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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime (Historical)]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0571370977|title= Continental Crimes|rating= 4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's not clear whether the short story has gone out of fashion, relegated to the pages of certain types of women's magazines, or whether the magazines in which the format still holds its own are themselves not as high-profile as once they might have been. Perhaps they never were, perhaps we only know about them in retrospect. Whatever the truth of that it would seem that the golden age of the short story, coincided delightfully with the golden age of crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Philip Kerr|title= Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= Bernie Gunther is not your typical hero. In 1939, he was stationed in Berlin as a police officer handling murder cases and occasionally doing work for some highThe Lock-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 to make himself indispensable to men like Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann. So when he is assigned to solve a murder that has occurred at Hitler's Berghof in the Bavarian mountains, he knows that he needs to do it quickly and discreetly – not just for justice's sake, but for his own. He is given exactly one week to apprehend the suspect, and he hopes that with the help of his friend Friedrich Korsch, an investigator with the Krimialpolizei (or Kripo, for short) he just might get lucky. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296481</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUp|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 to his father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is on hand to press for justice, since he knows whose remains they must be. Unfortunately he's up against a few formidable opponents from the past, not least the Rebecca rioters, members of an illegal group from a few years earlier, and officially it looks like justice might not be on the cards. With the assistance of a local clerk, John Davies, Harry takes up the investigation himself, but it seems like both of them know more than they are willing to admit. Will the outcome be worth stirring up all those secrets for?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911332112</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gavin Scott|title=The Age of Olympus (Duncan Forrester Mystery 2)Banville

|summary=Whilst part of an SOE mission to kidnap a German commander in Greece during It's six months since the war, Duncan Forrester came across an ancient Cretan stone, dramatic events which he hoped could lead to the deciphering of Linear B. The war we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now officially over back in Dublin and living (although a lot of people are still fighting it, mentally if not physicallysomewhat uneasily) and Forrester has returned to Athens with his lover, Sophie Amfeldt-Laurvigdaughter, intent on getting the necessary permissions to go to Crete and retrieve the stonePhoebe. It was whilst they were in Athens that Forrester was the unwitting witness to the poisoning The worst of a Greek poet his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and where he found himself pursued by a man wearing a mask. Strange as all this might seem, Forrester is convinced that the poet was not the intended victim: it should have been a general who has been approached to lead ELAS, made the military arm of the Greek communistsalready strained relationship between them more difficult. HeThey's re brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the sort body of charismatic man who could sway a lot of people to follow him adn that would mean certain war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297824</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alan Kennedy|title=A Time to Tell Lies|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical) |summary= Psychologist Alan Kennedy's fifth novel continues the story he began with [[Lucy by Alan Kennedy]]. In the autumn of 1942young, Captain Alex Vere and Justine Perry are among the men and women picked up and taken to a stately home in ScotlandJewish scholar, where they are trained in spy skills. After this first encounterRosa Jacobs, Alex is smitten yet uncertain if he will ever see Justine again. The spy's life is dangerous and unpredictable, after all. Six weeks later, though, they meet up again found in southwest France, where they have been sent to collect Simone, a Special Operations Executive agentlock-up. It's Alex's At first mission (Justine's fourth) and all goes horribly awry. Alex ends up in custody at the Gendarmerie, facing a German who knows he has a false passport.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993202322</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lois Austen-Leigh|title= The Incredible Crime|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Prudence Pinsent flings her novel across the room. ''Unutterable bilge'it looked as though she' d gassed herself but Quirke is her description of the typical country house convinced that it was murder mystery of romantic novelsrather than suicide. The deliberate irony of this is that ''The Incredible Crime'' is precisely one such novel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356029</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Dunmore1529337968|title=Birdcage WalkIn Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPherson

