Historical mysteries books

"The Oath introduces Sybil Norcroft into the welter of problems, extreme decisions, personal and public confrontations...  Read More >>

Will Rees and his wife Lydia get caught up in a dangerous murder case where no one trusts them.  Read More >>

Will Rees and his wife Lydia get caught up in a dangerous murder case where no one trusts them.  Read More >>

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A delicious detective story set in 1930s New York, and the winner of the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer...  Read More >>

Spring is in the air, and Ellison Russell has places to go, people to see, bodies to find. Strike that. For once,...  Read More >>

For fans of The Thursday Murder Club comes the thrilling opener to a new Agatha Christie-style mystery series set...  Read More >>

A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station, and finds herself of a ship bound for South...  Read More >>

When Benjamin January agrees to carry a message from a runaway slave during a cholera epidemic in 1833, he becomes...  Read More >>

When Benjamin January agrees to carry a message from a runaway slave during a cholera epidemic in 1833, he becomes...  Read More >>

When Benjamin January agrees to carry a message from a runaway slave during a cholera epidemic in 1833, he becomes...  Read More >>

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A pauper is killed in a tavern. Manslaughter or Murder? His niece is going to find out which. But she's just a servant,...  Read More >>

When a violent storm blasts England's south coast, it's up to retired Italian detective Giuseppe Bianchi to sift...  Read More >>

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: A.A. Knopf Subjects: Fiction...  Read More >>

A delicious detective story set in 1930s New York, and the winner of the inaugural Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer...  Read More >>

""The White Companyis a lively romance, and very good reading for boys and friends of old times and tall knights.""...  Read More >>

Government scientist, Professor Juniper has been developing biological weapons. So when he goes missing with a biological...  Read More >>

Que feriez-vous si votre vie entiere avait ete effacee ? Une ile grecque, un peu avant minuitAriane, sa fille et...  Read More >>

For fans of C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series, a fabulous historical mystery series set in early America. Making things...  Read More >>

This, the first Sherlock Holmes novel, is a story of revenge and persistance which begins in Victorian England but...  Read More >>

Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate...  Read More >>

Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate...  Read More >>

MOST of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a LifeAssurance Office, I think I have...  Read More >>

A pall of fog lay over the world so heavy that it beaded the face and hands and deposited a fairy diamond dust upon...  Read More >>