Historical Mystery Lovers discussion

It's a brand new year!
Looking forward to the latest installment in your favorite series or a new book by a new author. Come and tell us.

Master List

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December

On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service, the next in the Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen, is due August 1.

Where the Dead Lie, the next in the Sebastian St. Cyr series by C.S. Harris, is out April 4.

A Perilous Undertaking, the second installment of Deanna Raybourn's new series, is out January 10.

The new Maisie Dobbs #13 In This Grave Hour is due in March 14.

Also the Gaslight Mystery #20 is due May 2 Murder in the Bowery

If it inappropriate of me to post this here, simply delete it and let me know not to do it again. But I have written a historical mystery full of pirates, and it is due for release Sept. 12, 2017, from Seventh Street Books/Prometheus.

It is called The Bloody Black Flag: A Spider John Mystery and it is available for pre-order now. Thanks.

The fifth in the Flavia Albia series will be out July 11, 2017 but the book option isn't up yet on GR. (Amazon link here).

The Proud Sinner, latest Medieval Mystery, is out February 7.

Racing the Devil, the next Ian Rutledge, is due February 14.

February is shaping up to be a good month!

Diana wrote: "Hi everyone,

My name is Diana Nicholas and I'm an avid reader of historical western fiction.."

Hi Diana!
Welcome to the group.
I'm sorry, but your book is an historical romance not historical mystery. Our group is dedicated to the latter so I won't be able to add it to the master list.
Good luck.

Diana,

I have a new one out that is co-authored with Sarah Glenn, a 1920's mystery set in old Florida.Murder on the Mullet Express. I would be happy if you would add that to the list. This is my first trip into the twentieth century. My previous books are set in Kentucky in the 1870's.

July 11th: Death on Delos by Gary Corby. A Nicolaos and Diotima novel, set in ancient Greece.

If any list members are Netgalley readers, Murder on the Mullet Express is still available to read there until sometime in March.

Add Betrayal at Iga: A Hiro Hattori Novel to this list. A ninja detective in the 1500's. Several books published in the series already, and they offer complex mysteries with really well researched history. Susan Spann knows her stuff!

Her newest one is due out in July!

Added. Thanks Steve.

Here's the link for The Third Nero. (I had to add "Flavia" to the title to find it easily.)

Thanks Susanna.

Lauren wrote: "Added. Thanks Steve."

Awesome, thanks!

Homicide for the Holidays comes out in October. Setting is late 1930s Chicago and main character is a radio actress.

The Essence of Malice: A Mystery is out in September. It's the fourth in the Amory and Milo series set in 1930s England.

Russian Roulette is out in July, at least in Europe. This series just started being published in the States but you can get it through Book Depository (no shipping worldwide).

A Promise of Ruin is out in August. Setting in 1900s New York.

This Side of Murder is out in September. It's the first in a new series by the author of the Lady Darby series. This one is set in 1919 England.

Thanks Veronica.
I'm really looking forward to Huber's new series.

Lady Emily #12 hits October 10. Love the change in cover art!

Thanks Meghan. I want to start that series.

Added Casualty of War - the newest Bess Crawford book coming in September

I started A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee. It takes place in 1919 India and so far I'm quite a fan.

Carol wrote: "I started A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee. It takes place in 1919 India and so far I'm quite a fan."
I just got that from the library a few days ago. Pretty good so far.

Carol wrote: "I started A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee. It takes place in 1919 India and so far I'm quite a fan."

Looks good - I've added it to my TBR

I had recently added that one to my TBR list as well.

I bumped into A Rising Man in the library today so will be reading it for my "new to you" author in Monopoly.

Victoria Thompson's new series is out in November.

City of Lies

Veronica wrote: "Victoria Thompson's new series is out in November.

City of Lies "

Exciting! I didn't know she was starting a new series. I loved most of the Gaslight series.

I didn't know either until this popped up in my Facebook timeline today. She says she'll still be writing the Gaslight series as long as people keep buying the books.

Thanks Veronica.
I've added it to the master list.

It looks like a good book. I'm glad its set in the 1920s. This is a sorely neglected time period and such an interesting one.

Veronica wrote: "Victoria Thompson's new series is out in November.

City of Lies "
yay I love Victoria Thompson I put it on my WL

Hi Lauren and other members -- I just found th historical mystery group and am exploring the topics. Is it appropriate for me to announce my own December 2017 release here? I don't want to break rules, especially since I'm new to the group.

Hi Patricia,

Welcome to the group. If your new release is an historical mystery then you can announce it here and I will add it to the list.

Hope you have a good time with us!

Gosh, I'd been wondering about that and hadn't got around to asking, though I've been here for a while!

In that case may I say that Thicker than Water (Murray of Letho, #10, the tenth in the Murray of Letho series, is now out? Set in St. Andrews, Fife, in 1818, it's a traditional mystery beginning with a body in a professor's experimental fish pond.

Thank you, Lauren. Wishing Caswell Dead (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...) will be released by Five Star's Frontier Fiction line December 20th. It's a mystery that starts with the discovery of Caswell Proud's body. Who killed him? Hard to say. A lot of the residents of the Village of Sangamon wanted him to die. The novel is set in Frontier Illinois in the early 1800s.

I know I'll have a great time here. I read almost all genres including non-fiction so my Read list is a real mix. My favorite historical mystery series these days is Susan Spann's Shinobi novels featuring a ninja detective and a Portuguese priest. Her research is amazing.

Patricia, Is that a first in the series or part of an existing series. I like to read a series in order.

Hi Alice -- Wishing Caswell Dead is a standalone...my first attempt at a historical rather than contemporary mystery.

Great I put it on my WL

Thank you so much! Watch for the Goodreads giveaways--Five advance review copies Aug 1-15. Later on I'll give away a few hardcovers.

Alice wrote: "Great I put it on my WL"

Added Arrowood to July's new releases

A slew of favorite series have new additions coming in the next few months...

A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn is due January 16, 2018.

A Brush with Shadows by Anna Lee Huber comes out March 6, 2018.

Why Kill the Innocent by C.S. Harris arrives April 3, 2018.

Thanks Meghan.
I will start a new thread for 2018 (can't believe we are approaching the end of the year!)

Just squeaking in at the end of the year (and I hope in the right thread this time) I have a new book, A Murderous Game, out this week.

A red dawn breaks over winter woodland, where two men stand, pistols drawn. Political strife has come to peaceful Ballater, bringing death in its wake, and Hippolyta Napier is once more drawn to find out more – even when her own life is in danger.

This is the third in the Hippolyta Napier series set in 19th. century Scotland.

Hope you enjoy it!