Historical crime and mysteries Books

It is late summer 1942-1943. The close-knit community of Bexford North is brought face to face with one of the by-products of war when one of their own is admitted to the newly established Army Mental Hospital. As the ladies of the village, led by the...

India Steele est aux abois. Son père est mort, son fiancé lui a pris son héritage et elle ne trouve pas d'employeur, malgré ses années d'expérience auprès de son père horloger. Il semblerait que les autres horlogers de Londres la craignent. Seule, pauvre...

With knowledge of magic becoming more widespread in London, magicians find themselves highly sought after. Consumers want to buy their wares and so seek out magicians among their acquaintance. India's rare magic is in demand from Matt's family, the...

December 1923. In the picturesque Westmorland village of Crowthwaite, the barmaid at The Black Feather entertains a traveller with a local story of pagan sacrifice - the Murder of Crows. Unbeknownst to the guests already arriving for Christmas at...

In these six adventures, Holmes solves cases in alternate universes and alongside famous historical and fictional figures. In the title story, Watson is slandered by mysterious forces who spread the rumor that the good doctor pushed Holmes off of...

Sherlock Holmes' adventures continue in seven surprising cases. Holmes and Watson investigate an alleged haunting at the Diogenes Club, vandalism at a prominent art gallery, the case of a frightened amnesiac, the takeover of 221B by vicious...

Following the success of the earlier volume, The Baker Street Epilogue, we have another collection of previously unknown Holmes and Watson tales to excite the interests of readers across the globe - The Baker Street Archive.A decade before his death, Dr...

Summer flowers, warm sunshine, a maypole dance and... is that another murder? A tricky case is afoot for Lady Swift!Summer, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, the best amateur sleuth in the country, is delighted to be in charge of the prize-giving at her...

Witty and irascible Rose McKenzie tackles Denver's criminal cases with a woman's intuition and a loaded Smith and Wesson tucked in her skirt pocket.​Eager for adventure beyond her scientific experiments, Rose accepts her uncle's challenge to become...

Agra, India - the city of the Taj Mahal. The Bureau of Archaeology (BoA) receives a bizarre petition under the Right-To-Information (RTI) Act, demanding the bureau disclose authentic historical evidence for the legend of the World Heritage monument. The...

DELAMAR, NEVADA, 1907THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR IS OVER BUT A NEW CONFLICT IS RAGINGacross the western United States. Wealthy mine owners and their political allies in CrippleCreek, Colorado, and Butte, Montana, have paid for state and private armies to...

The Cigarette Girl on the Tango, D. J. Phinney's follow-up to The Anaheim Beauties Valencia Queen, unveils another hushed-up chapter of California history. In the depths of the Great Depression, the Santa Ana River floods of 1938 roar through Orange...

KEY WEST and CUBA 1955 is a novel showing a young woman maturing from self-interest to the importance of family. Healing from a brief affair in San Francisco she starts on the journey to reestablish bonding with her brothers, separated when their parents...

The first decade of the sixteenth century was a violent time in Italy. The pope and his lackeys were preoccupied less with spiritual salvation than with the accumulation of wealth. But even as they destroyed the church and set a course that would lead to...

A recipe for true love or murder? Ingredients: one Southern belle, one Colorado gold miner, a wife wanted classified, and a fainting goat. Let simmer.What’s a Southern belle to do in 1863? Wife-wanted ads are always risky business, but Millie...

A sensational action-packed adventure from the bestselling author of the 'Alexander' trilogy and The Last Legion

Once again, after many years, here is the first book in the critically acclaimed Josiah Beede series of historical mysteries. Critics praised its "richly realized setting and period details, impeccable plotting, and a wise hero made more appealing by his...

The Mallet's Masterpiece is a novel written by Edward Peple and first published in 1908. The story revolves around the character of John Mallet, a successful artist who is known for his exceptional paintings. Mallet is commissioned to create a...

The Gold Girl is a novel written by James Beardsley Hendryx and first published in 1920. The story follows the life of a young woman named Goldie, who is born and raised in the gold mines of Alaska. Goldie is a strong and independent woman who is...

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Professor Brendan Keane and Joanna "Jo" Lawrence have returned once more to Devon after several weeks abroad.  Though yet another winter had pulled away from the English shores, mystery and suspense do not follow their...

Tras la revolución bolchevique de 1917 un noble ruso rodeado de un aura de guerrero místico prosigue la lucha en Mongolia y logra restaurar la monarquía en esa república. Antes  de caer en manos de los comunistas...

When a beloved family member suffers a crippling burn which no one in Germany in 1900 can heal, young Olevia Landsmann begins her quest to help him.  Her journey takes her to America where against all odds she is accepted into the new Johns Hopkins...

In 1990, a group of hunters visit  Mount Elgon to illegally hunt a rare breed of monkey, they vanished without a trace.In the year 2000, an Australian family visited Mount Elgon on a tour. Two of the children were found in a cave traumatized.Susan N...

The fourth Sebastian Foxley Medieval Mystery.A short storySuicide or murder?As medieval Londoners joyously prepare for the Christmas celebrations, goldsmith Lawrence Ducket is involved in a street brawl. Fearful that his opponent is dying from his...

