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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 in the Stars The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (Kate Shackleton Mysteriestranslator) by Frances Brody]]===
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Much as it did in 1999Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, eclipse fever gripped I've given the country game away. For in 1927a book that centres around a murder, but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldnI't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her for help when ve told you who did it seemed – the Nazis, surely? Well, that all she needed was for a flight certainly has to remain to be arranged 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 take her from Leeds best friend to Giggleswick Schoolhelp – not knowing she will never see her alive again, where she was to view and the eclipselate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. Surely she didn't need a sleuth for In this? Kate went ahead and organised the flighttimeline, which collected Fellinia maverick agent is back in town, comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds and landed them at the school in good time. It was obvious one who might have been fingered for murdering that the singer was worried about somethingfemale victim, but even though she didn't seem able and he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all to explain what it was. have died in the War… [[Death in the Stars The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (Kate Shackleton Mysteriestranslator) by Frances Brody|Full Review]]
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Campbell Lawless is backMeet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, this time tasked with solving she's intent on making herself known as a series of terrorist attacks across the nationcharitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. Is In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the work city due to lack of the Frenchhygiene, as police and public are being led many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to believekeep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, or someone closer although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury. I say ''was'', an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have for she has vanished. Only due to do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of MollyZofia's help does she get found, dead and in a place the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in motion a campaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secretscharity home, skulduggery and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. need to make a name for herself by answering those questions? [[Lawless Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkova and the House of Electricity by William SuttonAntonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Seven Dead Things in Jars by J Jefferson FarjeonJess Kidd]]===
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Ted Lyte A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking typefound in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . He lacked the couragetake another look. HoweverThis detective is a woman, needs mustand the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with a shuttered windowthe bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you''re more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected...he might find Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?widow'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind s cap and stout, shiny boots, but the shutterstobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, but it definitely isnwhat an utterly ''fast't what he'd hoped. In thing for a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and lady to do!) is mixed with a womannugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. Fleeing The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman. Her housemaid, Thomas Hazeldeanbeing seven foot tall, who is also happens to be a journalistsomewhat remarkable. Fascinated by TedAnd then, of course, there's story the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (and a possible scoopdeceased)accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including it's clear he has a portrait shot through soft spot for the heartdetermined young woman. If he really exists, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victimsthat is. [[Seven Dead Things in Jars by J Jefferson FarjeonJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[The Habit A Snapshot of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Susanna GregoryFrances Brody]]===
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It was 1360 and Michaelhouse was in dire financial straits: they could last a little longer but not that long. Then it seemed that Even detectives need a lifeline might have been thrown to them when they heard that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh of the Suffolk town of Clare was dead break and it was possible that The Ladyfor Kate Shackleton, as photography gives her the mental relaxation which she was known, had left them a legacyneeds. It seemed that When the best thing to do local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to go to Clare to claim take the money (or opportunity to try visit Haworth and prove Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it had been intended can become a museum and should therefore her parents will be paid) with all hastethere for the event. The real mission What could be concealed behind better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and having the bald statement that they were there opportunity to attend the funeral. Matthew Bartholomew was one take photographs of the contingent from Michaelhousesetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it? [[The Habit A Snapshot of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Susanna GregoryFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery Charlesgate Confidential by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessScott Von Doviak]]===
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Amelia Peabody is In 1946 a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner gang of murder attemptscriminals pull off an audacious art heist, kidnappings and sundry other crimes while on archaeological digs in Egypt making off with equanimity and composurepriceless works of art from a Boston Museum. These missing art works are never found. She is either revered or feared (or both) by villainsIn 1988, museum curators, family and workmen alike for her caustic tongue a student finds himself caught up in the mystery of the missing art and hot on the trail of the steelmulti-reinforced parasol she brandishes at the first sign of dangermillion-dollar reward. And yetIn 2014, once the evil-doers have been locked art is still missing and now dead bodies are turning upat the eponymous Charlesgate, precious objects returned to filled with alumni celebrating their owners and all injuries bandaged25th reunion. As the body count rises, she still insists on all will we discover the decorum of truth behind the English abroad: formal dress for dinner and only the politest and least contentious topics for dinner-table conversation. art theft decades earlier? [[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery Charlesgate Confidential by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessScott Von Doviak|Full Review]]
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===[[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Sara SheridanCatriona McPherson]]===
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In this, Dandy Gilver and family had made the fifth novel in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery seriesarduous journey to Wester Ross, we have reached 1955but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from They were there to meet the post-war privations we saw in our first encounter with Mirabelle and family of Mallory, her warmson Donald's fiancee. It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, cheery companion Vesta in 1951, a time when tearing a stocking but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also a disaster of niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the first ordercushion. Various types All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of prejudice are still rifeLady Lavinia, howeverMallory's mother, and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping in but it soon became obvious that small, lightly sketched detail which tells us we are still in a Britain overshadowed Donald was smitten by the aftermath of conflictmother rather than the daughter. A woman who walks alone into a bar will Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not be served; they should try to put an end to the engagement when the British Empire is still front-page news, and the colour of a person's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunityarrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Sara SheridanCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[She Be Damned So Many Doors by M J TjiaOakley Hall]]===
