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|summary=Elizabeth Loupas, it seems, was not It's six months since the first author to be inspired dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by the intrigue John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and scandal living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the renaissance court of Ferreraalready strained relationship between them more difficult. The poem 'My Last Duchess They' re brought together by Robert BrowningChief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-up. At first published in 1842 , it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is an elegiac account reflecting the popular view convinced that Duke Alfonso d’Este murdered his first wife Lucrezia de Medici because of her unfaithfulness. Loupas explores some of the themes raised in the poem and cleverly combines elements of Browning’s work with true historical accounts to create an appealing it was murder-mystery set against the sumptuous backdrop of renaissance Italyrather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848093837</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Brody1529337968|title=A Medal for Murder: (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=When It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a pawnbroker was unceremoniously robbed of valuable items which he was holding qualified medical almoner the following morning - on behalf of clients he first called the police and then Kate Shackleton when day that the police seemed to be getting nowhereNHS is born. It wasnShe't just the crime ll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which had been committed, but affect their health. The hardest part of the pledges had sentimental value job will be to many of Moony's clients persuade people that the services she offers really are free and he was worried about how that they would feel when the jewellry couldndon't be returned and what the impact would be on ''his'' reputationhave to do anything to qualify for them. He wanted Some of the pieces back - problems will require delicate handling but most Helen has a problem of all he wanted Kate Shackleton and her assistant Jim Sykes to visit the clients and discuss the situation with themown which might give her some insight. Simple? NoHer marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749941928</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Brody057136358X|title=Dying In The Wool: (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) |rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton had gained something of a reputation for solving mysteries and there were plenty of those at the end of the Great War. She tracked down men who were then reunited with their families and even those who had no wish to be found and were not reunited. She had her own reasons for doing this - it made her feel more positive about her own situation. Her husband Gerald was posted ''missing, presumed dead'' April in the last year of the war and it was the one mystery she couldn't solve, no matter how she tried. But her successes in other areas led to her first professional investigation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749941871</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSpain|author=Stephen Gallagher|title=The Bedlam DetectiveJohn Banville|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Authors like to claim that writing is hard work. In a way, that’s true – there are a really astonishing number of words in a book, and it’s often very difficult to wrangle them from your head into coherent sentences on a page. At the same time, though, ''hard'' should not be the same as ''boring''. It’s sad to come across authors who don’t enjoy the process of writing, and it’s so easy to tell when you’re reading a piece of work by a writer who was actually having fun when they wrote it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091950120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edney Silvestre|title=If I Close My Eyes Now|rating=4

|summary=12th April 1961Terry Tice was a hitman, the radio news is full although he didn't think of Yuri Gagarinhimself in those terms. He saw what he did as 's first earth orbit and two boys who'd had ambitions to be Tarzan, to be engineers, or medical scientists curing all diseases, suddenly had a new possibility: maybe they could be astronautsmatter of making things tidy''. I couldn'Brasilia had been inaugurated less than a year earliert resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, but whichever of us got something which occurred to be president him when he was going in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to transfer kill a lot of the capital back to Riolittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. We were twelve. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a different country. A different worldjob in Spain.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857521322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sax RohmerB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Fu-Manchu - Daughter The Mystery of Fu-ManchuHealing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=Fu Manchu is dead (or is We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he?) 's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but his evil genius lives on, in the form work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his daughter! New narrator Greville is sent to fetch Dr Petrie (narrator of skills: Solon ''wants'' the first three books) warriors to come to an archaeological dig where Grevillelive. It's chief Bartonquite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, an old friend of Petriethey're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions's, lies deadmanes to make them look more impressive. (Or does he?) From there, The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the pair, along condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with Nayland Smith and Superintendent Weymouththe wild animals. Today, are plunged into a death-defying adventureit's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686062</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=GK Chesterton1529337925|title=The Complete Father Brown StoriesMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=Having read many of It was the Father Brown short stories beforeAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and after really enjoying Bunty the recent screen version, I jumped at Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the chance to get hold sofa. The thought of this TV tie-work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in omnibusDundee. The little cleric who has such She was the publisher of a mild manner, but a keen knowledge magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of human evil, is one two of my favourite detectives, her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and it her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was a pleasure simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be able cheaper than employing a solicitor to read this complete collection of his storiesdo the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906467</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara SheridanB08LKT7HSR|title=London Calling: a Mirabelle Bevan Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5

