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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]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]][[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, 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 of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victims. [[Seven Dead by J Jefferson Farjeon|Full Review]]
<!-- Gregory -->|-| style="widthA 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 not found in time. 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 all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: 10%; verticaltechnical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the 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. Bridie Devine may dress in half-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Gregory Habitmourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is 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 by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable.jpg|left|link=https://wwwAnd then, of course, there's the ghost.amazonRuby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman.coIf he really exists, that is.uk/gp/product/0751562637?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0751562637[[Things in Jars by Jess Kidd|Full Review]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Gregory]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] It was 1360 and Michaelhouse was in dire financial straits: they could last a little longer but not that long. Then it seemed that 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 and it was possible that The Lady, as she was known, had left them a legacy. It seemed that the best thing to do was to go to Clare to claim the money (or to try and prove that it had been intended and should therefore be paid) with all haste. The real mission could be concealed behind the bald statement that they were there to attend the funeral. Matthew Bartholomew was one of the contingent from Michaelhouse. [[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Peters Frances Brody -->
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===[[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessFrances Brody]]===
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Amelia Peabody is Even detectives need a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner of murder attempts, kidnappings break and sundry other crimes while on archaeological digs in Egypt with equanimity and composure. She is either revered or feared (or both) by villainsfor Kate Shackleton, museum curators, family and workmen alike for photography gives her caustic tongue and the steel-reinforced parasol mental relaxation which she brandishes at needs. When the first sign of danger. And yetlocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, once Kate was keen to take the evil-doers have been locked up, precious objects returned opportunity to their owners visit Haworth and all injuries bandagedStanbury, she still insists on all not least because the decorum deeds of the English abroad: formal dress Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for dinner the event. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and only having the politest and least contentious topics opportunity to take photographs of the setting for dinner-table conversation''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it? [[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery Charlesgate Confidential by Sara SheridanScott Von Doviak]]===
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In this1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, the fifth novel in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on making off with priceless works of art from the post-war privations we saw in our first encounter with Mirabelle and her warm, cheery companion Vesta in 1951, a time when tearing a stocking was a disaster of the first orderBoston Museum. Various types of prejudice These missing art works are still rifenever found. In 1988, however, and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping student finds himself caught up in that small, lightly sketched detail which tells us we are still in a Britain overshadowed by the aftermath mystery of the missing art and hot on the trail of conflictthe multi-million-dollar reward. A woman who walks alone into a bar will not be served; In 2014, the British Empire art is still front-page news, missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the colour of a person's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunityeponymous Charlesgate, filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunion. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery Charlesgate Confidential by Sara SheridanScott Von Doviak|Full Review]]
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===[[She Be Damned A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by M J TjiaCatriona McPherson]]===
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LondonDandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, 1863: prostitutes in but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the Waterloo area are turning up deadfamily of Mallory, their sexual organs mutilated and removedher son Donald's fiancee. When another girl goes missing It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, fears grow but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the killer may have claimed their latest victimcushion. The police are All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at a loss and so it falls Applecross: they might have come to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With celebrate the assistance fiftieth birthday of her trusty Chinese maidLady Lavinia, Amah Li LeenMallory's mother, Heloise inches closer but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the truth. But engagement when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes againnews arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[She Be Damned A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by M J TjiaCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy So Many Doors by H B LyleOakley Hall]]===
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London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia and Europe. Meanwhile BritainVassilia Caroline Baird, a land growing accustomed known to peaceall as V, is becoming a magnet for spies and disruptiondead. Vernon Kell, Head of War Office Counter-Intelligence, knows that Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the country's equilibrium depends on lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at the discovery and disposal of murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the growing number stories of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters key players, in government can't see what he can a tale of love spanning decades and states, marriages and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him to collect evidencetragedies. That's when he meets Wiggins. This By the time the truth is a man with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes andrevealed, years back, a star of Holmes' child Irregulars. V will be dead but who else will lose their life? Now Kell is getting somewhere… Let battle commence! [[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy So Many Doors by H B LyleOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[An Unlikely Agent A Necessary Murder by Jane MenczerM J Tjia]]===
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London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St JohnIt's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat. When 1863 and a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open little girl has been found murdered at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'family home in Stoke Newington. After A few days later and a gruelling interviewfew miles across London, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop. But all is not as it seems; she man is found dead in fact working for a highly secret branch similar way outside the opulent townhouse of the intelligence serviceHeloise Chancey, courtesan and part-time detective. Could they be connected? And what, Bureau 8if anything, whose mission is does either of them have to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions. Margaretdo with Heloise's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminalitymaid, Amah Li Leen, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers troubling events in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love. her past which are threatening to resurface?[[An Unlikely Agent A Necessary Murder by Jane MenczerM J Tjia|Full Review]]
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===[[A Talent for Murder Russian Roulette by Andrew WilsonSara Sheridan]]===
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Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her dayIt 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 here Andrew Wilson makes family traumas as her male colleagues, or a victim to slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a plot loft and works out in the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not unlike one hundred per cent on the right side of her own. It's all about the mysterylaw, and it really drives the story forward. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man refusal to faint at the train station; sight of blood, but she is given a proposition that confuses , as everyone around her will attest, first and secretly intrigues herforemost a lady. Indeed, for the first encounter we have with her in this, the sixth book in this man wants excellent series, sees her to commit giving a murderpolice superintendent an icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? [[A Talent for Murder Russian Roulette by Andrew WilsonSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[Continental Crimes The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Martin Edwards (editor)Elizabeth 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.''
