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|summary=Chancellor Tynkell was kindlyIt's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but ineffectual he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and everyone was stunned this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by his murderChief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, not least because it happened very publicly - on top of the church towerRosa Jacobs, is found in a high wind with a lot of people watching. Then the murderer disappearedlock-up. Some people saw a black cloak being blown along to the marshes outside Cambridge and swore that it was the devil's workAt first, but physician Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael knew better and were determined to prove it. These are not Bartholomew's only problems looked as though: a she'barber surgeon' (free shave or haircut with every treatment) recently arrived from Nottingham d gassed herself but Quirke is causing problems convinced that it was murder rather than curing illnessessuicide. His sister is struggling to get her husband's tomb built by the mason she commissioned to do the work: like builders everywhere throughout the ages he keeps moving from job to job and never finishing any. Then Brother Michael is offered a Bishopric - in Rochester.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bonnie MacBird1529337968|title= Art in the Blood: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= It's the winter of 1888 and Sherlock Holmes is languishing. After a devastating result concerning the mysterious Ripper investigation, Holmes can find no solace and falls back in to his troublesome relationship with cocaine. Not even his good friend Doctor Watson can cheer him – that is until an encoded letter arrives from Paris from a young French cabaret star who claims her son has vanished. Intrigued, Holmes explores the case only to uncover that the disappearance In Place of a young boy is only the tip of the iceberg. Journeying to Paris and then to the Lancashire countryside, Holmes and Watson become involved in a dangerous investigation, concerning a prized stolen statue, child slavery, and murder – but who is the culprit behind it all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000812969X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFear|author=CC Humphreys|title=FireCatriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman It's July 1948 and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed Helen Crowther is due to start work as a deep respect for each other. Their first mission was to track down qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the Fifth Monarchists, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty and hanged for signing Charles I's death warrant. That was then, during day that the Great PlagueNHS is born. A mere year later, the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are back, taking PitmanShe's ll be working for Dr Deuchar and Coke's interventions personally. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, Dr Strasser in their families, the monarch, GP surgery and, on top of that, a new disaster is about her job will be to hit the capitalhelp patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Indrek Hargla and Christopher Moseley (translator)|title= Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost The hardest part of Rataskaevu Street|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=In fifteenth century Tallinn religion and superstition sit side by side. In the midst of this is scientifically-minded apothecary Melchior Wakenstede, known for his curiosity, logical thinking, and ability job will be to solve murders. There persuade people that the services she offers really are rumours of a ghost a few doors down from Melchior on Rataskaevu Street, though he's not as ready to believe in it as some of his neighbours. When several people die after saying free and that they'd seen the ghost, Melchior candon't resist looking have to do anything to qualify for the connection between them and trying to discover . Some of the truth behind the talesproblems 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>0720618452</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Donnelly057136358X|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewApril in Spain|author=Lloyd Shepherd|title=The Detective and the Devil (Charles Horton 4)John Banville

|summary=1855: Only Terry Tice was a few years after the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on Londonhitman, although he didn's docks, Constable Charles Horton is called back to the areat think of himself in those terms. The disturbing murder of He saw what he did as ''a clerk and his family bears the trademark matter of the serial killer but Hortonmaking things tidy's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him die. At this point I couldn't resist the hunt for a devil incarnate beginsthought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, taking Horton and his wife Abigail something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the other side chance to kill a lot of the world little yellow fellows and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Company.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Edwards (editor)|title=Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Ihad a fine old time''m not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, it's broadly golden age crime, one of my weaknesses and secondly, the editor is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], He was spending a man whose knowledge lot of golden age crime is probably unsurpassed and he's done us proud, not only time with his selection, but with the halfPercy Antrobus -page biographies of the writers, which precede each story. There's just enough there to allow you to place the author and to direct you to other works if youwho couldn're tempted. Itt understand why Terry didn's an elegant selection, from the well known and t know the less well known, all set in and around the country house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712309934</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A J MacKenzie|title= The Body on the Doorstep|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=On the marshes purpose of Kent in the late eighteenth century, Reverend Hardcastle discovers a dying man on his doorstep. Narrowly escaping a bullet himself, swizzle stick - surely he is entrusted wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the dying man's last words which leave him questioning the mystery behind this anonymous man'morning''? It was after Percy's death. With smugglers rife along that he saw the Kent coast, it seems as though it was benefits of taking up a simple falling out amongst thieves, but the Reverend believes the answer to this crime lies deeper. Assisted by the brilliant Mrs Chaytor they set off to solve the mystery – but with smugglers lurking all through the county and the French threatening to invade, there are unsuspected dangers around every cornerjob in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761137</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin ScottB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Age