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===[[Deviation Photographer of the Lost by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Caroline Scott]]===
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For those May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next stepphotograph. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during is a bombing raid, and you'd not blame picture of her one minutehusband, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the GermansFrancis. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp Francis has been missing for non-native civilians to look for workfour years. Technically, or companyhe has been "missing, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwisebelieved killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. But then She hangs on the next chapter sees her going back into word 'missing', disbelieving the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raisedword killed. [[Deviation Photographer of the Lost by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Caroline Scott|Full Review]]
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[[image:4.5star3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] ''The Count of 9'' is a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950s. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Chamberlain -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786076446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786076446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]===
[[image:4Germany is split. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, against the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. Finding out that the war to the east isn't working, due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and inability to heed advice, some people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin.5star The only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, is to kill Hitler, and luckily Baron Nicholas is the man to do it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, society and other circles of power, so once he's succeeded he might be able to keep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the "predatory American capitalists" and the blatantly communist Soviets from meeting in the middle? [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Man Who Killed Hitler by Andre Pronovost|Historical FictionFull Review]]
When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]] <!-- Minette Walters S Kensington -->
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===[[The Turn of Midnight Just Another Girl on the Road by Minette WaltersS Kensington]]===
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At the beginning of 1349 there is When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she was just eighteen years old and fleeing from a glimmer of farmhouse and a hope that the ravages group of the Black Death might be passingGerman deserters who had raped her. In Devilish in Dorset the population is well, because of Lady Anne's strict rules Despite being outnumbered she was giving just about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy good as they go against the strict rules of the church, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know that she got when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leave. What will they find on the outside? Are they the only survivors? [[The Turn of Midnight by Minette Walters|Full Review]] <!-- Abbs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473691206.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473691206/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Frieda by Annabel Abbs]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution Farr and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair Valentine intervened and a tempestuous relationship, changing finished the course of both their lives, and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature forever. [[Frieda by Annabel Abbs|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Fletcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349007640.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349007640/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advancedgroup off. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara It was confined to her home, living life through a window 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part of the tales her motherJedburgh unit, CharlotteEDMOND, brought homelead by Major Willoughby Nye. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - he'd worked on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after her motherfather's death - of merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in crush on Nye. When he offered her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershirewith his unit, she accepted. [[House of Glass Just Another Girl on the Road by Susan FletcherS Kensington|Full Review]]
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===[[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, ''Bellewether'' tells the fascinating tale of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0593072286.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0593072286/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Lock -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1787198243.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198243/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Murmuration Rabbit Girls by Robert LockAnna Ellory]]===
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Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name 'Murmuration'Frieda' follows ' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the lives of first time ever a host of characters from 1863 to the present daytattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. From a risqué comic to a fortune teller One bombshell outside, then, we see the birth of Blackpool and its steadily fading glamourtwo inside. There And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a hint of mysticism first-person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the talereal Frieda, with a young woman that shook him to the mesmerising dance of starlings over the pier acting as an anchor throughout the distinct narratives herecore when he was her literature professor? That's right, drawing together disparate stories of lives captivated by the sea. more bombshells… [[Murmuration The Rabbit Girls by Robert LockAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Long Flight Home by Elizabeth H WinthropA L Hlad]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana townSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellbombs rain down on Britain, staring at destroying the shadow homes and lives of a people on the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun raysedge. At midnightIn Epping Forest, he will be dead; strapped to Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a chair and electrocuted comfort for Susan following the rape loss of a white girl, who later committed suicideher parents. He is resigned These pigeons are more than just birds to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allSusan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, love between she sees a black man distinct personality and forms a white woman was never going close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to have a happy ending in a small town filled head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with smallair-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-minded peopleoccupied France, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Mercy Seat Long Flight Home by Elizabeth H WinthropA L Hlad|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts Brightfall by Karen MaitlandJaime Lee Moyer]]===
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WitchcraftRobin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, the supernatural and the will retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to survive at abandon all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human naturehe had built. The land Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is unhappy, tasked by Father Tuck to break the old spirits want revenge curse surrounding them and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken rootsave their lives. The sacred well is taintedSetting off with a soldier, its healing waters run red with blood a Fey Lord and strangers are blowing a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in on a wind maze of change. betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[A Gathering of Ghosts Brightfall by Karen MaitlandJaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Perfect Explanation by Lydia SysonEleanor Anstruther]]===
