Praise for the Dead Man series:

“Sheer fun.”—The Times (London)

“An unfailingly amusing historical series.”—Booklist

“The steady pace, atmospheric design, and detailed description re-create a complicated city. A recommended historical series...

Praise for the Lord Powerscourt series:

"Excellent."-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Dickinson textures his canvas with historical detail as thick as the oil paint on one of his favorite paintings by Turner."-Kirkus Reviews

1905. A pilgrim is killed in Le Puy-e...

Inspector Max Romero investigates the death of a Muslim girl in Granada, Spain. The prime suspect may have terrorist links, but insensitive handling of the case leads to his suicide. As a result, Max is co-opted into a dangerous antiterrorist operation.

P.J. Brooke is the amalgam of ...

Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has given up police work for a quiet life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge. But when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI Max Trentham, Jill's ex-colleague, wants her back at work. As they hunt Martin's killer, they discover ...

Praise for the Lord Edward Corinth–Verity Browne series:

“Roberts just keeps getting better with each book.”—Publishers Weekly

“Recommend[ed] heartily for history-mystery devotees.”—Booklist

“The political context keeps the stakes high eno...

A murder in Istanbul is entangled with international politics and deadly secrets when an embassy official is shot trying to swim the Dardanelles Straits. Special Branch officer Seymour's investigation ranges through Istanbul's graveyards, box shops, and crowded coffee houses, leading to the heart...

Dr. Reggie Lee, new at London's National Gallery, is planning a small exhibition of three almost identical Caravaggio paintings when she discovers a fourth. One must be a forgery. That discovery detonates multiple murders. Like Flavia di Stefano in Iain Pears' art history mysteries, Reggie is att...

Praise for Barbara Cleverly:

"Spectacular and dashing, spellbinding."-The New York Times Book Review

"Smashing . . . marvelously evoked."-Chicago Tribune

"A historical mystery that has just about everything."-Denver Post

"Cleverly maintains the high st...

Praise for David Roberts:

"This is first-rate fun, informed by telling period detail."-Publishers Weekly

"I recommend this one heartily for history-mystery devotees."-Booklist

February, 1939. Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne are invited to Clivenden in Bucking...

Praise for Pat McIntosh:

"McIntosh's characterizations and period details are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series."-Publishers Weekly

"McIntosh provides an intelligent, authentic, and suspenseful historical whodunit that will please the most demanding of ...

Praise for Serena Mackesy:

"A modern day Rebecca, mixed with a suspense-filled Gothic novel and served up with generous helpings of wit-a real treat."-Associated Press

When Bridget gets a job caretaking a country manor house, she thinks it will mean a fresh start for herself an...

"Recaptures the vitality and insouciance of the Golden Age of writers."-Robert Barnard

It's the height of summer, 1923. At a ball in Sussex, former Royal Flying Corps pilot Jack Haldean investigates an apparent suicide, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian revolutiona...

Praise for Shirley Wells:

“A deft combination of police procedural and psychological thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A satisfying cross between a police procedural and a modern, slightly edgy British village mystery, leaving the reader eager for more Max and Jill inves...

The recent theft of family portraits seems to be nothing more than a prank after the artwork is returned, painted over with the faces of locals. But then a body is discovered, and Lord Francis Powerscourt risks everything to find the killer.

In 1913, a poisoned cat, an exiled Sultan, and a new vision of an ascendant Greece threaten the Balkans with utter chaos and war. Something has to be done, and fast. Who was behind the feline poisoning? British Special Branch officer Seymour is on the case.

"Excellent. . . . Dickinson's knowledge of the arts, history and literature is nothing if not exhaustive, and adds enormously."-Publishers Weekly

"Fine prose, high society and a complex plot recommend this series."-Library Journal

Original or fake, masterpiece or forgery...

"A fine case of murder, projected against a compelling historical background."-The New York Times Book Review

"Don't miss this."-Los Angeles Times

In 1879, race walking competitions, known as "wobbles," were all the rage. The death of a contender, followed by a second mu...

"This entertaining period mystery, set in Victorian England, is lively, lurid, amusing."-Publishers Weekly

"These are humorous novels and the humour is character-based . . . mixed with the absurdities of the English class-system. . . . Cribb was the first of the new-wave Victorian cr...

The churning politics of Trieste in 1906 provide the perfect backdrop for murder in the first in a series set in British embassies and consulates in the early 1900s featuring Special Branch officer Seymour. When the British consul goes missing, who's responsible: the secret police, revolutionarie...

Why is Seymour of Scotland Yard summoned to North Africa? Isn't the death of a Frenchman there a matter for the local police? But in the run-up to the First World War, everything is connected, and a single murder in politically fraught Morocco could destabilize Europe.

Praise for the Sergeant Cribb series:

"Sgt. Cribb and Constable Thackeray . . . went on to star in seven additional Victorian mystery novels and became the subjects of one of the first, and most entertaining, of the 'Mystery!' series on PBS."-Otto Penzler, New York Sun

In the f...

“Here’s another of those delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. This one deals with peculiar accidents in various music halls, mishaps of a kind that would ruin a performer’s career; and then there’s murder. . . . Fine picture of peri...

Praise for The Norbridge Chronicles:

"A pleasure to read . . . remained engrossing to the end."-San Jose Mercury News

The Chorister, a biblically obsessed serial killer, terrifies members of the Abbey Chorus in a market town in northern England. Two amateur detectives, a single...

Lord Francis Powerscourt must save the life of Queen-Empress Victoria.

