Historische detectiveromans

Apprentice healer Lassair encounters a mysterious veiled noblewoman who brings unexpected peril When Lassair encounters a veiled noblewoman on the quay at Cambridge one morning, set on by an angry mo …

Jack and Betty Haldean’s weekend in the country is disrupted by sudden, violent death in this intricately-plotted 1920s mystery.   ‘The surprising revelations just keep coming. This is a real tr …

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 …

Held captive by a ruthless gang of kidnappers, Liberty Lane must call on all her investigative skills to discover who has taken her – and why. July, 1847. Now a happily married mother-of-two, Liberty …

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 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 …

As the Great Depression loosens its grip on New York City, Mayor La Guardia and his team meet their greatest foe in the fight against organized crime … Lane Sanders and her fiery boss, Mayor Fio …

London’s social season is in full glory when Scotland Yard Inspector Frederick Abberline discovers an unidentified, well-dressed corpse down by the London docks. A widower for three years, Lord Langs …

Gossip columnist Lorna Whitcomb knows every dirty secret in Hollywood . . . except who killed her tipster. Sleuthing duo Lillian Frost and Edith Head investigate in this head-turning mystery. 1940, L …

Coroner Sir John gets mixed up in alchemy in this twisty instalment in the Crowner John medieval mystery series, set in twelfth-century England. 1195. Prince John plots to seize the throne from his b …