Victorian Spys

In London, 1896, private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker's world is upturned when his longtime nemesis, Sebastian Nightwine, previously believed dead, turns up with evil on his mind, launching devastating and secretive attacks against not just Barker, but his network of friends and close associates...

A breathtaking historical romance featuring espionage, scandal, and forbidden love in the Queen’s service 👑⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ ‘If Sherlock Holmes met the Bridgerton universe’⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ 'Drama, intrigue and chapters that would make Jane Austin blush' Her enemy. Her ally. Her temptation...

BLURB In a world where love and duty collide, Lady Gabriella Davenport finds herself entangled in a web of desperation when her family is at risk of losing everything. Unwilling to see her family suffer due to a deal gone wrong, she takes matters into her own hands. Little did she know that amidst the sea of potential suitors who could save her family’s reputation, she would discover a mysterious man, whose presence would both enchant and bewilder her. Could this enigmatic figure, hidden behind a veil of secrecy, hold the key to her heart's fulfillment? Lord Harry Beauregard, a man ...

(This book was previously published as Invitation To Scandal, an enemies to lovers romance which won the RomCon Readers Crown Best Historical in 2013.) Catch me if you can… Plagued by scandalous rumors, Rheda Kerrich will stop at nothing to restore her reputation and make an honest living for herself–and she’s determined to do it without a husband. But times are hard, and smuggling is a risky though profitable trade. So when a dashing agent for the English government catches her in the act, she desperately resists his charms and conceals her illicit profession. Until she realizes he ...

Perpetually vexed by his misbehaving niece, the Marquess of Camden and Spymaster to the Crown is putting his foot down once and for all. If Evie wants to be part of the hunt for the traitor, she's going to do so under the auspices of Captain Anthony Browne...the man she seduced in France before disappearing into the night after he asked her to be his mistress.

Librarian-spy Irene's assistant has been kidnapped by the Fae – a fairy faction who will stop at nothing to cause utter chaos. The Masked City is the second entry in the Invisible Library series from Genevieve Cogman. Irene is working undercover when disaster strikes. Her assistant, Kai, is...

An espionage thriller that has been called the first great spy novel, it has sustained its popularity, being embraced by each new generation. The first in a series of five novels it features the spy Richard Hannay, an action hero with a stiff upper lip who gets caught up in a dangerous race against a plot by German spies to destroy the British war effort. When Richard Hannay offers sanctuary to an American agent seeking his help in stopping a political assassination, he takes the first step on a trail of peril and espionage.

A widow with a past...The last thing Victoria Barrett, the Viscountess Waters, has any interest in is romance. When the only man she's ever loved was killed, she endured an arranged marriage to a cruel man in order to survive. Now widowed, her only focus is on clearing her son's name from the charge of murder. That is until the love of her life returns from the grave. A leader of a once great agency...Nathaniel Archer, the Earl of Exeter head of the Crown's elite organization, The Brethren, is back on British soil.

An exciting story full of romance and fun, A Lady's Refrain follows the journey of our heroine who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a plot that threatens to end the perfect life she's spent a decade working towards. One moment. That’s all it took to ruin the years of planning Miss Violet Radcliffe had dedicated to making her dreams come true. Well, one moment and one man would be more accurate. Compromised by a man she’d never met before that fateful night when he saved her life, Violet must now find a way out of the dangerous mess she inadvertently stumbled upon or else her dreams… ...

A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. "Gripping, bloody, and haunting." —Kirkus Reviews South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of...

Exclusively from Audible. The Secret Agent is based on an actual attempt made in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. A labyrinth of greed, corruption, and betrayal, it is the most darkly humorous of all Conrad's tales. It follows a European secret agent, Adolf Verloc, 'a London shop owner' with anarchist leanings who becomes reluctantly involved in a plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory. Full of great characters, melodramatic irony and psychological intrigue the tale is far from simple....