Mystery of TreacheryHealing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=In We meet Solon in Pergamon in the winter second century of 1946 Duncan Forrester, formerly the common era and he's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the Special Operations Executive, was back at his Oxford college as a junior fellow in Ancient Historypopulace. HeThe remuneration isn'd lost t high but the woman he loved to work gives the Gestapo and was now doctor a feeling guilty about the fact that he was besotted with the wife of virtue and hones his best friend, a fellow academicskills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. To confuse matters further the woman in question, Margaret Clark, had been having an affair with another lecturer, David Lyall and it seemed likely that she would leave her husband for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297808</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E S Thomson|title= Beloved Poison|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=St SaviorIt's is quite a crumbling infirmary – its walls stuffed with ambition, jealousy spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and hatred. Six tiny coffinswhen we first see them, each containing dried flowers and mouldering rags, are uncovered inside they're sprinkling gold dust onto the decaying chapel. A silent outsider, with secrets of her own to hide, is determined lions' manes to discover the truthmake them look more impressive. And in a trail that leads from The sagitarii are the bloody worlds of dissecting table archers and operating theatre, through the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the squalor of Newgate Prison and its gallowswild animals. Today, Jem Flockhart faces a ruthless adversary. As the destruction of St Saviorit's looms, the dead are unearthed, the living are forced into impossible decisions – and murder is the price for secrets to be kept…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122275</amazonuk>crocodiles.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann1529337925|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation|rating= 3|genre= Crime Mirror Dance (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary=Sir Maurice Newbury, his majesty's special agent, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on the case once more. When a group of well-to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy and unleash an ancient mystery. Soon the explorers are being picked off one by one and Newbury must solve the mystery if he is to catch the culprit. But there's more than one brute on the loose, while Newbury attempts to track down a rogue agent, Veronica takes the case of disappearing women into her own hands with dangerous consequences … |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|title=Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle AdventuresCatriona McPherson

|summary=There can be few people who havenIt 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't heard inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of Sherlock Holmes, whether work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the guise publisher of a magazine and had been told that the original stories or subsequent film and television adaptations including man running the most recent series starring Benedict Cumberbatch Punch and Martin Freeman, who are pictured on Judy show in the dust cover local park had used copies of two of ''Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures''her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. It Sandy Bissett's this most recent series which has widened request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the fan base man about infringement of the stories copyright - and Dandy and many of them won't have copies of the original stories Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to hand. My own copy is a 1959 reprint of the 1929 edition which had four stories in one volume, but this current volume has nineteen stories in do the one booksame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery AllinghamB08LKT7HSR|title=Sweet DangerMurder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=''Sweet Danger'' is In December 1933 the fifth book remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in Margery Allingham's ''Campion'' series, which has our eponymous gentleman-adventurer on a quest to find the rightful heir cellar of a suddenly-valuable principality on the Adriatic Sea known as AvernaGlass Bottle Public House. The British Government want proof Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of ownership Elowed and thishis half-brother, of courseDenzil Hammett, involves overcoming several obstacleswhose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, including a curious riddle, collecting various items and keeping one step ahead of the enemywho disappeared in June 1916 was over. The quest soon becomes a race against time, when Now she's determined that the villains, led by Machiavellian schemer Brett Savanake, start man responsible for her murder will be brought to close in on our heroesjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474689</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Margery AllinghamStephen Clarke|title= Mystery MileThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating= 54|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary= On This is a transatlantic linerspoof spy story, an American points out Crowdy Lobbett and predicts that he will have been murdered within a fortnightisn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. Indeed he places a bet on But it. It seems like features a safe bet: retired Judge Lobbett has been man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the subject ladies' and who works for the secret service, but in the planning side of four near misses so far: four attempts things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on his life that have misfired a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and killed someone close to him. His children have persuaded him to take the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a trip desperate mission to England unearth traitors in an attempt the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep him somewhat safer, for a while at least.up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099474697</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Dowling0349423083|title=AscensionDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Alvise Marangon is an artist Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She'resting' between commissions and so using his guile and enterprise as a tour guide to those taking s been approached by William Lofthouse of the European Grand Tour Barleycorn Brewery in 18th century VeniceMasham. Everything has a Something is going wrong with his business as usual feel and he'd like Kate to look into it for Alvise until discreetly: he notices 's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a fellow gondolier paying his friend not trip to take a couple of English touristsGermany before long. Then, as James went to see what the new Doge continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is inaugurated perhaps enjoying himself a manlittle bit ''too''s head much or is thrown into going to bring back a German bride but he'd like the crowdbusiness to be ship-shape before his nephew returns. Showing people around a typical Venice is becoming increasingly hard for Alvise – Venice is not behaving typically!