Mystery & Detective - Historical

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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

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

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

Riverwoman's Dragon, The (An Owen Arc...

Candace Robb

When the wise woman Magda Digby is suspected of murder, Owen Archer sets out to prove her innocence in this intricately plotted medieval mystery. May, 1375.Owen Archer returns from London to find York in chaos. While the citizens a...

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Published: Jun 2022

The Paris Winter: A Novel

Imogen Robertson

There is but one Paris.Vincent Van Gogh Maud Heighton came to Lafond's famous Academie to paint, and to flee the constraints of her small English town. It took all her courage to escape, but Paris, she quickly realizes, is no place fo...

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Published: Jan 2016

Valley of Dry Bones: A Medieval Myste...

Priscilla Royal

In the late summer of 1274, King Edward has finally been anointed England's ruler, and his queen contemplates a pilgrimage in gratitude for their safe return from Outremer, a journey that will include a stay at Tyndal Priory. Envoys a...

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Published: Nov 2010

Wine of Violence

Priscilla Royal

It is late summer in the year 1270. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs over the land. In the small priory of Tyndal, the monks and nuns of the Order of Fontevraud long for a return to rout...

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Published: Oct 2011

A Bucket of Ashes (Nell Sweeney Histo...

P. B. Ryan

"As always, the author excels at setting the scene, evoking the time and place by use of the day-to-day details as well as historical events. The resolution of the central mystery is almost secondary to the revelations about Nell...

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Published: Jun 2014

The Holy Thief

William Ryan

This title introduces Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, and an outstanding new voice in historical crime fiction...It's Moscow, 1936 and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated Church, a young woman is found dead, her...

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Published: Nov 2011

Fortune Favors the Dead: A Novel (A P...

Stephen Spotswood

“Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.”—Tana French A wildly charming and fast-pace...

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Published: Sep 2021

City of Dragons (Miranda Corbie Myste...

Kelli Stanley

February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Miranda Corbie is...

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Published: Aug 2011

City of Secrets

Kelli Stanley

This powerful sequel to Kelli Stanley's scorching City of Dragons, which introduced unique and unforgettable series heroine Miranda Corbie, begins on May 25th, 1940, opening day for the World's Fair. When a woman is found dead, privat...

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Published: Jul 2012

Rest Not in Peace (The Chronicles of ...

Mel Starr

Another slice of medieval skullduggery from the surgeon-turned-sleuthMaster Hugh, surgeon and bailiff, is asked to provide a sleeping potion for Sir Henry Burley, a friend and guest of Lord Gilbert at Bampton Castle. Sir Henry—with ...

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Published: Nov 2013

An Appetite for Murder

Linda Stratmann

The fourth entry in the Victorian London murder mystery series with a clever and determined female sleuthThe sudden death of overweight 49-year-old Thomas Whibley sparks off an acrimonious furor in Bayswater, and sparks fly between r...

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Published: Jul 2014

The Bookseller's Tale (Oxford Medieva...

Ann Swinfen

Oxford, Spring 1353. When young bookseller Nicholas Elyot discovers the body of student William Farringdon floating in the river Cherwell, it looks like a drowning. Soon, however, Nicholas finds evidence of murder. Who could have want...

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Published: Jun 2016

The Novice's Tale (Oxford Medieval My...

Ann Swinfen

When the novice Emma Thorgold goes missing from Godstow Abbey in the summer of 1353, the hunt is on throughout the Oxfordshire countryside. Bookseller Nicholas Elyot and scholar Jordain Brinkylsworth are anxious to help the girl, but ...

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Published: Sep 2016

King Arthur's Bones (Medieval Murdere...

The Medieval Murderers

During excavation work at Glastonbury Abbey in the year 1191, an ancient leaden cross is discovered buried several feet below the ground. Inscribed on it are the words Hic iacet sepultus inclitus rex arturius: Here lies buried the ren...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Harlot's Tale: A Midwife Mystery

Sam Thomas

It is August, 1645, one year since York fell into Puritan hands. As the city suffers through a brutal summer heat, Bridget Hodgson and Martha Hawkins are drawn into a murder investigation more frightening than their last. In order to ...

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Published: Dec 2014

The Midwife's Tale: A Mystery

Samuel Thomas

In the tradition of Arianna Franklin and C. J. Sansom comes Samuel Thomas's remarkable debut, The Midwife's TaleIt is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffe...

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Published: Dec 2013
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