Historical Detective Novels

Paul Ferroll (1855) is a novel by Caroline Clive. Published to widespread critical and commercial acclaim, Paul Ferroll gained comparisons to Jane Eyre and predated the rise of popular detective fict …

Templedean Place in the Cotswold Hills of England was among the last of the truly aristocratic estates, where old family traditions still flourished. When Gerald Vanstead arrived from Australia with h …

An exhilarating page-turner set in 1920s Vancouver post prohibition, when liquor was the fuel driving big business, big government—and major crime. In this spellbinding follow-up to his mystery The W …

This entertaining Tudor mystery series features playwright Christopher Marlowe as an intriguing series sleuth. As a young Cambridge undergraduate Marlowe must discover who murdered a fellow student. …

Scandal rocks Depression Era New York while a Mayor’s aide pursues her dark past in a mystery full of “ colorful characters and rich historical flavor” (Publishers Weekly). November, 1936. Lane Sand …

An old diary, tucked away in a historical museum since the Great Depression, provides clues as to what really happened on a farm outside Wirrim, a small Australian country town. Was it a murder/suici …

The next gripping instalment in Sheila Riley’s brilliant Reckoner’s Row series When the truth comes out, there’ll be hell to pay… Liverpool, 1950 When Evie Kilgaren takes over the running of the ba …

Winner of the 2022 Thriller Fest Award for Best Original Paperback Novel ‘[An] impressive historical thriller.’ —Publishers Weekly Ellis Island, 1920. New York Harbor’s immigration and public health …

Maggie Pennyworth, a homeless woman, walks along the 1910 Hoboken waterfront now cast in darkness. Seeing the shape of a bundle under the pier, she kicks it, hoping its money. Instead, its Fred Throc …

From the bestselling author of the American in Paris mysteries featuring Julia Child’s best friend, and the Phyllida Bright mysteries featuring Agatha Christie’s fictional housekeeper , this captivat …