8 New Historical Fiction Murder Mysteries
From the underworld of California’s Depression-era taxi dance halls, a cozy village in Elizabethan England, to post-World War II Oxford University, these historical mysteries will take you back in time to solve a murder mystery.
Filipino farmworker Eli and American dancer Lucinda fell in love in a secret taxi dance hall, a safe space from Depression-era California laws that criminalized interracial marriage.
But when a dance hall owner is shot dead and Eli is arrested for the murder, Lucinda must fight to prove his innocence, and in the process uncover abhorrent secrets.
The year is 1585, and coroner John Derrick has been summoned to the village of Bramley to investigate a dead man found beneath a waterwheel and missing a very particular piece of his anatomy. But no one in the village wants to help him uncover the killer except for 16-year old maid Rebecca, who knows the power of secrets.
It's midnight at the Savoy Hotel, and a dead man is found in the backseat of a Rolls-Royce clutching a letter for Priscilla Tempest. The last thing she needs is to have the police set their eyes on her again, when she's already preoccupied with a seductive Hollywood legend and a hypochondriac younger sister. Fortunately for her, Agatha Christie is on hand to help solve the murder and clear Priscilla's name.
Coutourière-turned-sleuth Jemima Flowerday accepts an invitation to a 'Murder Weekend' at a crumbling Devon mansion to roleplay the daughter of a fictitious duchess. But life starts to imitate art when a real murder takes place, and Jemima is certain one of those within the house is the killer.
Oxford, England, 1951. There’s a Soviet spy at the university, and the agent tracking them down has been poisoned. MI5 has recruited two undergrads, society debutante Gin and small town boy Sidney, to team up and identify the informant.
The two clash in every possible way as they try to pick up the trail on the spy, though they soon come to realize that there actually is truth to the adage "opposites attract".
Lady Abigail Worthing’s doomed marriage of convenience to James Monroe comes to an abrupt end when she discovers him murdered in St. James's Park.
Determined to find his killer, she tries to find clues in the letters he was writing before his death, only to realize she might be uncovering transgressions darker and deeper than she thought James was ever capable of.
On top of her matchmaking and societal obligations, Victorian sleuth Lady Darling and her reicule-sized poodle Beatrice must find the culprit of a murder in a weekend country house party.
An aspiring actress is found stabbed to death in downtown Los Angeles after she was spotted at a yacht party attended by Hollywood's A-list. Script supervisor Evelyn Galloway is on the case to uncover secrets of the A-list to find one that led to murder.
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