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|summary=In It's six months since the winter of 1946 Duncan Forrester, formerly of the Special Operations Executive, was dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back at in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his Oxford college as a junior fellow in Ancient Historydaughter, Phoebe. He'd lost the woman The worst of his grief is over but he loved to the Gestapo irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and was now feeling guilty about this has made the fact that he was besotted with already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the wife body of his best frienda young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a fellow academiclock-up. To confuse matters further the woman in question, Margaret Clark, had been having an affair with another lecturerAt first, David Lyall and it seemed likely looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that she would leave her husband for himit was murder rather than suicide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297808</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E S Thomson|title= Beloved Poison|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=St Savior's is a crumbling infirmary – its walls stuffed with ambition, jealousy and hatred. Six tiny coffins, each containing dried flowers and mouldering rags, are uncovered inside the decaying chapel. A silent outsider, with secrets of her own to hide, is determined to discover the truth. And in a trail that leads from the bloody worlds of dissecting table and operating theatre, through to the squalor of Newgate Prison and its gallows, Jem Flockhart faces a ruthless adversary. As the destruction of St Savior's looms, the dead are unearthed, the living are forced into impossible decisions – and murder is the price for secrets to be kept…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472122275</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= George Mann1529337968|title= The Osiris Ritual: A Newbury and Hobbes Investigation|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=Sir Maurice Newbury, his majesty's special agent, and his assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are on the case once more. When a group of well-to-do explorers return from an Egyptian expedition, they unveil a mummy and unleash an ancient mystery. Soon the explorers are being picked off one by one and Newbury must solve the mystery if he is to catch the culprit. But there's more than one brute on the loose, while Newbury attempts to track down a rogue agent, Veronica takes the case In Place of disappearing women into her own hands with dangerous consequences … |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298251</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFear|author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|title=Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle AdventuresCatriona McPherson|rating=4.5

|summary=There can be few people who havenIt't heard of Sherlock Holmes, whether in the guise of the original stories or subsequent film s July 1948 and television adaptations including Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the most recent series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, who are pictured following morning - on the dust cover of ''Sherlock: The Essential Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures''day that the NHS is born. ItShe's this most recent series ll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which has widened affect their health. The hardest part of the fan base of job will be to persuade people that the stories services she offers really are free and many of them wonthat they don't have copies of the original stories to handdo anything to qualify for them. My own copy is Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a 1959 reprint problem of the 1929 edition her own which had four stories in one volume, but this current volume might give her some insight. Her marriage has nineteen stories in the one booknever been consummated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham057136358X|title=Sweet DangerApril in Spain|author=John Banville|rating=3.5

|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn''Sweet Danger'' is the fifth book t think of himself in Margery Allinghamthose terms. He saw what he did as 's 'a matter of making things tidy'Campion'. I couldn' seriest resist the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his job, something which has our eponymous gentleman-adventurer on a quest occurred to find him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got the rightful heir chance to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''. He was spending a suddenlylot of time with Percy Antrobus -valuable principality on who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the Adriatic Sea known as Averna. The British Government want proof of ownership and this, purpose of course, involves overcoming several obstacles, including a curious riddle, collecting various items and keeping one step ahead swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of the enemy. The quest soon becomes taking up a race against time, when the villains, led by Machiavellian schemer Brett Savanake, start to close job in on our heroesSpain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474689</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Margery AllinghamB08Z8BMZ7H|title= The Mystery Mileof Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating= 54

|summary= On a transatlantic liner, an American points out Crowdy Lobbett We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and predicts that he will have been murdered within a fortnight's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populace. Indeed he places The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a bet on itfeeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to live. It seems like 's quite a safe betspectacle: retired Judge Lobbett has been the subject of four near misses so far: four attempts on his life that have misfired magistri are the charge hands and killed someone close when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to himmake them look more impressive. His children have persuaded him The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to take a trip to England in an attempt to keep him somewhat saferfight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, for a while at leastit's the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Dowling1529337925|title=AscensionThe Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Alvise Marangon is an artist 'resting' between commissions It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and , as so using his guile often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and enterprise as a tour guide Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to those taking keep Dandy Gilver warm on the European Grand Tour in 18th century Venicesofa. Everything has a business as usual feel to it for Alvise until he notices a fellow gondolier paying his friend not to take a couple The thought of English touristswork was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. Then, as She was the new Doge is inaugurated publisher of a magazine and had been told that the manrunning the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's head is thrown into 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 crowdsame job. Showing people around a typical Venice is becoming increasingly hard for Alvise – Venice is not behaving typically!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973139</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances BrodyB08LKT7HSR|title=A Death Murder in the DalesBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5

