Historical Detective Novels

The final instalment in the intriguing adventure of Sheila Riley’s brilliant and gritty Reckoner’s Row series It’s all hands on deck on Reckoners Row… Liverpool 1953 January sees the dawn of the Qu …

A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Southampton 1070 Sir Geoffrey Mappestone and his loyal friend Roger seek passage on one of the many ships due to sail to Normandy and then on to the Holy Land. The t …

Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such a …

In the second in Pamela Christie’s witty, deliciously unconventional Regency mystery series, Arabella Beaumont—courtesan and sleuth—discovers that the pursuit of art can be a dangerous thing. . . Lon …

Deadly drinks, vicious gangsters, missing money . . . Reluctant sleuth Maddie Pastore is back with a bang, in the second Mystic’s Accomplice historical mystery set in 1920s Chicago.   ‘Miley’s s …

Set in Paris during the 1889 World Exposition, man-about-town Gregory ‘Monty’ Meru and his capable cohort Tebley ‘Tim’ Fatago investigate five mysterious deaths that confound the mundane methods of t …

This quadruple edition of the entire Klondike Mystery series presents the complete stories of Vicki Delany’s tenacious sleuth Fiona Mac Gillivray. ‘This smart and funny sequel to Gold Fever takes us …

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. …

A young apprentice is framed for the murder of her mentor, a wealthy woman who had a serious penchant for spiritualism, theatrics and staged seances. When the woman is suddenly killed all signs point …