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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=MRC Kasasian0571370977|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)Lock-Up|author=John Banville
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|summary=While It's six months since the best personal detective dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in the known Victorian world Dublin and living (in if somewhat uneasily) with his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away on a casedaughter, Phoebe. The worst of his ward March grief is left to her own devicesover but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. As luck would have itThey're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, one of those devices is an invitation to meet found in a previously unknown relativelock-up. March visits Saturn Villa with a sense of curiosity and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is one she will never forgetconvinced that it was murder rather than suicide. Let's hope she knows a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Wilson|title=Wallace of the Secret Service|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=This is the third in the re-issued series authored by the former soldier, spy and Professor of English Literature, without whom it is said, there'd have been no Bond, no Smiley, no Bourne.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018151</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Sara Sheridan1529337968|title= British Bulldog |rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= As a decade, the fifties doesn't attract much attention from authors and scriptwriters - it's dull and grey in comparison with the vivid horrors In Place of war and the colourful extravagance of the sixties. But World War II left a long shadow, and this, the fourth instalment in this excellent series, takes us deep into past life of ex-intelligence agent Mirabelle Bevan, and the sorrow and the blighted love she has so desperately fought to hide from public gaze soon becomes hopelessly entangled with present deaths and danger. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973252</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFear|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Last Confession of Thomas HawkinsCatriona McPherson
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary= London, 1841. Newly returned from India, Jeremiah Blake It's July 1948 and William Avery find life back in Victorian England difficult Helen Crowther is due to settle into, having left start work as a disconnected country travelled by pony qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and trap, Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and returned her job will be to one in the grip of railway maniahelp patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. When a series The hardest part of murders occur, all connected the job will be to persuade people that the press, Avery services she offers really are free and Blake find themselves back in actionthat they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. But with connections between Some of the murdered and those seeking revolution, it is problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a race against time to find the killer before he strikes againproblem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146259</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl057136358X|title=The Last Bookaneer|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Bookaneer Fergins makes a decent living April in 19th century London. However his business acquaintance Davenport has a plan to aid his prosperity. Hot literary property Robert Louis Stevenson is dying on Upolo, a Samoan island, having just written his final potential masterpiece. Therefore all Davenport has to do is to steal it, bringing it back to publishing glory and self-aggrandisement. The only problems are that the enabling legal loophole is about to close and he's not the only one with his eye on that particular prize. And Fergins? He's going too, whether he wants to or not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556198</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSpain|author=Jane Thynne |title=A War of FlowersJohn Banville
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A War of Flowers is the third of Jane ThynneTerry Tice was a hitman, although he didn's thoroughly researched and beautifully written novels t think of Nazi Berlin from the female point of viewhimself in those terms. Reading them is an immersive experience; the joy He saw what he did as ''a matter of the book is in location, description, commentmaking things tidy''. The action does not rush but I couldn't resist the ending expertly pulls plot strings together and has a wow factor thought that will leave the reader eager for morehe was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131904</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Simmons|title=The Fifth Heart|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=On a rainy night in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridge He enjoyed his job, about to end it all. Next something which occurred to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to do kill a lot of the same. Instead of jumping, Holmes drags James off for a drink little yellow fellows and decides that they will go to America to solve had a 17-year-fine old murder casetime''. The supposed victim, socialite Clover Adams, is believed to have committed suicide but that doesnHe was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't deter Sherlock. Heknow the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn's off, Henry James is going t drink champagne with him and thatbubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751560952</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jayne Anne Phillips|title=Quiet Dell|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary= Chicago – 1931. Asta Eicher is a widow, with three children and a crippling sense of loneliness. When Harry Powers asks her to marry him, she is delighted – and he saw the new family soon leave in order to travel to West Virginia. They are never seen again. Back in Chicago, Emily Thornhill is one benefits of the few women journalists taking up a job in Chicago, and is sent to investigate the disappearance, trying to establish what happened to the family. As she becomes ever deeper involved with the investigation, Emily begins to discover things she never expected – both about the case, and herselfSpain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590255</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip KerrB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Lady from ZagrebMystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon 'Death by Misadventure'wants'.' This is the official verdict as to the cause of death of Lady Lavinia Truelove, trampled to death by a notoriously ill-tempered horse, which she foolishly tried warriors to approach in its stalllive. The horse panicked and reacted badly, resulting in It's quite a gruesome spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and bloody attackwhen we first see them, witnessed by two boys from they're sprinkling gold dust onto the villagelions' manes to make them look more impressive. Most people would dismiss The sagitarii are the event as a tragic accident, but detective Joe Sandilands suspects that this could be cold-blooded murder. Could his judgement be clouded by archers and the beastiarii are the fact that he has a very personal axe condemned criminals who are going to grind fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it'grieving' widower, who has been showing increasing attentiveness to Dorcas, s the girl he plans to marry?