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|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)
|title=The Honjin Murders
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To 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. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annex before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about it.
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|isbn=B07XLM3SM6
|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel
|author=Helena Dixon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, 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's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and 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'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.
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|isbn=0349423067
|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)
|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the 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 hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the 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.
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===[[Pandora's Boy Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Lindsey DavisSara Sheridan]]===
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RelaxLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever wasour favourite fifties sleuth, since the crimes committed are as complex and intriguingwar, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engaging. Newcomers to the series need not fear, by always for the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at homebetter. This timeWhen she first settled in Brighton she was alone, despite some serious misgivingsrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popularlover who died before he could leave his wife. Was As time went by she poisoned by found in herself an illegal love-potionability to solve crimes, or did made 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 die wanted, and even found consolation in the arms of a broken heart? rather charming policeman. [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Lindsey DavisSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[Death The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the Stars Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish, and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. In this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the War… [[The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (Kate Shackleton Mysteriestranslator) |Full Review]] <!-- Szymiczkova -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1786075431.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786075431/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Frances BrodyMaryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)]]===
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Much Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as it did in 1999a charitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, eclipse fever gripped the country in 1927life is pretty good, but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldnshe knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her for help when it seemed that all she needed was for a flight s life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to be arranged lack of hygiene, and many people have to take her from Leeds fall on charity and almshouses to Giggleswick Schoolkeep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, where although she was rich enough to view the eclipsekeep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. Surely I say ''was'', for she didnhas vanished. Only due to Zofia't need a sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised the flight, which collected Fellinis help does she get found, comic Billy Moffatt dead and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds and landed them at a place the school near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in good time. It was obvious that the singer was worried about somethinga charity home, but she didn't seem able and to explain what it was. end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions? [[Death in the Stars Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Kate Shackleton Mysteriestranslator) by Frances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[Lawless and the House of Electricity Things in Jars by William SuttonJess Kidd]]===
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Campbell Lawless A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is backstill struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, this where the child was not found in time tasked . Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with solving all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a series of terrorist attacks across fascination with the bizarre and the nationdownright hideous. Is it the work And before you're more than a couple of the Frenchpages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, as police with a widow's cap and public are being led to believestout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do !) is mixed with the bombs used a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cause chaos across cure bronchial problems is by the country? Employing the services by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of Mollycourse, there's the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventuresghost. Ruby Doyle, he sets in motion a campaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secretsworld famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxburyit's constant inventionclear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Lawless and the House of Electricity Things in Jars by William SuttonJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Seven Dead A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by J Jefferson FarjeonFrances Brody]]===
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Ted Lyte was petty criminalEven detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, but not usually photography gives her the housebreaking typemental relaxation which she needs. He lacked When the courage. Howeverlocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, needs mustKate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit not least because the deeds of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In can become a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men museum and a womanher parents will be there for the event. Fleeing the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman What could be better than seeing her family, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be witnessing a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (momentous event and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides having the opportunity to investigate this curious case and its assortment take photographs of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victimssetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it? [[Seven Dead A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by J Jefferson FarjeonFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew Charlesgate Confidential by Susanna GregoryScott Von Doviak]]===
