Historical Mystery category: 10101 books
Revelation
A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
The Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series continues with this fourth suspenseful installment by the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and DominionIn 1543, while Tudor England is abuzz with King Henry VIII's wooing of Lady Catherine Parr, Matthew Shardlake is working to defend a teenage boy,...
The Confession
An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
“One of the best historical series being written today.”
—Washington Post
“Todd once and for all establishes the shell-shocked Rutledge as the genre’s most complex and fascinating detective.”
—Entertainment Weekly
The Confession is historical crime fiction at its finest,...
by Margaret Frazer
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
A LOVE TO DIE FOR...
When Frevisse is given bishop-pardoned leave to visit her cousin Alice at Ewelme, she is enchanted by the work of the sculptor Simon Maye. Charged with carving the angels upon Alice's tomb, Simon has been truly touched by God's gift - there was an otherworldiness to their...
With This Curse
A Novel of Victorian Romantic Suspense
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Can a curse strike twice? Eighteen years ago, Clara Crofton was dismissed from her chambermaid position at Gravesend Hall for falling in love with the younger son of the house. When he died soon after in the Crimean War, she blamed the Gravesend Curse.
Now, however, she has the chance to return...
by TJ Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
• Sequel to Lincoln's Bodyguard
• Lincoln's Bodyguard: Silver Medal 2017 Military Writers Society of America (Mystery/Thriller); Winner 2016 International Book Award for Historical Fiction; Finalist 2016 Indie Book Awards (Thriller); 2016 Darrell Award (Mid-South Novel); 2016 National Indie Excellence...
The Incense Game
A Novel of Feudal Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Winner of RT Magazine's Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Historical Mystery
In the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichiro races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regime
When a massive earthquake devastates Japan in 1703, even the shogun's carefully regulated court...
Satan's Fire (Hugh Corbett Mysteries, Book 9)
A deadly assassin stalks the pages of this medieval mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
An attempt on the King's life draws Hugh Corbett into a deadly investigation...
In Satan's Fire, the ninth Hugh Corbett mystery from Paul Doherty, strange fires and gruesome murders test the sleuth's investigative ingenuity to the full. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Robin Hobb.
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by Frances McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In the summer of 1896, amateur sleuth Emily Cabot meets two young Chinese women who have recently received medical degrees. She is inspired to make an important decision about her own life when she learns about the difficult choices they have made in order to pursue their careers.
When one...
by Radha Vatsal
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
"I really and truly could not put it down... Vatsal succeeds once again!"—Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times-bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series
Intrepid journalist Kitty Weeks returns in the second book in this acclaimed WW1-era historical mystery series to investigate...
Island of Bones
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The third novel in the critically acclaimed Westerman and Crowther historical mystery series reveals the dark secrets of Crowther’s past
England, 1783. For years, reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther has pursued his forensic studies—and the occasional murder investigation—far from his...
The Dark Water
The Strange Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The detective team of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Joseph Bell star in this “ingenious” historical mystery (The New York Times Book Review).
As many fans of Sherlock Holmes know, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found inspiration for the great fictional detective in a brilliant Scottish surgeon...
Cold Bayou
A historical mystery set in New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride … The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery.
“Don’t go to Cold Bayou, brother … Nuthin’ good waiting for you there.”
New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the...
by Mark Chisnell
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
The young, charismatic Ben Clayton was one of Britain’s brightest boxing prospects, until the day he slammed a left hook into a fragile chin. Sickened by the consequences he turned away from the ring, and found solace in the arms of the beautiful Lucy Kirk.
On the 7th March 1936, after almost...
The Great Stink
A Novel of Corruption and Murder Beneath the Streets of Victorian London
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
A mystery that offers “a gripping and richly atmospheric glimpse into the literal underworld of Victorian England—the labyrinthine London sewer system” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Clare Clark’s critically acclaimed The Great Stink “reeks of talent” as it vividly brings...