Historical crime and mysteries

Deutschland 1927.

London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend.

A grove of huge oak trees in the Wealden forest is felled.

Short-listed for the 2002 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel Dr.

The serenity of Hawkenlye Abbey has been disturbed by the arrival of a new nun and her two young sisters.

The young beautiful Galena and her husband, the much older Ambrose are trying for a child but to no avail.

A man from London has taken over running the tavern on the main London to Hastings highway to the south of Tonbridge.

Keine Frage: Manfred Baumann ist ein Sonderling.

'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye.

En 1871, en tierras del Estado Soberano del Tolima (Colombia) se abre un expediente judicial por el crimen de José María Cadavid.

Eine Liebesgeschichte: Nora ist Striptease-Tänzerin in einer Diskothek, sie sieht perfekt aus, beherrscht das Spiel mit der Neugier und der Lust des Publikums.

'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye.

¿Qué fuera del esplendor de la gran Tenochtitlan, la ciudad donde los mexicas construyeron el centro del universo y fuera asombro de los conquistadores españoles, quienes entonces dominaban la esfera del poder y las ideas?

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize 2009Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize 2009Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both winners of The Man Booker Prize, in 2009 and 2012 respectively, are the first two instalments in Hilary Mantel's Tudor trilogy.

A winter weekend ends in snowbound disaster in a novel which remains a favourite among Marsh readers.

Clever and witty art history-mystery featuring Jonathon Argyll, scholar and sleuth, from the bestselling author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.

Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel.

Now in development for television with Endeavor Content "e;An auspicious debut mystery.

Passion, politics, love and death combine in a novel of the legendary love triangle between the three leaders of the Roman era: Cleopatra, Mark Antony and Octavian, from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds.

COMING SOON TO TV: COOPER AND FRY, starring Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey) and Mandip Gill (Doctor Who)A death in the family-from-hell bring Detectives Fry and Cooper to a remote and unfriendly rural community in their fourth psychological thriller.

This early work by Anna Katharine Green was originally published in 1905 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction.

This early work by Robert Barr was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

'I defy you to read the first chapter and not singe your fingers reading all the rest.

Another engrossing historical mystery bringing Ancient Rome to life in all its gruesome glory from the pen of multimillion-copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis.

Painter and amateur sleuth Georgia O'Keeffe investigates a tragic death when she returns to Taos in the second instalment of this twisty historical mystery set in the 1930s by multi award-winning author Kathryn Lasky.

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1854.

Henry Johnstone has retired from his role as detective chief inspector, but is drawn back to an old case in Lincolnshire by an astonishing development in this page-turning mystery.

When an exhibition featuring London's top engineers results in sudden, violent death, Victorian writer-sleuths Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens investigate.

In the year that the Colonel died he took little Rupert to see the swallows fly away.

The future of Thorncroft House and its occupants is in the balance while a mysterious murder brings up a past best forgotten!

Be careful what you wish for .

An ancient and mysterious book leads Crispin Guest into a deadly maze in this latest medieval noir mystery.

Lady Betty Calder is a prostitute and a blackmailer - or is it her sister, Glynis, using her name?

What do a desperate woman with a secret, a dead man in a drainage ditch and a dark figure in the night have in common?

The past is never far behind you .

Young Roderick Kinsmere was a country bumpkin when he strolled into the Great Court of Charles II's Whitehall Palace.

A haunting mystery for fans of Eve Chase, Dinah Jefferies and Kate Mosse.

This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1886.

Henry VIII's court jester Will Somers turns reluctant inquisitor once again when a grotesque murder within the palace walls is linked to the Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion in this gripping Tudor mystery.

STUART TURTON'S INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD NOW IS OUT NOW'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this one' Daily MailCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY EXPRESS AND i PAPERWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR FICTION SELECTED FOR THE BBC TWO BOOK CLUB BETWEEN THE COVERS AND THE RADIO 2 JO WHILEY BOOK CLUBAn impossible murder A remarkable detective duo A demon who may or may not exist It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported from the Dutch East Indies to Amsterdam, where he is facing trial and execution for a crime he may, or may not, have committed.

One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written, Ferney will appeal to fans of The Time Travellers Wife and Life After Life.

Autumn, AD 672.

When an old friend asks Superintendent Tom Harper for help, he finds himself drawn into a deadly web of intimidation, corruption and misery on the streets of Leeds.

Winter is about to take a chilling twist.

'A story to savour, complete with wonderful settings stretching from Paris to the glorious countryside of southern France' Dinah JefferiesA LOVEREADING BOOK OF THE YEAR from the bestselling author behind Channel 5's Carol Drinkwater's Secret Provence________Since her teenage daughter went missing four years ago, Kurtiz Ross has blamed and isolated herself.

FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene take a final stand against the deadliest serial killer in the history of New York: Pendergast's own ancestor, Dr.

The debut cosy culinary crime thriller from Suk Pannu, creator of BBC Radio 4's Mrs Sidhu Investigates and writer for Goodness, Gracious, Me and The Kumars at No.

In this third novel in the series, Thaddeus Lewis and his son journey into the heart of disaster.