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973139</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Brody0241433568|title=A Death in the DalesEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=Kate ShackletonIt's niece, Harriet, was recovering from diphtheria 1930 and Megan and Kate decided to take her away to the country for a fortnight to help her recuperateHenry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. HerIt's friend - unbearably hot and would-be suitor - Dr Lucian Simonson had inherited Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a house in Langcliffe from his aunt Freda rest and Kate was pleased then he wants to accept the offer of the property for a couple of weeks. There was a hidden message that she might also see if she'd like talk to make her residence there more permanent, but Kate was in no hurry to make her mind up Megan and Henry about remarriagesomething serious. Her private investigations suited her well and Only it wasnnever gets that far: when Bunny doesn't long before she was approached to look into a crime which had troubled Lucianemerge after his siesta his guests find that he's Aunt Fredabeen murdered. The old lady had witnessed a murder, but her evidence was dismissed and she went to her grave believing How can that have happened? There's no one else in the wrong man had gone to house, so one of them must be the gallowskiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406561</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1473682401|title=Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery The Turning Tide (Hew Cullan Mystery 5Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=It has been three years since Hew 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 banished from Scotland engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and manoeuvred into working for Elizabeth I's spymaster, WalsinghamMallory is having twins. His loyalties remain with When they arrive no one can doubt the Scottish Queen Mary but he must hide them as well as he can lest he becomes a victim charms of the conspiracy fever cutting through England Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and keeping the hangman busyher brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. Thereare two drawbacks: they's also another fever cutting through Scotland – the plague, providing even more reason for Hew to worry about the wellbeing of his sister, brother in law re noisy and they're staying with Dandy and nephewHugh. If he could but go home he'd have Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a surprise for problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them. When he gets theretwice before, there's a surprise for him in but suddenly the form possibility of being out of a death prophesy picture, followed by a murderthe house at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973120</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian RossSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=Swords Around The Throne (Twilight of Empire)Honjin Murders|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Centurion Aurelius CastusTo many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' time in Britain is over but not his propensity for being on enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the wrong side of dangerwords 'clever' or 'good'. Due to an adventure on For those who need more, here is the journey he comes to extra background – we're in rural Japan in the notice 1930s. The oldest son of Emperor Constantinean esteemed family is belatedly getting married, and although the whole affair is promoted to his elite bodyguard really not as ostentatious as it might be – the swords around the thronehardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. The multiple emperor model that She only has evolved an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to govern be slashed to death in their private annexe before the Empire is shaky to say sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the leastneighbourhood, riven by plotsand some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, conspiracies and worsethis case has a lot of the peculiar about it. Therefore Castus' new job is neither safe nor easy but it's not something he can refuse… unfortunately!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784081167</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David ChadwickB07XLM3SM6|title=Liberty BazaarMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke is sent to Britain as an envoy to raise awareness and funds Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from the English aristocracy for his southern brothers Dartmouth in arms June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the American Civil Warcare of her grandmother. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to England her and immediately becomes an icon for the liberal eliteconclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. However soon Trinity realises there's more Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the English support than just talkDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She uncovers a secret – was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and highly illegal – plot Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with far reaching effects for the mix of holidaymakers, 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 homeland, not grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to mention dangerous consequences for hertake charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd Shepherd0349423067|title=Savage MagicThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=London, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham is missing his wife. She's left him, taking their daughter From Christmas to live with her cousin in Easter a very uncousinly way. Yet her distance doesn't prevent her discussing the goings on at her new home with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft and seem train ran from Leeds City Station to be taking a toll on his daughterKing's health Aaron is rightly worried. He calls upon Constable Horton to investigate… this is Cross, arriving before dawn so that the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to enter Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the more exclusive madhousesporters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a man, stripped naked and with no means of identification. Under Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the circumstances it seemed services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the right thing to do but Horton still hasn't forgiven his superior for itlead they needed. However, Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as the investigation goes on a child and Graham is distracted by a murder case could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce woman experienced in importancedealing with murder. The important thing for each of them has become survivalHe was reluctant to give her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vaughn Entwhistle1472127110|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 Indian Summer: a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two 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>}}{{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author= Anita Davison|title= Murder on the MinneapolisSara Sheridan|rating= 4.5

