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|summary=London 1909: Revolution It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is spreading throughout Russia now back in Dublin and Europe. Meanwhile Britain, a land growing accustomed to peaceliving (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, is becoming a magnet for spies and disruptionPhoebe. Vernon Kell, Head The worst of War Office Counter-Intelligence, knows that the country's equilibrium depends on the discovery and disposal of the growing number of foreign spy networks. Unfortunately his masters in government can't see grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what he can happened and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him to collect evidencethis has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. ThatThey's re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when he meets Wiggins. This is the body of a man with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes andyoung, Jewish scholar, years backRosa Jacobs, is found in a star of Holmes' child Irregularslock-up. Now Kell At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is getting somewhere… Let battle commence!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147365534X</amazonuk>convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Menczer1529337968|title= An Unlikely AgentIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 45|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St JohnIt's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a ramshackle importqualified medical almoner the following morning -export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement day that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission NHS is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpionsborn.Margaret She's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her ll be working for the reality of true criminality, Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her journey job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as job will be to persuade people that the services she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the first stirrings problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of loveher own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Wilson057136358X|title= A Talent for MurderApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in her day, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to those terms. He saw what he did as ''a plot not unlike one matter of her ownmaking things tidy''. It I couldn's all about t resist the mysterythought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and it really drives the story forwardhad a fine old time''. Agatha is ambushed by He was spending a strange man at lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the train station; she is given purpose of a proposition swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. Indeed, for this man wants her to commit he saw the benefits of taking up a murderjob in Spain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)B08Z8BMZ7H|title= Continental CrimesThe Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating= 4

|summary=ItWe meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and he's not clear whether the short story has gone out physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of fashion, relegated to the pages populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of certain types of womenvirtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It's magazines, or whether quite a spectacle: the magazines in which magistri are the format still holds its own are themselves not as high-profile as once charge hands and when we first see them, they might have been. Perhaps they never were, perhaps we only know about 're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them in retrospectlook more impressive. Whatever The sagitarii are the truth of that it would seem that archers and the beastiarii are the golden age of condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the short storywild animals. Today, coincided delightfully with it's the golden age of crimecrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Philip Kerr1529337925|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he so often happened, it was a known member of cold enough to have the Social Democratic Party), he understood that fire lit and Bunty the best thing he could do for himself at that time was Dalmation wasn't inclined to make himself indispensable leave it to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormannkeep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. So The thought of work was almost cheering when he is assigned to solve Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the publisher of a murder magazine and had been told that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof the man running the Punch and Judy show in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justicedrum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's sake, but for his own. He is given exactly one week request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to apprehend warn the suspect, man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get luckysame job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alis HawkinsB08LKT7HSR|title= None So Blind|rating= 5|genre= Crime Murder in the Belltower (HistoricalA Miss Underhay Mystery)|summary=When a body is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850, Harry Probert-Lloyd the London barrister has recently returned to his father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is on hand to press for justice, since he knows whose remains they must be. Unfortunately he's up against a few formidable opponents from the past, not least the Rebecca rioters, members of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not be on the cards. With the assistance of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up the investigation himself, but it seems like both of them know more than they are willing to admit. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911332112</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Scott|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Helena Dixon|rating=43.5

