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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marco Malvaldi and Howard Curtis (translator)0571370977|title=The Art of Killing WellLock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=4.5

|summary=Pellegrino Artusi has travelled It's six months since the length 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 breadth of Italy researching living (if somewhat uneasily) with his masterpiece ''daughter, Phoebe. The Science worst of Cooking his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the Art of Eating Well'' and the chance to visit the home - or rather the castle - of the seventh Barone di Roccapendente was a double bonusalready strained relationship between them more difficult. HeThey'd have re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the opportunity to discover the secrets of the Barone's kitchen and the chance body of a few days rest and possibly young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a boar hunt in the Tuscan hillslock-up. What could be better? WellAt first, his stay would have been improved had a body not been discovered in the locked cellar of the castle. The cast of aristocratic suspects baffles the local police inspector and Artusi realises it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that he will have to become involvedit was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052942</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=MRC Kasasian1529337968|title=The Curse Of The House Of Foskett (The Gower Street Detective Series)In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=Personal (not private!) detective Sidney Grice is still smarting because heIt's thought July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to have sent an innocent man to the gallows. It's also hit him in the pocket as start work has dried up as a resultqualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. HeShe's therefore pleased ll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and intrigued when he's visited by a potential client who wants him her job will be to look into the Last Death Club, a group help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of people who have each put £2,000 in the kitty, the sum of which job will go be to persuade people that the last person surviving. Unfortunately services she offers really are free and that they seem don't have to be dying quicker than planned and rather unnaturallydo anything to qualify for them. Sidney is about to accept Some of the case when his client drops dead in Grice's study in front problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of him and his ward and assistant March Middletonher own which might give her some insight. It may not improve his reputation any, but his attention Her marriage has never been piqued; he'll take the case anywayconsummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853258</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=057136358X|title=An Appetite for VioletsApril in Spain|author=Martine BaileyJohn Banville

|summary=Biddy 'Obedience' Leigh is the under-cook at Mawton HallTerry Tice was a hitman, but although she is passionate about cooking, her dearest wish is to marry her young man. The date is set for her to leave the Hall for married life and she is looking forward to it. But the master he didn't think of the house surprises everyone when he gets himself a very young wife – and Biddy’s world is rapidly changedin those terms. Lady Carinna takes He saw what he did as ''a shine to Biddy, and when Biddy proves herself to be resourceful and entrepreneurial, her fate is sealedmatter of making things tidy''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444768727</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sharon Penman|title=Prince of Darkness|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1193: Justin de Quincy, bastard son of I couldn't resist the Bishop of Chester and loyal to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, steers clear thought that he was an extreme version of Eleanor's youngest son John at all costsMarie Kondo. After allHe enjoyed his job, John's henchman did try something which occurred to murder him. However therewhen he was in Burma with the army ''s a plot afoot where he got the chance to frame John for kill a crime he didn’t commit (for a change), bringing with it somewhat lot of the little yellow fellows and had a dilemma for Justinfine old time''. As much as he hates John, de Quincy realises that getting to He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the bottom purpose of the plot is a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the interests of the Queen and England. ''morning''? So JustinIt was after Percy's course is set, no matter what it costs and no matter which hornets' nests it disturbsdeath that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857083</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce CrowtherB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Harlem NocturneThe Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=Just before We meet Solon in Pergamon in the beginning second century of the Second World War common era and half a world away from Europe the Worldhe's Fair is taking place in New Yorkthe physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The British king remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and queen are expected and therehones his skills: Solon ''wants''s a Joe Louis title fight on the horizonwarriors to live. Daniel Leland lives in Harlem. He used to be with It's quite a spectacle: the NYPD but was retired after he was shot by robbers: magistri are the bullet is still in his body charge hands and perilously close when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to his spinemake them look more impressive. Right now he makes his living as a small-time private detective, but business seems to be looking up when he's offered an investigation - The sagitarii are the archers and a very large retainer - by a manufacturer the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who might be suffering espionageare going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Before long thereToday, it's a murder to add into the equation toocrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1490960821</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Hughes1529337925|title=The Convictions of John DelahuntMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=As John Delahunt sits in a cell for It was the condemned writing an account of his lifeAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, we go through it with himwas cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. It all begins as he witnesses She was the publisher of a fracas between his fellow students magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the police after a visit to one local park had used copies of two of the fine hostelries Victorian Dublin has her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to offerdrum up some local interest in his show. In this way John Sandy Bissett's brought request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the attention man about infringement of 'The Department', copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a pro-British intelligence unit based in solicitor to do the notorious Dublin Castle. John agrees to help them not realising this is never going to be an agreement he can back away from, no matter how hard he tries and no matter how much it costs himsame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781620148</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Sebag MontefioreB08LKT7HSR|title=One Night Murder in Winterthe Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5

