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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=A Cruel Necessity (A John Grey Historical Mystery)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Essex 1657: Cromwell's Republic is 8 years old. While John Grey sleeps off a good night of drink under the eaves of a cottage, a Royalist spy is murdered down the road. A trainee lawyer, John also enjoys the science of investigation and so starts looking for clues that will lead him to the murderer. Although it's not easy: strange happenings occurred that night and Grey is having trouble persuading others of what he saw. Meanwhile his mother has the perfect match for him. Unfortunately their ideas of perfection differ somewhat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472115031</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Sansom0571370977|title=Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=The reign of Henry VIII is drawing to a close. It's heresy to speculate on the death of the king, but obvious to anyone who sees the bloated man who can barely walk that he cannot have much longer. Matthew Shardlake is still drawn to the queen - Catherine Parr as was - but he'd prefer to avoid court politics particularly when there's someone as suggestible and changeable as Henry on the throne. Ultimately though he doesn't feel that he has much choice when he's summoned to Whitehall Palace. It seems that the queen has a problem which could put her life in danger Lock- along with the lives of all those who are seen as her supporters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744192</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Murder at the BrightwellUp|author=Ashley WeaverJohn Banville
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|summary=It probably helps to be a fan of Agatha Christie. It probably helps to absolutely adore 's six months since the sheer selfish indulgence dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and style of the 1930sDr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. It probably helps to just accept The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the ''rich'' as being completely divorced from real lifealready strained relationship between them more difficult. It definitely helps if youThey're happy to take your crime as brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a puzzlelock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than as heart-rending, gut-wrenching rendition of realitysuicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749017317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529337968|title=Queen In Place of HeartsFear|author=Rhys BowenCatriona McPherson|rating=25
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|summary=Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th It'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. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in line for their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of the British throne, may know how job will be to navigate upper class society, but there arenpersuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don't many acceptable career choices have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a penniless almost royal. So when problem of her mother, famous actress Claire Daniels, invites own which might give her on a transatlantic cruise, Georgie is looking forwards to living the highlife and relaxing for a whilesome insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M4ZGVBG</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Davies057136358X|title=Havana Sleeping|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hector, a night watchman is murdered at work. There's nothing unusual about that – it happens all the time. The reason being that this is Havana halfway through the 19th century; a place of intrigue, political posturing (and worse) as pro- and anti-slavery conflicts cause bubbles under the surface of society. It's a place where an apparently lowly British civil servant like George Backhouse can be posted to influential positions. It's a place where the Americans don't trust the British, the British don't trust the Americans and everyone fears what the Spanish may do. Meanwhile a courtesan named Leonarda just wants to find out why the man she loved died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980451</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewApril in Spain|author=Kate Mosse|title=The Taxidermist's DaughterJohn Banville
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|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Connie is the daughter Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of once renowned taxidermist Crowley Giffordhimself in those terms. Times have changed thoughHe saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. Crowley may once have been famous with his own museum proudly exhibiting intricately prepared bird and animal tableaux but heI couldn's now addled by alcohol and deep melancholy, leaving Connie to continue t resist the art in much reduced circumstances. A decade before Connie (then aged 10) had thought that he was an accident that robbed her extreme version of her memoryMarie Kondo. The past refuses He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to stay hidden though, returning him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a vengeance lot of the little yellow fellows and explaining the shell that Crowley has becomehad a fine old time''. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn'A vengeancet understand why Terry didn' isnt know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't a throwaway choice of words either – its return will upturn all drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that Connie has believed and even threaten her life and he saw the lives benefits of all those whom she holds deartaking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409153754</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H|title=Sherlock Holmes - The Spirit BoxMystery of Healing|author=George MannA P McGrath|rating=3.54
