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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels0571370977|title=Shadowfall: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=You remember Sherlock Holmes, yes? Deerstalker, pipe, leetle grey cells… (Oh, sorry, that was Poirot, but same kind of deductive ability), naked wingedThe Lock-woman on, or at least floating above, the sofa in Baker Street… wait a minute? Seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218258</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUp|author=Gerard Kelly|title=The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock HolmesJohn Banville
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|summary=IIt'll spare people s six months since the details of Holmes dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Watson as crime-solvers – I'm assuming anyone likely to pick this one up Dr Quirke is probably familiar now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with the Victorian duohis daughter, Phoebe. This The worst of his grief is generally very faithful to over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the Arthur Conan Doyle originals and already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the best stories body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in this set of thirteen sound authentic enough to take their place alongside some of the canona lock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218673</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Workman1529337968|title=Rendezvous at the Populaire : A Novel In Place of Sherlock HolmesFear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=3.5
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|summary=After chasing his archIt's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning -enemy Moriarty without success on a cold night the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in November 1882, Sherlock Holmes is left maimed their GP surgery and unable her job will be to walk without help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of the use of a cane. Despondent, he decides job will be to give up his career as a detective – but is talked into taking an extra special case, as a Madame Giry comes across persuade people that the Channel services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to beg his help with qualify for them. Some of the mysterious 'ghost' problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which is terrorising the Opera Populaire…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218703</amazonuk>might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole Bugge057136358X|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Star of India|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A woman with a distinguished scent about her appears flustered at a concert recital. A famous landlady gets kidnapped while on an innocent holiday to the west country. A malformed, brilliant modern-day alchemist gets murdered. There is only one person, who famously went over a certain Alpine waterfall, who could piece all this and more into a threat to the Royalty and Empire itself. But there is also only one person, who famously seemed to have stayed dead April in going over the same Alpine waterfall, with the strength of mind to put the whole game into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSpain|author=Philip Jose Farmer|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless PeerJohn Banville|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItTerry Tice was a hitman, although he didn's World War One, and Britain has got wind t think of some brilliant scientific research, that has created himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a new bacterial weapon capable matter of wiping out the worldmaking things tidy''s supply of sauerkraut. But a dastardly German has stolen I couldn't resist the formulathought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. Before he can give a variant based on boiled meatHe enjoyed his job, cabbage and potatoes something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the kaiser, his most recent nemesis - Sherlock Holmes, no less - must be brought out chance to kill a lot of beekeeping retirementthe little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Cue an adventure and He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a half, as swizzle stick - surely he and Watson take to wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the skies for ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the first time in their hectic lives, end benefits of taking up a job in darkest Africa, and encounter a certain yodelling, long-haired nobleman, more than up to the name of King of the Jungle..Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory ClementsB08Z8BMZ7H|title=John Shakespeare: PrinceThe Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=After recently reading PerryWe meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's [[Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying it, I was looking forward to reading this book and hoping it would be as good as readthe physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The novel opens with Pitt, Special Branch, in remuneration isn't high but the work gives the midst of frenzied action trying to catch doctor a suspect. Suspected feeling of murder, itvirtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants's imperative that he's caught. They weave between crowds, duck through alleys, but their best efforts are simply not good enough. The man is not caughtthe warriors to live. HeIt's free to strike again. This all makes for quite a good, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind to board a ferry for Francespectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, believing thatthey's where re sprinkling gold dust onto the suspect could be headinglions' manes to make them look more impressive. Pitt is extremely thorough The sagitarii are the archers and meticulous in all matters of policing but this may very well bode ill later on in the story. We learn of deep unrest in parts of beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the world: Europe and Ireland in particularwild animals. And Perry is good at giving her readers a little palatable history here and thereToday, to keep us all in it's the loopcrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Perry1529337925|title=Acceptable LossThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=I must admit to not taking to It was the rather stylized front cover August Bank Holiday weekend and nor did I take , as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the title. I got fire lit and Bunty the initial impression that this novel was going Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to be all about heaving bosoms and manly men without too much substance. Was I right though? I gave a bit of a sigh as I started keep Dandy Gilver warm on chapter onethe sofa. Straight away we meet two The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the central characters, Mr and Mrs Monkcall from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. Mrs Monk (Hester) seems to have brought She was the publisher of a local street urchin into her lovely home. All sounds a bit odd magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and also a bit intriguing. Perry back-tracks a little for Judy show in the benefit local park had used copies of two of her readers cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and lets us know how this situation has come about. The boy is streether sister Freckle -wise but he's also now desperate for a warm, safe bed and regular meals if he's luckyto drum up some local interest in his show. He Sandy Bissett's had a dreadful life up till now request was simple: she wanted Gilver and has somehow survived a terrible ordeal - and yes, you could say that it's Osborne to warn the stuff man about infringement of nightmares. I loved his name copyright - Scuff and I automatically called him Scruff in my head, every timeDandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755376846</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan BradleyB08LKT7HSR|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Red Herring Without MustardMiss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Eleven year old Flavia is In December 1933 the youngest daughter remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the de Luce family murder of Elowed and she doesn't get on all that well with her elder sistershis half-brother, Denzil Hammett, Feely (Ophelia) and Daffy (Daphne)whose body was also discovered. It could be rather lonely Kitty Underhay's long search for her as her father is an eccentric stamp collector and her mother died , who disappeared in the Himalayas some ten years before, but she has her faithful bicycle, Gladys, for company and when June 1916 was over. Now she's not doing some sleuthing she's tinkering in determined that the man responsible for her laboratory, where she has enough chemicals and poisons murder will be brought to give the modern-day Health and Safety person a heart attackjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752897152</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cassandra ClarkStephen Clarke|title=Abbess of Meaux: The Law of AngelsSpy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=A widow who remarried in the Middle Ages becameThis is a spoof spy story, once again, subject to her husbandthat isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and many women of independent means preferred, therefore, 'likes the greater financial freedom afforded by taking ladies' and who works for the veil. After secret service, but in the death planning side of her husband Hildegard joins things more than the Cisterciansactive service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, one of and the richest and most powerful groups pair end up stranded in Europe at the timeNormandy, and sets out to found with Margaux on a small convent near her childhood home. Chance leads her desperate mission to investigate unearth traitors in the death of several men whose bodies she finds on her wayresistance network, and in each subsequent book in the series she finds herself yet again risking Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her life to investigate and solve crimes.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>074900942X</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Dinsdale0349423083|title=Three MilesDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Just to clear the confusion out Kate Shackleton runs her 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 way, this book has nothing Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to do with the novel of the [[Death look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell|same name]] by Gladys Mitchell. Both take their name right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from an early Schubert piece, in which Death entices the Maiden a trip to leave the world of menGermany before long. The maiden resistsJames went to see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. It was William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a common enough theme at little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the time: the death of beautybusiness to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846053579</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Sansom0241433568|title=Dark FireEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=1540 was the hottest summer of the sixteenth century but Matthew Shardlake was doing It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his best house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to hold his legal practice together, which was made more difficult by the fact that have a rest and then he believed himself wants to talk to be out of favour with Thomas CromwellMegan and Henry about something serious. He tried to keep a low profile but Only it never gets that far: when he defended the accused in a most unpopular case – Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that of a girl accused of brutally murdering her cousin – he found that the king's chief minister had a new assignment for himbeen murdered. Unless he could solve CromwellHow can that have happened? There's problem his client was likely to die a slow and nasty deathno one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330450786</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=D E Meredith1473682401|title=DevouredThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It is the 1850s, and religion and science are Those who were with us at war. Hatton and Roumonde carry out investigations in the morgue, and even at crime scenes, but their findings are seen as end of little value in Victorian England[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. Indeed, to many of their colleagues, what they do to the human body They're now married and Mallory is downright blasphemoushaving twins. They struggle on, sending begging letters to rich patrons so When they arrive no one can buy equipment, and trying to persuade doubt the police to accept the findings charms of their autopsiesLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, but they make slow progressEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. In this engrossing case, their efforts There are rewarded two drawbacks: they're noisy and they are called in by Inspector Adams of Scotland Yard to help 're staying with the murder of Lady BlessinghamDandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, who has had her head smashed in with not taken up the chance to look into a fossil. This immediately plunges problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them into a series of murderstwice before, each more bizarre and horrible than but suddenly the last, which are all connected to theories possibility of evolution and the creation being out of the worldhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>031255768X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stefanie PintoffSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=In the Shadow of GothamThe Honjin Murders