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954086</amazonuk>crocodiles.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529337925|title=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer The Mirror Dance (narratorDandy Gilver)|titleauthor=Enter the SaintCatriona McPherson
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime (Historical)|summary=When you think of thrillers written by a man in his early twenties thereIt was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn's a temptation t inclined to leave it to believe that keep Dandy Gilver warm on the books might not be, well, top drawer, but that would be a mistakesofa. The first thought of ''The Saint'' novels work was published almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in 1928 when Leslie Charteris was just twenty one and this collection of stories is dated 1930Dundee. You might expect She was the rambunctious adventurer we meet, but not the subtleties publisher of a magazine and had been told that the slightly world-weary man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of the world, alltwo of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle -knowing about the evils to which men (drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and women) can sink, but they're all there. Admittedly Osborne to warn the Saint is more boisterous man about infringement of copyright - and less subtle Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than he will become - but that speaks more about employing a solicitor to do the later works than this booksame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00OS74GQU</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonin Varenne and Frank Wynne (translator)B08LKT7HSR|title=Loser's Corner|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Meet Georges Crozat. He's a policeman in Paris, who boxes on the side. After a bout that leads to an almost embarrassing victory, he is made two offers – one from a clearly corrupt man behind the scenes Murder in the sport, who seems to offer a few thrown fights for Georges, then some kind of status as assistant – training, guiding, profiteering; the other comes from a man known always as ''the Pakistani'' Belltower (or an unkind abbreviation of thatA Miss Underhay Mystery), who has a friend of a friend who wants someone to do an enemy a mischief with their fists. Georges doesn't take too long to choose the latter. In alternating chapters, however, we're in the 1950s, and a rookie to the forces, Pascal Verini, is being shipped out to Algeria to work on the civil war causing the republic to break away and become independent from France. Like Georges, he finds his situation one which also causes what may be misguided violence, even if he has a very different attitude to it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052276</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=G M Best |title=The Barchster MurdersHelena Dixon
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Anthony Trollope was very taken with Barchester when he first visited In December 1933 the city, but pausing to look out at a pleasant view he remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the body cellar of Thomas Rider, a bedesman at Hiram's Hospitalthe Glass Bottle Public House. At first it Ezekiel Hamett was suspected that Trollope might have been sought in connection with the murderer murder of Elowed and his half- for this was no natural deathbrother, Denzil Hammett, but a stabbing - but once he proved that he whose body was a professional man there on business also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for the first timeher mother, he found himself drawn into the investigationwho disappeared in June 1916 was over. There is a secret which Now she's determined that the warden, the Reverend Septimus Harding has hidden man responsible for well over a decade and it looks as though Rider might have been murdered her murder will be brought to prevent the secret coming outjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rory ClementsStephen Clarke|title=The Queen's ManSpy Who Inspired Me
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Elizabethan England - This is a murkyspoof spy story, dirty world full of religious strife that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and violent, short lives. Queen Elizabeth sits on who works for the thronesecret service, but her seat is by no means safe - her first cousin, Mary, Queen in the planning side of Scotsthings more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, is locked and the pair end up stranded in Sheffield Castle. Unable Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to leaveunearth traitors in the resistance network, but by no means unable and Lemming desperately trying to plot and scheme keep up with her supporters, Mary wishes to reclaim what she believes is rightfully hers - the throne. But even she cannot be prepared for the dark twists and new plots that arise.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler0349423083|title=A Cruel Necessity Death and the Brewery Queen (A John Grey Historical MysteryKate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Essex 1657: CromwellKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's Republic is 8 years oldbeen approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Masham. While John Grey sleeps off a good night of drink under the eaves of a cottageSomething 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, will be back from a Royalist spy is murdered down the roadtrip to Germany before long. A trainee lawyer, John also enjoys James went to see what the science of investigation continental brewers were doing and so starts looking for clues that will lead him what changes Barleycorn might need to the murderermake. Although itWilliam is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too''s not easy: strange happenings occurred that night and Grey much or is having trouble persuading others of what going to bring back a German bride but he saw. Meanwhile 'd like the business