Historical mysteries

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Murder in Tinseltown
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Can your sleuthing skills help identify the murderer of a Hollywood starlet?
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Yule Island
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An art expert joins a detective to investigate a horrific murder on a Swedish island, leading them to a mystery rooted in Viking rites and ScandinaviaÂ´s deepest, darkest winter. The Queen of ...
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The Templar secret
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A set of symbols scratched on the wall of a crypt in southern France.

A flag bearing a red cross on a castle fortress high on a stone ledge.

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The undoing of Violet Claybourne
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1938. Gillian Larking is used to blending in and going unnoticed, until she is befriended by her new roommate at boarding school, the vibrant and spirited Violet Claybourne. As the Christmas holida...
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Shot with crimson
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September, 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock’s Rebecca. Then a shocking act of violence reawak...
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The black swan mystery
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Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot dead. It is identified as belonging to the owner of a local mill which i...
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The Christmas stocking murders
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It’s just before Christmas, 1953. Grasby and Juggers are investigating a puzzling murder in the remote village of Uthley’s Bay. A fisherman has been found dead on the beach, with a stoc...
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A plague of serpents
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London, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King’s enemies prepare to strike again. Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the S...
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Murder at Holly House
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It’s December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney of Holly House in the remote town of Elderby. Is he a simple thief, or a would-be killer? Either way, he wasn̵...
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The good liars
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The Sunday Times bestselling new historical fiction novel: an atmospheric tale of crime, deceit, and murder, set in the early 1920s?
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Palace of shadows
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From the prize-winning, critically-acclaimed author of the City Blues Quartet comes a Yorkshire-set gothic masterpiece to rival The Essex Serpent
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A calamity of souls
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A Calamity of Souls is the gripping historical courtroom drama from the multimillion copy number one bestselling author.
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A death in diamonds
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1957 – A young woman is found dead in a mews house a mile from Buckingham Palace, wearing only silk underwear and a a diamond tiara. An older man is discovered nearby, garrotted and pierced t...
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The witchfinder’s assistant
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Sometimes I can almost remember what it was like before-

I was about God’s business-

But I cannot even write my own story.
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Holmes and Moriarty
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Another clever and intriguing crime mystery from the author of the Sunday Times bestseller,Â The Turnglass. The first Sherlock Holmes novel to be authorised by the Conan D...
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A deadly discovery
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In the shadow of Lewes castle lies buried an ancient tablet. Hours after discovering it, dashing local archaeologist Gideon Rivers is dead. Writer Virginia Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa, bot...
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The silver bone
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Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion. When Samson Kolechko...
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The stranger’s companion
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October 1933. With a population of 500 souls, isolated Sark has a reputation for being ‘the island where nothing ever happens’. Until, one day, the neatly folded clothes of an unknown m...
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The black crescent
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Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans and djinns, capable of finding all m...
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Traitors gate
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The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye, is available to pre-order now!

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Heartstone
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The fifth Shardlake novel in C. J. Sansom’s bestselling historical crime series. With invasion from France imminent, Matthew Shardlake’s investigation into a suspicious suicide leads hi...
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Tombland
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The seventh Shardlake novel in C. J. Sansom’s bestselling historical crime series. With England on the brink of collapse, a peasant rebellion forces Matthew Shardlake to examine where his loy...
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The housekeepers
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Mayfair, 1905. The grandest house on Park Lane has just dismissed its housekeeper. All manner of treasures lie behind the pillared doors – and scandalous secrets too. With the event of the se...
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The turnglass
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Stuart Turton meets The Magpie Murders in this immersive and unique story for fans of clever crime fiction.
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The Great Deceiver
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Magician Max Mephisto, now divorced and living in London, is on his way to visit daughter Ruby and her new-born baby when he is hailed by a voice from the past, fellow performer Ted English, aka th...
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Alchemy
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The new historical crime thriller, a Sunday Times bestseller, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Hilary Mantel
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The maiden
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Based on the real life trial and execution of Lady Nimmo in seventeenth century Edinburgh, this is a gripping, feminist debut historical novel for fans of Stacey Halls and Sara Collins.
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Ritual of fire
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Set during a scorching Italian summer in which a series of ritual killings are shocking the city, Ritual of Fire is a historical crime novel set in 1530s Renaissance Florence and is the sequ...
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The shadows of London
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Over 1 Million Andrew Taylor Novels Sold!

A Times Historical Crime Novel of the year
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Homecoming
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The stunning, generation-spanning novel from the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Lake House.
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