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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Menczer0571370977|title= An Unlikely AgentThe Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St JohnIt's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on six months since the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself dramatic events which we read about in [[April in a new position as a secretary Spain by John Banville|April in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as it seems; she Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in fact working for a highly secret branch Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission his grief is to track down over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as this has made the Scorpionsalready strained relationship between them more difficult.Margaret They's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the reality body of true criminalitya young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, and her journey of selfis found in a lock-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novelup. At first, it looked as though she discovers in 'd gassed herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of lovebut Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Wilson1529337968|title= A Talent for MurderIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in her day, their GP surgery and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim job will be to a plot not unlike one help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of her own. It's all about the mystery, job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and it really drives the story forwardthat they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at Some of the train station; she is given problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a proposition that confuses problem of her and secretly intrigues own which might give hersome insight. Indeed, for this man wants her to commit a murder Her marriage has never been consummated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)057136358X|title= Continental CrimesApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating= 45

|summary=ItTerry Tice was a hitman, although he didn's not clear whether the short story has gone out t think of fashion, relegated to the pages of certain types of women's magazines, or whether the magazines himself in which the format still holds its own are themselves not as high-profile as once they might have beenthose terms. Perhaps they never were, perhaps we only know about them in retrospectHe saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. Whatever I couldn't resist the truth of thought that it would seem that the golden age he was an extreme version of the short story, coincided delightfully with the golden age of crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip Kerr|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3Marie Kondo.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was stationed in Berlin as Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a police officer handling murder cases lot of the little yellow fellows and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazishad a fine old time''. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he He was spending a known member lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the Social Democratic Party), purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he understood that wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the best thing he could do for himself at that time ''morning''? It was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitlerafter Percy's Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, he knows death that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his own. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes that with saw the help benefits of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckytaking up a job in Spain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alis HawkinsB08Z8BMZ7H|title= None So Blind|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=When a body is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850, Harry Probert-Lloyd the London barrister has recently returned to his father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is on hand to press for justice, since he knows whose remains they must be. Unfortunately he's up against a few formidable opponents from the past, not least the Rebecca rioters, members of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not be on the cards. With the assistance of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up the investigation himself, but it seems like both The Mystery of them know more than they are willing to admit. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911332112</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHealing|author=Gavin Scott|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)A P McGrath

|summary=Whilst part We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander in Greece during the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which common era and he hoped could lead to 's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the deciphering amusement of Linear Bthe populace. The war is now officially over (although remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a lot feeling of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) virtue and Forrester has returned to Athens with hones his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting skills: Solon ''wants'' the necessary permissions warriors to go to Crete and retrieve the stonelive. It was whilst they were in Athens that Forrester was 's quite a spectacle: the unwitting witness to magistri are the poisoning of a Greek poet charge hands and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a mask. Strange as all this might seemwhen we first see them, Forrester is convinced that they're sprinkling gold dust onto the poet was not the intended victim: it should have been a general who has been approached lions' manes to lead ELAS, make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the military arm of archers and the Greek communists. He's beastiarii are the sort of charismatic man condemned criminals who could sway a lot of people are going to follow him adn that would mean certain war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Kennedy|title=A Time to Tell Lies|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical) |summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues the story he began fight for their lives with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]. In the autumn of 1942, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotland, where they are trained in spy skillswild animals. After this first encounter Today, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spyit's life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passportcrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lois Austen-Leigh|title= The Incredible Crime|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Prudence Pinsent flings her novel across the room. ''Unutterable bilge'' is her description of the typical country house murder mystery of romantic novels. The deliberate irony of this is that ''The Incredible Crime'' is precisely one such novel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356029</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Helen Dunmore|title=Birdcage Walk|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his life's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking 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 in a difficult position since her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and to all, including women. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort that fanned the French flames. However, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unaware.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lindsey Davis1529337925|title= The Third Nero|rating= 5|genre= Crime Mirror Dance (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary= Lindsey Davis is one clever lady. Having enthralled readers for years with the adventures of Marcus Didius Falco, the Ancient Roman informer (or, to put it in more modern terms, private eye) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco to take a well-deserved and politically strategic retirement while his adopted daughter Albia takes over the family business. Her wit is dry as dust, 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 is just as sharp and funny as her cynical dad's ever was. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|title=Retribution RoadCatriona McPherson

