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|summary=Having It's six months since the dramatic events which we read many 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 the Father Brown short stories before, his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and after really enjoying this has made the recent screen version, I jumped at already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the chance to get hold body of this TV tiea young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-in omnibusup. The little cleric who has such a mild manner At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but a keen knowledge of human evil, Quirke is one of my favourite detectives, and convinced that it was a pleasure to be able to read this complete collection of his storiesmurder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849906467</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sara Sheridan1529337968|title=London Calling: a Mirabelle Bevan MysteryIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=Mirabelle Bevan It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is an intriguing character. Warm, resourceful and extremely clever, she spent her war years in intelligence (though not active duty) and then, due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the war ended and her longfollowing morning -time lover died, she withdrew to on the coast and day that the dubious joys of running a debt-collection agencyNHS is born. Accidentally getting involved in solving a major crime with her vibrant young companion Vesta gets her noticed, however, She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and it isn't long before she finds herself knee-deep Dr Strasser in another mystery. A childhood friend flees London and an accusation of murder to beg Vesta their GP surgery and her employer job will be to help him prove his innocencepatients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. This leads The hardest part of the intrepid pair into job will be to persuade people that the world of smoky, music-filled basements services she offers really are free and the black market, where that they encounter criminals from all across don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the social spectrumproblems 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>1846972434</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jacqueline Jacques057136358X|title=The Colours of CorruptionApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=45

|summary=MaryTerry Tice was a hitman, an impoverished cleaner, is witness to although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a murdermatter of making things tidy''. Archie is one I couldn't resist the thought that he was an extreme version of the first artists Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to work him when he was in Burma with the police and creates army ''where he got the chance to kill a picture lot of the man she says she sawlittle yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. Taken by her looks He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he persuades Mary to sit for a portrait, but wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the man who buys ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the portraitwould rather buy Mary herself..benefits of taking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784531</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew TaylorB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Scent Mystery of DeathHealing|author=A P McGrath|rating=4.5

|summary=It’s hard to explain why Andrew Taylor’s novels are so chilling. They’re ghost stories that often lack ghosts, crime novels We meet Solon in Pergamon in which the crime itself feels second century of the common era and he's the physician on duty at a remove from the rest munus - the games put on for the amusement of the actionpopulace. But that’s really The remuneration isn't high but the secret work gives the doctor a feeling of their powervirtue and hones his skills: while in most thrillers, Solon ''wants'' the bogeyman is warriors to live. It's quite a single entityspectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, easy they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to pinpoint make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and therefore easy to excise from the rest of beastiarii are the healthy fictional world, things condemned criminals who are never so simple in going to fight for their lives with the universes Taylor createswild animals. What is frightening in an Andrew Taylor novel? Everything Today, it's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007213514</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529337925|authortitle=George Mann The Mirror Dance (EditorDandy Gilver)|titleauthor=Encounters of Sherlock HolmesCatriona McPherson

|summary=Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring icon of English literature; perhaps as popular today as he It was back in the late 1800sAugust Bank Holiday weekend and, maybe even more as so with often happened, it was cold enough to have the advent of TV fire lit and film adaptations Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of his adventureswork was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. Indeed, such is She was the lasting appeal publisher of a magazine and had been told that the character that since man running the Punch and Judy show in the death local park had used copies of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds two of works published, picking her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up where some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the original stories left offsame job. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew PearlB08LKT7HSR|title=The Technologists|rating=4|genre=Crime Murder in the Belltower (HistoricalA Miss Underhay Mystery)|summary=The year is 1868 and Boston is under threat from an evil genius who seems to have the uncanny ability to manipulate matter itself. The city has already experienced two attacks; the chaos in the harbour when the navigation instruments went awry and the eerie spectacle in the commercial quarter when every item of glass, including windows, eyeglasses, clocks and watches spontaneously melted. But are these attacks a prelude to something greater?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099512769</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James P Blaylock|title=The Aylesford SkullHelena Dixon|rating=43.5

|summary=Langdon St. Ives, renowned scientist and adventurer, returns home from In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the hubbub and grime cellar of Victorian London to his tranquil residence the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in rural Aylesford where he lives connection with his wife Alice and their two young children. Weary the murder of the city, having survived a devastating explosion Elowed and particularly vicious attempt on his lifehalf-brother, he is hoping Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for some repose and a chance her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to work quietly on his latest project; a dirigible airshipjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689797</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen GallagherClarke|title=The Kingdom of BonesSpy Who Inspired Me

