Best Historical Books

Best Seller Free Historical Books of 2023

  • Deadly Act reviews

    Deadly Act Book Reviews

    D.A. Jacobson

    In the Fall of 1590, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, playwright and news pamphlet writer Connolly Flynn is about to have his first play produced at the Rose theater in Londo...

  • Love and Murder in Savannah reviews

    Love and Murder in Savannah Book Reviews

    Harper Lin

    Savannah, Georgia, 1922 While her mother's only wish is to see her married, Becky Mackenzie just wants to sketch in the cemetery and talk to ghosts. Becky will admit she is at...

  • Historical Mysteries reviews

    Historical Mysteries Book Reviews

    Andrew Lang

    Contents The Case of Elizabeth Canning The Murder of Escovedo The Campden Mystery The Case of Allan Breck The Cardinal's Necklace The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser: The Child of Eu...

  • Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red reviews

    Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red Book Reviews

    Jacqueline T Lynch

    A museum heist, a missing child, a murder, a recent excon and an even more recent widow.  How many times do we have to pay for our mistakes before life sends us a reprieve...

  • Truck Shot reviews

    Truck Shot Book Reviews

    Jim Stinson

    Stoney Winston is teaching a film workshop at lowrent Angeles Commercial Design College when the college president is literally blown away. To pry loose the insurance transfusion n...

  • A Jewish Chaplain in France reviews

    A Jewish Chaplain in France Book Reviews

    Lee Joseph Levinger

    This is a story book. In giving the story and the opinions of a Jewish chaplain in the American Expeditionary Forces, some statement is necessary of the work of the chaplains as a ...

  • The Old Man in the Corner reviews

    The Old Man in the Corner Book Reviews

    Baroness Emma Orczy

    This is a historical book. The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves cri...

  • A Death on the way to Portsmouth reviews

    A Death on the way to Portsmouth Book Reviews

    Christine Trent

    Violet Harper might be fearless when it comes to caring for the dead, but she trembles at the thought of boarding trainsthose behemoths of belching smoke and screeching brakes.&...

  • The Elusive Pimpernel reviews

    The Elusive Pimpernel Book Reviews

    Baroness Orczy

    The most wanted man in France returns to the scene of his notorious adventures In the early days of the Revolution, Sir Percy Blakeneybetter known in Paris as the Scarlet Pimpernel...

  • The Good Knight reviews

    The Good Knight Book Reviews

    Sarah Woodbury

    When a king is murdered on the way to his wedding, Gareth & Gwen join forces in their first mystery together! Five years after Gareth walked away from Gwen in disgrace, she...

  • Summon Up the Blood reviews

    Summon Up the Blood Book Reviews

    R. N. Morris

    A city, gripped in the fear of terrifying crimes, will be pushed to breaking point. London, 1914. A killer is at liberty in the dark alleys of the city. His victims have one thing ...

  • The Fireraisers reviews

    The Fireraisers Book Reviews

    Malcolm Archibald

    Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. Soon, George discovers that th...

  • The Forgotten Painting reviews

    The Forgotten Painting Book Reviews

    Gabriel Farago

    Gold Medal Winner at Readers' Favorite 2018 International Book Awards Contest in Fiction Short Story/Novella Category Outstanding Novella 2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards When...

  • The Thousandth Woman reviews

    The Thousandth Woman Book Reviews

    E. W. Hornung & Frank Snapp

    In this mystery novel by British writer Ernest William Hornung, best known for his Raffles books, an adventurer tries to find the identity of the murderer of a man who had once bee...

  • Calamity Under the Chandelier reviews

    Calamity Under the Chandelier Book Reviews

    Camilla Blythe

    Murder. Manor homes. Malfunctioning chandeliers. Hollywood starlets are supposed to be happily on set in sunny California, and not trapped in drafty manor houses during ferocious s...

  • Past Crimes reviews

    Past Crimes Book Reviews

    Ashley Gardner

    Step into the past through three historical mysteries that reach from Imperial Rome to Victorian London.<br> <br> A Soupçon of Poison<br> ...