England, 1897. London is preparing for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the celebration to mark her sixtieth year as Queen and Empress of a quarter of the surface of the globe. The immense importance of the occasion inevitabl...

"This series continues to be distinguished by an international flavor and its atmospheric depiction of the convoluted political and social arena that characterized turn-of-the-century Europe and the Middle East."-Booklist

In 1912, a prominent Englishman is found dead in prison in Bar...

"A kind of locked bedroom mystery. . . . Dickinson's view of the royals is edgy and of course shaped by our times."-The Poisoned Pen

"Fine prose, high society and complex plot recommend this series."-Library Journal

A sinister secret at the heart of Compton Cathedral lea...

“[A] gem, catching to perfection the social atmospherics of Victorian Brighton and at the same time telling an ingenious story of murder and discovery.”—Publishers Weekly

“His best yet.”—H. R. F. Keating, The Times (London)

“The sleuthing is neat an...

Gary Goodhew is intelligent, intuitive, and the youngest detective at Cambridge's Parkside Station. When Gary discovers the first body in a series of murders involving an eccentric Cambridge family, he gets his chance to work on a homicide investigation. He must use his own initiative to flush ou...

Praise for the Gil Cunningham series:

"Another hearty meal stuffed with fascinating period tidbits and a satisfying mystery."-Kirkus Reviews

"McIntosh artfully interweaves intrigue and history in this suspenseful medieval mystery tale."-Booklist

The third mystery i...

Mystery writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Major Hugh Payne visit a boring fan's estate only to find that she is more sinister than dull, and they end up having to foil a planned murder.

When Jamie breaks into a nursery school with a gun and takes hostages, he is trying to find his lover, Miro, who is missing together with a large sum of money intended for reconstruction in Iraq.

In Sir William’s remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible that a young boy could have been stolen away by the fairies and returned forty years later without having visibly aged. And if the boy isn’t Davie Drummond, who is he? Then he suffers a succession of near-fatal “accidents.”...

Praise for Suzette A. Hill:

"This dry, funny British gem, with its eccentric cast of characters, will leave readers laughing and eagerly awaiting the next episode."-Publishers Weekly

Reverend Oughterard has managed to elude arrest (for now), but when another murder occurs, Ough...

Praise for Olive Etchells:

"The most unnerving crimes of violence are the ones that tear apart small, tightly knit communities . . . and Etchells demonstrates this awful process of disintegration."-The New York Times Book Review

When a body is found at the crossroads of a small...

A woman is killed by a train and her lover doesn’t show up at the funeral. PI Zoë Boehm is hired to find him. Attempting to unlock the woman’s secrets, Zoe finds more and more questions.

"McIntosh's characterizations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series."-Publishers Weekly

"The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed."-Historical Novels Review

Gil Cunningham returns to Glasgow University only to be involved...

Praise for Gary Newman:

"The author succeeds admirably in recreating Victorian London, both in character and setting. Fans of Anne Perry and other Victorian mysteries will enjoy."-Library Journal

On his grandfather's death, writer Seb Rolvenden inherits papers which reveal that...

"In this excellent novel, Dickinson weaves a tale of blackmail and murder among the royals late in Victoria's reign. . . . [His] knowledge of the arts, history and literature is nothing if not exhaustive, and adds enormously to the overall background. . . . One hopes to see more of Lord Powersco...

Someone is killing eminent lawyers; Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned to investigate discreetly.

Queen's Inn is London's youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. During a feast on February 29, 1902, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been pois...

One quiet evening in Oxford, a house near Sarah Tucker's explodes. The reported cause is a gas leak, but when a little girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah—a young married woman, bored with her life—becomes obsessed with finding her.

"McIntosh's characterizations and period detail are first rate and bode well for future entries in this series."-Publishers Weekly

"The next Cunningham adventure is to be welcomed."-Historical Novels Review

Novice lawyer Gil Cunningham finds his true vocation not as a pr...

Death threats start arriving in the mail, and legendary French diva Corinne seeks refuge at her godmother's country estate. Other house guests include Antonia Darcy and her husband, Corinne’s dominating agent, her godmother’s nephew, and a private detective.

Praise for the Gil Cunningham series:

"Another hearty meal stuffed with fascinating period tidbits and a satisfying mystery."-Kirkus Reviews

"McIntosh artfully interweaves intrigue and history in this suspenseful medieval mystery tale."-Booklist

The fourth Gil Cunn...

At a house party on the day of the royal wedding in 1981, a little girl named Sonya Dufrette wanders off and is never seen again. Twenty years on, divorcee and librarian Antonia Darcy sets out to solve the mystery.

When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down some robbers, she’s just looking for cash to pay off the taxman; she’s not expecting to wind up in a coffin. But death, like taxes, can’t be avoided forever.

"Dickinson textures his canvas with historical detail as thick as the oil paint on one of his favorite paintings by Turner."-Kirkus Reviews

"Lovers of British historical mysteries will enjoy Powerscourt's latest adventures."-Booklist

"Splendid entertainment."-Publishe...

"Another hearty meal stuffed with fascinating period tidbits and a satisfying mystery."—Kirkus Reviews

“McIntosh artfully interweaves intrigue and history in this suspenseful medieval murder tale.”—Booklist

Gil Cunningham, a young notary, has escaped a li...

Praise for R.T. Raichev:

"Deftly mixes dark humor and psychological suspense, its genteel surface masking delicious deviancy.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Mixes Henry James’s psychological insight with Agatha Christie’s whodunit plotting skills. . . . Raichev...