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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Brody0571370977|title=Death in the Stars (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)The Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=4.5

|summary=Much as it did It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in 1999, eclipse fever gripped the country Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in 1927Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but private investigator Kate Shackleton couldn't understand why theatre star Selina Fellini had approached her he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for help when it seemed that all she needed was for a flight to be arranged to take her from Leeds to Giggleswick School, where she was to view what happened and this has made the eclipsealready strained relationship between them more difficult. Surely she didnThey't need re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a sleuth for this? Kate went ahead and organised the flightyoung, Jewish scholar, which collected FelliniRosa Jacobs, comic Billy Moffatt and Kate from Soldiers' Field is found in Leeds and landed them at the school in good timea lock-up. It was obvious that the singer was worried about somethingAt first, but it looked as though she didn't seem able to explain what d gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it wasmurder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349414319</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= William Sutton1529337968|title= Lawless and the House In Place of ElectricityFear|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Campbell Lawless It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is back, this time tasked with solving due to start work as a series of terrorist attacks across qualified medical almoner the nation. Is it following morning - on the work of day that the French, as police NHS is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and public are being led her job will be to believe, or someone closer help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part of the job will be to home? Who can be trusted persuade people that the services she offers really are free and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, that they don't have to do with the bombs used anything to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services qualify for them. Some of Molly, the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a campaign problem of subterfuge her own which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant inventionmight give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650130</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= J Jefferson Farjeon057136358X|title= Seven DeadApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating= 45|genre= Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Ted Lyte Terry Tice was petty criminala hitman, but not usually the housebreaking typealthough he didn't think of himself in those terms. He lacked saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the couragethought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. However He enjoyed his job, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck something which occurred to him when he decided to try his chances at an isolated house was in Burma with a shuttered window. the army ''...where he might find got the chance to kill a bit lot of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isn. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't what heunderstand why Terry didn'd hoped. In t know the purpose of a locked room swizzle stick - surely he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted''morning''? It was after Percy's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment death that he saw the benefits of odd clues, including taking up a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victimsjob in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356886</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susanna GregoryB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Habit Mystery of Murder: The Twenty Third Chronicle of Matthew BartholomewHealing|author=A P McGrath

|summary=It was 1360 We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and Michaelhouse was in dire financial straits: they could last a little longer but not that longhe's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. Then it seemed that a lifeline might have been thrown to them when they heard that The remuneration isn't high but the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh of work gives the Suffolk town doctor a feeling of Clare was dead virtue and it was possible that The Lady, as she was known, had left them a legacyhones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It seemed that 's quite a spectacle: the best thing to do was to go to Clare to claim magistri are the money (or to try charge hands and prove that it had been when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions'intended'' and should therefore be paid) with all hastemanes to make them look more impressive. The real mission could be concealed behind sagitarii are the bald statement that they were there archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to attend fight for their lives with the funeralwild animals. Matthew Bartholomew was one of Today, it's the contingent from Michaelhousecrocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562637</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess1529337925|title= The Painted Queen: an Amelia Peabody MysteryMirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Amelia Peabody is a no-nonsense lady who endures all manner of murder attemptsIt was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, kidnappings it was cold enough to have the fire lit and sundry other crimes while Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on various archaeological digs the sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Egypt with equanimity and composureDundee. She is either revered or feared (or both) by villains, museum curators, family was the publisher of a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and workmen alike for Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her caustic tongue cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and the steelher sister Freckle -reinforced parasol to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she brandishes at wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the first sign man about infringement of danger. And yet, once the evilcopyright -doers have been locked up, precious objects returned to their owners and all injuries bandaged, she still insists on all the decorum of the English abroad: formal dress for dinner Dandy and only Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the politest and least contentious topics for dinner-table conversationsame job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472126823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sara SheridanB08LKT7HSR|title= Operation Goodwood: a Mirabelle Bevan Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= In this, December 1933 the fifth novel remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the Mirabelle Bevan Mystery series, we have reached 1955cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. There is less emphasis on rationing now: time has moved on from the post-war privations we saw Ezekiel Hamett was sought in our first encounter connection with Mirabelle the murder of Elowed and her warmhis half-brother, cheery companion Vesta in 1951Denzil Hammett, a time when tearing a stocking whose body was a disaster of the first orderalso discovered. Various types of prejudice are still rife Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, however, and Sara Sheridan is a real expert at dropping who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that small, lightly sketched detail which tells us we are still in a Britain overshadowed by the aftermath of conflict. A woman who walks alone into a bar man responsible for her murder will not be served; the British Empire is still front-page news, and the colour of a person's skin is still an almost insurmountable barrier brought to equality of opportunityjustice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122364</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J TjiaStephen Clarke|title= She Be DamnedThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) General Fiction|summary= LondonThis is a spoof spy story, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removedthat isn't about James Bond. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim Or Ian Fleming. The police are at But it features a loss man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and so it falls to courtesan 'likes the ladies' and professional detectivewho works for the secret service, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. With but in the assistance planning side of her trusty Chinese maidthings more than the active service. Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, Amah Li Leenand the pair end up stranded in Normandy, Heloise inches closer with Margaux on a desperate mission to the truth. But when Amah is implicated unearth traitors in the brutal plotresistance network, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the killer strikes again.and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178507931X</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=H B Lyle0349423083|title=The Irregular: A Different Class of SpyDeath and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=London 1909: Revolution is spreading throughout Russia and Europe. Meanwhile BritainKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, a land growing accustomed to peaceably assisted by Jim Sykes, is becoming a magnet for spies who lives in Woodhouse and disruptionher housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Vernon Kell, Head of War Office Counter-Intelligence, knows that the countryShe's equilibrium depends on the discovery and disposal been approached by William Lofthouse of the growing number of foreign spy networksBarleycorn Brewery in Masham. Unfortunately Something is going wrong with his masters in government canbusiness and he't see what d like Kate to look into it discreetly: he can and Kell's own agents are being killed off too fast for him hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to collect evidenceGermany before long. That's when he meets WigginsJames went to see what the continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. This William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a man with a superlative background: trained by Sherlock Holmes and, years little bit ''too'' much or is going to bring back, a star of HolmesGerman bride but he' child Irregularsd like the business to be ship-shape before his nephew returns. Now Kell is getting somewhere… Let battle commence!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147365534X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Menczer0241433568|title= An Unlikely AgentEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating= 45|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding Bunny at his house in St JohnSpain. It's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaretunbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's meagre salary from going to have a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloatrest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement Only it never gets that promises to far: when Bunny doesn'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!t emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. 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 is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaret How can that have happened? There's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for no one else in the reality of true criminalityhouse, and her journey so one of self-discovery forms them must be the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of lovekiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Wilson1473682401|title= A Talent for Murder|rating=4.5|genre= Crime The Turning Tide (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to a plot not unlike one of her own. It's all about the mystery, and it really drives the story forward. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at the train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. Indeed, for this man wants her to commit a murder. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471148211</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Martin Edwards (editor)|title= Continental CrimesCatriona McPherson|rating= 4

|summary=It's not clear whether Those who were with us at the short story has gone out end of fashion, relegated [[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. When they arrive no one can doubt the pages of certain types charms of women's magazinesLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, or whether the magazines in which the format still holds its own Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are themselves not as high-profile as once two drawbacks: they're noisy and they might have been're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Perhaps they never wereDandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, perhaps we only know about had not taken up the chance to look into a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them in retrospect. Whatever twice before, but suddenly the truth possibility of that it would seem that the golden age being out of the short story, coincided delightfully with the golden age of crimehouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356797</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Philip KerrSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12The Honjin Murders|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939To many readers, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling the phrase 'locked room murder cases and occasionally doing work for some high-ranking Nazis. Although never a Nazi party member himself (he was a known member of the Social Democratic Party), he understood that the best thing he could do for himself at that time was mystery' is enough to make himself indispensable the book one to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormannread; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. So when he For those who need more, here is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitlerthe extra background – we's Berghof re in rural Japan in the Bavarian mountains1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, he knows that he needs to do although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it quickly and discreetly might be – not just for justice's sakehardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her family, but for his ownone thing. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect Either way, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripocelebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for short) he just might get lucky. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alis Hawkins|title= None So Blind|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=When a body is accidentally uncovered nearby in 1850, Harry Probert-Lloyd the London barrister has recently returned wedded couple to be slashed to his father's house death in West Wales due to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is their private annexe before the sun rises on hand to press for justice, since he knows whose remains they must betheir marriage. Unfortunately he's up against What with a few formidable opponents from man missing parts of his fingers being in the pastneighbourhood, not least the Rebecca rioters, members and some mysterious use of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not be on traditional musical instrument at the cards. With time of the assistance crime, this case has a lot of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up the investigation himself, but peculiar about 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911332112</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin ScottB07XLM3SM6|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Whilst part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in Greece during the warJune 1916, leaving her daughter, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stoneKitty, which he hoped could lead to in the deciphering care of Linear Bher grandmother. The war is now officially over (although a lot A great deal of people are still fighting itmoney had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mentally if not physically) and Forrester mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has returned come to Athens terms with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvig, intent on getting this and in 1933 she was running the necessary permissions Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to go leave to Crete and retrieve the stonelook after her sister who was ill. It She was whilst they were