|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Bristol 1792: Lizzie married well. John Diner Tredevant is a property developer who has reached the zenith of his lifeIt's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work: building a terrace of prestigious houses overlooking the Avon Gorge. In as a time of turbulence as France reaches qualified medical almoner the dawn of revolution, Britain, including Diner, fears it may spread. This puts Lizzie in a difficult position since her mother and stepfollowing morning -father both believe in propagating pamphlets and ideas of egalitarianism for and to all, including women. In other words, they think nothing of spreading ideas of on the sort day that fanned the French flamesNHS is born. However, thatShe's not Lizzie's only problem… there is a darkness ll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her husband's past of job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which she's unawareaffect their health.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091959403</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lindsey Davis|title= The Third Nero|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Lindsey Davis is one clever lady. Having enthralled readers for years with the adventures hardest part of Marcus Didius Falco, the Ancient Roman informer (or, job will be to put it in more modern terms, private eye) she sustains our interest by allowing Falco to take a well-deserved and politically strategic retirement while his adopted daughter Albia takes over persuade people that the family business. Her wit is dry as dust, services she has a highly desirable (well, he's called Manlius: what else could he be?) love-interest offers really are free and as a Briton, her take on Roman bureaucracy and pettifogging officialdom is just as sharp and funny as her cynical dadthat they don's ever was. A new main character, a new way of doing things, which somehow manages t have to do anything to retain all the best elements of the original Falco. Genius.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473613426</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|title=Retribution Road|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction |summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' If, indeed, there was someone who was ideal qualify for a suicide mission, it was himthem. Working as a soldier for the East India Company in the rural, remote, outlaw hotbeds Some of Asia in the 1850s, he's tasked with taking problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a boat problem of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan Minher own which might give her some insight. It doesn't go well – to start with, he's supposed to run the rule over ruffians saved from the gallows, but can't command them until he's forced his way to having the knowledge of the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break looseHer marriage has never been consummated. But get back he does, 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rory Clements057136358X|title=CorpusApril in Spain|author=John Banville

|summary=A suicidal overdose and Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think of himself in those terms. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy''. I couldn't resist the murder thought that he was an extreme version of upper class Cecil Langley and his wife are two events that may be unconnectedMarie Kondo. However this is England He enjoyed his job, something which occurred to him when he was in 1936, Burma with the army ''where he got the chance to kill a magnet for opposing forces lot of the little yellow fellows and their first moves in preparation for the coming conflict, assisted or prevented by had a royal crisis (depending on which side youfine old time''re on). Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde may fall into He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the middle purpose of this accidentally to begin a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with but his curiosity has been piqued enough to ensure hebubbles in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's not walking awaydeath that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762613</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian RossB08Z8BMZ7H|title=The Mask Mystery of Command (Twilight of Empire)Healing|author=A P McGrath|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary= Warning: spoilers ahead for previous books We meet Solon in Pergamon in the series. 305AD: Castus Aurelius, following second century of the death of his predecessor, has been promoted to commander (or vir perfecctissiums) of common era and he's the Roman forces physician on duty at the Rhine. He's also been ordered to take Crispus, Constantine's son and heir, munus - the games put on for the character-building experienceamusement of the populace. That complicates matters as when Castus The remuneration isn't trying high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to keep Crispus alive, helive. It's finding it difficult to increase his own chance of survivalquite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, especially considering how they're sprinkling gold dust onto the last Rhine commander met his endlions' manes to make them look more impressive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784975257</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Hurley|title=Finisterre|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= The Second World War is almost lost but in a last, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation Finisterre. In America the apparent suicide of a scientist working on sagitarii are the atom bomb archers and off the coast of Spain beastiarii are the shipwreck of a German submarine, become catalysts as condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with the plans spiral out of controlwild animals. Today, leading to a shattering climax. it'Finisterre' is a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense and styles the crocodiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley McKay1529337925|title=1588: A Calendar of Crime The Mirror Dance (A Hew Cullan MysteryDandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson

|summary=A lot of crime happens in St Andrews during 1588 It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and therefore in , as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the life of law lecturer fire lit and local investigator Hew Cullen tooBunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. As we travel through The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the year with him, his recently wedded English wife Frances, doctor brother call from Sandy Bissett in law Giles Dundee. She was the publisher of a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and his Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Meg, the wise woman, we also encounter Freckle - to drum up some of local interest in his most interesting casesshow. In fact there Sandy Bissett's one request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to match each warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the year's big festivals: Candlemas, Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Yulesame job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973635</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley GardnerB08LKT7HSR|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good as the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening Murder in the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBelltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Wray Delaney|title=An Almond for a ParrotHelena Dixon|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It was when Tully gained a step-mother that her education really started. That was the beginning of the road to discovery. The discovery that she can realise ghosts for others, that she can escape the cruelty of an alcoholic father and the discovery of the income and pleasure her body can generate3. That, in turn, leads to the rather classy Fairy House brothel and, now, the condemned cell in Newgate Prison. As she awaits her fate, Tully writes her autobiography ''An Almond for a Parrot'' and allows us to read over her shoulder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000818254X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S G Maclean|title=The Black Friar: Damian Seeker 2|rating=5

