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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)0571370977|title=Enter the Saint|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When you think of thrillers written by a man in his early twenties there's a temptation to believe that the books might not be, well, top drawer, but that would be a mistake. The first of ''The Saint'' novels was published in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty one and this collection of stories is dated 1930. You might expect the rambunctious adventurer we meet, but not the subtleties of the slightly world-weary man of the world, all-knowing about the evils to which men (and women) can sink, but they're all there. Admittedly the Saint is more boisterous and less subtle than he will become Lock- but that speaks more about the later works than this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewUp|author=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Loser's CornerJohn Banville

|summary=Anthony Trollope was very taken It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with Barchester when he first visited the cityhis daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but pausing to look out at a pleasant view he discovered irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of Thomas Ridera young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a bedesman at Hiram's Hospitallock-up. At first , it was suspected that Trollope might have been the murderer - for this was no natural death, looked as though she'd gassed herself but a stabbing - but once he proved Quirke is convinced that he it was a professional man there on business for the first time, he found himself drawn into the investigation. There is a secret which the warden, the Reverend Septimus Harding has hidden for well over a decade and it looks as though Rider might have been murdered to prevent the secret coming outmurder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208086</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements1529337968|title=The Queen's ManIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=45

|summary=Elizabethan England It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - a murky, dirty world full of religious strife and violent, short lives. Queen Elizabeth sits on the throne, but her seat day that the NHS is by no means safe - her first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, is locked up born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in Sheffield Castle. Unable to leave, but by no means unable to plot their GP surgery and scheme with her supporters, Mary wishes job will be to reclaim what she believes is rightfully hers help patients with those non- medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of the throne. But even she cannot job will be prepared for to persuade people that the dark twists services she offers really are free and new plots that arisethey don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler057136358X|title=A Cruel Necessity (A John Grey Historical Mystery)April in Spain|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summaryauthor=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>}} {{newreview|author=C J Sansom|title=Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake)Banville|rating=4.5

|summary=The reign Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of Henry VIII is drawing to himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a closematter of making things tidy''. ItI couldn's heresy to speculate on t resist the death thought that he was an extreme version of the kingMarie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, but obvious something which occurred to anyone who sees him when he was in Burma with the bloated man who can barely walk that army ''where he cannot have much longergot the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Matthew Shardlake is still drawn to the queen - Catherine Parr as He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - but hewho couldn'd prefer to avoid court politics particularly when theret understand why Terry didn's someone as suggestible and changeable as Henry on t know the throne. Ultimately though purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he doesnwouldn't feel that he has much choice when hedrink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''s summoned to Whitehall Palace. ? It seems was after Percy's death that he saw the queen has benefits of taking up a problem which could put her life job in danger - along with the lives of all those who are seen as her supportersSpain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744192</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H|title=Murder at the BrightwellThe Mystery of Healing|author=Ashley WeaverA P McGrath

|summary=It probably helps to be a fan We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of Agatha Christie. It probably helps to absolutely adore the sheer selfish indulgence common era and style of he's the 1930s. It probably helps to just accept physician on duty at the ''rich'' as being completely divorced from real life. It definitely helps if you're happy to take your crime as a puzzle, rather than as heartmunus -rending, gut-wrenching rendition of reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749017317</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Queen of Hearts|author=Rhys Bowen|rating=2|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 35th in line the games put on for the British throne, may know how to navigate upper class society, but there aren't many acceptable career choices for a penniless almost royal. So when her mother, famous actress Claire Daniels, invites her on a transatlantic cruise, Georgie is looking forwards to living amusement of the highlife and relaxing for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M4ZGVBG</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Davies|title=Havana Sleeping|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Hector, a night watchman is murdered at workpopulace. ThereThe remuneration isn's nothing unusual about that – it happens all t high but the time. The reason being that this is Havana halfway through work gives the 19th century; doctor a place feeling of intrigue, political posturing (virtue and worse) as pro- and anti-slavery conflicts cause bubbles under hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the surface of society. It's a place where an apparently lowly British civil servant like George Backhouse can be posted warriors to influential positionslive. It's quite a place where spectacle: the Americans don't trust magistri are the Britishcharge hands and when we first see them, the British donthey't trust the Americans and everyone fears what the Spanish may do. Meanwhile a courtesan named Leonarda just wants to find out why re sprinkling gold dust onto the man she loved died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980451</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Mosse|title=The Taxidermistlions's Daughter|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Connie is the daughter of once renowned taxidermist Crowley Gifford. Times have changed though. Crowley may once have been famous with his own museum proudly exhibiting intricately prepared bird and animal tableaux but he's now addled by alcohol and deep melancholy, leaving Connie manes to continue the art in much reduced circumstances. A decade before Connie (then aged 10) had an accident that robbed her of her memorymake them look more impressive. The past refuses to stay hidden though, returning with a vengeance and explaining sagitarii are the shell that Crowley has become. 'A vengeance' isn't a throwaway choice of words either – its return will upturn all that Connie has believed and even threaten her life archers and the lives of all those whom she holds dear.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409153754</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sherlock Holmes - The Spirit Box|author=George Mann|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In the London of World War One there is a man amongst the masses cowering from beastiarii are the nightly Zeppelin raids condemned criminals who knows death a lot more than many. He is grieving for his nephew, lost are going to the killing fields of France; he is pining fight for his wife, evacuated to the country; and he is both grieving and pining for a past where he was more active, more demonstrably brave and verifiably useful – a past whose main constituent part has also gone to their lives with the countryside, to be a beekeeper near Brightonwild animals. That man is Dr Watson, and the other, of course, is Sherlock Holmes. Here they're reunited at the behest of Mycroft, for three individual deaths provide a thorn in the side of his secret operations Today, and only Holmes can pluck it out with his singular talents. But when the evidence in the case so often revolves around mysterious photographs claiming to be of people'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>

