If you love historical mysteries, I have a list of New Historical Mysteries for July and August 2026. The list includes many Victorian and Gilded Age mysteries, and so much more!
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New Historical Mysteries for July 2026
Table of Contents
The Eagle and the Serpent by Daniel Colter (Illyricum, AD 7). The first book in the Legion of Rome Military Thrillers series.
Blood on the Wind by Peter Tremayne (7th-century Ireland). The 37th Sister Fidelma Mystery featuring Ireland’s beloved super-sleuth.
Shadow of Madness by D. V. Bishop (Tuscany, 1540). The sixth Cesare Aldo mystery. (Audiobook only.)
The Knocking by Laura Lee Bahr (nineteenth-century New York). In a haunted house, the living and the dead pose dangers to a female journalist.
Murder on Devil’s Ridge by Irina Shapiro (Victorian England). Nurse Gemma Bell and her new husband, Inspector Sebastian Bell, unravel the murder of a young girl.
City of Promises by Victoria Thompson and Ellen Thompson (turn-of-the-century New York). In this eighth book in the series, young con woman Elizabeth Miles finds herself embroiled in intrigue.
The Debutante Detective by Bruce Rule (New York City, 1905). Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter Alice teams up with Holmes and Watson to save the president from a kidnapping.
The Great Game by Arvind Ethan David (1905). An outsider in London investigates a series of murders targeting English aristocrats.
The Bachelor Spy by Pepper Basham (1910s). In this fifth Blake and Gracie mystery, the duo must work together to root out criminals, thieves, and spies.
Let the Murderer Say Amen by Carolyn Marie Wilkins (1920s America). During the Jazz Age, Nola Ann Jackson learns to develop her natural psychic talents from her aunt.
The Cloak and Dagger Club by Jackie McMahon (London, 1930). A murder among a group of golden age mystery writers turns into a second chance romance for two of them.
No. 1 St James’s Park by Alan Judd (WWI London). A novel about the origin of MI6.
Maisy Bell Is Missing by Kirsty Manning (pre-war Paris). Reporter Charlotte “Charlie” James investigates the mysterious disappearance of a well-connected American tourist at the Ritz Hotel.
The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (1940s Mexico). A noir about desire, danger, and greed in which seduction is the ultimate con.
Prey by Graham Hurley (WWII). Combining espionage and combat, a thriller of the battle for the skies during the darkest days of World War II.
Queens of Crime: Death at King’s Cross by Rosanne Limoncelli (London, 1941). DCI Lilian Wyles is confronted by a troubling case that only the four queens of crime can help solve.
The Paris Chase by David Lewis (WWII France). A Welsh spy who has become one of Winston Churchill’s most trusted agents is dropped into France to retrieve vital Nazi documents.
The Stealth Hunters by D. R. Bailey (1944). The third book in the Cooper’s Renegades Aviation Thrillers series.
The Starlet and the Killer Gossip Column by Lisa Hall (Hollywood, 1949). The next installment in the Hotel Hollywood Mysteries series.
New Historical Mysteries for August 2026
The Emerald Teapot by Rosalie Oaks (Regency Brighton). Fifth in the Lady Diviner series, this cozy mystery-meets-magic tale opens with murder at a wedding breakfast, teapot included.
Of Devotion and Death by Anastasia Hastings (Victorian England). A cozy Victorian historical murder mystery.
Murder in Blackfriars by Jennifer Ashley (Victorian London). Valiant cook and amateur sleuth Kat Holloway must help the man she loves solve a murder.
Miss Morton Takes the Waters by Catherine Lloyd (Victorian Bath). Caroline and Mrs. Frogeron travel to Bath where a circle of old friends sharing rental apartments find themselves entangled in murder.
A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman (Paris, late Victorian era). Frances and George dig into the year-old murder of an actress-turned-socialite’s wife amid the glamour of the Paris stage, in the eighth Countess of Harleigh mystery.
Murder at Rosecliff by Alyssa Maxwell (Newport, 1903). When a party crasher is found dead during a soiree, newspaper editor Emma Cross Andrews must clear her own society reporter from suspicion of murder.
Liars in Paradise by Olesya Lyuzna (Long Island’s Gold Coast, 1925). With five days to clear her partner’s name, private detective Ginny Dugan infiltrates a cultish secret society.
The Unknown by Riley Sager (Vermont, 1926). Five women disappeared from a remote island—and one hundred years later, history begins to repeat itself.
Deception by Alan Parks (New York City, 1941). When the head of the Japanese intelligence section is murdered, detective Joseph Gunner finds himself in a world where no one can be trusted.
The Ninth Circle by James R. Benn (Havana, Cuba, 1945). US Army Captain Billy Boyle is sent to Havana, where the murder of an Intelligence Officer thrusts him into the city’s criminal underworld.
The Housewives of Atomic Lane by Andie Newton (Cold War America). In a town built around the country’s most secretive nuclear site, housewife Betty Mahoney and her neighbors grow suspicious of the new couple next door—and the closer they look, the more dangerous the truth becomes. [NEW – added from Doc B]
Crescendo by Robert J. Harris (Hollywood, 1959). When a struggling mystery writer is hired by Alfred Hitchcock to work on his new film, madness and murder is his reward.
New Cozy Historical Mysteries for July and August 2026
Of Devotion and Death by Anastasia Hastings
Violet, who writes under the nom de plume Miss Hermione, is heading to Venice when a man from her past is arrested on her doorstep.
Murder in Blackfriars by Jennifer Ashley
Valiant cook and amateur sleuth Kat Holloway must help the man she loves solve a murder.
Miss Morton Takes the Waters by Catherine Lloyd
When a lady’s companion accompanies her employer to Bath, she must solve a locked-room murder.
Murder at Rosecliff by Alyssa Maxwell
When a troublemaking party crasher is found dead in a fountain during an elegant soiree in Newport, Rhode Island, newspaper editor Emma Cross Andrews must solve the case.
The Cloak and Dagger Club by Jackie McMahon
A murder among a group of golden age mystery writers meets a second chance romance in this debut novel.
The Starlet and the Killer Gossip Column by Lisa Hall
Time travel mystery set during the Hollywood Golden Age
Murder on Devil’s Ridge by Irina Shapiro
A Victorian couple solves murder mysteries.