historical mystery

Book Reviews

• Boris Akunin: Turkish Gambit
  - a mystery novel set in the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War
• Mike Ashley: The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives
  - thirty short stories
• Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen's Union
  - alternative history mystery in a Jewish state in Alaska
• Lindsey Davis: The Silver Pigs
  - private informer Marcus Didius Falco uncovers a conspiracy
• Alan Furst: The Spies of Warsaw
  - a novel of espionage against Germany in 1937
• Catherine Jinks: The Inquisitor
  - a murder mystery set in medieval France
• Okamoto Kido: The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi
  - detective stories set in Edo Japan
• Henry F. Mazel: Red Chrysanthemum
  A Novel of Occupied Japan
• Orhan Pamuk: My Name is Red*
  - murder and art in 16th century Istanbul
• I.J. Parker: The Dragon Scroll
  - a murder mystery set in ancient Japan
• Iain Pears: An Instance of the Fingerpost*
  - murder, espionage and controversy in Restoration Oxford
• Steven Saylor: Arms of Nemesis
  - a murder mystery set during the Spartacist revolt in 70 BC
• Steven Saylor: Catilina's Riddle
  - a mystery set during the Catiline Conspiracy
• Andrea Maria Schenkel: The Murder Farm
  - a brutal murder in post-war Germany
• Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time
  - a policeman in hospital takes up the case of Richard III
• Peter Tremayne: Absolution by Murder
  - a Sister Fidelma mystery set around the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD
• Robert van Gulik: Judge Dee*
  - stories about a famous Chinese detective-magistrate
• Leonid Yuzefovich: Harlequin's Costume
  - a political murder mystery in 1871 St Petersburg

See also: crime | detective fiction | historical fiction | history