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LondonVassilia Caroline Baird, 1863: prostitutes known to all as V, is dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removedlawyer tasked with his defence. When another girl goes missingStarting at the murderous finale, fears grow that Hall skillfully weaves together the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at stories of his key players, in a loss tale of love spanning decades and so it falls to courtesan states, marriages and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigatetragedies. With By the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to time the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plotrevealed, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again. V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[She Be Damned So Many Doors by M J TjiaOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Necessary Murder by H B LyleM J Tjia]]===
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London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia It's 1863 and Europea little girl has been found murdered at the family home in Stoke Newington. Meanwhile BritainA few days later and a few miles across London, a land growing accustomed to peace, man is becoming found dead in a magnet for spies similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and disruptionpart-time detective. Vernon KellCould they be connected? And what, if anything, Head does either of War Office Counter-Intelligence, knows that the countrythem have to do with Heloise's equilibrium depends on the discovery maid, Amah Li Leen, and disposal of the growing number of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters troubling events in government can't see what he can and Kell's own agents her past which are being killed off too fast for him threatening to collect evidence. That's when he meets Wiggins. This is a man with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes and, years back, a star of Holmes' child Irregulars. Now Kell is getting somewhere… Let battle commence! resurface?[[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Necessary Murder by H B LyleM J Tjia|Full Review]]
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===[[An Unlikely Agent Russian Roulette by Jane MenczerSara Sheridan]]===
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LondonIt makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, 1905. Margaret Trant lives a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her ailingmale colleagues, or a slick, skinny, irascible mother sharp-shooting type who lives in a dreary boarding house loft and works out in St John's Woodthe gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. The pair Mirabelle may have fallen on hard timessomehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat. When a stranger all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the tram hands her right side of the law, and a newspaper open refusal to faint at the recruitment pagesight of blood, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interviewbut she is, she finds herself in a new position as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a secretary in a dingy backstreet shoplady. But all is not as it seems; she is Indeed, the first encounter we have with her in fact working for a highly secret branch of this, the intelligence servicesixth book in this excellent series, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise sees her giving a ruthless band police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of anarchists known as the Scorpionsmanners. Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for No matter what the reality of true criminality, life-and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable noveldeath crisis, as she discovers in herself resourcefulnessthere's no reason not to be polite, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love. is there? [[An Unlikely Agent Russian Roulette by Jane MenczerSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[Continental Crimes Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Martin Edwards (editor)Philip Kerr]]===
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ItSet in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts''s not clear whether is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the short story has gone out of fashionsecond world war and now, relegated to the pages of certain types of women's magazinesin this novel, or whether the magazines is working in which the format still holds its own are themselves not as high-profile as once they might have beenmorgue of a hospital. Perhaps they never wereHe finds himself embroiled in a mystery, perhaps we only know about them in retrospecttaking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. Whatever The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the truth dark times of that it would seem that the golden age of the short war. With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story, coincided delightfully with the golden age of crime. [[Continental Crimes Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Martin Edwards (editor)Philip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 Pandora's Boy by Philip KerrLindsey Davis]]===
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Bernie Gunther is not your typical heroRelax, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin Rome continues to be as a police officer handling murder cases splendid and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he as sordid as it ever 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 crimes committed are as complex and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof in the Bavarian mountainsintriguing, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not our heroine just for justiceas determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's sake, but for his ownexploits so engaging. He is given exactly one week Newcomers to apprehend the suspectseries need not fear, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, and he hopes that with Albia is investigating the help sudden death of his friend Friedrich Korscha fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popular. Was she poisoned by an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (illegal love-potion, or Kripo, for short) he just might get lucky. did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 Pandora's Boy by Philip KerrLindsey Davis|Full Review]]
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===[[None So Blind Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Alis HawkinsFrances Brody]]===
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When a body is accidentally uncovered nearby Much as it did in 18501999, Harry Probert-Lloyd eclipse fever gripped the London barrister has recently returned 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 his father's house in West Wales due be arranged to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is on hand take her from Leeds to press for justiceGiggleswick School, since he knows whose remains they must bewhere she was to view the eclipse. Unfortunately heSurely she didn's up against t need a few formidable opponents from sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised the pastflight, not least the Rebecca rioterswhich collected Fellini, members of an illegal group comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from a few years earlier, Soldiers' Field in Leeds and officially it looks like justice might not be on landed them at the cardsschool in good time. With the assistance of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up It was obvious that the investigation himselfsinger was worried about something, but she didn't seem able to explain what it seems like both of them know more than they are willing to admitwas. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for? [[None So Blind Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Alis HawkinsFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[The Age Lawless and the House of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2) Electricity by Gavin ScottWilliam Sutton]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] 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. [[The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2) by Gavin Scott|Full Review]]
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=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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