Alphabet in Historical Crime Fiction - C

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Rebecca Cantrell

Hannah Vogel, a crime reporter in 1930s Berlin

• A Trace of Smoke (2009)


• A Night of Long Knives (due June 2010)

Marion Chesney

Captain Harry Cartwright, a wounded, bitter survivor of the Boer War, now a “fixer,” and Lady Rose Summer, in Edwardian England

• Snobbery with Violence (2003)


• Hasty Death (2004)


• Sick of Shadows (2005)


• Our Lady of Pain (2006)

P.F. Chisholm

Sir Robert Carey, a nobleman in Elizabethan England

• A Famine of Horses (1994)


• A Season of Knives (1995)


• A Surfeit of Guns (1996)


• A Plague of Angels (1998)

Jill Churchill

Lily Brewster, socialite and her brother, Robert Brewster, victims of the stock market crash of 1929

• Anything Goes (1999)


• In the Still of the Night (2000)


• Someone To Watch Over Me (2001)


• Love for Sale (2003)


• It Had To Be You (2004)


• Who’s Sorry Now? (2005)


• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009)

Alys Clare

Abbess Helewise and Sir Josse d’Acquin, a French knight, at the Hawkenly Abbey in England during the 12th century

• Fortune Like the Moon (1999)


• Ashes of the Elements (2000)


• The Tavern in the Morning (2000)


• The Chatter of the Maidens (2001)


• The Faithful Dead (2002)


• A Dark Night Hidden (2004)


• Whiter Than the Lily (2004)


• Girl in a Red Tunic (2005)


• Heart of Ice (2006)


• The Enchanter’s Forest (2007)


• The Paths of the Air (2008)


• The Joys of My Life (2009)

Lassair, a 14-year-old girl with special gifts training to be a healer in a Fenland village, in 11th century England

• Out of the Dawn Light (2009)

Cassandra Clark

Abbess of Meaux Mysteries Sister Hildegaard Northern England 1380s

• Hangman Blind (2008)


• The Red Velvet Turnshoe (2009)

Rory Clements

John Shakespeare, elder brotherof playwright William Shakespeareand investigator for Queen Elizabeth IEngland 1580s-1590s

• Martyr (2009)


• Revenger (April 2010)

Michael Clynes

Sir Roger Shallot, agent of Cardinal Wolsey in England

• The White Rose Murders (1991)


• The Poisoned Chalice (1992)


• The Grail Murders (1993)


• A Brood of Vipers (1994)


• The Gallows Murders (1995)


• The Relic Murders (1996)

Max Allan Collins

Nate Heller, a 1930s ex-cop turned private eye, in Chicago, Illinois

• True Detective (1983) 1984 Shamus Award for Best Novel


• True Crime (1984) Finalist 1985 Shamus Award for Best Novel


• The Million-Dollar Wound (1986) Finalist 1987 Shamus Award for Best NovelFinalist 1987 Macavity Award for Best Novel


• Neon Mirage (1988) Finalist 1989 Shamus Award for Best Novel


• Dying in the Post-War World (1991)


• Stolen Away (1991) 1992 Shamus Award for Best Novel


• Carnal Hours (1994) Finalist 1995 Shamus Award for Best Novel


• Blood and Thunder (1995)


• Damned in Paradise (1996) Finalist 1997 Shamus Award for Best Novel


• Flying Blind (1998) Finalist 1999 Shamus Award for Best Novel


• Majic Man (1999)


• Angel in Black (2001) Finalist 2002 Shamus Award for Best Novel


• Kisses of Death (2001)


• Chicago Confidential (2002)

Eliot Ness, a 1930s public safety officer in Cleveland, Ohio

• The Dark City (1987)


• Butcher's Dozen (1988)


• Bullet Proof (1989)


• Murder by the Numbers (1993)

Stand Alones:

• The Titanic Murders (1999)


• The Hindenburg Murders (2000) Finalist 2001 Shamus Award for Best Paperback


• The Pearl Harbor Murders (2001)


• Road to Perdition (2002)


• The Lusitania Murders (2002) Finalist 2003 Shamus Award for Best Paperback


• The London Blitz Murders (2004) Finalist 2005 Shamus Award for Best Paperback


• Road to Perdition: On the Road (2004)


• The War of the Worlds Murder (2005) Finalist 2006 Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel

Judith Cook

Simon Forman, a physician-astrologer in Elizabethan London, England:

• Death of a Lady’s Maid (1997)


• Murder at the Rose (1998)


• Blood on the Borders (1999)


• Kill the Witch (1999)


• School of the Night (2000)