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|summary=This year sees It's six months since the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and several booksliving (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for both children what happened and adults, are being published based on the story of the doomed ship. In this particular book has made the fact that we already know fate of strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the majority body of the travellers adds a whole new level of tension to young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a story which is already an exciting thrillerlock-up. Not only is there the question of whether they will catch the bad guy or not At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but also, and more crucially: will the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Siciliano1529337968|title=The Further Adventures In Place of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=3.5

|summary=An old gypsy woman places It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a curse qualified medical almoner the following morning - on guests at a ball, leaving the upper class revellers shockedday that the NHS is born. When, over the next few years, misfortune befalls several of the party-goers, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows there She's only one recourse left ll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to him help patients with those non- to call Sherlock Holmesmedical problems which affect their health. It's a slightly different version The hardest part of Holmes from the job will be to persuade people that wethe services she offers really are free and that they don've come t have to expect, thoughdo anything to qualify for them. The detective, far from being an emotionless man, is capable Some of feeling strongly for the right woman - could the detective find love as well as the answer to the mystery? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sax Rohmer057136358X|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu ManchuApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=45

|summary=Dr Petrie is surprisedTerry Tice was a hitman, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to Englandalthough he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. But this is no mere pleasure visit – I couldn't resist the former Scotland Yard man is on the trail thought that he was an extreme version of Fu ManchuMarie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, a Chinese doctor something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the brains chance to kill a lot of any three men of geniusthe little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Petrie is immediately plunged into He was spending a headlong race against lot of time to stop 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 mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans and leading ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the East to world domination!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>benefits of taking up a job in Spain.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen JenningsB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Except the Dying: Murdoch MysteriesThe Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=Victorian detective novels set We meet Solon in Britain are fairly Pergamon in the second century of the common, era and some he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this categorypopulace. The Murdoch stories, however, come from remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a different angle, being placed (for feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the most part) in Canada, with its snowy wastes, its logging camps and pioneering spiritwarriors to live. Loyalty to It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the Queen is as ardent here as back home in charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the old countrylions', but there is a rawness manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and a sense of space to these novels which is due in large part the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their settinglives with the wild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Dickens1529337925|title=The Mystery of Edwin DroodMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|genre=Literary FictionCrime (Historical)|summary=If you have never come across 'Drood' before, there are certain significant factors which make this a 'must read'. It is Dickens' last work, was the August Bank Holiday weekend and he died without completing it. Given that this is a detective story, one of the very first in that traditionas so often happened, it is doubly intriguing, because although we are clearly being fed clues was cold enough to have the fire lit and hints throughout, at the point where Bunty the text ends we arenDalmation wasn't even fully sure even if a crime has been committedinclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. So as The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the basis for endless speculation about what really happens this novel could hardly be betteredcall from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. We certainly have potential villains and victims, but we also have She was the publisher of a number magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of likely red herrings; complex threads two of romantic her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest, but again it is by no means clear exactly which way these will resolve; in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a shadowy detective figure, whose speculations certainly have no sense of conclusionsolicitor to do the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849904278</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David RuffleB08LKT7HSR|title=Sherlock Holmes and Murder in the Lyme Regis LegacyBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Dr Watson is happy to be returning to Lyme Regis, and In December 1933 the woman he loves. He gets more than he bargained for, though, as he is quickly embroiled remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in a series of killings which bear strange resemblances to some the cellar of the cases he and Holmes have been involved Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in. The great detective joins him, connection with Lestrade following to assist in their investigations, and the trio realise that they are dealing with a haunting figure from their past...