Historische detectiveromans

During a blistering 1903 summer, Portland’s steam laundry women are working ten hellish hours a day. Exhausted and ill, they demand a nine hour workday. Sage Adair, and his mother, Mae, join their fi …

The year is 1968 In a gritty New England city, two days before Christmas, a priest is discovered hung up on rocks in a river, murdered. The killer is never found and the case goes cold. Twenty-eight …

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, …

Private detectives Grand & Batchelor’s latest case draws them into the arcane world of high art and high society in this compelling Victorian mystery. London. May, 1878. Private enquiry agents Matthe …

The final instalment in the intriguing adventure of Sheila Riley’s brilliant and gritty Reckoner’s Row series It’s all hands on deck on Reckoners Row… Liverpool 1953 January sees the dawn of the Qu …

Prohibition takes the battle, along with the party, to the streets. Jack Mc Closkey returned to Windsor, Ontario, from the Great War shell-shocked and battling inner demons. Channeling his energy int …

West meets East as bootleggers and cops tangle with opium smugglers and corrupt officials in a new kind of gang warfare. Prospect Avenue is nothing more than a dirt road ending in bulrushes behind a …

Traveling secretary Hattie Davish is taking her singular talents to Washington, D.C., to help Sir Arthur Windom-Greene research his next book. But in the winding halls of the nation’s capital, search …

Ancient Roman sleuth Marcus Corvinus is despatched to Gaul on a personal mission for the emperor. June, AD 42. The emperor Claudius himself has requested Corvinus’s help in investigating the murder o …

1571: A contract killer is sent to Hailes Abbey to remove a priest suspected of plotting against Elizabeth I. But he has his own motives for murder. Today: When a skeleton is discovered in the ground …