the Monte Vista Road home of flamboyant decorator Walter Waverly Wingate. Private detective Mason T. Adler isn't thrilled to be turning fifty, and the...

It's 1937, and Heath Barrington is a naïve twenty-two-year-old about to set sail across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary. While on board, he meets the handsome Lord Simon Quimby, who invites Heath to his estate. Heath falls for Simon hard, but Simon soon...

In this historical novel, Billy Old and Jeff Kidder were Arizona Rangers at the turn of the twentieth century and best friends. In 1908, while acting in the line of duty, Kidder was murdered by five crooked Mexican policemen. No charges were filed...