Historical Detective Novels

DI Herbert Reardon investigates the murder of an enigmatic woman who was about to leave her comfortable life behind and mysteriously disappear in this page-turning 1930s historical mystery with gasp- …

Death Comes to the North Country Welcome to Canton, NY, a small farming town nestled in the northern foothills of the Adirondack mountains. It’s the 1930s, and to an outsider’s eye, this looks like a …

‘Suicide was all the rage in L.A. the summer of ’39.’  When an oddball sister and brother hire him to find out if their father’s suicide was suicide, private investigator Nate Ross figures he’s …

The latest installment in the new Jane Wunderly Mystery series featuring an American widow turned private investigator in 1920s Europe. Isle of Iona, 1927: Cast away on a remote locale, Jane’s latest …

Postwar Paris is surging back to life, and its citizens are seizing every opportunity to raise a glass or share a delicious meal. But as American ex-pat Tabitha Knight and chef-in-training Julia Chil …

Rosalindenstraße 36 was built at the turn of the last century and withstood the vagaries of time and two world wars. Its occupants suffered through inflation of unheard proportions, times of depressi …

Gangsters and hoodlums prey upon people’s weaknesses for a quick buck in an era that saw few bucks to spare, making criminals of everyday folks in the rural Great Depression. In a place as wild as th …