Historical crime and mysteries Books

Enough time has passed. Dr John Watson can finally reopen his tin box of chronicles. In this astonishing collection, a treasure trove of new accounts of Sherlock Holmes's extraordinary skills finally comes to light.What is the connection between...

Part XXXII featuring contributions from: Hal Glatzer, Arianna Fox, Terry Golledge, David Marcum, Craig Janacek, James Gelter, Mike Hogan, Arthur Hall, Tracy J. Revels, Will Murray, Roger Riccard, Tim Symonds, Wayne Anderson, Alan Dimes, Mike Chinn, Paul...

He chases crooks in the nineteenth century. She researches the past in the twenty-first. When both attend festivals that turn sinister, can they solve the crimes?Vancouver, 1898. Detective Jack Winston is sent to police a spectacle that turns into a...

Spencer Marlowe wakes up in a hospital in Chicago, bruised, bloodied, and missing every memory of who he is. Having killed a man. As he grapples with the blank slate his mind has become, he's met by FBI agent Savannah Steele-a fiery, determined woman who...

1093. The music of murder.Beatriz de Farrera is a trobairitz (a female troubadour) at the court of Toulouse. She sings of love but intends to evade marriage and romantic entanglements. Her patron, Philippa, is the heiress of the rich city and...

The Gothengau Colony is an alternate history novel set in 1965, in a Nazi-controlled Europe.  Britain turned its back on France and remained neutral if not friendly to the Third Reich. The Soviet Union has been obliterated, Europe's Jews almost all...

Detective John Grizzley has just 72 hours to find Sarah after she was kidnapped. If he fails to locate her in time, her life hangs in the balance. To find Sarah, Grizzley must solve an intricate series of puzzles that send him racing across the city...

The gripping new book from the author of The Algorithm Will See You Now. Based on the true-life rationing of kidney dialysis in 1960s America, a medical intern in 1992 Seattle tries to leave his painful past behind, only to uncover a shocking truth of...

Sinister Among Us, A Mystery Novel, is a gripping narrative of intrigue, crime, and sinister activities at a small Christian college in the rural Indiana town of Copperville. The main charter of the book is Dr. Bradley Green, the Interim...

In 1930 San Francisco, the bridges haven't yet been built, and although Prohibition is still in effect, the speakeasies are thriving. The Moore Detective Agency is two months and several fifths of whiskey away from closing its doors. When the wife of one...

Venice, 1612. Two very different women, a notorious courtesan and a Talmudic scholar, are brought together by an artist when they pose for a "Gallery of Beauties," forming a relationship neither of them anticipated.Conflicted about her past, Belladonna...

Getting caught in the middle of an international art theft ring wasn't supposed to be part of the deal Kat Lawson made with her dying father. But when her father receives a mysterious letter informing the former WW2 navigator/bombardier that his downed...

Prisoners of Fate - a corrupt magistrate, an underhand curator, a cat burglar to the rich, rival madams, a cheating husband, his tempestuous wife, art thieves and a psychopath eke out an existence in 1990s Hobart. All are ambitious, most are a step away...

2020 ITW Thriller Awards Finalist“A timely edge-of-your-seat terrorism thriller that plays on every parent’s worst fears. This cinematic thriller is destined for TV.” –Best ThrillersErik Petersson works with the High-Risk Traveler...

Jake Greenberg is on his way to Shanghai. He has a new job after years of fighting in World War One and the Russian Civil War. But he is caught up in a bloody gunfight with the Japanese Secret Police. With two new friends---an English woman photographer...

Photographer Nellie Burns and her faithful Labrador retriever, Moonshine, travel to the Stanley Basin of central Idaho with sheep rancher, Gwynn Campbell, and his Basque sheepherder, Alphonso. Nellie plans to spend several weeks in the mountains around...

Shanghai, 1929. Jake Greenberg, the owner of a fashionable casino, is drawn into a daring British plot to steal a Japanese Enigma machine. The plan fails. Agents are murdered and Jake pursues the traitor who killed them.

A despised priest is drowned in a pond in this medieval mystery filled with “lively period detail” (Kirkus Reviews).In a mild December in the year of our Lord 1141, a new priest comes to the parishioners of the Foregate outside the Abbey of...

A monk’s journey of amends leads to murder in this “thoroughly entertaining medieval mystery” in the Silver Dagger Award–winning series (Publishers Weekly).Winter arrived early in 1142, bringing with it a heavy snowfall. The...

“Bodies and red herrings pile up in a satisfying way” in the Silver Dagger Award–winning medieval mystery series starring Brother Cadfael (Library Journal).The year is 1142, and England is in the grip of civil war. Within the cloisters...

A young Irishman finds love and danger in the shadows of Weimar BerlinFrancis Bacon has never cared much for country living, so he is overjoyed when his father sends him to Berlin as punishment for his not-so-innocent flirtations with the other...

