Summer Escapist Book Recommendations for Teachers
No time or money to travel? No problem! Voyage back in time to Europe, Asia, Egypt, and America with these book series. Many though not all are historical mysteries. I've read and highly recommend all of these series. Not organized in any particular ...
About an Englishman shipwrecked in Japan in the early 1600s and how he survives the political intrigue among the warring factions of the Japanese ruling classes. (Affiliate link)
About a WWII English nurse who unexpectedly finds herself in 18th century Scotland just before the Jacobite Rebellion, and the choice she has to make between her 20th century English husband or the 18th century Scottish outlaw. (Affiliate link)
About a Viking woman in Orkney, Scotland in the early 11th century and a Viking man who reluctantly work together to solve a murder. First in a series. (Affiliate link)
A Saxon boy is kidnapped and raised by Danes in the 9th century in what's now England, and how through his adventures he eventually and reluctantly supports King Alfred in his quest for a united Britain. (Affiliate link)
A Welsh monk who's an herbalist in an English monastery in the 12th century during The Anarchy, who solves a mystery about a saint's relics. (Affiliate link)
A Master (professor) of Oxford University in 13th century England who solves mysteries using the principles of Roger Bacon, his mentor. (Affiliate link)
About Ela Longespée, a historical person who was the countess and sheriff of Salisbury, England, in the early 13th century, and how she solves the mystery of an unidentified young woman found drowned in a river. (Affiliate link)
A disgraced former inspector from Beijing, China, now a prisoner in a penal colony in Tibet, is pressured into solving the mystery of an unidentified man found dead by a work gang. (Affiliate link)
Lord Meren, chief investigator for Tutankhamun in the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, is tasked with solving the mystery of how a dead body came to be in a holy place. (Affiliate link)
A samurai, Sano Ichiro, in 17th century Japan, who is also a policeman, goes against the orders of his superiors to solve a mystery. (Affiliate link)
An English nobleman in Regency England who has PTSD after fighting in the Napoleonic War is accused of murder and must find the real killer to clear his name. (Affiliate link)
Gaius Petreius Ruso, a doctor in the Roman Army serving in an outpost in Britannia during the 2nd century A.D. ends up solving a mystery and rescuing a slave girl along the way. (Affiliate link)
Perveen Mistry, a Parsi woman is the first and only female lawyer in 1920s Bombay, India, who works for her father's law firm and solves a mystery about the will of a man who had three wives. (Affiliate link)
Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman detective in the 1st century A.D. during the time of Vespasian who by the grace of his wits and wry sense of humor manages to solve all kinds of mysteries and also gets involved with high born Roman nobility, which has bo...
A young woman, Catherine LeVendeur, in 12th century France, who while at a convent in Paris, solves the mystery of a missing manuscript. (Affiliate link)
Cleopatra Fox, is an orphaned young woman who moves to London hotel owned by her uncle, and how she does and does not fit into Edwardian society, especially since she is always getting involved in solving murders. (Affiliate link)
Francis Lymond, an outlawed mid-16th century Scottish nobleman partial to disguises, sarcasm, and quotations in foreign languages, goes through numerous adventures and heartbreak to clear his name. Connected to Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo book...
A young man named Niccolo and his adventures and exploits in the mid-15th century, starting in Bruges, Belgium, and extending throughout Europe and Africa as he builds a trade empire. Connected to Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles. (Affiliate link)
A Greek slave in 1st century Roman Britain who, due to his powers of observation, is able to solve the mystery of who killed his master that was about to give him his freedom. (Affiliate link)
An Indigenous Kiowa man in the mid-19th century who is a healer figures out who murdered another Kiowa man. (Affiliate link)
Leonidas is a gladiator freed by an unknown benefactor in the time of Nero in Ancient Rome who, with a slave girl who's an accountant, work together to solve mysteries. (Affiliate link)
Lord Peter Wimsey, amateur detective in 1920s England, works with his photographer manservant Bunter and police inspector friend Charles Parker to solve the mystery of who ended up dead in a bathtub. (Affiliate link)