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=This is a spoof spy story, that isn'If you like this sort of thing…' reads t about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a line from Stephen Gallagher's 'The Kingdom of Bones'man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'then here comes likes the kind of thing you’ll likeladies'. It’s describing and who works for the opening music for a theatrical numbersecret service, but it’s an almost perfect tagline for ''The Kingdom in the planning side of Bones'' itselfthings more than the active service. If you like Victorians Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, vaudeville and villainythe pair end up stranded in Normandy, if you like prize-fighting and police chases and possession by with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the Devilresistance network, then here comes 'The Kingdom of Bones'. It’s the kind of thing that you’re really going and Lemming desperately trying to like.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091950139</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dashiell Hammett0349423083|title=The Return of Death and the Thin Man|rating=4|genre=Crime Brewery Queen (HistoricalKate Shackleton Mysteries)|summary=I've recently been discovering the original works of Raymond Chandler which, like many people, I'd only really known from the Hollywood renditions. A natural, if backwards, progression from there was clearly to the writer that Chandler called 'the ace performer', the man 'who did over and over again what only the best writers ever do at all'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800208</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Essie Fox|title=Elijah's MermaidFrances Brody

|summary=Author Augustus Lamb receives a shocking letter Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from his publisher Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and old friend Frederick Hallher housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Hall has discovered LambShe's small grandchildren, Lily and Elijah, been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in a London home for foundlingsMasham. LambSomething is going wrong with his business and he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's son Gabriel had died after hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a socially unacceptable liaison with beautiful Italian Isabella who subsequently disappearedtrip to Germany before long. Delighted beyond words at Hall's discovery, Augustus adopts James went to see what the twins, raising them in his Herefordshire country home, Kingsland Housecontinental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. There 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'd like the children grow, happy and lovedbusiness to be ship-shape before his nephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409123340</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Carnac0241433568|title=The Autobiography of Jack the RipperEight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=3.5

|summary=The It''Autobiography'' presents itself as the Ripper’s story told from s 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his own perspectivehouse in Spain. The son of an impoverished doctor, young Carnac has It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a childhood obsession with blood which a series of unfortunate events morphs into a full-blown desire rest and then he wants to slit human throats. It’s the typical Victorian coming-of-age story (from birth, talk to school, then first love Megan and finally adulthood) with a twist, Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in that the path Carnac’s on leads him to become not a responsible adult but the most famous murderer house, so one of them must be the nineteenth centurykiller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552165395</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kylie Fitzpatrick1473682401|title=The Silver ThreadTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 1840 and Rhia Mahoney, daughter Those who were with us at the end of an Irish merchant specialising in local linen, has a comfortable life[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. All that changes, however, as her fatherThey's warehouse burns down, taking his faltering business with it, ensuring Rhia must make her own way in the worldre now married and Mallory is having twins. Via family connections she comes to England and When they arrive no one can doubt the home charms of Quaker widow Antonia Blake. The idea is that Antonia will protect Rhia whilst she seeks a position as governess in bustlingLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, alien LondonEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. But rather than residing in a sanctuary, her problems worsen as sheThere are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they's enveloped in a mystery leading to transportation despite her innocencere staying with Dandy and Hugh. The only things holding Dandy and her life together are detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the letters she writes chance to her dearly departed grandmother, her artistic skill and look into a determination problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to discover who wants her gonethem twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800127</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Davies|title=The Year After|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Tom Allen is home from World War I. Whilst waiting to be demobbed, he receives an invitation to attend the annual Christmas house-party at Hannesford Court, the stately home of Sir Robert and Lady Stansbury. He used to look forward to it before joining up and so decides to attend again, but everything has changed. The Stansbury's heir, Harry, Seishi Yokomizo and son-in-law, Oliver, were killed and second son, Reggie Stansbury, remains in a nursing home with no legs and dwindling self-respect. Whilst coming to terms with the devastating realisation that he's one of the very few men in their set to return alive and entire, Tom remembers pre-war Hannesford and the night when his friend Professor Schmidt died at such a gathering. Everyone believes it was unsuspicious but gradually things are coming to light that hint of hidden secrets. Along with her Ladyship's former companion, Anne Louise Heal Kawai (who has issues of her owntranslator), Tom decides to investigate as truths are exhumed, making him doubt whether those happier times were as idyllic as he remembers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980443</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Engelmann|title=The Stockholm OctavoHonjin Murders

