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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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===[[Russian Roulette Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan]]===
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It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandmaLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, a world-weary cop with as many hang-upsour favourite fifties sleuth, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleaguessince the war, or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a loft and works out not always for the better. When she first settled in the gym after workBrighton she was alone, boxing with (rudderless and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fightingsecretly grieving for Jack, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts lover who are not one hundred per cent on the right side of the lawdied before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a refusal to faint at the sight of blood, but little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she is, as everyone around her will attestwanted, first and foremost a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her even found consolation in this, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving arms of a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of mannersrather charming policeman. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? [[Russian Roulette Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Courier by Elizabeth HaynesKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)]]===
[[image:3.5star.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 the problem: it seemed that there were two HarrietsNazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There was , I've given the one her friends - game away. For in a book that centres around a fellow teachermurder, her would-I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be loverseen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her seducer father arrested, and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke of her their store condemned as kindlyJewish, virtuous and pious, but that was before rushes to her body was found behind the chapel which best friend to help – not knowing she regularly attended in Bromley. She'd been poisoned - or had taken will never see her own lifealive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emergeIn this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who was about six months pregnant might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and who had obviously not been living the chaste life expected of he lived together with their baby as a youngfamily, unmarried woman except he was thought by all to have died in 1843. the War… [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Courier by Elizabeth HaynesKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|Full Review]]
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Set in Germany in 1957Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is s intent on making herself known as a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraudcharitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. Bernie Gunther In 1890s Cracow, life is a Berlinerpretty good, who was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novelbut she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is working in nearing the morgue city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a hospitalroof over their heads. He finds himself embroiled One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in a mysteryher charitable home. I say ''was'', taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigatorfor she has vanished. The investigation takes him Only due to GreeceZofia's help does she get found, dead and back into in a place the dark times of the warnear-lame woman could never reach by herself. With layered plots and double-crossing leftJust who could be killing people in a charity home, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions? [[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Philip KerrMaryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy Things in Jars by Lindsey DavisJess Kidd]]===
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Relax, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter AlbiaA child has gone missing. Rome continues The detective asked to be as splendid take on the case is still struggling with the shame and as sordid as it ever frustration left by a previous case, where the child wasnot 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: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the crimes committed are as complex bizarre and intriguingthe downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, and you realise just how much more unusual our heroine just as determined is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and cynicalstout, 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 that light dusting of humour which made tales a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her fatherchemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's exploits so engaging. Newcomers actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the series need not fear, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This timeHer housemaid, despite some serious misgivingsbeing seven foot tall, Albia is investigating also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girlghost. Ruby Doyle, described as brightworld famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, affectionate and popularit's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potionIf he really exists, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] that is. [[Pandora's Boy Things in Jars by Lindsey DavisJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Death in the Stars A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody]]===
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Much as it did in 1999Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, eclipse fever gripped photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the country in 1927local Photographic Society proposed an outing, but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldn't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her for help when it seemed that all she needed was for a flight to be arranged keen to take her from Leeds the opportunity to Giggleswick Schoolvisit Haworth and Stanbury, where she was to view not least because the deeds of the eclipse. Surely she didn't need Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a sleuth museum and her parents will be there for this? Kate went ahead and organised the flightevent. What could be better than seeing her family, which collected Fellini, comic Billy Moffatt witnessing a momentous event and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds and landed them at having the school in good time. It was obvious that opportunity to take photographs of the singer was worried about something, but she didnsetting for ''Wuthering Heights''t seem able to explain what ? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it was. ? [[Death in the Stars A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[Lawless and the House of Electricity Charlesgate Confidential by William SuttonScott Von Doviak]]===