A thrilling blend of espionage, danger, and the supernatural, The Vampire Spy box set follows Nora Kelly as she leaves the backstreets of London behind and steps into the hidden world of vampire intelligence operatives serving the Crown. Book 1: The Vampire Spy When an English gentleman offers Nora Kelly a chance at a new life, she discovers his elite intelligence network is far from ordinary. The agents serving the Crown are vampires. Once a woman of the night, Nora becomes an agent of the realm under Lord Alfred Covington’s command. Her first mission sends her after a ruthless enemy ...

THE CASE OF THE EXPLODING INK A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Mark Collins London, 1889. A Foreign Office cipher clerk is found dead at his own desk, his hand horribly burned, a shattered inkstand smoking before him, and a locked despatch box lying open and empty. Scotland Yard calls it misadventure. Sherlock Holmes calls it murder. When a second victim dies in identical, impossible circumstances, Holmes and Dr. Watson uncover a conspiracy more chilling than either has ever faced: a ring of spies who have perfected a way to kill with nothing more than a bottle of ordinary writing ink, ...

Paris, autumn 1871. The Paris Commune has been crushed, and the new government of the Third Republic is hunting down those it holds responsible. The killing has not stopped. The lists have not been put away. Nathan Tower is twenty-six years old, a United States Navy lieutenant attached to the American legation, still learning what European intelligence actually is. When a quiet young translator slips a note onto his desk asking him to meet a woman in trouble, Tower acts on the same humanitarian instinct that has guided Ambassador Washburne through the worst months of the siege. He is about ...

"Ferguson delivers posh English accents and Cockney slang with personality for a cast of amusing characters. The sharp writing and Ferguson's narration capture all the bizarre twists and turns" —AudioFile on Heart of the Nile In 1894, Cyrus Barker, London's premier enquiry agent, is entangled...

Ten years ago, Thomas Paxton was sent by Revolutionary France to infiltrate the British Intelligence Service. Now his sense of honor brings him back to London to confess. But instead of facing the gallows, he is given one last impossible assignment to prove his loyalty. Lovely, lying former French spy Camille Leyland is dragged from obscurity by threats and blackmail.

"Antony Ferguson transports listeners to London in late 1983 for a mystery involving a mummy, a giant ruby, and a murder...The sharp writing and Ferguson's narration capture all the bizarre twists and turns."- AudioFile Magazine London, 1893: deadly doings are afoot in the British Museum and...

After a long mission, came a long break. For two years Rex Vahl and his crew have settled into domestic life, enjoying their reprieve from the dangers of the Chaos Quarter. But all good things come to an end, and a new mission has come before them: Rescue a Commonwealth spy on the run from the despotic Europan Empire. But things are never so simple, and Rex and Lucius learn they both have personal connections to this clandestine agent, and face family tragedy if they fail. Operating under the guise of diplomats, they’re headed for a world that has modeled their whole society after ...

Stanwood Shot Dead! Death, Diplomacy, and the Dawn of American Power relates the true story of nineteenth-century adventurer Louis Duverge and his killing of American consular agent Victor Stanwood. Born to a wealthy family in Mauritius, Duverge attended university in France before joining the Foreign Legion. He then took to sea, leading a failed attempt to steal a cargo of gold from an Indian Ocean trading vessel. Duverge slipped away from authorities in British India and fled to Boston, where he joined the Union effort. Commissioned as a lieutenant with a Massachusetts regiment, Duverge ...

The real trick isn’t how to stay alive—it’s how to keep their blasted gloves clean in the process. "An escapade to remember" and "one of the best books I've read this year." - The Independent Book Review. Christina Rushing, a baroness spy, is no stranger to the dark—her late husband can attest to that. But when she takes an espionage job to make ends meet, she ends up double-crossing an entire nation. What’s worse, the cruel Baron’s name has appeared on an active shipping schedule, though he should be six feet under. Christie sets out with her guns, The Good Baron and Rudy, to ...