Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Historical

The Devil in the White City meets Pride and Prejudice in this romantic historical murder mystery set at the 1904 World's Fair. The St. Louis World's Fair, 1904: A miniature city of palaces and pavilions that becomes a backdrop for romance, betrayal--and murder. Cousins...

An ancient family diary. A timely prophecy. An epic conclusion.As Sylvia prepares to meet Gabe's parents for the first time, the last thing she needs is for her long-lost father to cause trouble. While his answers to her questions finally bring clarity, they also...

An ancient family diary. A timely prophecy. An epic conclusion.As Sylvia prepares to meet Gabe's parents for the first time, the last thing she needs is for her long-lost father to cause trouble. While his answers to her questions finally bring clarity, they also...

James Answell is paying a visit to his future father-in-law, the champion archer Avory Hume, at his Grosvenor Street townhouse. Invited into the study and offered a drink, Answell suddenly swoons--and awakes to find the door and windows locked from the inside. His host...

The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit. London, 1940. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor--well,...

This gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane. New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan's hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time...

This gritty crime novel set in 1990s New York City will appeal to fans of Dennis Lehane. New York, 1993. Jimmy Lettner, a convicted drug-trafficker who once lost a daughter in a narco-fueled car wreck, runs Manhattan's hottest nightspot, Abattoir. Reformed by his time...

A wildly entertaining debut and homage to the classic murder mystery set in post-WWII London where a stranger's arrival at a boarding house sets a deadly chain of events in motion--perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Agatha Christie, and Richard Osman. London, 1953. Jimmy...

A wildly entertaining debut and homage to the classic murder mystery set in post-WWII London where a stranger's arrival at a boarding house sets a deadly chain of events in motion--perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Agatha Christie, and Richard Osman. London, 1953. Jimmy...

It's January of 1704, and Matthew Corbett continues his mission to Italy, accompanied by Hudson Greathouse and former enemy Professor Fell. They seek Brazio Valeriani and information about the mirror created by his father, the sorcerer Ciro. Legend claims the mirror can be used...

In a house this haunted, both the living and the dead pose dangers to a female journalist in nineteenth-century New York in a chilling historical gothic by the author of Who Is the Liar.It's 1850 when intrepid journalist and women's-rights advocate Edith Ann, "E....

In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as "old maids" to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. To most of...

When burglars break into Hope Mausoleum and violate Crypt 1083-A, where the remains of the former Girod Street Cemetery are housed, New Orleans property crimes detective Thibodeaux "Bo" Duplessis is confronted with three confounding questions: Who are the burglars? Why did they break into...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal."Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes's family while also...

A vanished conclave. An empty Sistine Chapel. And a secret buried for eight centuries.From internationally bestselling author Glenn Cooper comes a gripping Vatican conspiracy thriller that has already topped the charts in Italy.When Pope John XXIV is found dead in his bed just two...

Mary Kelly was the final victim of the infamous Victorian-era serial killer, Jack The Ripper. The circumstances of her death overshadow her life, and in The Last Dance of Mary Kelly, E. David Brown imagines for her a life and occupation beyond the "prostitute"...

Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens's unfinished final manuscript. But Daniel never returns, and when his body is discovered by the docks,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - All will be revealed in this no-holds-barred finale of the Edgar Award-nominated Maggie Hope series as the intrepid spy teams up with fashion designer--and possible double agent--Coco Chanel to bring down the physicist behind Nazi Germany's nuclear program. "Intrepid Maggie Hope's...

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER!"Unstoppable what-happens-next momentum."--Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author"A deliciously tense read."--Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling authorFrom award-winning crime writer and celebrated artist Jonathan Santlofer comes an enthralling tale about the 1911 theft of...

"Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction."--Tana French, New York Times Bestselling Author From the Queen of Suspense, an all-new collection of her spookiest and most sinister stories, including an Agatha Christie story...