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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Dunmore0571370977|title=Birdcage WalkThe Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his lifeIt's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking six months since the Avon Gorge. In a time of turbulence as France reaches the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in a difficult position since her mother Spain]] and step-father both believe Dr Quirke is now back in propagating pamphlets Dublin and ideas of egalitarianism for and to allliving (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, including womenPhoebe. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the sort that fanned the French flamesalready strained relationship between them more difficult. However, thatThey's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unaware.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lindsey Davis|title= The Third Nero|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Lindsey Davis is one clever lady. Having enthralled readers for years with re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the adventures body of Marcus Didius Falcoa young, the Ancient Roman informer (orJewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, to put it is found in more modern terms, private eye) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco to take a welllock-deserved and politically strategic retirement while his adopted daughter Albia takes over the family businessup. Her wit is dry At first, it looked as dust, though she has a highly desirable (well, he's called Manlius: what else could he be?) love-interest and as a Briton, her take on Roman bureaucracy and pettifogging officialdom d gassed herself but Quirke is just as sharp and funny as her cynical dad's ever convinced that it wasmurder rather than suicide. A new main character, a new way of doing things, which somehow manages to retain all the best elements of the original Falco. Genius.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613426</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)1529337968|title=Retribution Road|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was him. Working as a soldier for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds In Place of Asia in the 1850s, he's tasked with taking a boat of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan Min. It doesn't go well – to start with, he's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having the knowledge of the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break loose. But get back he does, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053744</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFear|author=Rory Clements|title=CorpusCatriona McPherson

|summary=A suicidal overdose It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the murder of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events day that may be unconnectedthe NHS is born. However this is England She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in 1936, a magnet for opposing forces their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their first moves in preparation health. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a royal crisis (depending on problem of her own which side you're on)might give her some insight. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity Her marriage has never been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking awayconsummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross057136358X|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)April in Spain|author=John Banville

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in the seriesthose terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. 305AD: Castus Aurelius, following I couldn't resist the death thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his predecessorjob, has been promoted something which occurred to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the Roman forces at the Rhinelittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Hewas spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn's also been ordered to take Crispus, Constantinet understand why Terry didn's son and heir, for t know the characterpurpose of a swizzle stick -building experience. That complicates matters as when Castus isnsurely he wouldn't trying to keep Crispus alive, hedrink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's finding it difficult to increase his own chance death that he saw the benefits of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his endtaking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham HurleyB08Z8BMZ7H|title=FinisterreThe Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating=54|genre=Crime(Historical)|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but We meet Solon in Pergamon in a last, desperate roll the second century of the dice common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the German High command launch Operation Finisterre. In America games put on for the apparent suicide amusement of a scientist working on the atom bomb and off populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the coast doctor a feeling of Spain virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the shipwreck of warriors to live. It's quite a German submarinespectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, become catalysts as they're sprinkling gold dust onto the plans spiral out of control, leading lions' manes to a shattering climaxmake them look more impressive. 'Finisterre' is a crime thriller packed The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with gritthe wild animals. Today, suspense and styleit's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1529337925|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime The Mirror Dance (A Hew Cullan MysteryDandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and therefore in , as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the life of law lecturer fire lit and local investigator Hew Cullen tooBunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. As we travel through The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother call from Sandy Bissett in law Giles Dundee. She was the publisher of a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and his Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter Freckle - to drum up some of local interest in his most interesting casesshow. In fact there Sandy Bissett's one request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to match each warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yulesame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley GardnerB08LKT7HSR|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good as the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening Murder in the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Wray Delaney|title=An Almond for a ParrotHelena Dixon|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained a step-mother that her education really started. That was the beginning of the road to discovery. The discovery that she can realise ghosts for others, that she can escape the cruelty of an alcoholic father and the discovery of the income and pleasure her body can generate3. That, in turn, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel and, now, the condemned cell in Newgate Prison. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for a Parrot'' and allows us to read over her shoulder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S G Maclean|title=The Black Friar: Damian Seeker 2|rating=5

