Best Historical Mystery Books

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

Crocodile on the Sandbank

by Elizabeth Peters

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnish...

Dissolution

by CJ Sansom

The Alienist

by Caleb Carr

The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist,...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

by Alan Bradley

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passio...

Death Comes to Pemberly

by P.d. James

Cut to the Quick

by Kate Ross

The Ambush of My Name

by Jeffrey Marks

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

by Laurie R

The Silver Pigs

by Lindsey Davis

When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him...