Historical Detective Novels

Bobby Clark is a small city detective in late 1950’s Mason-Barrie, Pennsylvania. He is still trying to drown out the nightmare of last year’s calamitous encounter with Willard Strickland by ingesting …

“You shall never have a penny of my money. Leave me alone or I will shoot you dead!” 1924. After six months in Hollywood, young British widow Emma Blackstone has come to love her new employer, glamou …

Gossip columnist Lorna Whitcomb knows every dirty secret in Hollywood . . . except who killed her tipster. Sleuthing duo Lillian Frost and Edith Head investigate in this head-turning mystery. 1940, L …

A fiercely independent woman looks into the murder of a working girl in 1919 Alaska in this “excellent” series debut (Mystery Scene).   There’s many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for …

Mara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder. When a woman’s body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso o …

When a mysterious scarlet cross begins showing up on buildings in Glendale—a mark that cannot be wiped away or erased—it signals death for those within. Can the police unravel the mystery? It’s a fra …

A Hampshire estate in 1903. George Erskine, a young man invalided out of the Boer War, falls desperately in love with Emily Delsey, a debutante. Although he persuades her to marry him he remains inse …

Research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark must uncover the traitor within in this gripping World War II mystery. May 1945. Harry S. Truman has become president, the Allied Forces are closing in on Berlin a …