Fast-Paced Historical Fiction Thrillers

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Fast-paced books
• Historical fiction
• Mysteries or Psychological Thrillers

The Rule of Four
By Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
F CALDWELL
Trying to decipher an ancient text that weaves a mathematical labyrinth within a love story, two researchers obtain a diary that may contain the key to the code, but when a fellow researcher is killed, they realize that the book contains a dangerous secret.

A Test of Wills
By Charles Todd
MYSTERY TODD
Ian Rutledge returns to his career at Scotland Yard after fighting in WWI; tormented and suffering from shell shock, he is immediately plunged into the affair of a popular colonel believed murdered by a decorated war hero—a case that is a personal and political minefield that could destroy Rutledge's career and what remains of his sanity.

Millions
By Frank Cottrell Boyce
YA F COTTRELL
Damian loves learning about the saints and Anthony loves money. After their mother dies, the two brothers find a huge amount of money which they must spend quickly before England switches to the new European currency, but they disagree on what to do with it.

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
By Lauren Willig
F WILLIG
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.

Skulduggery Pleasant
By Derek Landy
YA F LANDY
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant (ace detective, snappy dresser, crackerjack sorcerer, and a skeleton mage) to save the world from the Faceless Ones.