Severn House Publishers: 1125 books

As Jacobites conspire against the English throne, a desperate woman contends with a mysterious suitor in this historical romance of love, war, and deception. Proud and penniless, the raven-haired Sophia knows only two things about the wildly dashing and mysterious Philip Rich: that he’s the...

On-board the MV Helios, cruising around the Mediterranean, copywriter David Ansell is seeking inspiration to write a glowing account of his voyage for the ship’s owner, Rex Cruising Company. His inspiration comes in the form of the blonde and beautiful Melanie Caine and they are inseparable for...

Government girl Louise is blackmailed into investigating the suspicious death of a missing co-worker, with sinister consequences. 1940s Washington, DC, government girl Louise Pearlie is asked to review the file usage of a missing analyst from the Office of Strategic Services—the US wartime...

The third book in the Louise Pearlie Mysteries is “an entertaining combination of mystery, adventure, and romance, with a great sense of place and time” (Historical Novel Society). Young widow Louise Pearlie seizes a chance to escape the typewriters and files of the Office of Strategic...

Should this 1950s wife and mother stay at home with the children . . . or leave the marriage to reignite the career in music she gave up years ago?   This is the story of Peter and Zina Marchand. We are joining them when they have been married some ten years and he is a film star at the height...

A ghostly Delaware detective must reach the living to save an expectant mother from an untimely demise in this paranormal mystery. In life, Kevin Fahey was an unremarkable cop. But he hasn’t let death stop him from doing his job when he sees something amiss among the living. Haunting the...

The eighteenth-century musician and amateur sleuth witnesses a murder in the streets of Newcastle in this “clever mystery full of interesting characters” (Kirkus Reviews). Newcastle upon Tyne, 1736. Newly married to a lady of means, musician Charles Patterson is learning to juggle his devotion...

When a woman is murdered in an exclusive Bristol residence, Det. Constable Sukey Reynolds must sift through tenants’ complaints to find the killer. Det. Constable Vicky Armstrong and her colleague, DC Sukey Reynolds, are complaining about the lack of new serious cases. Of course, that doesn’t...

The “wisecracking California . . . PI with a poet’s soul” returns to investigate a girl’s past that just might be out this world (Booklist Online). San Diego detective Rolly Waters’s newest client has a common request: find out who her real parents are. The client herself, however,...

An English lady of breeding betrays her family by marrying a working-class soldier in this WWII romance from the author of A Mind of Her Own. Lieutenant Kate Russell had her post-war life all mapped out, planning to marry a man with a pedigree as sound as her own. Because confidence, beauty,...

Jack Colby, car detective, is plunged into a dangerous investigation when he agrees to track down a classic car that’s been missing for over a decade.When car detective Jack Colby is asked by the ‘Mad Major’ to find one of the original five cars that took place in the original Peking to Paris...

British car detective Jack Colby reaches back to WWII to uncover the deadly secrets of a legendary 1937 Alfa Romeo Spyder. Jack Colby’s old friend, the world-renowned classic-car portraitist Giovanni Donati, has a sweet new gig: paint an exceptionally rare Alfa Romeo Spyder that was last...

The blind former Detective Inspector investigates a teenage boy’s baffling confession of murder in this gripping British mystery by “a major talent” (Val McDermid). When popular high school student Rob Beresford comes home crying and covered in blood, his mother, Clara, can’t believe...

A young woman’s murder leads a British detective deep into the shadows of a wealthy family’s secret past—where a killer lies in wait. It would be the height of British understatement to say that retired surgeon Charles Bromley and his step-daughter Antonia Halliday do not have the rosiest...