Historical crime and mysteries

Privateer by Tim Severin is the fourth swashbuckling adventure in the Pirate series.

The Reckoning is a stunning, atmospheric crime novel teeming with twists and moving between the 1940s, the First and Second World Wars.

One spy.

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An extract from the start of Tim Severin's second thrilling historical adventure set in Saxon times.

Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room.

*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*Chicago, 1928.

Inspired by the classical ancient world and authors such as C J Sansom, Retribution is the second Drakenfeld novel, in Mark Charan Newton's thrilling fantasy crime series.

In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic and enduringly popular detectives in crime fiction.

A body is found in the woods .

A body is found in a chicken run .

Bella Wallis respectable society widow with a secret identity as a writer of sensationalist novels is now happily engaged to the love of her life, Philip Westland.

Frank Spargo, a young London journalist in search for a big story, stumbles upon a crime scene in Middle Temple Lane.

A gripping fantasy historical adventure from the international #1 bestselling author of the OUTLANDER series.

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

Spring, 1648.

Summer, 1643England is at war with itself.

The king's coronation brings hope.

'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily ExpressArthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant of Eel Marsh House.

A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

The night before brilliant but erratic composer Charles Jessold's opera - about a betrayed husband who murders his wife and her lover - is due to open, Jessold is found dead, having apparently murdered his wife and her lover.

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A sinister tale' GuardianThe classic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls.

'Lindsey Davis combines an engrossing plot with pithy dialogue and a comic (though not cartoonish) depiction of the past in all its gory splendour' The Guardian'Modern, exciting and plausible' Sunday Times_________________GANGSTERS AND GLADIATING.

The defenestration of a ruthless theatre impresario's young son was definitely not the best way to end the play's first night party.

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious.

Fans of Ellis Peters, S J Parris, Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell will love Candace Robb's gripping and compelling murder mystery - full of suspense and tension and with a real sense of medieval York.

Fans of S.

One of the stories from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series.

'Surely the best historical detective in the business!

A NEW EMPEROR SEEKS AN EXPERIENCED AGENTMarcus Didius Falco is a private informer, the closest thing that first-century Rome has to a detective.

In 1958, as the snow fell across Nebraska, 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann, climbed into a stolen car and blazed into history with a string of bloody murders that stunned America.

Full of intrigue and twists and turns, this is a compelling and captivating murder mystery written by Candace Robb - expertly skilled at weaving suspense with a real sense of history.

Fans of Ellis Peters, S J Parris, Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell will not be disappointed by Candace Robb's enthralling and evocative murder mystery - full of intrigue and bolstered by a wealth of authentic historical detail.

Many lies.

'A detective story with a very considerable difference.

A hard-hitting parable about the conflicts that have ravaged the Balkan states, by Albania s most influential novelist.

'A twisting, well-paced whodunit alongside the central couple's scandalous unmarried-yet-living-together relationship.

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When Licinius Murena, wealthy owner of a fish-farm, is found dead, drowned in one of his own eel tanks, not many tears are shed.

If there is one thing Marcus Corvinus hates more than doing the household accounts, it is politics.

When Pegasus, racing mega-star and lead driver of the Whites faction, is found stabbed to death in the alleyway beside a wineshop, Marcus Corvinus is already on site.

It is the morning after the nocturnal rite of the good Goddess, an all-female ceremony strictly out of bounds to the male of the species, and the body of a young woman has been found, her throat cut.

Laddish Marcus Corvinus is spending his time in ancient Tuscany, sampling wine and ogling local talent (under the beady eye of his lovely wife Perilla) when his stepfather is accused of murder.

In voluntary exile in Athens, Marcus Corvinus receives a letter from his antiquarian stepfather Priscus, who has learned that the 4 ?

Immediately after his father's funeral, Marcus is approached by two senators who want him to dig up some dirt on Sejanus, emperor Tiberius's deputy and likely successor.

Marcus Corvinus feels his heart sink when he is summoned by Empress Livia.

The one 'fact' that everyone knows about Emperor Nero is that he fiddled while Rome burned.

Ovid was banished by the Emperor Augustus and died in exile ten years late.