Historical Detective Novels

In her gripping follow-up to the widely acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, Laurie Loewenstein brings 1930s Oklahoma evocatively to life. *Winner of a Will Rogers Silver Medallion Award …

As an atmosphere of fear and suspicion pervades the city, Richard Nottingham and his team find themselves hunting a ruthless child-killer, a monster who preys on abandoned street children, those with …

Praise for the Martin Bora series: ‘The tone of Liar Moon has a flu-like grimness, appropriate the 1943 setting. Pastor is excellent at providing details (silk stockings, movie magazines, cigarettes) …

Suffragette and journalist Charlotte Brody is bracing herself for her first winter in the frontier town of Cordova in the Alaska Territory. But the chilling murder of a local store owner is what real …

The “dazzling” (Publishers Weekly) and “highly entertaining” (Kirkus Reviews) series by award-winning author Dianne Freeman continues with another engaging romp through Victorian high society, as the …

Undertaker Violet Harper confronts the dire predictions of a fortuneteller in Queen Victoria’s court in this gripping tale by the author of Stolen Remains. Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dea …

Finalist for the 2019 Oklahoma Book Awards, Fiction ‘The murder investigation allows Loewenstein to probe into the lives of proud people who would never expose their troubles to strangers. People lik …

Despatched to Whitby Abbey to barter for a Holy Relic, Hildegard of Meaux is plunged into a baffling murder investigation in this gripping medieval mystery. Late December, 1389. Ordered to undertake …

Private detectives Grand & Batchelor embark for the Wild West – and headlong into a baffling murder investigation in this gripping Victorian mystery. March, 1875. Although he has never had much time …

Tom Harper must catch a traitor intent on disrupting the war effort and bringing terror to the streets of Leeds in this page-turning mystery. ‘Nickson does his usual superb job of evoking the period …