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|summary=The year It'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 1868 now back in Dublin and Boston is under threat from an evil genius who seems to have the uncanny ability to manipulate matter itselfliving (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The city worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already experienced two attacks; the chaos in the harbour strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the navigation instruments went awry and the eerie spectacle in the commercial quarter when every item body of glassa young, including windowsJewish scholar, eyeglassesRosa Jacobs, clocks and watches spontaneously meltedis found in a lock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide. But are these attacks a prelude to something greater?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512769</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James P Blaylock1529337968|title=The Aylesford SkullIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=45

|summary=Langdon StIt's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. Ives, renowned scientist She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and adventurer, returns home from the hubbub Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and grime of Victorian London her job will be to his tranquil residence in rural Aylesford where he lives help patients with his wife Alice and those non-medical problems which affect their two young childrenhealth. Weary The hardest part of the city, having survived a devastating explosion job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and particularly vicious attempt on his life, he is hoping that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some repose and a chance to work quietly on his latest project; a dirigible airshipinsight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689797</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Gallagher057136358X|title=The Kingdom of BonesApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=45

|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn'If you like this sort t think of thing…himself in those terms. He saw what he did as '' reads a line from Stephen Gallaghermatter of making things tidy''s . I couldn'The Kingdom t resist the thought that he was an extreme version of BonesMarie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ', 'then here comes where he got the kind chance to kill a lot of thing you’ll like'. It’s describing the opening music for little yellow fellows and had a theatrical number, but it’s an almost perfect tagline for fine old time''The Kingdom . He was spending a lot of Bonestime with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn' itself. If you like Victorians, vaudeville and villainy, if you like prizet know the purpose of a swizzle stick -fighting and police chases and possession by surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the Devil, then here comes 'The Kingdom of Bones'. It’s morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the kind benefits of thing that you’re really going to liketaking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091950139</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dashiell HammettB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Return Mystery of the Thin ManHealing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=IWe meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he've recently been discovering s the original works physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of Raymond Chandler which, like many people, I'd only really known from the Hollywood renditionspopulace. A natural, if backwards, progression from there was clearly to The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the writer that Chandler called doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants''the ace performerwarriors to live. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the man lions'manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who did over and over again what only are going to fight for their lives with the best writers ever do at allwild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800208</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Essie Fox1529337925|title=Elijah's MermaidThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter from his publisher It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and old friend Frederick HallBunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. Hall has discovered Lamb's small grandchildren, Lily and Elijah, The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in a London home for foundlingsDundee. Lamb's son Gabriel She was the publisher of a magazine and had died after a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella who subsequently disappeared. Delighted beyond words at Hall's discovery, Augustus adopts been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the twins, raising them local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland Houseshow. There Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the children grow, happy man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and lovedAlex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123340</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James CarnacB08LKT7HSR|title=The Autobiography of Jack Murder in the RipperBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=The ''Autobiography'' presents itself as In December 1933 the Ripper’s story told from his own perspective. The son remains of an impoverished doctor, young Carnac has a childhood obsession with blood which a series of unfortunate events morphs into a full-blown desire to slit human throats. It’s the typical Victorian coming-of-age story (from birth, to school, then first love and finally adulthood) with a twist, Elowed Underhay were discovered in that the path Carnac’s on leads him to become not a responsible adult but the most famous murderer cellar of the nineteenth centuryGlass Bottle Public House.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552165395</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kylie Fitzpatrick|title=The Silver Thread|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's 1840 and Rhia Mahoney, daughter of an Irish merchant specialising Ezekiel Hamett was sought in local linen, has a comfortable life. All that changes, however, as her father's warehouse burns down, taking his faltering business connection with it, ensuring Rhia must make her own way in the world. Via family connections she comes to England and the home murder of Quaker widow Antonia Blake. The idea is that Antonia will protect Rhia whilst she seeks a position as governess in bustling, alien London. But rather than residing in a sanctuary, her problems worsen as she's enveloped in a mystery leading to transportation despite her innocence. The only things holding her life together are the letters she writes to her dearly departed grandmother, her artistic skill Elowed and a determination to discover who wants her gone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800127</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Davies|title=The Year After|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Tom Allen is home from World War I. Whilst waiting to