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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.
|isbn=1782275002
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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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===[[Greeks Bearing GiftsIndian Summer: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Philip KerrSara Sheridan]]===
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Set in Germany in 1957Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berlinerour favourite fifties sleuth, who was a sarjeant during since the second world war , and nownot always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, in this novelrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, is working in the morgue of a hospitallover who died before he could leave his wife. He finds himself embroiled As time went by she found in a mysteryherself an ability to solve crimes, taking on a new role as made friends including an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to Greecelet a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and back into even found consolation in the dark times arms of the war. With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this storya rather charming policeman. [[Greeks Bearing GiftsIndian Summer: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Philip KerrSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy The Courier by Lindsey DavisKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)]]===
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RelaxNazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter AlbiaI've given the game away. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it ever was, – the crimes committed are as complex and intriguingNazis, and our heroine just as determined and cynicalsurely? Well, with that light dusting of humour certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which made tales splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father's exploits so engaging. Newcomers arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish, and rushes to her best friend to the series need help – not fearknowing she will never see her alive again, by and the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at homelate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. This timeIn this timeline, despite some serious misgivings, Albia a maverick agent is investigating the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girlback in town, described as brightone who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, affectionate even though she and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potionhe lived together with their baby as a young family, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy except he was thought by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] all to have died in the War… [[Pandora's Boy The Courier by Lindsey DavisKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|Full Review]]
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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 and Europe. Meanwhile Britain, It makes a land growing accustomed pleasant change to peace, is becoming have a magnet for spies and disruption. Vernon Kell, Head of War Office Counter-Intelligence, knows that the country's equilibrium depends on the discovery and disposal of the growing number of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters in government canfemale detective who isn't see what he can and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him to collect evidence. That's when he meets Wiggins. This is a man with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes and, years backslightly eccentric grandma, a star of Holmes' child Irregulars. Now Kell is getting somewhere… Let battle commence! [[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy by H B Lyle|Full Review]] <!world-weary cop with as many hang- Menczer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Menczer_Unlikely.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846973805/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Londonups, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with bad habits and family traumas as her ailingmale colleagues, or a slick, irascible mother skinny, 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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Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to a plot not unlike one of her own[[image:5star. It's all about the mysteryjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], and it really drives the story forward. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at the train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. Indeed, for this man wants her to commit a murder. [[A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson:Category:True Crime|Full ReviewTrue Crime]]
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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:4star.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]] <!-- Leigh -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Leigh_Incredible.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0712356029/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] 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. [[The Incredible Crime by Lois Austen-Leigh|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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