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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Park Bridges0571370977|title=My Dear WatsonThe Lock-Up|author=John Banville

|summary=It''My Dear Watson'' s six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is written by the hand of Holmesnow back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Lucy Holmes, whom the world came to know as SherlockPhoebe. Yes, the well-loved detective The worst of his grief is a female cross-dresser over but with good reasonhe irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. The They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young Lucy, having watched her mother die tragicallyJewish scholar, rushed off to live with her brotherRosa Jacobs, Mycroft, at universityis found in a lock-up. In order to stayAt first, undetected (no pun intended), she had to dress it looked as a man. Being slight and gamine, this wasn’t difficult and, after a while, though she preferred the lifestyle'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide. Watson hasn’t seen through the disguise, continuing to live with Holmes between marriages as they combat the odds and solve crimes in (or despite) the police.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920768</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Williams1529337968|title=The Pleasures In Place of MenFear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=45

|summary=Catherine Sorgeiul It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a woman qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with burdensthose non-medical problems which affect their health. Living with her uncle in London’s East End during The hardest part of the reign of Queen Victoria, hers is a life job will be to persuade people that seems empty – yet in fact is full of things the services she is trying offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to push awayqualify for them.  Filling her days Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has become a problem, so when a series of grisly murders begins, Catherine is drawn to the mystery of the Man of Crows in a way that seems bound to change her lifeown which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951399</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Pastor057136358X|title=Liar MoonApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=45

|summary=Near VeronaTerry Tice was a hitman, northern Italy, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a German military policemanmatter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, known something which occurred to have conducted previous murder investigationshim when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. He is asked to look into 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 one Vittorio Lisi, taking up a prominent local fascist who was run over job in his wheelchair on his own estate by a car. The number one suspect is his widow ClarettaSpain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry O'HaraB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In TransylvaniaMystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating=3.54

|summary=I normally start reviews with 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 the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the point warriors to do so for live. It's quite a book entitled spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they'Sherlock Holmes and re sprinkling gold dust onto the Affair in Transylvanialions'manes to make them look more impressive. From those seven words, The sagitarii are the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is a Holmes meets Dracula story, archers and so we may as well move straight on the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the burning question – is wild animals. Today, it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>'s the crocodiles.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=D E Meredith1529337925|title=The Devil's RibbonMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=In It was the London of 1858August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the Irish are fire lit and Bunty the poorest of the poor, despised and feared by Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the Englishsofa. They were forced to emigrate from their fatherland because The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the famine which decimated the population, and now the majority of them live call from Sandy Bissett in filthy, germ-ridden rookeriesDundee. Cholera is killing them off in their hundreds, and blame for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at She was the feet publisher of their English masters, together with those Irishmen who have so far forgotten their home a magazine and had been told that they cooperate with the oppressors. And as man running the hottest summer on record drags on, Punch and Judy show in the tenth anniversary local park had used copies of the potato blight and its horrific consequences approach, the mood in the slums is ripe for violence and murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas Bruce Wheeler|title=The London two of Sherlock Holmes her cartoon characters - Over 400 Computer Generated Street Level Photos|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=Should I trust a book that has a typo on the FRONT cover? Would I purchase a book that practically says, as its first words, the eRosie Cheek and her sister Freckle -book version is better than this paper thing? This, despite setting to drum up very much the wrong impression, is a gateway into the world of Sherlock Holmes - but does, as I say, blatantly some local interest in his show itself up as flawed, while the electronic version could count as a very worthwhile app for the Conan Doyle buff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Lane|title=Young Sherlock Holmes Sandy Bissett's request was simple: Fire Storm|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has authorised Andrew Lane she wanted Gilver and Osborne to write a series of books warn the man about the early years infringement of Sherlock Holmes, copyright - and if this book is typical then they made an excellent choice. Through these stories we see the development of the complex Dandy and sometimes contradictory aspects of Sherlock's personality, set in Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the context of the most thrilling adventures and courageous acts of derring-do a young person could desiresame job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758509</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony HaysB08LKT7HSR|title=The Killing WayMurder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Post-Roman invasion and Great Britain shows In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the signs cellar of a beleagured nationthe Glass Bottle Public House. And straight away Hays gives us an historical flavour Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half- Saxonsbrother, Picts and names such as Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay'Ambrosius Aurelianuss long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she' are mentioned early on in s determined that the bookman responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890050</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy AdamsStephen Clarke|title=Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of GodSpy Who Inspired Me