be demobbed, he receives an invitation to attend the annual Christmas househis half-party at Hannesford Courtbrother, the stately home of Sir Robert and Lady Stansbury. He used to look forward to it before joining up and so decides to attend againDenzil Hammett, but everything has changedwhose body was also discovered. The StansburyKitty Underhay's heirlong search for her mother, Harry, and son-who disappeared in-law, Oliver, were killed and second son, Reggie Stansbury, remains in a nursing home with no legs and dwindling self-respectJune 1916 was over. Whilst coming to terms with the devastating realisation that heNow she's one of determined that the very few men in their set to return alive and entire, Tom remembers pre-war Hannesford and the night when his friend Professor Schmidt died at such a gathering. Everyone believes it was unsuspicious but gradually things are coming to light that hint of hidden secrets. Along with man responsible for her Ladyship's former companion, Anne (who has issues of her own), Tom decides murder will be brought to investigate as truths are exhumed, making him doubt whether those happier times were as idyllic as he remembersjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen EngelmannStephen Clarke|title=The Stockholm OctavoSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=As This is a Customs and Excise 'Sekretaire' in 18th century Stockholmspoof spy story, Emil Larsson has all he needs: professional respect, a bachelorthat isn's lifestyle and a table at Mrs Sparrow's gaming house whenever he fancies his luckt about James Bond. Contrastingly, his superiors at work feel he's missing a certain somethingOr Ian Fleming. In order to climb further up the career ladder (maybe even to maintain his current position) Emil needs to marry. His manager believes this so fervently that there's But it features a deadline for the wedding. Emil panics but Mrs Sparrow offers to lay an 'Octavo'man called Ian Lemming, a fortune-telling spread of eight cards to guide him to the eight people who will ensure his success. However, not all goes to plan as, over dresses well and 'likes the eight nights it takes to complete the Octavo, it becomes apparent that the prediction isnladies't and who works for Emil's futurethe secret service, but has become an Octavo to save in the whole planning side of Sweden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruce Macbain|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isn't things more than the most popular person in Romeactive service. He may be Lemming finds himself put on a high ranking politician mission with the Emperor Domitian's ear but this also means he's a female spycalled Margaux, ambitious and not always using his power and position for good. When Verpa is discovered, unceremoniously and repeatedly stabbed the pair end up stranded in his well-guarded bedroomNormandy, there are many who sigh with relief. However, the murderer must still be found and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus (or Pliny the Younger as history will dub him) Margaux on a desperate mission to investigate. Pliny isn't a natural but reluctantly takes on unearth traitors in the task because Domitian says so; Pliny has no choice. Domitian also says that the culprit must be found before the end of the Roman Games, giving Pliny 15 days. Over these 15 pressurised days he'll dig into Rome's filthy underbelly of cultsresistance network, prostitution and other things he wasn't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poet.Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0349423083|title=Vices of My Blood: Murdoch Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted to full detectiveKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and continues to solve cases with his usual mix of dogged determination and flairher housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Toronto at the end She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the nineteenth century Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. Something is marked by going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a huge divide between trip to Germany before long. James went to see what the rich continental brewers were doing and the poor, and the fact what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that many of James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the latter group are utterly destitute leads business to all manner of crimes, great and smallbe ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kerr0241433568|title=Fell the AngelsEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=3.5

|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual for a young woman in the late nineteenth century. She was born Henderson but married Robert Castello It's 1930 and Megan and quickly came to realise that he was an adulterer Henry are staying with a drink problemBunny at his house in Spain. A womanIt's place was thought to be with her husband - even by Ceciliaunbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's wealthy parents - but they recognised that forcing her to go back going to him could be problematical. As have a compromise she was sent rest and then he wants to Malvern talk to take a water cure Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it was there never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that she came into contact with Dr James Gullyhe's been murdered. He was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between the two - affection on CeciliaHow can that have happened? There's part (probably no one else in the most house, so one of which she was capable) and love on histhem must be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent1473682401|title=One BloodThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=Sergeant Kella is being sent from his native Malaita to another part Those who were with us at the end of the Solomon Islands [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to investigate logging sabotage thereMallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. In When they arrive no one can doubt the same districtcharms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, his friend Sister Conchita has assumed reluctant control of a mission Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set in their waysDandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to say the least. Then look into a body turns up in problem at the church… is this related Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the sabotage? And how does the wartime history possibility of John F Kennedy, vying to become the new President being out of the USA, fit in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>house at Gilverton seems irresistible.