Historical Detective Novels

Esteemed California music professor David Whealy is drawn to the other side of the country to investigate the circumstances behind his unexpected inheritance. As David probes deeper into the secrets …

The search for a missing artist draws Donald Langham and Ralph Ryland into London’s criminal underworld with deadly consequences. London. April, 1957. Private investigator Donald Langham is approache …

In June 1900, reporter Emma Cross discovers the body of a woman in the waters below the Morgans’ mansion, which threatens to send members of Newport’s high society floundering . . . As a reporter, Em …

“It’s a cinch to stick up a bank nowadays…!” boasted Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer. Goaded by his friends into making the attempt he just escapes capture due to the help of a beau …

In 1911, women workers battle for respect in offices, agencies, and factories-sometimes with lethal results. In 1911, Julia Nye works as a typist-and more-for the St. Louis Police Department. She is …

The new novel in the ever-popular Hawkenlye series Autumn, 1210. A year ago, King John was excommunicated and now his men have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste, Helewise’s succ …

‘Spencer has devised a thrill ride that’s not easily forgotten.’ – Publishers Weekly Starred Review Monika Paniatowski’s boss is trying to destroy her career, but the dead end case he assigns her tur …

Journalism professor Adam Colbert has come home to Albuquerque after a reporting career that took him all over the world. A nineteenth century adobe house with a mansard roof that he admired as a boy …

‘For a scream in the early hours of the morning in Soho, even from a female throat, to stop dead in his tracks a hard-boiled constable, it had to be something entirely out of the ordinary.’ Soho duri …

Semi-retired folk-rock musician Ian Scarborough is now a music critic with a London newspaper who has become interested in the Shakespeare authorship question and is an advocate for the Seventeenth E …