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|author=Lloyd Shepherd
|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=1855: Only a few years after the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on London's docks, Constable Charles Horton is called back to the area. The disturbing murder of a clerk and his family bears the trademark of the serial killer but Horton's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him die. At this point the hunt for a devil incarnate begins, taking Horton and his wife Abigail to the other side of the world and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Company.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>
|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>
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{{newreview
|author= Aliya Whiteley
|summary=1657: John Grey, law student at Lincolns Inn, receives a meeting invitation that doesn't seem to be meant for him. Unfortunately he still goes to the meeting and ends up accepting a mission to kill Oliver Cromwell. He has two problems with this: first he likes a quiet life and secondly he likes Oliver Cromwell. In fact he already works for Oliver's spymaster, Thurloe. The life expectancy of a double agent isn't that long and that's without reckoning on the intervention of Aminta!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472114965</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Mary Gibson
|title=Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys'' is the latest book in Mary Gibson's Bermondsey series. This time, the Lloyd family take centre stage: Mum, Dad, son Jack and daughters May and Peggy. War is raging in Europe and Bermondsey is not immune from daily onslaught of bombs. A tragic event one night changes everything and home-bird May decides to fly the nest in order to participate in the war effort. The war will leave no-one unscathed; the strongest hearts can be paralysed by fear and the unlikeliest of people can emerge as heroes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185596X</amazonuk>
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