Historical Mystery

WWII Spy Thriller Series Takes on Post-War Hollywood

David Downing can include former rock music critic among his formidable writing credits. He is a prolific English author, writing both fiction and non-fiction on a wide-range of topics including children’s books, biographies, soccer, military history and several stand-alone thrillers. During the 1990’s, using the pseudonym David Monnery, he published…

Linda HitchcockMarch 21, 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…

BookTribMarch 20, 2024

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

Fiction

Gripping Debut Tackles Crime, Culture, Colonization in 1914 Fiji

Nilima Rao leaves the reader wanting more! Her gripping, dramatic debut crime novel A Disappearance in Fiji (Soho Crime) will soon be available in a paperback edition and she is working on an eagerly anticipated sequel A Shipwreck in Fiji. The first book is set in 1914 forty years after…

Linda HitchcockJanuary 30, 2024

Thrillers

In Old Hollywood, Hard-Boiled Detective Hunts for Missing Film

Vamp is the seventh full-length novel in masterful author Loren D. Estleman’s Valentino, Film Detective series. These cinematic gems are as enticing as the buttery roasted aroma of fresh movie lobby popcorn. Film buffs and avid mystery readers can also ferret out several short stories featuring this intrepid film archivist…

Linda HitchcockJanuary 19, 2024

Fiction

Final Installment of Mystery Series Sends Amateur Sleuth Jane Austen on a Quest for Truth

Author Francine Stephanie Barron Mathews pens best-selling novels in contemporary settings as Francine Mathews and in historical fiction as Stephanie Barron, her middle and maiden names. Francine Mathews’ first novel, published 30 years ago, began with what developed into a series of six mysteries set in New England featuring police…

Linda HitchcockNovember 16, 2023

Riveting, Realistic WWII-Era Mystery Featuring a Yankee in Great Britain

The title Proud Sorrows (Soho Crime), the 18th book in the WWII Billy Boyle mystery series by author James R. Benn, is taken from William Shakespeare’s history play, King John, Act 3, Scene 1: “I will instruct my sorrows to be proud, for grief is proud and makes his owner…

Linda HitchcockOctober 25, 2023

Fiction

One Woman’s Fight for Justice & Equality in Historic Bombay

It’s a happy day when a reader can dive into a suspenseful new novel written by international best-selling and multiple award-winning author Sujata Massey. Her eagerly anticipated work The Mistress of Bhatia House (Soho Crime), latest in the Perveen Mistry series, is now available. These historical fiction mysteries are well-plotted,…

Linda HitchcockOctober 11, 2023

Fiction

Historical Mystery Explores Harsh Reality of Japanese Americans in Internment Camps

Naomi Hirahara is the Babe Ruth of authors hitting home runs out of the park with each book reaching an ever-widening circle of readers. Evergreen (Soho Crime) continues the story of the Ito Family introduced in Clark and Division. After enduring stress, deprivation and hardships during two years of imprisonment…

Linda HitchcockAugust 2, 2023

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The 1893 Chicago World’s Colombian Exposition Is the Thrilling Setting for “Peril at the Exposition”

In her exciting sequel to Murder in Old Bombay, Nev March turns back time to transport the reader to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair in Peril at the Exposition (Minotaur). The protagonists of Bombay return, as Captain James Agnihotri and his new bride, Diana, have immigrated to the United States…

Jodé MillmanJuly 11, 2022

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Corruption, Class and Dangerous Obsession in “Dreamland”

Nancy Bilyeau had always wanted to write a historical novel set in New York City — but she’d already started carving out a niche for herself in the Tudor era. Her first novel, The Crown, became a number-one bestseller on Amazon and launched a brilliant trilogy that continued to garner…

Dawn IusJanuary 16, 2020

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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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Historical Mystery “Lake of Flowers” Delivers a Feast of Egyptian Intrigue

When it comes to certain eras in ancient history, tangible, irrefutable facts are few and far between. A lot of our knowledge about these people and their cultures comes from painstaking research paired with the educated guesswork of experts like N.L. Holmes, who writes in the historical notes that begin…

Chelsea CicconeAugust 18, 2021

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Laurie R. King Delivers Majesty and Enigma in the Latest Mary Russell Mystery, “Castle Shade”

Detective work doesn’t sleep. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes have barely closed the door on their latest case when they arrive in Transylvania to delve into another. Summoned by Roumania’s Queen Marie, the pair is commissioned to investigate the ominous happenstances lately encompassing Castle Bran, a structure with sinister and…

Amanda GardnerJune 8, 2021

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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

Fiction

Video: Missed It? Interview with Jay Richards and the lethal unknowns of Silhouette of Virtue

It is 1973. A small college town in Southern Illinois is terrorized by a spree of sadistic assaults. The rapist tells the victims--all Asian women--that he is making them pay for America's betrayal in Vietnam. When the only other Black faculty member is accused of the crimes, African American philosophy…

BookTribJanuary 17, 2015

Historical Mystery

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

The 1893 Chicago World’s Colombian Exposition Is the Thrilling Setting for “Peril at the Exposition”

ITW Spotlight: Corruption, Class and Dangerous Obsession in “Dreamland”

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

Historical Mystery “Lake of Flowers” Delivers a Feast of Egyptian Intrigue

Laurie R. King Delivers Majesty and Enigma in the Latest Mary Russell Mystery, “Castle Shade”

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

Video: Missed It? Interview with Jay Richards and the lethal unknowns of Silhouette of Virtue

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