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David LongSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=The Honjin Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=While To many readers, the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal in one case in depth, there’s always phrase 'locked room for another title at murder mystery' is enough to make the other end of book one to read; preferably quantified by the spectrumwords 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, dealing here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in brief with a variety of murders over the years1930s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shirley McKay|title=Time and Tide|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A ship The oldest son of an esteemed family is wrecked on the coast of 16th century Scotlandbelatedly getting married, although the crew gonewhole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, the what with it being arranged at great haste. She only man on board dying and a windmill lashed to its deckhas an uncle representing her family, for one thing. What happened? What sort of illness does it carry? AndEither way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, more importantly only for the town's people, who gets wedded couple to be slashed to keep death in their private annexe before the windmill? sun rises on their marriage. It's What with a tough oneman missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan is on some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this casehas a lot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>1782275002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel StashowerB07XLM3SM6|title=The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum MurdersMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=There are two things you need to know about Stashower's Harry Houdini. FirstlyElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, he is a huge fan in the care of Sherlock Holmesher grandmother. Secondly A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and much more importantly, he is utterly certain of his own ability in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to do whatever he sets his mind leave tolook after her sister who was ill. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit She was reluctant to leave Kitty in a minor waycharge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in a murder, he immediately decides it is up to him to solve the casehotel. It never occurs And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to him that he might fail, because that is simply not keep an option for eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the Great Houdinihotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0349423067|title=Let Loose The Body on the Dogs: Murdoch Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=The fourth book in From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the series forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of mysteries which star Detective William Murdoch is set, like the othersporters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a man, in Torontostripped naked and with no means of identification. Religion, money Scotland Yard hit a dead end and family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' called on the services of Kate Shackleton in England, the hope that her knowledge and Murdoch's struggles for truth connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and justice, could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to mention his love life, are played out against give her all the sense of guilt and information which the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faithpolice held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings1472127110|title=Under the Dragon's TailIndian Summer: Murdoch Mysteriesa Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5

|summary=Murdoch is a lonely manLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, still rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the fiancée lover who died over a year beforehe could leave his wife. He busies himselfAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, when he is not working, with training for the police sports' day, learning made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to dancelet a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady who lodges even found consolation in the next-door room. She is arms of a rather charming young widow with a young son, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, that he can never find married bliss with herpoliceman. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Dan James|title=Unsinkable|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=This year sees the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and several books, for both children and adults, are being published based on the story of the doomed ship. In this particular book the fact that we already know fate of the majority of the travellers adds a whole new level of tension to a story which is already an exciting thriller. Not only is there the question of whether they will catch the bad guy or not, but also, and more crucially: will the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Siciliano1912374439|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver |rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=An old gypsy woman places a curse on guests at a ball, leaving the upper class revellers shocked. When, over the next few years, misfortune befalls several of the party-goers, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows there's only one recourse left to him - to call Sherlock Holmes. It's a slightly different version of Holmes from that we've come to expect, though. The detective, far from being an emotionless man, is capable of feeling strongly for the right woman - could the detective find love as well as the answer to the mystery? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewCourier|author=Sax Rohmer|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Dr Petrie is surprised, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to England. But this is no mere pleasure visit – the former Scotland Yard man is on the trail of Fu Manchu, a Chinese doctor with ''the brains of any three men of genius''. Petrie is immediately plunged into a headlong race against time to stop the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans Kjell Ola Dahl and leading the East to world domination!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Except the Dying: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime Don Bartlett (Historicaltranslator)|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly common, 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 (for the most part) 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 Drood|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|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, and he died without completing it. Given that this is a detective story, one of the very first in that tradition, it is doubly intriguing, because although we are clearly being fed clues and hints throughout, at the point where the text ends we aren't even fully sure even if a crime has been committed. So as the basis for endless speculation about what really happens this novel could hardly be bettered. We certainly have potential villains and victims, but we also have a number of likely red herrings; complex threads of romantic interest, but again it is by no means clear exactly which way these will resolve; and a shadowy detective figure, whose speculations certainly have no sense of conclusion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849904278</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Ruffle|title=Sherlock Holmes and the Lyme Regis Legacy

