Historical Mystery category: 10101 books
The Executioner of St Paul's
The Twelfth Thomas Chaloner Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The twelfth adventure in the Thomas Chaloner series.
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...
Perilous Alliance, A
A Tudor mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Widow Ursula Blanchard is urged to remarry for the sake of Queen and Country in this latest enthralling historical adventure
January, 1576. After three husbands, widow Ursula Blanchard has no desire to marry again. However, she is not in a position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides...
A Capitol Death
A Flavia Albia Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
In Rome, ruled by the erratic Emperor Domitian, Flavia Albia is dragged into the worst sort of investigation—a politically charged murder—in Lindsey Davis’s next historical mystery, A Capitol Death.
A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum in the Capitoline...
The Alchemist of Netley Abbey
Eighth in the Hildegard of Meaux medieval mystery series
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Desperate to return home to Meaux after the traumatic events in London and Salisbury, intrepid nun, Hildegard, and her charismatic but untouchable abbot, Hubert de Courcy, set out with their two monks militant through the New Forest on the long journey north at last.
Fate, however, intervenes....
Fatal Inheritance, A
A Celtic historical mystery set in 16th century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Mara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder.
When a woman’s body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Fár Breige, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the haunted caves and ancient...
by Priscilla Royal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
2018 Lefty Award nominee for Best Historical Mystery Novel
In the winter of 1282, snow and ice ravage East Anglia while Prioress Eleanor awaits the decision of her young maid, Gracia, found starving on the streets some years ago, whether to take vows or to leave Tyndal Priory to make her way...
1588: A Calendar of Crime
One Year, Five Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Set in the year of the Armada, 1588: A Calendar of Crime brings together five eBook exclusive short stories featuring Hew Cullan, together with Frances, Giles, Meg and other characters from the Hew Cullan series. From the gruesome murder of a candlemaker to Spanish ghosts on Hallowmas, Shirley McKay...
The Lost Child
From the bestselling author of The Girl in the Letter
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2019
Some novels hold you in their spell and never let you go...
Unravel the mystery of The Lost Child. Read the heartwrenching new novel from the author of the international bestseller*The Girl in the Letter,* Emily Gunnis.
A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret...
Thirteen-year-old...
by R.N. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
First in a brand-new historical mystery series featuring decidedly unconventional turn of the century sleuth, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn. London, 1914. A killer is at liberty in the dark alleys of the city. The cadavers of his victims all have one thing in common: there is no blood in their bodies....
Ghostly Murders (Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Book 4)
Greed, devilish murder and chilling hauntings in medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
To escape an evil curse, a terrible price must be paid...
Paul Doherty relates the Priest's tale in Ghostly Murders - a tale of mystery and murder as he goes on pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Susanna Gregory.
As Chaucer's pilgrims shelter in the ruins of...
The Eye of God (Kathryn Swinbrooke Mysteries, Book 2)
A medieval mystery of murder and royal intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A missing royal relic and a shocking murder draw Kathryn into dangerous climes...
Kathryn Swinbrooke pits her wits against enemies of the crown in, The Eye of God, the second of Paul Doherty's gripping mysteries featuring the medieval sleuth. Perfect for fans of Michael Jecks and Robin Hobb.
As...
The Poison Maiden (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 2)
Deceit, deception and death in the court of Edward II
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Who can uncover the elusive identity of the Poison Maiden?
**The Poison Maiden is Paul Doherty's second compulsive novel set during the turbulent reign of Edward II, featuring Mathilde of Westminster.**Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Robin Hobb.
It's 1308 and England hovers on the...
Saintly Murders (Kathryn Swinbrooke Mysteries, Book 5)
Murder and intrigue in medieval Canterbury
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A miracle... or murder?
Paul Doherty writes a gripping novel in Saintly Murders, the fifth Kathryn Swinbrooke mystery. Perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Ellis Peters.
In the late summer of 1472, medieval physician and apothecary Kathryn Swinbrooke is summoned to investigate yet another...
A Tapestry of Murders (Canterbury Tales Mysteries, Book 2)
Terror and intrigue in medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Even death cannot stop her...
Paul Doherty relates the Man of Law's tale in A Tapestry of Murders - a tale of mystery and murder as he goes on pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Susanna Gregory.
Chaucer's pilgrims, quarrelling amongst themselves,...