Mystery & Detective - Historical

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The Lions of the North (Domesday)

Edward Marston

Ralph Delchard, a former soldier in the notorious Battle of Hastings, and Gervase Bret, a skilled lawyer, continue to travel the length of England examining issues raised during the collection of information for the Domesday Book, th...

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Published: May 2021

The Unseen Hand (Home Front Detective...

Edward Marston

1917. The Lotus Hotel offers sanctuary for its exclusively female clientele, attracting the cream of London's society. But a dead body found in one of its rooms is hardly good for business, and when it is discovered that the woman was...

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Published: Feb 2020

Murder as a Fine Art

David Morrell

ALA Reading List Award for Best Mystery GASLIT LONDON IS BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES IN DAVID MORRELL'S BRILLIANT HISTORICAL THRILLER.Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, is the major suspect in ...

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Published: Jun 2014

Stealing Mona Lisa: A Mystery

Carson Morton

DIVA IKirkus Reviews' Best of 2011 Fiction and a ILibrary Journal Best Mystery of 2011PWhat happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one pricel...

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Published: Oct 2012

Clouds in My Coffee (The Country Club...

Julie Mulhern

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR "A sparkling comedy of errors tucked inside a clever mystery. I loved it!" – Susan M. Boyer, USA Today Bestselling Author of Lowcountry Bordello "Readers who enjoy the novels of Susan Is...

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Published: May 2016

The Deep End (The Country Club Murder...

Julie Mulhern

INTRIGUING PLOT, FASCINATING CHARACTERS…"Part mystery, part women's fiction, part poetry, Mulhern's debut, The Deep End, will draw you in with the first sentence and entrance you until the last. An engaging whodunit that kept m...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Bughouse Affair (Carpenter and Qu...

Marcia Muller

In The Bughouse Affair, the first of a new series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, underta...

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Published: Nov 2013

The Spook Lights Affair: A Carpenter ...

Marcia Muller

The Spook Lights Affair -- the latest in the Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series from MWA Grandmasters Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller. In 1895 San Francisco, young debutantes don't commit suicide at festive parties, p...

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Published: Nov 2014

Let the Dead Lie

Malla Nunn

South Africa, 1953. The National Party's rigid race laws have split the nation and a gruelling poverty grips many on the edges of its society. When former Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper stumbles across the body of a child, Jolly M...

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Published: Apr 2010

The House on Vesper Sands

Paraic O'Donnell

Named a Library Reads Pick, Apple Books' Best Book, Powells’ Pick, Amazon Fiction & Literature's “Best of the Month," The Millions' Top Ten Book of the Month, and one of CrimeReads' and Oprah Daily's Best Historical N...

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Published: Jan 2022

An Unwelcome Guest (Penny Green Serie...

Emily Organ

Some say the Hotel Tempesta is cursed, but its owner, Mr Gallo, refuses to believe it. When he's brutally murdered one night, the suspicion falls on his guests. Ten suspects in total. And Penny Green is one of them.Does Mr Gallo's mur...

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Published: Jun 2019

Death at the Workhouse (Penny Green S...

Emily Organ

London 1885. Something's not right at Shoreditch Workhouse and reporter Penny Green is struggling to convince someone to listen. After spending time there undercover, she knows that more can be done for the deserving poor beneath its ...

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Published: Sep 2019

Limelight (Penny Green Series)

Emily Organ

A delightful page-turner.London, 1883. How did an actress die twice?Actress Lizzie Dixie drowned in the River Thames, so how was she murdered five years later in Highgate Cemetery?Intrepid Fleet Street reporter Penny Green was a frien...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Bermondsey Poisoner (Penny Green ...

Emily Organ

London 1884. A culprit is on the run after a fatal poisoning in Bermondsey. It seems like a simple case for Penny Green to report on, until a series of macabre photographs is discovered.As the poisonings continue, Scotland Yard is con...

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Published: Dec 2018

The Maid’s Secret (Penny Green Seri...

