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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Brody0571370977|title=A Death in the DalesThe Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=54
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|summary=Kate ShackletonIt's niece, Harriet, was recovering from diphtheria and Kate decided to take her away to six months since the country for a fortnight to help her recuperate. Her's friend - dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and would-be suitor - Dr Lucian Simonson had inherited a house Quirke is now back in Langcliffe from Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his aunt Freda grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and Kate was pleased to accept this has made the offer of already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the property for a couple body of weeks. There was a hidden message that she might also see if she'd like to make her residence there more permanentyoung, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, but Kate was is found in no hurry to make her mind a lock-up about remarriage. Her private investigations suited her well and At first, it wasn't long before looked as though she was approached to look into a crime which had troubled Lucian's Aunt Freda. The old lady had witnessed a murder, d gassed herself but her evidence Quirke is convinced that it was dismissed and she went to her grave believing that the wrong man had gone to the gallowsmurder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406561</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1529337968|title=Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery (Hew Cullan Mystery 5)In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson
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|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=It has been three years since Hew was banished from Scotland and manoeuvred into working for Elizabeth I's spymaster, Walsingham. His loyalties remain with the Scottish Queen Mary but he must hide them July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as well as he can lest he becomes a victim of qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the conspiracy fever cutting through England and keeping day that the hangman busyNHS is born. ThereShe's also another fever cutting through Scotland – the plague, providing even more reason ll be working for Hew to worry about the wellbeing of his sister, brother Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in law their GP surgery and nephewher job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. If he could but go home heThe hardest part of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don'd t have a surprise to do anything to qualify for them. When he gets there, there's Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a surprise for him in the form problem of a death prophesy picture, followed by a murderher own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973120</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross057136358X|title=Swords Around The Throne (Twilight of Empire)April in Spain|author=John Banville
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|summary=LondonTerry Tice was a hitman, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham is missing his wifealthough he didn't think of himself in those terms. SheHe saw what he did as ''s left him, taking their daughter to live with her cousin in a very uncousinly waymatter of making things tidy''. Yet her distance doesnI couldn't prevent her discussing resist the goings on at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft and seem to be taking a toll on his daughter's health Aaron is rightly worriedthought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He calls upon Constable Horton enjoyed his job, something which occurred to investigate… this is him when he was in Burma with the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged army ''where he got the chance to enter one kill a lot of the more exclusive madhouseslittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Under the circumstances it seemed the right thing to do but Horton still hasnHe was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't forgiven his superior for it. However, as know the investigation goes on and Graham is distracted by purpose of a murder case swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce bubbles in importance. the ''morning''? The important thing for each It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of them has become survivaltaking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vaughn EntwhistleB08Z8BMZ7H|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, however, as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two Mystery of them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, their families, and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292687</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHealing|author= Anita Davison|title= Murder on the MinneapolisA P McGrath|rating= 54
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|summary=Governess Flora Maguire is sailing from New York to England We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at the SS Minneapolis, entrusted with munus - the games put on for the task amusement of returning her teenage charge, Eddie back home to boarding schoolthe populace. Unfortunately for Flora, The remuneration isn't high but the ship is first-class only, so she spends work gives the first night aboard stowed away in her cabin, acutely aware doctor a feeling of her lower social statusvirtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. Her intention to stay out of It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the limelight is thwarted charge hands and whenwe first see them, during a solitary stroll along they're sprinkling gold dust onto the deck, she discovers a dead body at the bottom of the companionwaylions' manes to make them look more impressive. The ship staff hastily conclude that this is a tragic accident, but Flora has other ideas sagitarii are the archers and decides the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to conduct her own investigationfight for their lives with the wild animals. Is there a murderer aboard ship? And if so Today, is Flora making herself a prime target by poking her nose into other peopleit's affairs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208264</amazonuk>the crocodiles.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anthony Quinn1529337925|title= Curtain Call|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime The Mirror Dance (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary= London, 1936. Nina Land is a West End actress, and she is spending her afternoon in a hotel room with a married man. When she spots the face of the man the newspapers have named “The Tie-Pin Killer”, she faces a huge dilemma – will she report the man to the police, and risk her career and the reputation of her lover? Or will she stay quiet, and risk the lives of innocent girls?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593238</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=MRC Kasasian|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5
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|summary=While It was the best personal detective in August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the known Victorian world (in his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on a case, his ward March is left to her own devicesthe sofa. As luck would have it, one The thought of those devices is an invitation to meet a previously unknown relativework was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. March visits Saturn Villa with She was the publisher of a sense magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of curiosity her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea is one she will never forgether sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Let Sandy Bissett's hope request was simple: she knows wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>solicitor to do the same job.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander WilsonB08LKT7HSR|title=Wallace of Murder in the Secret ServiceBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon
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|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=This is In December 1933 the third remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the re-issued series authored by cellar of the former soldier, spy and Professor of English Literature, without whom it is said, there'd have been no Bond, no Smiley, no BourneGlass Bottle Public House.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018151</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sara Sheridan|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 Ezekiel Hamett was sought in comparison connection with the vivid horrors murder of war Elowed and the colourful extravagance of the sixties. But World War II left a long shadow, and this, the fourth instalment in this excellent serieshis half-brother, takes us deep into past life of ex-intelligence agent Mirabelle BevanDenzil Hammett, 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 dangerwhose body was also discovered. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973252</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=A few months after we left Tom in the 1720s we return to find him living in sin and love with Kitty. Or it would be sin if they ever get round to the bed bit. Just as he promised underworld gang leader James FleetUnderhay's long search for her mother, Tom has taken in James' son Sam to train him who disappeared in the ways of being a gentlemanJune 1916 was over. All seems to be going well in that department until Tom receives a visit from an old enemy and a brush with the countryNow she's ultimate power. Then both collide to create fear and an offer determined that Tom isn't able the man responsible for her murder will be brought to refuse, no matter how hard he triesjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M J CarterStephen Clarke|title=The Infidel StainSpy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary= LondonThis is a spoof spy story, 1841that isn't about James Bond. Newly returned from India Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, Jeremiah Blake who dresses well and William Avery find life back in Victorian England difficult to settle into, having left a disconnected country travelled by pony 'likes the ladies' and trapwho works for the secret service, and returned to one but in the grip planning side of railway maniathings more than the active service. When Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a series of murders occurfemale spy called Margaux, all connected to and the presspair end up stranded in Normandy, Avery and Blake find themselves back with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in action. But with connections between the murdered resistance network, and those seeking revolution, it is a race against time Lemming desperately trying to find the killer before he strikes again. keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241146259</amazonuk>2952163855
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl0349423083|title=The Last BookaneerDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Bookaneer Fergins makes a decent living Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in 19th century LondonMasham. However Something is going wrong with his business acquaintance Davenport has a plan and he'd like Kate to aid look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his prosperity. Hot literary property Robert Louis Stevenson is dying on Upolonephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a Samoan island, having just written his final potential masterpiecetrip to Germany before long. Therefore all Davenport has James went to do is to steal it, bringing it back see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to publishing glory and self-aggrandisementmake. The only problems are William is worried that the enabling legal loophole James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is about going to close and bring back a German bride but he's not d like the only one with business to be ship-shape before his eye on that particular prize. And Fergins? He's going too, whether he wants to or notnephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Thynne 0241433568|title=A War of FlowersEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=A War of Flowers is the third of Jane ThynneIt's thoroughly researched 1930 and beautifully written novels of Nazi Berlin from the female point of viewMegan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. Reading them is an immersive experience; the joy of the book is in location, description, comment. The action does not rush but the ending expertly pulls plot strings together It's unbearably hot and has Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a wow factor rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that will leave have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the reader eager for morekiller. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131904</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Simmons1473682401|title=The Fifth HeartTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=On a rainy night in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridge, about 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 end it allMallory Dunnoch. Next to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about to do the sameThey're now married and Mallory is having twins. Instead When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of jumpingLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Holmes drags James off for a drink Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and decides that they will go to America to solve a 17-year-old murder case're staying with Dandy and Hugh. The supposed victimDandy and her detective partner, socialite Clover AdamsAlec Osborne, is believed had not taken up the chance to look into a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to have committed suicide them twice before, but that doesn't deter Sherlocksuddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible. He's off, Henry James is going with him and that's that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751560952</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jayne Anne PhillipsSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Quiet DellThe Honjin Murders
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|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary= Chicago 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 – 1931we're in rural Japan in the 1930s. Asta Eicher The oldest son of an esteemed family is a widowbelatedly getting married, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with three children and a crippling sense of lonelinessit being arranged at great haste. When Harry Powers asks She only has an uncle representing her to marry himfamily, she is delighted – and the new family soon leave in order to travel to West Virginia. They are never seen againfor one thing. Back in ChicagoEither way, Emily Thornhill is one of the few women journalists in Chicagocelebrations have gone ahead as planned, and is sent to investigate only for the disappearance, trying wedded couple to establish what happened be slashed to death in their private annexe before the familysun rises on their marriage. As she becomes ever deeper involved What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the investigationneighbourhood, Emily begins to discover things she never expected – both about and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case, and herselfhas a lot of the peculiar about it. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099590255</amazonuk>1782275002
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip KerrB07XLM3SM6|title=The Lady from ZagrebMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=''Death by Misadventure''Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother.' This is the official verdict as A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the cause of death of Lady Lavinia Trueloveconclusion was that she was dead, trampled mainly because there was no evidence to death by a notoriously ill-tempered horse, which suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she foolishly tried was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to approach in its stallleave to look after her sister who was ill. The horse panicked and reacted badly, resulting She was reluctant to leave Kitty in a gruesome charge - and bloody attackKitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, witnessed by two boys from boating people and the village. Most people would dismiss naval college on the event as a tragic accident, but detective Joe Sandilands suspects that this could be coldedge of town before -blooded murderand she's done every job in the hotel. Could his judgement be clouded by the fact that he has a very personal axe And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to grind with the keep an eye on things ''and'grieving' widower, who why Captain Matthew Bryant has been showing increasing attentiveness hired to Dorcas, take charge of security at the girl he plans to marry?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954086</amazonuk>hotel.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0349423067|title=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer The Body on the Train (narratorKate Shackleton Mysteries)|titleauthor=Enter the SaintFrances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Anthony Trollope From Christmas to Easter a 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 very taken with Barchester when he first visited unloading the city, but pausing to look out at a pleasant view he boxes discovered the body of Thomas Ridera man, a bedesman at Hiram's Hospitalstripped naked and with no means of identification. At first it was suspected that Trollope might have been the murderer - for this was no natural death, but Scotland Yard hit a stabbing - but once he proved that he was a professional man there dead end and called on business for the first time, he found himself drawn into services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the investigationlead they needed. There is Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a secret which child and could not come to terms with the warden, the Reverend Septimus Harding has hidden for well over fact that she was now a decade and it looks as though Rider might have been murdered woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to prevent give her all the information which the secret coming outpolice held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208086</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements1472127110|title=The Queen's Man|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elizabethan England - Indian Summer: a murky, dirty world full of religious strife and violent, short lives. Queen Elizabeth sits on the throne, but her seat is by no means safe - her first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, is locked up in Sheffield Castle. Unable to leave, but by no means unable to plot and scheme 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=L C Tyler|title=A Cruel Necessity (A John Grey Historical Mystery)Sara Sheridan
|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 Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the eaves of a cottagewar, a Royalist spy is murdered down and not always for the roadbetter. A trainee lawyerWhen she first settled in Brighton she was alone, John also enjoys the science of investigation rudderless and so starts looking secretly grieving for clues that will lead him to Jack, the murdererlover who died before he could leave his wife. Although it's not easy: strange happenings occurred that night As time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and Grey is having trouble persuading others of determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what he saw. Meanwhile his mother has she wanted, and even found consolation in the perfect match for himarms of a rather charming policeman. Unfortunately their ideas of perfection differ somewhat!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472115031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Sansom1912374439|title=Lamentation The Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (Matthew Shardlaketranslator)|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=The reign of Henry VIII is drawing to a closeNazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. ItThere, I's heresy to speculate on ve given the death of the kinggame away. For in a book that centres around a murder, but obvious to anyone I've told you who sees did it – the bloated man who can barely walk Nazis, surely? Well, that he cannot have much longer. Matthew Shardlake is still drawn certainly has to the queen - Catherine Parr as was - but he'd prefer remain to avoid court politics particularly be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when there's someone a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as suggestible Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and changeable as Henry on the thronelate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. Ultimately In this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he doesn't feel that lived together with their baby as a young family, except he has much choice when he's summoned was thought by all to Whitehall Palace. It seems that the queen has a problem which could put her life have died in danger - along with the lives of all those who are seen as her supporters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230744192</amazonuk>War…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1786075431|title=Murder at the BrightwellMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Ashley WeaverMaryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It probably helps 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 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 city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to be keep a fan of Agatha Christieroof over their heads. It probably helps One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to absolutely adore the sheer selfish indulgence keep private lodgings and style of the 1930sstaff in her charitable home. It probably helps to just accept the I say ''richwas'' as being completely divorced from real life, for she has vanished. It definitely helps if youOnly due to Zofia're happy to take your crime as s help does she get found, dead and in a puzzle, rather than as heartplace the near-rendinglame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a charity home, gut-wrenching rendition of reality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749017317</amazonuk>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=Queen of HeartsThings in Jars|author=Rhys BowenJess Kidd|rating=24.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Lady Georgiana RannochA 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, 35th where the child was not found in line time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the British thronesetting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and 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 know how to navigate upper class societydress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but there arenthe tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast''t many acceptable career choices thing for a penniless almost royal. So when her motherlady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, famous actress Claire Danielslet's say recreational, invites created by her on a transatlantic cruisechemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, Georgie is looking forwards to living also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the highlife ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and relaxing it's clear he has a soft spot for a whilethe determined young woman. If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00M4ZGVBG</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Davies0349414327|title=Havana SleepingA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=In the London of World War One there is Even detectives need a man amongst break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the masses cowering from mental relaxation which she needs. When the nightly Zeppelin raids who knows death a lot more than many. He is grieving for his nephewlocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, lost Kate was keen to take the killing fields of France; he is pining for his wife, evacuated opportunity to the country; and he is both grieving visit Haworth and pining for a past where he was more activeStanbury, more demonstrably brave and verifiably useful – a past whose main constituent part has also gone to not least because the deeds of the countryside, to be Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a beekeeper near Brighton. That man is Dr Watson, museum and her parents will be there for the other, of course, is Sherlock Holmesevent. Here they're reunited at the behest of Mycroft What could be better than seeing her family, for three individual deaths provide witnessing a thorn in the side of his secret operations, momentous event and only Holmes can pluck it out with his singular talents. But when having the evidence in the case so often revolves around mysterious opportunity to take photographs claiming to be of peoplethe setting for ''Wuthering Heights's souls, there is a hint that this new modern age is a step too far for the once-retired sleuthing friends'? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160023</amazonuk> Or could it?
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