  • A Bride of the Plains reviews

    A Bride of the Plains Book Reviews

    Baroness Emma Orczy

    This is a historical book. The story is set in Hungary and the scene is laid in a village close to the Maros. The sharp, cracked sound of the Elevation bell breaks the silence of t...

  • Mister Mottley and the Key of D reviews

    Mister Mottley and the Key of D Book Reviews

    Ellen Seltz

    Has Mottley gone mad? That night in Venice, standing on a balcony rail with an angry Slovak swordsman and a halfnaked fiddler holding them at bay, Mottley's friend Debenham re...

  • Mail Order Bride 4 Book Box Set reviews

    Mail Order Bride 4 Book Box Set Book Reviews

    Karla Gracey

    Critics describe these books as a very sweet invigorating set of books which are heartwarming, full of love, hope, and the true meaning of friendship.

  • Murder at the Mayfair Hotel reviews

    Murder at the Mayfair Hotel Book Reviews

    C.J. Archer

    It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new cozy historical murder mystery from USA Today bestselling author ...

  • Ernestine reviews

    Ernestine Book Reviews

    Nell Peters

    Jack the Ripper at last, the truth. Britain's most famous (or infamous) serial killer unmasked.

  • Murder Afloat reviews

    Murder Afloat Book Reviews

    Ruby Riverton

    A husband's dying wish. The trip of a lifetime. High seas and MURDER. A cozy mystery with a twist of history. A chance collision between two strangers on the docks of Titanic ...

  • The Spiritualists and the Detectives reviews

    The Spiritualists and the Detectives Book Reviews

    Allan Pinkerton

    This is a story book. Most commercial and uncommercial travellers filling the swift shuttles of transit between the East and the West will remember that while passing through Michi...

  • The Count of Samerand and the Ghost of Belgravia reviews

    The Count of Samerand and the Ghost of Belgravia Book Reviews

    Bryan M. Porter

    It is April 5, 1864, when the Count of Samerand busy in his experiments is commissioned by his good friend inspector James Wright in the murder of Robert Melbourne, a wealthy lando...

  • Four Max Carrados Detective Stories reviews

    Four Max Carrados Detective Stories Book Reviews

    Ernest Bramah

    This is a short story book. Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime...

  • First Heist reviews

    First Heist Book Reviews

    H.B. Moore

    An Omar Zagouri Short Story: FIRST HEIST by USA Today Bestselling author H.B. Moore Mia Golding, an undercover agent is about to make a handoff to coagent, Omar Zagouri. But before...

  • The Hanover Square Affair reviews

    The Hanover Square Affair Book Reviews

    Ashley Gardner & Jennifer Ashley

    Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a mis...

  • Death and the Chapman reviews

    Death and the Chapman Book Reviews

    Kate Sedley

    One man’s disappearance is another man’s destiny... The birth of a new medieval detective. The political situation in 1471 is complex and the war between the Yorkist and Lancastria...

  • Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller reviews

    Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller Book Reviews

    David Bradwell

    A fashion photographer. A cub reporter. The missing persons story of a lifetime… London, 1993. Trainee investigative journalist Danny Churchill would do anything for his boss. And ...

  • The Mystery of Francis Bacon reviews

    The Mystery of Francis Bacon Book Reviews

    William T. Smedley

    Is there a mystery connected with the life of Francis Bacon? The average student of history or literature will unhesitatingly reply in the negative, perhaps qualifying his answer b...

  • Love Lies Bleeding reviews

    Love Lies Bleeding Book Reviews

    Laini Giles

    When a hiker near Ithaca stumbles across an old skeleton buried with a rusty buttonhook and a locket full of pictures, Senior Investigator Frank Conley of the New York State Police...

  • POISONED LEGACY reviews

    POISONED LEGACY Book Reviews

    Jenny Wheeler

    Unsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim? Graysie Castellanos is ready to take her final bow. When th...

  • A Precarious Homecoming reviews

    A Precarious Homecoming Book Reviews

    D.S. Lang

    Arabella Stewart, grieving the losses of her parents and brother, returns home from serving as an operator in the Great War to find Ballantyne, her family resort,...

