Mystery & Detective - Historical

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The Black Tower

Louis Bayard

From the acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye, this literary thriller features Eugène Vidocq, a criminal who transformed himself into the worlds first and greatest detective

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Published: Sep 2008

Mission Impawsible

Krista Davis

From the New York Times bestselling author of Murder Most Howl comes another Paws & Claws mystery... In the pet-friendly town of Wagtail, Virginia, there’s no love lost when Holly Miller meets her match in a murderer...  Holly and...

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Published: Feb 2017

In Dublin's Fair City

Rhys Bowen

Molly Murphy, a plucky P.I. in 1903 New York, sails back to her native Ireland on a case searching for the sister of an Irish American impressario. The woman was too sick to travel and was left behind when the family took a famine shi...

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Published: May 2016

The Yard

Alex Grecian

1889, LONDON. JACK THE RIPPER'S REIGN OF TERROR IN FINALLY OVER, BUT A NEW ONE IS JUST BEGINNING. Victorian London—a violent cesspool of squalid depravity. Only twelve detectives—The Murder Squad—are expected to solve the thou...

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Published: Apr 2013

Death at Victoria Dock (Miss Fisher's...

Kerry Greenwood

Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. She alights to finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in he...

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Published: Jan 2017

A Perilous Perspective (A Lady Darby ...

Anna Lee Huber

An all-new historical mystery in this USA Today bestselling series featuring beloved inquiry agents Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage. Argyll, Scotland. July 1832. After a trying few months in Edinburgh, Kier...

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Published: Apr 2022

An Artless Demise

Anna Lee Huber

Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.November 1831. Afte...

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Published: Apr 2019

Death Around the Bend

T. E. Kinsey

September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe's country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one...

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Published: Jun 2017

Death Comes to the Village

Catherine Lloyd

Major Robert Kurland has returned to the quiet vistas of his village home to recuperate from the horrors of Waterloo. However injured his body may be, his mind is as active as ever. Too active, perhaps. When he glimpses a shadowy figu...

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Published: Nov 2013

Anne Perry's Christmas Crimes: Two Vi...

Anne Perry

'Tis the season for a pair of Christmas novels that add a dash of murder to the Yuletide spirit. "Perry's Victorian-era holiday mysteries [are] an annual treat."—The Wall Street Journal A CHRISTMAS HOMECOMING "Coul...

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Published: Nov 2014

Anne Perry's Merry Mysteries: Two Vic...

Anne Perry

CHRISTMAS COMES TWICE THIS YEAR WITH A PAIR OF DELICIOUS VICTORIAN MYSTERIES SET ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. A Christmas Hope "Very much recommended . . . a wonderful story."—Historical Novel Review Claudine Burrough...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Hollow of Fear

Sherry Thomas

Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, returns in the Victorian-set mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of A Conspiracy in Belgravia and A Study in Scarlet Women, an NPR Best Book of 2016.Under the cover of "Sherlock H...

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Published: Oct 2018

A Duty to the Dead: A Bess Crawford M...

Charles Todd

The daughter of a distinguished soldier, Bess Crawford follows in his patriotic footsteps, volunteering to serve her country as a nurse during the Great War. In 1916, she promises Lieutenant Arthur Graham that she will carry his dying...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2011

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pi...

Alan Bradley

It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder ...

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Published: Jan 2010

A Fatal Waltz

Tasha Alexander

At her friend Ivy's behest, Emily reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of Lord Fortescue, a man she finds as odious as he is powerful. But if Emily is expecting Lord Fortescue to be the greates...

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Published: Jul 2009

The Anatomist's Apprentice (Dr. Thoma...

Tessa Harris

Meet Dr. Thomas Silkstone, an intriguing addition to the annals of detective fiction. In eighteenth-century England, the murder of Sir Edward Crick sends a torrent of gossip breezing through Oxfordshire; although, aside from his siste...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2011

The Peculiar Case of Lord Finsbury's ...

Stephanie Laurens

#1New York Times-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of murder, mystery, passion, and intrigue - and diamonds Penelope Adair, wife and partner of amateur sleuth Barnaby Adair, is so hugely pregnant she cannot eve...

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Published: Apr 2020

Treason at Lisson Grove: A Charlotte ...

Anne Perry

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The man who lies bleeding to death in a London brickyard is no ordinary drifter but a secret informant with details of an international plot against the British government. Special Branch officer Thomas Pitt, hast...

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Published: Apr 2012

Bury Me Deep

Megan E. Abbott

In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles's Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade.Inspired by this notorious true crim...

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Published: Jul 2009

Tell Me, Pretty Maiden

Rhys Bowen

From the author of In Farleigh Field...It’s wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she’s...

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Published: Jun 2017

The War of the Worlds Murder (Disaste...

Max Allan Collins

Orson Welles is the bombastic wonder boy of radio and stage. But is he also a murderer? Walter Gibson — creator of pulp superhero the Shadow — travels to New York City to collaborate on a script with Welles, star of the radio show...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2012

The Green Mill Murder (Miss Fisher's ...

Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things ―dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne’s premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone’s Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she’s wearing a sparklin...

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Published: Apr 2007

Who Buries the Dead: A Sebastian St. ...

C. S. Harris

The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr's past put C. S. Harris's "troubled but compelling antihero"* to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling entre...

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Published: Mar 2016

A Murderous Relation (A Veronica Spee...

Deanna Raybourn

A royal scandal’s connection to a brutal serial killer threatens London in this new Veronica Speedwell adventure from New York Times bestselling and Edgar® Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Autumn 1888. Veron...

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Published: Feb 2021

Fatal Enquiry: A Barker & Llewelyn No...

Will Thomas

Brimming with wit, atmosphere, and unforgettable characters, FATAL ENQUIRY reintroduces private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewellyn, and their unforgettable world of Victorian London. Some years ago, Cyrus B...

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Published: Apr 2015

The Turncoat's Widow: A Revolutionary...

Mally Becker

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she's a Loyalist sympathizer&...

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Published: Feb 2021

A Death in Summer (Quirke)

Benjamin Black

One of The Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of 2011.One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent end—and an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers his most gripping novel yet.On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tyco...

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Published: Mar 2012

Whispers Beyond the Veil: A Change of...

Jessica Estevao

First in a dazzling new historical mystery series featuring Ruby Proulx, a psychic with a questionable past who suddenly finds her future most uncertain...Canada, 1898. The only life Ruby Proulx has ever known is that of a nomad, trav...

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Published: Sep 2016

Whispers of Warning

Jessica Estevao

Ruby Proulx's new life in Orchard Beach, Maine, faces some sinister complications in the next Change of Fortune Mystery by Jessica Estevao…Free from the clutches of her con artist father, Ruby Proulx is starting to settle in at the ...

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Published: Sep 2017

Seven for a Secret (A Timothy Wilde N...

Lyndsay Faye

One of The Wall Street Journal'sTen Best Mysteries of the Year"Amazing...This is a series for the ages, it's so spectacular."-Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl1846: In New York City, slave c...

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Published: Aug 2014
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