Historical Mystery

The Scandal and Lies Are Just the Beginning of This New Historical Mystery Series

Desperate men are the most dangerous men of all. Oxford University, November 1950. In Kate Westbury’s The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies, two students clash over a library carrel, an experience unpleasant enough that neither is likely to want to repeat the encounter. Especially when the encounter is over…

Neil NyrenAugust 28, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

India’s Pre-Bollywood Film Industry Makes a Dramatic Setting for Murder

The Star from Calcutta is the fifth in Sujata Massey's acclaimed, award-winning Perveen Mistry historical mysteries set in the 1920s. Her previous engaging series took place in contemporary Japan, featuring protagonist Rei Shimura, an expert antique and art dealer. Perveen Mistry is the sole female lawyer in Bombay who, after…

Linda HitchcockApril 15, 2026

Thrillers

Search for Stolen Art Leads to Battle of the Bulge in This WWII-Era Mystery

James R. Benn returns with an action-packed addition to his best-selling WWII-based Billy Boyle mystery series with The Phantom Patrol. The Boston native ex-cop detective returns as investigator and crime solver assigned to “Uncle Ike’s” staff. His distant cousin is General Dwight David Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied…

Linda HitchcockOctober 10, 2024

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The Manor of Mystery: Agatha Christie’s Home Hosts Wartime Evacuees and Intrigue

"A mystery Mrs. Christie would have approved of.” — Jane Simons, The Dog Eared Book, Palmyra, NY —∞— Bridget Kelly would prefer to stay in London to complete her nursing training and aid the injured, but her matron has other plans for her. As World War II rages, children are…

Amanda GardnerOctober 12, 2021

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Take a Peek Behind the Curtain at Author Lisa Barr, the Original “Woman on Fire”

What an amazing ride author Lisa Barr takes us on in Woman on Fire! Idealistic, young writer Jules Roth desperately wants to work with Dan Mansfield, a well known investigative journalist who has a personal interested in a stolen piece of art. He hires her and decides to bring her in…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 4, 2022

Fiction

Wronged Women Pulled Into World of Wealthy Antique Collector in Historical Mystery

After six years of waiting, will justice be served? Kate Quinn and Janie Chang are the masters of historical fiction, and they take us on another whirlwind journey in The Phoenix Crown. This time, it's set in San Francisco in 1906. We follow Gemma and Suling, two women of very…

Lydia LefevreFebruary 13, 2024

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AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Powerful Women-Led Historical Murder Mystery

Sorry, this promotion has ended. Read on for another great recommendation from AuthorBuzz! The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict (St. Martin's Press) Dear Reader, The Queens of Crime is in keeping with my earlier novels and yet, at the same time, something entirely new. It's an ode to strong…

AuthorBuzzFebruary 10, 2025

Fiction

James R. Benn Delivers a WWII Mystery Rooted in Hidden History

A Bitter Wind is author and former librarian James R. Benn’s 20th WWII based action-packed mystery novel in his grippingly realistic Billy Boyle series. This quote from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1917 short story His Last Bow set on the eve of WWI serves as its preface: “There’s an east wind…

Linda HitchcockNovember 20, 2025

Fiction

Elly Griffiths Reinvents Crime Fiction with a Time-Traveling Twist

Elly Griffiths began her career with a charming series of women’s romantic fiction set in Italy under her birth name, Domenica de Rosa, before becoming an immensely successful mystery writer whose work is widely translated and published in many countries, with over five million copies sold. Born in London and…

Linda HitchcockAugust 4, 2025

Fiction

A Daring Finale: Love, Mystery, and Feminist Fire in “An Unladylike Secret”

Amita Murray is an award-winning London-based writer who has also resided in India and California; a self-described cultural nomad who seasons her sizzling love stories and historical mystery romances with a heady blend of historical facts, steamy heat, spice and suspense. Jane Austen, the Grande Dame of Regency Fiction, likely…

Linda HitchcockJuly 7, 2025

Fiction

Thrilling International Mystery Perfectly Blends Sherlock Holmes and Kung Fu

Welcome back the dynamic duo, Judge Dee Ren Jie, a lecturer at the University of London, and his sidekick Lao She, a shy scholar, who are China’s version of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson! Brilliant minds, clever disguises and more martial arts moves and Kung Fu fighting than seen in…

Linda HitchcockMay 5, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Investigative Novel Questions Mysterious Death of da Vinci

“What the heck is going on in Leonardo’s message!” In a masterful work with particular appeal for amateur sleuths, historians and art aficionados, author D. Allen Henry has crafted a thoughtful novel, Killing Genius: The Mysterious Last Days of Leonardo da Vinci, based around the premise that Leonardo da Vinci’s…

Jim AlkonNovember 19, 2024

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Secret Document by Galileo Leads Professor and Countess on Adventure Through Italy

A veiled prophecy of scientist Galileo Galilei is discovered four centuries after his death, launching an American professor and an Italian countess on a perilous quest to solve its hidden clues in D. Allen Henry’s imaginative The Starry Message. In the fall of 1641, a sightless Galileo recognizes his impending…

Peggy KurkowskiApril 23, 2024

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Inside the Blaze: The Untold Story of the Windsor Tragedy

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews…

Blaine DesantisMarch 20, 2024

Fiction

Gripping Finale to Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs Mysteries, “The Comfort of Ghosts”

Jacqueline Winspear took great pains to forewarn her legion of fans that the Maisie Dobbs series would end with the recently published The Comfort of Ghosts. It initially set off alarm bells with many readers fearing the worst, but the good news is she did not kill off our beloved…

Linda HitchcockJune 26, 2024

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Adventurous, Defiant Female WWII Pilot Jets Off in John W. Warner IV’s “Lion, Tiger, Bear”

When he was young, John W. Warner IV often found his family rubbing elbows with the highest political and business figures at historically significant gatherings around the world. Such is life when you are the son of the recently deceased Sen. John W. Warner III (R-VA), former Secretary of the…

Sherri DaleySeptember 9, 2021

Historical Mystery

India’s Pre-Bollywood Film Industry Makes a Dramatic Setting for Murder

The Manor of Mystery: Agatha Christie’s Home Hosts Wartime Evacuees and Intrigue

Take a Peek Behind the Curtain at Author Lisa Barr, the Original “Woman on Fire”

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Powerful Women-Led Historical Murder Mystery

Investigative Novel Questions Mysterious Death of da Vinci

Secret Document by Galileo Leads Professor and Countess on Adventure Through Italy

Books & Looks Podcast: Inside the Blaze: The Untold Story of the Windsor Tragedy

Adventurous, Defiant Female WWII Pilot Jets Off in John W. Warner IV’s “Lion, Tiger, Bear”

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