|summary=In June 1945 two school students are shot dead December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in Moscow. These aren't just any school students; they attended Josef Stalin School 801, the academy that taught Stalin's own children and the current educational establishment cellar of choice for the offspring of many government and army grandeesGlass Bottle Public House. Why did they die? Did the seemingly innocent Fatal Romantics Club have anything to do Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with it? For the children the club is a way murder of living their love of Pushkin's literature but to others it seems a little differentElowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Stalin himself is determined to have it investigated and what Stalin wants, Stalin gets no matter how wide the ultimate spiderKitty Underhay's web of suspicion is cast and no matter whom it catches.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laura Wilson|title=The Riot|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Stratton has moved to a new posting and Notting Hill is fresh territory to himlong search for her mother, but he’s going to have to get to know it fast when a rent collector is stabbed. There’s a sense of loss from the people who knew the man - he was inclined to help if he could and with landlords wanting to oust rent-controlled tenants so that they could put ‘coloured’ people or prostitutes disappeared in their place (higher rents, you see) any help June 1916 was welcomeover. Added Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to this there are increasing numbers of street fights involving teddy boys. It’s 1958 - and there’s a heatwavejustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063080</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James ScottStephen Clarke|title=The Kept|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Elspeth and her 12 year old son Caleb have been beset by one of the worst types of tragedy. As a result, fuelled by Caleb's need for revenge and Elspeth's motherly love, they set out on a journey that brings them to the small Lake Erie town of Watersbridge. With their new setting comes a greater understanding of their past which is a mixed blessing that must be met head on before they have to face their future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944503</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sian Busby|title=A Commonplace KillingSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=In July 1946 two schoolboys found the body of This is a woman on a bombsite in north Londonspoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. ItBut it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 's a while before shelikes the ladies's identified as Lillian Frobisherand who works for the secret service, but that produces in the planning side of things more problemsthan the active service. Lillian was - apparently - Lemming finds himself put on a respectably married woman but mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the encounter pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the bomb site had been sexual resistance network, and almost certainly consensual. And why was Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her husband not aware that his wife was missing? His position looks even worse when it emerges that the body was lying on an expensive mackintosh sold in the store where he's a doorman. But was Lillian quite as respectable as she would have had everyone think?!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722060</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349423083|title=The TournamentDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Matthew ReillyFrances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=Michael Reilly is somewhat Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of a guilty pleasure of mine; his novels are hi-octane adventures that are often as ludicrous as they are sublimethe Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. ‘The Tournament’ Something is a departure from going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his action packed Scarecrow nephew and Jack West thrillers; instead creating an alternative history for our own Queen Elizabeth Iright-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. Why was she such a formidable leader whose reluctance James went to marry and dislike of see what the Catholics continental brewers were only part of her doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make-up? . Reilly poses William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a hypothetical tale about a 13 year old Bess little bit ''too'' much or is going to Constantinople to watch bring back a tournament of German bride but he'd like the world’s greatest chess players. Here she will business to be embroiled in a murder mystery alongside her tutor Roger Aschamship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409134229</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241433568|title=The Return of Sherlock HolmesEight Detectives|author=Arthur Conan DoyleAlex Pavesi

