Historical Detective Novels

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 …

‘Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful’ Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of We Begin at the End THREE WOMEN. AN ISOLATED TOWN. A DECADES-OLD MYSTERY . . . 1933. Cornelia Stover is not the kind …

Lambda Literary Award-winning author delves into the sudden and extraordinary wave of gay-bashing in 1940s Philadelphia. It’s steaming August in post-war Philadelphia. Clifford Waterman, dishonorably …

Queen Elizabeth’s half-sister and secret agent Ursula Stannard takes on a dangerous new mission involving mysterious disappearances and murder in Cornwall in this gripping Tudor mystery. 1594. Ursula …

Nominated for Best Historical Mystery in the 2014 Agatha Awards. Enga Dancing Flower knows her Neanderthal tribe is in trouble. The dark seasons are becoming longer, and the mammoth herds are fleeing …

First in the Claudia Seferius mystery series, set in 13 B. C.! Claudia Seferius has successfully flattered her way into marriage with a wealthy Roman wine merchant. But when her secret gambling debts …