Fiction - Thrillers - Historical

"Wilson's superbly taut novel keeps up its pace with spare punctuation and brutal dialogue in a vigorously drawn landscape feverish with the heat of a bushfire summer."-The Saturday Paper "Wilson's beautiful writing stands out in harsh contrast to the world of violence, heartache, and...

A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings...

A gripping new novel inspired by a real place and events from the author's family, Trouble Island is the standalone suspense debut from historical mystery writer Sharon Short.Many miles from anywhere in the middle of Lake Erie, Trouble Island serves as a stop-off for...

Inspired by the Little Chicago era in Henderson, Kentucky, Turn a Blind Eye spins a tale of lawlessness, racketeering, and murder-and of one World War II veteran's struggle to take back the vice-ridden community he discovers after a decade away from home.Alone and lonely,...

A socialite living in late-1930s New York City disappears without a trace in Unseasonably Cold, Amy Ephron's elegant, melancholy noir of secrets, misapprehensions, and deceptions.Replete with beautifully observed period detail and sharply drawn characters, Unseasonably Cold is classic storytelling, a mystery crafted with an...

A chance meeting on a windswept English moor sparks an obsessive--and soon deadly--love affair between two lonely young women in this clever inversion of the Gothic classics, with a fresh spin that could only come from the award-winning author of A Haunting on the...

In his inimitable "two track" style of creating a fictional future and flashing back to actual events in recent history, Peter T. King once again places Congressman Sean Cross at the center of international terrorism, this time coming from radical Islam in cahoots with...

A brand-new Courtney Series adventure and book 8 in the Birds of Prey sequence by Wilbur Smith. ENEMIES BY BIRTH. BROTHERS IN BLOOD. Van Diemen's Land, 1835 Ralph Courtney has had everything taken from him - his wife, his son, his fortune, his freedom...

Se enfrentaron al horror y lucharon contra la injusticia.Pero nada reconcilia más que el amor.Recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en un Berlín arrasado y sin futuro aparente, Victoria sobrevive cantando cada noche en el club Kassandra. Pese a tener una mente prodigiosa, capaz...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers a secret that brings the greatest shock of her life. "I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the...

The gripping epic novel of the 1979 Iranian Revolution by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James ClavellTehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian people rise up against the Shah. The country, once...

A breathtaking and cinematic novel about the lust for gold and its bloody consequences, set in the unforgiving landscape of the sub-Arctic Canadian wilderness, from the acclaimed author of The North Water A ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson...

"Superb historical fiction, as fresh, vivid and vital as this morning's headlines ... proves once again that nothing really changes, be it a soldier's life - or great storytelling."--Lee Child AN ENDLESS WAR.A BLOOD-SOAKED BATTLEFIELD.A BAND OF BROTHERS. The epic sequel to Essex Dogs,...

A New York Times Bestseller Now with Sharon Stone signed on to produce and star in the movieFrom the author of the award-winning Fugitive Colors and The Unbreakables, a gripping tale of a young, ambitious journalist embroiled in an international art scandal centered around...

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. World...

#1 New York Times Bestseller In 1989, Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. World...