Historical Detective Novels

Murder, Mayhem and Mirth are the fundamental factors in The Fairfax File. Follow Frank Falcon, WW2 veteran turned P.I., as he works a case involving a multi-millionaire, his gorgeous wife and an ecce …

Deputy Dawg or D. B. Cooper, a Mary Mac Intosh novel, follows two true crimes that occurred within months of one another in 1971. Deputy Dawg was a lawless hippie in the late ’60s and early ’70s in B …

Jacquie Pham’s transportive debut, Those Opulent Days, delivers a classic historical murder mystery centered around the glamor, violence, wealth, and opium of 1920’s French-colonial Vietnam that mesh …

Two years before she would conceive of Frankenstein,  sixteen-year-old Mary Godwin becomes captivated by the grim murder of a pregnant shopgirl and the disappearance of her stepbrother, inv …

As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supreme throughout a deeply divided country at the height of the Roaring 20s, a young psychic in small town Illinois helps the Black commu …

In the latest USA Today bestselling, Victorian Era-set Countess of Harleigh Mystery from multi-award winning author Dianne Freeman, Frances Hazelton and her husband, George, uncover the sec …

A new job, a brutal murder, and Camelot has ended. In 1963, Dot Morgan’s life was changed forever. She witnessed the assassination of John F Kennedy through the lens of her boxy Kodak Instamatic came …

Malice is an historical mystery novel set in a few momentous weeks in the spring of 1961. As the Kennedy administration is barely underway, congressional aide Alexandra Bell works to stop a CIA catas …

Ancient Crete, 1450 BC. When young bull leaper Martis finds Duzi, the newest member of the bull leaping team, dead in the bull pen early one morning. Made to look like he met his end on the horns of …

Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this intrigue-filled debut, as two former spies who shared more than just missions during WWII reunite in 1948 Los Angeles. Can they let go of h …