|summary=Whilst part In December 1933 the remains of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander Elowed Underhay were discovered in Greece during the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, which he hoped could lead to cellar of the deciphering of Linear BGlass Bottle Public House. The war is now officially over (although a lot Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physically) Elowed and Forrester has returned to Athens with his loverhalf-brother, Sophie Amfeldt-LaurvigDenzil Hammett, intent on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete and retrieve the stone. It was whilst they were in Athens that Forrester whose body was the unwitting witness to the poisoning of a Greek poet and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a maskalso discovered. Strange as all this might seemKitty Underhay's long search for her mother, Forrester is convinced that the poet who disappeared in June 1916 was not the intended victim: it should have been a general who has been approached to lead ELAS, the military arm of the Greek communistsover. HeNow she's determined that the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people responsible for her murder will be brought to follow him adn that would mean certain warjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan KennedyStephen Clarke|title=A Time to Tell LiesThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical) General Fiction|summary= Psychologist Alan KennedyThis is a spoof spy story, that isn's fifth novel continues the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]t about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. In the autumn of 1942 But it features a man called Ian Lemming, Captain Alex Vere who dresses well and Justine Perry are among 'likes the men ladies' and women picked up and taken to a stately home in Scotlandwho works for the secret service, where they are trained but in the planning side of things more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy skills. After this first encountercalled Margaux, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet the pair end up again stranded in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect SimoneNormandy, with Margaux on a Special Operations Executive agent. It's Alex's first desperate mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up to unearth traitors in custody at the Gendarmerieresistance network, facing a German who knows he has a false passport.and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lois Austen-Leigh0349423083|title= The Incredible Crime|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Prudence Pinsent flings her novel across the room. ''Unutterable bilge'' is her description of the typical country house murder mystery of romantic novels. The deliberate irony of this is that ''The Incredible Crime'' is precisely one such novel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356029</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Helen Dunmore|title=Birdcage Walk|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his life's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorge. In a time of turbulence as France reaches the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother Death and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and to all, including women. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort that fanned the French flames. However, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness in her husband's past of which she's unaware.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lindsey Davis|title= The Third Nero|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Lindsey Davis is one clever lady. Having enthralled readers for years with the adventures of Marcus Didius Falco, the Ancient Roman informer (or, to put it in more modern terms, private eye) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco to take a well-deserved and politically strategic retirement while his adopted daughter Albia takes over the family business. Her wit is dry as dust, she has a highly desirable Brewery Queen (well, he's called Manlius: what else could he be?Kate Shackleton Mysteries) love-interest and as a Briton, her take on Roman bureaucracy and pettifogging officialdom is just as sharp and funny as her cynical dad's ever was. A new main character, a new way of doing things, which somehow manages to retain all the best elements of the original Falco. Genius.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613426</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|title=Retribution RoadFrances Brody

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction )|summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard manKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeedably assisted by Jim Sykes, there was someone who was ideal for a suicide missionlives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, it was himMrs Sugden. Working as a soldier for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds of Asia in the 1850s, heShe's tasked with taking a boat been approached by William Lofthouse of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan MinBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. It doesn't go well – to start Something is going wrong with, his business and he's supposed d like Kate to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until look into it discreetly: he's forced hoping that his way nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to having Germany before long. James went to see what the knowledge of the mission he needs first, only for all hell continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to break loosemake. But get William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back a German bride but he does, only 'd like the business to find that while be ship-shape before his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857053744</amazonuk>nephew returns.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements0241433568|title=CorpusEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=A suicidal overdose It's 1930 and the murder of upper class Cecil Langley Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his wife are two events that may be unconnectedhouse in Spain. However this is England in 1936, It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a magnet for opposing forces rest and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle of this accidentally to begin with but Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his curiosity has guests find that he's been piqued enough to ensure hemurdered. How can that have happened? There's not walking awayno one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross1473682401|title=The Mask of Command Turning Tide (Twilight of EmpireDandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books in Those who were with us at the seriesend of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. 305AD: Castus Aurelius, following When they arrive no one can doubt the death charms of his predecessorLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of the Roman forces at the RhineEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. HeThere are two drawbacks: they's also been ordered to take Crispus, Constantinere noisy and they's son re staying with Dandy and heirHugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, for had not taken up the character-building experience. That complicates matters as chance to look into a problem at the Cramond ferry when Castus isn't trying it was offered to keep Crispus alivethem twice before, he's finding it difficult to increase his own chance but suddenly the possibility of being out of survival, especially considering how the last Rhine commander met his endhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham HurleySeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title=FinisterreThe Honjin Murders|rating=54