|summary=Mirabelle Bevan is an intriguing character. Warm, resourceful and extremely clever, she spent her war years In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in intelligence (though not active duty) and then, as the war ended and her long-time lover died, she withdrew to cellar of the coast and Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the dubious joys murder of running a debtElowed and his half-collection agency. Accidentally getting involved in solving a major crime with her vibrant young companion Vesta gets her noticedbrother, howeverDenzil Hammett, and it isnwhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay't s long before she finds herself knee-deep search for her mother, who disappeared in another mysteryJune 1916 was over. A childhood friend flees London and an accusation of Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to beg Vesta and her employer to help him prove his innocence. This leads the intrepid pair into the world of smoky, music-filled basements and the black market, where they encounter criminals from all across the social spectrumjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972434</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jacqueline JacquesStephen Clarke|title=The Colours of CorruptionSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Mary, an impoverished cleaner, This is witness to a murderspoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. Archie is one of But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the first artists to work with secret service, but in the police and creates a picture planning side of things more than the man she says she sawactive service. Taken by her looks he persuades Mary to sit for Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a portraitfemale spy called Margaux, but and the man who buys pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the portraitwould rather buy Mary herself...resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784531</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Taylor0349423083|title=The Scent of Deathand the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=It’s hard to explain why Andrew Taylor’s novels are so chilling. They’re ghost stories that often lack ghostsKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, crime novels who lives in which the crime itself feels at a remove from the rest Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the actionBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. But that’s really the secret of their power Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: while in most thrillershe's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, the bogeyman is will be back from a single entity, easy trip to Germany before long. James went to pinpoint see what the continental brewers were doing and therefore easy what changes Barleycorn might need to excise from the rest of the healthy fictional world, things are never so simple in the universes Taylor createsmake. What William is worried that James is frightening in an Andrew Taylor novel? Everythingperhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007213514</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Mann (Editor)0241433568|title=Encounters of Sherlock HolmesEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=4.5

|summary=Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring icon of English literature; perhaps as popular today as It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then he was back in the late 1800s, maybe even more so with the advent of TV wants to talk to Megan and film adaptations of Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his adventuresguests find that he's been murdered. Indeed, such is the lasting appeal of the character How can that since have happened? There's no one else in the death house, so one of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds of works published, picking up where them must be the original stories left offkiller. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl1473682401|title=The TechnologistsTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=The year is 1868 and Boston is under threat from an evil genius Those who seems to have were with us at the uncanny ability end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to manipulate matter itselfMallory Dunnoch. The city has already experienced two attacks; the chaos in the harbour when the navigation instruments went awry They're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the eerie spectacle in the commercial quarter when every item charms of glassLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, including windowsEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, eyeglassesAlec Osborne, clocks and watches spontaneously melted. But are these attacks had not taken up the chance to look into a prelude problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to something greater?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512769</amazonuk>them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James P BlaylockSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Aylesford SkullHonjin Murders

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Langdon StTo many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Ives Either way, renowned scientist and adventurerthe celebrations have gone ahead as planned, returns home from only for the hubbub and grime of Victorian London wedded couple to be slashed to his tranquil residence death in rural Aylesford where he lives with his wife Alice and their two young childrenprivate annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. Weary What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the cityneighbourhood, having survived a devastating explosion and particularly vicious attempt on his life, he is hoping for some repose and mysterious use of a chance to work quietly on his latest project; traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a dirigible airshiplot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857689797</amazonuk>1782275002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen GallagherB07XLM3SM6|title=The Kingdom of BonesMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary='If you like this sort of thing…' reads a line Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Stephen Gallagher's 'The Kingdom of Bones'Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, 'then here comes in the kind care of thing you’ll like'her grandmother. It’s describing A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the opening music for a theatrical numberconclusion was that she was dead, but it’s an almost perfect tagline for mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She''The Kingdom s always coped with the mix of Bones'' itself. If you like Victoriansholidaymakers, vaudeville boating people and villainy, if you like prizethe naval college on the edge of town before -fighting and police chases she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and possession by the Devil, then here comes 'The Kingdom ' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of Bones'. It’s security at the kind of thing that you’re really going to likehotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091950139</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dashiell Hammett0349423067|title=The Return of Body on the Thin ManTrain (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=IFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King've recently been discovering the original works of Raymond Chandler whichs Cross, like many people, I'd only really known from arriving before dawn so that the Hollywood renditionsforced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. A naturalIn early March 1929, if backwards, progression from there one of the porters who was clearly to unloading the boxes discovered the writer that Chandler body of a man, stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called 'on the services of Kate Shackleton in the ace performer', hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the man 'who did over lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and over again what only could not come to terms with the best writers ever do at fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all'the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800208</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Essie Fox1472127110|title=Elijah's MermaidIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan

|summary=Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter from his publisher Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and old friend Frederick Hallnot always for the better. Hall has discovered Lamb's small grandchildrenWhen she first settled in Brighton she was alone, Lily rudderless and Elijahsecretly grieving for Jack, in a London home for foundlings. Lamb's son Gabriel had the lover who died after a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella who subsequently disappearedbefore he could leave his wife. Delighted beyond words at Hall's discoveryAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, Augustus adopts the twinsmade friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, raising them and even found consolation in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland House. There the children grow, happy and lovedarms of a rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123340</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Carnac1912374439|title=The Autobiography of Jack the RipperCourier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)

|summary=The ''Autobiography'' presents itself as the Ripper’s story told from his own perspective. The son of an impoverished doctorNazi-occupied Oslo, young Carnac has a childhood obsession with blood which a series of unfortunate events morphs into a full-blown desire to slit human throats1942. It’s the typical Victorian coming-of-age story (from birthThere, to school, then first love and finally adulthood) with a twist, in that the path Carnac’s on leads him to become not a responsible adult but I've given the most famous murderer of the nineteenth century.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552165395</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kylie Fitzpatrick|title=The Silver Thread|rating=4game away.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's 1840 and Rhia Mahoney, daughter of an Irish merchant specialising For in local linen, has a comfortable life. All book that changescentres around a murder, however, as her fatherI's warehouse burns down, taking his faltering business with ve told you who did it, ensuring Rhia must make her own way in – the world. Via family connections she comes to England and the home of Quaker widow Antonia Blake. The idea is that Antonia will protect Rhia whilst she seeks a position as governess in bustlingNazis, alien London. But rather than residing in a sanctuarysurely? Well, her problems worsen as she's enveloped in a mystery leading that certainly has to transportation despite her innocence. The only things holding her life together are the letters she writes to her dearly departed grandmother, her artistic skill and a determination to discover who wants her gone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800127</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Davies|title=The Year After|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Tom Allen is home from World War I. Whilst waiting remain to be demobbed, he receives an invitation to attend the annual Christmas house-party at Hannesford Court, the stately home of Sir Robert and Lady Stansbury. He used to look forward to it before joining up and so decides to attend again, but everything has changed. The Stansbury's heir, Harry, and son-seen in-lawthis volume, Oliver, were killed and second son, Reggie Stansbury, remains in a nursing home with no legs and dwindling self-respect. Whilst coming to terms with the devastating realisation that he's which splits its time between one of the very few men in their set to return alive and entirewar, Tom remembers pre-war Hannesford and the night when his friend Professor Schmidt died at such a gathering. Everyone believes it was unsuspicious but gradually things are coming to light that hint of hidden secrets. Along with young woman sees her Ladyship's former companionfather arrested, Anne (who has issues of her own), Tom decides to investigate and their store condemned as truths are exhumed, making him doubt whether those happier times were as idyllic as he remembers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980443</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Engelmann|title=The Stockholm Octavo|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=As a Customs and Excise 'Sekretaire' in 18th century Stockholm, Emil Larsson has all he needs: professional respect, a bachelor's lifestyle Jewish and a table at Mrs Sparrow's gaming house whenever he fancies his luck. Contrastingly, his superiors at work feel he's missing a certain something. In order rushes to climb further up the career ladder (maybe even her best friend to maintain his current position) Emil needs to marry. His manager believes this so fervently that there's a deadline for the wedding. Emil panics but Mrs Sparrow offers to lay an 'Octavo', a fortune-telling spread of eight cards to guide him to the eight people who help – not knowing she will ensure his success. Howevernever see her alive again, not all goes to plan as, over the eight nights it takes to complete and the Octavolate 1960s, it becomes apparent that the prediction isn't for Emil's future, but has become an Octavo to save the whole of Swedenwhen great consternation is being felt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruce Macbain|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isn't the most popular person in Rome. He may be a high ranking politician with the Emperor Domitian's ear but In this also means he's timeline, a spy, ambitious and not always using his power and position for good. When Verpa maverick agent is discovered, unceremoniously and repeatedly stabbed back in his well-guarded bedroomtown, there are many one who sigh with relief. Howevermight have been fingered for murdering that female victim, the murderer must still be found even though she and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus (or Pliny the Younger he lived together with their baby as history will dub him) to investigate. Pliny isn't a natural but reluctantly takes on the task because Domitian says so; Pliny has no choice. Domitian also says that the culprit must be found before the end of the Roman Gamesyoung family, giving Pliny 15 days. Over these 15 pressurised days except he'll dig into Rome's filthy underbelly of cults, prostitution and other things he wasn't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>was thought by all to have died in the War…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1786075431|title=Vices of My Blood: Murdoch MysteriesMrs Mohr Goes Missing|ratingauthor=4.5|genre=Crime Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Historicaltranslator)|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted to full detective, and continues to solve cases with his usual mix of dogged determination and flair. Toronto at the end of the nineteenth century is marked by a huge divide between the rich and the poor, and the fact that many of the latter group are utterly destitute leads to all manner of crimes, great and small.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Kerr|title=Fell the Angels

