Historical Detective Novels

It’s the start of summer in Dartmouth, 1973. Fifteen-year-old Donnie is looking forward to hanging out with his friends, and less enthusiastic about a summer job. On his way to the job interview, he …

Luke’s first mission for the incoming King is to investigate the administration of an aging, autocratic peer who is also a purveyor of magic. This complex peer is being undermined by a son who e …

Disrespect, disdain – and dead bodies! It’s all in a day’s work for WPC Billie Harkness, a pioneering female police officer protecting the home front in this gripping WWII British historical mystery. …

Before there was Frankenstein, a young Mary Shelley, her stepsister Jane “Claire” Clairmont, and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are drawn into a shocking murder investigation in this deliciously captivati …

American adventuress Beryl Halliwell and prim and proper Brit Edwina Davenport team up once again as enquiry agents to investigate a suspicious psychic in this historical English village mystery set …

Stepsisters Mary and Jane find themselves caught up in a mystery involving a drowned Russian and missing diamonds, while falling for the charms of poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron—in this gr …

Year of the Osprey is the fourth volume in the continuing saga of Justin and Sophie Cataphlates, a very unlikely husband-and-wife crime-fighting team. Set in the year 1000, here we learn how the newl …

November 22, 1963: Death of the President of the United States. Flash forward to 1993. Secrets and conspiracy still surround the murder of JFK. An artifact reveals truths that many want to remain bur …

‘The Shunned House’ is a horror short story written by American author H.P. Lovecraft, first published in 1928 in ‘Weird Tales’ magazine. The story is set in Providence, Rhode Island, and revolves ar …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY DAGGER AWARD ‘Splendid’ Wall Street Journal ‘A wry, warm and proper rib-tickling slice of dirty Victorian gothic’ J …