  • Finger of Guilt reviews

    Finger of Guilt Book Reviews

    Paul Grossman

    In Finger of Guilt , star investigator Hans Fraksa claims that the Kinderfresser, the vicious child eater of Berlin, has been caught. So why is he worried discarded, gnawed bones w...

  • The Wallet of Kai Lung reviews

    The Wallet of Kai Lung Book Reviews

    Ernest Bramah

    The sun had dipped behind the western mountains before Kai Lung, with twenty li or more still between him and the city of Knei Yang, entered the camphorlaurel forest which stretche...

  • South Wind reviews

    South Wind Book Reviews

    Norman Douglas

    This is a novel book. The bishop was feeling rather seasick. Confoundedly seasick, in fact. This annoyed him. For he disapproved of sickness in every shape or form. His own state o...

  • Kissing The Enemy reviews

    Kissing The Enemy Book Reviews

    Leighann Dobbs

    Frederica Vale is about to cause a scandal that will make her a target of the most dangerous spy network in England. London, 1806. Fredrica “Freddie” Vale would do anything to prot...

  • Sharko reviews

    Sharko Book Reviews

    Ben Borland

    Gangsters and sharks and the hunt for a serial killer in Depressionera Sydney. This fastmoving thriller combines love, lust and murder in the heat of an Australian summer. Take som...

  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd reviews

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie & Pocket Classic

    In what is considered to be one of her most controversial mysteries, Agatha Christie breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The eminent Belgian detective Hercule Poir...

  • The Pendant Book 1 reviews

    The Pendant Book 1 Book Reviews

    Lawton Paul

    Reeling from the death of her husband, Angela Fleetwood isn't ready for a fight. But when her neighbor turns up dead, Angela is forced to find the killer or watch an innocent ...

  • The Film of Fear reviews

    The Film of Fear Book Reviews

    Frederic Arnold Kummer

    Ruth Morton finished her cup of coffee, brushed a microscopic crumb from her embroidered silk kimono, pushed back her loosely arranged brown hair, and resumed the task of opening h...

  • What Kind of Man... reviews

    What Kind of Man... Book Reviews

    Greenberry Baxter

    What Kind of Man... has been nominated for Global eBook Awards in the category Sci Fi Fantasy Paranormal/Fantasy Supernatural PREPOSTEROUS, NUTTY and ENTERTAINING Franklin Pierce, ...

  • The Lodger reviews

    The Lodger Book Reviews

    Marie Belloc Lowndes

    Based on the nineteenth century’s most infamous crime, a novel that asks, How do you recognize a serial killer? One damp November evening on the Marylebone Road, a couple sits in s...

  • The Hunt reviews

    The Hunt Book Reviews

    Oscar de Muriel

    Features an exclusive extract from A Fever of the Blood the brilliant new Case for Frey & McGray, which publishes in February 2016 Christmas, 1888. After a thoroughly tryi...

  • Double Exposure reviews

    Double Exposure Book Reviews

    Jim Stinson

    (Newly proofed and reformatted) Ah, the romantic 1980s! No Internet, Facebook, or Twitter. Telephones tied to the wall. Music on vinyl or flimsy cassettes and don’t even start on ...

  • At the Villa Rose reviews

    At the Villa Rose Book Reviews

    Alfred Edward Woodley Mason

    It is a novel book. Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at AixlesBain...

  • No Clue reviews

    No Clue Book Reviews

    James Hay

    It is a detective story. 'No Clue! A Mystery Story' finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when two o...

  • Unofficial Business reviews

    Unofficial Business Book Reviews

    J. Arens

    Olivia Wainwright is bound and determined to follow in her father's footsteps and become the next District Detective the moment that he takes over command of Wainwright Detect...

  • The Spy of the Rebellion reviews

    The Spy of the Rebellion Book Reviews

    Allan Pinkerton

    It is a story book. Many years have elapsed since the occurrence of the events which I am about to relate. Years that have been full of mighty import to the nation. A bitter, prolo...

