Browsing: Historical Mysteries

An Edgar Award finalist from the New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: When the US ambassador’s son is found frozen in a lake and the child of a powerful Chinese family is discovered dead, David Stark and Liu Hulan must prove the crimes are connected.

A gripping read from the legendary Queen of Crime! When Simeon Lee is murdered during a family reunion on Christmas Eve, detective Hercule Poirot discovers everyone in attendance has a motive… “Never has Poirot’s mighty brain functioned more brilliantly than in Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” (The New York Times).

From a USA Today bestselling author: After years of living in seclusion, Lady Lila March is determined to return to the outside world — so she recruits Hugh Savage, a notorious London street fighter, to help her prepare. Can these two wounded souls find healing and tenderness in each other’s arms?

When a night at the theater ends in murder, amateur sleuth Alice Beckingham investigates the case… but the house is packed with witnesses and suspects alike! Can Alice unmask the killer — before she becomes the next victim? A compelling historical whodunit.

“Superb” (The New York Times): In 12th-century England, gifted young healer Allie investigates a puzzling series of disappearances in a small village — and finds herself on the trail of a killer… A twisty whodunit from a series hailed as “medieval mystery writing at its best” (New York Daily News).

“Grafton’s novel is not simply a historical curio, but a genuinely offbeat and entertaining suspense story.”—The Washington PostThe second book…

An international bestseller! In 1950s Ireland, DI St. John Strafford stumbles upon an aristocratic family’s puzzling secrets when he investigates the murder of a parish priest. “Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format… Superbly rich and sophisticated” (The New York Times Book Review).

Her undercover life… Her secret childDancing in speakeasies at night is dutiful heiress Betty Dryer’s only escape from her father’s…

On a dreary Denver night in 1951, Dewey Webb’s best friend Chet Inglewood is attacked, launching Dewey into an investigation…

Glittering Gilded-Age New York holds its lavish charms–and a litany of deadly sins–as intrepid reporter Genevieve Stewart uncovers a trail…