Historical Mystery Books

The best historical mysteries do more than plot, they place you in the room. Historical Mystery Books bring together richly detailed settings, sharp-eyed sleuths and clues that reward close attention. Expect classic whodunits, school and society intrigues, period crime and investigations that move from drawing rooms to back streets, with series reading for those who like to follow a case-solving duo across multiple stories. If you are looking for historical crime novels with a strong sense of time and place, you will find them here.