Mystery & Detective - Historical

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In the Shadow of Gotham ($9.99 Ed.)

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: Jun 2011

Special Assignments: The Further Adve...

Boris Akunin

In Special Assignments, Erast Fandorin, nineteenth-century Russia’s suavest sleuth, faces two formidable new foes: One steals outrageous sums of money, the other takes lives. “The Jack of Spades” is a civilized swind...

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Published: Feb 2008

The Reckoning: A John Madden Mystery

Rennie Airth

Inspector John Madden—who debuted in River of Darkness—returns in a gripping post–World War II murder mystery On a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager Oswald Gibson is shot in the head while fishing. In Scotland, a res...

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Published: Feb 2015

Behind the Shattered Glass: A Lady Em...

Tasha Alexander

A ruined abbey on a beautiful estate in Derbyshire, a murdered peer, and a most unlikely romance make New York Times bestseller Tasha Alexander's new novel Behind the Shattered Glass absolutely irresistibleAnglemore Park is the ancest...

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Published: Jul 2014

The Angel of Darkness: A Novel

Caleb Carr

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—the brilliant hero of The Alienist, now a TNT original series—returns in a “whopping thriller” (The Washington Post) that showcases Caleb Carr “at his strongest” (USA Toda...

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Published: Apr 2018

The Glass of Time

Michael Cox

Building on his highly acclaimed debut, The Meaning of Night, Michael Cox returns to a murderous nineteenth-century England.

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Published: Oct 2008

Murder at Half Moon Gate (A Wrexford ...

Andrea Penrose

Nothing is as it seems in Regency London, especially when the Earl of Wrexford and Charlotte Sloane join forces to solve a shocking murder.  When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, he prompt...

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Published: Jul 2019

Hell Bay: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Will Thomas

"If you love Sherlock Holmes, historical mysteries, or just a good, rousing adventure, you'll love these books, too." - Laurell K. HamiltonAt the request of Her Majesty’s government, private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker agrees to take...

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Published: Sep 2017

Death in St. Petersburg: A Lady Emily...

Tasha Alexander

"Alexander is at the top her game...(her) impeccable research and smart storytelling keep readers on the edge of their seats...A gripping tale by a grand mistress of the genre." -RT Book Reviews (Top Pick)From New York Times...

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Published: Jul 2018

Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding

Rhys Bowen

In the days leading up to her wedding to Darcy O'Mara, Lady Georgiana Rannoch takes on the responsibilities of a grand estate, but proving she can run a household just may be the death of her...If only Darcy and I had eloped! What I t...

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Published: Jul 2019

black ship (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries...

Carola Dunn

In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of sligh...

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Published: Sep 2009

A Day Out at the Market

T. E. Kinsey

Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his be...

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Published: Dec 2016

Murder at Beechwood

Alyssa Maxwell

For Newport, Rhode Island's high society, the summer of 1896 brings lawn parties, sailboat races…and murder. Having turned down the proposal of Derrick Andrews, Emma Cross has no imminent plans for matrimony—let alone motherhood. ...

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Published: May 2015

A Truth to Lie For: An Elena Standish...

Anne Perry

A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe—unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler’s clutches—in this action-packed suspense novel by bestselling author Anne Perry. “Unbearably s...

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Published: Sep 2023

The Angel Court Affair: A Charlotte a...

Anne Perry

In New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, the glorious era when Britain reigned supreme has found its most brilliant modern interpreter. Perry's gripping new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel invites us back to Victorian London, ...

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Published: Mar 2016

Instruments of Darkness

Imogen Robertson

Introducing a new historical crime series that The New York Times Book Review called "CSI: Georgian England" and Tess Gerritsen called "chillingly memorable" Debut novelist Imogen Robertson won the London Telegrap...

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Published: Dec 2011

Raiders of the Nile: A Novel of the A...

Steven Saylor

In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet b...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Triumph of Caesar of Ancient Rome...

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: Jul 2009

Wrath of the Furies: A Novel of the A...

Steven Saylor

In 88 B.C., it seems as if the entire ancient world is at war. In the west, the Italian states are rebelling against Rome; in the east, Mithridates is marching through and conquering the Roman Asian provinces. Even in the relatively c...

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Published: Sep 2016

A Beautiful Blue Death

Charles Finch

Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot ...

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Published: Jul 2008

Red Chrysanthemum: A Thriller (Sano I...

Laura Joh Rowland

 Tokyo, 1698: Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to become the shogun's second-in-command, is investigating rumors of a plot to overthrow the ruling regime. But conspiracy theories travel far too close to home when Sano...

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Published: Oct 2007

The Arnifour Affair

Gregory Harris

When a carriage bearing the Arnifour family crest - a vulture devouring a slaughtered lamb - arrives at the Kensington home of Colin Pendragon, it is an ominous beginning to a perplexing new case. Lady Arnifour's husband has been bea...

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Published: Jan 2014

A Purely Private Matter

Darcie Wilde

The Rosalind Thorne Mysteries—inspired by the novels of Jane Austen—continue as the audacious Rosalind strives to aid those in need while navigating the halls of high society…Rosalind Thorne has slowly but assuredly gained a rep...

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Published: May 2017

Uneasy Lies the Crown: A Lady Emily M...

Tasha Alexander

In Uneasy Lies the Crown, the thrilling new mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin must stop a serial killer whose sights may be set on the new king, Edward VII.On her deathbed, Queen Victori...

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Published: Jul 2019

A Murder of Crows

P. F. Chisholm

 September 1592 – and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd is still in London with that dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey, dealing with the fall-out from their earlier adventures. Carey urgently needs to get back to Carlisle where he is t...

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Published: Jun 2010

A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murde...

Dianne Freeman

In this exciting historical mystery debut set in Victorian England, a wealthy young widow encounters the pleasures—and scandalous pitfalls—of a London social season . . .  Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, enj...

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Published: May 2019

Murder at Rough Point (A Gilded Newpo...

Alyssa Maxwell

In glittering Newport, Rhode Island, status is everything. But despite being a poorer relation to the venerable Vanderbilts, Emma Cross has shaped her own identity—as a reporter and a sleuth.As the nineteenth century draws to a clos...

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Published: May 2017

Murder on Black Friday (Nell Sweeney ...

P. B. Ryan

"A mesmerizing mystery. Not only does Ryan provide readers with a tightly wound, suspenseful novel peopled with multidimensional characters, she writes about an era whose problems mirror our own. This is a historical period she k...

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Published: Jun 2014

Death of a Squire: A Templar Knight M...

Maureen Ash

When a squire's body is found hanging from a tree, Templar Bascot de Marins is given the task of unearthing the truth before an unprecedented meeting of kings at Lincoln Castle.

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Published: Jan 2008

Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas...

Stephanie Barron

Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorge...

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Published: Oct 2015
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