Historiske krimier

"Parsons and tyrants friends take note. We have born your oppreshuns long enough. We will have our parish rights or else Bloodie Bones will drink your blood". When Lord Oldfield encloses Barcombe Wood, depriving the people of their ancient rights to gather food and fuel, the villagers retaliate with vandalism, arson and riot. Then Lord Oldfield's gamekeeper, Josh Castle, is murdered during a poaching raid. Dan Foster, Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist, is sent to investigate. Dan's job is to infiltrate the poaching gang and bring the killers to justice. But there's more to Castle's death than at first sight appears. What is the secret of the gamekeeper's past and does it have any connection with his murder? What is Lord Oldfield concealing? And did someone beside the poachers have a reason to want Josh Castle dead? As tensions in Barcombe build to a thrilling climax, Dan will need all his wits and his fighting skills to stay alive and get to the truth. Bloodie Bones was joint winner of the Historical Novel Society Indie Award 2016; semi-finalist in the M M Bennetts Historical Fiction Award 2016; a Discovering Diamonds Book of the Month; Chill With a Book Readers' Award; Awesome Indies Book Award.

It's the winter of 1945 and Mickey Matthews cannot yet celebrate. A phone call sends him to solve another myster-a cold case located in California. Again, he faces deceit, violence, and murder.

A ghost story set in the Irish countryside manor house hotel, by the wild Atlantic coast. COLOR ILLUSTRATIONSA life-changing trip that not everyone will make it out of!

Rebecca Hall, a lovely young nurse from Louisiana, travels with her family to a thriving riverboat town on the Ohio River in the late 1800's and eventually married Charles Thain. Rebecca happiness is short-lived as things quickly deteriorate and her marriage ends in tragedy, digging up the nightmare that has haunted her since her early days in Louisiana. Rebecca finds herself embroiled in circumstance beyond her knowledge of nursing when she becomes the victim of a series of attacks. Could the curse of the notorious voodoo witch, Grandma Phoebe be to blame? Her journey is a tangle of lies and deceit through which she struggles to separate the truth from the facade.

Taking place against the backdrop of 1925's Scopes evolution trial, Reaping the Whirlwind is a serial killer mystery set in a quirky and historic small town.

"Set during the Golden Age of Hollywood. As character actress Edie O' finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an undistinguished stint in the pictures. She's long supplemented her income moonlighting for Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist, providing her with the salacious details of every party and premiere. When an up-and-coming starlet hands her a letter alleging an assault from an A-list actor at a party with Edie and the rest of the industry's biggest names in attendance, Edie helps get the story into print and sets off a chain of events that will alter the trajectories of everyone involved. Now on a new side of the entertainment business, Edie's second act career grants her more control on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera. But Edie quickly learns that publishing the secrets of those former colleagues she considers friends has repercussions. And when she finds herself in the middle of the trial of the decade, Edie is forced to make an impossible choice with the potential to ruin more than one life."--Publisher marketing.

"Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her small English township-she is terrible at needlework, has no musical ability, and her artwork is so bad it frightens people. Nevertheless, she lives a perfectly agreeable life with her marriage-scheming mother, prankster father, and two younger sisters-beautiful Louisa and forgettable Mary. But she harbors a dark secret: She is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about in the newspaper, even going so far as to try to solve them herself. If anyone in her etiquette-obsessed community found out, she'd be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. For her family's sake, she's vowed to put her obsession behind her. Because eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching autumnal ball, and the Steele family hopes that Louisa will steal his heart. If not, Martin Grub, their disgusting cousin, will inherit the family's estate, and they will be ruined, or even worse, forced to move to mime-infested France. So Beatrice must be on her best behavior...which is made difficult when a disgraced yet alluring detective inexplicably shows up to the ball. Beatrice is just holding things together when Croaksworth drops dead in the middle of a minuet. As a storm rages outside, the evening descends into a frenzy of panic, fear, and betrayal as it becomes clear they are trapped with a killer. Contending with competitive card games, tricky tonics, and Swampshire's infamous squelch holes, Beatrice must rise above decorum and decency to pursue justice and her own desires-before anyone else is murdered."--