|summary=A body is discovered in London. The young gentleman concernedKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, a Mr Hilary De Montfortably assisted by Jim Sykes, had enjoyed a good life: no money problems for example who lives in Woodhouse and as far as anyone can ascertainher housekeeper, no enemies eitherMrs Sugden. The motive is therefore fuzzy at bestShe's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. The state of Something is going wrong with his body when business and he'd like Kate to look into it was discovered was bizarre - it looked as if discreetly: he'd been hurled s hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a great height, even although he'd been discovered in an open space around Grosvenor Squaretrip to Germany before long. And in James went to see what the words of Dr Watson continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself (it a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he who narrates in 'd like the main) ' ... as varied as our capital might business to be, it will always be found wanting of mountain rangesship-shape before his nephew returns.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682822</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels0241433568|title=Shadowblood: A Novel Of Sherlock HolmesEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=For those picking up a Tracy Revels novel for the first time, she writes Sherlock Holmes fiction It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with the twist that Holmes is a supernatural being, coming from the ShadowsBunny at his house in Spain. In the hugely enjoyable romp [[Shadowfall It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes by Tracy Revels|Shadowfall]], Watson discovered this, he's going to have a rest and was plunged headlong into an adventure involving Titania, Spring-Heeled Jack, voodoo, then he wants to talk to Megan and various other dark and mysterious beingsHenry 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. That How can that have happened? There's no one ended with else in the good doctor losing his memory house, so one of them must be the story – but I was always hoping that was merely a temporary measure, and indeed, it’s not long here before he starts to recall Holmes’ true naturekiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920474</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John O'Connell1473682401|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A NovelTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|genre=General FictionCrime (Historical)|summary=1900, and a man on a ship coming back from Those who were with us at the Boer War end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to edit the Daily Express meets Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one of his heroes in can doubt the form charms of Arthur Conan DoyleLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. With similar experiences There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and interests yet different enough to bounce off each other they take up the idea of collaborating on a plot're staying with Dandy and Hugh. When they do fix on time to do soDandy and her detective partner, it leads to literary prospectsAlec Osborne, which lead had not taken up the chance to look into a week's research together on Dartmoorproblem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, which leads to ''The Hound but suddenly the possibility of being out of the Baskervilles''. But perhaps in a way that only one of them intendedhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595465</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dicky Neely Seishi Yokomizo and Paul R Spiring Louise Heal Kawai (Editortranslator)|title=The Case of the Grave Accusation: A Sherlock Holmes AdventureHonjin Murders|rating=34|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Much in To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the way that legend says that King Arthur will return when his country needs him, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have returned because an accusation has been made against their creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doylewords 'clever' or 'good'. The charge For those who need more, here is that the great man plagiarised 'extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The Hound oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the Baskervilles'' from his great friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – and then went on to commit adulteryhardly anybody has turned up, blackmail and murder in order to conceal what he had donewith it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Holmes' rooms Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in Baker Street have not changed their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a great deal – if one can overlook man missing parts of his fingers being in the addition neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a desktop computer and better plumbing – but it's not long before traditional musical instrument at the time of the pair are off to Dartmoor to discover crime, this case has a lot of the truthpeculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908218819</amazonuk>1782275002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John BuchanB07XLM3SM6|title=The Thirty-nine StepsMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Ask anyone about 'The ThrityElowed Underhay was just twenty-nine Steps' 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 I guarantee they'll be able the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to tell you it's a spy story terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with Richard Hannay at its hearther grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. Most people will be able She was reluctant to tell you how it startsleave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. But when you ask, She'Yess always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, but what ARE boating people and the naval college on the 39 Steps?edge of town before - and she' s done every job in the hotel. most people will falterAnd 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971985</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels0349423067|title=Shadowfall: A Novel of Sherlock HolmesThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=You remember Sherlock HolmesFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, yes? Deerstalkerarriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, pipe, leetle grey cells… (Oh, sorry, that one of the porters who was Poirot, but same kind unloading the boxes discovered the body of deductive ability)a man, stripped naked winged-woman and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on, or at least floating above, the sofa services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Baker Street… wait 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 terms with the fact that she was now a minute? Seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218258</amazonuk>woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police held.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerard Kelly1472127110|title=The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock HolmesIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5

|summary=I'll spare people Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the details of Holmes war, and Watson as crime-solvers – I'm assuming anyone likely to pick this one up is probably familiar with not always for the Victorian duobetter. This is generally very faithful to the Arthur Conan Doyle originals When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the best stories lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in this set of thirteen sound authentic enough herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to take their place alongside some let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the arms of the canona rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218673</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Workman1912374439|title=Rendezvous at the Populaire : A Novel of Sherlock HolmesThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)

|summary=After chasing his archNazi-enemy Moriarty without success on occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a cold night murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in November 1882this volume, Sherlock Holmes is left maimed which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and unable rushes to her best friend to walk without help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the use of a canelate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. DespondentIn this timeline, he decides to give up his career as a detective – but maverick agent is talked into taking an extra special caseback 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 Madame Giry comes across the Channel young family, except he was thought by all to beg his help with the mysterious 'ghost' which is terrorising have died in the Opera Populaire…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218703</amazonuk>War…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carole Bugge1786075431|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Star of IndiaMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