|summary=Kate Shackleton's niece, Harriet, was recovering from diphtheria and Kate decided to take her away to In December 1933 the country for a fortnight to help her recuperate. Her's friend - and would-be suitor - Dr Lucian Simonson had inherited a house remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in Langcliffe from his aunt Freda and Kate was pleased to accept the offer cellar of the property for a couple of weeksGlass Bottle Public House. There Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was a hidden message that she might also discovered. see if sheKitty Underhay'd like to make s long search for her residence there more permanentmother, but Kate who disappeared in June 1916 was in no hurry to make her mind up about remarriageover. Her private investigations suited her well and it wasn't long before Now she was approached to look into a crime which had troubled Lucian's Aunt Freda. The old lady had witnessed a murder, but her evidence was dismissed and she went to her grave believing determined that the wrong man had gone responsible for her murder will be brought to the gallowsjustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406561</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shirley McKayStephen Clarke|title=Queen & Country: A Hew Cullan Mystery (Hew Cullan Mystery 5)The Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=54|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It has been three years since Hew was banished from Scotland and manoeuvred into working for Elizabeth IThis is a spoof spy story, that isn's spymaster, Walsinghamt about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. His loyalties remain with the Scottish Queen Mary but he must hide them as But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well as he can lest he becomes a victim of the conspiracy fever cutting through England and keeping 'likes the hangman busy. Thereladies's also another fever cutting through Scotland – and who works for the plaguesecret service, providing even but in the planning side of things more reason for Hew to worry about than the wellbeing of his sister, brother in law and nephewactive service. If he could but go home he'd have Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a surprise for them. When he gets therefemale spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, there's with Margaux on a surprise for him desperate mission to unearth traitors in the form of a death prophesy pictureresistance network, followed by a murder.and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973120</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Ross0349423083|title=Swords Around The Throne Death and the Brewery Queen (Twilight of EmpireKate Shackleton Mysteries)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Centurion Aurelius Castus' time in Britain is over but not his propensity for being on the wrong side of danger. Due to an adventure on the journey he comes to the notice of Emperor Constantine, and is promoted to his elite bodyguard – the swords around the throne. The multiple emperor model that has evolved to govern the Empire is shaky to say the least, riven by plots, conspiracies and worse. Therefore Castus' new job is neither safe nor easy but it's not something he can refuse… unfortunately!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784081167</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Chadwick|title=Liberty Bazaar|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Confederate General Jubal de Brooke is sent to Britain as an envoy to raise awareness and funds from the English aristocracy for his southern brothers in arms in the American Civil War. Meanwhile slave Trinity escapes to England and immediately becomes an icon for the liberal elite. However soon Trinity realises there's more to the English support than just talk. She uncovers a secret – and highly illegal – plot with far reaching effects for her homeland, not to mention dangerous consequences for her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906582920</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lloyd Shepherd|title=Savage MagicFrances Brody

|summary=LondonKate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, 1842: Magistrate Aaron Graham is missing his wifewho lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. She's left him, taking their daughter to live with her cousin been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in a very uncousinly wayMasham. Yet her distance doesn't prevent her discussing the goings on at her new home Something is going wrong with Graham; as these goings on resemble witchcraft his business and seem he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be taking back from a toll on his daughter's health Aaron is rightly worriedtrip to Germany before long. He calls upon Constable Horton James went to investigate… this is see what the Horton whose wife Graham encouraged continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to enter one of the more exclusive madhousesmake. Under the circumstances it seemed the right thing William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is going to do bring back a German bride but Horton still hasnhe't forgiven d like the business to be ship-shape before his superior for it. However, as the investigation goes on and Graham is distracted by a murder case with a rising body count, these bubbling undercurrents of enmity reduce in importance. The important thing for each of them has become survivalnephew returns.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Vaughn Entwhistle0241433568|title= The Dead Assassin|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1895. Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to the scene of a mysterious crime – a senior member of the Government lies murdered. Close by, the body of the attacker is found, riddled with bullets. The dead assassin is identified, however, as a man who was hanged several weeks previously. Mystified by the strange incident, Arthur Conan Doyle calls on a friend for advice – Oscar Wilde. Together, the two of them are swept up into a bizarre investigation – one that threatens their lives, their families, and the very establishment itself. It seems that someone is reanimating corpses, and programming them for murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783292687</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEight Detectives|author= Anita Davison|title= Murder on the MinneapolisAlex Pavesi|rating= 5

