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|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at AislabieIt's country mansion to investigate murder threatssix months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. That's part The worst of it his grief is over but Thomas' main reason is to carry out a command from Queen Caroline connected to he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the recent South Sea Bubble scandalalready strained relationship between them more difficult. The command was phrased nicely enough, but They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the sinister intent was clear: Tom's failure or refusal means loss body of Kittya young, the person he loves most Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in the worlda lock-up. Those At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>rather than suicide.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Mazzola1529337968|title=The UnseeingIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=1837: Sarah Gale It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is found guilty of aiding and abetting James Greenwood in due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the murder of Hannah, his fiancéeNHS is born. ItShe's particularly gruesome as the body was brutally dismembered ll be working for Dr Deuchar and left Dr Strasser in various locations around Londontheir GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. Bound for The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that the gallows services she offers really are free and fearing that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the future problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her young son George, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, as a result, the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood to re-investigate the caseown which might give her some insight. Edmund approaches it with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover and not just in the professional realmHer marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William Sutton057136358X|title= Lawless and the Flowers of Sin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Much of this book centres on, as we are accustomed to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy night. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel, draping the seedy events April in a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vices. What becomes clear however is that he is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to the misery and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along the way he meets a rag tag bunch of misfits who help, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpain|author=Cecilia Ekback|title=In the Month of the Midnight SunJohn Banville

|summary=1856, Blackasen Village, Sweden: A Lapp sits surrounded by three dead bodies – the vicarTerry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a constable and one othermatter of making things tidy''. The murders coincide with I couldn't resist the arrival thought that he was an extreme version of Magnus LilleMarie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, a geologist sent by something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the Swedish government chance to map kill a lot of the mountain that gives the village its namelittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Magnus doesnHe was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't realise what understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely hewouldn's walking into as up till now he thought his main problem was his sister-t drink champagne with bubbles in-law, brought with him at his wifethe ''morning's father's, (the Minister for State? It was after Percy's), insistence. The events death that will take place will cause them both sleepless nights and he saw the benefits of taking up a real chance that neither will live to go homejob in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444789937</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susanna GregoryB08Z8BMZ7H|title=A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Chronicle Mystery of Matthew BartholomewHealing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=Chancellor Tynkell was kindly, but ineffectual We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and everyone was stunned by his murder, not least because it happened very publicly he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on top for the amusement of the church tower, in a high wind with a lot of people watchingpopulace. Then The remuneration isn't high but the murderer disappeared. Some people saw work gives the doctor a black cloak being blown along to the marshes outside Cambridge feeling of virtue and swore that it was hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the devil's work, but physician Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael knew better and were determined warriors to prove itlive. These are not BartholomewIt's only problems thoughquite a spectacle: a the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they'barber surgeonre sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' (free shave or haircut with every treatment) recently arrived from Nottingham is causing problems rather than curing illnessesmanes to make them look more impressive. His sister is struggling to get her husband's tomb built by The sagitarii are the mason she commissioned to do archers and the work: like builders everywhere throughout beastiarii are the ages he keeps moving from job condemned criminals who are going to job and never finishing anyfight for their lives with the wild animals. Then Brother Michael is offered a Bishopric - in RochesterToday, it's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie MacBird1529337925|title= Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes AdventureThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= It's was the winter of 1888 August Bank Holiday weekend and Sherlock Holmes is languishing. After a devastating result concerning , as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the mysterious Ripper investigation, Holmes can find no solace fire lit and falls back in Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to his troublesome relationship with cocainekeep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. Not even his good friend Doctor Watson can cheer him – that is until an encoded letter arrives The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Paris from a young French cabaret star who claims her son has vanishedSandy Bissett in Dundee. Intrigued, Holmes explores She was the case only to uncover publisher of a magazine and had been told that the disappearance man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of a young boy is only the tip two of the icebergher cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Journeying to Paris Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and then Osborne to warn the Lancashire countryside, Holmes man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Watson become involved in Alex would be cheaper than employing a dangerous investigation, concerning a prized stolen statue, child slavery, and murder – but who is solicitor to do the culprit behind it all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000812969X</amazonuk>same job.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC HumphreysB08LKT7HSR|title=FireMurder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=43.5

