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|summary=Based on a true storyIt'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 now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, ''Phoebe. The Axeman's Jazz'' worst of his grief is scriptwriter Ray Celestinover but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They's debut novel. It tells re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a serial killer young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in New Orleans in 1919 a lock- the Axeman - who torments the city and has everyone talking; up. At first, it seems looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that everyone has their theories and yet no meaningful leads are presenting themselves, as the police and citizens of New Orleans begin to despair of ever catching the killerit was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War|author=James Lovegrove|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=The year is 1913 and the storm clouds of war are gathering ominously on the horizon. Most people dread the inevitable, but there are individuals who stand to gain from the oncoming conflict and will stop at nothing to facilitate their plans, even if that means murder. However, it would take a very brave (or naïve) criminal to commit such an atrocity in the neighbourhood of Mr Sherlock Holmes, even if he is supposed to be enjoying his retirement. When it comes to investigating mysterious activity, Holmes can't resist the lure of the chase and soon the game is afoot!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165432</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marco Malvaldi and Howard Curtis (translator)1529337968|title=The Art of Killing Well|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Pellegrino Artusi has travelled the length and breadth of Italy researching his masterpiece ''The Science of Cooking and 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 bonus. He'd have the opportunity to discover the secrets of the Barone's kitchen and the chance of a few days rest and possibly a boar hunt in the Tuscan hills. What could be better? Well, his stay would have been improved had a body not been discovered in the locked cellar of the castle. The cast In Place of aristocratic suspects baffles the local police inspector and Artusi realises that he will have to become involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFear|author=MRC Kasasian|title=The Curse Of The House Of Foskett (The Gower Street Detective Series)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 Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''Obedience. I couldn' Leigh is t resist the under-cook at Mawton Hall, but although she is passionate about cookingthought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, her dearest wish is something which occurred to marry her young man. The date is set for her him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to leave kill a lot of the Hall for married life little yellow fellows and she is looking forward to ithad a fine old time''. But He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the master purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the house surprises everyone when ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he gets himself a very young wife – and Biddy’s world is rapidly changed. Lady Carinna takes saw the benefits of taking up a shine to Biddy, and when Biddy proves herself to be resourceful and entrepreneurial, her fate is sealedjob in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444768727</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sharon PenmanB08Z8BMZ7H|title=Prince The Mystery of DarknessHealing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=1193: Justin de Quincy, bastard son We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the Bishop of Chester common era and loyal to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, steers clear of Eleanorhe's youngest son John the physician on duty at all coststhe munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. After all, JohnThe remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants''s henchman did try the warriors to murder himlive. However thereIt's quite a plot afoot spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to frame John for a crime he didn’t commit (for a change), bringing with it somewhat of a dilemma for Justinmake them look more impressive. As much as he hates John, de Quincy realises that getting to The sagitarii are the bottom of archers and the plot is in beastiarii are the interests of condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the Queen and Englandwild animals. So Justin's course is setToday, no matter what it costs and no matter which hornets' nests it disturbss the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857083</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Crowther1529337925|title=Harlem Nocturne|rating=4|genre=Crime The Mirror Dance (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary=Just before the beginning of the Second World War and half a world away from Europe the World's Fair is taking place in New York. The British king and queen are expected and there's a Joe Louis title fight on the horizon. Daniel Leland lives in Harlem. He used to be with the NYPD but was retired after he was shot by robbers: the bullet is still in his body and perilously close to his spine. 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 - and a very large retainer - by a manufacturer who might be suffering espionage. Before long there's a murder to add into the equation too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1490960821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Hughes|title=The Convictions of John DelahuntCatriona 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 PushkinElowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's literature but to others it seems a little differentlong search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Stalin himself is Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to have it investigated and what Stalin wants, Stalin gets no matter how wide the ultimate spider's web of suspicion is cast and no matter whom it catchesjustice.|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 him, 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 in their place (higher rents, you see) any help was welcome. Added to this there are increasing numbers of street fights involving teddy boys. It’s 1958 - and there’s a heatwave.|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>

