Historical mysteries

Apprentice healer Lassair uncovers the secrets of the mysterious City of Pearl in the compelling new Aelf Fen medieval mystery.October, 1093. At he...

Pop has never talked about what he did in the war . Whatever he did, it was pretty secret stuff : the intriguing new Albert Campion mystery. Campi...

Kate O''Donnell, fresh from her adventures in Dead Beat, discovers yet again there''s a darker side to London in the Swinging Sixties.Beatlemania h...

Cartagena, 1935. El asesinato de una joven prostituta en visperas del estallido de la Guerra Civil es el punto de partida de esta intrigante novela...

In The Man Upon the Stair, Gary Inbinder''s brilliant detective Achille Lefebvre returns to solve the mystery of a disappeared millionaire in the s...

On the French Riviera during the belle époque, a murder draws two women into the dangerous shadows of Europes privileged eliteOne winter evening in...

Dublin, 1816. A young nursemaid conceals a pregnancy and then murders her newborn in the home of the Neshams, a prominent family in a radical Chris...

When a magistrate rules Harlan Westover's death a suicide, something smells fishy. Amidst a sea of unanswered questions, the clever Mrs. Jeffries...

A dead man dressed like a vicar is propped against a church wall, clutching the address of a dilapidated cottage that''s abandoned - except for a ...

December 1860. Headed for the morning shift at the Swindon Locomotive works is an army of men pouring out of terraced houses built by the GWR, a mi...

In the spring of 1942, with the war in Europe raging, a gruesome murder shocks the rural community of Marbury, where a once-grand estate called Elt...

In the Russian city of Kharbin in northern China-a city uniquely positioned at the rich crossroads of several cultures and languages, and accessibl...

An old and dying nun has turned up at Deirdre''s monastery in Ireland with an ancient manuscript on a papyrus roll. When Deirdre reads the first li...

Today, the figure of Sherlock Holmes towers over detective fiction like a colossus-but it was not always so. Edgar Allan Poe''s French detective Du...

Just after 4 p.m. on September 6, 1901, twenty-eight year old anarchist Leon Czolgosz pumped two shots into the chest and abdomen of President Will...

Sir Josse d''Aquin is summoned to assist the beleaguered King John in the 17th - and final - Hawkenlye mystery.September, 1216. A foreign army has ...

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the n...

The 18th-century meets the sharp blade of forensic science...In 1780s London, American anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone is plunged into a swirling c...

The 18th-century meets the sharp blade of forensic science...Newly released from the notorious asylum known as Bedlam, Lady Lydia Farrell finds her...

The 18th-century meets the sharp blade of forensic science...In the notorious mental hospital known as Bedlam, Dr. Thomas Silkstone seeks out a pat...

When a traveling peddler discovers the murder of a farm family in colonial North Carolina whose bodies have been left in bizarre positions, circums...

Hollywood, 1934. Prohibition is finally over, but there is still plenty of crime for an ambitious young private eye to investigate. Though he has a...

Life is sweet for Flavia Albia and her soon-to-be husband Faustus. But his new job as a building contractor runs into a problem: At the Garden of...

In OSCAR WILDE AND THE NEST OF VIPERS, the fourth in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arth...

Leeds, England. October, 1891. An unclaimed parcel at the Central Post Office is discovered to contain the decomposing body of a baby boy. It''s a ...

It is 1921 and Mary Russell--Sherlock Holmes's brilliant apprentice is on the verge of acquiring a sizable inheritance. Independent at last her mos...

When Mary Russell returns with her husband, the renowned Sherlock Holmes, home from abroad, her plans for peace and tranquillity are soon thwarted ...