|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect for each otherIn December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Their first mission Ezekiel Hamett was to track down sought in connection with the Fifth Monarchistsmurder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty and hanged for signing Charles Iwhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's death warrant. That long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was then, during the Great Plagueover. A mere year later, the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are back, taking PitmanNow she's and Coke's interventions personally. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, determined that the monarch, and, on top of that, a new disaster is about man responsible for her murder will be brought to hit the capitaljustice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Indrek Hargla and Christopher Moseley (translator)Stephen Clarke|title= Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu StreetThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating= 54|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=In fifteenth century Tallinn religion This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and superstition sit side by side. In 'likes the midst of this is scientifically-minded apothecary Melchior Wakenstede, known ladies' and who works for his curiositythe secret service, logical thinking, and ability to solve murdersbut in the planning side of things more than the active service. There are rumours of Lemming finds himself put on a ghost mission with a few doors down from Melchior female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on Rataskaevu Street, though he's not as ready a desperate mission to believe unearth traitors in it as some of his neighbours. When several people die after saying they'd seen the ghostresistance network, Melchior can't resist looking for the connection between them and Lemming desperately trying to discover the truth behind the tales.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0720618452</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Donnelly0349423083|title=These Shallow GravesDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite booksKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he'A Gathering Light'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, so I was very excited will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to read her latest novel see what the continental brewers were doing and see how it comparedwhat changes Barleycorn might need to make. Like ''A Gathering Light'', William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''These Shallow Gravestoo'' much or is going to bring back a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges German bride but he'd like the standards of the daybusiness to be ship-shape before his nephew returns. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd Shepherd0241433568|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=1855It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: Only a few years after the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on Londonhe's docks, Constable Charles Horton is called back going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to the areaMegan and Henry about something serious. The disturbing murder of a clerk and Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his family bears the trademark of the serial killer but Horton's sure guests find that he's already dead; Horton saw him diebeen murdered. At this point How can that have happened? There's no one else in the hunt for a devil incarnate beginshouse, taking Horton and his wife Abigail to the other side so one of them must be the world and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Companykiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1473682401|title=Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries The Turning Tide (British Library Crime ClassicsDandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=I'm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, it's broadly golden age crime, one Those who were with us at the end of my weaknesses and secondly, the editor is [[:Category:Martin EdwardsA Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|Martin EdwardsA Step So Grave]], a man whose knowledge of golden age crime will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is probably unsurpassed and he's done us proud, not only with his selection, but with having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the half-page biographies charms of the writersLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, which precede each storyEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. Thereare two drawbacks: they's just enough there to allow you to place the author re noisy and to direct you to other works if youthey're temptedstaying with Dandy and Hugh. It's an elegant selectionDandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, from had not taken up the well known and chance to look into a problem at the less well knownCramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, all set in and around but suddenly the possibility of being out of the country houseat Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712309934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A J MacKenzieSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title= The Body on the DoorstepHonjin Murders|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=On To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the marshes of Kent in book one to read; preferably quantified by the late eighteenth century, Reverend Hardcastle discovers a dying man on his doorstepwords 'clever' or 'good'. Narrowly escaping a bullet himself For those who need more, he here is entrusted with the dying manextra background – we's last words which leave him questioning re in rural Japan in the mystery behind this anonymous man's death1930s. With smugglers rife along The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the Kent coastwhole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it seems being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as though it was a simple falling out amongst thievesplanned, but the Reverend believes only for the answer wedded couple to this crime lies deeper. Assisted by the brilliant Mrs Chaytor they set off be slashed to solve death in their private annexe before the mystery – but sun rises on their marriage. What with smugglers lurking all through a man missing parts of his fingers being in