Historical Detective Novels

‘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 …

Located on the idyllic Georgia coast, Jekyl Island was the playground of the rich at the turn of the last century. Vanderbilts, Goulds, Rockefellers, and other members of elite society vacationed the …

Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham get more than they bargain for when they take on a case in a girls’ boarding school, in the latest World’s End Bureau Victorian mystery. London, …

Sister Fidelma returns in the thirty-second Celtic mystery by Peter Tremayne. Ireland. AD 672. The Feast of Beltaine is approaching and the seven senior princes of the kingdom of Muman are gathering …

Imagine that your father is one of New York City’s top gangsters, and that you want nothing to do with him or his criminal empire. Now imagine he’s been murdered . . . and the only person who gives a …

What happens when your past catches up with you? Lillian Frost and Edith Head investigate a series of bizarre poison pen letters sent to a leading Hollywood actress in this mesmerising mystery. 1939, …

A treat for fans of Masterpiece Mystery and Downton Abbey, Colleen Cambridge’s charming and inventive new historical series introduces an unforgettable heroine in Phyllida Bright, fictional housekeep …

The chase is on for the greatest archaeological discovery of the 21st century. Two thousand years ago, a greedy Persian general and his seneschal march through the dunes, leaving behind rivers of blo …

‘Clare produces another winner … this magical adventure story, full of joy, danger, and sadness, will draw both Clare’s crime-fiction fans as well as fantasy readers’ Booklist Apprentice healer Lassa …

The Doom List – you’d rather be dead than be on it: the intriguing new 1920s mystery featuring Irish-born cop turned private investigator Tom Collins. July, 1922. Newly-appointed ‘movie czar’ William …