Historical Detective Novels

‘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 …

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 …

‘[A] delightful hot toddy of a winter’s read.’ —LA TIMES It was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes in this delightful Dickensian romp, with the canonical author teaming up with a famous up …

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 …

Private investigators Lily Raynor and Felix Wilbraham tackle a puzzling miscarriage of justice and the curious case of a missing child, in the new, gripping World’s End Bureau Victorian mystery. Lond …

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 …

As an atmosphere of fear and suspicion pervades the city, Richard Nottingham and his team find themselves hunting a ruthless child-killer, a monster who preys on abandoned street children, those with …

On a winter day in 1898, hundreds of spectators gather at a Brooklyn courthouse, scrambling for a view of the woman they label a murderess. Martha Place has been charged with throwing acid in her ste …

It’s just another murder, one of the hundreds of simple homicides in 1939: A spinster nurse is killed in her apartment; a suspect is caught with the murder weapon and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA SHARPE BOOKS GOLD CROWN AWARD The thrilling new series from the bestselling author of the ‘Outlaw Chronicles’. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. AFTER T …