Often called “Miss Fisher”, Phryne Fisher is the main character in Australian author Kerry Greenwood’s series, a private detective in the late 1920s. Phryne is a wealthy British aristocrat, but not your ordinary aristocrat of course, because she’s also a private detective. Now, she lives in St Kilda, Melbourne, where, with the assistance of her…
Canadian novelist, Susanna Kearsley used to work as a museum curator before making a name for herself as a writer – she also used the pen name Emma Cole to write thrillers. However, Susanna Kearsley is mostly known for writing historical fiction and mysteries and found her biggest success with The Winter Sea, The Firebird,…
Coming from Dewey Lambdin, Alan Lewrie is the fictional hero of a naval adventure series of novels published from 1989 to 2019. The series was not supposed to stop after 25 novels, but the death of Dewey Lambdin in 2021 changed that (no news for now about his 26th unfinished book). Alan Lewrie is the…
The fictional central character and narrator in the series of historical mystery crime novels by Lindsey Davis, Marcus Didius Falco is solving crimes in the Roman Empire under Vespasian. More precisely, Marcus Didius Falco is a private investigator (or an informer/imperial agent)… and an amateur poet. He is working in Rome’s empire during the first…
A collection of historical mystery stories written by John Maddox Roberts, the SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus) series is set in the time of the Roman Republic. Told by Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus, an investigator determined to uncover the corruption running rampant in the highest levels of the Roman Republic government, the stories are about conspiracies…
Born in England, Ian James Ross studied painting before turning his attention to another art form. He has been writing historical fiction for over a decade. It was a year teaching English in Italy that led him to explore the ruins of the Roman Empire, and ultimately to write his six-book ‘Twilight of Empire’ series–set…
Also written by Diana Gabaldon, The Lord John Grey series is a mix of historical fiction spinning of the Outlander novels. In the beginning, Lord John Grey was a recurring secondary character, a young English soldier who became a Lord. Secretly homosexual, he lived a complex life full of adventures. His stories take place between…
Written by Miss Massachusetts (1985) turned best-selling author of historical and contemporary romance novels Lisa Kleypas, The Ravenels is one of her historical romance series. Each book focuses on a different member of the aristocratic Ravenel family (like Devon, Helen, Kathleen, Pandora, Cassandra, Weston…), The Ravenels offers us romantic tales full of colorful characters, funny,…
Written by murder mystery writer Tim Kinsey, the Lady Hardcastle series takes us back to the start of the 20th century for some sleuthing. Born Emily Charlotte Ariadne Featherstonhaugh, Lady Emily Hardcastle is now an eccentric widow but mostly a retired spy turned amateur sleuth. With the help of Florence Armstrong, her maid and confidante…
Coming from English/Irish TV scriptwriter and crime novelist Michael Russell, the Stefan Gillespie series is a historical crime fiction series. Set in the 1930s, between the First and Second World Wars, the story revolves around a reluctant secret policeman named Stefan Gillespie. He is Irish, born to German parents, who invite us into a mix…
As you may have guessed, the Inspector Lestrade book series is based on the character from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. A crime series written by history teacher and author Meirion James Trow (M.J. Trow), it simply follows the investigations of Scotland Yard Inspector Sholto Lestrade. In fact, going from 1879 to 1923,…
Everybody can legally write a Sherlock Holmes story and a lot of authors do it, as you can see from our list of mystery series set in the world created by Sir Conan Doyle. Coming from the British author Martin Davies (Conjuror’s Bird, The Year After), this Victorian crime series is about Sherlock Holmes’s housekeeper…