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Campbell Lawless is backIn 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, this time tasked making off with solving priceless works of art from a series Boston Museum. These missing art works are never found. In 1988, a student finds himself caught up in the mystery of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it missing art and hot on the work trail of the Frenchmulti-million-dollar reward. In 2014, as police the art is still missing and public now dead bodies are being led to believeturning up at the eponymous Charlesgate, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do filled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunion. As the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of Mollybody count rises, will we discover the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a campaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and truth behind the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. art theft decades earlier? [[Lawless and the House of Electricity Charlesgate Confidential by William SuttonScott Von Doviak|Full Review]]
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===[[Seven Dead by J Jefferson Farjeon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]][[:Category:Crime A Step So Grave (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|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="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Gregory Habit.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0751562637?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0751562637]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna GregoryCatriona McPherson]]===
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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 Mallory, her son Donald's fiancee. It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was 1360 and Michaelhouse rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in dire financial straitsthe cushion. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they could last a little longer but not that long. Then it seemed that a lifeline might have been thrown come to them when they heard that celebrate the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh fiftieth birthday of the Suffolk town of Clare was dead and it was possible that The LadyLavinia, as she was knownMallory's mother, had left them a legacy. It seemed but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the best thing mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to do was put an end to go to Clare to claim the money (or to try and prove engagement when the news arrived that it Lady Lavinia 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 Michaelhousefound dead. [[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Susanna GregoryCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery So Many Doors by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessOakley Hall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Amelia Peabody is a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner of murder attempts, kidnappings and sundry other crimes while on archaeological digs in Egypt with equanimity and composure. She is either revered or feared (or both) by villains, museum curators, family and workmen alike for her caustic tongue and the steel-reinforced parasol she brandishes at the first sign of danger. And yet, once the evil-doers have been locked up, precious objects returned to their owners and all injuries bandaged, she still insists on all the decorum of the English abroad: formal dress for dinner and only the politest and least contentious topics for dinner-table conversation. [[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess|Full Review]] <!-- Sheridan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Sheridan_Goodwood.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472122364/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan]]=== [[image:5starVassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is dead.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] In this, the fifth novel 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 warmmurderous finale, cheery companion Vesta in 1951, 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, however, and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping in that smallhis key players, lightly sketched detail which tells us we are still in a Britain overshadowed by the aftermath tale of conflictlove spanning decades and states, marriages and tragedies. A woman who walks alone into a bar will not be served; By the time the British Empire truth is still front-page newsrevealed, and the colour of a person's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunity. V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery So Many Doors by Sara SheridanOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[She Be Damned A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia]]===
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London, It's 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another a little girl goes missing, fears grow that has been found murdered at the killer may have claimed their latest victimfamily home in Stoke Newington. The police are at A few days later and a few miles across London, a man is found dead in a loss and so it falls to similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and professional part-time detective. Could they be connected? And what, Heloise Chanceyif anything, does either of them have to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to and the truth. But when Amah is implicated troubling events in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again. her past which are threatening to resurface?[[She Be Damned A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia|Full Review]]
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===[[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Russian Roulette by H B LyleSara Sheridan]]===
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London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and Europe. Meanwhile Britainfamily traumas as her male colleagues, or a land growing accustomed to peaceslick, skinny, is becoming sharp-shooting type who lives in a magnet for spies loft and works out in the gym after work, boxing with (and disruptiontrouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Vernon KellMirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, Head with all the requisite tropes of War Office Counter-Intelligenceclimbing through unguarded windows, knows that the country's equilibrium depends contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the discovery and disposal right side of the growing number of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters in government can't see what he can law, and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him a refusal to collect evidence. That's when he meets Wiggins. This faint at the sight of blood, but she is , as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a man lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes andher in this, years backthe sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a star police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of Holmesmanners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there' child Irregulars. Now Kell s no reason not to be polite, is getting somewhere… Let battle commence! there? [[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Russian Roulette by H B LyleSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[An Unlikely Agent The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Jane MenczerElizabeth Haynes]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] ''But that's just it'', she said. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harriet. It's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquest: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrion.''
