Historische detectiveromans

In the summer of 1906, a distinguished member of one of New York’s most prestigious and powerful men’s clubs – the Metropolitan Club – is found with his throat slashed, murdered within the club’s wal …

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 …

Two monumental granite statues by famed German artist Käthe Kollwitz—the Grieving Parents—have been stolen from a World War I soldiers’ cemetery in Belgium. What could the motive have been for such a …

Based on actual historical events that took place in 17th Century Europe, Recompense presents a fictional portrayal of how the devastating bubonic plague, the “Black Death, ” disrupted the everyday l …

An English spa town is not beneficial to everyone’s health in this Regency-era mystery b y the author of Death Comes to the School.   After Major Sir Robert Kurland’s injury from the b …

A Stylist Best New Fiction of 2021 Selection, this stunning 1950s set debut mystery is a perfect summer read. ‘A remarkably assured debut. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation be …

A church art exhibition turns deadly . . . ‘Art, my dear boy, ’ said Mr Askern, ‘especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .’ He broke off, staring at the woman …

Christopher Marlowe tackles his most baffling case yet. June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury. But it’s not the happy homecoming he had hoped f …

No one can talk to the dead . . . can they? Free man of color Benjamin January gets caught up in a strange, spiritual world that might lead to his own demise, as he hunts for a missing teenager in th …

Londoner Jack Blackjack finds himself a stranger in a strange land when he’s accused of murder in rural Devon in this eventful Tudor mystery. July, 1556. En route to France and escape from Queen Mary …