|summary=IIt'm still not sure which is cheekier of the BBC – either riffing on the Conan Doyle originals for their own modern takes on s 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. Sherlock Holmes, or producing new editions of the original stories It's unbearably hot and novels with their young stars on the front, purely Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to tie have a few sales down of what is now out of copyrightrest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. Certainly I think the latter is the greater crime, given How can that have happened? There's no one else in the results on screenhouse, for the number of young people picking up these classics for the first time on the basis of the TV and finding something quite against the grain of what they've ever read outside so one of school them must be quite largethe killer. Still, anything to forcefeed classics to a new audience…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907609</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The City of Strangers1473682401|authortitle=Michael Russell|rating=5|genre=Crime The Turning Tide (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary=In the spring of 1939 The Irish Times reported that Mrs Letitia Harris, aged 53 had gone missing from her home in Dublin. Her car was found the following morning on a cliff top near Shankill. There were bloodstains in the car, and a blood-stained hatchet in the shed back in Dublin, blood too in the flowerbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847563473</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sherlock: His Last Bow|author=Arthur Conan DoyleCatriona McPherson

|summary=''The End''. I got told off for writing those two simple words Those who were with us at the end of a short story I wrote at school, aged about eleven[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. If it They're now married and Mallory is the end, I think the teacher was saying, it should be obvioushaving twins. If it isn't, there's still When they arrive no way one can doubt the words are necessarycharms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. But at least IThere are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they'm not alonere staying with Dandy and Hugh. Conan Doyle, the south coast Doctor turned entertainer extraordinaire with all his outputDandy and her detective partner, was told off for the way he finished things. Holmes dead? SorryAlec Osborne, had not allowed, Mr Doyle. Holmes retired to keep bees near Eastbourne? Beyond the pale, Sir – bring him back. You don't like taken up the labour of proving your genius invention chance to be such look into a genius? Tough. And so we come problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to 'His Last Bow'them twice before, which Watson tells us is but suddenly the final, final, ending story with which to conclude, and a few others. He wasn't exactly correct about it possibility of being out of the last ones, thoughhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907617</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bones of ParisSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|authortitle=Laurie R KingThe Honjin Murders

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is 1929 and Harris Stuyvesant has now left enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the Bureau of Investigation and England behind him and words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is working as a Private Investigator the extra background – we're in rural Japan in Europethe 1930s. An AmericanThe oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, whom Stuyvesant had metalthough the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has gone missing and Stuyvesant is approached by her Uncle and her Mother to find an uncle representing herfamily, for one thing. The missing girlEither way, Pip Crosbythe celebrations have gone ahead as planned, was involved only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a group man missing parts of artists his fingers being in the Montparnasse neighbourhood, and Montmartre areas some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the city. Many time of them seem to have known herthe crime, but few have seen her in some timethis case has a lot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749015357</amazonuk>1782275002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Essie FoxB07XLM3SM6|title=The Goddess and Murder at the ThiefDolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Alice Willoughby may only be a child but Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she feels at one with Indiadisappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the country in which care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was born and where her father works for the East India Companydead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. The sights, the smells Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the tales of the Indian gods told by Mini, Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her Indian ayah all contribute grandmother had to it being home, despite the subleave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge -continent having made her motherlessand Kitty could not understand why. Therefore imagine her disgust when sheShe's left in always coped with the hands mix of her Aunt Mercy (a counterfeit medium) in drabholidaymakers, dirty Victorian London. Life isn't easy anymore but it takes boating people and the naval college on a new turn when the edge of town before - and she meets 's done every job in the mysterious Mr Tilsburyhotel. He has a plan for And she particularly cannot understand why her that includes the theft of the Koh-I-Noor diamond, Her Majestygrandmother's pride friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and joy'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409146197</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Touchstone|author=Laurie R KingFrontpage|ratingisbn=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Laurie R King may be best known for her Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series, but she has also written a number of other novels, a couple of which feature detective Harris Stuyvesant. With the publication of the second in this series, the first ''Touchstone'', originally published in 2008, has been republished, allowing those readers new to Stuyvesant, or even to King herself, to become properly acquainted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015454</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0349423067|title=The Lovegrove Hermit|author=Rosemary Craddock|rating=3|genre=Crime Body on the Train (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=Charlotte Tyler is delighted to receive an invitation to Lovegrove Priory, home of eccentric Gothic novelist Amelia Denby. The priory is surrounded by acres of picturesque parkland and Denby even has a hermit living in the grounds in his own private retreat. However, when the hermit, Brother Caspar, is found dead in an apparent suicide, it is up to Charlotte and her new friend Colonel Hartley to piece together the clues and unmask the murderer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719811066</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Luck of the Vails|author=E F BensonFrances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King'The sequestered village s Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of Vail lies in a wrinkle of the great Wiltshire downsman, stripped naked and is traversed by the Bath Roadwith no means of identification.' Of course the big inn is Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called 'The Vail Arms' and about a mile from on the village is 'services of Kate Shackleton in the big house'. Benson doesn't name hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the house – indeed it wouldn't have lead they needed a name. Locally it would just be known Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as the big house, a child and any local delivery person would know where could not come to deposit any attached terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to Lord Vailgive her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572435</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Ashton1472127110|title=Nor Will He SleepIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan