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction )|summary=''Sergeant Bowman It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous maninclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa.'' If, indeed, there The thought of work was someone who was ideal for a suicide mission, it was himalmost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. Working as She was the publisher of a soldier for magazine and had been told that the man running the East India Company Punch and Judy show in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds local park had used copies of Asia in the 1850s, he's tasked with taking a boat two of unknown prospects her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up the Irrawaddy to try and combat some local warlord Pagan Mininterest in his show. It doesn't go well – to start with, he Sandy Bissett's supposed request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to run warn the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to having the knowledge of do the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break loosesame job. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory ClementsB08LKT7HSR|title=CorpusMurder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5

|summary=A suicidal overdose and In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of upper class Cecil Langley Elowed and his wife are two events that may be unconnectedhalf-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. However this is England in 1936Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, a magnet for opposing forces and their first moves who disappeared in preparation for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)June 1916 was over. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into Now she's determined that the middle of this accidentally man responsible for her murder will be brought to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking awayjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RossStephen Clarke|title=The Mask of Command (Twilight of Empire)Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=54|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead 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 'likes the ladies' and who works for previous books in the series. 305AD: Castus Aureliussecret service, following but in the death of his predecessor, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) planning side of things more than the Roman forces at the Rhineactive service. He's also been ordered to take CrispusLemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, Constantine's son and heirthe pair end up stranded in Normandy, for with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the character-building experience. That complicates matters as when Castus isn't resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep Crispus alive, he's finding it difficult to increase his own chance of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his end.up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley0349423083|title=Finisterre|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but in a last, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation Finisterre. In America the apparent suicide of a scientist working on the atom bomb Death and off the coast of Spain the shipwreck of a German submarine, become catalysts as the plans spiral out of control, leading to a shattering climax. 'Finisterre' is a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense and style.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBrewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Shirley McKay|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime (A Hew Cullan Mystery)Frances Brody