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=As a Customs and Excise To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the words 'Sekretaireclever' in 18th century Stockholm, Emil Larsson has all he needs: professional respect, a bacheloror 's lifestyle and a table at Mrs Sparrowgood's gaming house whenever he fancies his luck. ContrastinglyFor those who need more, his superiors at work feel hehere is the extra background – we's missing a certain something. In order to climb further up re in rural Japan in the career ladder (maybe even to maintain his current position) Emil needs to marry1930s. His manager believes this so fervently that there's a deadline for The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the weddingwhole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. Emil panics but Mrs Sparrow offers to lay She only has an 'Octavo'uncle representing her family, a fortune-telling spread of eight cards to guide him to the eight people who will ensure his successfor one thing. HoweverEither way, not all goes to plan the celebrations have gone ahead asplanned, over only for the eight nights it takes wedded couple to be slashed to complete death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the Octavoneighbourhood, it becomes apparent that and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the prediction isn't for Emil's futurecrime, but this case has become an Octavo to save a lot of the whole of Swedenpeculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444742698</amazonuk>1782275002

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bruce MacbainB07XLM3SM6|title=Roman Games (Plinius Secundus)Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary=Sextus Ingentius Verpa isn't Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the most popular person in Romecare of her grandmother. He may be a high ranking politician with A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the Emperor Domitian's ear but this also means he's a spyconclusion was that she was dead, ambitious and not always using his power and position for goodmainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. When Verpa is discovered, unceremoniously Kitty has come to terms with this and repeatedly stabbed in his well-guarded bedroom, there are many 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who sigh with reliefwas ill. However, the murderer must still be found She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and so Domitian appoints Gaius Plinius Secundus (or Pliny the Younger as history will dub him) to investigateKitty could not understand why. Pliny isnShe't a natural but reluctantly takes on s always coped with the task because Domitian says so; Pliny has no choice. Domitian also says that mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the culprit must be found before naval college on the end edge of town before - and she's done every job in the Roman Games, giving Pliny 15 dayshotel. Over these 15 pressurised days heAnd she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things 'll dig into Rome's filthy underbelly of cults, prostitution and other things he wasn't expecting, including practically adopting his own, personal rude poet' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908800364</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Jennings0349423067|title=Vices of My Blood: Murdoch The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|summary=William Murdoch has at last been promoted From Christmas to full detectiveEaster a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a man, stripped naked and continues to solve cases with his usual mix no means of dogged determination identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and flair. Toronto at called on the end services of Kate Shackleton in the nineteenth century is marked by a huge divide between the rich hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the poor, lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the fact that many of the latter group are utterly destitute leads she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all manner of crimes, great and smallthe information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689924</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Kerr1472127110|title=Fell the AngelsIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=34.5

|summary=Cecilia had had more surnames than was usual Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and not always for a young woman in the late nineteenth centurybetter. She When she first settled in Brighton she was born Henderson but married Robert Castello alone, rudderless and quickly came to realise that secretly grieving for Jack, the lover who died before he was an adulterer with a drink problem. A woman's place was thought to be with her husband - even by Cecilia's wealthy parents - but they recognised that forcing her to go back to him could be problematicalleave his wife. As a compromise time went by she was sent found in herself an ability to Malvern solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to take let a water cure little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and it was there that she came into contact with Dr James Gully. He was a good deal older than Cecilia but a relationship developed between even found consolation in the two - affection on Cecilia's part (probably the most arms of which she was capable) and love on hisa rather charming policeman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709098383</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Kent1912374439|title=One BloodThe Courier|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|rating=43.5

|summary=Sergeant Kella is being sent from his native Malaita to another part of Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the Solomon Islands to investigate logging sabotage theregame away. In For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the same districtNazis, surely? Well, his friend Sister Conchita that certainly has assumed reluctant control to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a mission with three elderly sisters living there who are rather set in young woman sees her father arrested, and their waysstore condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, to say and the leastlate 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. Then In this timeline, a body turns up maverick agent is back in the church… is this related to the sabotage? And how does the wartime history of John F Kennedytown, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a young family, vying except he was thought by all to become the new President of have died in the USA, fit in to all of this?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013411</amazonuk>War…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Long1786075431|title=Murders of London: In the steps of the capital's killers Mrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|rating=43.5