|summary=When a dead monk is In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered walled into a disused monastery in the local gossip is awash cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with remarks on the miracle murder of Elowed and his wellhalf-preserved brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body all these years after the monastery was abandonedalso discovered. Investigator and Captain of CromwellKitty Underhay's guard Damian Seeker has other ideaslong search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. This is a recent non-clergy death. This is Carter Blyth, a man on such a secret mission Now she's determined that even Cromwell didn't know about it. This will add complications to the already convoluted and dangerous path that Seeker man responsible for her murder will take to solve the crime, one of the complications being very close be brought to homejustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068449</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J CarterStephen Clarke|title=The Devil's FeastSpy Who Inspired Me|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=London, the early 1840s: the newly-opened Reform Club This is the focal point for the Liberal elitea spoof spy story, where Whigs and Radicals can co-exist in harmonythat isn't about James Bond. Or such was the intentionIan Fleming. With But it features a celebrity chef in its up to man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the minute kitchen, howeversecret service, but in the club seems to have planning side of things more of than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a reputation for its dinners than its politicsfemale spy called Margaux, and when a man dies horribly after eating one the Reform could have pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a problem on its hands. Particularly when it begins desperate mission to look like murder. Luckily William Avery agrees unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to look into the matter keep up with some urgency, but – as everyone keeps asking him – where on earth is his professional investigator friend Jeremiah Blake?her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241146364</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann (Editor)0349423083|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 Death 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 Brewery Queen (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|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

|title=Death at the Seaside|rating=4.5

|summary=Kate Shackleton felt that she needed a holiday and since it was August when ''nothing'' ever happenedruns her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, she decided that it was the ideal time to visit her friend Alma and goddaughter Felicity in Whitby. The timing was good too - Mrs Sugden was going to visit her cousin in Scarborough and ably assisted by Jim Sykes was taking his family to Robin Hood's Bay. Perfect! Well, 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 who lives in need of a holiday. According to the blurb ''the island of Moulin d'Or seems to be just the destination'' – except the island isn't called thatWoodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Moulin dShe'Or is the district in the north west of the unnamed Channel Isle to which our hero has s been invited approached by some friends William Lofthouse of less than a year's standing: an unlikely start the Barleycorn Brewery in itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J D Davies|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton of King Charles II's navy sets out for another day at workMasham. He Something is going wrong with his business and his men are charged with helping he'd like Kate to subdue the Dutch town of Westerschelling. Itlook into it discreetly: he's only afterwards hoping that the true consequences hit himhis nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, along with some other consequences that are and will be open back from a trip to conjectureGermany before long. For James went to see what the year continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is 1666 and London perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is about going to face bring back a disaster that will German bride but he'd like the business to be discussed and theorised over for centuries… Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>ship-shape before his nephew returns.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Hodgson0241433568|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at AislabieIt's country mansion to investigate murder threats1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. ThatIt's part of it but Thomasunbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he' main reason is s going to carry out have a command from Queen Caroline connected rest and then he wants to the recent South Sea Bubble scandaltalk to Megan and Henry about something serious. The command was phrased nicely enough, but the sinister intent was clearOnly it never gets that far: Tomwhen Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's failure or refusal means loss no one else in the house, so one of Kitty, them must be the person he loves most in the worldkiller. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Mazzola1473682401|title=The UnseeingTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=54

|summary=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty Those who were with us at the end of aiding [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and abetting James Greenwood in Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the murder charms of HannahLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, his fiancéeEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. ItThere are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they's particularly gruesome as the body was brutally dismembered re staying with Dandy and left in various locations around LondonHugh. Bound for the gallows Dandy and fearing for the future of her young son Georgedetective partner, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, as a resultAlec Osborne, had not taken up the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood chance to re-investigate look into a problem at the case. Edmund approaches Cramond ferry when it with an open mind was offered to them twice before, but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover and not just in suddenly the possibility of being out of the professional realmhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title= Lawless and the Flowers of SinThe Honjin Murders|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Much of this To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book centres on, as we are accustomed one to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy nightread; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel For those who need more, draping here is the seedy events extra background – we're in a soupy broth rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironicallyan esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is that most rare of birdsreally not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an honest detectiveuncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, although the celebrations have gone ahead as we learn heplanned, himself, is not without his vicesonly for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What becomes clear however is that he is something with a man missing parts of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to fingers being in the misery neighbourhood, and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers some mysterious use of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along traditional musical instrument at the way he meets a rag tag bunch time of misfits who helpthe crime, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as this case has a sensational public trial, murder and episodes lot of mayhemthe peculiar about it. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cecilia EkbackB07XLM3SM6|title=In Murder at the Month of the Midnight SunDolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=54