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It was 1360 and Michaelhouse was in dire financial straits: they could last In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, making off with priceless works of art from a little longer but not that longBoston Museum. Then it seemed that These missing art works are never found. In 1988, a lifeline might have been thrown to them when they heard that student finds himself caught up in the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh mystery of the Suffolk town missing art and hot on the trail of Clare was dead and it was possible that The Lady, as she was knownthe multi-million-dollar reward. In 2014, had left them a legacy. It seemed that the best thing to do was to go to Clare to claim art is still missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the money (or to try and prove that it had been intended and should therefore be paid) eponymous Charlesgate, filled with all hastealumni celebrating their 25th reunion. The real mission could be concealed behind As the bald statement that they were there to attend body count rises, will we discover the funeral. Matthew Bartholomew was one of truth behind the contingent from Michaelhouse. art theft decades earlier? [[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew Charlesgate Confidential by Susanna GregoryScott Von Doviak|Full Review]]
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===[[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessCatriona McPherson]]===
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Amelia Peabody is a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the family of murder attemptsMallory, kidnappings and sundry other crimes while on archaeological digs in Egypt with equanimity and composureher son Donald's fiancee. She is either revered or feared (or both) by villains It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, museum curators, family and workmen alike but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for her caustic tongue and him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the steel-reinforced parasol she brandishes at sharpest pin in the first sign of dangercushion. And yet, once All the evil-doers doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have been locked upcome to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, precious objects returned to their owners and all injuries bandagedMallory's mother, she still insists on all but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the decorum of mother rather than the English abroad: formal dress for dinner daughter. Dandy and only Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the engagement when the politest and least contentious topics for dinner-table conversationnews arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery So Many Doors by Sara SheridanOakley Hall]]===
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In thisVassilia Caroline Baird, the fifth novel known to all as V, is dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955lawyer tasked with his defence. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from Starting at the post-war privations we saw in our first encounter with Mirabelle and her warm, cheery companion Vesta in 1951murderous finale, a time when tearing a stocking was a disaster of Hall skillfully weaves together the first order. Various types stories of prejudice are still rife, howeverhis key players, and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping in that small, lightly sketched detail which tells us we are still in a Britain overshadowed by the aftermath tale of conflictlove spanning decades and states, marriages and tragedies. A woman who walks alone into a bar will not be served; By the time the British Empire truth is still front-page newsrevealed, and the colour of a person's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunity. V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery So Many Doors by Sara SheridanOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[She Be Damned A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia]]===
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London, It's 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another a little girl goes missing, fears grow that has been found murdered at the killer may have claimed their latest victimfamily home in Stoke Newington. The police are at A few days later and a few miles across London, a man is found dead in a loss and so it falls to similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and professional part-time detective. Could they be connected? And what, Heloise Chanceyif anything, does either of them have to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to and the truth. But when Amah is implicated troubling events in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again. her past which are threatening to resurface?[[She Be Damned A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia|Full Review]]
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===[[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Russian Roulette by H B LyleSara Sheridan]]===
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London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and Europe. Meanwhile Britainfamily traumas as her male colleagues, or a land growing accustomed to peaceslick, skinny, is becoming sharp-shooting type who lives in a magnet for spies loft and works out in the gym after work, boxing with (and disruptiontrouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Vernon KellMirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, Head with all the requisite tropes of War Office Counter-Intelligenceclimbing through unguarded windows, knows that the country's equilibrium depends contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the discovery and disposal right side of the growing number of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters in government can't see what he can law, and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him a refusal to collect evidence. That's when he meets Wiggins. This faint at the sight of blood, but she is , as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a man lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes andher in this, years backthe sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a star police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of Holmesmanners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there' child Irregulars. Now Kell s no reason not to be polite, is getting somewhere… Let battle commence! there? [[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Russian Roulette by H B LyleSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[An Unlikely Agent The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Jane MenczerElizabeth Haynes]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] ''But that's just it'', she said. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harriet. It's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquest: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrion.''