London, 1905And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. Margaret Trant lives with There was the one her ailing, irascible mother in friends - a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard timesfellow teacher, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle importher would-export company keeping them afloat. When a stranger on be lover, her seducer and the tram hands man who was her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'landlord who was also her lover - knew. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position Some spoke of her as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop. But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence servicekindly, Bureau 8virtuous and pious, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as but that was before her body was found behind the Scorpionschapel which she regularly attended in Bromley. Margaret She's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares d been poisoned - or had taken her for own life. After the reality of true criminalityinquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and her journey of self-discovery forms who had obviously not been living the heart chaste life expected of this remarkable novela young, as she discovers unmarried woman in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love1843. [[An Unlikely Agent The Murder of Harriet Monkton by Jane MenczerElizabeth Haynes|Full Review]]
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===[[A Talent for Murder Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Andrew WilsonPhilip Kerr]]===
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Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back Set in Germany in her day1957, and here Andrew Wilson makes her ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a victim historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a plot not unlike one sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the morgue of her owna hospital. It's all about the He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and it really drives back into the dark times of the story forwardwar. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at the train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and secretly intrigues her. Indeedcentre, for there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this man wants her to commit a murderstory. [[A Talent for Murder Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Andrew WilsonPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[Continental Crimes Pandora's Boy by Martin Edwards (editor)Lindsey Davis]]===
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It's not clear whether the short story has gone out Relax, die-hard fans of fashionFalco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, relegated to the pages crimes committed are as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of certain types humour which made tales of womenher father's magazinesexploits so engaging. Newcomers to the series need not fear, or whether by the magazines in which way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the format still holds its own are themselves not as highsudden death of a fifteen-year-profile old girl, described as once they might have been. Perhaps they never werebright, perhaps we only know about them in retrospectaffectionate and popular. Whatever the truth of that it would seem that the golden age of the short storyWas she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, coincided delightfully with the golden age or did she die of crime. a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Continental Crimes Pandora's Boy by Martin Edwards (editor)Lindsey Davis|Full Review]]
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===[[Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Philip KerrFrances Brody]]===
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Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939Much as it did in 1999, he was stationed eclipse fever gripped the country in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of the Social Democratic Party)1927, he understood that the best thing he could do but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldn't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her for himself at help when it seemed that time all she needed was for a flight to make himself indispensable be arranged to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned take her from Leeds to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof in the Bavarian mountainsGiggleswick School, he knows that he needs where she was to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justiceview the eclipse. Surely she didn's sake, but t need a sleuth for his own. He is given exactly one week to apprehend this? Kate went ahead and organised the suspectflight, which collected Fellini, comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds and he hopes landed them at the school in good time. It was obvious that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korschsinger was worried about something, an investigator with but she didn't seem able to explain what it was. [[Death in the Krimialpolizei Stars (or Kripo, for shortKate Shackleton Mysteries) he just might get lucky. [[Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 by Philip KerrFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[None So Blind Lawless and the House of Electricity by Alis HawkinsWilliam Sutton]]===
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When a body Campbell Lawless is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850back, Harry Probert-Lloyd the London barrister has recently returned to his father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is on hand to press for justice, since he knows whose remains they must be. Unfortunately he's up against this time tasked with solving a few formidable opponents from the past, not least the Rebecca rioters, members series of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not be on terrorist attacks across the cardsnation. With Is it the assistance work of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up the investigation himselfFrench, but it seems like both of them know more than they as police and public are willing being led to admit. Will the outcome believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be worth stirring up all those secrets for? [[None So Blind by Alis Hawkins|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Age.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783297824/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2) by Gavin Scott]]=== [[image:4star.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 wartrusted and what does Roxbury, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stoneinnovative inventor previously disgraced, 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 have to Athens do with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting the necessary permissions bombs used to go to Crete and retrieve cause chaos across the stone. It was whilst they were in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to country? Employing the poisoning services of a Greek poet and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a mask. Strange as all this might seemMolly, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should have been effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a general who has been approached to lead ELAScampaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the military arm of the Greek communists. Hedesperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain warconstant invention. [[The Age Lawless and the House of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2) Electricity by Gavin ScottWilliam Sutton|Full Review]]
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