Historical Detective Novels

A trail of poison-pen letters lead to a dead teacher in this Regency-era mystery by the author of Death Comes to the Fair.   Three years have passed since Major Sir Robert Kurland and Lucy Harri …

An eighteenth-century American anatomist contends with a madness, murder, and social upheaval in this historical mystery for fans of Caleb Carr. In the notorious mental hospital in rural England know …

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she’s …

For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dazzling world of America’s 19th century elite in this lush, page-turning saga… In 1881 Chicago, the idea of a female detective is virtually unheard of. …

In the second in Pamela Christie’s witty, deliciously unconventional Regency mystery series, Arabella Beaumont—courtesan and sleuth—discovers that the pursuit of art can be a dangerous thing. . . Lon …

The first four novels of the Thaddeus Lewis Mystery series, with the inimitable Lewis, saddlebag preacher and reluctant sleuth. During the wild era before Confederation, and with the mysterious death …

April 13, 1861: Rebel troops are across the Potomac River,  only 800 feet from the White House and President Lincoln—but a murderer is even closer . . .   With the Confederate Army fir …

In this clever reimagining of Charles Dickens’s life, he and fiancée Kate Hogarth must solve the murder of an old miser, just before Christmas . . .   London, December 1835: Charles and Kate are …

Twenty or so years have passed since the arrest of the evil one. Now, in Marquette Island, View from the Snows, Sheriff George is confronted with a dead body and various robberies. The crime leads Ge …

For y oung American widow Jane Wunderly, there are worse fates than adventuring aboard a transatlantic liner with the only man who could change her mind about romance. Unfortunately, her first-class …