|summary=Dr Watson is happy to be returning to Lyme RegisNazi-occupied Oslo, and the woman he loves1942. He gets more than he bargained forThere, though, as he is quickly embroiled in a series of killings which bear strange resemblances to some of I've given the cases he and Holmes have been involved ingame away. The great detective joins him, with Lestrade following to assist For in their investigations, and the trio realise a book that they are dealing with centres around a haunting figure from their past...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780921004</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Ruffle|title=Sherlock Holmes and murder, I've told you who did it – the Lyme Regis Horror - Expanded 2nd Edition|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Taking a rare holiday on the Dorsetshire coastNazis, surely? Well, Dr Watson manages that certainly has to persuade Sherlock Holmes remain to join him. Delighted to spend be seen in this volume, which splits its time with his old friend Godfrey Jacobs, and charmed by widowed boarding house proprietor Mrs Heidler, 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>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Park Bridges|title=My Dear Watson|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''My Dear Watson'' is written by the hand between one of Holmeswar, Lucy Holmes, whom the world came to know as Sherlock. Yes, the well-loved detective is when a female cross-dresser but with good reason. The young Lucy, having watched woman sees her mother die tragicallyfather arrested, rushed off and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to live with her brother, Mycroft, at university. In order best friend to stay, undetected (no pun intended), help – not knowing she had to dress as a man. Being slight and gaminewill never see her alive again, this wasn’t difficult and, after a while, she preferred the lifestyle. Watson hasn’t seen through the disguiselate 1960s, continuing to live with Holmes between marriages as they combat the odds and solve crimes in (or despite) the police.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920768</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Williams|title=The Pleasures of Men|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Catherine Sorgeiul when great consternation is a woman with burdensbeing felt. Living with her uncle in London’s East End during the reign of Queen VictoriaIn this timeline, hers a maverick agent is a life that seems empty – yet back in fact is full of things she is trying to push away.  Filling her days has become a problemtown, so when a series of grisly murders begins, Catherine is drawn to the mystery of the Man of Crows in a way one who might have been fingered for murdering 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 Veronafemale victim, northern Italy, autumn 1943: Captain Martin Bora is even though she and he lived together with their baby as a German military policemanyoung family, known except he was thought by all to have conducted previous murder investigations. He is asked to look into died in 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>War…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gerry O'Hara1786075431|title=Sherlock Holmes Mrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and The Affair In TransylvaniaAntonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

|summary=I normally start reviews with Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a brief plot summarycharitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it seems almost besides could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the point city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to do so for fall on charity and almshouses to keep a book entitled 'Sherlock Holmes roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and the Affair staff in Transylvaniaher charitable home. I say ''was'', for she has vanished. From those seven words Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in a place the reader will have no doubt guessed that this is near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a Holmes meets Dracula storycharity home, and so we may as well move straight on to what end? And why does Zofia feel the burning question – is it any goodneed to make a name for herself by answering those questions?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920369</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=D E Meredith1786893762|title=The Devil's RibbonThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=In A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the London of 1858, the Irish are the poorest of case is still struggling with the poor, despised shame and feared frustration left by the English. They were forced to emigrate from their fatherland because of the famine which decimated the populationa previous case, and now where the majority of them live child was not found in filthy, germ-ridden rookeriestime. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Cholera This detective is killing them off in their hundredsa woman, and blame for their terrible conditions the setting is laid squarely at Victorian London, with all the feet rich and colourful paradoxes of their English masters, together with those Irishmen who have so far forgotten their home that they cooperate era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the oppressorsbizarre and the downright hideous. And as the hottest summer on record drags onbefore you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and the tenth anniversary of the potato blight and its horrific consequences approachstout, shiny boots, but the mood tobacco she smokes in the slums her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is ripe for violence and murdermixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe.|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 fact that has a typo on it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the FRONT cover? Would I purchase a book that practically saysby. Her housemaid, as its first wordsbeing seven-foot-tall, the e-book version is better than this paper thing? Thisalso somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, despite setting up very much there's the wrong impressionghost. Ruby Doyle, is a gateway into the world of Sherlock Holmes - but doesfamous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, as I say, blatantly show itself up as flawed, while the electronic version could count as and it's clear he has a very worthwhile app soft spot for the Conan Doyle buffdetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780922094</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Lane0349414327|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=Post-Roman invasion Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Great Britain shows Stanbury, not least because the signs deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a beleagured nationmuseum and her parents will be there for the event. And straight away Hays gives us an historical flavour - SaxonsWhat could be better than seeing her family, Picts witnessing a momentous event and names such as having the opportunity to take photographs of the setting for ''Wuthering Heights'Ambrosius Aurelianus' are mentioned early on in the book? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857890050</amazonuk> Or could it?

