6 Eclectic Historical Mysteries Set in the Early Modern Era
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History, by its very nature, lends itself to mystery. The loss of archival records and living witnesses means we can never have a complete picture of events that occurred centuries...
The story begins in the waning days of 1916, with the United States soon to be embroiled in World War I under President Woodrow Wilson. In a crime that presages the violent conflic...
I sold real estate in early 1990s. That probably doesn’t sound like the opening of a crime novel, but it’s the truth — and it’s where Alexandra Sinclair was born. When you work in...
Classic mysteries are popular for their predictable structure shepherded to a tidy conclusion by a sympathetic detective, and I am particularly fond of those set inside academia. T...
In his new historical crime novel, Through Many Dangers, Texas author Thomas Goodman has taken the skeleton of a true story and, from it, created a cast of fully fleshed-out fictio...
Before recording the strange history that follows, I felt I ought to take a look at the house where such a gruesome murder was committed. Accordingly, one afternoon in early spring...
Christmas and crime go together like port and stilton. Turkey and stuffing. Sprouts and a cracked window. Indeed, snowbound country houses, mysterious deaths beneath the mistletoe...
The title is a bit misleading as the “British” have been with us for quite some time. I doubt anyone would have anticipated the tsunami of Jane Austen’s popularity when her first f...
Twenty years after the job of “detective” was established in Britain, via the Criminal Investigation Division of the New Metropolitan Police in 1842, detectives began appearing on...
Ultimately, The Game Is Murder is a murder mystery that is just as interested in dissecting the genre as it is in the mystery itself. The post HAZELL WARD exhumes the Lord Lucan my...
A new book shines a light on forgotten lives through crime in Georgian-era Wales and the Welsh borders.
By Francis Hamit: Another exciting and provocative panel. The “When” of the storyline matters as much as the “Where, Who, and Why” Catching a Criminal: Forensics for SF/Mystery Wri...
The day my editor asked me to write a Women’s Fiction series I immediately said, Yes! Followed by, what’s Women’s Fiction? Isn’t all fiction Women’s Fiction? I mean, I read everyth...
One of the most delicious parts of crime fiction is that it’s loaded with tension. Our desire to know what will happen next in a story keeps us racing through the pages. We gather...
September brings a host of quiet suspense, complex mysteries, and shocking thrillers, as we finish up summer and enter the long lead-up to the season of horror. Below, you’ll find...
Periodically I’ll come across a discussion on social media about whether historical fiction is a legitimate genre. The argument against it goes as follows. The “historical fiction...
Frankly I’ve always been surprised that more crime fiction writers haven’t adopted Liverpool, or simply “the ‘pool’” for their location. It’s a city packed with character, a port t...
Three immigrants. Two disappearances. One murder. And a love story that defines them all.
Halloween and crime fiction are a devilishly good pairing. When the nights draw in, the leaves start to fall and the shadows seem just a little longer than usual, there’s something...
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A centuries-old Highlands story of forbidden love, war, and a legendary curse is now being investigated as a true-crime case. Forensic experts hope...
Discover Amy Rowlings: quick-witted movie buff, avid reader of crime fiction, and amateur sleuth. January 1939. When clothing-factory heir Edward Handlsey is found murdered in a sn...
When I wrote The Appeal on spec in 2018, it was my first novel and, with no deadline or editor waiting for the manuscript, I had a ball. It’s a lively story told in a modern episto...
There's Victorian-era Hamlet, a grotesque ball, 18th and 20th-century artists, and even even new Susanna Clarke all out in October.
The delight of an epistolary novel is the feeling of reading something you shouldn’t. Letters, yes. But take a broad definition and include emails, court filings, news clippings, a...
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