Historical Detective Novels

Gemma Halliday , NYT Bestselling Author describes  The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife  as ’a vivid picture and transports you back in time, in what I’m sure will become a bestseller …

An unwelcome proposal of marriage has far-reaching repercussions in this skilfully plotted historical mystery. April, CE 194. The tensions in the civil-war-torn Empire have come to Glevum now. Libert …

Italy, 1522. They fled through the night The beautiful Sibylline mountains of central Italy are plagued by earthquakes, but this has never been a problem for Spanish John. A talented church painter, …

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 …

Death is just a close shave away.  It is February 1918. Somewhere in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, the Death Mask Murderer is lurking, engaged in a ritualistic killing spree: shaving the hea …

A theatre company bring secrets, magic and murder along with them on their ‘Plague Tour’, in this bewitching historical mystery starring physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner.   ‘Plausible period …

‘Spencer continues to display her mastery of the British procedural and this one… is one of her best yet’ – Booklist Starred Review ‘Spencer expertly balances personal and prfessional angst in this …

When a blackened body is discovered buried beneath a hot-house, Coroner Titus Cragg uncovers a tale of scandalous secrets stretching back almost twenty years. ‘Blake again demonstrates why he belongs …

Murder makes a debut on the London social scene in this Regency-era mystery by the author of Death Comes to the Village. With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, …