Historical Detective Novels

First in a captivating new series, Jane Austen’s Emma Knightley entertains a different role in Highbury—going from clever matchmaker to Regency England’s shrewdest sleuth. ‘Clever and charming, Vanes …

House of Living Death by Arthur Leo Zagat is a spine-chilling journey into a haunted estate where the line between life and death is terrifyingly thin. When a group of intrepid investigators arrives …

What do a desperate woman with a secret, a dead man in a drainage ditch and a dark figure in the night have in common? Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner has to connect the dots before time runs ou …

The latest title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series When Roger the Chapman discovers he has a hitherto unknown half-brother, he has mixed feelings about the matter. But when John Wedmore is ac …

Private investigator Liberty Lane’s latest case takes her to rural Gloucestershire to uncover the truth of a brutal murder July, 1840. Liberty Lane has left London for Cheltenham, where she’s been hi …

Survival means finding the courage to dig deep and find that elusive inner strength…   Finding herself at life’s crossroads, always-dutiful Lyn Bennett jumps at the chance to teach in historic …

‘Delightfully twisty and chilling all at once — murder mysteries are rarely this fun.’ —Jonathan Whitelaw, The Sun Sir Lawrence Linwood is dead. More accurately, he was murdered—savagely beaten to de …

Simon Westow, the city’s unwavering thief-taker, must confront betrayal, history and murder in this gritty page-turner set in nineteenth-century Leeds. Leeds, May 1825. Thief-taker Simon Westow is hi …

A historical crime fiction novel set in Victorian London’s gaslit theatre scene, where ghosts lurk in the shadows and murder takes centre stage. Gaslight. Ghosts. Murder. Hastings Wimbury has always …