Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su...

"A colorful and inventive adventure tale."--Washington Post "It's True Grit, New York style."--New York Post "One of the best mystery novels of the year: wonderful and very entertaining." --New York Journal of Books "Stewart deftly combines the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of early twentieth-century New York...

Lady Bridgerton meets The Thursday Murder Club in the first of a charming, Victorian-set mystery series from bestselling author Colleen Gleason.Lady Darling is a woman "of a certain age." Fifty, to be specific-which, in the eyes of London society, makes her uninteresting, eccentric, and...

SOON TO BE A SERIES FROM APPLE TV!A New York Times BestsellerThe revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who...

Secrets can't stay buried forever-but maybe some should. In bustling, multicultural 1831 New Orleans, Tobias Whitney, the sexton of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, uncovers a journal sealed inside the tomb of Dominique You-war hero of the Battle of New Orleans, privateer, and half-brother...

In the 1930s, scandal, secret loves, and murder shatter a woman's Hollywood dream in a gripping novel by the USA Today bestselling author of When the World Goes Quiet.It's 1933, and though the country is stuck in the Great Depression, movies are the ultimate...

Un huérfano sin pasado. Una vieja leyenda. Una historia de familias, secretos y venganzas que nos descubre el origen de la mafia siciliana. «Un autor con un talento extraordinario .- La Vanguardia«Una gran novela con aroma a clásico .- Toni Hill 1957. El destino...

At a university in Reykjavík, the body of a young German student is discovered, his eyes cut out and strange symbols carved into his chest. Police waste no time in making an arrest, but the victim's family isn't convinced that the right man is...

A "Best Of" Book From: Amazon * Buzzfeed * Rainbow Reading * Library Journal * CrimeReads * BookPage * Book Riot * Autostraddle A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical...

Fans of the GLASS AND STEELE and THE GLASS LIBRARY series will delight in the new magical historical mystery by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, C.J. Archer. Set in the years between the two series, the first volume of Professor Gavin...

Fans of the GLASS AND STEELE and THE GLASS LIBRARY series will delight in the new magical historical mystery by USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, C.J. Archer. Set in the years between the two series, the first volume of Professor Gavin...

From New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, now available in paperback--the tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series--"a series that seems to get better with each entry" (Wall Street Journal)--in which the death of an Indian immigrant leads Maisie...

As we approach the 50th anniversary of Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance on that sultry afternoon in July 1975, Lew Paper has crafted a fast-paced historical thriller which raises new questions about the reasons for the abduction. The book commences with a startling premise: What if...

Delving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of fifteen masterful short stories.With a cohort of writers including Dorothy L. Sayers, Ethel...

As prosperity and great cultural changes sweep across 1920s Jazz Age America, Nola Ann Jackson learns more about developing her natural psychic talents from her aunt--talents that prove crucial when she investigates murder in her Black community--in this thrilling historical mystery written by a...

It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally...

It is August of 1704, and Matthew Corbett and his companions have narrowly escaped the island of Golgotha and are recuperating in the town of Alghero on the northwestern coast of Sardinia, currently under Spanish rule. Hudson Greathouse is at his limits, both mentally...

Author: Olesya LyuznaPublisher: Mysterious PressPublished: 08/04/2026Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9781613167625Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2026Library Journal 06/01/2026 pg. 62Booklist 06/01/2026Publishers Weekly 06/08/2026About the AuthorOlesya Lyuzna is a historical fiction writer with a passion for queer noir. Her debut novel...

The NEW Amazon #1 bestselling "Hanna and Alex" Low Country mystery and suspense series starts here! Charleston attorney and widowed mother, Hanna Walsh, finds herself in the cross-hairs of a dangerous crime syndicate when her husband's murder leads to accusations she's hiding millions in...

Late one summer morning in 1892, a prominent businessman and his second wife were brutally murdered with an axe in their own home. One of the man's two daughters was charged with his murder. The trial was a circus. The outcome was controversial. What...