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780921004</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Ruffle|title=Sherlock Holmes murder of Elowed and the Lyme Regis Horror his half- Expanded 2nd Edition|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Taking a rare holiday on the Dorsetshire coastbrother, Denzil Hammett, Dr Watson manages to persuade Sherlock Holmes to join himwhose body was also discovered. Delighted to spend time with his old friend Godfrey Jacobs, and charmed by widowed boarding house proprietor Mrs Heidler Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the good doctor is set man responsible for a pleasant and relaxing stay – until mysterious events occur, pointing her murder will be brought to an unimaginable evil, and the game’s afoot once more!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920563</amazonuk>justice.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret Park BridgesStephen Clarke|title=My Dear WatsonThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=This is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'My Dear Watsonlikes the ladies'' is written by and who works for the secret service, but in the hand planning side of Holmes, Lucy Holmes, whom things more than the world came to know as Sherlockactive service. Yes, the well-loved detective is Lemming finds himself put on a female cross-dresser but with good reason. The young Lucy, having watched her mother die tragically, rushed off to live mission with her brother, Mycroft, at university. In order to stay, undetected (no pun intended), she had to dress as a man. Being slight and gaminefemale spy called Margaux, this wasn’t difficult andthe pair end up stranded in Normandy, after with Margaux on a while, she preferred the lifestyle. Watson hasn’t seen through desperate mission to unearth traitors in the disguiseresistance network, continuing and Lemming desperately trying to live keep up with Holmes between marriages as they combat the odds and solve crimes in (or despite) the police.her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780920768</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Williams0349423083|title=The Pleasures of Men|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Catherine Sorgeiul is a woman with burdens. Living with her uncle in London’s East End during Death and the reign of Brewery Queen Victoria, hers is a life that seems empty – yet in fact is full of things she is trying to push away.  Filling her days 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 life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951399</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ben Pastor|title=Liar Moon|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Near Verona, northern Italy, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is a German military policeman, known to have conducted previous murder investigations. He is asked to look into the death of one Vittorio Lisi, a prominent local fascist who was run over in his wheelchair on his own estate by a car. The number one suspect is his widow Claretta.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gerry O'Hara|title=Sherlock Holmes and The Affair In Transylvania|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=I normally start reviews with a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides the point to do so for a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania'. From those seven words, the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is a Holmes meets Dracula story, and so we may as well move straight on to the burning question – is it any good?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=D E Meredith|title=The Devil's RibbonFrances Brody

|summary=In the London of 1858Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, the Irish are the poorest of the poorably assisted by Jim Sykes, despised who lives in Woodhouse and feared her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the EnglishBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. They were forced Something is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to emigrate from their fatherland because of the famine which decimated the population, look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and now the majority of them live in filthy, germright-ridden rookeries. Cholera is killing them off in their hundredshand man, and blame for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at the feet of their English mastersJames Lofthouse, together with will be back from a trip to Germany before long. those Irishmen who have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate with James went to see what the oppressorscontinental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. And as 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'd like the hottest summer on record drags on, and the tenth anniversary of the potato blight and its horrific consequences approach, the mood in the slums is ripe for violence and murderbusiness to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Thomas Bruce Wheeler|title=The London of Sherlock Holmes - 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 e-book version is better than this paper thing? This, despite setting up very much the wrong impression, is a gateway into the world of Sherlock Holmes - but does, as I say, blatantly 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Lane0241433568|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has authorised Andrew Lane to write a series of books about the early years of Sherlock Holmes, and if this book is typical then they made an excellent choice. Through these stories we see the development of the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of Sherlock's personality, set in the context of the most thrilling adventures and courageous acts of derring-do a young person could desire. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758509</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEight Detectives|author=Anthony Hays|title=The Killing WayAlex Pavesi|rating=3.5