  • The Twelfth Tablet reviews

    The Twelfth Tablet Book Reviews

    Tom Harper

    Twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each ...

  • Samuel Boyd of Catchpole Square A Mystery reviews

    Samuel Boyd of Catchpole Square A Mystery Book Reviews

    B. L. Farjeon

    This 1899 mystery novel by British writer and journalist B(enjamin) L(eopold) Farjeon, detective Dick Remington investigates a murder and other criminal matters with the help of a ...

  • Gaudy Night reviews

    Gaudy Night Book Reviews

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the allfemale Shrewsbury College, Oxford, have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations. However, the mood turns sour wh...

  • The Black Eagle Mystery reviews

    The Black Eagle Mystery Book Reviews

    Geraldine Bonner

    The following story of what has been known as The Black Eagle Mystery has been compiled from documents contributed by two persons thoroughly conversant with the subject. These are ...

  • Uncle Bernac reviews

    Uncle Bernac Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    This is a mystery book. Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th cen...

  • The Desolate Garden reviews

    The Desolate Garden Book Reviews

    Daniel Kemp

    What secrets lie in the ledgers of the Royal Government Bank? After Harry Paterson is summoned to London following his father's murder, he finds out that the late Lord Elliot ...

  • Cromwell Road reviews

    Cromwell Road Book Reviews

    Rowan Scot-Ryder

    Holmes and Watson meet the famous medium Madame B., whose message for Watson has surprising results.

  • Bittersweet reviews

    Bittersweet Book Reviews

    Jane Lingard

    Hannah's world changes forever on the night of her sister's 18th birthday. Life in the small country town will never be the same. But just what did happen when the storm ...

  • The English Gentleman reviews

    The English Gentleman Book Reviews

    Bryan M. Porter

    William Bathurst has disappeared from his home in Westminster, leaving his father and mother, the duke and duchess worried for their favourite son. To aid them in their search for ...

  • Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives reviews

    Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Book Reviews

    Allan Pinkerton

    It is a story book. The Mississippi River has for many years more especially since the close of the war been infested by a class of men who never would try to get an honest living,...

  • Tempest in the Tea Room reviews

    Tempest in the Tea Room Book Reviews

    Libi Astaire

    There's trouble afoot in Regency London's Jewish community, and no one to stop the crimesuntil wealthywidowerturnedsleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with an unlikely pair:...

Best Seller Paid Historical Books of 2023

  • Deadly Act reviews

    Deadly Act Book Reviews

    D.A. Jacobson

    In the Fall of 1590, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, playwright and news pamphlet writer Connolly Flynn is about to have his first play produced at the Rose theater in Londo...

  • Love and Murder in Savannah reviews

    Love and Murder in Savannah Book Reviews

    Harper Lin

    Savannah, Georgia, 1922 While her mother's only wish is to see her married, Becky Mackenzie just wants to sketch in the cemetery and talk to ghosts. Becky will admit she is at...

  • Historical Mysteries reviews

    Historical Mysteries Book Reviews

    Andrew Lang

    Contents The Case of Elizabeth Canning The Murder of Escovedo The Campden Mystery The Case of Allan Breck The Cardinal's Necklace The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser: The Child of Eu...

  • Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red reviews

    Cadmium Yellow, Blood Red Book Reviews

    Jacqueline T Lynch

    A museum heist, a missing child, a murder, a recent excon and an even more recent widow.  How many times do we have to pay for our mistakes before life sends us a reprieve...

  • Truck Shot reviews

    Truck Shot Book Reviews

    Jim Stinson

    Stoney Winston is teaching a film workshop at lowrent Angeles Commercial Design College when the college president is literally blown away. To pry loose the insurance transfusion n...

  • A Jewish Chaplain in France reviews

    A Jewish Chaplain in France Book Reviews

    Lee Joseph Levinger

    This is a story book. In giving the story and the opinions of a Jewish chaplain in the American Expeditionary Forces, some statement is necessary of the work of the chaplains as a ...

