Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

FINALIST FOR THE CERCADOR PRIZE!What happens to a country and its people after 35 years of terror? The author of Poso Wells and Family Album explores the aftermath of a dictatorship in this gothic family saga."Gabriela Alemán has written a terrible and beautiful story...

From "one of the best authors of espionage fiction" (Wall Street Journal), a book of deception and money to be made amid the rubble of World War IIFrom an author whose books have been described as "one of the great pleasures of modern spy...

A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars must travel from revolution-torn France to Louisiana to rescue a young noblewoman, but he is quickly ensnared in a complex web of political intrigue and violence in this thrilling historical fiction adventure. As the War of 1812 rages...

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD*A Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA New York Times Editors' Choice Pick"Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format...superbly rich and sophisticated."--New York Times Book Review The incomparable Booker Prize winner's...

"A small, perfect novel." ―Washington Post Book World In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter...

This pulse-pounding, brilliantly twisting new historical thriller is a gripping tale that will leave you questioning everything.September 1943: Berlin is the heart of darkness--and the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she's been summoned from Copenhagen to...

The third novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series--the inspiration for the Hulu original series Shardlake! C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution,...

The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexplicable tragedies-and they demand that beautiful widow Rachel Howarth be tried and executed for witchcraft. Presiding over the trial is traveling magistrate Isaac Woodward, aided by his astute...

As a doctor's wife in a thriving Adirondack village in the 1920s, Ella Devine seems to have an ideal life. Her husband grew rich catering to New York City socialites who wanted to hide their TB diagnoses from their friends. Their marriage is devoid...

"A sweeping tale that offers lessons from the not-so-distant past." -Kirkus Reviews"Doll masterfully reveals what lies just below the surface of every human soul." -Judge Paul Bernal, official historian of the City of San Jose"Cinematic in its scope, St. James Park is a movie...

Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls--responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea--know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes a novel set in 1940s London about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another....

Ten children, abducted in broad daylight-and buried alive.Sage and her sister won't make it home from school today. Neither will the other children on Bus 315. But that's only the beginning of the nightmare.New bus driver Jessa blames herself for what happened. She couldn't...

Si estás solo, triste y melancólico El Susurrador vendrá a por ti. Si dejas una puerta entreabierta pronto escucharas los susurros...Hace quince años un psicópata conocido como El Susurrador sembró el caos en el apacible pueblo de Featherbank.Ahora, con el asesino entre rejas, el...

By mid-1971 the U.S. Army's Long Range Recon Patrol/Ranger teams had learned to out guerrilla the Viet Cong North Vietnamese when it came to behind the lines jungle fighting. With hit and run ambushes, prisoner snatches, and sneaking and peeking, the five and six...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"A juicy melodrama cast against the sultry, stylish imagery of North Africa in the fifties." --The New YorkerThe last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two...

"In a well-crafted debut, Smith-Blum provides the reader a ringside seat to the birth of the nuclear age...a beautifully written, important story...Tangles packs a punch and hits close to home." -Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of The Tracy Crosswhite SeriesOppenheimer was just...

A masterful espionage thriller that delves into the murky depths of international intrigue and conspiracy, set in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Charles McCarry's novel, a major bestseller, follows Paul Christopher, an American intelligence officer and former Marine, as he...

"Pop your favorite Agatha Christie whodunnit into a blender with a scoop of Downton Abbey, a dash of Quantum Leap, and a liberal sprinkling of Groundhog Day and you'll get this unique murder mystery." --Harper's BazaarTHE NATIONAL BESTSELLER!The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER now in a limited-edition 7 1/2 anniversary edition with gold foil cover, Art Deco edges, custom illustrations, and exclusive new work from Stuart Turton outlining how he wrote one of the most mind-bending mysteries of all time.The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn...