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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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===[[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Elizabeth HaynesSara Sheridan]]===
[[image:4.5star.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.''
And that was Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for the problem: it seemed that there were two Harrietsbetter. There When she first settled in Brighton she was the one her friends - a fellow teacheralone, her would-be loverrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, her seducer and the man lover who was her landlord who was also her lover - knewdied before he could leave his wife. Some spoke of her as kindlyAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, virtuous made friends including an ebullient and pious, but that was before determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her body was found behind the chapel which doing what she regularly attended in Bromley. She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emergewanted, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living even found consolation in the chaste life expected arms of a young, unmarried woman in 1843rather charming policeman. [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Elizabeth HaynesSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 The Courier by Philip KerrKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)]]===
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Set in Germany in 1957Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is ve given the game away. For in a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is book that centres around a Berlinermurder, I've told you who was a sarjeant during did it – the second world war and nowNazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this novelvolume, is working in the morgue which splits its time between one of war, when a hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mysteryyoung woman sees her father arrested, taking on a new role and their store condemned as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him Jewish, and rushes to her best friend to Greecehelp – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and back into the dark times of the warlate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. With layered plots and double-crossing leftIn this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, right even though she and centrehe lived together with their baby as a young family, there's lots except he was thought by all to keep you guessing throughout this story. have died in the War… [[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 The Courier by Philip KerrKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|Full Review]]
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RelaxMeet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, die-hard fans of Falco and keen on her husband progressing yet through his spirited British daughter Albiaesteemed career. Rome continues to In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be as splendid and as sordid as it ever wasbetter. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the crimes committed are as complex and intriguingcity due to lack of hygiene, and our heroine just as determined many people have to fall on charity and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engagingalmshouses to keep a roof over their heads. Newcomers to the series need not fear One such was Mrs Mohr, by the way: each book contains just although she was rich enough background detail to make you feel immediately at keep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. This time I say ''was'', despite some serious misgivingsfor she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, Albia is investigating dead and in a place the sudden death of near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a fifteen-year-old girlcharity home, described as bright, affectionate and popular. Was she poisoned to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heartanswering those questions? [[Pandora's Boy Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey DavisMaryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Death Things in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) Jars by Frances BrodyJess Kidd]]===
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Much as it did 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 not found in 1999time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, eclipse fever gripped with all the country rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical 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 1927half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldnthe tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast''t understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her for help when it seemed that all she needed was thing for a flight lady to be arranged to take do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her from Leeds chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to Giggleswick Schoolcure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, where she was to view the eclipseis also somewhat remarkable. Surely she didnAnd then, of course, there't need a sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised s the flightghost. Ruby Doyle, which collected Felliniworld famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiersit' Field in Leeds and landed them at s clear he has a soft spot for the school in good timedetermined young woman. It was obvious If he really exists, that the singer was worried about something, but she didn't seem able to explain what it wasis. [[Death Things in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) Jars by Frances BrodyJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Lawless and the House A Snapshot of Electricity Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by William SuttonFrances Brody]]===
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Campbell Lawless is backEven detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across photography gives her the nationmental relaxation which she needs. Is it When the work of the Frenchlocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, as police and public are being led Kate was keen to believe, or someone closer take the opportunity to home? Who can be trusted visit Haworth and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgracedStanbury, have to do with not least because the bombs used to cause chaos across deeds of the country? Employing Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the services of Mollyevent. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and having the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a campaign opportunity to take photographs of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxburysetting for ''Wuthering Heights''s constant invention? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it? [[Lawless and the House A Snapshot of Electricity Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by William SuttonFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew Charlesgate Confidential by Susanna GregoryScott Von Doviak]]===
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It was 1360 and Michaelhouse was in dire financial straits: they could last In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, making off with priceless works of art from a little longer but not that longBoston Museum. Then it seemed that These missing art works are never found. In 1988, a lifeline might have been thrown to them when they heard that student finds himself caught up in the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh mystery of the Suffolk town missing art and hot on the trail of Clare was dead and it was possible that The Lady, as she was knownthe multi-million-dollar reward. In 2014, had left them a legacy. It seemed that the best thing to do was to go to Clare to claim art is still missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the money (or to try and prove that it had been intended and should therefore be paid) eponymous Charlesgate, filled with all hastealumni celebrating their 25th reunion. The real mission could be concealed behind As the bald statement that they were there to attend body count rises, will we discover the funeral. Matthew Bartholomew was one of truth behind the contingent from Michaelhouse. art theft decades earlier? [[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew Charlesgate Confidential by Susanna GregoryScott Von Doviak|Full Review]]
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===[[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessCatriona McPherson]]===
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Amelia Peabody is a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the family of murder attemptsMallory, kidnappings and sundry other crimes while on archaeological digs in Egypt with equanimity and composureher son Donald's fiancee. She is either revered or feared (or both) by villains It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, museum curators, family and workmen alike but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for her caustic tongue and him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the steel-reinforced parasol she brandishes at sharpest pin in the first sign of dangercushion. And yet, once All the evil-doers doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have been locked upcome to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, precious objects returned to their owners and all injuries bandagedMallory's mother, she still insists on all but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the decorum of mother rather than the English abroad: formal dress for dinner daughter. Dandy and only Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the engagement when the politest and least contentious topics for dinner-table conversationnews arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery So Many Doors by Sara SheridanOakley Hall]]===
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In thisVassilia Caroline Baird, the fifth novel known to all as V, is dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955lawyer tasked with his defence. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from Starting at the post-war privations we saw in our first encounter with Mirabelle and her warm, cheery companion Vesta in 1951murderous finale, a time when tearing a stocking was a disaster of Hall skillfully weaves together the first order. Various types stories of prejudice are still rife, howeverhis key players, and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping in that small, lightly sketched detail which tells us we are still in a Britain overshadowed by the aftermath tale of conflictlove spanning decades and states, marriages and tragedies. A woman who walks alone into a bar will not be served; By the time the British Empire truth is still front-page newsrevealed, and the colour of a person's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunity. V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery So Many Doors by Sara SheridanOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[She Be Damned A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia]]===
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London, It's 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another a little girl goes missing, fears grow that has been found murdered at the killer may have claimed their latest victimfamily home in Stoke Newington. The police are at A few days later and a few miles across London, a man is found dead in a loss and so it falls to similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and professional part-time detective. Could they be connected? And what, Heloise Chanceyif anything, does either of them have to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to and the truth. But when Amah is implicated troubling events in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again. her past which are threatening to resurface?[[She Be Damned A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia|Full Review]]
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===[[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Russian Roulette by H B LyleSara Sheridan]]===
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London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and Europe. Meanwhile Britainfamily traumas as her male colleagues, or a land growing accustomed to peaceslick, skinny, is becoming sharp-shooting type who lives in a magnet for spies loft and works out in the gym after work, boxing with (and disruptiontrouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Vernon KellMirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, Head with all the requisite tropes of War Office Counter-Intelligenceclimbing through unguarded windows, knows that the country's equilibrium depends contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the discovery and disposal right side of the growing number of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters in government can't see what he can law, and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him a refusal to collect evidence. That's when he meets Wiggins. This faint at the sight of blood, but she is , as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a man lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes andher in this, years backthe sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a star police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of Holmesmanners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there' child Irregulars. Now Kell s no reason not to be polite, is getting somewhere… Let battle commence! there? [[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Russian Roulette by H B LyleSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[An Unlikely Agent The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Jane MenczerElizabeth Haynes]]===
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London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret'But that's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat. When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to just it'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shopsaid. But all is ''It's ''not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service'' Harriet, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpionsit? Not our Harriet. Margaret It's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her some manufactured creature, that exists only for the reality of true criminalitythis blessed inquest: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novelpored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she discovers in herself resourcefulnesswas to us, courage, independence and the first stirrings of lovenot picked at like carrion. [[An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilson_Talent.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471148211/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''
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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]]===
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Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across the story he began with Lucynation. In Is it the autumn work of 1942the French, Captain Alex Vere as police and Justine Perry public are among the men and women picked up and taken being led to believe, or someone closer 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 ? Who can be trusted and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks laterwhat does Roxbury, thoughan innovative inventor previously disgraced, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect Simonedo with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of Molly, 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 Gendarmerieeffervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, facing a German who knows he has sets in motion a false passportcampaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. [[A Time to Tell Lies Lawless and the House of Electricity by Alan KennedyWilliam Sutton|Full Review]]
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