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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > Historical mysteries
A twisty Victorian mystery featuring quick-witted detective Eliza Mace.
The Welsh borders, 1870s: on the cusp of adulthood, Eliza Mace is battling for her independence. Stuck in a crumbling manor house on the fringe of a small town, she is thwarted by powers that conspire to protect, control and deceive her. But when her father goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Eliza’s determination to uncover the truth is unstoppable.
Joining forces with the charismatic new police constable, Dafydd Pritchard, she sets out to solve the case, but that’s no easy task. Her father has run up debts in town and beyond, and there are many who bear him a grudge. As she searches for evidence, Eliza exposes dark secrets that threaten to tear her world apart...
Introducing 19th-century private investigators Matthew Grand and
James Batchelor in the first of a brand-new historical mystery
series. April, 1865. Having been an eye witness to the
assassination of President Lincoln, Matthew Grand, a former captain
of the 3rd Cavalry of the Potomac, has come to London on an
undercover assignment to hunt down the last of the assassin's
co-conspirators. Ambitious young journalist Jim Batchelor has been
charged with writing a feature article on the visiting American,
with the aim of getting the inside story on the assassination. Both
men are distracted from their missions by the discovery of a body
behind the Haymarket Theatre in London's Soho district. It's the
latest in a series of grisly garrottings by a killer known as the
Haymarket Strangler. As Grand and Batchelor team up to pursue their
investigations through the dark underbelly of Victorian London, it
becomes clear that there may be a disturbing connection between the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Haymarket Strangler.
June, 1870. The world-famous author Charles Dickens has been found
dead in his summerhouse where he had been hard at work on his
final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Did he die of
natural causes - or is there something more sinister behind his
sudden demise? George Sala, Dickens' biographer, is convinced his
friend was murdered - and he has hired Grand and Batchelor to prove
it. Could Dickens' death have something to do with his
unconventional private life? Who is the mysterious woman who
appears at his funeral? If they are to uncover the truth, Grand and
Batchelor must leave no stone unturned. But are they prepared for
the shocking secrets some of those unturned stones will reveal . .
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His epic masterwork "Speaks the Nightbird," a tour de force of
witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as
"deeply satisfying...told with matchless insight into the human
soul." Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding
novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a
killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city
carving out its identity -- and over Matthew's own uncertain
destiny.
The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear
throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. Who
snuffed out the good man's life with the slash of a blade on a
midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend "the
Masker," adding fuel to a volatile mystery...and when the Masker
claims a new victim, hardworking young law clerk Matthew Corbett is
lured into a maze of forensic clues and heart-pounding
investigation that will both test his natural penchant for
detection and inflame his hunger for justice.
In the strangest twist of all, the key to unmasking the Masker may
await in an asylum where the Queen of Bedlam reigns -- and only a
man of Matthew's reason and empathy can unlock her secrets. From
the seaport to Wall Street, from society mansions to gutters
glimmering with blood spilled by a deviant, Matthew's quest will
tauntingly reveal the answers he seeks -- and the chilling truths
he cannot escape.
Dado grew up as a Viking princess in late 1100 AD. Her vicious
Viking tribe, the Omkana's, reside along the northern shores of the
Baltic Sea. Dado's world suddenly changes when her brutal and
scheming father reveals the plan he had for her all along. Without
foresight her life is suddenly turned upside down. Loyalty and love
has gone terribly wrong, leaving her to begin the journey of
understanding herself and her destiny. This destiny leads to people
and places encouraging her to understand what it is that she will
defend in life. Unsure if she is cursed, Dado believes that all
power is found in an arrow and dagger until she is led to the
mysterious village called Providence. This is a menacing era and
when Dado is provoked she becomes an avenging angel. Her life is a
mix of history and fiction that chronicles a phenomenal journey
that she too is an Amazon Warrior. Valley of The Swan is the first
book of the Dado Sagas.
Mara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and
fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder. When a woman's body
is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of
Far Breige, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the
haunted caves and ancient fortifications of the Atlantic cliffs,
the locals believe it was the god who killed her. In life, Clodagh
O'Lochlainn had been a disgrace to her clan, tormenting her former
priestly lover, jeering at her husband, robbing her relatives: but
could she really have been slaughtered by a vengeful god, as the
local population believes? Abandoning preparations for the
celebration of her fiftieth birthday, Mara, Brehon of the Burren,
with the assistance of Fachtnan and her scholars, takes up the task
of solving the murder. Ignoring the ancient legends, she
concentrates instead on bringing a mortal killer to justice. But
it's only when Fachtnan's small daughter is lost in the labyrinth
of passages among the caves that the horrifying truth begins to
emerge.
A Roger the Chapman mystery Christmas, 1483: Roger the Chapman is
looking forward to twelve days of peace and celebration with his
wife and children in Bristol. The family is particularly excited by
the arrival of a troupe of mummers, who will perform their plays in
the outer ward of the castle throughout the festival. But the
gruesome murders of two of the town's most prominent and venerable
citizens, both veterans of the French wars, scupper Roger's hopes
as he is gradually drawn into the hunt for the killer. Once again,
Roger finds himself in grave danger, but it is someone else who
pays the price of his inability to keep his nose out of matters
that do not concern him . . .
When human bones are discovered in the cellars beneath St Luke's
College - two bodies, buried thirty years apart - the bursar,
Charlie Swift, hires Jennie Redhead to investigate. As she uncovers
a series of scandals stretching back sixty years, Jennie wonders
how well she really knows her old friend Charlie and whether she
can trust him.
"An intriguing medieval mystery featuring sleuthing monk Brother
Athelstan"
February, 1381. A ruthless killer known as the Ignifer Fire Bringer
is rampaging through London, bringing agonising death and
destruction in his wake. He appears to be targeting all those
involved in the recent trial and conviction of the beautiful Lady
Isolda Beaumont, burned at the stake for the murder of her husband.
As the late Sir Walter Beaumont was a close friend of the Regent,
John of Gaunt orders Sir John Cranston and Brother Athelstan to
investigate.
In the dead man s possession was a copy of the mysterious Book of
Fires, containing the secret formula of a devastating weapon, the
so-called Greek Fire. The manuscript has since disappeared, and
Gaunt is desperate for it not to fall into the hands of the Upright
Men, who are busy plotting the Great Revolt.
Was Isolda really guilty of murder? Who is the terrifying Fire
Bringer and what does he want? Brother Athelstan is about to tackle
his most challenging, and potentially dangerous, case yet."
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