Historical Detective Novels

The Blitz Business opens in London’s East End on December 29, 1940, when the Blitz is at its worst. Jamie is almost 15, has mild retardation, and lives with his grandmother and cousin Roy as a virtua …

A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery. March 1102 March 1102, and Robert de Belleme, the Black Earl of Shrewsbury, is summoned to appear before King Henry’s Easter Court, to answer for siding with the Ki …

What’s a holiday without surprises?   It’s Christmas 1867 at Underbyrne, the Holmes family estate. The house is filled with family, relatives, and three unexpected arrivals-all ready to celebrat …

What happens when your past catches up with you? Lillian Frost and Edith Head investigate a series of bizarre poison pen letters sent to a leading Hollywood actress in this mesmerising mystery. 1939, …

Introducing spirited female sleuth Elizabeth Fairchild in the first of the brilliant new Oak Park village mystery series, set in 1920s Illinois. June, 1925. Having been widowed in the First World War …

For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age , explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… In late nineteenth-century Newport, Rhode …

‘Trow goes out on a high note with his sterling 11th and final mystery starring English playwright Kit Marlow…. Trow reinforces his place at the top of the Elizabethan mystery subgenre with this ou …

An Oprah Daily and Crime Reads Best Historical Novel of 2021 Named a Library Reads Pick, Apple Books’ Best Book, Amazon Fiction & Literature’s “Best of the Month, ” and a Powell’s Pick The Millions’ …

The third intriguing historical mystery to feature Detective Inspector Tom Harper Leeds, England. October, 1891. An unclaimed parcel at the Central Post Office is discovered to contain the decomposin …

AD 180: Quintus Suetonius and his stepson Manius are frumenatarii, the Roman Empire’s secret police. Dispatched to Britannia on a mission whose purpose is kept veiled from them, they join forces with …