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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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===[[A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia]]=== [[imageIndian Summer:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] It's 1863 and a little girl has been found murdered at the family home in Stoke Newington. A few days later and a few miles across London, a man is found dead in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and part-time detective. Could they be connected? And what, if anything, does either of them have to do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leen, and the troubling events in her past which are threatening to resurface?[[A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia|Full Review]] <!-- Sheridan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472122372.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472122372/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Russian Roulette 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 1999, eclipse fever gripped the country in 1927, but private investigator Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton couldn't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached , photography gives 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, where the mental relaxation which she was to view the eclipseneeds. Surely she didn't need a sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised When the flightlocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, which collected Fellini, comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds and landed them at the school in good time. It was obvious that keen to take the singer was worried about something, but she didn't seem able opportunity to explain what it was. [[Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody|Full Review]] <!-- Sutton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Sutton_Lawless.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785650130?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785650130]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lawless visit Haworth and the House of Electricity by William Sutton]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Campbell Lawless is backStanbury, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across not least because the nation. Is it the work deeds of the French, as police and public Brontë Parsonage are being led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be trusted there for the event. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do with having the bombs used opportunity to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services take photographs 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 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]]===
[[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 this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across the London barrister has recently returned to his father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sightnation. That means Harry is on hand Is it the work of the French, as police and public are being led to press for justicebelieve, since he knows whose remains they must or someone closer to home? Who can be. Unfortunately he's up against a few formidable opponents from the past, not least the Rebecca rioterstrusted and what does Roxbury, members of an illegal group from a few years earlierinnovative inventor previously disgraced, and officially it looks like justice might not be on have to do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the cards. With country? Employing the assistance services of a local clerk, John DaviesMolly, Harry takes up the investigation himselfeffervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, but it seems like both he sets in motion a campaign of them know more than they are willing to admitsubterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for? [[None So Blind Lawless and the House of Electricity by Alis HawkinsWilliam Sutton|Full Review]]
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