|summary=While Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she's intent on making herself known as a charitable lady, and keen on her husband progressing yet through his esteemed career. In 1890s Cracow, life is pretty good, but she knows it could always be better. Meanwhile, other people's life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the true crime specialist reader may prefer books which deal 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, although she was rich enough to keep private lodgings and staff in one case in depthher charitable home. I say ''was'', there’s always room for another title at the other end of the spectrumshe has vanished. Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, dealing dead and in brief with a variety of murders over place the yearsnear-lame woman could never reach by herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946720</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=Shirley McKay1786893762|title=Time and TideThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=A ship child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is wrecked on still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the coast of 16th century Scotlandchild was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the crew gonesetting is Victorian London, with all the only man on board dying rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a windmill lashed to its deckfascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. What happened? What sort And before you're more than a couple of illness does it carry? Andpages in, you realise just how much more importantly 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 pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for the towna lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's peoplesay recreational, who gets created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to keep cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the windmill? Itghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a tough onesoft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, but university professor and erstwhile lawyer Hew Cullan that is on the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846972183</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Stashower0349414327|title=The Harry Houdini A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=There are two things you need to know about Stashower's Harry Houdini. Firstly, he is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes. Secondly, and much more importantly, he is utterly certain of his own ability to do whatever he sets his mind to. Therefore, when he finds himself involved, albeit in a minor way, in a murder, he immediately decides it is up to him to solve the case. It never occurs to him that he might fail, because that is simply not an option for the Great Houdini.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857682849</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Let Loose the Dogs: Murdoch MysteriesFrances Brody

|summary=The fourth book in Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the series of mysteries mental relaxation which star Detective William Murdoch is setshe needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, like Kate was keen to take the othersopportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, in Torontonot least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the event. Religion, money and What could be better than seeing her family rule this late-Victorian city just as they do back 'home' in England, witnessing a momentous event and Murdoch's struggles for truth and justice, not having the opportunity to mention his love life, are played out against the sense take photographs of guilt and the moral restrictions imposed upon him by his Catholic faithsetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689908</amazonuk> Or could it?

{{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Under the Dragon's Tail: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Murdoch is a lonely man, still grieving for the fiancée who died over a year before. He busies himself, when he is not working, with training for the police sports' day, learning to dance, and trying to overcome his attraction to the charming lady who lodges in the next-door room. She is a charming young widow with a young son, but since she is not Catholic, he knows, sadly, that he can never find married bliss with her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689886</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan James|title=Unsinkable|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=This year sees the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and several books, for both children and adults, are being published based on the story of the doomed ship. In this particular book the fact that we already know fate of the majority of the travellers adds a whole new level of tension to a story which is already an exciting thriller. Not only is there the question of whether they will catch the bad guy or not, but also, and more crucially: will the main characters all survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099558130</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Siciliano|title=The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Web Weaver |rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=An old gypsy woman places a curse on guests at a ball, leaving the upper class revellers shocked. When, over the next few years, misfortune befalls several of the party-goers, potted-meat magnate Donald Wheelwright knows there's only one recourse left to him - to call Sherlock Holmes. It's a slightly different version of Holmes from that we've come to expect, though. The detective, far from being an emotionless man, is capable of feeling strongly for the right woman - could the detective find love as well as the answer to the mystery? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686984</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sax Rohmer|title=The Mystery of Dr Fu Manchu|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Dr Petrie is surprised, but pleased, to see his old friend Nayland Smith has returned to England. But this is no mere pleasure visit – the former Scotland Yard man is Move on the trail of Fu Manchu, a Chinese doctor with ''the brains of any three men of genius''. Petrie is immediately plunged into a headlong race against time to stop the mysterious villain from fulfilling his evil plans and leading the East to world domination!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857686038</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Jennings|title=Except the Dying: Murdoch Mysteries|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Victorian detective novels set in Britain are fairly common, and some of the most well-known and popular crime series fall into this category. The Murdoch stories, however, come from a different angle, being placed (for the most part) in Canada, with its snowy wastes, its logging camps and pioneering spirit. Loyalty to the Queen is as ardent here as back home in 'the old country', but there is a rawness and a sense of space to these novels which is due in large part to their setting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857689878</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Dyslexia Friendly Reviews]]