Historical Mystery category: 10101 books

First Place Winner of the 2018 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Historical Mystery Award and fourth book in the USA Today bestselling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series. It’s the summer of 1880, and once again the lovely and inquisitive businesswoman, Annie Fuller, is helping San Francisco...

~National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award Finalist~ ~Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/ Suspense Finalist~ "This book had it all: drama, laughter and a few tears as well. The chemistry between Harry and Tessa just sizzled off the pages....If I could I would give...

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN..."Sanctuary! In God's name you must give it!"A dark lady rides back into the life of Dame Frevisse, bearing with her two small boys haunted by the touch of death and scandal. Nine men lie dead on the road behind them, victims of the grim fate which relentlessly...

Historical mystery. In the icy winter of 1786, in the final years before the French Revolution, hunger, cold, and seething frustration with the iron grip of France’s absolute monarchy drive poor and rich alike to outright defiance. Slums, fashionable cafés, and even aristocratic mansions echo with...

When I decided to thrust my detective sleuth from the 1860s in New York City into the world of steampunk, I was being subconsciously prodded by authors like Albert Camus, Franz Kafka and Thomas Pynchon. Patrick James O’Malley, my hero, needed to be shaken to his roots. What better way is there for...

Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Nevermore in this historical murder mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe.  It’s the spring of 1844 and Poe and his young wife, Sissy, have moved to Manhattan, the publishing center of America.  When showman P.T. Barnum advertises a display of...

This “witty” mystery set in ancient Greece is “sure to amuse Lindsey Davis and Elizabeth Peters fans” (Booklist, starred review). In this historical murder mystery that “blends humor with fascinating details about the ancient world,” Nicolaos, the only private investigator in Athens,...

Henry David Thoreau leaves the seclusion of Walden Pond to help investigate a series of murders in the first in B. B. Oak's fascinating new historical mystery series, set against the bucolic backdrop of 19th century New England. The lush, overgrown banks of Massachusetts's Assabet river are...

"SECRETS AND LIES by Marilyn J. Clay is a terrific book! Four young women - Diana, Sallie Mae, Faith and Prudence come from England on a Bride Ship to marry colonists and help settle the New World. Each girl brings a secret. After surviving the terrible trip across the sea, they find life in...

4 character-driven short mysteries set in frontier Canada and steeped in whimsy **From award-winning author Alexandra Amor** Over 350 pages of quirky charm and old-fashioned values, with some modern themes for good measure, the Town Called Horse short mystery collection is the love child...

PITCH-PERFECT HISTORICAL: Set during the mid 1800s, following the famous Florence Nightingale, this historical mystery will be sure to appeal to fans of Florence Nightingale, medical mysteries, and Victorian history, alike. TIMED RELEASE: We will be publishing this book four days before Florence...

". . . when at last the clues come together, no-one could have imagined the bizarre outcome. This is a superb whodunit . . . ~Melanie S., eBook Discovery Reviewer Insurance Executive Implicated in Murder of Mysterious Woman in Murder Me Twice by P.J. Conn -- Los Angeles, California,...

This is an eBook that consolidates all three novels of the Third Eye Trilogy into one version. Description: In this fast-moving mystery/thriller, Clay Barton and Shali Faisal seek ancient documents hidden since the beginning of recorded time--documents that could forever change the course of...

Here's a historical murder mystery, for you, set in the 18th century, one Christmas Day... Someone is killing the lordlings in London.Get your copy of Sarah Barton's "Hunting the Wren" to discover this intriguing who dunnit. "Mrs." Elizabeth Rowland is the young housekeeper...