to be ship-shape before his mother has the perfect match for himnephew returns. Unfortunately their ideas of perfection differ somewhat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472115031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Sansom0241433568|title=Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake)Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The reign of It's 1930 and Megan and Henry VIII is drawing to a closeare staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's heresy unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to speculate on the death of the king, but obvious to anyone who sees the bloated man who can barely walk that have a rest and then he cannot have much longer. Matthew Shardlake is still drawn wants to the queen - Catherine Parr as was - but he'd prefer talk to avoid court politics particularly when there's someone as suggestible Megan and changeable as Henry on the throneabout something serious. Ultimately though he Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't feel emerge after his siesta his guests find that he has much choice when he's summoned to Whitehall Palacebeen murdered. It seems How can that the queen has a problem which could put her life have happened? There's no one else in danger - along with the lives house, so one of all those who are seen as her supportersthem must be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744192</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473682401|title=Murder at the BrightwellThe Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Ashley WeaverCatriona McPherson
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It probably helps Those who were with us at the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to be a fan of Agatha ChristieMallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. It probably helps to absolutely adore When they arrive no one can doubt the sheer selfish indulgence charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and style of the 1930sher brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. It probably helps to just accept the There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they'rich'' as being completely divorced from real lifere staying with Dandy and Hugh. It definitely helps if you're happy Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to take your crime as look into a puzzleproblem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, rather than as heart-rending, gut-wrenching rendition but suddenly the possibility of being out of realitythe house at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749017317</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Queen The Honjin Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. 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, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of Heartsthe peculiar about it.|isbn=1782275002}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B07XLM3SM6|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Rhys BowenHelena Dixon|rating=24
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Lady Georgiana RannochElowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, 35th in line for the British throne, may know how care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to navigate upper class societyher and the conclusion was that she was dead, but mainly because there aren't many acceptable career choices for a penniless almost royalwas no evidence to suggest otherwise. So Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her mothergrandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, famous actress Claire Daniels, invites boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on a transatlantic cruise, Georgie is looking forwards things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to living take charge of security at the highlife and relaxing for a whilehotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M4ZGVBG</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Davies0349423067|title=Havana SleepingThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In the London of World War One there is From Christmas to Easter a man amongst the masses cowering train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the nightly Zeppelin raids who knows death a lot more than manyforced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. He is grieving for his nephewIn early March 1929, lost to the killing fields one of France; he is pining for his wife, evacuated to the country; and he is both grieving and pining for a past where he porters who was more active, more demonstrably brave and verifiably useful – a past whose main constituent part has also gone to unloading the boxes discovered the countryside, to be body of a beekeeper near Brighton. That man is Dr Watson, stripped naked and the other, with no means of course, is Sherlock Holmesidentification. Here they're reunited at Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the behest services of Mycroft, for three individual deaths provide a thorn Kate Shackleton in the side of his secret operations, hope that her knowledge and only Holmes can pluck it out with his singular talents. But when the evidence connections in Yorkshire would give them the case so often revolves around mysterious photographs claiming lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to be of people's souls, there is a hint terms with the fact that this new modern age is she was now a step too far for woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the once-retired sleuthing friendspolice held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160023</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1472127110|title=The First HorsemanIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=DK WilsonSara Sheridan
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=British author Derek Wilson is one with a tremendously long bibliography as a HistorianLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and as secretly grieving for Jack, the lover who died before he could leave his wife. As time went by she found in herself an author of fiction. He brings all of that ability to '''The First Horseman'''solve crimes, a resounding success that blends fact made friends including an ebullient and fiction determined young woman called Vesta who refused to create let a grippinglittle thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, fast moving Tudor crime story that educates as well as fascinates, moving from and even found consolation in the merchants arms of Cheapside to the whores of Southwark, and mixing with figures such as Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIIIa rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751550361</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC Humphreys1912374439|title=PlagueThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Highwayman Captain William Coke