|summary=Two opposing Edinburgh university student gangs are full of high jinks the night that Agnes Carnegie is found dead. Daniel DrummondLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, one of since the merry-makerswar, is a prime suspect as he had an altercation with her and uses a silver cane that matches not always for the murder weaponbetter. Nothing is a foregone conclusion though When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and so doursecretly grieving for Jack, wily Inspector James McLevy of the Leith police is lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to uncover let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the truth. Meanwhile Robert Louis Stevenson is in town for his father's funeral and renews his acquaintance with McLevy which is arms of a rather fortuitous when we consider what lies aheadcharming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972515</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=MRC Kasasian1912374439|title=The Mangle Street MurdersCourier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5

|summary=March MiddletonNazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I's ve told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father diesarrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she becomes a 20-something alone; not a good status for a Victorian woman. She therefore moves in with will never see her guardianalive again, Sidney Griceand the late 1960s, personal (not private!) detectivewhen great consternation is being felt. AlthoughIn this timeline, as Sidney has a case to solvemaverick agent is back in town, March may as well be invisible. Grice has one who might have been employed by shopkeeper William Ashby who has savagely murdered his own wife by stabbing her 40 times fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and leaving the Italian word for 'revenge' on the wall. Everyone says he did it apart from Ashbylived together with their baby as a young family, of course. Therefore Grice teams up with Inspector Pound of the Yard except he was thought by all to solve have died in the conundrum and March is there to help, whether Sidney wants her to or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781851840</amazonuk>War…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Brody1786075431|title=Murder on a Summer's Day: Mrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Kate Shackleton Mysteriestranslator)|rating=3.5

|summary=It was Kate ShackletonMeet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's cousin in the India Office who sought her help to find Maharajah Narayan who had gone out hunting intent on the Bolton Abbey Estate making herself known as a charitable lady, and not returned, although keen on her husband progressing yet through his horse - a flighty Arab - returned riderlessesteemed career. The following morning a body was found - In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but this proved to she knows it could always be one of the grooms who had accompanied Narayan earlier in the daybetter. Had he slipped jumping across Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the Strid city due to lack of hygiene, and drowned? many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. The jump across the river Wharfe looked tempting and people were warned of the dangersOne such was Mrs Mohr, but it although she was known that young men regularly crossed that way rather than walking rich enough to the wooden bridge or the stepping stoneskeep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. Later in the day NarayanI say ''s body was found'', for she has vanished. HeOnly due to Zofia'd been shot through the heart s help does she get found, dead and in a clumsy attempt had been made to hide place the body near- but only Kate Shackleton believed that there was foul playlame woman could never reach by herself. The authorities seemed determined that Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what had happened would be written off as 'end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a tragic accident'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034940058X</amazonuk>name for herself by answering those questions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Kent1786893762|title=Burial RitesThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=FridrikA child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, Agnes and Sigridur are accused of murdering two men one Icelandic night in 1829 before the setting fire to their home. Now Agnes awaits executionis Victorian London, imprisoned in with all the farm rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a lowly local family whofascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, rumour has ityou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, wouldnwith a widow't be too great a loss if s cap and stout, shiny boots, but the prisoner becomes dangerous. Margrit Jonsdottir tobacco she smokes in her pipe (the farmermy dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's wife) doesnsay recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it't feel threatened and sets s actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the shockedby. Her housemaid, malnourished Agnes to workbeing seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. Gradually Agnes reveals And then, of course, there's the events of that night to Margrit ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and Toti, it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young priestwoman. Her version seems to be a little different from what everyone else concludedIf he really exists, predictably… Or perhaps not so predictablythat is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447233166</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Daniel Woodrell0349414327|title=The Maid's Version|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Life may be tough in the Missouri town where Alma grew up but at least she has a job. She learns and experiences a lot as maid to the wealthy Glencross family, but many of the experiences aren't the sort she'd like to relive. To top it all off, in 1929 the Arbor, a local dance club, explodes into flames killing 42 people including Alma's younger sister Ruby. The cause remains a mystery as factions are blamed or viewed suspiciously. However Alma knows the truth, a truth that remains secret until decades later during a visit from her grandson.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444732838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Heroes (Most Wanted)|author=Anne Perry|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Trench warfare has widely been acknowledged as one of the most soul destroying forms A Snapshot of combat. It broke men physically and mentally. Death seemed inevitable for many, and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as release. So what is one more death among the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death counts, but he can not let this one go. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - he was murdered and Joseph will not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forward, but there is far more to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruce Macbain|title=The Bull Slayer|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Years after we left him in [[Roman Games Murder (Plinius SecundusKate Shackleton Mysteries) by Bruce Macbain|Roman Games]], Pliny the Younger has become Roman Governor of Bithynia. Not the most hospitable of regions, its Greek residents regard the Romans with hatred; an emotion that, in many cases, is reciprocated by the Romans. No matter how bad this is though, it gets worse when a high ranking official dies mysteriously. Could it have anything to do with the religious sect of Mithras? Possibly but it's not Pliny's only dilemma; at home his beloved young wife Calpurnia is acting somewhat oddly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850798</amazonuk>}} {{newreview

