Mystery & Detective - Historical

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Signal for Vengeance (The Railway Det...

Edward Marston

1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, finds some escape through a love affair with another man. After putting her drunk husband to bed one Saturday night, she sneaks from their lodge to me...

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Published: Oct 2017

Tragedy on the Branch Line (Railway D...

Edward Marston

When Bernard Pomeroy finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours, he flies into a panic. After dashing off a short note to his friend, he hands it to the porter at Corpus Christi College before hastening on to the railway...

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Published: Jan 2022

Cinnamon Kiss

Walter Mosley

It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. IIt's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn ...

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Published: Aug 2008

Deadly Deception

Kate Parker

Everyone hides secrets. Some provoke murder.Olivia Denis discovers her father kneeling over the body of a man…a man who supposedly drowned in the Channel years before. Olivia wants to ring for help, her father wants to hide the body...

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Published: Mar 2019

The Council of Twelve

Oliver Potzsch

The Council of Twelve is the seventh book in Hangman’s Daughter, the million-copy bestselling series.The year is 1672. Hangman Jakob Kuisl and his family travel to Munich, the cosmopolitan heart of Bavaria, for a meeting of the pres...

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Published: May 2018

A Dangerous Collaboration (A Veronica...

Deanna Raybourn

A bride mysteriously disappears on her wedding day in the newest Veronica Speedwell adventure by the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey series. Lured by the promise of a rare and elusive butterfly, the intrepid ...

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Published: Feb 2020

Death at Pompeia's Wedding (Libertus)...

Rosemary Rowe

A Libertus Mystery, set in Roman Britain - Libertus is at a society wedding on behalf of his patron when the father of the bride is poisoned after testing the wedding wine. Pompeia, the bride, declares that she has caused the death, b...

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Published: Aug 2009

The Ronin's Mistress of Feudal Japan ...

Laura Joh Rowland

A brilliant new twist on the fabled tale of the 47 Ronin, from an author with "a painter's eye for the minutiae of court life [and] a politican's ear for intrigue." —The New York Times Book ReviewBRBR/BDIV Japan, 1703. On...

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Published: Sep 2012

Peril by Post (John Pickett Mysteries...

Sheri Cobb South

The eighth book in the series finds John Pickett bound for England's scenic Lake District, where an unsigned letter has summoned him for an unspecified reason. Posing as a honeymoon couple, Pickett and his wife Julia, the former Lady ...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Coral Thief

Rebecca Stott

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND BOOKLIST Paris, 1815. Daniel Connor, a young medical student from Edinburgh, has arrived to study anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes—only to realize that his letters...

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Published: May 2010

Revenge in Rubies

A. M. Stuart

When Harriet Gordon receives word from a friend about a tragic death, she and Inspector Curran are thrust into a web of family secrets that threatens to destroy them both in this all-new mystery from the author of Singapore Sapphire.\...

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Published: Sep 2020

Singapore Sapphire

A. M. Stuart

Early twentieth-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there, leaving her tragic memories behind her--but murder gets in the way.Singapore, 1910--Desperate fo...

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Published: Aug 2019

A Conspiracy in Belgravia

Sherry Thomas

The game is afoot as Charlotte Holmes returns in USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas's Victorian-set Lady Sherlock series.  Being shunned by Society gives Charlotte Holmes the time and freedom to put her extraordinary powers o...

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Published: Sep 2017

A Fatal Lie: A Novel (Inspector Ian R...

Charles Todd

“If there’s ever been a more complex and compelling hero in crime fiction than Inspector Rutledge, I can’t think of one.” —Jeffery Deaver In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian R...

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Published: Jan 2022

The Gate Keeper: An Inspector Ian Rut...

Charles Todd

On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories ...

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Published: Nov 2018

A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder...

Dianne Freeman

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Published: Jun 2021

Paragon Walk: A Charlotte and Thomas ...

Anne Perry

Perry has the great gift of making it all seem immediate and very much alive.'THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERIn the posh London street of Paragon Walk, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of sleuth...

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Published: Aug 1986

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

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

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
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