|summary=The Second World War To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is almost lost but in a lastenough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. For those who need more, desperate roll of here is the dice extra background – we're in rural Japan in the German High command launch Operation Finisterre1930s. In America The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the apparent suicide of a scientist working on whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the atom bomb and off wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the coast sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of Spain his fingers being in the shipwreck neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a German submarine, become catalysts as traditional musical instrument at the plans spiral out time of controlthe crime, leading to this case has a shattering climax. 'Finisterre' is a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense and stylelot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B07XLM3SM6|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Shirley McKayHelena Dixon|rating=4|titlegenre=Crime (Historical)|summary=1588: Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A Calendar great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of Crime 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 grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349423067|title=The Body on the Train (A Hew Cullan MysteryKate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=A lot 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 crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 and therefore in the life porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of law lecturer a man, stripped naked and local investigator Hew Cullen toowith no means of identification. As we travel through Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother services of Kate Shackleton in law Giles the hope that her knowledge and his sister Meg, connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the wise fact that she was now a woman, we also encounter some of his most interesting casesexperienced in dealing with murder. In fact there's one He was reluctant to match each of give her all the information which the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yulepolice held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner1472127110|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good as the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is Indian Summer: a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Wray Delaney|title=An Almond for a ParrotSara Sheridan

|summary=When a dead monk is discovered walled into a disused monastery Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the local gossip is awash with remarks on war, and not always for the miracle of his well-preserved body all these years after the monastery better. When she first settled in Brighton she was abandoned. Investigator alone, rudderless and Captain of Cromwell's guard Damian Seeker has other ideas. This is a recent non-clergy death. This is Carter Blythsecretly grieving for Jack, a man on such a secret mission that even Cromwell didn't know about itthe lover who died before he could leave his wife. This will add complications As time went by she found in herself an ability to the already convoluted solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and dangerous path that Seeker will take determined young woman called Vesta who refused to solve let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the crime, one arms of the complications being very close to homea rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068449</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M J Carter1912374439|title=The Devil's FeastCourier|ratingauthor= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, the early 1840s: the newly-opened Reform Club is the focal point for the Liberal elite, where Whigs Kjell Ola Dahl and Radicals can co-exist in harmony. Or such was the intention. With a celebrity chef in its up to the minute kitchen, however, the club seems to have more of a reputation for its dinners than its politics, and when a man dies horribly after eating one the Reform could have a problem on its hands. Particularly when it begins to look like murder. Luckily William Avery agrees to look into the matter with some urgency, but – as everyone keeps asking him – where on earth is his professional investigator friend Jeremiah Blake?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146364</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann Don Bartlett (Editortranslator)|title= Associates of Sherlock Holmes|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=The world-famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes needs no introduction; a redoubtable protagonist with an appeal that shows no sign of waning. ''Associates of Sherlock Holmes,'' however, moves the spotlight away from our hero and focuses on the exploits of some of the minor players who have featured in his adventures over the years. Here we get a chance to reacquaint ourselves with friends and foes alike, all keen to give their own, unique perspective of the indomitable investigator3.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299304</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lindsey Davis|title= The Graveyard of the Hesperides|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Our heroine Albia's grey-eyed and broad-shouldered love interest in this, the fourth of the Falco New Generation crime novels (Falco himself has got on the wrong side of Emperor Domitian, and has very sensibly retired to the coast) is called Manlius – that alone should be enough to tell you reams about the wickedly sly sense of humour Ms Davis displays in her novels. The setting is once again Ancient Rome, and Ms Davis provides enough local colour to create a world so convincing you could almost be there. In fact, the descriptions are so vivid that, as you pull in your skirts or bewail the fate of your brand-new sandals to follow our gutsy heroine into picturesque slums like the Brown Toad bar or Mucky Mule Mews, you could be forgiven for suspecting you've wandered into somewhere far more familiar, like, say, the back streets of Brum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613396</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frances Brody|title=Death at the Seaside|rating=4