|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life of law lecturer and local investigator Hew Cullen too. As we travel through the year with himKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, his recently wedded English wife Francesably assisted by Jim Sykes, doctor brother who lives in law Giles Woodhouse and his sister Meg, the wise womanher housekeeper, we also encounter some of his most interesting casesMrs Sugden. In fact thereShe's one to match each been approached by William Lofthouse of the yearBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yule.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Erle Stanley Gardner|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess hoping that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives his nephew and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely''right-hand man, I think ''this one can't be as good as the lastJames Lofthouse, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to will be back from a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening 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 marveltrip to Germany before long. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Wray Delaney|title=An Almond for a Parrot|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 James went to discovery. The discovery that she can realise ghosts for others, that she can escape the cruelty of an alcoholic father and see what the discovery of the income continental brewers were doing and pleasure her body can generate. That, in turn, leads what changes Barleycorn might need to the rather classy Fairy House brothel and, now, the condemned cell in Newgate Prisonmake. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too''An Almond for much or is going to bring back a ParrotGerman bride but he'' and allows us d like the business to read over her shoulderbe ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S G Maclean0241433568|title=The Black Friar: Damian Seeker 2Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=When a dead monk is discovered walled into a disused monastery the local gossip is awash It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with remarks on the miracle of Bunny at his well-preserved body all these years after the monastery was abandonedhouse in Spain. Investigator It's unbearably hot and Captain of CromwellBunny drank too much at lunch: he's guard Damian Seeker has other ideas. This is going to have a recent non-clergy deathrest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. This is Carter Blyth, a man on such a secret mission Only it never gets that even Cromwell didnfar: when Bunny doesn't know about itemerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. This will add complications to the already convoluted and dangerous path How can that Seeker will take to solve have happened? There's no one else in the crimehouse, so one of them must be the complications being very close to homekiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068449</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J Carter1473682401|title=The Devil's FeastTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, Those who were with us at the early 1840s: the newly-opened Reform Club end of [[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 Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the focal point for the Liberal elitecharms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, where Whigs Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and Radicals can co-exist in harmonythey're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Or such was the intention. With a celebrity chef in its up to the minute kitchen Dandy and her detective partner, howeverAlec Osborne, had not taken up the club seems chance to have more of look into a reputation for its dinners than its politics, and when a man dies horribly after eating one problem at the Reform could have a problem on its hands. Particularly Cramond ferry when it begins was offered to look like murder. Luckily William Avery agrees to look into the matter with some urgencythem twice before, but – as everyone keeps asking him – where on earth is his professional investigator friend Jeremiah Blake?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146364</amazonuk>suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= George Mann Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (Editortranslator)|title= Associates of Sherlock HolmesThe Honjin Murders|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=The world-famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes needs no introductionTo many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; a redoubtable protagonist with an appeal that shows no sign of waning. preferably quantified by the words 'clever'Associates of Sherlock Holmes,or 'good' however. For those who need more, moves here is the spotlight away from our hero and focuses on extra background – we're in rural Japan in the exploits of some 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the minor players who celebrations have featured gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in his adventures over their private annexe before the yearssun rises on their marriage. Here we get What with a chance to reacquaint ourselves with friends man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and foes alikesome mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, all keen to give their own, unique perspective this case has a lot of the indomitable investigatorpeculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299304</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lindsey DavisB07XLM3SM6|title= The Graveyard of Murder at the HesperidesDolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating= 54|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Our heroine Albia's greyElowed Underhay was just twenty-eyed and broad-shouldered love interest seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in thisJune 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the fourth care of the Falco New Generation crime novels (Falco himself has got on the wrong side her grandmother. A great deal of Emperor Domitian, money had been spent to find out what happened to her and has very sensibly retired to the coast) is called Manlius – conclusion was that alone should be enough she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to tell you reams about suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the wickedly sly sense of humour Ms Davis displays Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her novelsgrandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. The setting is once again Ancient Rome, She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Ms Davis provides enough local colour to create a world so convincing you Kitty could almost be therenot understand why. In fact She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the descriptions are so vivid that, as you pull in your skirts or bewail naval college on the fate edge of your brandtown before -new sandals and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to follow our gutsy heroine into picturesque slums like the Brown Toad bar or Mucky Mule Mews, you could be forgiven for suspecting youkeep an eye on things ''and''ve wandered into somewhere far more familiar, like, say, why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the back streets of Brumhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613396</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349423067|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)

|title=Death at the Seaside|rating=4.5

|summary=Kate Shackleton felt that she needed From Christmas to Easter a holiday and since it was August when train ran from Leeds City Station to King''nothing'' ever happeneds Cross, she decided arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a man, stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the ideal time to visit hope that her friend Alma knowledge and goddaughter Felicity connections in WhitbyYorkshire would give them the lead they needed. The timing was good too - Mrs Sugden was going to visit Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her cousin in Scarborough as a child and Jim Sykes could not come to terms with the fact that she was taking his family to Robin Hood's Baynow a woman experienced in dealing with murder. Perfect! Well, it would have been except for a couple of things..He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406588</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1472127110|title= Behold A Fair Woman|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Mordecai Tremaine is in need of Indian Summer: a holiday. According to the blurb ''the island of Moulin d'Or seems to be just the destination'' – except the island isn't called 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 than a year's standing: an unlikely start in itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704849</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=J D Davies|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)Sara Sheridan|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton of King Charles II's navy sets out for another day at work. He and his men are charged with helping to subdue the Dutch town of Westerschelling. It's only afterwards that the true consequences hit him, along with some other consequences that are and will be open to conjecture4. For the year is 1666 and London is about to face a disaster that will be discussed and theorised over for centuries… Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)|rating=5