|summary=1856Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, Blackasen Villageleaving her daughter, Sweden: Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A Lapp sits surrounded by three great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead bodies – the vicar, a constable and one othermainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. The murders coincide Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the arrival of Magnus Lille, a geologist sent by the Swedish government Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to map the mountain that gives the village its namelook after her sister who was ill. Magnus doesn't realise what he's walking into as up till now he thought his main problem She was his sister-reluctant to leave Kitty incharge -law, brought with him at his wife's fatherand Kitty could not understand why. She'salways coped with the mix of holidaymakers, (boating people and the Minister for Statenaval college on the edge of town before - and she's), insistencedone every job in the hotel. The events that will take place will cause them both sleepless nights And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and a real chance that neither will live '' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to go hometake charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444789937</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susanna Gregory0349423067|title=A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Chronicle of Matthew BartholomewBody on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=Chancellor Tynkell was kindlyFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, but ineffectual and everyone was stunned by his murder, not least because arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it happened very publicly - on top of the church towercarried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, in a high wind with a lot one of people watching. Then the murderer disappeared. Some people saw a black cloak being blown along to porters who was unloading the marshes outside Cambridge and swore that it was boxes discovered the devil's workbody of a man, but physician Matthew Bartholomew stripped naked and Brother Michael knew better and were determined to prove itwith no means of identification. These are not Bartholomew's only problems though: Scotland Yard hit a 'barber surgeon' (free shave or haircut 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 dead end and called on the mason she commissioned to do services of Kate Shackleton in the work: like builders everywhere throughout hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the ages he keeps moving from job to job and never finishing anylead they needed. Then Brother Michael is offered a Bishopric - in Rochester.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Bonnie MacBird|title= Art in the BloodKate immediately found herself hamstrung: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= It's the winter of 1888 and Sherlock Holmes is languishing. After Commander Woodhead remembered her as a devastating result concerning the mysterious Ripper investigation, Holmes can find no solace child and falls back in could not come to his troublesome relationship terms with cocaine. Not even his good friend Doctor Watson can cheer him – the fact that is until an encoded letter arrives from Paris from she was now a young French cabaret star who claims her son has vanishedwoman experienced in dealing with murder. Intrigued, Holmes explores the case only He was reluctant to uncover that the disappearance of a young boy is only give her all the tip of information which the icebergpolice held. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC Humphreys1472127110|title=FireIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan

|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect not always for each otherthe better. Their When she first mission settled in Brighton she was to track down the Fifth Monarchistsalone, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty rudderless and hanged secretly grieving for signing Charles I's death warrant. That was thenJack, during the Great Plaguelover who died before he could leave his wife. A mere year laterAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are backmade friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, taking Pitman's and Coke's interventions personally. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, even found consolation in the monarch, and, on top arms of that, a new disaster is about to hit the capitalrather charming policeman. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Indrek Hargla and Christopher Moseley (translator)1912374439|title= Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu StreetThe Courier|ratingauthor= 5|genre= Crime Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (Historicaltranslator)|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>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=These Shallow Graves

|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my allNazi-time favourite booksoccupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I'A Gathering Light''ve told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, so I was very excited that certainly has to remain to read be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her latest novel father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see how it comparedher alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. Like ''A Gathering Light''In this timeline, ''These Shallow Graves'' a maverick agent is a historical novel back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd Shepherd1786075431|title=The Detective Mrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and the Devil Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Charles Horton 4translator)|rating=3.5

