Historical Detective Novels

When Crispin Guest finds himself trapped in circumstances outside his control, he must rely on the wits of his young apprentice, Jack Tucker, to do the rescuing. Crispin awakens in a strange bed afte …

Set in the dream factory of the 1940s, this glittering debut novel follows a young Hollywood hopeful into a star-studded web of scandal, celebrity, and murder . . .   The chipped pink nail polis …

Everyone knows Collin Griffen is a quiet, hard working young man who just wants to give his son the childhood he himself never had. But when he violently murders his two-year-old son, his family is l …

Everything looks different underwater. Even murder. Los Angeles 1937. A nasty heat wave and crippling drought set the city on edge. LA desperately needs water, but Hollis Mulwray-the water depar …

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Newly returned from an eventful mission to Scotland – and eager to be reunited with his family – Roger the Chapman is far from pleased when Timothy Plummer, Spymaster General to the King, commands hi …

King Edward IV trembles as he decides the fate of his sibling. And Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots, trying to find a way to save George from being put to death by their eldest — and powerful — b …

‘Is there reason to suspect evil in this?’ I asked.  ‘None… but that the man was robust one day and a corpse the next.’  Master Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, has been asked to provide a slee …

Coroner Sir John investigates an alleged murder by witchcraft in this page-turning instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. Exeter, 1195. When a promine …

A sleuthing team pursues purloined pigeons—and finds a dead body—in this “captivating” mystery set in a 1920s English village (Publishers Weekly).   One would hardly call them birds of a feather …