Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

"Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate."--USA Today ALAN BRADLEY, AUTHOR OF THE MOST AWARD-WINNING SERIES DEBUT OF ANY YEAR, RETURNS WITH ANOTHER IRRESISTIBLE FLAVIA DE LUCE NOVEL. "[Alan] Bradley has created one of the most original, charming, devilishly creative and...

When a blaze takes both a neighbor's home and his life, Emily Dickinson and her maid Willa have a burning desire to crack the case in this new historical mystery from Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. Amherst, 1857. The Dickinson family braves one of...

When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. August 1856. The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of The Frozen River, this enthralling feat of historical suspense unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's claim to be Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess or the thief of another woman's...

Imagine a murder mystery that involves one of rock 'n' roll's greatest artists. Spring, 1972: it's the darkest moment of the Vietnam War, with demonstrations across the country. New York City is sliding toward bankruptcy. It's been nearly two years since the Beatles broke...

Author: Paul DohertyPublisher: HeadlinePublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.29h x 6.06w x 1.34dISBN: 9781035407361About the AuthorPaul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough. He studied History at Liverpool and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate for his thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. He...

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a calamity has occurred. Old Dr. Robinson, a known 'menace on the roads', has met his end in a collision with a jeep on a hazardous junction....

Heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter are about to become more than partners as investigators--they are to be wed at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. But a killer has designs on ruining the wedding as well as their lives . . . AUGUST...

With his customary verve and insight, Terry Roberts' latest novel is an evocative portrait of humankind's capacity for courage, love, and hope as well as folly, and another love ballad to his region of North Carolina. Clinton Salter is the sheriff who never wanted...

In the Midnight Hour An inquisitive bachelor. A mysterious widow. A dangerous partnership in Regency London. Idle heir to an earldom, Viscount Northwood drifts through life with little purpose-until a shocking murder shatters the calm of his quiet London square. His prime suspect? The...

After moving to France, Tabitha Knight has a new friend in fellow expat and Cordon Bleu student Julia Child, whose culinary tips can come in quite handy. But something's cooking in postwar Paris, and it isn't just cheese soufflé... Tabitha has enjoyed an entertaining...

Detective Arkaday Renko--"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY)--risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. Martin Cruz Smith has written nine previous novels featuring Arkady...

Finalist for a 2019 Lefty AwardThe fourth book in the Lane Winslow post-war mystery series, which Kirkus Reviews calls "relentlessly exciting."Summer descends over the picturesque King's Cove as Darling and Lane's mutual affection blossoms, but their respite from solving crime is cut short when...

Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue--the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "series that seems to get better with each entry" (Wall...

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME! The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to...

In this witty standalone masterpiece set during the golden age of silent cinema, a British vaudeville performer turned movie cop finds himself in a real-life crime story. It's 1916, and Warwick Easton's traveling show has landed him in California. Out of money and about...

One bookish debutante. Two dashing suitors. And a season full of scandal.Lady Alaina Sinclair never expected London society to be so treacherous-or so tempting. She has always preferred books to ballrooms, but with a disastrous start to her first season, she's determined to rewrite...

Mary Russell's allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle--and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve. When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn't heard from him in many years, and...

Author: Laurie R. KingPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 07/30/2025Pages: 1Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 8.72h x 5.85w x 1.09dISBN: 9781420526868

Mary Russell's allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle--and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve. When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn't heard from him in many years, and...