Historical Detective Novels

Henry Johnstone has retired from the police, but when he suddenly disappears his old colleague and friend, Inspector Mickey Hitchens, investigates. December, 1930. Henry Johnstone has retired from hi …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY DAGGER AWARD ‘Splendid’ Wall Street Journal ‘A wry, warm and proper rib-tickling slice of dirty Victorian gothic’ J …

November in Mobile, Alabama is a long way from the horrors of the sweltering jungles of Vietnam. In the fall of 1968, what passes for winter is coming to the heart of the deep South. And so are death …

American adventuress Beryl Halliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport team up once again as enquiry agents to investigate a suspicious psychic in this historical English village mystery set …

A Tourist Trap Full of Crazy Monkeys . . . and Murder!  Sure, Sparky’s boss Bookie is a crook, but he’s no murderer! Eleven-year-old, plucky amateur super-sleuth Sparky stops at nothing to convi …

Introducing the Fitzglens and their theatre of thieves in this spellbinding gothic mystery! ‘Superb  . . . Lovers of British historical mysteries with a dash of romance and gothic atmosphere wil …

American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport team up once again as enquiry agents to solve a mystery at their alma mater in this historical English village mystery s …

Disrespect, disdain – and dead bodies! It’s all in a day’s work for WPC Billie Harkness, a pioneering female police officer protecting the home front in this gripping WWII British historical mystery. …

A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR EDINBURGH, 1853. In a city of science, discovery can be deadly . . . Body parts have been found at Surgeons’ Hall, and they’re not anatomy specimens. Dr Will Raven is able …

Reporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews must stop a bold poisoner who is targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred in Gilded Age Newport, Rhode Island . . . August 1901: A fundraiser for a new R …