London, 1905And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. Margaret Trant lives with There was the one her ailing, irascible mother in friends - a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard timesfellow teacher, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle importher would-export company keeping them afloat. When a stranger on be lover, her seducer and the tram hands man who was her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'landlord who was also her lover - knew. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position Some spoke of her as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop. But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence servicekindly, Bureau 8virtuous and pious, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as but that was before her body was found behind the Scorpionschapel which she regularly attended in Bromley. Margaret She's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares d been poisoned - or had taken her for own life. After the reality of true criminalityinquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and her journey of self-discovery forms who had obviously not been living the heart chaste life expected of this remarkable novela young, as she discovers unmarried woman in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love1843. [[An Unlikely Agent The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Jane MenczerElizabeth Haynes|Full Review]]
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===[[A Talent for Murder Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Andrew WilsonPhilip Kerr]]===
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Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back Set in Germany in her day1957, and here Andrew Wilson makes her ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a victim historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a plot not unlike one sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the morgue of her owna hospital. It's all about the He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and it really drives back into the dark times of the story forwardwar. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at the train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and secretly intrigues her. Indeedcentre, for there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this man wants her to commit a murderstory. [[A Talent for Murder Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Andrew WilsonPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[Continental Crimes Pandora's Boy by Martin Edwards (editor)Lindsey Davis]]===
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It's not clear whether the short story has gone out Relax, die-hard fans of fashionFalco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, relegated to the pages crimes committed are as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of certain types humour which made tales of womenher father's magazinesexploits so engaging. Newcomers to the series need not fear, or whether by the magazines in which way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the format still holds its own are themselves not as highsudden death of a fifteen-year-profile old girl, described as once they might have been. Perhaps they never werebright, perhaps we only know about them in retrospectaffectionate and popular. Whatever the truth of that it would seem that the golden age of the short storyWas she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, coincided delightfully with the golden age or did she die of crime. a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Continental Crimes Pandora's Boy by Martin Edwards (editor)Lindsey Davis|Full Review]]
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===[[Prussian BlueDeath in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody]]=== [[image: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Much as it did in 1999, eclipse fever gripped the country in 1927, but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldn't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her for help when it seemed that all she needed was for a flight to be arranged to take her from Leeds to Giggleswick School, where she was to view the eclipse. Surely she didn't need a sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised the flight, which collected Fellini, comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds and landed them at the school in good time. It was obvious that the singer was worried about something, but she didn't seem able to explain what it was. [[Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Philip KerrFrances Brody|Full Review]] <!-- Sutton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Sutton_Lawless.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785650130?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785650130]]
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Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high| style="vertical-align: top; text-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of the Social Democratic Party), he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his own. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, align: left;"|===[[Lawless and he hopes that with the help House of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get lucky. [[Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 Electricity by Philip Kerr|Full ReviewWilliam Sutton]]===
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Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it the work of the French, as police and public are being led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of Molly, the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a campaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. [[Lawless and the House of Electricity by William Sutton|Full Review]]
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|author= Alis Hawkins
|title= None So Blind
|rating= 5
|genre= Crime (Historical)
|summary=When a body is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850, Harry Probert-Lloyd the London barrister has recently returned to his father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is on hand to press for justice, since he knows whose remains they must be. Unfortunately he's up against a few formidable opponents from the past, not least the Rebecca rioters, members of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not be on the cards. With the assistance of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up the investigation himself, but it seems like both of them know more than they are willing to admit. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911332112</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gavin Scott
|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Whilst part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander in Greece during the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which he hoped could lead to the deciphering of Linear B. The war is now officially over (although a lot of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) and Forrester has returned to Athens with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete and retrieve the stone. It was whilst they were in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to the poisoning of a Greek poet and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a mask. Strange as all this might seem, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should have been a general who has been approached to lead ELAS, the military arm of the Greek communists. He's the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain war.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Kennedy
|title=A Time to Tell Lies
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]. In the autumn of 1942, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotland, where they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounter, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passport.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Lois Austen-Leigh
|title= The Incredible Crime
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Crime (Historical)
|summary= Prudence Pinsent flings her novel across the room. ''Unutterable bilge'' is her description of the typical country house murder mystery of romantic novels. The deliberate irony of this is that ''The Incredible Crime'' is precisely one such novel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356029</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Dunmore
|title=Birdcage Walk
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his life's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorge. In a time of turbulence as France reaches the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and to all, including women. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort that fanned the French flames. However, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unaware.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Lindsey Davis
|title= The Third Nero
|rating= 5
|genre= Crime (Historical)
|summary= Lindsey Davis is one clever lady. Having enthralled readers for years with the adventures of Marcus Didius Falco, the Ancient Roman informer (or, to put it in more modern terms, private eye) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco to take a well-deserved and politically strategic retirement while his adopted daughter Albia takes over the family business. Her wit is dry as dust, she has a highly desirable (well, he's called Manlius: what else could he be?) love-interest and as a Briton, her take on Roman bureaucracy and pettifogging officialdom is just as sharp and funny as her cynical dad's ever was. A new main character, a new way of doing things, which somehow manages to retain all the best elements of the original Falco. Genius.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613426</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)
|title=Retribution Road
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was him. Working as a soldier for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850s, he's tasked with taking a boat of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan Min. It doesn't go well – to start with, he's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having the knowledge of the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break loose. But get back he does, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053744</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rory Clements
|title=Corpus
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|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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