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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J Carter0571370977|title=The Devil's Feast|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, the early 1840s: the newlyLock-opened Reform Club is the focal point for the Liberal elite, where Whigs and Radicals can co-exist in harmony. Or such was the intention. With a celebrity chef in its up to the minute kitchen, however, the club seems to have more of a reputation for its dinners than its politics, and when a man dies horribly after eating one the Reform could have a problem on its hands. Particularly when it begins to look like murder. Luckily William Avery agrees to look into the matter with some urgency, but – as everyone keeps asking him – where on earth is his professional investigator friend Jeremiah Blake?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146364</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUp|author= George Mann (Editor)|title= Associates of Sherlock Holmes|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=The world-famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes needs no introduction; a redoubtable protagonist with an appeal that shows no sign of waning. ''Associates of Sherlock Holmes,'' however, moves the spotlight away from our hero and focuses on the exploits of some of the minor players who have featured in his adventures over the years. Here we get a chance to reacquaint ourselves with friends and foes alike, all keen to give their own, unique perspective of the indomitable investigator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299304</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lindsey Davis|title= The Graveyard of the Hesperides|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Our heroine Albia's grey-eyed and broad-shouldered love interest in this, the fourth of the Falco New Generation crime novels (Falco himself has got on the wrong side of Emperor Domitian, and has very sensibly retired to the coast) is called Manlius – that alone should be enough to tell you reams about the wickedly sly sense of humour Ms Davis displays in her novels. The setting is once again Ancient Rome, and Ms Davis provides enough local colour to create a world so convincing you could almost be there. In fact, the descriptions are so vivid that, as you pull in your skirts or bewail the fate of your brand-new sandals to follow our gutsy heroine into picturesque slums like the Brown Toad bar or Mucky Mule Mews, you could be forgiven for suspecting you've wandered into somewhere far more familiar, like, say, the back streets of Brum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613396</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frances Brody|title=Death at the SeasideJohn Banville

|summary=Kate Shackleton felt that she needed a holiday and It's six months since it was August when ''nothing'' ever happened, she decided that it was the ideal time to visit her friend Alma dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and goddaughter Felicity Dr Quirke is now back in WhitbyDublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The timing was good too - Mrs Sugden was going to visit her cousin in Scarborough worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and Jim Sykes was taking his family to Robin Hood's Baythis has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. Perfect! WellThey're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, it would have been except for a couple of things...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406588</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis Duncan|title= Behold A Fair Woman|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Mordecai Tremaine is found in need of a holidaylock-up. According to the blurb ' At first, it looked as though she'the island of Moulin d'Or seems to be just the destination'' – except the island isn't called gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that. Moulin d'Or is the district in the north west of the unnamed Channel Isle to which our hero has been invited by some friends of less it was murder rather than a year's standing: an unlikely start in itselfsuicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J D Davies1529337968|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton of King Charles IIIt's navy sets out for another day at work. He July 1948 and his men are charged with helping Helen Crowther is due to subdue start work as a qualified medical almoner the Dutch town of Westerschellingfollowing morning - on the day that the NHS is born. ItShe's only afterwards that the true consequences hit him, along with some other consequences that are ll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be open to conjecturehelp patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. For The hardest part of the year is 1666 and London is about job will be to face a disaster persuade people that will be discussed the services she offers really are free and theorised over that they don't have to do anything to qualify for centuries… them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>Her marriage has never been consummated.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Hodgson057136358X|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)April in Spain|author=John Banville

|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at AislabieTerry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''s country mansion to investigate murder threats. ThatI couldn's part t resist the thought that he was an extreme version of it but ThomasMarie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army '' main reason is where he got the chance to carry out kill a command from Queen Caroline connected to lot of the recent South Sea Bubble scandallittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. The command He was phrased nicely enough, but spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the sinister intent ''morning''? It was clear: Tomafter Percy's failure or refusal means loss death that he saw the benefits of Kitty, the person he loves most taking up a job in the worldSpain. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna MazzolaB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The UnseeingMystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating=54

|summary=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of aiding the common era and abetting James Greenwood in he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the murder doctor a feeling of Hannah, virtue and hones his fiancéeskills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It's particularly gruesome as quite a spectacle: the magistri are the body was brutally dismembered charge hands and left in various locations around Londonwhen we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. Bound for The sagitarii are the gallows archers and fearing for the future of her young son George, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, as a result, beastiarii are the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood condemned criminals who are going to re-investigate fight for their lives with the casewild animals. Edmund approaches Today, it with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover and not just in s the professional realmcrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William Sutton1529337925|title= Lawless and the Flowers of SinThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Much of this book centres onIt was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as we are accustomed so often happened, it was cold enough to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on a foggy nightthe sofa. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel, draping The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the seedy events call from Sandy Bissett in a soupy broth of viceDundee. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare She was the publisher of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vices. What becomes clear however is a magazine and had been told that he is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to the misery man running the Punch and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, Judy show in the Flowers local park had used copies of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crimedrum up some local interest in his show. Along Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the way he meets a rag tag bunch man about infringement of misfits who help, hurt copyright - and hinder our hero. There is romance Dandy and intrigue along Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the way as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhemsame job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cecilia EkbackB08LKT7HSR|title=In Murder in the Month of the Midnight SunBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5

