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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]]==Crime (historical)==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long0571370977|title=Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers The Lock-Up|author=John Banville
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=While It's six months since the true crime specialist reader may prefer books dramatic events which deal we read about in one case [[April in depthSpain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, there’s always room Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for another title at what happened and this has made the other end already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of the spectruma young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, dealing is found in brief with a variety of murders over the yearslock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1529337968|title=Time and TideIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A ship It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is wrecked due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the coast of 16th century Scotland, day that the crew gone, the only man on board dying NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and a windmill lashed her job will be to its deckhelp patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. What happened? What sort The hardest part of illness does it carry? And, more importantly for the townjob will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don's people, who gets t have to do anything to keep qualify for them. Some of the windmill? problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. It's a tough one, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is on the caseHer marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Stashower057136358X|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum MurdersApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=45
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=There are two things you need to know about StashowerTerry Tice was a hitman, although he didn's Harry Houdinit think of himself in those terms. Firstly, He saw what he is did as ''a huge fan matter of Sherlock Holmesmaking things tidy''. Secondly, and much more importantly, I couldn't resist the thought that he is utterly certain was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his own ability job, something which occurred to do whatever him when he sets his mind was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance tokill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit in He was spending a minor way, in lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a murder, swizzle stick - surely he immediately decides it is up to him to solve wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the case. ''morning''? It never occurs to him was after Percy's death that he might fail, because that is simply not an option for saw the Great Houdinibenefits of taking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen JenningsB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=The fourth book in the series of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like the others, in Toronto. Religion, money and family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' in England, and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not to mention his love life, are played out against the sense Mystery of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHealing|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Under the Dragon's Tail: Murdoch MysteriesA P McGrath
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Murdoch is a lonely man, still grieving 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 fiancée who died over amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a year beforefeeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. He busies himself, It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when he is not workingwe first see them, with training for they're sprinkling gold dust onto the police sportslions' day, learning manes to dance, make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady beastiarii are the condemned criminals who lodges in are going to fight for their lives with the next-door roomwild animals. She is a charming young widow with a young son Today, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, that he can never find married bliss with herit's the crocodiles. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan James1529337925|title=UnsinkableThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=This year sees It was the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the TitanicAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, and several booksas so often happened, for both children it was cold enough to have the fire lit and adults, are being published based Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the story sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the doomed shipcall from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. In this particular book She was the fact publisher of a magazine and had been told that we already know fate of the majority man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of the travellers adds a whole new level two of tension her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to a story which is already an exciting thrillerdrum up some local interest in his show. Not only is there Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the question man about infringement of whether they will catch the bad guy or not, but also, copyright - and Dandy and more crucially: will Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>same job.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam SicilianoB08LKT7HSR|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=An old gypsy woman places a curse on guests at a ball, leaving In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the upper class revellers shockedGlass Bottle Public House. When, over Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the next few years, misfortune befalls several murder of the partyElowed and his half-goersbrother, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows thereDenzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's only one recourse left to him - to call Sherlock Holmeslong search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. It Now she's a slightly different version of Holmes from determined that we've come to expect, though. The detective, far from being an emotionless the man, is capable of feeling strongly responsible for the right woman - could the detective find love as well as the answer her murder will be brought to the mystery? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>justice.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sax RohmerStephen Clarke|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu ManchuSpy Who Inspired Me
