Historical Mystery Fiction

List includes historical mystery fiction.

Updated January 9, 2026
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Alibi : a novel
Kanon, Joseph.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes Joseph Kanon's riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice. Winner of the Hammett Prize It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed...
The black tower
Bayard, Louis
Paper Book
From Louis Bayard, the acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye, comes The Black Tower, a stunning and pitch-perfect novel featuring the real-life criminal who transformed himself into the world's first and greatest detective. In The Black Tower, Bayard deftly interweaves political...
Bleeding Heart Square
Taylor, Andrew
Paper Book
If Philippa Penhow hadn't gone to Bleeding Heart Square on that January day, you and perhaps everyone else might have lived happily ever after . . . It's 1934, and the decaying London cul-de-sac of Bleeding Heart Square is an unlikely place of refuge for aristocratic Lydia...
The dark water : the strange beginnings of Sherlock Holmes
Pirie, David.
Paper Book
"The cliffhanger adventures of Bell and Doyle keep us enthralled, as does the -graceful flow of Pirie's evocative storytelling."- The New York Times Book Review "Pirie's knowledge of Doyle's biography, as well as of the Holmes canon, makes [him] an intellectual treat and a downright guilty...
Eagle & crane
Rindell, Suzanne.
Ebook
Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Japanese citizens during World War II, from the author of The Other Typist and Three-Martini Lunch. Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada--Eagle and Crane--are the star...
A forgotten place
Todd, Charles.
Ebook
Though the Great War has ended, Bess Crawford finds herself caught in deadly circumstances on a remote Welsh headland in this tenth entry from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author. The fighting has ended, the Armistice signed, but the war has left wounds that are still...
Ghost walk : a Rose McQuinn mystery
Knight, Alanna.
Paper Book
Three years have passed since Rose McQuinn, daughter of Scotland's renowned Chief Inspector Jimmy Faro, returned home grieving the loss of both her husband and baby son. Now a Lady Investigator, Discretion Guaranteed, she is about to remarry when a ghost walks back into her life.
The glass ocean
Williams, Beatriz.
Ebook
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century--two deep in the past, one in the present--to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. May 2013
The god of the woods A novel
Moore, Liz.
Ebook
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES "BEST THRILLER" and "BEST CRIME NOVEL" OF THE YEAR PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR "Extraordinary . . ....
The Honjin murders
Yokomizo, Seishi
Paper Book
One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best loved detective, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But...
Pursuit : a Victorian entertainment
Picano, Felice
Paper Book
Handsome, intelligent, street-smart, ruthlessly ambitious, and omnisexual, young Addison Grimmins has been hired by the Lord Exchequer of England to be his second and to do what Lord R. cannot do himself. After a country estate wedding, the Marchioness of R. is discovered missing. Is it a...
Tell me no lies
Noble, Shelley
Paper Book
Miss Fisher meets Downton Abbey in Tell Me No Lies, part of the critically acclaimed Lady Dunbridge Mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble. Rise and shine, Countess, you're about to have a visitor. ...

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