Historical Mystery category: 10101 books

Come along for the ride full of romance and mystery and meet feisty women who know what they want, and rugged Montana men who just need to be loved. It's 1900, and things are changing fast in sleepy Faith Creek. As the town begins to expand, its inhabitants are getting restless, looking for love and adventure.

The harsh realities of village life in Colonial New England are fertile ground for gossip and superstition. Catherine Williams, a wealthy widow and midwife, refuses to believe that an Irish Catholic servant girl is to blame for the mysterious death of a newborn infant Catherine delivered. With the help...

The untold story behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." In this final installment of the Cattarina Mysteries, Poe House is thrust into turmoil when Constable Harkness's cousin enlists Sissy and Cattarina's help in finding his missing fiancée. The only clue resides in the nest of a raven, and...

To investigate the mysterious death of Crown secret agent Joshua Smallman, Marc Edwards goes undercover in the small town of Crawford’s Corners, wading into rumours of sedition and secret societies. It’s 1836 and Ensign Marc Edwards, of His Majesty’s 24th Regiment of Foot, is eager for...

When it comes to impressing his new in-laws, poor John Pickett hasn't a "ghost" of a chance! After a modest wedding ceremony, Bow Street Runner John Pickett and his bride Julia, the former Lady Fieldhurst, set out for a wedding trip to Somersetshire, where Pickett must face his greatest...

Behind the doors of Hull House lurk many shadowy secrets of love, anger, betrayal, and death that have haunted the Hull family for generations. Laura Hull thought she had escaped when she married a gentle poet and could pursue her love of music. Then the unthinkable happens and Laura returns to Hull...

For the first time, all of Victorian medium Sybil Ingram’s adventures are available in one collection! Now you can own all three full-length novels and five short stories starring the intrepid actress-turned-detective as she uncovers mystery, hauntings, and romance. The set contains: Nocturne...

From the author of In Farleigh Field... Molly Murphy is starting to think the cards are stacked against her. She's determined to be a private detective, but hampering her investigations is the fact that she's finding many places in turn-of-the-century New York City where women are not welcome,...

She was all he had, an oasis of acceptance in this foreign, brutal land. He was her only hope of escaping an unwanted marriage. Standing on the banks of the James River, Rosetta listens to an impossible story from an impossible source. Ghosts aren't real. Everyone knows that. And she's not some...

Join private investigator Maggie Sullivan for a fast-paced ride through streets and alleys of 1940s Dayton, Ohio, in the first four books of this historical mystery series that blends cozy with harboiled. The set includes the Shamus Award-winning novel Don't Dare a Dame plus these titles: No Game...

Manhattan socialite Elizabeth Adams returns in this upcoming historical cozy mystery by Peg Cochran.

If you're not yet acquainted with the Jewish Regency Mystery Series, this is a great way to get introduced. Included in the holiday box set are: TEMPEST IN THE TEA ROOM: "[A] highly recommended page-turner" —Jewish Book Council In this full-length novel set in Regency London, a...

The international bestselling author of The Corsican delivers “a carefully constructed and evocative Civil War-era tale.” —John Lutz, New York Times–bestselling author When Johnny Came Marching Home is a mystery, a love story, and William Heffernan’s best book to date. The novel tells...

'What a joy! Reads like a classic nineteenth-century mystery with a twist, richly dark and full of gaslit menace' LESLEY THOMSON. They will see me hang for this. London, 1855. In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in a metal canoe. The...