Historical Detective Novels

When murder postpones their wedding, a couple vows to find a killer in this Regency-era mystery by the author of Death Comes to Kurland Hall.   As Miss Lucy Harrington, daughter of the village r …

Murder makes a debut on the London social scene in this Regency-era mystery by the author of Death Comes to the Village. With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, …

It’s 1888 — the Autumn of Terror.  Jack the Ripper is brutally murdering prostitues in Whitechapel, the poorest section of London.  The police bungle the investigation and are stumied. Que …

As England recovers from its costly involvement in the Great War, Lady Phoebe Renshaw and her lady’s maid, Eva Huntford, find the steady comforts of their lives unsettled by a local case of murder . …

Esther Brookstone is at it again, this time obsessing about the life and times of St. John the Divine, all triggered by the discovery of a parchment hidden in the frame of a Botticelli painting that …

When Mrs Paxton, related to the aristocratic Leigh family of Sussex, is found poisoned in her bedroom one morning, fingers point towards her artist nephew Terence Napier, seen leaving the house earli …

‘Spencer continues to display her mastery of the British procedural and this one… is one of her best yet’ – Booklist Starred Review ‘Spencer expertly balances personal and prfessional angst in this …

Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such a …