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=To many readers, the phrase 'Never Judge… locked room murder mystery' Every time I look into is enough to make the Bookbag book one to see if thereread; preferably quantified by the words 's anything I fancy, I should remind myself: clever' or 'Never judge a book by its covergood'. PintoffFor those who need more, here is the extra background – we's first novel re in rural Japan in the Simon Ziele series1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, indeed 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 first published novelfamily, 'In The Shadow of Gotham' is yet another of those ill-served by both its title and its coverfor one thing. In fairness Americans are probably more familiar with Gotham Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as a nickname planned, only for New York City than we Brits – the wedded couple to be slashed to whom it simply conjures up variations 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 theme lot of Batmanthe peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141399708</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Giulio Leoni and Shaun WhitesideB07XLM3SM6|title=The Kingdom of Light|rating=3|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Famous poet Dante is Murder at present the prior of Florence, which gives him responsibility for investigating crime. Several murders occur in quick succession - there must be a connection… but how, why? I approached this book with excitement. The underlying premise seemed to be interesting - take a famous character and place them in situations unknown to us. The portents were good! (Can you feel, a ''but''?)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516462</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDolphin Hotel|author=Shona Maclean|title=A Game of SorrowsHelena Dixon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Henry VIII Elowed Underhay was not one to ponder on his failings but his recent invasion 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 France money had gone completely wrong been spent to find out what happened to her and the French fleet conclusion was preparing that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to cross the Channel and invade Englandsuggest otherwise. The only way that Henry could raise Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the money Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to gather a large militia army look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to debase leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the currency mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the country was put in naval college on the grip edge of raging inflation town before - and economic crisisshe's done every job in the hotel. Meanwhile 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 English fleet gathered at Portsmouthhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405092734</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Brett0349423067|title=Blotto, Twinks and The Body on the Dead Dowager DuchessTrain (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=There is From Christmas to Easter a long tradition of country house murder novelstrain ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, and Simon Brett has a glorious time parodying them in arriving before dawn so that the Blotto and Twinks seriesforced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. All In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the stock characters are there: boxes discovered the dim but honourable young body of a man, the clever stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and emancipated young woman, called on the loyal lower orders and services of Kate Shackleton in the dastardly (hope that her knowledge and preferably foreign) villains. Death is treated connections in Yorkshire would give them the most light-hearted, almost off-hand manner, and danger is as regular an occurrence as kippers for breakfastlead they needed. In hands as experienced Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as Simon Brett's this should be a rich mine for comedy, child and could not come to some extent it is, but still, it has terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to be said, something is lackinggive her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013179</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Wright1472127110|title=Act of MurderIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In 1894 Wigan was having a feast of cultural entertainment. The Morgan-Drew players from London were presenting a celebrated Victorian melodramaLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, but nearby and not always for the Richard Throstle Magic Lantern Company was presenting a ghoulish extravaganza called ''Phantasmagoria''better. They're at opposite ends of the cultural scale but the town When she first settled in Brighton she was just recovering from the recent miners' strike alone, rudderless and it seemed that happily there might be something secretly grieving for everyoneJack, the lover who died before he could leave his wife. It wasn't As time went by she found in herself an ability to last though as the town is soon in turmoil after a gruesome murder. Detective Sergeant Samuel Slevin of the Wigan Borough Police is solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called in Vesta who refused to investigate let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and soon discovers that much is not as it seemseven found consolation in the arms of a rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971675</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Fraser1912374439|title=Avenging the DeadThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)