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Dr Petrie This is surpriseda spoof spy story, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to Englandthat isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But this is no mere pleasure visit – the former Scotland Yard it features a man is on the trail of Fu Manchucalled Ian Lemming, a Chinese doctor with who dresses well and 'likes the ladies'and who works for the secret service, but in the brains planning side of any three men of genius''things more than the active service. Petrie is immediately plunged into Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a headlong race against time desperate mission to stop unearth traitors in the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans resistance network, and leading the East Lemming desperately trying to world dominationkeep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0349423083|title=Except the Dying: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly common, Death and some of the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this category. The Murdoch stories, however, come from a different angle, being placed Brewery Queen (for the most partKate Shackleton Mysteries) in Canada, with its snowy wastes, its logging camps and pioneering spirit. Loyalty to the Queen is as ardent here as back home in 'the old country', but there is a rawness and a sense of space to these novels which is due in large part to their setting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Dickens|title=The Mystery of Edwin DroodFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Dr Watson is happy to be returning to Lyme RegisKate 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 woman Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is going wrong with his business and he loves. He gets more than 'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he bargained for's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, thoughJames Lofthouse, as he is quickly embroiled in will be back from a series of killings which bear strange resemblances trip to Germany before long. James went to some of see what the cases he continental brewers were doing and Holmes have been involved inwhat changes Barleycorn might need to make. The great detective joins him, with Lestrade following William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to assist in their investigations, and bring back a German bride but he'd like the trio realise that they are dealing with a haunting figure from their past..business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780921004</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ruffle0241433568|title=Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Horror - Expanded 2nd EditionEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=45
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Taking It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rare holiday on the Dorsetshire coast, Dr Watson manages rest and then he wants to persuade Sherlock Holmes talk to join himMegan and Henry about something serious. Delighted to spend time with Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his old friend Godfrey Jacobs, and charmed by widowed boarding guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house proprietor Mrs Heidler, so one of them must be the good doctor is set for a pleasant and relaxing stay – until mysterious events occur, pointing to an unimaginable evil, and the game’s afoot once more!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920563</amazonuk>killer.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Park Bridges1473682401|title=My Dear WatsonThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=''My Dear Watson'' is written by Those who were with us at the hand end of Holmes, Lucy Holmes, whom the world came [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to know as SherlockMallory Dunnoch. Yes, the well-loved detective They're now married and Mallory is a female cross-dresser but with good reasonhaving twins. The young Lucy, having watched her mother die tragically, rushed off to live with When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Mycroft, at universityEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. In order to stay, undetected (no pun intended), she had to dress as a manThere are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Being slight Dandy and gamineher detective partner, this wasn’t difficult andAlec Osborne, after had not taken up the chance to look into a while, she preferred problem at the lifestyle. Watson hasn’t seen through the disguiseCramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, continuing to live with Holmes between marriages as they combat but suddenly the odds and solve crimes in (or despite) possibility of being out of the policehouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920768</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate WilliamsSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Pleasures of MenHonjin Murders
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Catherine Sorgeiul To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is a woman with burdensenough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. Living with her uncle For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in London’s East End during the reign 1930s. The oldest son of Queen Victoriaan esteemed family is belatedly getting married, hers although the whole affair is a life that seems empty really not as ostentatious as it might be – yet in fact is full of things she is trying to push awayhardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. Filling She only has an uncle representing her days has become a problemfamily, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, so when only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a series man missing parts of grisly murders beginshis fingers being in the neighbourhood, Catherine is drawn to and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the mystery time of the Man crime, this case has a lot of Crows in a way that seems bound to change her lifethe peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241951399</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben PastorB07XLM3SM6|title=Liar MoonMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Near VeronaElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, northern Italyleaving her daughter, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is a German military policemanKitty, known in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to have conducted previous murder investigations. He is asked find out what happened to look into her and the death of one Vittorio Lisiconclusion was that she was dead, a prominent local fascist who mainly because there was run over in his wheelchair on his own estate by a carno evidence to suggest otherwise. 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 (Historical)|summary=I normally start reviews Kitty has come to terms with a brief plot summary, but it seems almost besides the point to do so for a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes this and in 1933 she was running the Affair Dolphin Hotel in Transylvania'Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. From those seven words, the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is a Holmes meets Dracula story, She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - 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 DevilKitty could not understand why. She's Ribbon|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In the London of 1858, the Irish are always coped with the poorest mix of the poorholidaymakers, despised boating people and feared by the English. They were forced to emigrate from their fatherland because of naval college on the famine which decimated the population, and now the majority edge of them live in filthy, germtown before -ridden rookeries. Cholera is killing them off and she's done every job in their hundreds, and blame for their terrible conditions is laid squarely