Mystery & Detective - Historical

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Hunting Shadows: An Inspector Ian Rut...

Charles Todd

A dangerous case with ties leading back to the battlefields of World War I dredges up dark memories for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge in Hunting Shadows, a gripping and atmospheric historical mystery set in 1920s England, from ...

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Published: Dec 2014

The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha N...

Jenny White

'An immensely enjoyable read, richly textured and wonderfully atmospheric.'—Sarah GravesConstantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carve...

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Published: Feb 2009

The Tenderness of Wolves

Stef Penney

A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) ...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Triumph of Caesar (A Novel of Anc...

Steven Saylor

The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion – Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome's legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. App...

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Published: Nov 2009

Almost Home

Pam Jenoff

Jenoff's novel chronicles a young female intelligence officer thrust into a international drama dating back to the Second World War.

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Published: Feb 2010

The Hooded Hawke (Elizabeth I Mysteri...

Karen Harper

This summer, Queen Elizabeth I is in no mood for games. She and her court were expecting to spend the warmer months lounging in great manor houses, feasting in the fields, tempting forbidden romance, and perhaps engaging in sport. But...

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Published: Nov 2007

Death Comes to the Fair (A Kurland St...

Catherine Lloyd

It’s harvest time in the village of Kurland St. Mary as Lucy and Robert prepare to wed—but a murderer has taken an unseasonable vow of vengeance . . .  As Miss Lucy Harrington, daughter of the village rector, and Major Sir Robert...

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Published: Oct 2017

The Confession: An Inspector Ian Rutl...

Charles Todd

Declaring he needs to clear his conscience, a dying man walks into Scotland Yard and confesses that he killed his cousin five years earlier during the Great War. When Inspector Ian Rutledge presses for details, the man reveals little...

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Published: Nov 2012

Scandal Above Stairs

Jennifer Ashley

From the New York Times bestselling author of Death Below StairsA mystery of stolen antiquities has Kat Holloway setting aside her apron once again for the intrigues of the upper echelons of Victorian LondonPriceless artwork has gone ...

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Published: Jul 2018

The Intrigue at Highbury (Mr. and Mrs...

Carrie Bebris

Mr. and Mrs. Darcy are looking forward to a relaxing stay with dear friends when their carriage is hailed by a damsel-in-distress outside of the village of Highbury. Little do the Darcys realize that gypsies roam these woods, or tha...

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Published: Aug 2011

The Last Days of Night: A Novel

Graham Moore

A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America—from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The S...

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Published: Sep 2016

Murder at Kensington Palace (A Wrexfo...

Andrea Penrose

Wrexford and Sloane must unravel secrets within secrets—including a few that entangle their own hearts—when they reunite to solve a string of shocking murders that have horrified Regency London . . .   Though Char...

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Published: Aug 2020

Behold a Pale Horse: A Mystery of Anc...

Peter Tremayne

A perplexing case of murder and conspiracy in the pagan wilds of Northern ItalyIn 664 A.D., just after the events detailed in Shroud for the Archbishop, Fidelma of Cashel takes a unexpected detour on her trip home from Rome. While i...

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Published: Jun 2013

Love and Death Among the Cheetahs

Rhys Bowen

Georgie and Darcy are finally on their honeymoon in Kenya's Happy Valley, but murder crashes the party in this all-new installment in the New York Times bestselling series. I was so excited when Darcy announced out of the blue that ...

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Published: Jul 2020

A Wicked Conceit (A Lady Darby Myster...

Anna Lee Huber

Soon-to-be new parents Kiera and her husband, Sebastian Gage, have been hoping for a respite from their inquiries, but murder and mayhem have a startling way of dropping into their laps in the all-new historical mystery in this nation...

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Published: Apr 2021

The Detecting Duchess (Victorian Book...

Kate Parker

The only thing standing between Georgia and her fairy-tale wedding is a murder. Or two. When a young woman pleads for help from Georgia Fenchurch in locating a missing Crown investigator, Georgia resists. Her wedding is only a week aw...

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Published: May 2017

Secret of the White Rose (Detective S...

Stefanie Pintoff

The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. For one, its high-profile enough to command the attention of the police commissioner. The judge was presiding over the trial of Al...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Twelfth Department (Captain Alexe...

William Ryan

Captain Alexei Korolev has nothing to complain about. He has his own room in an apartment, a job in the police force that puts food on the table, and his good health. In Moscow in 1937, that's a lot more than most people have to be gr...

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Published: Jul 2013

In the Shadow of Gotham

Stefanie Pintoff

Stefanie Pintoff's acclaimed and award-winning debut is the taut historical tale of Detective Simon Ziele, a man who lost his fiancee in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster and thereafter flees New York City for Dobson, New ...

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Published: May 2010

Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead

Nick Drake

She is Nefertiti—beautiful and revered. With her husband, Akhenaten, she rules over Egypt, the most affluent, formidable, sophisticated empire in the ancient world. But an epic power struggle is afoot, brought on by the royal c...

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Published: Mar 2008

Murder on Waverly Place (Gaslight Mys...

Victoria Thompson

Turn-of-the-century New York City shines in the Gaslight mystery series. Midwife and sleuth Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy must protect Sarah's mother from scandal after she tries to contact her dead daughter during...

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Published: Jun 2010

Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel...

Jacqueline Winspear

In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear's acclaimed, bestselling mystery series—"less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie" (USA Today)—Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a t...

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Published: Oct 2012

A Curtain Falls

Stefanie Pintoff

The careers of New York City detective Simon Ziele and his former partner Captain Declan Mulvaney went in remarkably different directions after the tragic death of Ziele's fiancee in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster. Although bo...

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Published: May 2011

Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue: A Gasl...

Victoria Thompson

The author of Murder on Amsterdam Avenue returns to nineteenth-century New York City to find Christmas in the air, a police detective and a midwife with love in their hearts, and a wealthy newlywed with blood on her hands… Detective...

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Published: Nov 2016

The Innocent Spy: Ted Stratton #01

Laura Wilson

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Published: Feb 2012

Malice at the Palace: A Royal Spyness...

Rhys Bowen

Thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch becomes embroiled in royal wrongdoing—from the New York Times bestselling author of Crowned and Dangerous.Thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, Lady Georgian...

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Published: Aug 2016

On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret S...

Rhys Bowen

In the latest paperback in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series, Lady Georgiana Rannoch juggles secret missions from the Queen, Darcy, and her mother. But it's all in a day's work when you're thirty-fifth in line to the...

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Published: Jul 2018

A Casualty of War: A Bess Crawford My...

Charles Todd

From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed it—officers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford.Though the Great War is...

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Published: Jul 2018

A Prayer for the Damned: A Mystery of...

Peter Tremayne

In February of 668 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel and her companion Eadulf are about to get married. Again.  Their initial trial marriage of a year and a day has ended and they are about to embark on a permanent partnership.  As the sister...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Truth of All Things

Kieran Shields

Two hundred years after the Salem witch trials, in the summer of 1892, a grisly new witch hunt is beginning.... When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute's murder in Portland, Maine, he's...

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Published: Dec 2012
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