historical fiction

Wild Bill Hickock, U.S. Army colonel Fetterman, and other American figures appear in this historical novel of the nineteenth-century West, in which a woman named Mary Margaret treks across the country with her family to confront her traveling, philandering husband.

Detective Simon Ziele transfers away from New York City to escape the tragic reminders of his wife's death, only to be assigned to the most brutal murder he has ever seen, a case complicated by Alistair Sinclair, a noted criminologist, who shares information about one of his research subjects, Michael Fromley.

Bo and Pollo, white and black, watch as their idyllic sixteenth summer turns dark and violent due to the Jim Crow laws and small-mindedness of the 1950s, and years later they are forced to confront their shared history in order to save their friendship.

A companion to Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," in which Una Spenser tells the story of her life, and discusses her loving marriage to Captain Ahab before the white whale took his leg and drove him into madness.

In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.

Queen Elizabeth I calls upon her small, select band of advisors for help when a murderer begins terrorizing her summer residence.

Obsessed with the memory of Faith, her older sister who died in 1970, Phoebe O'Connor feels compelled to retrace Faith's final steps in Europe.

Mary Russell, an intelligent young woman, becomes the apprentice of Sherlock Holmes.

Cousins William and Maxine arrive on the doorstep of Battersea Manor in May of 1929, to stay the summer with their grandfather, whom they hardly remember. Before they even get settled in, though, Grandpa, or Colonel Battersea, receives a cryptic telegram and takes them to New York to pick up a mysterious parcel. Before they get the parcel, Grandpa disappears, and the cousins meet Nura, a girl from Turkey who seems to know a lot about Colonel Battersea and the importance of the parcel--and she needs their help to stop a secret society of assassins and a group of cold-blooded gangsters from getting the parcel first.

In Iran, a young girl with three suitors gets permission from her father and a holy man to weave into her wedding rug a riddle to be solved by her future husband, which will ensure that he has wit to match hers.