Charges of heresy and murder are complicated by the contents of a mysterious treasure chestIn the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, but it is not a joyous...

The sleuthing monk unravels a thorny case of murder in this “accomplished whodunit meticulously wrought with a wealth of medieval detail” (Booklist).A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may...

It is early 1912 when teenage newlyweds Ian and Glynnis McLean decide to immigrate from Ireland to San Francisco. Slated to depart as first-class passengers on an American-owned ship, their plans suddenly change when that voyage is canceled due to a coal...

In an unspecified time and place in the American West, a search begins for a mysterious box; the contents of which are known only to the parties involved: two brothers; both of which see the world through a different lense; an innocent hopeful and a...

Nurse Benson is a novel written by Justin Huntly McCarthy and originally published in 1919. The story revolves around the titular character, Nurse Benson, who is a young and attractive nurse working in a hospital in London during the First World War. The...

The Victories of Wesley Castle is a book written by Charles Wesley Winchester and was first published in 1900. The book is a historical novel that tells the story of a young man named Wesley Castle and his journey towards success and victory. The...

The Shakespeare Secret is a novel written by Edwin Bormann and published in 1895. The book is a work of fiction that revolves around the mystery of William Shakespeare's life and works. The story follows the protagonist, a young man named Jack who is a...

In a sea of bachelors, Penelope's dance card is a clue to murder. Dallas 1924In the wake of her husband's untimely demise, Penelope Van Keesler is coerced into attending a lavish ball by her meddling mother. With their family's fortune teetering on the...

Poitiers, France, 1979 Edith Bonelli is the leading detective at the Bonelli Agency, yet the patriarchal standards of her profession in the late 70s have relegated her to the role of her father Stéfano's timid assistant, though he is internationally...

La BastidaRoman préhistorique à suspense La Bastida est une forteresse préhistorique érigée à l'âge de bronze, située dans la province de Murcia, au sud-est de l'Espagne. C'est l'une des cités les plus importantes de la civilisation argarique, fondatrice...

Sometimes, love and devotion can be the most dangerous battlefield. In an era where the shadows of war loom large, a story of love, resilience, and friendship unfolds. An ancient oak tree, a silent witness to simpler times, watches as four childhood...

Dive into the thrilling heart of New York City where Nathanial Dove, a skilled private investigator renowned for exposing archaeological forgeries, faces the challenge of a lifetime. The Manhattan Museum of Antiquity has come into possession of an...

Entre bailes sensuales, vestidos brillantes, olor a ron, ruleta y humo de cigarro, Mary se ve envuelta en un mundo de intriga en la soleada y glamorosa Cuba de los años cincuenta. Su conexión con la alta sociedad la coloca en el centro de un juego...

The boy was murdered in Auschwitz. The killer isn't a Nazi.Poland, 1944: Adam Lapid used to be a police detective. Now he's a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.Reduced to a slave after losing his family in the gas chambers, Adam struggles...

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Londons schwarzes Herz. Im Herbst 1888 kommen zwei junge Menschen ins East End, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Die verarmte Celia Brooks versucht verzweifelt, ihren Vater zu finden. Der Hotelierssohn Rupert Ingram will hingegen nur seine...

Berlin, 1932/33. Reichspräsident Hindenburg plant verfassungswidrige Experimente, Reichskanzler Papen regiert gegen das Volk, in einem Streik kämpfen Kommunisten und Nationalsozialisten Seite an Seite. Ein Bürgerkrieg scheint nicht ausgeschlossen. In...

Isobel Amsel is wasting away in an asylum. Mad with boredom, she recklessly risks her future wandering the countryside.  When an excursion nearly turns deadly, Isobel fears one of her enemies is targeting her, but she quickly discovers something far...

April 1774 - Within the colonial capital of Virginia, Faith Clarke awakes in the middle of the night to discover a man savagely murdered in her tavern. Phineas Bullard was no stranger. Faith's late husband had borrowed heavily from the man and left Faith...

 Ireland 1649 Nora, a young Irish heiress and her friend, Anne, lose family and friends through plague and Oliver Cromwell’s cruel invading forces. Escaping with a valuable family document, Nora and Anne leave Ireland amidst a firefight that...

The Cross and the Crown Series Book 4Queen of Blood, Book Four of the Cross and the Crown series, continues the story of Catherine Havens, a former nun in Tudor England. It is now 1553, and Mary Tudor has just been crowned queen of England...

Un meurtre au sein de la haute société. Une lady détective brillante. Saura-t-elle démasquer l'assassin avant qu'un innocent ne porte le chapeau ?Londres, 1923. Olive Belgrave a besoin d'un travail. Malgré son éducation aristocratique, elle est...