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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Davis -->0571370977|title=The Lock-Up| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|John Banville[[image:Davis_Pandora.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473658632/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Crime (Historical)|summary===[[PandoraIt's Boy by Lindsey Davis]]=== six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[image:5star.jpgApril in Spain by John Banville|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star ReviewsApril in Spain]] [[:Category:Crime and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (Historicalif somewhat uneasily)|Crime (Historical)]] Relaxwith his daughter, die-hard fans Phoebe. The worst of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and as sordid as it ever was, this has made the crimes committed are as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her fatheralready strained relationship between them more difficult. They's exploits so engaging. Newcomers to re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the series need not fearbody of a young, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This timeJewish scholar, despite some serious misgivingsRosa Jacobs, Albia is investigating the sudden death of found in a fifteenlock-year-old girlup. At first, described it looked as bright, affectionate and popular. Was though she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]]d gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.}}<!-- Brody -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1529337968| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|In Place of Fear[[image:Brody Death.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0349414319?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0349414319]] Catriona McPherson| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|5===[[Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Much summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as it did in 1999, eclipse fever gripped a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the country in 1927, but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldn't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her for help when it seemed day that all she needed was for a flight to be arranged to take her from Leeds to Giggleswick School, where she was to view the eclipseNHS is born. Surely she didn She't need a sleuth ll be working for this? Kate went ahead and organised the flight, which collected Fellini, comic Billy Moffatt Dr Deuchar and Kate from Soldiers' Field Dr Strasser in Leeds their GP surgery 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 her job will be to explain what it was. [[Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody|Full Review]] <!help patients with those non-- Sutton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Sutton_Lawlessmedical problems which affect their health.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785650130?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785650130]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lawless and the House of Electricity by William Sutton]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a series The hardest part of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it job will be to persuade people that the work of the French, as police and public services she offers really are being led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted free and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, that they don't have to do with the bombs used anything to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services qualify for them. Some of Molly, the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a campaign problem of subterfuge her own which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant inventionmight give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated. [[Lawless and the House of Electricity by William Sutton|Full Review]]}}<!-- Farjeon -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=057136358X| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|April in Spain[[image:Farjeon_7Dead.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0712356886?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCodeauthor=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0712356886]] John Banville| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Seven Dead by J Jefferson Farjeon]]==rating=5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]][[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Ted Lyte summary=Terry Tice was petty criminala hitman, but not usually the housebreaking typealthough he didn't think of himself in those terms. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck saw what he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. did as ''...he might find a bit matter of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?making things tidy'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn. I couldn't what resist the thought that he'd hopedwas an extreme version of Marie Kondo. In a locked room He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing was in Burma with the house in horror, army ''where he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens got the chance to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and kill a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment lot of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball little yellow fellows and had a mysterious note written by one of the victimsfine old time''. [[Seven Dead by J Jefferson Farjeon|Full Review]] <!-- Gregory -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Gregory Habit.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0751562637?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0751562637]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 He was in dire financial straits: they could last spending 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 lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the Suffolk town purpose of Clare was dead and it was possible that The Lady, as she was known, had left them a legacy. swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It seemed that the best thing to do was to go to Clare to claim the money (or to try and prove after Percy's death 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 he saw the funeral. Matthew Bartholomew was one benefits of the contingent from Michaelhousetaking up a job in Spain. [[The Habit of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew by Susanna Gregory|Full Review]]}}<!-- Peters -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Mystery of Healing[[image:Peters_Painted.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472126823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] A P McGrath| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Amelia Peabody is a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of murder attempts, kidnappings the common era and sundry other crimes while he's the physician on archaeological digs in Egypt with equanimity and composure. She is either revered or feared (or both) by villains, museum curators, family and workmen alike for her caustic tongue and duty at the steelmunus -reinforced parasol she brandishes at the first sign of danger. And yet, once the evil-doers have been locked up, precious objects returned to their owners and all injuries bandaged, she still insists games put on all for the decorum amusement of the English abroad: formal dress for dinner and only the politest and least contentious topics for dinner-table conversationpopulace. [[ The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess|Full Review]] <!-- Sheridan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Sheridan_Goodwood.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472122364/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] In this, remuneration isn't high but the fifth novel in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from work gives the post-war privations we saw in our first encounter with Mirabelle and her warm, cheery companion Vesta in 1951, doctor a time when tearing a stocking was a disaster of the first order. Various types feeling of prejudice are still rife, however, virtue and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping in that small, lightly sketched detail which tells us we are still in a Britain overshadowed by hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the aftermath of conflictwarriors to live. A woman who walks alone into a bar will not be served; the British Empire is still front-page news, and the colour of a person It's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunity. [[Operation Goodwood: quite a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan|Full Review]] <!-- Tjia -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tjia_She.jpg|link=httpspectacle://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178507931X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[She Be Damned by M J Tjia]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area magistri are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated the charge hands and removed. When another girl goes missingwhen we first see them, fears grow that they're sprinkling gold dust onto the killer may have claimed their latest victimlions' manes to make them look more impressive. The police sagitarii are at a loss the archers and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer beastiarii are the 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. [[She Be Damned by M J Tjia|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} }{{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 country's equilibrium depends on man running the discovery Punch and disposal Judy show in the local park had used copies of the growing number two of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters in government can't see what he can her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him her sister Freckle - to collect evidencedrum up some local interest in his show. That Sandy Bissett's when he meets Wiggins. This is a request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and, years back, Alex would be cheaper than employing a star of Holmes' child Irregularssolicitor to do the same job. Now Kell is getting somewhere… Let battle commence!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147365534X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane MenczerB08LKT7HSR|title= An Unlikely AgentMurder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered 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 a newspaper open at cellar of the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'Glass Bottle Public House. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself Ezekiel Hamett was sought in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch connection with the murder of the intelligence serviceElowed and his half-brother, Bureau 8Denzil Hammett, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpionsbody was also discovered.Margaret Kitty Underhay's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her long search for the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novelmother, as who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and 's determined that the first stirrings of loveman responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew WilsonStephen Clarke|title= A Talent The Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 Murderthe secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349423083|title=Death 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?