the county neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the French threatening to invadetime of the crime, there are unsuspected dangers around every cornerthis case has a lot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761137</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin ScottB07XLM3SM6|title=The Age of TreacheryMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=In Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the winter care of 1946 Duncan Forrester, formerly her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the Special Operations Executiveconclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was back at his Oxford college as a junior fellow in Ancient Historyno evidence to suggest otherwise. He'd lost the woman he loved Kitty has come to the Gestapo terms with this and in 1933 she was now feeling guilty about running the fact that he Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was besotted reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the wife mix of his best friendholidaymakers, a fellow academicboating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. To confuse matters further the woman And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in question, Margaret Clark, had been having to keep an affair with another lecturer, David Lyall eye on things ''and it seemed likely that she would leave her husband for him'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297808</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E S Thomson0349423067|title= Beloved PoisonThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=St SaviorFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's is 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 crumbling infirmary – its walls stuffed with ambitionman, jealousy stripped naked and hatredwith no means of identification. Six tiny coffins, each containing dried flowers Scotland Yard hit a dead end and mouldering rags, are uncovered inside called on the decaying chapel. A silent outsider, with secrets services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her own to hide, is determined to discover knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the truthlead they needed. And in Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a trail that leads from the bloody worlds of dissecting table child and operating theatre, through could not come to terms with the squalor of Newgate Prison and its gallows, Jem Flockhart faces fact that she was now a ruthless adversarywoman experienced in dealing with murder. As the destruction of St Savior's looms, He was reluctant to give her all the dead are unearthed, information which the living are forced into impossible decisions – and murder is the price for secrets to be kept…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122275</amazonuk>police held.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1472127110|title= The Osiris RitualIndian Summer: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=Sir Maurice Newbury, his majesty's special agent, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on the case once more. When a group of well-to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy and unleash an ancient mystery. Soon the explorers are being picked off one by one and Newbury must solve the mystery if he is to catch the culprit. But there's more than one brute on the loose, while Newbury attempts to track down a rogue agent, Veronica takes the case of disappearing women into her own hands with dangerous consequences … |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|title=Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle AdventuresSara Sheridan

|summary=There can be few people who haven't heard of Sherlock HolmesLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, whether in since the guise of the original stories or subsequent film war, and television adaptations including not always for the most recent series starring Benedict Cumberbatch better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and Martin Freemansecretly grieving for Jack, the lover who are pictured on the dust cover of ''Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures''died before he could leave his wife. It's this most recent series which has widened the fan base of the stories As time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and many of them won't have copies of the original stories determined young woman called Vesta who refused to hand. My own copy is let a 1959 reprint of the 1929 edition which had four stories in one volumelittle thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, but this current volume has nineteen stories and even found consolation in the one bookarms of a rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham1912374439|title=Sweet DangerThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)

|summary=Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I''Sweet Danger'' is ve given the fifth game away. For in a book in Margery Allinghamthat centres around a murder, I's ''Campion'' seriesve told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, which that certainly has our eponymous gentleman-adventurer on a quest to find the rightful heir remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a suddenly-valuable principality on the Adriatic Sea known young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Averna. The British Government want proof of ownership Jewish and thisrushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, of courseand the late 1960s, involves overcoming several obstacleswhen great consternation is being felt. In this timeline, including a curious riddlemaverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, collecting various items even though she and keeping one step ahead of the enemy. The quest soon becomes he lived together with their baby as a race against time, when the villainsyoung family, led except he was thought by Machiavellian schemer Brett Savanake, start all to close have died in on our heroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474689</amazonuk>the War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margery Allingham1786075431|title= Mystery MileMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating= 3.5

