Changes

{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Davis -->0571370977|-| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; textThe Lock-align: center;"|Up[[image:Davis_Pandora.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473658632/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] John Banville| stylerating="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|4===[[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Relax, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, 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 father's exploits so engaging. Newcomers to the series need not fear, by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popular. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] [[Pandorasummary=It's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] <!-- Brody -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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&creativeASIN=0349414319]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Death in six months since the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=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 couldn'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 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 Review]] <!-- Sutton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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=1785650130April in Spain]]  | 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 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 adventuresdaughter, he sets in motion a campaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant inventionPhoebe. [[Lawless and the House The worst of Electricity by William Sutton|Full Review]] <!-- Farjeon -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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]] <!lock-- Gregory -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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]]  | 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 was in dire financial straits: they could last a little longer but not that long. Then At first, 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 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]] <!-- Peters -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Peters_Painted.jpg|link=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 -->|-Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1529337968[[image:Sheridan_Goodwood.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472122364/reftitle=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, 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 the post-war privations we saw 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 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, and the colour of a person's skin an almost insurmountable barrier to equality Place of opportunity. [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan|Full Review]] <!-- Tjia -->Fear|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Catriona McPherson[[image:Tjia_She.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178507931X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[She Be Damned by M J Tjia]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=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 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 the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again. [[She Be Damned by M J Tjia|Full Review]] <!-- Lyle -->|-| stylesummary="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 countryIt's equilibrium depends on the discovery July 1948 and disposal of the growing number of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters in government can't see what he can and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him Helen Crowther is due to collect evidence. That's when he meets Wiggins. This is start work as a man with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes and, years back, a star of Holmes' child Irregulars. 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=thebookbagqualified medical almoner the following morning -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 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 day that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, 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 NHS is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpionsborn. Margaret She's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her ll be working for the reality of true criminality, Dr Deuchar and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers Dr Strasser in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love. [[An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Wilson_Talent.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471148211/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, their GP surgery and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim job will be to a plot not unlike one of her own. It's all about the mystery, and it really drives the story forward. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at the train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. Indeed, for this man wants her to commit a murder. [[A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson|Full Review]] <!help patients with those non-- Edwards -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Edwards_Continentalmedical problems which affect their health.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0712356797/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Continental Crimes by Martin Edwards (editor)]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] It's not clear whether The hardest part of the short story has gone out of fashion, relegated job will be to persuade people that the pages of certain types of women's magazines, or whether the magazines in which the format still holds its own services she offers really are themselves not as high-profile as once free and that they might don't have been. Perhaps they never were, perhaps we only know about to do anything to qualify for them in retrospect. Whatever the truth of that it would seem that the golden age Some of the short story, coincided delightfully with the golden age of crime. [[Continental Crimes by Martin Edwards (editor)|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Philip Kerr|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer problems will require delicate handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never but Helen has a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member problem of the Social Democratic Party), he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormannher own which might give her some insight. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that Her marriage has occurred at Hitler'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 ownnever been consummated. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get lucky. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alis Hawkins057136358X|title= None So BlindApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=When Terry Tice was a body is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850hitman, Harry Probert-Lloyd the London barrister has recently returned to his fatheralthough he didn's house t think of himself in West Wales due to deteriorating sightthose terms. That means Harry is on hand to press for justice, since He saw what he knows whose remains they must bedid as ''a matter of making things tidy''. Unfortunately he I couldn's up against a few formidable opponents from t resist the pastthought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, not least something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the Rebecca rioters, members army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of an illegal group from the little yellow fellows and had a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not be on the cardsfine old time''. With He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the assistance purpose of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the investigation himself, but it seems like both benefits of them know more than they are willing to admittaking up a job in Spain. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911332112</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin ScottB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Age Mystery of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Healing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=Whilst part We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander in Greece during the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which common era and he hoped could lead to 's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the deciphering amusement of Linear Bthe populace. The war is now officially over (although remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a lot feeling of people virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are still fighting itthe charge hands and when we first see them, mentally if not physically) they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and Forrester has returned the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to Athens fight for their lives with his loverthe wild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529337925|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvigas so often happened, intent on getting it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the necessary permissions Dalmation wasn't inclined to go leave it to Crete and retrieve keep Dandy Gilver warm on the stonesofa. It The thought of work was whilst they were almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Athens that Forrester Dundee. She was the unwitting witness to the poisoning publisher of a Greek poet magazine and where he found himself pursued by a had been told that the man wearing a maskrunning 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. Strange as all this might seem, Forrester is convinced that the poet Sandy Bissett's request was not simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the intended victim: it should have been man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a general who has been approached solicitor to lead ELAS, 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 military arm cellar of the Greek communistsGlass Bottle Public House. HeEzekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people responsible for her murder will be brought to follow him adn that would mean certain warjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan KennedyStephen Clarke|title=A Time to Tell LiesThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical) General Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan KennedyThis is a spoof spy story, that isn's fifth novel continues the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]t about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. In the autumn of 1942 But it features a man called Ian Lemming, Captain Alex Vere who dresses well and Justine Perry are among 'likes the men ladies' and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotlandwho works for the secret service, where they are trained but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy skills. After this first encountercalled Margaux, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet the pair end up again stranded in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect SimoneNormandy, with Margaux on a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first desperate mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up to unearth traitors in custody at the Gendarmerieresistance network, facing a German who knows he has a false passport.and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lois Austen-Leigh0349423083|title= The Incredible CrimeDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Prudence Pinsent flings Kate Shackleton runs her novel across investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the roomBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he'Unutterable bilge'' is her description of 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 typical country house murder mystery of romantic novelscontinental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. The deliberate irony of this William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''The Incredible Crimetoo'' much or is precisely one such novelgoing to bring back a German bride but he'd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356029</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Dunmore0241433568|title=Birdcage WalkEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married wellIt's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his lifeIt's workunbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: building he's going to have a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorge. In a time of turbulence as France reaches the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother rest and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets then he wants to talk to Megan and ideas of egalitarianism for and to all, including womenHenry about something serious. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that fanned the French flameshe's been murdered. However, How can thathave happened? There's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness no one else in her husband's past the house, so one of which she's unawarethem must be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lindsey Davis1473682401|title= The Third NeroTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 54|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Lindsey Davis is one clever lady. Having enthralled readers for years Those who were with us at the adventures end of Marcus Didius Falco, the Ancient Roman informer [[A Step So Grave (or, to put it in more modern terms, private eyeDandy Gilver) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to take a well-deserved Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and politically strategic retirement while his adopted daughter Albia takes over Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the family businesscharms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. Her wit is dry as dust, she has a highly desirable (well, he There are two drawbacks: they's called Manlius: what else could he be?) love-interest re noisy and as a Briton, her take on Roman bureaucracy they're staying with Dandy and pettifogging officialdom is just as sharp Hugh. Dandy and funny as her cynical dad's ever was. A new main characterdetective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a new way of doing thingsproblem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, which somehow manages to retain all but suddenly the best elements possibility of being out of the original Falcohouse at Gilverton seems irresistible. Genius.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613426</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Antonin Varenne Seishi Yokomizo and Sam Taylor Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Retribution RoadThe Honjin Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the 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 some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a 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 June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' 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

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction )|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard mans Cross, he was something else: a dangerous manarriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden.'' IfIn early March 1929, indeed, there was someone one of the porters who was ideal for unloading the boxes discovered the body of a suicide missionman, it was himstripped naked and with no means of identification. Working as Scotland Yard hit a soldier for dead end and called on the East India Company services of Kate Shackleton in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the 1850s, he's tasked with taking lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a boat of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try child and combat local warlord Pagan Min. It doesn't go well – could not come to start terms with, he's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having the knowledge of the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break loosefact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. But get back he does, only He was reluctant to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, give her all the official record suggests information which the mission never actually existed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053744</amazonuk>police held.

 {{Frontpage|isbn=1472127110|title=Indian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=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 lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the arms of a rather charming policeman.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912374439|title=The Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. In this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the War…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786075431|title=Mrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. I say ''was'', for she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786893762|title=Things in Jars|author=Rory ClementsJess Kidd|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349414327|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?