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On Enid Campbell was a remote volcanic island off woman who, on the coast face of New Zealandit, a family had everything. Leading the life of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home. When a ship appearsaristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, they feel that their wishes have been granted glamourous locales and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsexpectations. As Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both settlers Enid and newcomers come together in the search those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the childtrue story of her own grandmother, they uncover farEleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island moving and those who inhabit itbeautifully well-written debut. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions A Perfect Explanation by Lydia SysonEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper Equator by Anna MazzolaAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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AudreyIt strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, a complex mix of flights who bristles at the indignity of fancy and seriousnesswhite man against Native 'Indian', wantingwho spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, needingand who hates the way man – and woman, to be of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than what everyone expects of herthe 1870s USA, escapes from and the straightjacket attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of her home. Where every actionUtopia, every thoughtnamely the Equator, every yearning where everything is controlled by her fatherupside down, who only once people walk on their heads with rocks in his life threw caution their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the wind anti-gravity, and married way beneath him for lovewhere, who knows, things might actually be better. Now But that equator is a widower long way away – and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion there's a whole adventure full of doing what is expected. Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[The Story Keeper Equator by Anna MazzolaAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Victoria GlendinningAlison Weir]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets a wealth raw deal by history, of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast all the wives of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that Henry VIII she is the well never seems to run dry one who is known for being rejected. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were the characters are often those high up in sexy ones, Jane the circles dutiful one who delivered a son, Katherine of power, or those prepared Aragon clung on to do anything her crown and Katharine Parr clung on to get thereher life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. This book, however, is totally Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes view of Agnes Peppin, a this young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at all, who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeytook it. [[The Butcher's Daughter Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets by Victoria GlendinningAlison Weir|Full Review]]
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===[[Silence in the Desert Liberation Square by David LongridgeGareth Rubin]]===
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As In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the shadow of East, and Americans from the Second World War descends upon west. Dividing the planetnation between them, four people are explored London soon finds itself split in two, a tale wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of love and friendshiphis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. HenriIn doing so, fulfilling Jane follows a family tradition in joining trail of corruption that leads her right to the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those highest levels of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty state – and love leading soon finds herself desperate to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Silence in the Desert Liberation Square by David LongridgeGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir]]===
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessor[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison WeirCategory:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]] <!-- Dalrymple Clark -->
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===[[In Gold's Name The Full Light of the Sun by Marcus DalrympleClare Clark]]===
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It was about 1509 when In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a series of mystical events foreshadowed wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the end of the Aztec Empire politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deersurprise discovery of thirty-without-antlerstwo previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no god, but he was essentially Based on a decent man, particularly by true story and unfolding through the standards subsequent rise of Hitler and the time. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceNazis, but at the age discovery of twenty three he believed that the expedition in October 1520 was to establish trade links and to convert the local inhabitants art allows these characters to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrifices. He'd joined the army from a seminary and whilst you wouldn't call him naiveexplore authenticity, he'd failed to appreciate that 'establishing trade links' meant finding vanity and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and tortureself-delusion. [[In Gold's Name The Full Light of the Sun by Marcus DalrympleClare Clark|Full Review]]
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===[[The Industry Phoenix of Human Happiness Florence by James HallPhilip Kazan]]===
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''The Industry Deep in the Tuscan countryside of Human Happiness'' first fifteenth-century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and foremost is home. Alone in the forest, she meets a novel about music. It is about human beings being able band of soldiers who, believing her to find music be a boy train and magic develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the simplest of placesway, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. Max As he digs further and uncovers links to his younger cousin have realised their dream own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards Londonshared history to rest before it's underworldtoo late.. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry Phoenix of Human Happiness Florence by James HallPhilip Kazan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Spirit Photographer Deviation by Jon Michael VareseLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
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Jon Michael Varese's debut novel was inspired by the For those of you who have read books of life story of in the real-life father Nazi camps – and of spirit photographycourse, William Hfor those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. Mumler. His fictional stand-in here is Edward MoodyIt begins, after all, who was with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a battlefield photographer under Matthew Brady bombing raid, and now owns his own photography studio in Boston. Moody is dismissive of spiritualismyou'd not blame her one minute, yet considers himself as her career was deemed to be doing a service to the bereaved cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by fabricating family photographs in which the ghost of a departed loved one appearsGermans. This involves getting hold of an image of the loved one and superimposing it In Munich, she stumbles on the negative being developed, so that it help to get her to what seems to appear hazily in be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the background. Looking next chapter sees her going back from today's high-tech perspective, it's hard into the camp next to see how anyone could have been fooledDachau once more, but suffering people in desperate situations often want to believe; the same goes for séancesand by then eyebrows are being raised. [[The Spirit Photographer Deviation by Jon Michael VareseLuce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''NarrativeThe Count of 9'', Douglass's memoir of his life as is a slave, will be accompanying hardboiled detective story written in the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour1950s. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass Bertha Cool as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself they attempt to solve the beginnings theft of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalistpriceless Bornean artefacts. However, Daniel O'Connelltheir case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murder. [[Precept: A Novel The Count of 9 by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonErle Stanley Gardner|Full Review]]
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