reluctant to leave Kitty in Athens that Forrester was charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the unwitting witness to naval college on the poisoning edge of a Greek poet town before - and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a maskshe's done every job in the hotel. Strange as all this might seem, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been a general who roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been approached hired to lead ELAS, the military arm take charge of security at the Greek communists. He's the sort of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain warhotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Kennedy0349423067|title=A Time to Tell LiesThe Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical) |summary= Psychologist Alan KennedyFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's fifth novel continues Cross, arriving before dawn so that the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the autumn porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of 1942a man, Captain Alex Vere stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and Justine Perry are among called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the men hope that her knowledge and women picked up and taken to a stately home connections in Scotland, where Yorkshire would give them the lead they are trained in spy skillsneeded. After this first encounter, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again in southwest France, where they have been sent could not come to collect Simone, terms with the fact that she was now a Special Operations Executive agentwoman experienced in dealing with murder. It's Alex's first mission (Justine's fourth) and He was reluctant to give her all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passportinformation which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lois Austen-Leigh1472127110|title= The Incredible CrimeIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Prudence Pinsent flings her novel across Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for the better. When she first settled in Brighton she was alone, rudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, the roomlover who died before he could leave his wife. ''Unutterable bilge'' is As time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her description of doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the typical country house murder mystery arms of romantic novelsa rather charming policeman. The deliberate irony of this is that ''The Incredible Crime'' is precisely one such novel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356029</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Dunmore1912374439|title=Birdcage WalkThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married wellNazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his lifeThere, I's work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking ve given the Avon Gorgegame away. In For in a book that centres around a time of turbulence as France reaches murder, I've told you who did it – the dawn of revolutionNazis, Britainsurely? Well, including Dinerthat certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in which splits its time between one of war, when a difficult position since young woman sees her mother and step-father both believe in propagating pamphlets arrested, and ideas of egalitarianism for their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to allhelp – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, including womenwhen great consternation is being felt. In other wordsthis timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, they think nothing of spreading ideas of the sort one who might have been fingered for murdering that fanned the French flames. Howeverfemale victim, that's not Lizzie's only problem… there is even though she and he lived together with their baby as a darkness young family, except he was thought by all to have died in her husband's past of which she's unaware.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>the War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lindsey Davis1786075431|title= The Third NeroMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Lindsey Davis is one clever ladyMeet Zofia. Having enthralled readers for years with the adventures A socially climbing wife of Marcus Didius Falco, the Ancient Roman informer (or, to put it in more modern termsa medical professor, private eye) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco to take 's intent on making herself known as a well-deserved charitable lady, and politically strategic retirement while keen on her husband progressing yet through his adopted daughter Albia takes over the family businessesteemed career. Her wit In 1890s Cracow, life is dry as dustpretty good, but she has a highly desirable (wellknows it could always be better. Meanwhile, heother people's called Manlius: what else life could he certainly be?) love-interest better – cholera is nearing the city due to lack of hygiene, and many people have to fall on charity and as almshouses to keep a Britonroof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, her take on Roman bureaucracy although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and pettifogging officialdom is just as sharp and funny as staff in her cynical dadcharitable home. I say ''s ever was'', for she has vanished. A new main character Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in a new way of doing thingsplace the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. Just who could be killing people in a charity home, which somehow manages and to retain all what end? And why does Zofia feel the best elements of the original Falco. Genius.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613426</amazonuk>need to make a name for herself by answering those questions?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)1786893762|title=Retribution RoadThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction )|summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a hard manprevious case, he where the child was something else: not found in time. Hardly original themes for a dangerous manprivate eye thriller.'' IfAnd yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, indeedand the setting is Victorian London, there was someone who was ideal with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a suicide missionfascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, it was himyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Working as Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a soldier for the East India Company in the ruralwidow's cap and stout, remoteshiny boots, outlaw hotbeds of Asia but the tobacco she smokes in the 1850sher pipe (my dear, hewhat an utterly ''fast''s tasked thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with taking a boat nugget of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan Min. It doesn't go something, well – to start with, helet's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallowssay recreational, but can't command them until hecreated by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's forced his way actually meant to having cure bronchial problems is by the knowledge by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the mission ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he needs first, only has a soft spot for all hell to break loosethe determined young woman. But get back If he doesreally exists, only to find that while 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>is.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements0349414327|title=CorpusA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=A suicidal overdose Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the murder mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife the Brontë Parsonage are two events being handed over so that may it can become a museum and her parents will be unconnectedthere for the event. However this is England in 1936What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a magnet for opposing forces momentous event and their first moves in preparation having the opportunity to take photographs of the setting for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by a royal crisis (depending on which side you're on)'Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into the middle of this accidentally to begin with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure he's not walking away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>Or could it?