|summary=Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton's business as a private investigator is beginning , photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to attract interest but when there's a loud banging on take the door very early one morning she soon learns opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the truth deeds of the old adage Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that when family comes in, money doesn't. The visitor ''looks'' familiar but Kate it can't quite place where she's seen become a museum and her parents will be there for the woman before. Eventually it emerges that Mary Jane Armstrong is Kate's sisterevent. Kate was adopted as a baby and knew nothing of What could be better than seeing her natural family but Mary Jane needs help. Her children had taken food for their father at the quarry where he worked , witnessing a momentous event and ten-year-old Harriet reported finding her father dead on having the floor opportunity to take photographs of the hut, but when searchers returned to the quarry there was no sign of a body or of Ethan Armstrong eithersetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Local opinion said that her husband had abandoned them, but Mary Jane believed her daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954876</amazonuk>Or could it?

{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Loupas|title=The Second Duchess|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elizabeth Loupas, it seems, was not the first author to be inspired by the intrigue and scandal of the renaissance court of Ferrera. The poem 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 is an elegiac account reflecting the popular view that Duke Alfonso d’Este murdered his first wife Lucrezia de Medici because of her unfaithfulness. Loupas explores some of the themes raised in the poem and cleverly combines elements of Browning’s work with true historical accounts to create an appealing murder-mystery set against the sumptuous backdrop of renaissance Italy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848093837</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Brody|title=A Medal for Murder: (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) |rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=When a pawnbroker was unceremoniously robbed of valuable items which he was holding Move on behalf of clients he first called the police and then Kate Shackleton when the police seemed to be getting nowhere. It wasn't just the crime which had been committed, but the pledges had sentimental value to many of Moony's clients and he was worried about how they would feel when the jewellry couldn't be returned and what the impact would be on ''his'' reputation. He wanted the pieces back - but most of all he wanted Kate Shackleton and her assistant Jim Sykes to visit the clients and discuss the situation with them. Simple? No.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749941928</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Brody|title=Dying In The Wool: (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) |rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton had gained something of a reputation for solving mysteries and there were plenty of those at the end of the Great War. She tracked down men who were then reunited with their families and even those who had no wish to be found and were not reunited. She had her own reasons for doing this - it made her feel more positive about her own situation. Her husband Gerald was posted ''missing, presumed dead'' in the last year of the war and it was the one mystery she couldn't solve, no matter how she tried. But her successes in other areas led to her first professional investigation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749941871</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]]