|summary=Governess Flora Maguire is sailing from New York to England on the SS MinneapolisLife has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, entrusted with since the task of returning her teenage chargewar, Eddie back home to boarding school. Unfortunately and not always for Flora, the ship is first-class only, so better. When she spends the first night aboard stowed away settled in her cabinBrighton she was alone, rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, acutely aware of her lower social statusthe lover who died before he could leave his wife. Her intention As time went by she found in herself an ability to stay out of the limelight is thwarted whensolve crimes, during made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a solitary stroll along the decklittle thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, she discovers a dead body at and even found consolation in the bottom arms of the companionway. The ship staff hastily conclude that this is a tragic accident, but Flora has other ideas and decides to conduct her own investigationrather charming policeman. Is there a murderer aboard ship? And if so, is Flora making herself a prime target by poking her nose into other people's affairs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anthony Quinn1912374439|title= Curtain CallThe Courier|rating= 4.5|genreauthor= Crime (Historical)|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, Kjell Ola Dahl 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 Don Bartlett (The Gower Street Detective Seriestranslator)|rating=43.5

|summary=While Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the best personal detective game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the known Victorian world (Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in his opinion anyway) Sidney Grice is away on this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a caseyoung woman sees her father arrested, his ward March is left and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her own devices. As luck would have italive again, and the late 1960s, one of those devices when great consternation is an invitation to meet a previously unknown relativebeing felt. March visits Saturn Villa with In this timeline, a sense of curiosity and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she will never forget. Let's hope she knows and he lived together with their baby as a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Wilson1786075431|title=Wallace of the Secret ServiceMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

|summary=This is the third in the re-issued series authored by the former soldierMeet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, spy and Professor of English Literaturekeen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, without whom but she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is saidnearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to keep a roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, therealthough she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. I say ''was''d have been no Bond, no Smileyfor she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, no Bournedead and in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018151</amazonuk> Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sara Sheridan1786893762|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 Things in comparison with the vivid horrors 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>}}{{newreviewJars|author=Antonia Hodgson|title=The Last Confession of Thomas HawkinsJess Kidd|rating=4.5|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 Fleet, Tom has taken in James' son Sam to train him in the ways of being a gentleman. All seems to be going well in that department until Tom receives a visit from an old enemy and a brush with the country's ultimate power. Then both collide to create fear and an offer that Tom isn't able to refuse, no matter how hard he tries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=M J Carter|title=The Infidel Stain|rating=4

|summary= LondonA 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, 1841where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . Newly returned from Indiatake another look. This detective is a woman, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery find life back in the setting is Victorian England difficult to settle intoLondon, having left with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a disconnected country travelled by pony fascination with the bizarre and trapthe downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and returned stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to one in the grip of railway mania. When do!) is mixed with a series nugget of murders occursomething, well, all connected let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the pressby. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, Avery and Blake find themselves back in actionis also somewhat remarkable. But with connections between And then, of course, there's the murdered ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and those seeking revolution, it is 's clear he has a race against time to find soft spot for the killer before determined young woman. If he strikes againreally exists, that is. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl0349414327|title=The Last Bookaneer|rating=3.5|genre=Crime A Snapshot of Murder (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=Bookaneer Fergins makes a decent living 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>}}{{newreview|author=Jane Thynne |title=A War of FlowersFrances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=A War of Flowers is the third of Jane Thynne's thoroughly researched Even detectives need a break and beautifully written novels of Nazi Berlin from for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the female point of viewmental relaxation which she needs. Reading them is When the local Photographic Society proposed an immersive experience; outing, Kate was keen to take the joy of the book is in locationopportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, description, comment. The action does not rush but least because the deeds of the ending expertly pulls plot strings together Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and has her parents will be there for the event. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a wow factor that will leave momentous event and having the opportunity to take photographs of the reader eager setting for more''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131904</amazonuk> Or could it?