|summary=Governess Flora Maguire is sailing from New York to England on the SS Minneapolis, entrusted It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with the task of returning her teenage charge, Eddie back home to boarding school. Unfortunately for Flora, the ship is first-class only, so she spends the first night aboard stowed away Bunny at his house in her cabin, acutely aware of her lower social statusSpain. Her intention It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to stay out of the limelight is thwarted when, during have a solitary stroll along the deck, she discovers a dead body at the bottom of the companionwayrest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. The ship staff hastily conclude Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that this is a tragic accident, but Flora has other ideas and decides to conduct her own investigationhe's been murdered. Is there a murderer aboard ship How can that have happened? And if so, is Flora making herself a prime target by poking her nose into other people There's affairs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208264</amazonuk>no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anthony Quinn1473682401|title= Curtain Call|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime The Turning Tide (HistoricalDandy Gilver)|summary= London, 1936. Nina Land is a West End actress, and she is spending her afternoon in a hotel room with a married man. When she spots the face of the man the newspapers have named “The Tie-Pin Killer”, she faces a huge dilemma – will she report the man to the police, and risk her career and the reputation of her lover? Or will she stay quiet, and risk the lives of innocent girls?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593238</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=MRC Kasasian|title=Death Descends On Saturn Villa (The Gower Street Detective Series)Catriona McPherson

|summary=While Those who were with us at the best personal detective in the known Victorian world end of [[A Step So Grave (in his opinion anywayDandy Gilver) Sidney Grice is away on a case, his ward March by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is left to her own deviceshaving twins. As luck would have it, When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of those devices is an invitation to meet a previously unknown relativeLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. March visits Saturn Villa There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with a sense of curiosity Dandy and encounters Uncle Tolly whose afternoon tea is one she will never forgetHugh. Let's hope she knows Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a good detective!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178185971X</amazonuk>problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Wilson|title=Wallace of the Secret Service|rating=3.5|genre=Crime Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (Historicaltranslator)|summary=This is the third in the re-issued series authored by the former soldier, spy and Professor of English Literature, without whom it is said, there'd have been no Bond, no Smiley, no Bourne.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749018151</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sara Sheridan|title= British Bulldog The Honjin Murders|rating= 54|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= As a decadeTo many readers, the fifties doesnphrase 't attract much attention from authors and scriptwriters - itlocked room murder mystery's dull and grey in comparison with is enough to make the vivid horrors of war and book one to read; preferably quantified by the colourful extravagance of the sixtieswords 'clever' or 'good'. But World War II left a long shadow, and this For those who need more, here is the fourth instalment extra background – we're in rural Japan in this excellent series, takes us deep into past life of ex-intelligence agent Mirabelle Bevan, and the sorrow and the blighted love she has so desperately fought to hide from public gaze soon becomes hopelessly entangled with present deaths and danger1930s. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973252</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonia Hodgson|title= The Last Confession oldest son of Thomas Hawkins|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=A few months after we left Tom in an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the 1720s we return to find him living in sin and love whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with Kittyit being arranged at great haste. Or it would be sin if they ever get round to the bed bitShe only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Just Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as he promised underworld gang leader James Fleetplanned, Tom has taken in James' son Sam only for the wedded couple to be slashed to train him death in their private annexe before the ways sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being a gentleman. All seems to be going well in that department until Tom receives a visit from an old enemy the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a brush with traditional musical instrument at the time of the country's ultimate power. Then both collide to create fear and an offer that Tom isn't able to refusecrime, no matter how hard he triesthis case has a lot of the peculiar about it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444775456</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J CarterB07XLM3SM6|title=The Infidel StainMurder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon

|summary= London, 1841. Newly returned Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from IndiaDartmouth in June 1916, Jeremiah Blake and William Avery find life back in Victorian England difficult to settle intoleaving her daughter, having left a disconnected country travelled by pony and trapKitty, and returned to one in the grip care of railway maniaher grandmother. When a series A great deal of murders occur, all connected money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the pressconclusion was that she was dead, Avery mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and Blake find themselves back in action1933 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. But She's always coped with connections between the murdered mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and those seeking revolution, it is a race against time '' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to find take charge of security at the killer before he strikes againhotel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146259</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matthew Pearl0349423067|title=The Last BookaneerBody on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=34.5

|summary=Bookaneer Fergins makes From Christmas to Easter a decent living in 19th century London. However his business acquaintance Davenport has a plan train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to aid his prosperityCovent Garden. Hot literary property Robert Louis Stevenson is dying on UpoloIn early March 1929, one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a Samoan islandman, having just written his final potential masterpiecestripped naked and with no means of identification. Therefore all Davenport has to do is to steal it, bringing it back to publishing glory Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and self-aggrandisementconnections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. The only problems are that the enabling legal loophole is about to close Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and he's could not come to terms with the only one fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with his eye on that particular prizemurder. And Fergins? He's going too, whether he wants was reluctant to or notgive her all the information which the police held.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846556198</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Thynne 1472127110|title=A War of FlowersIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan|rating=4.5