{{newreview|author=Guy Adams|title=Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A body is discovered in London. The young gentleman concerned, a Mr Hilary De Montfort, had enjoyed a good life: no money problems for example and as far as anyone can ascertain, no enemies either. The motive is therefore fuzzy at best. The state of his body when it was discovered was bizarre - it looked as if he'd been hurled from a great height, even although he'd been discovered in an open space around Grosvenor Square. And in the words of Dr Watson himself (it is he who narrates in the main) ' ... as varied as our capital might be, 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 up a Tracy Revels novel for the first time, she writes Sherlock Holmes fiction with the twist that Holmes is a supernatural being, coming from the Shadows. In the hugely enjoyable romp Move on to [[Shadowfall: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes by Tracy Revels|ShadowfallNewest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]], Watson discovered this, and was plunged headlong into an adventure involving Titania, Spring-Heeled Jack, voodoo, and various other dark and mysterious beings. That one ended with the good doctor losing his memory 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 nature.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780920474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John O'Connell|title=The Baskerville Legacy: A Novel|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=1900, and a man on a ship coming back from the Boer War to edit the Daily Express meets one of his heroes in the form of Arthur Conan Doyle. With similar experiences and interests yet different enough to bounce off each other they take up the idea of collaborating on a plot. When they do fix on time to do so, it leads to literary prospects, which lead to a week's research together on Dartmoor, which leads to ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. But perhaps in a way that only one of them intended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907595465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dicky Neely and Paul R Spiring (Editor)|title=The Case of 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>}} {{newreview|author=John Buchan|title=The Thirty-nine Steps|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Ask anyone about 'The Thrity-nine Steps' and I guarantee they'll be able to tell you it's a spy story with Richard Hannay at its heart. Most people will be able to tell you how it starts. But when you ask, 'Yes, but what ARE the 39 Steps?' most people will falter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971985</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tracy Revels|title=Shadowfall: A Novel of Sherlock Holmes|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=You remember Sherlock Holmes, yes? Deerstalker, pipe, leetle grey cells… (Oh, sorry, that was Poirot, but same kind of deductive ability), naked winged-woman on, or at least floating above, the sofa in Baker Street… wait a minute? Seriously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218258</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gerard Kelly|title=The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|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 arch-enemy Moriarty without success on a cold night in November 1882, Sherlock Holmes is left maimed and unable to walk without the use of a cane. Despondent, he decides to give up his career as a detective – but is talked into taking an extra special case, as a Madame Giry comes across the Channel to beg his help with the mysterious 'ghost' which is terrorising the Opera Populaire…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218703</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carole Bugge|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Star of India|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A woman with a distinguished scent about her appears flustered at a concert recital. A famous landlady gets kidnapped while on an innocent holiday to the west country. A malformed, brilliant modern-day alchemist gets murdered. There is only one person, who famously went over a certain Alpine waterfall, who could piece all this and more into a threat to the Royalty and Empire itself. But there is also only one person, who famously seemed to have stayed dead in going over the same Alpine waterfall, with the strength of mind to put the whole game into play.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681214</amazonuk>}}