Historical crime and mysteries

A chilling Gothic tale of warped passion and bizarre murder by the master of the historical whodunit.

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

Matthew Damon was a loving father and a figure of moral rectitude.

One October night in the middle of the twentieth century Detective Inspector John Cheviot got into a taxi, bound for New Scotland Yard.

Dick Darwent brooded in a dark cell of Newgate Prison - waiting to be hanged.

The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-law in the room opposite.

Relating Sherlock Holmes's part in real-life crimes of the day, Donald Thomas brings the Great Detective to life once again in six narratives that display Holmes at his most determined, inventive and downright devious.

For more than two decades, Sherlock Holmes played a vital, though secret, role in solving the major crimes and scandals of his day - some too damaging to the monarchy, the government or the security of the nation to be fully revealed at the time.

The sensational events of the summer of 1907 - the disappearance of the Ascot Gold Cup from the Royal Enclosure, and the even more astonishing theft of the Irish Crown Jewels from a locked and guarded strongroom in Dublin Castle - remain mysterious but apparently random events.

When John Posthumous Lerici, decadent poet, black magician and unacknowledged son of Lord Byron, is murdered, the family hire Inspector Swain.

Robert Louis Stevenson's strange and sinister tale of the gentle Dr Jekyll and the sadistic Mr Hyde is filled with oddities suggesting a dark reality behind a classic fiction.

In the slum alleys of Lambeth in 1891 a sinister silk-hatted figure lurks in the shadows - but trade is there for the taking and a girl must make a living.

The man the world knew as Lewis Carroll, author of the adventures of Alice, was known to his colleagues in the Christ Church Common Room as the Reverend C.

Beautiful and engaging and cleverManda Scott, bestselling author ofA Treachery of Spies A young witch to rival Tiffany Aching.

';Intriguing, comforting and endearingly familiar' Katie Fforde';The BBC's most downloaded radio show' The Guardian';Incredible legacy' The BBC';Longest running drama in the world' The iNewsWonderfully nostalgic and comfortingCulture Fly Its 1941 and the war rumbles on.

From the million-copySunday Times bestseller comes a thrilling novel about a woman with an extraordinary life, based on a true story.

';A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES,BEST BOOKS OF 2020 From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a beautiful and compelling story based on true events,perfect for fans of Maggie OFarrell and Helen Dunmore.

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ';This excellent debut is a melancholic reminder of the rippling after-effects of war'The Times A touching novel of love and lossSunday TimesFor fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz andWhere The Crawdads Singcomes a moving story, inspired by real events, about how hope and love will prevail against all odds.

*SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH, MARCH 2021* ';Absolutely spellbinding.

From the author ofLegacy, now a major BBC Film, comes a brilliant new historical crimenovella for fans of Antonia Hodgson and CJ Sansom.

The UNMISSABLE novel from the million-copySunday Timesbestseller.

From the million-copySunday Timesbestsellercomes a timeless love story, lost in letters of the past .

A heart-warming and nostalgic family saga from the acclaimed author of The Land Girls.

ThinkWuthering Heightsor Jane Eyre, butten times darker, and you haveThe Vanishing as dark and eerie and gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on.

I found the photograph album by chance when we were clearing out the old coach house.

A heart of darkness beats within this sparkling series.

';Beautifully written and superbly executed' Times This clever and moving Faustian tale is packed with fascinating historical detail Express Ajoyous romp around England's dark past Suzie Feay, GuardianFrom the author of the bestselling The Time Travellers Guide to Restoration Britain, this isa stunningly high-concept historical novelthat is both as daring as it is gripping, andperfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, SJ Parris and Kate Mosse.

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

Up there with the very best .

Secrets from the past, unravelling in the present Uncovering secrets that span generations, Rachel delivers intriguing,involving and emotive narrative reading group fiction like few other writers can.

The Fifth Gospel is that rare story: erudite and a page-turner, literary but compulsively readable David Baldacci 2004.

A thrilling seat-of-the-pants adventure perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Scott Mariani In Antarctica, a glacial earthquake swallows up a team of scientistsand exposes a mysterious monument older than the Earth itself.

In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in LAs South Pacific Train Station.

Belphégor est un roman de crime de l'écrivain français Arthur Bernède.

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRALIn Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice.

Responding to a cryptic summons to a remote country house, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold finds himself responsible for restoring a magnificent library pillaged during the English Civil War, and in the process slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies and smugglers, ciphers and forgeries.

This page-turner with a difference by multimillion copy bestselling author Paul Sussman is a must-read for anyone looking for something original.

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One day in June 1931 the body of a young girl was found on a lonely beach in Long Island, New York.

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR YOUR FAMILY, FOR LOVE, FOR REVENGE?

An atmospheric and gripping novel from an exciting new voice for fans of The Snow Child and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.

One perfect island.

A DOOMED VOYAGEApril 14th 1912.

Jamie Saintclair embarks on another action-packed historical adventure, guaranteed to have you gripped from page one!

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Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year.

From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker - Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 - comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing.

In the Roman Empire no one is safe from the sting of betrayal: man, woman - or child.

Enjoy reading The Messenger, a standalone Lucan Drakenfeld 9,000 word short story that will appeal to fans of C J Sansom.

A taut, riveting drama from legendary author Cormac McCarthy, The Gardener's Son is a tale of two families in post-Civil War South Carolina: one, owners of the local cotton mill, the other a family of mill workers beset by misfortune.