  • The Old Man in the Corner reviews

    The Old Man in the Corner Book Reviews

    Baroness Emma Orczy

    This is a historical book. The Old Man in the Corner is an unnamed armchair detective who appears in a series of short stories written by Baroness Orczy. He examines and solves cri...

  • A Death on the way to Portsmouth reviews

    A Death on the way to Portsmouth Book Reviews

    Christine Trent

    Violet Harper might be fearless when it comes to caring for the dead, but she trembles at the thought of boarding trainsthose behemoths of belching smoke and screeching brakes.&...

  • The Elusive Pimpernel reviews

    The Elusive Pimpernel Book Reviews

    Baroness Orczy

    The most wanted man in France returns to the scene of his notorious adventures In the early days of the Revolution, Sir Percy Blakeneybetter known in Paris as the Scarlet Pimpernel...

  • The Good Knight reviews

    The Good Knight Book Reviews

    Sarah Woodbury

    When a king is murdered on the way to his wedding, Gareth & Gwen join forces in their first mystery together! Five years after Gareth walked away from Gwen in disgrace, she...

  • Summon Up the Blood reviews

    Summon Up the Blood Book Reviews

    R. N. Morris

    A city, gripped in the fear of terrifying crimes, will be pushed to breaking point. London, 1914. A killer is at liberty in the dark alleys of the city. His victims have one thing ...

  • The Fireraisers reviews

    The Fireraisers Book Reviews

    Malcolm Archibald

    Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. Soon, George discovers that th...

  • The Forgotten Painting reviews

    The Forgotten Painting Book Reviews

    Gabriel Farago

    Gold Medal Winner at Readers' Favorite 2018 International Book Awards Contest in Fiction Short Story/Novella Category Outstanding Novella 2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards When...

  • The Thousandth Woman reviews

    The Thousandth Woman Book Reviews

    E. W. Hornung & Frank Snapp

    In this mystery novel by British writer Ernest William Hornung, best known for his Raffles books, an adventurer tries to find the identity of the murderer of a man who had once bee...

  • Calamity Under the Chandelier reviews

    Calamity Under the Chandelier Book Reviews

    Camilla Blythe

    Murder. Manor homes. Malfunctioning chandeliers. Hollywood starlets are supposed to be happily on set in sunny California, and not trapped in drafty manor houses during ferocious s...

  • Past Crimes reviews

    Past Crimes Book Reviews

    Ashley Gardner

    Step into the past through three historical mysteries that reach from Imperial Rome to Victorian London.<br> <br> A Soupçon of Poison<br> ...

  • A Bride of the Plains reviews

    A Bride of the Plains Book Reviews

    Baroness Emma Orczy

    This is a historical book. The story is set in Hungary and the scene is laid in a village close to the Maros. The sharp, cracked sound of the Elevation bell breaks the silence of t...

  • Mister Mottley and the Key of D reviews

    Mister Mottley and the Key of D Book Reviews

    Ellen Seltz

    Has Mottley gone mad? That night in Venice, standing on a balcony rail with an angry Slovak swordsman and a halfnaked fiddler holding them at bay, Mottley's friend Debenham re...

  • Mail Order Bride 4 Book Box Set reviews

    Mail Order Bride 4 Book Box Set Book Reviews

    Karla Gracey

    Critics describe these books as a very sweet invigorating set of books which are heartwarming, full of love, hope, and the true meaning of friendship.

  • Murder at the Mayfair Hotel reviews

    Murder at the Mayfair Hotel Book Reviews

    C.J. Archer

    It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new cozy historical murder mystery from USA Today bestselling author ...

  • Ernestine reviews

    Ernestine Book Reviews

    Nell Peters

    Jack the Ripper at last, the truth. Britain's most famous (or infamous) serial killer unmasked.

  • Murder Afloat reviews

    Murder Afloat Book Reviews

    Ruby Riverton

    A husband's dying wish. The trip of a lifetime. High seas and MURDER. A cozy mystery with a twist of history. A chance collision between two strangers on the docks of Titanic ...

