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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|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0349414319?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=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 The hardest part 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 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|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0712356886?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0712356886]] John Banville| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|5===[[Seven Dead by J Jefferson Farjeon]]=== [[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 He was 1360 and Michaelhouse was in dire financial straits: they could last a little longer but not that long. Then it seemed that spending 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 he saw the bald statement that they were there to attend 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| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|B08Z8BMZ7H[[image:Peters_Painted.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472126823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Amelia Peabody is a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner of murder attempts, kidnappings and sundry other crimes while 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 the steel-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 on all the decorum of the English abroad: formal dress for dinner and only the politest and least contentious topics for dinner-table conversation. [[The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody Mystery by Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess|Full Review]] <!-- Sheridan -->Healing|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|A P McGrath[[image:Sheridan_Goodwood.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472122364/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="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, the fifth novel summary=We meet Solon in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from the post-war privations we saw Pergamon in our first encounter with Mirabelle and her warm, cheery companion Vesta in 1951, a time when tearing a stocking was a disaster of the first order. Various types second century of prejudice are still rife, however, 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 the aftermath of conflict. A woman who walks alone into a bar will not be served; the British Empire is still front-page news, common era and the colour of a personhe's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality of opportunity. [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan|Full Review]] <!-- Tjia -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tjia_She.jpg|link=http://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 are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are physician on duty at a loss 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 to munus - the truth. But when Amah is implicated in games put on for the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before amusement of the killer strikes againpopulace. [[She Be Damned by M J Tjia|Full Review]] <!-- Lyle -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lyle_Irregular.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/147365534X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[ The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy by H B Lyle]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia and Europe. Meanwhile Britain, a land growing accustomed to peace, is becoming a magnet for spies and disruption. Vernon Kell, Head of War Office Counter-Intelligence, knows that the countryremuneration isn's equilibrium depends on t high but the discovery and disposal of work gives the growing number doctor a feeling of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately virtue and hones his masters in government canskills: Solon ''wants't see what he can and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him the warriors to collect evidencelive. ThatIt's when he meets Wiggins. This is quite a man with a superlative backgroundspectacle: trained by Sherlock Holmes the magistri are the charge hands andwhen we first see them, years back, a star of Holmesthey're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' child Irregularsmanes to make them look more impressive. Now Kell is getting somewhere… Let battle commence! [[The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy by H B Lyle|Full Review]] <!-- Menczer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Menczer_Unlikely.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846973805/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] London, 1905. Margaret Trant sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their 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 a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'wild animals. After a gruelling interview Today, she finds herself 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 of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions. Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of lovecrocodiles. [[An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Wilson1529337925|title= A Talent for MurderThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her dayIt was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to a plot not unlike one keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of her ownwork was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. It's all about She was the mystery, publisher of a magazine and it really drives had been told that the story forward. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at running the Punch and Judy show in the train station; she is given a proposition that confuses local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and secretly intrigues hersister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Indeed, for this Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man wants her about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to commit a murderdo the same job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B08LKT7HSR|title= Martin Edwards Murder in the Belltower (editorA Miss Underhay Mystery)|titleauthor= Continental CrimesHelena Dixon|rating= 43.5

|summary=It's not clear whether In December 1933 the short story has gone out remains of fashion, relegated to Elowed Underhay were discovered in the pages cellar of certain types of women's magazines, or whether the magazines Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in which connection with the format still holds its own are themselves not as highmurder of Elowed and his half-profile as once they might have beenbrother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Perhaps they never wereKitty Underhay's long search for her mother, perhaps we only know about them who disappeared in retrospectJune 1916 was over. Whatever Now she's determined that the truth of man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Clarke|title=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 would seem that features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the golden age planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the short storypair end up stranded in Normandy, coincided delightfully with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the golden age of crime.resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0712356797</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Kerr0349423083|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, he was stationed who lives in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases Woodhouse and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazisher housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Social Democratic Party), Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he understood that the best thing 'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he could do for himself at 's hoping that time was his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to make himself indispensable Germany before long. James went to men like Reinhard Heydrich see what the continental brewers were doing and Martin Bormannwhat changes Barleycorn might need to make. So when he William is worried that James is assigned to solve perhaps enjoying himself a murder that has occurred at Hitlerlittle bit ''too's Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his own. He much or is given exactly one week going to apprehend the suspect, and bring back a German bride but he hopes that with 'd like the help of business to be ship-shape before his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckynephew returns. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alis Hawkins0241433568|title= None So BlindEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|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 fatherIt's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in West Wales due to deteriorating sightSpain. That means Harry is on hand It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to press for justice, since have a rest and then he knows whose remains they must bewants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Unfortunately Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's up against a few formidable opponents from been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the past, not least the Rebecca riotershouse, members so one of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not them must be on the cards. With the assistance of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up the investigation himself, but it seems like both of them know more than they are willing to admitkiller. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911332112</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Scott1473682401|title=The Age of Olympus Turning Tide (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=Whilst part Those who were with us at the end of an SOE mission [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to kidnap a German commander in Greece during the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which he hoped could lead to the deciphering of Linear BMallory Dunnoch. The war They're now married and Mallory is now officially over (although a lot having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and Forrester has returned to Athens with his loverher brother, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete and retrieve the stoneEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. It was whilst There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they were in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to the poisoning of a Greek poet 're staying with Dandy and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a maskHugh. Strange as all this might seemDandy and her detective partner, Forrester is convinced that Alec Osborne, had not taken up the poet was not chance to look into a problem at the intended victim: Cramond ferry when it should have been a general who has been approached was offered to lead ELASthem twice before, but suddenly the military arm possibility of being out of the Greek communistshouse at Gilverton seems irresistible. He's the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan KennedySeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=A Time to Tell LiesThe Honjin Murders

|genre=Crime (Historical) |summary= Psychologist Alan KennedyTo many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery's fifth novel continues is enough to make the story he began with [[Lucy book one to read; preferably quantified by Alan Kennedy]]the words 'clever' or 'good'. In For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the autumn 1930s. The oldest son of 1942an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among although the men and women picked 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 celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and taken to some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a stately home lot of the peculiar about it.|isbn=1782275002}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07XLM3SM6|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in ScotlandJune 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, where they are trained in spy skillsthe care of her grandmother. After this first encounter A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine againmainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. The spy's life is dangerous Kitty has come to terms with this and unpredictable, in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after allher sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. Six weeks later She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, though, they meet up again boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in southwest France, where they the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been sent roped in to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. Itkeep an eye on things ''and's Alex's first mission why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349423067|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (JustineHistorical)|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's fourth) Cross, 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 all goes horribly awrywith no means of identification. Alex ends up Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in custody at Yorkshire would give them the Gendarmerie, facing lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a German who knows he has child and could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a false passportwoman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information 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?