at the feet of their English masters, together with hotel. those Irishmen who And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate with the oppressors. And as the hottest summer been roped in to keep an eye on record drags on, things ''and the tenth anniversary '' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the potato blight and its horrific consequences approach, the mood in the slums is ripe for violence and murderhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312557698</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Thomas Bruce Wheeler0349423067|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 Body 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>}} {{newreviewTrain (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Andrew Lane|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Ask anyone about From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King'The Thrity-nine Steps' and I guarantee they'll s Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be able taken to tell you it's Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a spy story man, stripped naked and with Richard Hannay at its heartno means of identification. Most people will be able Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to tell you how it startsterms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. But when you ask, 'Yes, but what ARE He was reluctant to give her all the information which the 39 Steps?' most people will falterpolice held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971985</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Revels1472127110|title=ShadowfallIndian Summer: A Novel of Sherlock Holmesa Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=You remember Sherlock HolmesLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, yes? Deerstalkerour favourite fifties sleuth, pipesince the war, leetle grey cells… (Ohand not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, sorryrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, that was Poirot, but same kind of deductive the lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an ability)to solve crimes, naked winged-made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman on, or at least floating abovecalled Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the sofa in Baker Street… wait arms of a minute? Seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218258</amazonuk>rather charming policeman.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerard Kelly1912374439|title=The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock HolmesCourier|ratingauthor=4|genre=Crime Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (Historicaltranslator)|summary=I'll spare people the details of Holmes and Watson as crime-solvers – I'm assuming anyone likely to pick this one up is probably familiar with the Victorian duo. This is generally very faithful to the Arthur Conan Doyle originals and the best stories in this set of thirteen sound authentic enough to take their place alongside some of the canon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218673</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Workman|title=Rendezvous at the Populaire : A Novel of Sherlock Holmes
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|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…
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{{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)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|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 socially climbing wife of 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 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 sauerkraut. But a dastardly German has stolen the formulakeen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. 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 and fear, fall on charity 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 Just who could be killing people 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 a charity home, and Ireland in particular. to what end? And Perry is good at giving her readers why does Zofia feel the need to make a little palatable history here and there, to keep us all in the loop.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075537682X</amazonuk>name for herself by answering those questions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Perry1786893762|title=Acceptable LossThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=I must admit to not taking A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the rather stylized front cover shame and nor did I take to the title. I got frustration left by a previous case, where the initial impression that this novel child was going to be all about heaving bosoms and manly men without too much substancenot found in time. Was I right though? I gave Hardly original themes for a bit of a sigh as I started on chapter oneprivate eye thriller. And yet . . 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 hometake another look. All sounds This detective is a bit odd woman, and also a bit intriguing. Perry back-tracks a little for the benefit setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of her readers that era: technical and lets us know how this situation has come about. The boy is street-wise but he's also now desperate scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a warm, safe bed fascination with the bizarre and regular meals if he's luckythe downright hideous. HeAnd before you's had re more than a dreadful life up till now and has somehow survived a terrible ordeal couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half- and yesmourning, you could say that itwith a widow's the stuff of nightmares. I loved his name - Scuff cap and I automatically called him Scruff in my headstout, shiny boots, 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 but the de Luce family and tobacco she doesn't get on all that well with smokes in her elder sisterspipe (my dear, Feely (Ophelia) and Daffy (Daphnewhat an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!). 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 beforemixed with a nugget of something, but she has her faithful bicycle, 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Dinsdale0349414327|title=Three MilesA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=CracowEven detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, Poland, October 1939: The Germans have recently occupied Poland and are seeking to establish their authorityphotography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. Captain Martin Bora of When the Wehrmacht (the German army) has just arrived in the city from the battlefield local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen 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 opportunity to have mystic visit Haworth and healing powers. A few days later, thoughStanbury, she is found shot dead in not least because the grounds deeds of her convent. Bora is asked to investigate the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and report back. He proceeds to investigate who shot her and why, but as his investigation continues, parents will be there are more questions for Bora and the readerevent. Where does this case fit in with What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and having the priorities opportunity to take photographs of the occupying forcessetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904738664</amazonuk>
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