|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a young woman in the late nineteenth centurycharitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. She was born Henderson In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but married Robert Castello and quickly came to realise that he was an adulterer with a drink problemshe knows it could always be better. A womanMeanwhile, other people's place was thought life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to be with her husband - even by Cecilia's wealthy parents - but they recognised that forcing her lack of hygiene, and many people have to go back fall on charity and almshouses to him could be problematicalkeep a roof over their heads. As a compromise One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was sent rich enough to Malvern to take a water cure keep private lodgings and it staff in her charitable home. I say ''was there that '', for she came into contact with Dr James Gullyhas vanished. He was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between the two - affection on CeciliaOnly due to Zofia's part (probably the most of which help does she was capable) get found, dead and love on hisin a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk> Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent1786893762|title=One BloodThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=Sergeant Kella A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is being sent from his native Malaita to still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another part of the Solomon Islands to investigate logging sabotage therelook. In This detective is a woman, and the same districtsetting is Victorian London, his friend Sister Conchita has assumed reluctant control with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a mission fascination with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in their ways, to say the leastyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Then Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a body turns up widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in the church… her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is this related mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the sabotage? by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And how does the wartime history then, of John F Kennedycourse, vying to become there's the new President of ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the USAdetermined young woman. If he really exists, fit in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>that is.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long0349414327|title=Murders of London: In the steps A Snapshot of the capital's killers |rating=4|genre=Crime Murder (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=While the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal in one case in depth, there’s always room for another title at the other end of the spectrum, dealing in brief with a variety of murders over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley McKay|title=Time and TideFrances Brody

|summary=A ship is wrecked on Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the coast of 16th century Scotlandlocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the crew goneopportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the only man on board dying deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and a windmill lashed to its deckher parents will be there for the event. What happened? What sort of illness does it carry? Andcould be better than seeing her family, more importantly for witnessing a momentous event and having the town's people, who gets opportunity to keep take photographs of the windmillsetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? It's a tough one, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is on the caseNothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk> Or could it?

{{newreview|author=Daniel Stashower|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=There are two things you need Move on to know about Stashower's Harry Houdini. Firstly, he is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Secondly, and much more importantly, he is utterly certain of his own ability to do whatever he sets his mind to. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit in a minor way, in a murder, he immediately decides it is up to him to solve the case. It never occurs to him that he might fail, because that is simply not an option for the Great Houdini.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=The fourth book in the series of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like the others, in Toronto. Religion, money and family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' in England, and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not to mention his love life, are played out against the sense of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Under the Dragon's Tail: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Murdoch is a lonely man, still grieving for the fiancée who died over a year before. He busies himself, when he is not working, with training for the police sports' day, learning to dance, and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady who lodges in the next-door room. She is a charming young widow with a young son, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, that he can never find married bliss with her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]]