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|author=Frances Brody
|summary=A suicidal overdose and the murder of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnected. However this is England in 1936, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on). Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking away.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Ross
|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books in the series.
305AD: Castus Aurelius, following the death of his predecessor, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of the Roman forces at the Rhine. He's also been ordered to take Crispus, Constantine's son and heir, for the character-building experience. That complicates matters as when Castus isn't trying to keep Crispus alive, he's finding it difficult to increase his own chance of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his end.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Graham Hurley
|title=Finisterre
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but in a last, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation Finisterre. In America the apparent suicide of a scientist working on the atom bomb and off the coast of Spain the shipwreck of a German submarine, become catalysts as the plans spiral out of control, leading to a shattering climax. 'Finisterre' is a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense and style.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shirley McKay
|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen too. As we travel through the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother in law Giles and his sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter some of his most interesting cases. In fact there's one to match each of the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yule.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Erle Stanley Gardner
|title= The Knife Slipped
|rating= 5
|genre= Crime
|summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good as the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is a marvel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Wray Delaney
|title=An Almond for a Parrot
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=It was when Tully gained a step-mother that her education really started. That was the beginning of the road to discovery. The discovery that she can realise ghosts for others, that she can escape the cruelty of an alcoholic father and the discovery of the income and pleasure her body can generate. That, in turn, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel and, now, the condemned cell in Newgate Prison. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for a Parrot'' and allows us to read over her shoulder.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=S G Maclean
|title=The Black Friar: Damian Seeker 2
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=When a dead monk is discovered walled into a disused monastery the local gossip is awash with remarks on the miracle of his well-preserved body all these years after the monastery was abandoned. Investigator and Captain of Cromwell's guard Damian Seeker has other ideas. This is a recent non-clergy death. This is Carter Blyth, a man on such a secret mission that even Cromwell didn't know about it. This will add complications to the already convoluted and dangerous path that Seeker will take to solve the crime, one of the complications being very close to home.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068449</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= M J Carter
|title=The Devil's Feast
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Crime (Historical)
|summary=London, the early 1840s: the newly-opened Reform Club is the focal point for the Liberal elite, where Whigs and Radicals can co-exist in harmony. Or such was the intention. With a celebrity chef in its up to the minute kitchen, however, the club seems to have more of a reputation for its dinners than its politics, and when a man dies horribly after eating one the Reform could have a problem on its hands. Particularly when it begins to look like murder. Luckily William Avery agrees to look into the matter with some urgency, but – as everyone keeps asking him – where on earth is his professional investigator friend Jeremiah Blake?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146364</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= George Mann (Editor)
|title= Associates of Sherlock Holmes
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Crime (Historical)
|summary=The world-famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes needs no introduction; a redoubtable protagonist with an appeal that shows no sign of waning. ''Associates of Sherlock Holmes,'' however, moves the spotlight away from our hero and focuses on the exploits of some of the minor players who have featured in his adventures over the years. Here we get a chance to reacquaint ourselves with friends and foes alike, all keen to give their own, unique perspective of the indomitable investigator.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299304</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Lindsey Davis
|title= The Graveyard of the Hesperides
|rating= 5
|genre= Crime (Historical)
|summary= Our heroine Albia's grey-eyed and broad-shouldered love interest in this, the fourth of the Falco New Generation crime novels (Falco himself has got on the wrong side of Emperor Domitian, and has very sensibly retired to the coast) is called Manlius – that alone should be enough to tell you reams about the wickedly sly sense of humour Ms Davis displays in her novels. The setting is once again Ancient Rome, and Ms Davis provides enough local colour to create a world so convincing you could almost be there. In fact, the descriptions are so vivid that, as you pull in your skirts or bewail the fate of your brand-new sandals to follow our gutsy heroine into picturesque slums like the Brown Toad bar or Mucky Mule Mews, you could be forgiven for suspecting you've wandered into somewhere far more familiar, like, say, the back streets of Brum.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613396</amazonuk>
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