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|summary=In We meet Solon in Pergamon in the London second century of World War One there is a man amongst the masses cowering from common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the nightly Zeppelin raids who knows death a lot more than many. He is grieving games put on for his nephew, lost to the killing fields amusement of France; he is pining for his wife, evacuated to the country; and he is both grieving and pining for populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a past where he was more active, more demonstrably brave feeling of virtue and verifiably useful – a past whose main constituent part has also gone to hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the countryside, warriors to be live. It's quite a beekeeper near Brighton. That man is Dr Watson, spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and the other, of coursewhen we first see them, is Sherlock Holmes. Here they're reunited at sprinkling gold dust onto the behest of Mycroft, for three individual deaths provide a thorn in lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the side of his secret operations, archers and only Holmes can pluck it out with his singular talents. But when the evidence in beastiarii are the case so often revolves around mysterious photographs claiming condemned criminals who are going to be of peoplefight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it's souls, there is a hint that this new modern age is a step too far for the once-retired sleuthing friendscrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160023</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529337925|title=The First HorsemanMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=DK WilsonCatriona McPherson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=British author Derek Wilson is one with a tremendously long bibliography It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as a Historianso often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and as an author Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of fictionwork was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. He brings all She was the publisher of that to '''The First Horseman''', a resounding success magazine and had been told that blends fact the man running the Punch and fiction to create a gripping, fast moving Tudor crime story that educates as well as fascinates, moving from Judy show in the merchants local park had used copies of Cheapside two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the whores man about infringement of Southwark, copyright - and mixing with figures such as Thomas Cromwell Dandy and Henry VIIIAlex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550361</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC HumphreysB08LKT7HSR|title=Plague|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Highwayman Captain William Coke stops a carriage in the line of his chosen career and soon discovers he's not the first to have assailed it. The driver is dead and all those within have been brutally skewered. He flees the scene but unfortunately leaves a pistol behind. This is all thief-taker Pitman needs to arouse his interest and attempt to track the Captain down with a noose Murder in mind. Meanwhile nature has an equally random mode of death that's soon to be let loose on London. This is 1665 and the Great Plague is about to begin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891423</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Hamilton|title=Stalemate|rating=5|genre=Crime Belltower (HistoricalA Miss Underhay Mystery)|summary=In the summer of 1930 Walter Bruce was told that he had an incurable illness. With nursing care and an easier job he might have a few more years to live - but without them he had a matter of months. The solution would seem straightforward but Bruce had a wife - and she demanded to be ''kept'' and was far too selfish to be his nurse. Life ''might'' have continued much as it was, but Bruce discovered that his wife had been deceiving him about her age and background - and with ''two'' of his business colleagues. The solution was obvious: he would devise the perfect murder and then live out his final years in comfort. Bruce was a chess player and he approached the problem much as he would a game of chess - but even the best plans rarely survive contact with reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178132204X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Marathon Conspiracy|author=Gary CorbyHelena Dixon
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Nicolaos has a lot on his mind. His wedding is only a few weeks away and he still has no real means In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of supporting a wife and familythe Glass Bottle Public House. The investigating game, it seems, doesn't pay too well. So when his patron Pericles asks him to investigate Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of a young childElowed and his half-brother, Nico is a little reticentDenzil Hammett, especially since he is still waiting to be paid for his previous assignmentwhose body was also discovered. Deciding that he can Kitty Underhay't afford to be picky, Nico accepts a case which will see him, amongst other things, fending off street thugs, diving s long search for treasure in a sacred spring, going on a bear hunther mother, rescuing a pair of fighting cocks and consulting a strange priestess who has a habit of running around the woods naked..disappeared in June 1916 was over.At least he can Now she't complain s determined that his work is boringthe man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>161695387X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley McKay|title=Friend and Foe (A Hew Cullan Mystery)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1583 and King James VI of Scotland is paranoid and, after the events of the Ruthven raid the year before, who can blame him? Surely this won't affect humble academic lawyer Hew Cullen? Oh but it will, eventually causing more turmoil than even he is used to. Back at the beginning though, while Hew continues, unaware of what's to come, he has more pressing domestic worries that, for once, don't affect his herbalist sister Meg or his doctor brother-in-law Giles. Indeed, this time the concern is the love of Hew's own heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972175</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStephen Clarke|title=The Axeman's Jazz|author= Ray CelestinSpy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Based on This is a true spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'The Axemanlikes the ladies's Jazz'' is scriptwriter Ray Celestin's debut noveland who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. It tells of Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a serial killer female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in New Orleans Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in 1919 - the Axeman - who torments the city and has everyone talking; it seems that everyone has their theories and yet no meaningful leads are presenting themselvesresistance network, as the police and citizens of New Orleans begin Lemming desperately trying to despair of ever catching the killer.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349423083|title=Sherlock Holmes: Gods of WarDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=James LovegroveFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The year is 1913 Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and the storm clouds her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of war are gathering ominously on the horizonBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. Most people dread the inevitable Something is 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, but there are individuals who stand will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to gain from see what the oncoming conflict continental brewers were doing and will stop at nothing what changes Barleycorn might need to facilitate their plans, even if make. William is worried that means murder. However, it would take James is perhaps enjoying himself a very brave (little bit ''too'' much or naïve) criminal is going to commit such an atrocity in bring back a German bride but he'd like the neighbourhood of Mr Sherlock Holmes, even if he is supposed business to be enjoying ship-shape before his retirementnephew returns. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marco Malvaldi and Howard Curtis (translator)0241433568|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 of aristocratic suspects baffles the local police inspector and Artusi realises that he will have to become involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052942</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewEight Detectives|author=MRC Kasasian|title=The Curse Of The House Of Foskett (The Gower Street Detective Series)Alex Pavesi
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Personal (not private!) detective Sidney Grice is still smarting because he's thought to have sent an innocent man to the gallows. It's also hit him 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in the pocket as work has dried up as a resultSpain. HeIt's therefore pleased unbearably hot and intrigued when Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's visited by going to have a potential client who rest and then he wants him to look into the Last Death Club, a group of people who have each put £2,000 in the kitty, the sum of which will go to the last person surviving. Unfortunately they seem talk to be dying quicker than planned Megan and rather unnaturallyHenry about something serious. Sidney is about to accept the case Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his client drops dead in Griceguests find that he's study in front of him and his ward and assistant March Middletonbeen murdered. It may not improve his reputation anyHow can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, but his attention has been piqued; he'll take so one of them must be the case anywaykiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853258</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473682401|title=An Appetite for VioletsThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Martine BaileyCatriona McPherson|rating=54
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Biddy 'Obedience' Leigh is Those who were with us at the under-cook at Mawton Hall, but although she is passionate about cooking, her dearest wish is end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to marry her young manMallory Dunnoch. The date is set for her to leave the Hall for They're now married life and she Mallory is looking forward to ithaving twins. But When they arrive no one can doubt the master charms of the house surprises everyone when he gets himself a very young wife – Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Biddy’s world is rapidly changedHugh. Lady Carinna takes Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a shine to Biddy, and problem at the Cramond ferry when Biddy proves herself it was offered to be resourceful and entrepreneurialthem twice before, her fate is sealedbut suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444768727</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon PenmanSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Prince of DarknessThe Honjin Murders
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1193: Justin de QuincyTo many readers, bastard son of the Bishop of Chester and loyal phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, steers clear of Eleanorread; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good's youngest son John at all costs. After allFor those who need more, Johnhere is the extra background – we's henchman did try to murder himre in rural Japan in the 1930s. However there's a plot afoot to frame John for a crime he didn’t commit (for a change)The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, bringing what with it somewhat of a dilemma being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for Justinone thing. As much Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as he hates Johnplanned, de Quincy realises that getting only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the bottom sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the plot is in neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the interests time of the Queen and England. So Justin's course is setcrime, no matter what it costs and no matter which hornets' nests this case has a lot of the peculiar about it disturbs.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781857083</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce CrowtherB07XLM3SM6|title=Harlem NocturneMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Just before Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the beginning care of the Second World War and half a world away from Europe the World's Fair is taking place in New Yorkher grandmother. The British king and queen are expected 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's a Joe Louis title fight on the horizonwas no evidence to suggest otherwise. Daniel Leland lives in Harlem. He used Kitty has come to be terms with this and in 1933 she was running the NYPD but Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was retired after he ill. She was shot by robbers: the bullet is still reluctant to leave Kitty in his body charge - and perilously close to his spineKitty could not understand why. Right now he makes his living as a small-time private detective, but business seems to be looking up when heShe's offered an investigation always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and a very large retainer - by a manufacturer who might be suffering espionageshe's done every job in the hotel. Before long thereAnd she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's a murder friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to add into take charge of security at the equation toohotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1490960821</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Hughes0349423067|title=The Convictions of John DelahuntBody on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=As John Delahunt sits in From Christmas to Easter a cell for train ran from Leeds City Station to King'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 condemned writing an account body of his lifea man, we go through it stripped naked and with himno means of identification. It all begins as he witnesses Scotland Yard hit a fracas between his fellow students dead end and called on the police after a visit to one services of Kate Shackleton in the fine hostelries Victorian Dublin has to offerhope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. In this way John's brought Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the