|summary=1856, Blackasen Village, Sweden: A Lapp sits surrounded by three dead bodies – In December 1933 the vicar, a constable and one other. The murders coincide with remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the arrival cellar of Magnus Lille, a geologist sent by the Swedish government to map the mountain that gives the village its nameGlass Bottle Public House. Magnus doesn't realise what he's walking into as up till now he thought his main problem Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his sisterhalf-in-lawbrother, Denzil Hammett, brought with him at his wife's fatherwhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's, (the Minister long search for State's)her mother, insistencewho disappeared in June 1916 was over. The events Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will take place will cause them both sleepless nights and a real chance that neither will live be brought to go homejustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444789937</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susanna GregoryStephen Clarke|title=A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Chronicle of Matthew BartholomewSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Chancellor Tynkell was kindlyThis is a spoof spy story, but ineffectual and everyone was stunned by his murder, not least because it happened very publicly - on top of the church tower, in a high wind with a lot of people watchingthat isn't about James Bond. Then the murderer disappearedOr Ian Fleming. Some people saw But it features a black cloak being blown along to man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the marshes outside Cambridge ladies' and swore that it was who works for the devil's worksecret service, but physician Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael knew better and were determined to prove itin the planning side of things more than the active service. These are not Bartholomew's only problems though: Lemming finds himself put on a 'barber surgeon' (free shave or haircut mission with every treatment) recently arrived from Nottingham is causing problems rather than curing illnesses. His sister is struggling to get her husband's tomb built by a female spy called Margaux, and the mason she commissioned pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to do unearth traitors in the work: like builders everywhere throughout the ages he keeps moving from job resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to job and never finishing any. Then Brother Michael is offered a Bishopric - in Rochester.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751549797</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie MacBird0349423083|title= Art in Death and the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating= 4|genre= Crime Brewery Queen (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries) |summary= It's the winter of 1888 and Sherlock Holmes is languishing. After a devastating result concerning the mysterious Ripper investigation, Holmes can find no solace and falls back in to his troublesome relationship with cocaine. Not even his good friend Doctor Watson can cheer him – that is until an encoded letter arrives from Paris from a young French cabaret star who claims her son has vanished. Intrigued, Holmes explores the case only to uncover that the disappearance of a young boy is only the tip of the iceberg. Journeying to Paris and then to the Lancashire countryside, Holmes and Watson become involved in a dangerous investigation, concerning a prized stolen statue, child slavery, and murder – but who is the culprit behind it all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000812969X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=CC Humphreys|title=FireFrances Brody

|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect for each otherher housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Their first mission was to track down the Fifth Monarchists, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty and hanged for signing Charles IShe's death warrant. That was then, during been approached by William Lofthouse of the Great PlagueBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. A mere year later, the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are back, taking PitmanSomething is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and Coke's interventions personallyright-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, James went to see what the monarch, continental brewers were doing and, on top of what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that, James is perhaps enjoying himself a new disaster little bit ''too'' much or is about going to hit bring back a German bride but he'd like the capitalbusiness to be ship-shape before his nephew returns. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Indrek Hargla and Christopher Moseley (translator)0241433568|title= Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=In fifteenth century Tallinn religion and superstition sit side by side. In the midst of this is scientifically-minded apothecary Melchior Wakenstede, known for his curiosity, logical thinking, and ability to solve murders. There are rumours of a ghost a few doors down from Melchior on Rataskaevu Street, though he's not as ready to believe in it as some of his neighbours. When several people die after saying they'd seen the ghost, Melchior can't resist looking for the connection between them and trying to discover the truth behind the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0720618452</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEight Detectives|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lloyd Shepherd|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)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 a crumbling infirmary – its walls stuffed with ambitionCross, jealousy and hatred. Six tiny coffins, each containing dried flowers and mouldering rags, are uncovered inside arriving before dawn so that the decaying chapelforced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. A silent outsiderIn early March 1929, with secrets one of her own to hide, is determined to discover the truth. And in a trail that leads from porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the bloody worlds body of dissecting table a man, stripped naked and operating theatre, through to the squalor with no means of Newgate Prison identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and its gallows, Jem Flockhart faces a ruthless adversary. As called on the destruction services of St Savior's looms, Kate Shackleton in the dead are unearthed, the living are forced into impossible decisions – hope that her knowledge and murder is connections in Yorkshire would give them the price for secrets to be kept…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122275</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= The Osiris Rituallead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: A Newbury Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child 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 could not come to terms with the case once morefact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. When a group of well- He was reluctant to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy and unleash an ancient mystery. Soon give her all the explorers are being picked off one by one and Newbury must solve information which the mystery if he is to catch the culpritpolice held. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle1472127110|title=SherlockIndian Summer: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventuresa Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara 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=LondonEven detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham is missing his wifephotography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. She's left himWhen the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, taking their daughter Kate was keen to live with her cousin in a very uncousinly way. Yet her distance doesn't prevent her discussing take the goings on at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft opportunity to visit Haworth 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 Stanbury, not least because the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged to enter one deeds of the more exclusive madhouses. Under the circumstances Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it seemed can become a museum and her parents will be there for the right thing to do but Horton still hasn't forgiven his superior for itevent. HoweverWhat could be better than seeing her family, as witnessing a momentous event and having the investigation goes on and Graham is distracted by a murder case with a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents opportunity to take photographs of enmity reduce in importancethe setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. The important thing for each of them has become survival.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>Or could it?