|summary=A War of Flowers is Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the third of Jane Thynne's thoroughly researched war, and beautifully written novels of Nazi Berlin from not always for the female point of viewbetter. Reading them is an immersive experience; the joy of the book is When she first settled in locationBrighton she was alone, descriptionrudderless and secretly grieving for Jack, commentthe lover who died before he could leave his wife. The action does not rush but the ending expertly pulls plot strings together As time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, made friends including an ebullient and has determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a wow factor that will leave little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, and even found consolation in the reader eager for morearms of a rather charming policeman. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Simmons1912374439|title=The Fifth HeartCourier|rating=4|genreauthor=Historical Fiction|summary=On a rainy night in March 1893 Henry James stands on a Paris bridge, about to end it all. Next to him sidles Sherlock Holmes, about to do the same. Instead of jumping, Holmes drags James off for a drink Kjell Ola Dahl and decides that they will go to America to solve a 17-year-old murder case. The supposed victim, socialite Clover Adams, is believed to have committed suicide but that doesn't deter Sherlock. He's off, Henry James is going with him and that's that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751560952</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jayne Anne Phillips|title=Quiet DellDon Bartlett (translator)|rating=43.5

|summary= Chicago – 1931Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. Asta Eicher is For in a widow, with three children and book that centres around a crippling sense of loneliness. When Harry Powers asks her to marry himmurder, she is delighted I've told you who did it – and the new family soon leave in order Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to travel remain to West Virginia. They are never be seen again. Back in Chicagothis volume, Emily Thornhill is which splits its time between one of the few women journalists in Chicagowar, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and is sent their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to investigate the disappearance, trying her best friend to establish what happened to the family. As help – not knowing she becomes ever deeper involved with the investigationwill never see her alive again, Emily begins to discover things she never expected – both about and the caselate 1960s, and herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099590255</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Philip Kerr|title=The Lady from Zagreb|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=The Lady from Zagreb begins and ends in 1956when great consternation is being felt. Series detective Bernie Gunther is enduring a 'subtle kind of punishment' as he watches and re-watches beautiful Dahlia DresnerIn this timeline, a woman he has loved and lost. This maverick agent is the tenth of the novels back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that began female victim, even though she and he lived together with the publication of the Berlin Noir trilogy (in the early 1990s) and within their baby as a few pages the action has catapulted back young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the summer of 1942 and the heartland location, Nazi Berlin. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782065814</amazonuk>War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barbara Cleverly1786075431|title=Enter Pale DeathMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

|summary=Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of a medical professor, she''Death by Misadventure''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' This s life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the official verdict as city due to the cause lack of death of Lady Lavinia Truelovehygiene, trampled and many people have to fall on charity and almshouses to death by keep a notoriously ill-tempered horseroof over their heads. One such was Mrs Mohr, which although she foolishly tried was rich enough to approach keep private lodgings and staff in its stallher charitable home. The horse panicked and reacted badly I say ''was'', for she has vanished. resulting Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in a gruesome and bloody attack, witnessed place the near-lame woman could never reach by two boys from the villageherself. Most people would dismiss the event as a tragic accident, but detective Joe Sandilands suspects that this Just who could be cold-blooded murder. Could his judgement be clouded by the fact that he has killing people in a very personal axe to grind with the 'grieving' widowercharity home, who has been showing increasing attentiveness and to Dorcas, what end? And why does Zofia feel the girl he plans need to marrymake a name for herself by answering those questions?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)1786893762|title=Enter the SaintThings in Jars|author=Jess Kidd

|summary=Anthony Trollope A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was very taken not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with Barchester when he first visited the citybizarre and the 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 pausing the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to look out at do!) is mixed with a pleasant view he discovered the body nugget of Thomas Ridersomething, a bedesman at Hiramwell, let's Hospitalsay recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. At first The fact that it was suspected that Trollope might have been 's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the murderer by. Her housemaid, being seven- for this was no natural deathfoot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, but a stabbing - but once he proved that he was a professional man there on business for 's the first timeghost. Ruby Doyle, he found himself drawn into the world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation. There is a secret which the warden, the Reverend Septimus Harding and it's clear he has hidden a soft spot for well over a decade and it looks as though Rider might have been murdered to prevent the secret coming outdetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910208086</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements0349414327|title=The Queen's ManA Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=Elizabethan England - Even detectives need a murky, dirty world full of religious strife break and violentfor Kate Shackleton, short livesphotography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. Queen Elizabeth sits on When the thronelocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, but her seat is by no means safe - her first cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, is locked up in Sheffield Castle. Unable Kate was keen to leave, but by no means unable take the opportunity to plot visit Haworth and scheme with her supportersStanbury, Mary wishes to reclaim what she believes is rightfully hers - not least because the deeds of the throne. But even she cannot Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be prepared there for the dark twists event. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and new plots that arisehaving the opportunity to take photographs of the setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848548486</amazonuk> Or could it?