Historical Detective Novels

Welcome to Broadway – and to an unthinkable crime! Former theatre starlet turned amateur sleuth Jessie Beckett gets mixed up in murder when an on-stage shooting turns all too real. New York, 1926. It …

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 …

Traveling secretary Hattie Davish is returning to her once-quiet hometown, where a deluge of deadly secrets leaves her feeling anything but welcome… When her good friend Virginia Hayward’s father pas …

Melbourne during the depression. A seedy, corrupt city. Someone has struck at the heart of Australia’s soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. For what motive? Profit, …

In her Fifth Avenue mansion in autumn, 1898, silver heiress Val De Vere learns a third young woman’s strangled body has been found nearby in New York’s Central Park. The victim could be someone like …

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 …

From the author of The Bellingham Bloodbath, a Victorian London private detective investigates a potentially Voodoo-related murder. When wealthy Edmond Connicle suddenly disappears, his distraught wi …

As friends, the boisterous and brash American Beryl couldn’t be less alike than the prim and proper British Edwina. But as sleuths in an England recovering from the Great War, they’re the perfect mat …

For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… From the slaughterhouses of Manhattan to t …

In the fallout of one of history’s bloodiest battles, a personal war is waged. . . Paris in 1816 is reeling from the Battle of Waterloo, and relations between the British and French are uneasy at bes …