Historical Mystery category: 10101 books

Danger, intrigue and mystery unfold in this modern day story based on true historical facts about the lost pages of the Book of Kells. The mystery unfolds when Jack Harrison, a retired intelligence agent, leaves London for the quiet and seclusion of Tasmania where he hopes to revive and restore his...

SCATTERGOOD BAINES TWIDDLES HIS TOES AND PULLS THE STRINGS TO SAVE A YOUNG WOMAN'S LIFE, BRING TWO LOVERS TOGETHER AND SOLVE A BAFFLING MYSTERY! First book publication of this classic 1940s hit magazine serial, featuring one of Kelland's signature, stand-up heroines. Geraldine Quinton,...

Da Vinci's Cases: Three Adventures of Young Leonardo Da Vinci's Cases by Alfred Bekker 360 pages Three mysterious adventures of young Leonardo da Vinci: Leonardo and the Mystery of the Villa Medici Leonardo and the Conspirators of Florence Leonardo...

Historical Novel Society - Editor's Choice An American woman, Addie Bridges, accidentally finds herself in the center of a tense power-struggle in Rand Charles’ gripping and tremendously effective debut novel Fall Irmgard. The year is 1941, and Addie Bridges is in Paris when she witnesses...

England 1923 and the Great War still casts a dark shadow over the lives of ordinary people. Grieving widow, Helen Morrow and her husband’s cousin, the wounded and reclusive Paul, are haunted not only by the horrors of the trenches but ghosts from another time and another conflict. The...

James Murray is a young man with a dream -- to be a writer just like his idol, Dashiell Hammett. He pens his first novel while working as a clerk at a swank downtown department store. He writes his second while working at a famous movie studio turning his first novel into a screenplay. His third novel...

MURDER IN MAIDSTONE is Book 6 in best-selling author Marilyn Clay's popular Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series. Upon arriving at Maidstone Manor to begin her next assignment, Miss Abbott and her maid Tilda are stunned to find that a gentleman on the estate has only just been found face down in...

For the last three years, former investigative reporter Nick Lanouettea recovering sex addict struggling to stay on the wagonhas been attempting to start over with his wife in Portland, Oregon. But after he receives a call about a shirttail Mafioso possibly being framed for the murder of San Diegos...

Welcome to the launch of Anais Devenish’s ebook, Mystery on the S. S. Zephyr. “The dialogue supports the story’s characterisation and the fast-paced investigation. The consequences echo through the rest of the characters’ lives.” E. A. Smith. “This entertaining story shows...

The job presented to forensic genealogist, Morton Farrier, ought to have been simple and easy. But the surprise discovery of an additional marriage to his client’s father leads Morton on an enquiry, revolving around a mysterious death in the county asylum. Requiring his various investigative genealogical...

Anne Perry’s acclaimed William Monk novels have captivated readers with their rich texture and masterly suspense, leading The New York Times Book Review to exclaim, “Give her a good murder and a shameful social evil, and Anne Perry can write a Victorian mystery that would make Dickens’s eyes...

August 1148. The wedding of Godfrid and Cait promises to be the event of the year, and even Gwen has made the journey across the Irish Sea to celebrate. Weddings can be moments around which tensions and resentments pivot, however, so when a monk turns up dead within moments of Gareth and Gwen’s...

In this “enchanting” historical mystery, “medieval England comes marvelously alive” as Brother Cadfael investigates a woman’s baffling disappearance (The Washington Post). In the year of our Lord 1141, August comes in golden as a lion, and two monks ride into the Benedictine Abbey...

Second book in the USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series. In this sequel to Maids of Misfortune, it is the fall of 1879, and when the young San Francisco widow, Annie Fuller, is asked to investigate a fraudulent trance medium, she comes to a troubling realization. Despite...