Emily Organ

The truth is rarely simple. London 1884. Victorian industrialist Alexander Glenville is a man with many secrets. Fleet Street reporter Penny Green is tasked with working undercover as a maid in his home, but tragedy strikes when Glenv...

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Published: Nov 2018

Eye of the Raven: A Mystery of Coloni...

Eliot Pattison

With the aid of the Native American Shaman Conawago, Duncan McCallum has begun to heal from the massacre of his Highland clan by the British. But his new life is shattered when he and Conawago discover a dying Virginian officer nailed...

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Published: Jan 2011

Original Death: A Mystery of Colonial...

Eliot Pattison

Despite the raging war between French and British, Scottish exile Duncan McCallum has begun to settle into a new life on the fringes of colonial America, traveling the woodlands with his companion Conawago, even joining the old Indian...

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Published: Jul 2014

Symptoms of Death

Paula Paul

You can't cure murder… When the old country doctor of Newton-Upon-Sea passed away, he left his only daughter, Alexandra, with the secrets of his trade. Now, the village depends on its lady-doctor Gladstone for its births, deaths, an...

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Published: Oct 2011

A Question of Betrayal: An Elena Stan...

Anne Perry

On her first mission for MI6, the daring young photographer at the heart of this thrilling new mystery series by bestselling author Anne Perry travels to Mussolini’s Italy to rescue the lover who betrayed her. Britain’s...

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Published: Sep 2021

Blood on the Water

Anne Perry

As her New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, Anne Perry is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth William Monk mystery, she brings us t...

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Published: Sep 2015

Blood on the Water

Anne Perry

As Anne Perry's New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, she is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth William Monk mystery, she brings us...

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Published: Jun 2015

Corridors of the Night: A William Mon...

Anne Perry

Anne Perry, that incomparable novelist of life in Victorian England, has once again surpassed herself, with this twenty-first installment of her New York Times bestselling William Monk series. In Corridors of the Night, nurse Hester M...

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Published: Sep 2016

Dark Tide Rising: A William Monk Nove...

Anne Perry

When a ransom exchange turns deadly in this thrilling mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, Commander William Monk faces an unthinkable possibility: betrayal by his own men. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CRIME NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TH...

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Published: Sep 2019

Dorchester Terrace: A Charlotte and T...

Anne Perry

Anne Perry's acclaimed Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels have made London's exclusive world of wealth and power an addictive literary destination for readers everywhere. This masterpiece, a haunting story of love and treason, invites u...

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Published: Apr 2012

Funeral in Blue (William Monk)

Anne Perry

The headlines were gruesome: two beautiful women found strangled in the studio of a well-known London artist. To investigator William Monk and his wife Hester, the murders are a nightmare. One of the victims is an obscure artist's mod...

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Published: Oct 2010

The Shifting Tide (William Monk Serie...

Anne Perry

William Monk knows London's streets like the back of his hand; after all, they are where he earns his living. But the river Thames and its teeming docks - where towering schooners and clipper ships unload their fabulous cargoes and wh...

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Published: Jun 2004

Three Debts Paid: A Daniel Pitt Novel...

Anne Perry

A killer is on the loose, targeting victims with a mysterious connection that young barrister Daniel Pitt must deduce before more bodies pile up, in this intricately woven mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry. A ...

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Published: Mar 2023

The Dark Monk: A Hangman's Daughter T...

Oliver Potzsch

THE ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER1660: Winter has settled thick over a sleepy village in the Bavarian Alps, ensuring every farmer and servant is indoors the night a parish priest discovers...

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Published: Jun 2012

Death at Greenway: A Novel

Lori Rader-Day

"Irresistible... a Golden Age homage, an elegantly constructed mystery that on every page reinforces the message that everyone counts." –New York Times Book Review From the award-winning author of The Day I Diedand Th...

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Published: May 2021

Southland

Nina Revoyr

'[A]n absolutely compelling story of family and racial tragedy. Revoyr's novel is honest in detailing southern California's brutal history, and honorable in showing how families survived with love and tenacity and dignity.'-Susan Stra...

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Published: Apr 2003
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