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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Davis -->0571370977|-| styletitle="width: 10%; verticalThe Lock-align: top; text-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 ReviewApril in Spain]] <!-- 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=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 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 -->|-| 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, 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 of opportunity. [[Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery by Sara Sheridan|Full Review]] <!-- Tjia -->|-Frontpage| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1529337968[[image:Tjia_She.jpg|linktitle=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 at a loss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With the assistance In Place 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 -->Fear|-| styleauthor="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]] Catriona McPherson| 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 country's equilibrium depends on the discovery 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 to collect evidence. That's when he meets Wiggins. This is 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;"|5[[image:Menczer_Unlikely.jpg|linkgenre=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 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!'. 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 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 love. [[An Unlikely Agent by Jane Menczer|Full Review]] <!-- Wilson -->|-| stylesummary="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, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to a plot not unlike one of her own. It's all about the mystery, July 1948 and it really drives the story forward. Agatha Helen Crowther 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 due to commit start work as a murder. [[A Talent for Murder by Andrew Wilson|Full Review]] <!-- Edwards -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Edwards_Continental.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 qualified medical almoner the short story has gone out of fashion, relegated to the pages of certain types of women's magazines, or whether the magazines in which the format still holds its own are themselves not as highfollowing morning -profile as once they might have been. Perhaps they never were, perhaps we only know about them in retrospect. Whatever on the truth of that it would seem day that the golden age of the short story, coincided delightfully with the golden age of crime. [[Continental Crimes by Martin Edwards (editor)|Full Review]] <!-- Kerr -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kerr_Prussian.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784296481/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 by Philip Kerr]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Bernie Gunther NHS is not your typical heroborn. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work She'll be working for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member 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 Dr Deuchar and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof Dr Strasser in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly their GP surgery and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his own. He is given exactly one week her job will be to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator patients with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get lucky. [[Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12 by Philip Kerr|Full Review]] <!-- Hawkins -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Hawkins_None.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911332112/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[None So Blind by Alis Hawkins]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] When a body is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850, Harry Probert-Lloyd the London barrister has recently returned to his father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is on hand to press for justice, since he knows whose remains they must be. Unfortunately he's up against a few formidable opponents from the past, not least the Rebecca rioters, members of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not be on the cards. With the assistance of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up the investigation himself, but it seems like both of them know more than they are willing to admit. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for? [[None So Blind by Alis Hawkins|Full Review]] <!non-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Agemedical problems which affect their health.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783297824/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[ The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2) by Gavin Scott]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Whilst hardest part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander in Greece during the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which he hoped could lead job will be to the deciphering of Linear B. The war is now officially over (although a lot of persuade people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) and Forrester has returned to Athens with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete and retrieve the stone. It was whilst they were in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to the poisoning of a Greek poet services she offers really are free and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a mask. Strange as all this might seem, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should they don't have been a general who has been approached to lead ELAS, the military arm of the Greek communistsdo anything to qualify for them. He's the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain war. [[The Age Some of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2) by Gavin Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Kennedy -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Kennedy_Time.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993202322/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Time to Tell Lies by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues the story he began with Lucy. In the autumn of 1942, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotland, where they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounter, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he problems will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he require delicate handling but Helen has a false passport. [[A Time to Tell Lies by Alan Kennedy|Full Review]]  <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|} {{newreview|author= Lois Austen-Leigh|title= The Incredible Crime|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Prudence Pinsent flings problem of her novel across the room. ''Unutterable bilge'' is own which might give her description of the typical country house murder mystery of romantic novelssome insight. The deliberate irony of this is that ''The Incredible Crime'' is precisely one such novelHer marriage has never been consummated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356029</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Dunmore057136358X|title=Birdcage WalkApril in Spain|author=John Banville
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married wellTerry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. John Diner Tredevant is He saw what he did as ''a property developer who has reached matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the zenith thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his lifejob, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''s work: building where he got the chance to kill a terrace lot of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorgelittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. In He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of turbulence as France reaches the dawn populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of revolutionvirtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, Britainit'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, including Dineras so often happened, fears it may spreadwas cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. This puts Lizzie The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the publisher of a difficult position since magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her mother cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and stepher sister Freckle -father both believe to drum up some local interest in propagating pamphlets his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and ideas Osborne to warn the man about infringement of egalitarianism for copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to all, including womendo 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 other words, they think nothing December 1933 the remains of spreading ideas Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the sort that fanned Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the French flamesmurder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. However, thatKitty Underhay's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness long search for her mother, who disappeared in her husband's past of which June 1916 was over. Now she's unawaredetermined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Lindsey DavisStephen Clarke|title= The Third NeroSpy Who Inspired Me|rating= 54|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary= Lindsey Davis This is one clever ladya spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. Having enthralled readers But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and who works for years with the adventures of Marcus Didius Falco, the Ancient Roman informer (orsecret service, to put it but in the planning side of things more modern terms, private eye) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco to take a well-deserved and politically strategic retirement while his adopted daughter Albia takes over than the family businessactive service. Her wit is dry as dust, she has Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a highly desirable (wellfemale spy called Margaux, he's called Manlius: what else could he be?) love-interest and as a Britonthe pair end up stranded in Normandy, her take with Margaux on Roman bureaucracy and pettifogging officialdom is just as sharp and funny as her cynical dad's ever was. A new main character, a new way of doing thingsdesperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, which somehow manages and Lemming desperately trying to retain all the best elements of the original Falco. Genius.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473613426</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0349423083|title=Antonin Varenne Death and Sam Taylor the Brewery Queen (translatorKate Shackleton Mysteries)|titleauthor=Retribution RoadFrances Brody
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|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction )|summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard manKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeedably assisted by Jim Sykes, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide missionlives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, it was himMrs Sugden. Working as a soldier for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850s, heShe's tasked with taking a boat been approached by William Lofthouse of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan MinBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. It doesn't go well – to start Something is going wrong with, his business and he's supposed d like Kate to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until look into it discreetly: he's forced hoping that his way nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to having Germany before long. James went to see what the knowledge of the mission he needs first, only for all hell continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to break loosemake. But get William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he does, only 'd like the business to find that while be ship-shape before 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>nephew returns.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements0241433568|title=CorpusEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It's 1930 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 going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473682401|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Those who were with us at the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A suicidal overdose Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the murder charms of upper class Cecil Langley Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and his wife her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two events that may be unconnecteddrawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The 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'. However this For those who need more, here is England the extra background – we're in 1936rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, a magnet 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 opposing forces and the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their first moves marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in preparation for the coming conflictneighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, assisted or prevented by this case has a royal crisis lot of the peculiar about it.|isbn=1782275002}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07XLM3SM6|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=4|genre=Crime (depending 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 which side youthe 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''re why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349423067|title=The Body onthe Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's 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 with no means of identification. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the middle services of this accidentally Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to begin terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with but murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the 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 curiosity 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 piqued 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 ensure hekeep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. I say ''was'', for she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's not walking awayhelp does she get found, dead and in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk> 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?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1786893762
|title=Things in Jars
|author=Jess 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0349414327
|title=A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)
|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the 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 the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the event. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and having the opportunity to take photographs of the setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it?
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