|summary=Kate Shackleton felt Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in a book that she needed centres around a holiday and since murder, I've told you who did it was August when ''nothing'' ever happened– the Nazis, surely? Well, she decided that it was the ideal time certainly has to visit her friend Alma and goddaughter Felicity in Whitby. The timing was good too - Mrs Sugden was going remain to visit her cousin be seen in Scarborough and Jim Sykes was taking his family to Robin Hood's Bay. Perfect! Wellthis volume, it would have been except for a couple of things...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406588</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis Duncan|title= Behold A Fair Woman|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Mordecai Tremaine is in need which splits its time between one of war, when a holiday. According young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to the blurb ''the island of Moulin d'Or seems her best friend to be just the destination'' help – except not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the island isn't called thatlate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. Moulin d'Or In this timeline, a maverick agent is the district back in the north west of the unnamed Channel Isle to which our hero has town, one who might have been invited by some friends of less than a year's standing: an unlikely start in itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J D Davies|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton of King Charles II's navy sets out fingered for another day at work. He murdering that female victim, even though she and his men are charged he lived together with helping to subdue the Dutch town of Westerschelling. It's only afterwards that the true consequences hit himtheir baby as a young family, along with some other consequences that are and will be open except he was thought by all to conjecture. For have died in the year is 1666 and London is about to face a disaster that will be discussed and theorised over for centuries… Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Hodgson1786075431|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey Mrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Thomas Hawkins 3translator)|rating=3.5

|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at AislabieMeet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's country mansion to investigate murder threatsintent 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. ThatMeanwhile, other people's part life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the city due to lack of it but Thomas' main reason is hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to carry out keep a command from Queen Caroline connected roof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, although she was rich enough to the recent South Sea Bubble scandalkeep private lodgings and staff in her charitable home. The command I say ''was phrased nicely enough'', but the sinister intent was clear: Tomfor she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's failure or refusal means loss of Kittyhelp does she get found, the person he loves most dead and in a place the worldnear-lame woman could never reach by herself. Those murder threats are Just who could be killing people in a charity home, and to what end? And why does Zofia feel the need to make a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>name for herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Mazzola1786893762|title=The UnseeingThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd|rating=4.5

|summary=1837: Sarah Gale A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is found guilty of aiding still struggling with the shame and abetting James Greenwood in the murder of Hannahfrustration left by a previous case, his fiancée. It's particularly gruesome as where the body child was brutally dismembered and left not found in various locations around Londontime. Bound Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the gallows setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and fearing colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the future 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 stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her young son Georgepipe (my dear, Sarah petitions what an utterly ''fast'' thing for mercy from the Home Office anda lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, as a resultlet's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood to reby. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-investigate tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the caseghost. Edmund approaches Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it with an open mind but nothing prepares him 's clear he has a soft spot for what the determined young woman. If he'll discover and not just in the professional realmreally exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William Sutton0349414327|title= Lawless and the Flowers A Snapshot of Sin|rating= 4|genre= Crime Murder (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary= Much of this book centres on, as we are accustomed to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy night. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel, draping the seedy events in a soupy broth of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironically, is that most rare of birds, an honest detective, although as we learn he, himself, is not without his vices. What becomes clear however is that he is something of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to the misery and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along the way he meets a rag tag bunch of misfits who help, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as a sensational public trial, murder and episodes of mayhem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cecilia Ekback|title=In the Month of the Midnight SunFrances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=1856Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, Blackasen Villagephotography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Sweden: A Lapp sits surrounded by three dead bodies – Kate was keen to take the vicaropportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a constable museum and one otherher parents will be there for the event. The murders coincide with the arrival of Magnus LilleWhat could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a geologist sent by momentous event and having the Swedish government opportunity to map take photographs of the mountain that gives the village its name. Magnus doesn't realise what hesetting for 's walking into as up till now he thought his main problem was his sister-in-law, brought with him at his wife's fatherWuthering Heights's, (the Minister for State's), insistence. ? The events that will take place will cause them both sleepless nights and a real chance that neither will live to Nothing could go homewrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444789937</amazonuk> Or could it?