 {{newreview|title=The Return of Sherlock Holmes|author=Arthur Conan DoyleFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=I'm still not sure which is cheekier of the BBC – either riffing on the Conan Doyle originals for their own modern takes on Sherlock Holmes, or producing new editions of the original stories and novels with their young stars on the front, purely to tie a few sales down of what is now out of copyright. Certainly I think the latter is the greater crime, given the results on screen, 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 of school must be quite large. Still, anything to forcefeed classics to a new audience…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907609</amazonuk>}} {{newreview0241433568|title=The City of StrangersEight Detectives|author=Michael RussellAlex Pavesi

|summary=In the spring of 1939 The Irish Times reported that Mrs Letitia Harris, aged 53 had gone missing from her home It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in DublinSpain. Her car was found the following morning on It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a cliff top near Shankillrest 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. How can that have happened? There were bloodstains 's no one else in the carhouse, and a blood-stained hatchet in the shed back in Dublin, blood too in so one of them must be the flowerbedkiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847563473</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473682401|title=Sherlock: His Last BowThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349423067|title=TouchstoneThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Laurie R KingFrances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=Laurie R From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King may 's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be best known for her Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes seriestaken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, but she has also written one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a number of other novelsman, a couple stripped naked and with no means of which feature detective Harris Stuyvesantidentification. With Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the publication services of Kate Shackleton in the second hope that her knowledge and connections in this series, Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the first ''Touchstone'', originally published fact that she was now a woman experienced in 2008, has been republished, allowing those readers new dealing with murder. He was reluctant to Stuyvesant, or even to King herself, to become properly acquaintedgive her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749015454</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The Lovegrove Hermit|author=Rosemary Craddock|rating=3|genreisbn=Crime (Historical)|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>}} {{newreview1472127110|title=The Luck of the Vails|author=E F Benson|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary='The sequestered village of Vail lies in Indian Summer: a wrinkle of the great Wiltshire downs, and is traversed by the Bath Road.' Of course the big inn is called 'The Vail Arms' and about a mile from the village is 'the big house'. Benson doesn't name the house – indeed it wouldn't have needed a name. Locally it would just be known as the big house, and any local delivery person would know where to deposit any attached to Lord Vail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099572435</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=David Ashton|title=Nor Will He SleepSara 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=Fridrik, Agnes and Sigridur are accused of murdering two men one Icelandic night in 1829 before setting fire A child has gone missing. The detective asked to their home. Now Agnes awaits execution, imprisoned in take on the case is still struggling with the farm of shame and frustration left by a lowly local family whoprevious case, rumour has it, wouldn't be too great where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a loss if the prisoner becomes dangerousprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Margrit Jonsdottir (the farmer's wife) doesn't feel threatened This detective is a woman, and sets the shockedsetting is Victorian London, malnourished Agnes to work. Gradually Agnes reveals with all the events rich and colourful paradoxes of that night to Margrit era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and Toti, a young priestfascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. Her version seems to be And before you're more than a little different from what everyone else concludedcouple of pages in, predictably… Or perhaps not so predictablyyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447233166</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author= Daniel Woodrell|title=The Maid's Version|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Life Bridie Devine may be tough dress in the Missouri town where Alma grew up but at least she has half-mourning, with a job. She learns widow's cap and experiences a lot as maid to the wealthy Glencross familystout, shiny boots, but many of the experiences arentobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast't the sort she'd like thing for a lady to relive. To top it all offdo!) is mixed with a nugget of something, in 1929 the Arborwell, a local dance club, explodes into flames killing 42 people including Almalet's younger sister Rubysay recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The cause remains a mystery as factions are blamed or viewed suspiciouslyfact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. However Alma knows the truthHer housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, a truth that remains secret until decades later during a visit from her grandsonis also somewhat remarkable.|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 And then, of course, there's the most soul destroying forms of combatghost. It broke men physically and mentally. Death seemed inevitable for manyRuby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as release. So what is one more death among 's clear he has a soft spot for the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death counts, but he can not let this one godetermined young woman. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - If he was murdered and Joseph will not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forwardreally exists, but there is far more to it than this and justice that is truly poetic in this case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce Macbain0349414327|title=The Bull Slayer|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Years after we left him in [[Roman Games A Snapshot of 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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]]