Hugh Addison

historical fiction

  • The Best Historical Fiction of 2023

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    Molly Odintz

    The inspirations and concerns informing this year’s historical mysteries and thrillers may be grim, but the fiction crafted to explore them is luminous. The 1920s continue to loom large, as do their preoccupations with inequality, excess, and grief (including a great number of novels featuring seances and spiritualists, peaking post-Pandemic as a way to access…

  • Historical Mysteries Set in Early America

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    Mollie Ann Cox

    I’ve always been passionate about American history, especially the Revolution and founding of the United States. When I think of what immigrants endured just to travel to our shores, it gives me chills and waves of gratitude at the same time. When I was about 13, the John Jakes Bicentennial Series was published, and I…

  • 5 Historical Mysteries Featuring Unforgettable, Unconventional Women

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    Ritu Mukerji

    A lawyer in 1920s Bombay. A computer hacker/tech investigator in 1990s Paris. A deputy sheriff in 1914 New Jersey. What unites these characters, separated by time and diverse locales? Each one is an independent, unconventional woman in the role of investigator. I have been an avid reader of crime fiction for as long as I…

  • The Art of Writing Mysteries Featuring Real-Life Figures

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    Lyn Squire

    My objective is to list the six best mysteries that feature real people. Quite a challenge given all the published stories meeting this criterion. There are, for example, several series that portray famous personages as detectives. Some, like Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey Mystery Series, are excellent; others such as Blue Suede Clues by Daniel Klein…

  • The Wild, Bizarre, Sometimes Criminal Pleasures of London’s Bartholomew Fair

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    Laura Shepherd-Robinson

    For over a thousand years, the area known as Smithfield, north of St Paul’s, has been home to London’s principal meat market. Live animals were banned from Smithfield in the 19th century, but until then the ten-acre site was filled with sheep and cattle pens, nearly two million animals bought and sold there every year….

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