stops Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a carriage murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in the line this volume, which splits its time between one of his chosen career war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and soon discovers he's rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the first to have assailed itlate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. The driver In this timeline, a maverick agent is dead and all those within back in town, one who might have been brutally skewered. He flees the scene but unfortunately leaves fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a pistol behind. This is young family, except he was thought by all thief-taker Pitman needs to arouse his interest and attempt to track the Captain down with a noose have died 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>War…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Hamilton1786075431|title=StalemateMrs Mohr Goes Missing|ratingauthor=5|genre=Crime Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Historicaltranslator)|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 Corby
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Nicolaos has a lot on his mindMeet Zofia. His wedding is only a few weeks away and he still has no real means of supporting a A socially climbing wife and family. The investigating game, it seems, doesn't pay too well. So when his patron Pericles asks him to investigate the murder of a young child, Nico is a little reticentmedical professor, especially since he is still waiting to be paid for his previous assignment. Deciding that he canshe't afford to be picky, Nico accepts a case which will see him, amongst other things, fending off street thugs, diving for treasure in a sacred spring, going s intent on making herself known as a bear huntcharitable lady, rescuing a pair of fighting cocks and consulting a strange priestess who has a habit of running around the woods naked...At least he can't complain that keen on her husband progressing yet through his work is boringesteemed career.|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 In 1890s Cracow, life is paranoid andpretty good, 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 she knows it will, eventually causing more turmoil than even he is used tocould always be better. Back at the beginning thoughMeanwhile, while Hew continues, unaware of whatother people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to comelack of hygiene, he has more pressing domestic worries thatand many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, for once, don't affect his herbalist sister Meg or his doctor brother-although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in-law Gilesher charitable home. Indeed, this time the concern is the love of HewI say 's own heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972175</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Axeman's Jazz|author= Ray Celestin|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Based on a true story, was''The Axeman, for she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's Jazz'' is scriptwriter Ray Celestin's debut novel. It tells of help does she get found, dead and in a serial killer in New Orleans in 1919 - place the Axeman near- lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who torments the city and has everyone talking; it seems that everyone has their theories and yet no meaningful leads are presenting themselvescould be killing people in a charity home, as the police and citizens of New Orleans begin to despair of ever catching what end? And why does Zofia feel the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144725886X</amazonuk>need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786893762|title=Sherlock Holmes: Gods of WarThings in Jars|author=James LovegroveJess Kidd
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A child has gone missing. The year detective asked to take on the case is 1913 still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the storm clouds of war are gathering ominously on the horizonchild was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Most people dread This detective is a woman, and the inevitablesetting is Victorian London, but there are individuals who stand to gain from with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the oncoming conflict bizarre and will stop at nothing to facilitate their plansthe downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, even if that means murderyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. HoweverBridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, it would take with a very brave widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (or naïvemy dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) criminal is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to commit such an atrocity in cure bronchial problems is by the neighbourhood of Mr Sherlock Holmesby. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, even if he is supposed to be enjoying his retirementalso somewhat remarkable. When it comes to investigating mysterious activityAnd then, of course, Holmes canthere't resist s the lure of the chase ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and soon it's clear he has a soft spot for the game determined young woman. If he really exists, that is afoot!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781165432</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0349414327|title=Marco Malvaldi and Howard Curtis A Snapshot of Murder (translatorKate Shackleton Mysteries)|titleauthor=The Art of Killing WellFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Pellegrino Artusi has travelled the length and breadth of Italy researching his masterpiece ''The Science of Cooking Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the Art of Eating Well'' and mental relaxation which she needs. When the chance local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to visit the home - or rather the castle - of the seventh Barone di Roccapendente was a double bonus. He'd have take the opportunity to discover visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the secrets deeds of the Barone's kitchen and the chance of Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a few days rest museum and possibly a boar hunt in her parents will be there for the Tuscan hillsevent. What could be better? Wellthan seeing her family, his stay would have been improved had witnessing a body not been discovered in momentous event and having the locked cellar opportunity to take photographs of the castlesetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. The cast of aristocratic suspects baffles the local police inspector and Artusi realises that he will have to become involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052942</amazonuk>Or could it?
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