Historical Detective Novels

Harrison, like Peter Tremayne in his Sister Fidelma series, provides a superior brand of historical mystery – Booklist February, 1512. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, judge and lawgiver, has been invited …

A gruesome discovery leads Libertus on a dangerous quest . . . – Wealthy Volus, ex-lictor to the Imperial Governor of Gaul, is retiring to the town of Glevum. Libertus is sent to his new apartment, w …

Dundee, December 1879. Ann Craig is waiting for her husband to return home when she sees the newly built iron rail bridge across the River Tay collapse. The train her husband is travelling on plunges …

The Secret Passage (1905) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, The Secret Passage is a gripping novel …

A party of grafters seek to overthrow the Caribbean monarachy, ousting Prince Marcos in favor of his corrupt Cousin, Miguel—who is the target of one of Nick Carter’s investigations. …

Jack Blackjack’s search for an executioner’s son ensnares him in a fiendish mesh of schemes in this lively Tudor mystery. London. May, 1556. Hal Westmecott, one of the city’s most feared executioners …

Midnight assignations, dresses fit to meet the queen . . . and murder most horrid! Printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion investigates a puzzling death in this thrilling historical mystery set in seventee …

‘The latest in the Hawkenlye series… may be Clare’s best yet’ – Kirkus Starred Review A Hawkenlye medieval mystery Autumn 1196. A secretive stranger arrives at New Winnowlands, and Sir Josse d’Acqu …

Introducing Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins as an unusual detective duo in the first of a brand-new Victorian mystery series. When Inspector Field shows his friend Charles Dickens the body of a yo …