  • The Spiritualists and the Detectives reviews

    The Spiritualists and the Detectives Book Reviews

    Allan Pinkerton

    This is a story book. Most commercial and uncommercial travellers filling the swift shuttles of transit between the East and the West will remember that while passing through Michi...

  • The Count of Samerand and the Ghost of Belgravia reviews

    The Count of Samerand and the Ghost of Belgravia Book Reviews

    Bryan M. Porter

    It is April 5, 1864, when the Count of Samerand busy in his experiments is commissioned by his good friend inspector James Wright in the murder of Robert Melbourne, a wealthy lando...

  • Four Max Carrados Detective Stories reviews

    Four Max Carrados Detective Stories Book Reviews

    Ernest Bramah

    This is a short story book. Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime...

  • First Heist reviews

    First Heist Book Reviews

    H.B. Moore

    An Omar Zagouri Short Story: FIRST HEIST by USA Today Bestselling author H.B. Moore Mia Golding, an undercover agent is about to make a handoff to coagent, Omar Zagouri. But before...

  • The Hanover Square Affair reviews

    The Hanover Square Affair Book Reviews

    Ashley Gardner & Jennifer Ashley

    Cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey returns to Regency London from the Napoleonic wars, burned out, fighting melancholia, his career ended. His interest is piqued when he learns of a mis...

  • Death and the Chapman reviews

    Death and the Chapman Book Reviews

    Kate Sedley

    One man’s disappearance is another man’s destiny... The birth of a new medieval detective. The political situation in 1471 is complex and the war between the Yorkist and Lancastria...

  • Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller reviews

    Cold Press - A Gripping British Mystery Thriller Book Reviews

    David Bradwell

    A fashion photographer. A cub reporter. The missing persons story of a lifetime… London, 1993. Trainee investigative journalist Danny Churchill would do anything for his boss. And ...

  • The Mystery of Francis Bacon reviews

    The Mystery of Francis Bacon Book Reviews

    William T. Smedley

    Is there a mystery connected with the life of Francis Bacon? The average student of history or literature will unhesitatingly reply in the negative, perhaps qualifying his answer b...

  • Love Lies Bleeding reviews

    Love Lies Bleeding Book Reviews

    Laini Giles

    When a hiker near Ithaca stumbles across an old skeleton buried with a rusty buttonhook and a locket full of pictures, Senior Investigator Frank Conley of the New York State Police...

  • POISONED LEGACY reviews

    POISONED LEGACY Book Reviews

    Jenny Wheeler

    Unsolved deaths. Untold treasure. Can she uncover the secret of her inheritance before dark forces claim another victim? Graysie Castellanos is ready to take her final bow. When th...

  • A Precarious Homecoming reviews

    A Precarious Homecoming Book Reviews

    D.S. Lang

    Arabella Stewart, grieving the losses of her parents and brother, returns home from serving as an operator in the Great War to find Ballantyne, her family resort,...

  • Finger of Guilt reviews

    Finger of Guilt Book Reviews

    Paul Grossman

    In Finger of Guilt , star investigator Hans Fraksa claims that the Kinderfresser, the vicious child eater of Berlin, has been caught. So why is he worried discarded, gnawed bones w...

  • The Wallet of Kai Lung reviews

    The Wallet of Kai Lung Book Reviews

    Ernest Bramah

    The sun had dipped behind the western mountains before Kai Lung, with twenty li or more still between him and the city of Knei Yang, entered the camphorlaurel forest which stretche...

  • South Wind reviews

    South Wind Book Reviews

    Norman Douglas

    This is a novel book. The bishop was feeling rather seasick. Confoundedly seasick, in fact. This annoyed him. For he disapproved of sickness in every shape or form. His own state o...

  • Kissing The Enemy reviews

    Kissing The Enemy Book Reviews

    Leighann Dobbs

    Frederica Vale is about to cause a scandal that will make her a target of the most dangerous spy network in England. London, 1806. Fredrica “Freddie” Vale would do anything to prot...

  • Sharko reviews

    Sharko Book Reviews

    Ben Borland

    Gangsters and sharks and the hunt for a serial killer in Depressionera Sydney. This fastmoving thriller combines love, lust and murder in the heat of an Australian summer. Take som...