It is 1943, and the Nazis control large parts of Italy. Colonel Anselm Bernhardt devotes his attention to stealing Italian art - and having his way with Italian women - but there is one great treasure that he covets even more.In present day, his grandson...

Paul Rosenhayn: Elf Abenteuer des Joe Jenkins. Klassische Detektivgeschichten aus dem Jahre 1915Erstdruck: Straßburg und Leipzig, Singer, 1915.Inhaltsverzeichnis:Elf Abenteuer des Joe Jenkins.Das grüne Licht.Wenn die Toten wiederkehren.Proszeniumsloge Nr...

Wilkie Collins: Die stumme Zeugin. Eine dunkle GeschichteErstdruck: The Witness, anonym in Chamber's journal of popular literature science and arts, Band 37, 1862. Hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von L. du Bois aus dem Roman-Magazin des Auslandes,...

Magdeburg im Frühsommer 1377Lange hat Hildegard auf Withos Rückkehr aus dem Welschland gewartet. Doch kaum sind er und Ritter Notger wieder in der Stadt, werden die beiden Heimkehrer heimtückisch überfallen.Ungewollt geraten Hildegard und ihre Freunde in...

En l'an 2001, la ville de Toulouse est victime d'une catastrophe sans précédent, un scénario hallucinant créé par le jeu exceptionnel d'explosions subites que les habitants s'efforcent d'oublier. L'affaire est toujours en procès, ce qui montre que la...

Le fruit de la haine est un roman policier dont l'action se déroule en 1968 dans le petit village manitobain de Rochelle. Une résidente du village est retrouvée morte sur le sentier qui mène à l'épicerie. Le caporal Sylvain Trudel de la GRC est...

FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYWHEN SATAN WHISPERSA KINGDOM CRIES OUT FOR ITS SAVIORA darkness is spreading across the Kingdom of France, scores turning against God and embracing the teachings of Satan.For he has...

A new thriller from Tom Chorneau, author of A Little Scherzo Plays in Drytown, tackles the mystery of one of California's most prolific criminals...Cole's house had been on the market for only a couple of weeks before the arrest. He'd never heard of the...

Is It Time to Exit the Stage?A close brush with death in Texas has left Pinkerton agent Lilly Long wondering if the demands of the job she wanted so badly are more than she can mentally and physically endure without becoming cold and uncaring. Instead of...

Scotland 1818Still reeling from the horrific events in London, Alfie thinks Balcarres House, the seat of his earldom, will be just the place to recover. But unexplained noises in the night, figures that vanish into thin air, and ghostly tales of the...

What can stop the rise of a Fourth Reich on American soil?1961 – Adolf Warner is a second-generation Nazi whose sole focus is to restore Hitler’s Reich to its proper glory.Manfred Amsel is a college professor and Allied spy, tucked in the...

Paris! 1861, City of light, art, scandal and great expectations, where extreme wealth rubs against raging poverty, with insurrection roiling beneath the surface. In the United States, the war of 1861-65 destroys families and communities. Three...

Author Gerald A. Moriarty takes a new direction in his seventh book, a Western thriller, as he leaves behind his beloved mountains and gold fields, taking on a young man’s adventure to hell and back.Set in the 1850s in the Wild West, Randy’s...

It is the winter of 1942. In the wartime blackout, a midnight bus breaks down near the small, semi-rural town of Bexford North, 30 miles from Sydney. Outside the bus, a passenger screams as torchlight fall on the body of a soldier stabbed to death...

CHARTER FOR MURDER - A TALE OF MYSTERY IN THE MONASTERY Set in the months leading up to the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, CHARTER FOR MURDER is a fast-paced murder 'who-done-it' where the victims are monks from Winchester's Hyde Abbey and the mystery is the...

Is building another casino worth dying for?  Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen returns to America and settles in 1960s California to build a drug and prostitution empire in LA. When he gets a call from the mob to help the CIA invade Cuba, Alex must...

Three more decades in the life of Jewish gangster, Alex Cohen, as he arrives in the US and forges a life for himself and his family using the blood, sweat and tears of those who stand in his way. This digital box set contains the second set of three...

WHO WAS LANCE VENYON?A memorial plaque in an old Kentish church sets wheelchair-bound ex-cop Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia on a long and dangerous trail.Their investigation leads them not only into the world of art fakes in 1950s Paris but further...

The Maid of Kent pub sits in the village of Cobshaw and at the centre of controversy.The local descendants of the Plantagenets and the Tudors each have an eye on the property, but for different reasons. The current owner Percival needs to sell, but will...

It's the Roaring Twenties. London's bright young things are partying and Augusta Peel is hiding in her basement.Book repairer Augusta Peel needs some peace and quiet after serving her country in the war. Forget jazz bands and sequins, she's happy with a...

In 1935, in sleepy Cannero on Lake Maggiore, Paola and her daughter Eva - Little Spark - ply a discreet living embroidering for rich tourists. Eva pines for the glamour of the Milan they abruptly left. She dreams of escape - to Hollywood to become a...

A religious cult grips Swansea, its followers believing they alone will be saved in the Apocalypse, once they surrender all they have to Our Lady of Mumbles. Soon events in the town are running out of control. In a world where happiness is denied and...