It's not clear whether And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the short story has gone out of fashionone her friends - a fellow teacher, her would-be lover, relegated to her seducer and the pages man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke of certain types of women's magazinesher as kindly, virtuous and pious, or whether but that was before her body was found behind the magazines chapel which she regularly attended in which the format still holds its own are themselves not as high-profile as once they might have beenBromley. Perhaps they never were, perhaps we only know about them in retrospectShe'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. Whatever After the truth of that it inquest was opened another Harriet would seem that emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the golden age chaste life expected of the short storya young, coincided delightfully with the golden age of crimeunmarried woman in 1843. [[Continental Crimes The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Martin Edwards (editor)Elizabeth Haynes|Full Review]]
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===[[Prussian BlueGreeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 13 by Philip Kerr]]===
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Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939a Berliner, he who was stationed a sarjeant during the second world war and now, in Berlin as this novel, is working in the morgue of a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazishospital. Although never a Nazi party member He finds himself (he was embroiled in a known member of the Social Democratic Party)mystery, 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 taking on 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 ownnew role as an insurance claims investigator. He is given exactly one week The investigation takes him to apprehend the suspectGreece, and he hopes that with back into the help dark times of his friend Friedrich Korschthe war. With layered plots and double-crossing left, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kriporight and centre, for short) he just might get luckythere's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[Prussian BlueGreeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 13 by Philip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[None So Blind Pandora's Boy by Alis HawkinsLindsey Davis]]===
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When a body is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850Relax, Harry Probertdie-Lloyd hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, the London barrister has recently returned to his crimes committed are as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sightexploits so engaging. That means Harry is on hand Newcomers to press for justice, since he knows whose remains they must be. Unfortunately he's up against a few formidable opponents from the pastseries need not fear, not least by the Rebecca riotersway: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, members of an illegal group from a few years earlierdespite some serious misgivings, and officially it looks like justice might not be on Albia is investigating the cards. With the assistance sudden death of a local clerkfifteen-year-old girl, John Daviesdescribed as bright, Harry takes up the investigation himselfaffectionate and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, but it seems like both or did she die of them know more than they are willing to admit. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets fora broken heart? [[None So Blind Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy by Alis HawkinsLindsey Davis|Full Review]]
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===[[The Age of Olympus Death in the Stars (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Gavin ScottFrances Brody]]===
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Whilst part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander Much as it did in Greece during 1999, eclipse fever gripped the warcountry in 1927, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stonebut 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, which he hoped could lead where she was to view the deciphering of Linear Beclipse. The war is now officially over (although Surely she didn't need a lot of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and Forrester has returned to Athens with his loverorganised the flight, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvigwhich collected Fellini, intent on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds and retrieve landed them at the stoneschool in good time. 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 obvious that the poet singer was not the intended victim: it should have been a general who has been approached to lead ELASworried about something, the military arm of the Greek communists. Hebut she didn's the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people t seem able to follow him adn that would mean certain warexplain what it was. [[The Age of Olympus Death in the Stars (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Gavin ScottFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[A Time to Tell Lies Lawless and the House of Electricity by Alan KennedyWilliam Sutton]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues the story he began with Lucy. 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. [[A Time to Tell Lies by Alan Kennedy|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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{{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.
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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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