Historical Detective Novels

The brand-new novel from the winner of the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition. ‘A CRACKING READ’ HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY ‘THIS ATMOSPHERIC WARTIME MYSTERY IS PERFECT FOR FANS OF FO …

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 …

‘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 …

On the eve of Victorian England, Charles Dickens and Kate Hogarth must solve the murder of a spinster wearing a wedding gown . . .   London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbor, …

In the latest Hawkenlye mystery, desperate men commit terrible crimes, but vengeance is on its way . . . Winter, 1211.Former abbess Helewise moves back to her cell near Hawkenlye Abbey to help the ne …

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 …

An English army invades Scotland in order to put King James the Thirds renegade younger brother, the Duke of Albany, on the Scottish throne. Albany insists his old acquaintance, Roger the Chapman, be …

As King Philip of Spain prepares to invade England, Ursula heads to Brussels on a desperate mission in this compelling Tudor mystery. March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip …