Historical Detective Novels

The chance discovery of a gravestone, seemingly out of place among the ancient, and weathered monuments of a London cemetery, begins a simple quest to pass the time for the retired army officer, turn …

Recently engaged Jane Wunderly is celebrating Christmas with her fiancé at his ancestral home at the quaint English market town of Barnard Castle—where murder is the new family tradition . . . Northe …

‘You know a book is good when you get up, realize you finished it last night and are really disappointed that you can’t read it with your breakfast. This book reminds me of the best golden age of mys …

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 …

March 1926, Salem, Massachusetts A spring equinox party at the mansion of a rich, flamboyant, and controversial art collector promises New York jazz singer Lizzie Crane and her band a fat paycheck, l …

Kansas City, 1922: a hub of jazz music and the mob. While the Kansas side of the city had Carrie Nation and prohibition, on the Missouri side the Irish Pendergast brothers kept the liquor flowing. Cl …

Are some mysteries meant to remain unsolved? Or can Skip Rhodes unravel the disappearance of an ambitious couple who rafted the dangerous Colorado River rapids in 1928? In Whitewater Honeymoon, set a …

The resourceful and intrepid Rosalind Thorne, a heroine after Jane Austen’s heart, has a scandalous mystery to solve within Regency-era high society, in the latest novel in this nationally bestsellin …

Welcome to Hollywood of the 1920s: a world filled with glamour, fake names . . . and the occasional felony! July, 1924. After nine months of living in Hollywood and working as a companion to her beau …

The open-and-shut case of the Fatal Flapper just won’t stay closed in this thrilling and immersive novel of 1920s Vancouver—another Raincoast Noir mystery. Miss Dora Decker doesn’t look like the sort …