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Iain Pears is an English author of historical and contemporary mystery novels. He writes the Jonathan Argyll series. Aside from being a novelist, he is also an art historian and a journalist. Pears attended Warwick School, Wadham College and Wolfson College. As a reporter, he’s worked for the BBC, Channel 4 and ZDF (in Germany). […]
The Josephine Tey Mysteries is a series of historical mysteries by English novelist Nicola Upson. The series follows real-life mystery author and playwright Josephine Tey, who solves mysteries akin to those in her own novels. Tey herself was quite an enigma and didn’t leave much documentation of her life behind. Although Tey was from Inverness, […]
Nicola Upson is an English author of historical mystery novels. She writes the Josephine Tey Mysteries series, based on the classic mystery author of the same name. Nicola studied English at Downing College, Cambridge. Before becoming novelist, she worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist. Nicola is the winner of the Escalator Award from […]
Benjamin January is the protagonist in a series of historical mystery novels by American author Barbara Hambly. Benjamin January is a mixed race man who has freed from slavery when he was a child by his mother’s love. He lived in France for a time, where he trained as a surgeon, but can’t get much […]
Lady Darby is the protagonist in a series of historical mystery novels by American novelist Anna Lee Huber. Lady Kiera Darby is recently widowed and living at her sister’s estate. When someone in the house is murdered, she becomes an amateur detective with an unlikely partner. The series is set in Scotland in the 1830s.
Anna Lee Huber is an American author of historical mystery novels. She writes the Lady Darby series. Anna was born and raised in a small Ohio town. She earned her music degree with a minor in psychology from Lipscomb University in Nashville. When she’s not writing, Anna loves to read, sing, travel and spend time […]
Francis Hancock is the main character in a series of historical mystery novels by British author Barbara Nadel. During the 1940s and World War II in London, England, Francis Hancock works as an undertaker. He is a World War I vet who is suffering from symptoms of what today would be referred to as post-traumatic […]
Susanna, Lady Appleton is the protagonist in a series of historical cozy mystery novels by American novelist Kathy Lynn Emerson. Susanna, Lady Appleton is a 16th century gentlewoman, a herbalist and an expert detective. She is a no-nonsense woman who is surely any husband’s nightmare. The series is also known as the “Face Down” series.
Kathy Lynn Emerson is an American novelist who writes historical mystery and romance novels (sometimes as Kaitlyn Gorton) and non-fiction books, as well as cozy mystery novels (as Kaitlyn Dunnett) and historical fiction (as Kate Emerson). She writes the Susanna, Lady Appleton, Liss MacCrimmon and Secrets of the Tudor Court series. Kathy has been writing […]
Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad is a series of historical mystery novels by American novelist Alex Grecian. Set in Victorian London following Jack the Ripper’s Autumn of Terror in 1889, the series focuses on the same team of detectives created in the wake of the failure to track down and capture the notorious serial killer. The […]