Historical Mystery Archives

4-STAR REVIEW: THE PRIME MINISTER’S SECRET AGENT by Susan Elia Macneal

Historical Mystery Leah Lawrence - 24 April 2024

Maggie Hope Series: Book 4 Publication Date: July 1, 2014 For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd, and Anne Perry comes a gripping mystery featuring intrepid spy and code breaker Maggie Hope. This time, the...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE MALACHI COVENANT by Dee Kelly Jr

Historical Mystery Amy Wilson - 23 April 2024

Publication Date: April 23, 2024 The relics of St. Nicholas are among the most divine and prized possessions in the Christian world, said to hold the power to heal the most incurable diseases...

5-STAR REVIEW: A TRAITOR IN WHITEHALL by Julia Kelly

Historical Mystery Dayna Linton - 3 April 2024

Evelyne Redfern Series: Book 1 Publication Date: October 2, 2023 From Julia Kelly, internationally bestselling author of The Last Dance of the Debutante, comes the first in the mysterious and immersive Evelyne Redfern series,...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: THE SWEET BLUE DISTANCE by Sara Donati

Historical Romance JoAnne - 1 April 2024

Publication Date: April 2, 2024 A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she’s fleeing in this...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE SULPUR SPRINGS CURE by Jeffrey Round

Historical Mystery Amy Wilson - 21 March 2024

Publication Date: March 16, 2024 In 1939, fourteen-year-old Violet and her parents arrive at the Sulphur Springs Hotel, drawn in along with other desperate guests by legends of the waters’ restorative properties. Here,...

5-STAR REVIEW: A GRAVE ROBBERY by Deanna Raybourn

Historical Mystery Tierney Linton - 12 March 2024

Veronica Speedwell Series: Book 9 Publication Date: March 12, 2024 Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York...

5-STAR REVIEW: WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS by Elizabeth Camden

Historical Mystery Amy Wilson - 14 February 2024

The Women of Midtown Series: Book 1 Publication Date: February 13, 2024 Amid the hushed city, two hearts must navigate danger and deception, bound by a love that outshines the stars. Katherine Schneider's life as...

4-STAR REVIEW: WIDOW’S BLUSH by Michelle Bennington

Historical Mystery Amy Wilson - 15 January 2024

A Widows & Shadows Mystery: Book 1 Publication Date: October 10, 2023 Lady Ravenna Birchfield yearns to put her dark past behind her. Nine months after losing her husband, she wants to return to...

5-STAR REVIEW: PRECIOUS BURDENS by Avery Sterling

Historical Romance Amy Wilson - 18 December 2023

Publication Date: August 28, 2023 Sarafina di Ramonicci sets sail for America as the promised bride in an arranged political marriage.Taken prisoner at sea, she clashes with her captor and demands freedom, only...

5-STAR REVIEW: CYANIDE AND SENSIBILITY by Katie Oliver

Cozy Mystery Lindy Bell - 15 December 2023

A Jane Austen Tea Society Mystery: Book 3 Publication Date: December 12, 2023 Murder is on the menu and Phaedra Brighton is called on to serve up justice in the latest Jane Austen Tea...

4-STAR REVIEW: VICAR BREKONRIDGE by Richard Helms

Historical Mystery Amy Wilson - 17 November 2023

A Vicar Brekonridge Novel: Book 1 Publication Date: October 23, 2023 A historical mystery based on Helms' Derringer Award-nominated EQMM short story "The Cripplegate Apprehension". In 1843 London, a Scottish woodturner named Daniel M'Naghten gunned...

5-STAR REVIEW: ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A LORD by Celeste Connally

Historical Mystery Lindy Bell - 14 November 2023

Publication Date: November 14, 2023 Bridgerton meets Agatha Christie in Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, a dazzling first entry in a terrific new Regency-era cozy series with a feminist spin. When Lady Petra...