Historical Mystery Archives

SPOTLIGHT: INK AND INTRIGUE AT IVY TREE INN by Ellen Butler Plus Giveaway!

Cozy Mystery Dayna Linton - 31 October 2024

Ariadne Winter Mystery: Book 1 Publication Date: October 2, 2024 Stumbling across a dead body could be the making … or breaking of an aspiring reporter. During 1958, when the workforce is predominantly male, societal...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE GRAYS OF TRUTH by Sharon Virts

Historical Mystery Lindy Bell - 28 October 2024

Publication Date: October 29, 2024 From bestselling historical true-crime author Sharon Virts comes a gripping tale of murder and deceit. In Reconstruction-era Baltimore, members of the city’s elite keep turning up dead. Below the...

5-STAR REVIEW: MURDER IN HIGHBURY by Vanessa Kelly

Historical Mystery Lindy Bell - 21 October 2024

An Emma Knightley Mystery: Book 1 Publication Date: October 22, 2024 First in a captivating new series, Jane Austen’s Emma Knightley entertains a different role in Highbury—going from clever matchmaker to Regency England’s shrewdest...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE BURNING OF ROSEMONT ABBEY by Naomi Stephens

Historical Mystery Amy Wilson - 18 October 2024

Publication Date: October 15, 2024 Everyone in Wilbeth Green has something to hide, but she's about to uncover their secrets. 1956: In a quiet English village, the smoldering ruins of Rosemont Abbey have set...

5-STAR REVIEW: ECHOES OF US by Joy Jordan-Lake

Historical Mystery Amy Wilson - 8 October 2024

Publication Date: October 8, 2024 From the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon comes the soaring story of an unlikely friendship of three men and one extraordinary woman and the legacy they built—if their...

5-STAR REVIEW: OF GOLD AND SHADOWS by Michelle Griep

Historical Romance Lindy Bell - 4 October 2024

Time's Lost Treasures: Book 1 Publication Date: September 24, 2024 The shadows hold secrets darker than they ever imagined. . . . In 1888 Victorian England, Ami Dalton navigates a clandestine dual life. By day, she strives...

5-STAR REVIEW: QUEEN MACBETH by Val McDermid

Historical Mystery Amy Wilson - 23 September 2024

Publication Date: September 24, 2024 Shakespeare created the myth of the Macbeths as indefensible murderous conspirators. But now internationally bestselling author Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal...

5-STAR REVIEW: MARCH ROARS by Maureen Jennings

Historical Mystery Lindy Bell - 12 September 2024

Paradise Café Mysteries: Book 4 Publication Date: March 30, 2024 March roars in and Charlotte Frayne, P.I., receives a letter requesting her services to prevent “a grave miscarriage of justice.” The sender, Miss Olivia Brodie, is an...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE SHADOW KEY By Susan Stokes-Chapman

Historical Mystery Tierney Linton - 10 September 2024

Publication Date: September 10, 2024 On an isolated estate in late-eighteenth-century rural Wales, a young English doctor uncovers dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life in this spellbinding Gothic tale from the...

3.5-STAR REVIEW: A MARY PICKFORD MYSTERY by William Baer

Historical Amy Wilson - 23 August 2024

Publication Date: July 2, 2024 In 1919, Hollywood film star Mary Pickford, "the most famous woman in the world," is currently in between pictures and recovering from the Spanish Flu when a man...

5-STAR REVIEW: A SCANDAL IN MAYFAIR by Katharine Schellman

Historical Mystery Tierney Linton - 22 August 2024

Lily Adler Mysteries: Book 5 Publication Date: August 20, 2024 Sometimes danger lurks in plain sight, and in the cutthroat London Season socialite Lily Adler must race against time to catch a killer. Fans of...

SPOTLIGHT: A SCANDAL IN MAYFAIR by Katharine Schellman Plus Giveaway!

Historical Mystery Dayna Linton - 22 August 2024

Lily Adler Mysteries: Book 5 Publication Date: August 20, 2024 Sometimes danger lurks in plain sight, and in the cutthroat London Season socialite Lily Adler must race against time to catch a killer. Fans of...