|summary=Post-Roman invasion It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Great Britain shows the signs of Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a beleagured nationrest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. And straight away Hays gives us an historical flavour - Saxons, Picts and names such as Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn'Ambrosius Aurelianust emerge after his siesta his guests find that he' are mentioned early on s been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the bookhouse, so one of them must be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890050</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Adams1473682401|title=Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of GodTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=Those who were with us at the end of [[A body Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is discovered in Londonhaving twins. The young gentleman concerned, a Mr Hilary De Montfort, had enjoyed a good life: When they arrive no money problems for example one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and as far as anyone can ascertainher brother, no enemies eitherEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. The motive is therefore fuzzy at best. The state of his body when it was discovered was bizarre - it looked as if heThere are two drawbacks: they'd been hurled from a great height, even although here noisy and they'd been discovered in an open space around Grosvenor Squarere staying with Dandy and Hugh. And in the words of Dr Watson himself (it is he who narrates in the main) ' ... as varied as our capital might beDandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, it will always be found wanting of mountain ranges.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tracy Revels|title=Shadowblood: A Novel Of Sherlock Holmes|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=For those picking had not taken up a Tracy Revels novel for the first time, she writes Sherlock Holmes fiction with the twist that Holmes is chance to look into a supernatural being, coming from problem at the Shadows. In the hugely enjoyable romp [[Shadowfall: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes by Tracy Revels|Shadowfall]], Watson discovered this, and Cramond ferry when it was plunged headlong into an adventure involving Titaniaoffered to them twice before, Spring-Heeled Jack, voodoo, and various other dark and mysterious beings. That one ended with but suddenly the good doctor losing his memory possibility of being out of 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 naturehouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920474</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John O'ConnellSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A NovelHonjin Murders

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=1900To many readers, and a man on a ship coming back from the Boer War phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to edit make the Daily Express meets book one of his heroes to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the form 1930s. The oldest son of Arthur Conan Doylean esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. With similar experiences and interests yet different enough to bounce off each other they take up the idea of collaborating on a plotShe only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. When they do fix on time to do soEither way, it leads to literary prospectsthe celebrations have gone ahead as planned, which lead only for the wedded couple to a week's research together on Dartmoor, which leads be slashed to ''The Hound of death in their private annexe before the Baskervilles''sun rises on their marriage. But perhaps 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 way that only one lot of them intendedthe peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907595465</amazonuk>1782275002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dicky Neely and Paul R Spiring (Editor)B07XLM3SM6|title=The Case of Murder at the Grave Accusation: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating=3|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Much in 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 Doyle. The charge is that the great man plagiarised ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' from his great friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson – and then went on to commit adultery, blackmail and murder in order to conceal what he had done. Holmes' rooms in Baker Street have not changed a great deal – if one can overlook the addition of a desktop computer and better plumbing – but it's not long before the pair are off to Dartmoor to discover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218819</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDolphin Hotel|author=John Buchan|title=The Thirty-nine StepsHelena 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=Meet Zofia. A woman with socially climbing wife of a distinguished scent about her appears flustered at medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a concert recital. A famous landlady gets kidnapped while charitable lady, and keen on an innocent holiday to the west countryher husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. A malformedIn 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, brilliant modern-day alchemist gets murderedbut she knows it could always be better. There Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is only one personnearing the city due to lack of hygiene, who famously went and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over a certain Alpine waterfalltheir heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, who could piece all this and more into a threat although she was rich enough to the Royalty keep private lodgings and Empire itselfstaff in her charitable home. But there is also only one personI say ''was'', who famously seemed for she has vanished. Only due to have stayed Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in going over a place the same Alpine waterfallnear-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a charity home, with and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the strength of mind need to put the whole game into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>make a name for herself by answering those questions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Jose Farmer1786893762|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless PeerThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=It's World War One, A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and Britain has got wind of some brilliant scientific researchfrustration left by a previous case, that has created a new bacterial weapon capable of wiping out where the world's supply of sauerkrautchild was not found in time. But Hardly original themes for a dastardly German has stolen the formulaprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Before he can give This detective is a variant based on boiled meatwoman, cabbage and potatoes to the kaisersetting is Victorian London, his most recent nemesis - Sherlock Holmes, no less - must be brought out with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of beekeeping retirement. Cue an adventure that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a half, as he fascination with the bizarre and Watson take to the skies for the first time downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in their hectic lives, end up you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in darkest Africahalf-mourning, with a widow's cap and encounter a certain yodellingstout, shiny