|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins Life has arrived at Aislabie's country mansion to investigate murder threats. That's part of it but Thomas' main reason is to carry out a command from Queen Caroline connected to changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for the recent South Sea Bubble scandalbetter. The command When she first settled in Brighton she was phrased nicely enoughalone, but the sinister intent was clear: Tom's failure or refusal means loss of Kittyrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the person lover who died before he loves most could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the worldarms of a rather charming policeman. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Mazzola1912374439|title=The UnseeingCourier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5

|summary=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty of aiding and abetting James Greenwood in the murder of HannahNazi-occupied Oslo, his fiancée1942. ItThere, I's particularly gruesome as ve given the body was brutally dismembered and left game away. For in various locations a book that centres around London. Bound for a murder, I've told you who did it – the gallows and fearing for the future Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her young son Georgefather arrested, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, their store condemned as a resultJewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood to re-investigate the caselate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. Edmund approaches it In this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with an open mind but nothing prepares him for what their baby as a young family, except he'll discover and not just was thought by all to have died in the professional realm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William Sutton1786075431|title= Lawless and the Flowers of SinMrs Mohr Goes Missing|ratingauthor= 4|genre= Crime Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Historicaltranslator)|summaryrating= 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 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 mayhem3. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cecilia Ekback|title=In the Month of the Midnight Sun|rating=5

|summary=1856, Blackasen Village, Sweden: Meet Zofia. A Lapp sits surrounded by three dead bodies – the vicarsocially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a constable charitable lady, and one otherkeen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. The murders coincide with Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the arrival city due to lack of Magnus Lillehygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a geologist sent by the Swedish government roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to map the mountain that gives the village its namekeep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. Magnus doesnI say 't realise what he's walking into as up till now he thought his main problem was his sister-in-law, brought with him at his wife's father's, (the Minister for Stateshe has vanished. Only due to Zofia's)help does she get found, insistencedead and in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. The events that will take place will cause them both sleepless nights Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a real chance that neither will live to go home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444789937</amazonuk>name for herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susanna Gregory1786893762|title=A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Chronicle of Matthew BartholomewThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd|rating=4.5

|summary=Chancellor Tynkell was kindly, but ineffectual A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and everyone was stunned frustration left by his murdera previous case, where the child was not least because it happened very publicly - on top of the church tower, found in time. Hardly original themes for a high wind with a lot of people watchingprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . Then the murderer disappearedtake another look. Some people saw This detective is a black cloak being blown along to woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the marshes outside Cambridge rich and swore colourful paradoxes of that it was era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the devildownright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's workcap and stout, shiny boots, but physician Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael knew better and were determined the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to prove do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it. These are not Bartholomew's only actually meant to cure bronchial problems though: a 'barber surgeonis by the by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there' s the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (free shave or haircut with every treatmentdeceased) recently arrived from Nottingham is causing problems rather than curing illnesses. His sister is struggling to get accompanies Bridie all through her husbandinvestigation, and it's tomb built by clear he has a soft spot for the mason she commissioned to do the work: like builders everywhere throughout the ages determined young woman. If he keeps moving from job to job and never finishing any. Then Brother Michael really exists, that is offered a Bishopric - in Rochester.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie MacBird0349414327|title= Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating= 4|genre= Crime Snapshot of Murder (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 Even detectives need a break and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect for each otherKate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. Their first mission When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to track down take the Fifth Monarchists, an organisation out opportunity to avenge those who were found guilty visit Haworth and hanged for signing Charles I's death warrant. That was thenStanbury, during not least because the Great Plague. A mere year later, deeds of the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists Brontë Parsonage are back, taking Pitman's being handed over so that it can become a museum and Coke's interventions personallyher parents will be there for the event. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, the monarch, and, on top of thatWhat could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a new disaster is about to hit the capital. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Indrek Hargla and Christopher Moseley (translator)|title= Apothecary Melchior momentous event and having the Ghost opportunity to take photographs 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 setting 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 canWuthering Heights''t resist looking for the connection between them and trying to discover the truth behind the tales? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0720618452</amazonuk> Or could it?