Historical Detective Novels

This beautifully written, immersive, and unique crime story is a tête-bêche novel. At the book’s core are two separate mysteries running across two different converging timelines, which are inextrica …

In a riveting new novel in a Victorian-set mystery series brimming with authentic atmosphere, Doctor Julia Lewis, Scotland Yard’s first female medical examiner, and her partner, Detective Inspector R …

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- …

The Tangled String: A Charlie Chan Mystery takes the famous detective and his family to Boston for daughter Rose’s wedding, where prenuptial planning collides with an empty safe, untimely death, and …

In Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac offers a poignant and incisive critique of social and familial dynamics in early 19th-century France. The novel revolves around Eugénie Grandet, a young woman tra …

1950’s Yorkshire. When former Battle of Britain pilot, D.I. Yarrow of West Garside CID, finds himself faced with three seemingly unconnected murders, he has his work cut out. The cases include a long …

Mason is hired to identify a woman based on an appendix scar, as she fears being a look-alike to an heiress may be a setup for her arrest. Mason later defends the heiress on murder charges. …

Wealthy London tycoon, Richard Goodborn, has mysteriously vanished! Travel back to Victorian England, where the Earl of Glamford, a young man named Alexander, receives a prewritten letter from the mi …

Fire!    St. Patrick’s Day, New York City, 1899. Spectators along Fifth Avenue, unaware of impending doom, enjoy the parade and the bands playing Irish tunes. Suddenly marchers halt at the …