|summary= On Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a transatlantic linercharitable lady, an American points out Crowdy Lobbett and predicts that he will have been murdered within a fortnightkeen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. Indeed he places a bet on In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows itcould always be better. It seems like a safe bet: retired Judge Lobbett has been Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the subject city due to lack of four near misses so far: four attempts hygiene, and many people have to fall on his life that have misfired charity and killed someone close almshouses to himkeep a roof over their heads. His children have persuaded him One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to take a trip to England keep private lodgings and staff in an attempt her charitable home. I say ''was'', for she has vanished. Only due to keep him somewhat saferZofia's help does she get found, for dead and in a while at leastplace the near-lame woman could never reach by herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474697</amazonuk> Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Dowling1786893762|title=AscensionThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Alvise Marangon A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is an artist 'resting' between commissions and so using his guile still struggling with the shame and enterprise as frustration left by a tour guide to those taking previous case, where the European Grand Tour child was not found in 18th century Venicetime. Everything has Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a business as usual feel to it woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for Alvise until he notices space beside superstition and a fellow gondolier paying his friend not to take fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of English touristspages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. ThenBridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, as but the new Doge tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is inaugurated mixed with a mannugget of something, well, let's head say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is thrown into by the crowdby. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. Showing people around And then, of course, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a typical Venice is becoming increasingly hard soft spot for Alvise – Venice the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is not behaving typically!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973139</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349414327|title=A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)

|summary=London, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham is missing his wife. She's left him, taking their daughter to live with her cousin in Even detectives need a very uncousinly way. Yet her distance doesn't prevent her discussing the goings on at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft break and seem to be taking a toll on his daughter's health Aaron is rightly worried. He calls upon Constable Horton to investigate… this is the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged to enter one of the more exclusive madhouses. Under the circumstances it seemed the right thing to do but Horton still hasn't forgiven his superior for it. HoweverKate Shackleton, as photography gives her the investigation goes on and Graham is distracted by a murder case with a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce in importancemental relaxation which she needs. The important thing for each of them has become survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vaughn Entwhistle|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to When the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, howeverlocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, as a man who Kate was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by keen to take the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two of them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, their families, opportunity to visit Haworth and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpsesStanbury, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292687</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Davison|title= Murder on not least because the Minneapolis|rating= 5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Governess Flora Maguire is sailing from New York to England on the SS Minneapolis, entrusted with the task deeds of returning her teenage charge, Eddie back home to boarding school. Unfortunately for Flora, the ship is first-class only, Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so she spends the first night aboard stowed away in her cabin, acutely aware of her lower social status. Her intention to stay out of the limelight is thwarted when, during a solitary stroll along the deck, she discovers a dead body at the bottom of the companionway. The ship staff hastily conclude that this is it can become a tragic accident, but Flora has other ideas museum and decides to conduct her own investigationparents will be there for the event. Is there a murderer aboard ship? And if so, is Flora making herself a prime target by poking What could be better than seeing her nose into other people's affairs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208264</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anthony Quinn|title= Curtain Call|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Londonfamily, 1936. Nina Land is witnessing a West End actress, momentous event and she is spending her afternoon in a hotel room with a married man. When she spots the face of the man the newspapers have named “The Tie-Pin Killer”, she faces a huge dilemma – will she report having the man opportunity to the police, and risk her career and the reputation take photographs of her lover? Or will she stay quiet, and risk the lives of innocent girlssetting for ''Wuthering Heights''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593238</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=MRC Kasasian|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=While the best personal detective in the known Victorian world (in his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away on a case, his ward March is left to her own devices. As luck would have it, one of those devices is an invitation to meet a previously unknown relativeNothing could go wrong. March visits Saturn Villa with a sense of curiosity and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea is one she will never forget. Let's hope she knows a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander Wilson|title=Wallace of the Secret Service|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=This is the third in the re-issued series authored by the former soldier, spy and Professor of English Literature, without whom Or could it is said, there'd have been no Bond, no Smiley, no Bourne.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018151</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sara Sheridan|title= British Bulldog |rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= As a decade, the fifties doesn't attract much attention from authors and scriptwriters - it's dull and grey in comparison with the vivid horrors of war and the colourful extravagance of the sixties. But World War II left a long shadow, and this, the fourth instalment in this excellent series, takes us deep into past life of ex-intelligence agent Mirabelle Bevan, and the sorrow and the blighted love she has so desperately fought to hide from public gaze soon becomes hopelessly entangled with present deaths and danger. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973252</amazonuk>?