attention of 'The Department', fact that she was now a pro-British intelligence unit based woman experienced in the notorious Dublin Castledealing with murder. John agrees He was reluctant 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 himgive her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781620148</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Sebag Montefiore1472127110|title=One Night in WinterIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In June 1945 two school students are shot dead in Moscow. These aren't just any school students; they attended Josef Stalin School 801Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the academy that taught Stalin's own children war, and not always for the current educational establishment of choice better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the offspring of many government and army grandeeslover who died before he could leave his wife. Why did they die? Did the seemingly innocent Fatal Romantics Club have anything As time went by she found in herself an ability to do with it? For the children the club is a way of living their love of Pushkin's literature but solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to others it seems let a little different. Stalin himself is determined to have it investigated and thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what Stalin wantsshe wanted, Stalin gets no matter how wide and even found consolation in the ultimate spider's web arms of suspicion is cast and no matter whom it catchesa rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099580330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Wilson1912374439|title=The RiotCourier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In July 1946 two schoolboys found Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the body of game away. For in a woman on book that centres around a bombsite in north London. Itmurder, I's a while before she's identified as Lillian Frobisherve told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, but that produces more problems. Lillian was - apparently - certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a respectably married young woman but the encounter on the bomb site had been sexual sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and almost certainly consensual. And why was rushes to her husband best friend to help – not aware knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. In this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that his wife was missing? His position looks female victim, even worse when it emerges that the body was lying on an expensive mackintosh sold in the store where though she and he's lived together with their baby as a doorman. But young family, except he was Lillian quite as respectable as she would thought by all to have had everyone think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722060</amazonuk>died in the War…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786075431|title=The TournamentMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Matthew ReillyMaryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Michael Reilly is somewhat Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a guilty pleasure of mine; medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his novels are hi-octane adventures that are often as ludicrous as they are sublimeesteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. ‘The Tournament’ Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a departure from his action packed Scarecrow and Jack West thrillers; instead creating an alternative history for our own Queen Elizabeth Iroof over their heads. Why One such was Mrs Mohr, although she such a formidable leader whose reluctance was rich enough to marry keep private lodgings and dislike of the Catholics were only part of staff in her make-up? charitable home. I say ''was'', for she has vanished. Reilly poses a hypothetical tale about a 13 year old Bess going Only due to Constantinople to watch Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in a tournament of place the world’s greatest chess playersnear-lame woman could never reach by herself. Here she will Just who could be embroiled killing people in a murder mystery alongside her tutor Roger Ascham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409134229</amazonuk>charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786893762|title=The Return of Sherlock HolmesThings in Jars|author=Arthur Conan DoyleJess Kidd|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=I'm A 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 sure which found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is cheekier of a woman, and the BBC – either riffing on setting is Victorian London, with all the Conan Doyle originals rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for their own modern takes on Sherlock Holmes, or producing new editions of space beside superstition and a fascination with the original stories bizarre and novels the downright hideous. And before 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 their young stars on a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the fronttobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, purely what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to tie do!) is mixed with a few sales down nugget of what something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is now out of copyrightby the by. Certainly I think the latter Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the greater crimeghost. Ruby Doyle, given the results on screenworld-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the number of determined 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 largewoman. StillIf he really exists, anything to forcefeed classics to a new audience…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907609</amazonuk>that is.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349414327|title=The City A Snapshot of StrangersMurder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Michael RussellFrances Brody|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In the spring of 1939 The Irish Times reported that Mrs Letitia HarrisEven detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, aged 53 had gone missing from photography gives her home in Dublinthe mental relaxation which she needs. Her car When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was found keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the following morning on deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a cliff top near Shankillmuseum and her parents will be there for the event. There were bloodstains in the carWhat could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and a blood-stained hatchet in having the shed back in Dublin, blood too in opportunity to take photographs of the flowerbedsetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847563473</amazonuk> Or could it?
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