|summary=1855: Only Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a few years after the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on Londonmedical professor, she's docksintent on making herself known as a charitable lady, Constable Charles Horton and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is called back to the areapretty good, but she knows it could always be better. The disturbing murder Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a clerk roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and his family bears the trademark of the serial killer but Hortonstaff in her charitable home. I say ''was''s sure he, for she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's already help does she get found, dead; Horton saw him dieand in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. At this point the hunt for Just who could be killing people in a devil incarnate beginscharity home, taking Horton and his wife Abigail to what end? And why does Zofia feel the other side of the world and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1786893762|title=Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)Things in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=I'm not big A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on short storiesthe case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, but two factors nudged me towards this bookwhere the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. FirstlyThis detective is a woman, it's broadly golden age crimeand the setting is Victorian London, one with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of my weaknesses that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and secondlythe downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, the editor you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]]than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a man whose knowledge of golden age crime is probably unsurpassed and hewidow's done us proudcap and stout, not only with his selectionshiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with the half-page biographies a nugget of the writerssomething, well, let's say recreational, which precede each storycreated by her chemist friend Prudhoe. ThereThe fact that it's just enough there actually meant to allow you to place cure bronchial problems is by the author and to direct you to other works if you're temptedby. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. ItAnd then, of course, there's an elegant selection, from the well known and the less well knownghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all set in through her investigation, and around it's clear he has a soft spot for the country housedetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712309934</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A J MacKenzie|title= The Body on the Doorstep|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=On the marshes of Kent in the late eighteenth century, Reverend Hardcastle discovers a dying man on his doorstep. Narrowly escaping a bullet himself, he is entrusted with the dying man's last words which leave him questioning the mystery behind this anonymous man's death. With smugglers rife along the Kent coast, it seems as though it was a simple falling out amongst thieves, but the Reverend believes the answer to this crime lies deeper. Assisted by the brilliant Mrs Chaytor they set off to solve the mystery – but with smugglers lurking all through the county and the French threatening to invade, there are unsuspected dangers around every corner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761137</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn=Gavin Scott0349414327|title=The Age of Treachery|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In the winter of 1946 Duncan Forrester, formerly of the Special Operations Executive, was back at his Oxford college as a junior fellow in Ancient History. He'd lost the woman he loved to the Gestapo and was now feeling guilty about the fact that he was besotted with the wife of his best friend, a fellow academic. To confuse matters further the woman in question, Margaret Clark, had been having an affair with another lecturer, David Lyall and it seemed likely that she would leave her husband for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297808</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E S Thomson|title= Beloved Poison|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=St Savior's is a crumbling infirmary – its walls stuffed with ambition, jealousy and hatred. Six tiny coffins, each containing dried flowers and mouldering rags, are uncovered inside the decaying chapel. A silent outsider, with secrets of her own to hide, is determined to discover the truth. And in a trail that leads from the bloody worlds of dissecting table and operating theatre, through to the squalor Snapshot of Newgate Prison and its gallows, Jem Flockhart faces a ruthless adversary. As the destruction of St Savior's looms, the dead are unearthed, the living are forced into impossible decisions – and murder is the price for secrets to be kept…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122275</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation|rating= 3|genre= Crime Murder (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|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>}}{{newreview|author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|title=Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle AdventuresFrances Brody

|summary=There can be few people who haven't heard of Sherlock HolmesEven detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, whether in photography gives her the guise of mental relaxation which she needs. When the original stories or subsequent film and television adaptations including local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the most recent series starring Benedict Cumberbatch opportunity to visit Haworth and Martin FreemanStanbury, who are pictured on not least because the dust cover deeds of ''Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures''. It's this most recent series which has widened the fan base of the stories Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and many of them won't have copies of her parents will be there for the original stories to handevent. My own copy is What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a 1959 reprint momentous event and having the opportunity to take photographs of the 1929 edition which had four stories in one volume, but this current volume has nineteen stories in the one booksetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940163</amazonuk> Or could it?