boots, long-haired noblemanbut the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, more than up what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to the name do!) is mixed with a nugget of King of the Junglesomething, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rory Clements|title=John Shakespeare: Prince|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=This The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the third in the excellent Elizabethan murder mystery seriesby. Her housemaid, featuring John Shakespearebeing seven-foot-tall, brother of Willis also somewhat remarkable. An inexplicable murder is linked to a much deeper plot And then, of political dimensionscourse, leading Shakespeare into danger and tragedythere's the ghost. A series of bombingsRuby Doyle, which appear to be targeting the immigrant population causes huge unrest and fearworld-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and leads to it's clear he has a soft spot for the uncovering of further political dimensionsdetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848544251</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Perry0349414327|title=Betrayal at Lisson GroveA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=After recently reading Perry's Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. [[Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry|Acceptable Loss]] and thoroughly enjoying itWhen the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, I Kate was looking forward keen to take the opportunity to reading this book visit Haworth and hoping it would be as good as read. The novel opens with PittStanbury, Special Branch, in not least because the midst deeds of frenzied action trying to catch a suspect. Suspected of murder, the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it'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 caught. He's free to strike again. This all makes for can become a good, old-fashioned chase as Pitt makes up his mind to board a ferry museum and her parents will be there for France, believing that's where the suspect event. What could be heading. Pitt is extremely thorough better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and meticulous in all matters of policing but this may very well bode ill later on in having the story. We learn of deep unrest in parts opportunity to take photographs of the world: setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Europe and Ireland in particularNothing could go wrong. And Perry is good at giving her readers a little palatable history here and there, to keep us all in the loop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>Or could it?

{{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 though? I gave a bit of a sigh as I started on chapter one. Straight away we meet two of the central characters, Mr and Mrs Monk. Mrs Monk (Hester) seems to have brought a local street urchin into her lovely home. All sounds a bit odd and also a bit intriguing. Perry back-tracks a little 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>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Bradley|title=A Red Herring Without Mustard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Eleven year old Flavia is the youngest daughter of the de Luce family and she doesn't get on all that well with her elder sisters, Feely (Ophelia) and Daffy (Daphne). It could be rather lonely for her as her father is an eccentric stamp collector and her mother died in the Himalayas some ten years before, but she has her faithful bicycle, Gladys, for company and when she's not doing some sleuthing she's tinkering in her laboratory, where she has enough chemicals and poisons to give the modern-day Health and Safety person a heart attack.|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 became, once again, subject to her husband, and many women of independent means preferred, therefore, the greater financial freedom afforded by taking the veil. After the death of her husband Hildegard joins the Cistercians, one of the richest and most powerful groups in Europe at the time, and sets out to found a small convent near her childhood home. Chance leads her to investigate the death of several men whose bodies she finds on her way, and in each subsequent book in the series she finds herself yet again risking her life to investigate and solve crimes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074900942X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Dinsdale|title=Three Miles|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Captain Abraham Matthews is so desperate to catch the villainous Albie Crowe and bring the youngster to justice that some people would say he was obsessed. After six months, Matthews has finally tracked down his prey, and captures him just three miles from the police station. But with Albie's boys trying to rescue him, other men without Abraham's moral compass more interested in vengeance than justice, and the Luftwaffe dropping bombs Move on Leeds, this is set to be the longest three miles of either of their lives...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057126025X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ben Pastor|title=Lumen|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Cracow, Poland, October 1939: The Germans have recently occupied Poland and are seeking to establish their authority. Captain Martin Bora of the Wehrmacht (the German army) has just arrived in the city from the battlefield to take up a posting to Intelligence. His boss asks Bora to drive him to a convent every day to see the renowned Abbess, rumoured to have mystic and healing powers. A few days later, though, she is found shot dead in the grounds of her convent. Bora is asked to investigate and report back. He proceeds to investigate who shot her and why, but as his investigation continues, there are more questions for Bora and the reader. Where does this case fit in with the priorities of the occupying forces?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738664</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frank Tallis|title=Death and the Maiden|rating=3|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Just to clear the confusion out of the way, this book has nothing to do with the novel of the [[Death and the Maiden by Gladys Mitchell|same nameNewest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]] by Gladys Mitchell. Both take their name from an early Schubert piece, in which Death entices the Maiden to leave the world of men. The maiden resists. It was a common enough theme at the time: the death of beauty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846053579</amazonuk>}} {{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 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>}}