Alphabet in Historical Crime Fiction

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Jane Jakeman

Lord Ambrose Malfine, an English aristocrat back from fighting the Greek War of Independence

• Let There Be Blood (1998)


• The Egyptian Coffin (1997)


• Fool’s Gold (1998)

Claude Monet, French impressionist painter, in early 1900s London, England, and Venice, Italy

• In the Kingdom of Mists (2002)


• In The City of Dark Waters (2006)

Andrea H. Japp

Agnes de Souarcy, young widowed lady of the manor Normandy, France 1304

• The Season of the Beast (2008)


• The Breath of the Rose (2009)


• The Divine Blood (2009)

Michael Jecks

Simon Puttock, medieval West County bailiff, and Sir Baldwin Furnshill, ex-Templar Knight, in Devon, England

• The Last Templar (1995) [r]


• The Merchant’s Partner (1995) [r]


• A Moorland Hanging (1996) [r]


• The Crediton Killings (1997)


• The Abbott’s Gibbet (1998)


• The Leper’s Return (1998)


• Squire Throwleigh’s Heir (1999)


• Belladonna at Belstone (1999)


• The Traitor of St. Giles (2000)


• The Boy-Bishop’s Glovemaker (2000)


• The Tournament of Blood (2001)


• The Sticklepath Strangler (2001)


• The Devil’s Acolyte (2002)


• The Mad Monk of Gidleigh (2002)


• The Templar’s Penance (2003)


• The Outlaws of Ennor (2004)


• The Tolls of Death (2004)


• The Chapel of Bones (2004)


• The Butcher of St. Peter’s (2005)


• A Friar’s Bloodfeud (2005)


• The Death Ship of Dartmouth (2006)


• The Malice of Unnatural Death (2007)


• Dispensation of Death (2007)


• The Templar, the Queen and Her Lover (2007)


• The Prophecy of Death (2008)


• The King of Thieves (2009)


• No Law in the Land (2009)


• The Bishop Must Die (April 2010)

Maureen Jennings

William Murdoch, a police detective in 1890s Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Except the Dying (1997) Finalist 1998 Anthony Award for Best First Novel,Finalist 1998 Barry Award for Best Nove,lFinalist 1998 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel


• Under the Dragon’s Tail (1998)


• Poor Tom Is Cold (2001)


• Let Loose the Dogs (2003) Finalist 2004 Anthony Award for Best Historical Novel


• Night’s Child (2005) Finalist 2006 Barry Award for Best Paperback, Finalist 2006 Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel


• Vices of My Blood (2006)


• A Journeyman to Grief (2007) Finalist 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel

J. Sydney Jones

Karl Werthen, a lawyer, and Dr. Hanns Gross, the real-life father of modern criminology, in turn-of-the-20th-century Vienna

• The Empty Mirror (2009)


• Requiem in Vienna (February 2010)

[r] = I've read it

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