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|genre=General FictionCrime (Historical)|summary=ItNazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I's 1863 and ve given the Superintendent covering game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the inner city area of Glasgow Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has his hands full. First off an alarming forgery scandal has just been discovered and no sooner has he drawn breath than to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between oneof war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, two and counting suspicious deaths occur. Instinctivelytheir store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, I want to say that it's all goodand the late 1960s, clean fun. Because it when great consternation isbeing felt. The language Fraser uses In this timeline, a maverick agent is very much of back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that era which lends the book female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a particular old-fashioned and rather tweeyoung family, charm. It's except he was thought by all over the book to have died in spades. On almost every page. Let me give you just one endearing example of the flavour of the book 'None of Mrs Maitland's four regulars at her superior guest house for single gentlemen would even dream of taking another's seat ...'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709090684</amazonuk>War…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Norman Russell1786075431|title=The Calton PapersMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Philip Garamond had had an abiding interest in botany since his teens and when we first meet him heMeet 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 way to Sothebyesteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's intent life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on making charity and almshouses to keep a bid 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 the Calton Papersshe has vanished. Sir George CaltonOnly due to Zofia's papers include an unpublished account of Darwin's explorations on the Beaglehelp does she get found, some letters dead and in a geographical survey of place the British Islesnear-lame woman could never reach by herself. Garamond's ambition had always been to own Just who could be killing people in a botanical garden on Madeiracharity home, but he lacked the funds and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the Calton Papers seemed need to be as close as he would get to owning something special.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089546</amazonuk>make a name for herself by answering those questions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cora Harrison 1786893762|title=Writ Things in Stone (Burren Mysteries)Jars|author=Jess Kidd|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Once again we are transported back A child has gone missing. The detective asked to medieval Irelandtake 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, following and the life setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and times colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the charismatic lady judgedownright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, Marrayou 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 fiancé King Turlough . A violent and horrific murder sets the stage pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a dramatic prelude 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 happy coupleghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's nuptials!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0727868128</amazonuk>clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Imogen Robertson0349414327|title=Instruments A Snapshot of Darkness|rating=4|genre=Crime Murder (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=The lively heart of this book is Harriet Westerman. Harriet is a capable woman and manager of her family's estate in Sussex, while her husband (a naval Commodore) is away at sea. Her neighbours at Thornleigh Hall are a titled family in decline: the owner is crippled, his heir is missing, and his second son is an alcoholic. Against this background Harriet finds the body of a dead stranger holding a ring displaying the Thornleigh arms. Meanwhile, in London, a young father is murdered in his music shop. Harriet's actions uncover a link. She turns for help to Gabriel Crowther, an anatomist and reclusive recent arrival in the area. Their enquiries allow the author to paint a wide ranging picture of life in Georgian England, and to tell a rollicking good tale reminiscent of Daphne du Maurier. Robertson uses her knowledge of the period with a light touch: the level of detail advances the plot without overcomplicating the story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348397</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cora Harrison |title=The Sting of Justice (Burren Mysteries)Frances Brody|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Having recently read Even detectives need a break and reviewed Cora Harrison's [[Michaelmas Tribute (Burren Mysteries) by Cora Harrison|second Burren mystery]]for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, it Kate was with great excitement that I noticed that Bookbag had keen to take the third in the series available opportunity to review! I had a strong suspicion that a treat was in store for me-visit Haworth and I was Stanbury, not disappointed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405092270</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cora Harrison|title=Michaelmas Tribute (Burren Mysteries)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical) |summary=Several surprising murders in least because the kingdom deeds of the Burren, on the Western coast of Ireland, lead our heroine (Mara) on Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a tortuous quest museum and her parents will be there for the truthevent. Were the killings unpremeditated - or brought about through resentment What could be better than seeing her family, greed witnessing a momentous event and having the opportunity to take photographs of the desire setting for revenge''Wuthering Heights''? Aided by her scholars in the Law School, Mara doggedly pursues the truth, to bring 16th century justice to her community Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446460</amazonuk> Or could it?
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