  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd reviews

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie & Pocket Classic

    In what is considered to be one of her most controversial mysteries, Agatha Christie breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The eminent Belgian detective Hercule Poir...

  • The Pendant Book 1 reviews

    The Pendant Book 1 Book Reviews

    Lawton Paul

    Reeling from the death of her husband, Angela Fleetwood isn't ready for a fight. But when her neighbor turns up dead, Angela is forced to find the killer or watch an innocent ...

  • The Film of Fear reviews

    The Film of Fear Book Reviews

    Frederic Arnold Kummer

    Ruth Morton finished her cup of coffee, brushed a microscopic crumb from her embroidered silk kimono, pushed back her loosely arranged brown hair, and resumed the task of opening h...

  • What Kind of Man... reviews

    What Kind of Man... Book Reviews

    Greenberry Baxter

    What Kind of Man... has been nominated for Global eBook Awards in the category Sci Fi Fantasy Paranormal/Fantasy Supernatural PREPOSTEROUS, NUTTY and ENTERTAINING Franklin Pierce, ...

  • The Lodger reviews

    The Lodger Book Reviews

    Marie Belloc Lowndes

    Based on the nineteenth century’s most infamous crime, a novel that asks, How do you recognize a serial killer? One damp November evening on the Marylebone Road, a couple sits in s...

  • The Hunt reviews

    The Hunt Book Reviews

    Oscar de Muriel

    Features an exclusive extract from A Fever of the Blood the brilliant new Case for Frey & McGray, which publishes in February 2016 Christmas, 1888. After a thoroughly tryi...

  • Double Exposure reviews

    Double Exposure Book Reviews

    Jim Stinson

    (Newly proofed and reformatted) Ah, the romantic 1980s! No Internet, Facebook, or Twitter. Telephones tied to the wall. Music on vinyl or flimsy cassettes and don’t even start on ...

  • At the Villa Rose reviews

    At the Villa Rose Book Reviews

    Alfred Edward Woodley Mason

    It is a novel book. Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at AixlesBain...

  • No Clue reviews

    No Clue Book Reviews

    James Hay

    It is a detective story. 'No Clue! A Mystery Story' finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when two o...

  • Unofficial Business reviews

    Unofficial Business Book Reviews

    J. Arens

    Olivia Wainwright is bound and determined to follow in her father's footsteps and become the next District Detective the moment that he takes over command of Wainwright Detect...

  • The Spy of the Rebellion reviews

    The Spy of the Rebellion Book Reviews

    Allan Pinkerton

    It is a story book. Many years have elapsed since the occurrence of the events which I am about to relate. Years that have been full of mighty import to the nation. A bitter, prolo...

  • The Twelfth Tablet reviews

    The Twelfth Tablet Book Reviews

    Tom Harper

    Twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each ...

  • Samuel Boyd of Catchpole Square A Mystery reviews

    Samuel Boyd of Catchpole Square A Mystery Book Reviews

    B. L. Farjeon

    This 1899 mystery novel by British writer and journalist B(enjamin) L(eopold) Farjeon, detective Dick Remington investigates a murder and other criminal matters with the help of a ...

  • Gaudy Night reviews

    Gaudy Night Book Reviews

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the allfemale Shrewsbury College, Oxford, have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations. However, the mood turns sour wh...

  • The Black Eagle Mystery reviews

    The Black Eagle Mystery Book Reviews

    Geraldine Bonner

    The following story of what has been known as The Black Eagle Mystery has been compiled from documents contributed by two persons thoroughly conversant with the subject. These are ...

  • Uncle Bernac reviews

    Uncle Bernac Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    This is a mystery book. Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th cen...

  • The Desolate Garden reviews

    The Desolate Garden Book Reviews

    Daniel Kemp

    What secrets lie in the ledgers of the Royal Government Bank? After Harry Paterson is summoned to London following his father's murder, he finds out that the late Lord Elliot ...

  • Cromwell Road reviews

    Cromwell Road Book Reviews

    Rowan Scot-Ryder

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