  {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529337925|title=The First HorsemanMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=DK WilsonCatriona McPherson

|summary=British author Derek Wilson is one with a tremendously long bibliography as a Historian, It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and as an author of fiction. He brings all of that to '''The First Horseman''', a resounding success that blends fact and fiction to create a gripping, fast moving Tudor crime story that educates as well as fascinatesso often happened, moving from the merchants of Cheapside it was cold enough to have the whores of Southwark, fire lit and mixing with figures such as Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550361</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=CC Humphreys|title=Plague|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Highwayman Captain William Coke stops a carriage in Bunty the line of his chosen career and soon discovers heDalmation wasn's not the first t inclined to have assailed leave itto keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The driver is dead and all those within have been brutally skeweredthought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. He flees She was the scene but unfortunately leaves publisher of a pistol behind. This is all thiefmagazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle -taker Pitman needs to arouse his drum up some local interest and attempt to track the Captain down with a noose in mindhis show. Meanwhile nature has an equally random mode of death that Sandy Bissett's soon request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to be let loose on London. This is 1665 and warn the Great Plague is man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to begindo the same job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891423</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan HamiltonB08LKT7HSR|title=Stalemate|rating=5|genre=Crime Murder in the 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

|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 supporting a wife and family. The investigating game, it seems, doesn't pay too well. So when his patron Pericles asks him to investigate Elowed Underhay were discovered in the murder cellar of a young child, Nico is a little reticent, especially since he is still waiting to be paid for his previous assignmentthe Glass Bottle Public House. Deciding that he can't afford to be picky, Nico accepts a case which will see him, amongst other things, fending off street thugs, diving for treasure Ezekiel Hamett was sought in a sacred spring, going on a bear hunt, rescuing a pair connection with the murder of fighting cocks Elowed and consulting a strange priestess who has a habit of running around the woods naked...At least he can't complain that his work is boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>161695387X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 beforehalf-brother, who can blame him? Surely this won't affect humble academic lawyer Hew Cullen? Oh but it willDenzil Hammett, eventually causing more turmoil than even he is used towhose body was also discovered. Back at the beginning though, while Hew continues, unaware of whatKitty Underhay's to come, he has more pressing domestic worries that, long search for onceher mother, don't affect his herbalist sister Meg or his doctor brother-who disappeared in-law GilesJune 1916 was over. Indeed, this time the concern is the love of HewNow she's own heartdetermined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972175</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Axeman's JazzStephen Clarke|authortitle= Ray CelestinThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Based on This is a true spoof spy story, that isn''The Axeman's Jazz'' is scriptwriter Ray Celestin's debut novelt about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. It tells of But it features a serial killer in New Orleans in 1919 - man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the Axeman - ladies' and who torments works for the city and has everyone talking; it seems that everyone has their theories and yet no meaningful leads are presenting themselvessecret service, as but in the police and citizens of New Orleans begin to despair planning side of ever catching things more than the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sherlock Holmes: Gods of War|author=James Lovegrove|rating=4active service.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=The year is 1913 and the storm clouds of war are gathering ominously Lemming finds himself put on the horizon. Most people dread the inevitablea mission with a female spy called Margaux, but there are individuals who stand to gain from and the oncoming conflict and will stop at nothing to facilitate their planspair end up stranded in Normandy, even if that means murder. However, it would take with Margaux on a very brave (or naïve) criminal desperate mission to commit such an atrocity unearth traitors in the neighbourhood of Mr Sherlock Holmesresistance network, even if he is supposed and Lemming desperately trying 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 afootkeep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781165432</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349423083|authortitle=Marco Malvaldi Death and Howard Curtis the Brewery Queen (translatorKate Shackleton Mysteries)|titleauthor=The Art of Killing WellFrances Brody

|summary=Pellegrino Artusi has travelled the length Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and breadth of Italy researching his masterpiece her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She''The Science s been approached by William Lofthouse 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 bonusBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. HeSomething is going wrong with his business and he'd have the opportunity like Kate to discover the secrets of the Baronelook into it discreetly: he's kitchen hoping that his nephew and the chance of right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a few days rest and possibly a boar hunt in the Tuscan hillstrip to Germany before long. What could be better? Well, his stay would have been improved had a body not been discovered in James went to see what the locked cellar of the castlecontinental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. The cast of aristocratic suspects baffles the local police inspector and Artusi realises William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he will have 'd like the business to become involvedbe ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052942</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=MRC Kasasian0241433568|title=The Curse Of The House Of Foskett (The Gower Street Detective Series)Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473682401|title=An Appetite for VioletsThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Martine BaileyCatriona McPherson|rating=54

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon PenmanSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Prince of DarknessThe Honjin Murders

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce CrowtherB07XLM3SM6|title=Harlem NocturneMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Hughes0349423067|title=The Convictions of John DelahuntBody on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Sebag Montefiore1472127110|title=One Night in WinterIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Wilson1912374439|title=The RiotCourier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)

|genre=Crime(Historical)|summary=DI Stratton Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has moved to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a new posting young woman sees her father arrested, and Notting Hill is fresh territory their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to himhelp – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, but he’s going to have to get to know it fast when a rent collector great consternation is stabbedbeing felt. There’s In this timeline, a sense of loss from the people maverick agent is back in town, one who knew the man - he was inclined to help if might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he could and lived together with landlords wanting to oust rent-controlled tenants so that they could put ‘coloured’ people or prostitutes in their place (higher rentsbaby as a young family, you see) any help except he was welcome. Added thought by all to this there are increasing numbers of street fights involving teddy boys. It’s 1958 - and there’s a heatwave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782063080</amazonuk>have died in the War…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Scott1786075431|title=The KeptMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Elspeth Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and keen on her 12 year old son Caleb have been beset by one of husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the worst types city due to lack of tragedyhygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. As a resultOne such was Mrs Mohr, fuelled by Calebalthough she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. I say ''was''s need , for revenge and Elspethshe has vanished. Only due to Zofia's motherly lovehelp does she get found, they set out on dead and in a journey that brings them to place the small Lake Erie town of Watersbridgenear-lame woman could never reach by herself. With their new setting comes Just who could be killing people in a greater understanding of their past which is charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a mixed blessing that must be met head on before they have to face their future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091944503</amazonuk>name for herself by answering those questions?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sian Busby1786893762|title=A Commonplace KillingThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd|rating=4.5

|summary=In July 1946 two schoolboys 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 found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the body rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a woman on fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a bombsite couple of pages in north London, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. ItBridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a while before shenugget of something, well, let's identified as Lillian Frobishersay recreational, but created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that produces more it's actually meant to cure bronchial problemsis by the by. Lillian was Her housemaid, being seven- apparently foot- a respectably married woman but tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the encounter on the bomb site had been sexual and almost certainly consensualghost. And why was Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her husband not aware that his wife was missing? His position looks even worse when investigation, and it emerges that the body was lying on an expensive mackintosh sold in the store where he's clear he has a doormansoft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is. But was Lillian quite as respectable as she would have had everyone think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722060</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349414327|title=The TournamentA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Matthew ReillyFrances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=Michael Reilly is somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine; his novels are hi-octane adventures that are often as ludicrous as they are sublime. ‘The Tournament’ is Even detectives need a departure from his action packed Scarecrow break and Jack West thrillers; instead creating an alternative history for our own Queen Elizabeth IKate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. Why When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was she such a formidable leader whose reluctance keen to take the opportunity to marry visit Haworth and dislike Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Catholics were only part of Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her make-up? parents will be there for the event. Reilly poses What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a hypothetical tale about a 13 year old Bess going to Constantinople momentous event and having the opportunity to watch a tournament take photographs of the world’s greatest chess playerssetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Here she will be embroiled in a murder mystery alongside her tutor Roger Ascham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409134229</amazonuk>Or could it?

{{newreview|title=The Return of Sherlock Holmes|author=Arthur Conan Doyle|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=I'm still not sure which is cheekier of the BBC – either riffing Move 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>}}[[Newest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]]