Suspenseful Historical Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Historical Fiction
• Suspense
• Male Characters
  

The Jester
By James Patterson and Andrew Gross
MYSTERY PATTERSON
Arriving home from the Crusades, Hugh discovers his village ransacked and his wife abducted by knights in search of a relic worth more than any throne in Europe.

Across the Nightingale Floor
By Lian Hearn
F HEARN
In a novel set in a land much like feudal Japan, a young boy named Takeo becomes a pawn in the ceaseless battles between rival warlord clans in a culture ruled by codes of honor and formal rituals.

A Conspiracy of Paper
By David Liss
F LISS
An outsider in eighteenth-century London, Jewish pugilist and hired thug Benjamin Weaver prowls the city's mean streets in the service of England's gentry tracking down debtors and thieves.

Enigma
By Robert Harris
MYSTERY Harris
In 1943 England, much of the Nazi Enigma code has been cracked, but Shark, the cipher used by Nazi U-boats, eludes everyone except mathematician Tom Jericho.

Rat City
By Curt Colbert
MYSTERY Colbert
It’s Seattle in the 1940s, and pool-sharks, bookies, jazz musicians, drunken coroners, shady cops and street-smart PIs all jockey for position and try to stay alive. Jake narrowly avoids death by shooting dead his assailant, Big Ed; when he tries to find out why Big Ed wanted him dead, Jake discovers a ring of corruption and crime that surprises even him.