|summary=A woman with a distinguished scent about her appears flustered at a concert recitalMeet Zofia. 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 socially climbing wife of a threat to the Royalty and Empire itself. But there is also only one person, who famously seemed to have stayed dead in going over the same Alpine waterfallmedical professor, with the strength of mind to put the whole game into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Jose Farmer|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Itshe's World War Oneintent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and Britain has got wind of some brilliant scientific research, that has created a new bacterial weapon capable of wiping out the world's supply of sauerkrautkeen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. But a dastardly German has stolen the formula. Before he can give a variant based on boiled meatIn 1890s Cracow, cabbage and potatoes to the kaiserlife is pretty good, his most recent nemesis - Sherlock Holmes, no less - must but she knows it could always be brought out of beekeeping retirementbetter. Cue an adventure and a halfMeanwhile, as he and Watson take to the skies for the first time in their hectic lives, end up in darkest Africa, and encounter a certain yodelling, long-haired nobleman, more than up to the name of King of the Jungle...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=John Shakespeare: Prince|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the third in the excellent Elizabethan murder mystery series, featuring John Shakespeare, brother of Will. An inexplicable murder is linked city due to a much deeper plot lack of political dimensionshygiene, leading Shakespeare into danger and tragedy. A series of bombings, which appear many people have to be targeting the immigrant population causes huge unrest fall on charity and fear, and leads almshouses to the uncovering of further political dimensionskeep a roof over their heads.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544251</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Perry|title=Betrayal at Lisson Grove|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=After recently reading Perry's [[Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying itOne such was Mrs Mohr, I although she was looking forward rich enough to reading this book keep private lodgings and hoping it would be as good as read. The novel opens with Pitt, Special Branch, staff in the midst of frenzied action trying to catch a suspecther charitable home. Suspected of murder, itI say ''was's imperative that he's caught. They weave between crowds, duck through alleys, but their best efforts are simply not good enoughfor she has vanished. The man is not caught. HeOnly due to Zofia's free to strike again. This all makes for a goodhelp does she get found, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind to board dead and in a ferry for France, believing that's where place the suspect near-lame woman could be headingnever reach by herself. Pitt is extremely thorough 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 the world: Europe and Ireland Just who could be killing people in particular. And Perry is good at giving her readers a little palatable history here and therecharity home, to keep us all in the loop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Perry|title=Acceptable Loss|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=I must admit to not taking to the rather stylized front cover and nor did I take to the title. I got the initial impression that this novel was going to be all about heaving bosoms and manly men without too much substance. Was I right thoughwhat end? I gave a bit of a sigh as I started on chapter one. Straight away we meet two of And why does Zofia feel the central characters, Mr and Mrs Monk. Mrs Monk (Hester) seems need to have brought make a local street urchin into her lovely home. All sounds a bit odd and also a bit intriguing. Perry back-tracks a little name for the benefit of her readers and lets us know how this situation has come about. The boy is street-wise but he's also now desperate for a warm, safe bed and regular meals if he's lucky. He's had a dreadful life up till now and has somehow survived a terrible ordeal - and yes, you could say that it's the stuff of nightmares. I loved his name - Scuff and I automatically called him Scruff in my head, every time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755376846</amazonuk>herself by answering those questions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1786893762|title=A Red Herring Without MustardThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=Eleven year old Flavia A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the youngest daughter of shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the de Luce family 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 she doesn't get on the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that well era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with her elder sisters, Feely (Ophelia) the bizarre and Daffy (Daphne)the downright hideous. It could be rather lonely for her as her father And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is an eccentric stamp collector than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and her mother died in the Himalayas some ten years beforestout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she has smokes in her faithful bicyclepipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, Gladyswell, for company and when shelet's not doing some sleuthing shesay recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's tinkering in her laboratory, where she has enough chemicals and poisons actually meant to give cure bronchial problems is by the modern-day Health and Safety person a heart attackby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752897152</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cassandra Clark|title=Abbess of Meaux: The Law of Angels|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A widow who remarried in the Middle Ages becameHer housemaid, once againbeing seven-foot-tall, subject to her husbandis also somewhat remarkable. And then, and many women of independent means preferredcourse, therefore, the greater financial freedom afforded by taking there's the veilghost. After the death of Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her husband Hildegard joins the Cisterciansinvestigation, one of the richest and most powerful groups in Europe at it's clear he has a soft spot for the time, and sets out to found a small convent near her childhood homedetermined young woman. Chance leads her to investigate the death of several men whose bodies she finds on her wayIf he really exists, and in each subsequent book in the series she finds herself yet again risking her life to investigate and solve crimesthat is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074900942X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Dinsdale0349414327|title=Three MilesA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=Just to clear Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the confusion out of mental relaxation which she needs. When the waylocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, this book has nothing Kate was keen to take the opportunity to do with visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the novel deeds of the [[Death Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell|same name]] by Gladys Mitchellevent. Both take their name from an early Schubert piece What could be better than seeing her family, in which Death entices witnessing a momentous event and having the Maiden opportunity to leave take photographs of the world of men. setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? The maiden resistsNothing could go wrong. It was a common enough theme at the time: the death of beauty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846053579</amazonuk>Or could it?

{{newreview|author=C J Sansom|title=Dark Fire|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1540 was the hottest summer of the sixteenth century but Matthew Shardlake was doing his best Move on to hold his legal practice together, which was made more difficult by the fact that he believed himself to be out of favour with Thomas Cromwell. He tried to keep a low profile but when he defended the accused in a most unpopular case – that of a girl accused of brutally murdering her cousin – he found that the king's chief minister had a new assignment for him. Unless he could solve Cromwell's problem his client was likely to die a slow and nasty death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330450786</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]]