A lost child will uncover old secrets....After her triumphant performance as goddess of the night at a royal banquet, Sera is instructed by the Mage Council to stay out of public sight. She is tasked with settling a restless spirit who has been roused by the fate of a descendant. A noblewoman stands accused of orchestrating the sad fate of her daughter, and the ghost will not return to her grave until Sera does something.Sera journeys to the countryside in pursuit of evidence to free the woman, but finds a gothic manor harbouring secrets within its walls, and a lord intent on being rid of his troublesome wife. Did the noblewoman truly do away with her daughter, or was a more sinister hand responsible?As Sera struggles to reveal the truth, doubts invade her mind. Will her efforts see the mother walk free, or to the gallows?

From Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, a sweeping, romantic compulsively readable historical saga about a Duke's daughter?the perfect Victorian lady?who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society's inner circle. Victorian London was notorious for its pickpockets. But in the country houses of the elite, gentleman burglars, art thieves and con men preyed on the rich and titled. Wealthy victims?with their pride and reputation at stake?would never go to the police. What they needed was a society insider, one of their own, a person of discretion and finely tuned powers of observation, adept at navigating intrigue.That person was Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, the youngest child of Queen Victoria's close friends the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch. Bookish, fiercely intelligent, and a keen observer, Mary has deliberately cultivated a mousey persona that allows her to remain overlooked and significantly underestimated by all. It's the perfect cover for a sleuth, a role she stumbles into when trying to assist a close friend during a house party hosted by her parents at their stately Scottish home, Drumlanrig Castle.It is at this party where Lady Mary also meets Colonel Walter Trefusis, a distinguished and extremely handsome war veteran. Tortured by memories of combat, Walter, like Mary, lives a double life, with a desk job in Whitehall providing a front for his role in the British Intelligence Service. The two form an unlikely alliance to solve a series of audacious crimes?and indulge in a highly charged on-off romance.Pacy, romantic, and fun, A Most Intriguing Lady documents one remarkable woman's ability to be both the perfect lady, and a perfectly talented detective...and, of course, to find love too.

It's the winter of 1945 and Christmas is just around the corner, but Mickey Matthews cannot yet celebrate. A phone call sends him to solve another mystery - a cold case located in California. But when Matthews discovers that two actresses vanished under similar circumstances more than a decade apart, he must abandon his holiday plans and once again launch into a tangled journey to face deceit, violence, and murder.

EIN MÖRDERISCHES DINNEREngland, 1936: Eigentlich sollte es nur ein Gefallen für seinen Freund Chief Inspector Grover sein, als Lord Danby ihn spontan zu einem Dinner auf Asher Castle begleitet. Dort sind allerdings noch elf andere illustre Gäste geladen ¿ und einer von ihnen ist ein eiskalter Mörder! Doch was könnte sein Motiv sein, sie einen nach dem anderen aus dem Weg zu räumen ¿ und was sollten etwa eine versnobte Adelsdame, ein hitzköpfiger Argentinier, ein Bankier und ein Kommunist gemeinsam haben? Durch heftigen Schneefall von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten, kann Inspector Grover nicht verhindern, dass sich die exzentrischen Gäste auf mannigfaltige Art in Gefahr begeben. Derweil sinniert Danby an der Weinbar darüber, dass der Täter, der bald erneut zuschlägt, mit einem nicht gerechnet hat ¿ nämlich mit ihm!Der große Reihenauftakt um Percival Danby, den wohl faulsten Detektiv des englischen Königshauses! Ein Krimi wie von Agatha Christie ¿ nach dem Genuss mehrerer Gläser ausgezeichneten Portweins.

julemand blev myrdet året før, men mordet blev opklaret, før omverdenen opdagede, der var noget galt. I år håber man på uforstyrret julehandel, men så let går det naturligvis ikke. Husdetektiv Adeline la Cour tilkaldes endnu engang for at opklare et mord, helst inden stormagasinet åbner. Der er, som hun udtrykker det, gået Grand Guignol i guirlanderne.