Mystery & Detective - Historical

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Three Hours in Paris

Cara Black

In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aim&eacut...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Last Mrs. Summers (A Royal Spynes...

Rhys Bowen

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O’Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . .I am a bit at loose ends at t...

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Published: Aug 2021

Murder at Mullings - A 1930s country ...

Dorothy Cannell

An intriguing 1930s country house murder mystery: first in the brand-new Florence Norris seriesIn its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, th...

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Published: May 2014

Snow White Red-Handed

Maia Chance

Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she'll need more than a bit of charm…  1867: After being fired fr...

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Published: Nov 2014

The Age Atomic

Adam Christopher

The sequel to Empire State – the superhero-noir fantasy thriller set in the other New York. The Empire State is dying. The Fissure connecting the pocket universe to New York has vanished, plunging the city into a deep freeze and the...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2013

The Lusitania Murders (Disaster)

Max Allan Collins

The Lusitania's final voyage is a newsman's dream. First come the torpedo warnings. Then come the murders… Journalist and mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright boards the Lusitania in pursuit of a hot story. Under the guise of co...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2012

The Titanic Murders (Disaster)

Max Allan Collins

When a passenger is found dead inside a locked cabin aboard the opulent Titanic, it's a crime worthy of "the Thinking Machine," the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using formidable logic. So who better to...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2012

A Ring of Truth: A Henrietta and Insp...

Michelle Cox

In this second book of the series, Henrietta and Clive delightfully rewrite Pride and Prejudice―with a hint of mystery! Newly engaged, Clive and Henrietta now begin the difficult task of meeting each other's family. "Difficult...

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Published: Apr 2017

Deadly Summer Nights (A Catskill Summ...

Vicki Delany

"An immersive setting with details of running a Catskillsresort in the 1950s (think Kellerman’s in Dirty Dancing) beautifully frame a story with plot twists and a cast of well-delineated characters."—Booklist A...

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Published: Sep 2021

Mistletoe and Murder: A Daisy Dalrymp...

Carola Dunn

Back in a brand new edition, Carola Dunn's Mistletoe and Murder is a classic Christmas Daisy Dalrymple mystery for new fans and old. In December 1923, the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decided that for Christmas the fa...

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Published: Oct 2020

The Executioner of St Paul's: The Twe...

Susanna Gregory

The plague raging through London in 1665 has emptied the city. The only people left are those too poor to flee, or those who selflessly struggle to control the contagion and safeguard the capital's future.Amongst them, though, are tho...

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Published: Dec 2017

Button Men

Andrew Gross

"As usual, narrator Edoardo Ballerini's narration is eminently listenable...He captures the rich details of the era while engaging listeners with the story's relatable family dynamics." ― AudioFile MagazineFollowing up The...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2018

What Darkness Brings: A Sebastian St....

C. S. Harris

The death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife, Hero, into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult, when the husband of Sebastian's former lover Kat Bol...

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Published: Mar 2014

Murder on Millionaires' Row: A Myster...

Erin Lindsey

In Murder on Millionaires' Row, Erin Lindsey's debut historical mystery, a daring housemaid searches Gilded Age Manhattan for her missing employer and finds a hidden world of magic, ghosts, romance, and Pinkerton detectives. "Wit...

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Published: Oct 2018

Murder on the Lusitania (Ocean Liner ...

Edward Marston

Starting on the maiden voyage of the Lusitania, American private detective George Dillman and Englishwoman Genevieve Masefield, make a winning duo for these compelling whodunnits aboard the iconic luxury liners of the time.

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Published: Feb 2022

The Body Snatchers Affair: A Carpente...

Marcia Muller

The Body Snatchers Affair: The latest in the Carpenter and Quincannon historical mystery series set in 1890's San Francisco from Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini. Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Qu...

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Published: Nov 2015

The Spook Lights Affair (Carpenter an...

Marcia Muller

[Read by Meredith Mitchell and Mark Peckham] A debutante's missing body, murder most foul, and weird spectral lights in the fog make for a thrilling gaslight-era tale of mystery and detection. In 1895 San Francisco young debutantes do...

Unabridged CD
Published: Dec 2013

Betrayal at Ravenswick: A Fiona Figg ...

Kelly Oliver

What's the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course. Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg ...

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Published: Mar 2020

Deadly Scandal (Deadly Series) (Volum...

Kate Parker

A carefree young Londoner in the 1930s has her life turned upside down when her husband is killed. She takes a job at a large daily newspaper and finds herself not only investigating her husband's murder, but also getting embroiled in...

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Published: Jan 2016

Execution Dock (William Monk)

Anne Perry

Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling William Monk novels feel as if they've experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel. In Execution Dock, Perry's first Monk novel in thre...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Mar 2009

Revenge in a Cold River: A William Mo...

Anne Perry

Master of mystery and historical intrigue Anne Perry once again transports readers to the banks of the Thames in Victorian London for her thrilling new William Monk novel. In Revenge in a Cold River, Monk faces his darkest hour ever a...

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Published: Aug 2017

Chambers of Death: A Medieval Mystery...

Priscilla Royal

When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor. Master Stevyn's wife is having an affair with the groom while a local widow acts more the lady of the manor than the ...

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Published: Nov 2010

Murder in the North End (Nell Sweeney...

P. B. Ryan

"It's always a good day when a new Nell Sweeney book arrives." —CA Reviews July 1870: Nell Sweeney's position as governess for the venerable Hewitts of Boston affords her a unique perspective in an era of sharp class dist...

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Published: Jun 2014

The Fifth Heart: A Novel

Dan Simmons

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Pres...

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Published: Dec 2015

Bury Her Deep (A Dandy Gilver Mystery...

Catriona McPherson

After attending a luncheon with the Reverend Tait, Dandy finds herself traveling with the benevolent clergyman back to his home to attend a meeting of the Rural Women's Institute. A stranger has been roaming the parish at night and po...

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Published: May 2009

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2008

Murder on Fifth Avenue (Gaslight Myst...

Victoria Thompson

From the tenements to the town houses of nineteenth-century New York, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy never waiver in their mission to aid the innocent and apprehend the guilty. Now, the latest novel in the Ed...

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Published: May 2013

In the Shadow of Vesuvius (Lady Emily...

Tasha Alexander

In skillfully intertwined storylines from the dawn of the twentieth century and the heyday of the Roman Empire, Tasha Alexander's In the Shadow of Vesuvius, the latest installment to herbestselling series, brings Lady Emily and her hu...

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Published: Oct 2020

Murder on Black Swan Lane (A Wrexford...

Andrea Penrose

In Regency London, an unconventional scientist and a fearless female artist form an unlikely alliance to expose a cold-hearted killer . . .  The Earl of Wrexford possesses a brilliant scientific mind, but boredom and pride lead him t...

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Published: Feb 2018

Instruments of Darkness

Imogen Robertson

An intricate historical novel about a forbidding country estate and the unlikely forensic duo who set out to uncover its deadly secrets.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2011
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