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…
Harry Sidebottom is a British historian who is known for writing historical novels. A Quondam Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford, and lecturer at Lincoln College, Harry Sidebottom is also writing non-fiction history books– and he appeared as a presenter on the History Channel’s Ancient Discoveries. Of course, Sidebottom is…
British author, Dilly Court-who is also writing under the pseudonym of Lily Baxter-began her career writing scripts for television commercials before turning her attention to historical fiction and family saga novels. Now, with more than 30 books published, Dilly Court is well known for her bestselling novels like The Button Box, The Orphan’s Dream, and…
Written by British author Anthony Riches (The Centurions Trilogy), the Empire series is a historical fiction about the life of a Roman centurion during the reign of Emperor Commodus. The series began with the introduction of soldier hero Marcus Valerius Aquila, a centurion stationed on Hadrian’s Wall in the second century during a revolt against…
Written by prolific Welsh-Canadian novelist Mary Balogh, The Westcott Series is a historical romance series. Set during the British Regency era, the series takes us into the lives of the Westcott family. Everything started when Humphrey Wescott, Earl of Riverdale, died. He leaves behind a fortune and a scandalous secret that will forever alter the…
Coming from television producer/director and (of course) author John Lawton, the Frederick Troy series is a mix of historical, crime, and espionage stories. The series focuses on police sergeant (and later Chief Inspector) Frederick Troy who is investigating murder cases in London, England, from the late 1940s to the 1960s. Those books were not written…
Written by Victoria Thompson, The Gaslight Mystery series is about Sarah Brandt, a midwife at the turn of the 20th century. These stories follow Sarah Brandt, whose family is one of the oldest in New York City, and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy as they work together, dealing with birth and death in this brutal and…
Alan Furst is an American author of historical spy novels, born in New York in 1941. A graduate of Oberlin College in 1960 and from Penn State in 1967, Furst worked in advertising and wrote magazine articles before becoming a full-time writer. His first published books didn’t spark a big interest among readers, achieving limited…
Written by American author Alan Furst, the Night Soldiers novels are espionage thrillers taking place in Europe, starting in the 1930s and through World War II. Those are realistic stories of (mostly) reluctant heroes in wartime, an exploration of the multiple resistance movements all over Europe, from occupied Paris to London, from the front to…
Created by English writer Anne Perry, William Monk is a policeman in the Victorian era. Brilliant and ambitious, but suffering from amnesia after a coach accident in 1856, this son of a fisherman has lost a lot and tried to keep this a secret to save his job. After the accident he met Hester Latterly,…
The Aubrey-Maturin series is an internationally acclaimed nautical historical/war series set during the Napoleonic Wars written by English novelist Patrick O’Brian. The story takes us back to the early 19th century with Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and his friend Stephen Maturin, the ship’s surgeon who also is an intelligence agent. From one…
Created by Robert B. Parker (Jesse Stone and Spenser) who wrote the first four books before his death, the Cole & Hitch series has been continued by actor and screenwriter Robert Knott. Set in the American Old West, these Western novels are about Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, two itinerant lawmen for hire. When they…
