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<!-- Brody -->{{Frontpage*[[image:Brody Death.jpg|leftisbn=0571370977|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0349414319?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagThe Lock-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creativeUp|author=6738&creativeASIN=0349414319]]John Banville|rating===[[Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody]]===4 [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Much as it did in 1999, eclipse fever gripped the country in 1927, but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldnsummary=It't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her for help when it seemed that all she needed was for a flight to be arranged to take her from Leeds to Giggleswick School, where she was to view s six months since the eclipse. Surely she didn't need a sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised the flight, dramatic events which collected Fellini, comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiers' Field we read about in Leeds and landed them at the school in good time. It was obvious that the singer was worried about something, but she didn't seem able to explain what it was. [[Death April in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) Spain by Frances BrodyJohn Banville|Full ReviewApril in Spain]]<br> <!-- Sutton -->*[[image:Sutton_Lawless.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785650130?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785650130]] ===[[Lawless and the House of Electricity by William Sutton]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Campbell Lawless Dr Quirke is now back, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it the work of the French, as police in Dublin and public are being led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do living (if somewhat uneasily) with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of Molly, the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a campaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secretsdaughter, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant inventionPhoebe. [[Lawless and the House The worst of Electricity by William Sutton|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Farjeon -->*[[image:Farjeon_7Dead.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0712356886?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0712356886]] ===[[Seven Dead by J Jefferson Farjeon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]][[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Ted Lyte was petty criminal, his grief is over but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn't irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men happened and a woman. Fleeing this has made the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalistalready strained relationship between them more difficult. Fascinated They're brought together by Ted's story (and Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a possible scoop)young, Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd cluesJewish scholar, including a portrait shot through the heartRosa Jacobs, an old cricket ball and is found in a mysterious note written by one of the victims. [[Seven Dead by J Jefferson Farjeon|Full Review]]<br> <!lock-- Gregory -->*[[image:Gregory Habitup.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0751562637?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0751562637]] ===[[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Gregory]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] It was 1360 and Michaelhouse was in dire financial straits: they could last a little longer but not that long. Then it seemed that a lifeline might have been thrown to them when they heard that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh of the Suffolk town of Clare was dead and At first, it was possible that The Lady, looked as though she was known, had left them a legacy. It seemed that the best thing to do was to go to Clare to claim the money (or to try and prove 'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it had been intended and should therefore be paid) with all haste. The real mission could be concealed behind the bald statement that they were there to attend the funeral. Matthew Bartholomew was one of the contingent from Michaelhousemurder rather than suicide. [[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Gregory|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess1529337968|title= The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody MysteryIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 45|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Amelia Peabody It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a noqualified medical almoner the following morning -nonsense lady who endures all manner of murder attempts, kidnappings and sundry other crimes while on various archaeological digs in Egypt with equanimity and composurethe day that the NHS is born. She is either revered or feared (or both) by villains, museum curators, family 'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and workmen alike for her caustic tongue and the steeljob will be to help patients with those non-reinforced parasol she brandishes at medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of the first sign of danger. And yet, once job will be to persuade people that the evil-doers services she offers really are free and that they don't have been locked up, precious objects returned to their owners and all injuries bandaged, she still insists on all do anything to qualify for them. Some of the decorum problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of the English abroad: formal dress for dinner and only the politest and least contentious topics for dinner-table conversationher own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472126823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sara Sheridan057136358X|title= Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan MysteryApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= In thisTerry Tice was a hitman, the fifth novel although he didn't think of himself in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955those terms. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from the post-war privations we He saw in our first encounter with Mirabelle and her warm, cheery companion Vesta in 1951, what he did as ''a time when tearing a stocking matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was a disaster an extreme version of the first orderMarie Kondo. Various types of prejudice are still rife He enjoyed his job, however, and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping in that small, lightly sketched detail something which tells us we are still occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a Britain overshadowed by lot of the aftermath of conflictlittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. A woman who walks alone into He was spending a bar will not be served; the British Empire is still frontlot of time with Percy Antrobus -page news, and who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the colour purpose of a personswizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's skin is still an almost insurmountable barrier to equality death that he saw the benefits of opportunitytaking up a job in Spain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122364</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J TjiaB08Z8BMZ7H|title= She Be DamnedThe Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= London, 1863: prostitutes We meet Solon in Pergamon in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated second century of the common era and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the killer may have claimed their latest victimpopulace. The police are at remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a loss feeling of virtue and so it falls hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to courtesan live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and professional detective, Heloise Chanceywhen we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to investigatemake them look more impressive. With The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the truthwild animals. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot Today, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before it's the killer strikes againcrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H B Lyle1529337925|title=The Irregular: A Different Class of SpyMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and Europe. Meanwhile Britain, a land growing accustomed as so often happened, it was cold enough to peace, is becoming a magnet for spies have the fire lit and disruptionBunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. Vernon Kell, Head She was the publisher of War Office Counter-Intelligence, knows a magazine and had been told that the countryman running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's equilibrium depends on request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the discovery man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and disposal Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08LKT7HSR|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the growing number cellar of foreign spy networksthe Glass Bottle Public House. Unfortunately his masters Ezekiel Hamett was sought in government can't see what he can connection with the murder of Elowed and Kellhis half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's own agents are being killed off too fast long search for him to collect evidenceher mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. ThatNow she's when he meets Wiggins. This is a determined that the man with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes and, years back, a star of Holmes' child Irregularsresponsible for her murder will be brought to justice. Now Kell is getting somewhere… Let battle commence!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147365534X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane MenczerStephen Clarke|title= An Unlikely AgentThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her This is a newspaper open at the recruitment pagespoof spy story, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!isn't about James Bond. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop Or Ian Fleming. But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for features a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8man called Ian Lemming, whose mission is to track down who dresses well and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as 'likes the Scorpions.Margaretladies's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her and who works for the reality secret service, but in the planning side of true criminalitythings more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novelpair end up stranded in Normandy, as she discovers with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in herself resourcefulness, couragethe resistance network, independence and the first stirrings of love.Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Wilson0349423083|title= A Talent for MurderDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in Kate Shackleton runs her dayinvestigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to a plot not unlike one of her ownhousekeeper, Mrs Sugden. It She's all about been approached by William Lofthouse of the mystery, Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it really drives discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what the story forwardcontinental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. Agatha William is worried that James is ambushed by perhaps enjoying himself a strange man at the train station; she little bit ''too'' much or is given going to bring back a proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. Indeed, for this man wants her German bride but he'd like the business to commit a murderbe ship-shape before his nephew returns. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0241433568|title= Continental CrimesEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating= 45

|summary=It's not clear whether the short story has gone out of fashion, relegated to the pages of certain types of women1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's magazines, or whether the magazines in which the format still holds its own are themselves not as high-profile as once they might going to have beena rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Perhaps they Only it never were, perhaps we only know about them in retrospectgets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. Whatever the truth of that it would seem How can that have happened? There's no one else in the golden age house, so one of them must be the short story, coincided delightfully with the golden age of crimekiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Kerr1473682401|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself Those who were with us at the end of [[A Step So Grave (he was a known member of the Social Democratic PartyDandy Gilver), he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that time Donald was engaged to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Martin BormannMallory is having twins. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof in When they arrive no one can doubt the Bavarian mountainscharms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, he knows that he needs to do it quickly Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and discreetly – not just for justicethey's sakere staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, but for his own. He is given exactly one week Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to apprehend look into a problem at the suspectCramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, and he hopes that with but suddenly the help possibility of being out of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckyhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alis HawkinsSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title= None So BlindThe Honjin Murders|rating= 54|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=When a body To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, Harry Probert-Lloyd here is the London barrister has recently returned to his fatherextra background – we's house re in rural Japan in West Wales due to deteriorating sightthe 1930s. That means Harry The oldest son of an esteemed family is on hand to press for justicebelatedly getting married, since he knows whose remains they must 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. Unfortunately he's up against a few formidable opponents from She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the pastcelebrations have gone ahead as planned, not least only for the Rebecca rioters, members of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on the cardstheir marriage. With What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the assistance neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a local clerktraditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, John Davies, Harry takes up this case has a lot of the investigation himself, but peculiar about it seems like both of them know more than they are willing to admit. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911332112</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin ScottB07XLM3SM6|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Whilst part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in Greece during the warJune 1916, leaving her daughter, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stoneKitty, which he hoped could lead to in the deciphering care of Linear Bher grandmother. The war is now officially over (although a lot A great deal of people are still fighting itmoney had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mentally if not physically) and Forrester mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has returned come to Athens terms with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting this and in 1933 she was running the necessary permissions Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to go leave to Crete and retrieve the stonelook after her sister who was ill. It She was whilst they were reluctant to leave Kitty in Athens that Forrester was charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the unwitting witness to naval college on the poisoning edge of a Greek poet town before - and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a maskshe's done every job in the hotel. Strange as all this might seem, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been a general who roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been approached hired to lead ELAS, the military arm take charge of security at the Greek communists. He's the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain warhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Kennedy0349423067|title=A Time to Tell LiesThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical) |summary= Psychologist Alan KennedyFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's fifth novel continues Cross, arriving before dawn so that the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the autumn porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of 1942a man, Captain Alex Vere stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and Justine Perry are among called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the men hope that her knowledge and women picked up and taken to a stately home connections in Scotland, where Yorkshire would give them the lead they are trained in spy skillsneeded. After this first encounter, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent could not come to collect Simone, terms with the fact that she was now a Special Operations Executive agentwoman experienced in dealing with murder. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and He was reluctant to give her all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passportinformation which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lois Austen-Leigh1472127110|title= The Incredible CrimeIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Prudence Pinsent flings her novel across Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the roomlover who died before he could leave his wife. ''Unutterable bilge'' is 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 description of doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the typical country house murder mystery arms of romantic novelsa rather charming policeman. The deliberate irony of this is that ''The Incredible Crime'' is precisely one such novel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356029</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Dunmore1912374439|title=Birdcage WalkThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married wellNazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his lifeThere, I's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking ve given the Avon Gorgegame away. In For in a book that centres around a time of turbulence as France reaches murder, I've told you who did it – the dawn of revolutionNazis, Britainsurely? Well, including Dinerthat certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in which splits its time between one of war, when a difficult position since young woman sees her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets arrested, and ideas of egalitarianism for their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to allhelp – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, including womenwhen great consternation is being felt. In other wordsthis timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort one who might have been fingered for murdering that fanned the French flames. Howeverfemale victim, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is even though she and he lived together with their baby as a darkness young family, except he was thought by all to have died in her husband's past of which she's unaware.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>the War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lindsey Davis1786075431|title= The Third NeroMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Lindsey Davis is one clever ladyMeet Zofia. Having enthralled readers for years with the adventures A socially climbing wife of Marcus Didius Falco, the Ancient Roman informer (or, to put it in more modern termsa medical professor, private eye) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco to take 's intent on making herself known as a well-deserved charitable lady, and politically strategic retirement while keen on her husband progressing yet through his adopted daughter Albia takes over the family businessesteemed career. Her wit In 1890s Cracow, life is dry as dustpretty good, but she has a highly desirable (wellknows it could always be better. Meanwhile, heother people's called Manlius: what else life could he certainly be?) love-interest better – cholera is nearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and as almshouses to keep a Britonroof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, her take on Roman bureaucracy although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and pettifogging officialdom is just as sharp and funny as staff in her cynical dadcharitable home. I say ''s ever was'', for she has vanished. A new main character Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in a new way of doing thingsplace the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a charity home, which somehow manages and to retain all what end? And why does Zofia feel the best elements of the original Falco. Genius.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613426</amazonuk>need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)1786893762|title=Retribution RoadThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction )|summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a hard manprevious case, he where the child was something else: not found in time. Hardly original themes for a dangerous manprivate eye thriller.'' IfAnd yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, indeedand the setting is Victorian London, there was someone who was ideal with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a suicide missionfascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, it was himyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Working as Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a soldier for the East India Company in the ruralwidow's cap and stout, remoteshiny boots, outlaw hotbeds of Asia but the tobacco she smokes in the 1850sher pipe (my dear, hewhat an utterly ''fast''s tasked thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with taking a boat nugget of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan Min. It doesn't go something, well – to start with, helet's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallowssay recreational, but can't command them until hecreated by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's forced his way actually meant to having cure bronchial problems is by the knowledge by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the mission ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he needs first, only has a soft spot for all hell to break loosethe determined young woman. But get back If he doesreally exists, 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>is.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements0349414327|title=CorpusA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=A suicidal overdose Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the murder mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife the Brontë Parsonage are two events being handed over so that may it can become a museum and her parents will be unconnectedthere for the event. However this is England in 1936What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a magnet for opposing forces momentous event and their first moves in preparation having the opportunity to take photographs of the setting for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)'Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>Or could it?