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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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===[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Catriona McPhersonSara Sheridan]]===
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Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester RossLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet since the family of Mallorywar, 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 rather ''old'' and not always for him at thirtythe better. There When she first settled in Brighton she was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the cushion. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Laviniaalone, Mallory's motherrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughterlover who died before he could leave his wife. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try As time went by she found in herself an ability to put solve crimes, made friends including an end ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found deadarms of a rather charming policeman. [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Catriona McPhersonSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[So Many Doors The Courier by Oakley HallKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)]]===
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Vassilia Caroline BairdNazi-occupied Oslo, known to all as V1942. There, is deadI've given the game away. Jack sits For in his cell refusing a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to talk remain to the lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at the murderous finalebe seen in this volume, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories which splits its time between one of his key playerswar, in when a tale of love spanning decades young woman sees her father arrested, and statestheir store condemned as Jewish, marriages and tragediesrushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. By the time the truth In this timeline, a maverick agent is revealedback in town, V will be dead but one who else will lose might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their life? baby as a young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the War… [[So Many Doors The Courier by Oakley HallKjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|Full Review]]
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ItMeet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's 1863 intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and a little girl has been found murdered at the family home in Stoke Newingtonkeen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. A few days later and a few miles across London Meanwhile, a man other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is found dead in a similar way outside nearing the opulent townhouse city due to lack of Heloise Chanceyhygiene, courtesan and part-time detectivemany people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. Could they be connected? And what One such was Mrs Mohr, if anythingalthough she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. I say ''was'', does either of them have for she has vanished. Only due to do with HeloiseZofia's maidhelp does she get found, Amah Li Leendead and in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the troubling events in her past which are threatening need to resurfacemake a name for herself by answering those questions?[[A Necessary Murder Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by M J TjiaMaryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Russian Roulette Things in Jars by Sara SheridanJess Kidd]]===
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It makes a pleasant change A child has gone missing. The detective asked to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, a world-weary cop take on the case is still struggling with as many hang-ups, bad habits the shame and family traumas as her male colleagues, or frustration left by a slickprevious case, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a loft woman, and works out in the gym after worksetting is Victorian London, boxing with (all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at herthe 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. Mirabelle Bridie Devine may have somehow got herself involved dress in crimehalf-fightingmourning, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windowsa widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on but the right side of the lawtobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, and what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a refusal lady to faint at the sight do!) is mixed with a nugget of bloodsomething, well, but she let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems isby the by. Her housemaid, as everyone around her will attestbeing seven foot tall, first and foremost a ladyis also somewhat remarkable. IndeedAnd then, the first encounter we have with her in thisof course, there's the sixth book in this excellent seriesghost. Ruby Doyle, sees world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her giving investigation, and it's clear he has a police superintendent an icy stare soft spot for his lack of mannersthe determined young woman. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be politeIf he really exists, that is there? . [[Russian Roulette Things in Jars by Sara SheridanJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[The A Snapshot of Murder of Harriet Monkton (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Elizabeth HaynesFrances Brody]]===
[[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 the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - Even detectives need a fellow teacher, her would-be loverbreak and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knewmental relaxation which she needs. Some spoke of her as kindlyWhen the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, virtuous Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and piousStanbury, but not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that was before it can become a museum and her body was found behind parents will be there for the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromleyevent. She'd been poisoned - or had taken What could be better than seeing her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emergefamily, one who was about six months pregnant witnessing a momentous event and who had obviously not been living having the chaste life expected opportunity to take photographs of a young, unmarried woman in 1843the setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it? [[The A Snapshot of Murder of Harriet Monkton (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Elizabeth HaynesFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 Charlesgate Confidential by Philip KerrScott Von Doviak]]===
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Set in Germany in 1957In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller making off with everything priceless works of art from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance frauda Boston Museum. These missing art works are never found. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novelIn 1988, is working in the morgue of a hospital. He student finds himself embroiled caught up in a the mystery, taking of the missing art and hot on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the dark times trail of the warmulti-million-dollar reward. With layered plots and double-crossing leftIn 2014, right the art is still missing and centrenow dead bodies are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgate, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this storyfilled with alumni celebrating their 25th reunion. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 Charlesgate Confidential by Philip KerrScott Von Doviak|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Lindsey DavisCatriona McPherson]]===
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RelaxDandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albiabut Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. Rome continues They were there to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, meet the crimes committed are as complex and intriguingfamily of Mallory, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her fatherson Donald's exploits so engagingfiancee. Newcomers It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the series need not fear, by sharpest pin in the cushion. All the waydoubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: each book contains just enough background detail they might have come to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating celebrate the sudden death fiftieth birthday of a fifteen-year-old girlLady Lavinia, described as brightMallory's mother, affectionate but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and popularHugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Lindsey DavisCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) So Many Doors by Frances BrodyOakley Hall]]===
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Much Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as it did in 1999V, eclipse fever gripped the country is dead. Jack sits in 1927, 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 to take her from Leeds his cell refusing to Giggleswick School, where she was talk to view the eclipselawyer tasked with his defence. Surely she didn't need a sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised Starting at the flightmurderous finale, which collected FelliniHall skillfully weaves together the stories of his key players, comic Billy Moffatt in a tale of love spanning decades and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds states, marriages and landed them at tragedies. By the school in good time. It was obvious that the singer was worried about somethingtruth is revealed, V will be dead but she didn't seem able to explain what it was. who else will lose their life? [[Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) So Many Doors by Frances BrodyOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Lawless and the House of Electricity A Necessary Murder by William SuttonM J Tjia]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]
Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving It's 1863 and a series of terrorist attacks across little girl has been found murdered at the nationfamily home in Stoke Newington. Is it A few days later and a few miles across London, a man is found dead in a similar way outside the work opulent townhouse of the FrenchHeloise Chancey, as police courtesan and public are being led to believe, or someone closer to homepart-time detective. Could they be connected? Who can be trusted and And what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgracedif anything, does either of them have to do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of MollyHeloise's maid, Amah Li Leen, and the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets troubling events in motion a campaign of subterfuge her past which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. are threatening to resurface?[[Lawless and the House of Electricity A Necessary Murder by William SuttonM J Tjia|Full Review]]
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===[[Seven Dead Russian Roulette by J Jefferson FarjeonSara Sheridan]]===
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Ted Lyte was petty criminalIt makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, but not usually the housebreaking a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type. He lacked who lives in a loft and works out in the couragegym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. HoweverMirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, needs mustwith all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, and whilst feeling down contacts who are not one hundred per cent on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit the right side of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutterslaw, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing refusal to faint at the house in horrorsight of blood, he but she is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldeanas everyone around her will attest, who also happens to be first and foremost a journalistlady. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop)Indeed, Hazeldean decides to investigate the first encounter we have with her in this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heartsixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what the victims. life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? [[Seven Dead Russian Roulette by J Jefferson FarjeonSara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery Murder of Harriet Monkton by Elizabeth Peters and Joan HessHaynes]]===
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Amelia Peabody is a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner of murder attempts''But that's just it'', kidnappings and sundry other crimes while on archaeological digs in Egypt with equanimity and composureshe said. She ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is either revered or feared (or both) by villainsit? Not our Harriet. It's some manufactured creature, museum curators, family and workmen alike that exists only 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 this blessed inquest: something to be summed uplike a spirit, precious objects returned to their owners be examined and all injuries bandagedpored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as 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 conversationwas to us, not picked at like carrion. [[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess|Full Review]]''
<!And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends -a fellow teacher, her would- Sheridan be lover, her seducer and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover -knew. Some spoke of her as kindly, virtuous and pious, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromley. She'd been poisoned ->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emerge, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843. [[image:Sheridan_Goodwood.jpgThe Murder of Harriet Monkton by Elizabeth Haynes|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472122364/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21Full Review]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] In this, the fifth novel in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from the post-war privations we saw in our first encounter with Mirabelle and her warm, cheery companion Vesta in 1951, a time when tearing a stocking was a disaster of the first order. Various types of prejudice are still rife, however, 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 of conflict. A woman who walks alone into a bar will not be served; the British Empire is still front-page news, and the colour of a person's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunity. [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan|Full Review]] <!-- Tjia Kerr -->
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===[[She Be Damned Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by M J TjiaPhilip Kerr]]===
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London, 1863: prostitutes Set in Germany in the Waterloo area are turning up dead1957, their sexual organs mutilated and removed''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. When another girl goes missing Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, fears grow that who was a sarjeant during the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a loss and so it falls to courtesan second world war and professional detectivenow, Heloise Chanceyin this novel, to investigate. With is working in the assistance morgue of her trusty Chinese maida hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, Amah Li Leentaking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, Heloise inches closer to and back into the dark times of the truthwar. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot With layered plots and double-crossing left, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trustright and centre, before the killer strikes againthere's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[She Be Damned Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by M J TjiaPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Pandora's Boy by H B LyleLindsey Davis]]===
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London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia Relax, die-hard fans of Falco and Europehis spirited British daughter Albia. Meanwhile Britain, a land growing accustomed Rome continues to peacebe as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, is becoming a magnet for spies the crimes committed are as complex and disruption. Vernon Kellintriguing, Head of War Office Counter-Intelligenceand our heroine just as determined and cynical, knows with that the countrylight dusting of humour which made tales of her father's equilibrium depends on exploits so engaging. Newcomers to the discovery and disposal of series need not fear, by the growing number of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters in government can't see what he can and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him way: each book contains just enough background detail to collect evidencemake you feel immediately at home. That's when he meets Wiggins. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a man with a superlative background: trained fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popular. Was she poisoned by Sherlock Holmes and, years backan illegal love-potion, or did she die of a star of Holmesbroken heart? [[Pandora' child Irregulars. Now Kell is getting somewhere… Let battle commence! s Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy Pandora's Boy by H B LyleLindsey Davis|Full Review]]
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===[[An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime Death in the Stars (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)]] 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'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 '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 shop. But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions. Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love. [[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]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Talent for Murder by Andrew WilsonFrances Brody]]===
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Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back Much as it did in 1999, eclipse fever gripped the country in her day1927, and here Andrew Wilson makes 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 victim flight to a plot not unlike one of be arranged to take her ownfrom Leeds to Giggleswick School, where she was to view the eclipse. ItSurely she didn's all about t need a sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised the mysteryflight, which collected Fellini, comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiers' Field in Leeds and it really drives landed them at the story forwardschool in good time. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at It was obvious that the train station; singer was worried about something, but she is given a proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. Indeed, for this man wants her didn't seem able to commit a murderexplain what it was. [[A Talent for Murder Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Andrew WilsonFrances Brody|Full Review]]
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===[[Continental Crimes Lawless and the House of Electricity by Martin Edwards (editor)William Sutton]]===
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It's not clear whether Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it the short story has gone out work of fashionthe French, relegated as police and public are being led to the pages of certain types of women's magazinesbelieve, or whether someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do with the magazines in which bombs used to cause chaos across the format still holds its own are themselves not as high-profile as once they might have been. Perhaps they never were, perhaps we only know about them in retrospect. Whatever country? Employing the truth services of that it would seem that Molly, the golden age effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a campaign of the short storysubterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, coincided delightfully with skulduggery and the golden age of crimedesperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. [[Continental Crimes Lawless and the House of Electricity by Martin Edwards (editor)William Sutton|Full Review]]
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