|summary=When a dead monk is In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered walled into a disused monastery in the local gossip is awash cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with remarks on the miracle murder of Elowed and his wellhalf-preserved brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body all these years after the monastery was abandonedalso discovered. Investigator and Captain of CromwellKitty Underhay's guard Damian Seeker has other ideaslong search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. This is a recent non-clergy death. This is Carter Blyth, a man on such a secret mission Now she's determined that even Cromwell didn't know about it. This will add complications to the already convoluted and dangerous path that Seeker man responsible for her murder will take to solve the crime, one of the complications being very close be brought to homejustice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782068449</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M J CarterStephen Clarke|title=The Devil's FeastSpy Who Inspired Me|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=London, the early 1840s: the newly-opened Reform Club This is the focal point for the Liberal elitea spoof spy story, where Whigs and Radicals can co-exist in harmonythat isn't about James Bond. Or such was the intentionIan Fleming. With But it features a celebrity chef in its up to the minute kitchen, however, the club seems to have more of a reputation for its dinners than its politicsman called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and when a man dies horribly after eating one the Reform could have a problem on its hands. Particularly when it begins to look like murder. Luckily William Avery agrees to look into 'likes the matter with some urgency, but – as everyone keeps asking him – where on earth is his professional investigator friend Jeremiah Blake?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241146364</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= George Mann (Editor)|title= Associates of Sherlock Holmes|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=The world-famous consulting detective Sherlock Holmes needs no introduction; a redoubtable protagonist with an appeal that shows no sign of waning. ladies''Associates of Sherlock Holmes,'' however, moves the spotlight away from our hero and focuses on the exploits of some of the minor players who have featured in his adventures over works for the years. Here we get a chance to reacquaint ourselves with friends and foes alikesecret service, all keen to give their own, unique perspective of the indomitable investigator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299304</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lindsey Davis|title= The Graveyard of the Hesperides|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Our heroine Albia's grey-eyed and broad-shouldered love interest but in this, the fourth planning side of things more than the Falco New Generation crime novels (Falco active service. Lemming finds himself has got put on the wrong side of Emperor Domitiana mission with a female spy called Margaux, and has very sensibly retired to the coast) is called Manlius – that alone should be enough to tell you reams about the wickedly sly sense of humour Ms Davis displays pair end up stranded in her novels. The setting is once again Ancient RomeNormandy, and Ms Davis provides enough local colour with Margaux on a desperate mission to create a world so convincing you could almost be there. In fact, unearth traitors in the descriptions are so vivid thatresistance network, as you pull in your skirts or bewail the fate of your brand-new sandals and Lemming desperately trying to follow our gutsy heroine into picturesque slums like the Brown Toad bar or Mucky Mule Mews, you could be forgiven for suspecting you've wandered into somewhere far more familiar, like, say, the back streets of Brum.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473613396</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0349423083|title=Death and the Brewery Queen (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)

|title=Death at the Seaside|rating=4.5

|summary=Kate Shackleton felt that she needed a holiday and since it was August when ''nothing'' ever happenedruns her investigation agency from Batswing Cottage, she decided that it was the ideal time to visit her friend Alma and goddaughter Felicity in Whitby. The timing was good too - Mrs Sugden was going to visit her cousin in Scarborough and ably assisted by Jim Sykes was taking his family to Robin Hood's Bay. Perfect! Well, it would have been except for a couple of things...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349406588</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis Duncan|title= Behold A Fair Woman|rating= 3|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Mordecai Tremaine is who lives in need of a holiday. According to the blurb ''the island of Moulin d'Or seems to be just the destination'' – except the island isn't called thatWoodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugden. Moulin dShe'Or is the district in the north west of the unnamed Channel Isle to which our hero has s been invited approached by some friends William Lofthouse of less than a year's standing: an unlikely start the Barleycorn Brewery in itself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J D Davies|title=Death's Bright Angel (Matthew Quinton’s Journals 6)|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Captain Sir Matthew Quinton of King Charles II's navy sets out for another day at workMasham. He Something is going wrong with his business and his men are charged with helping he'd like Kate to subdue the Dutch town of Westerschelling. Itlook into it discreetly: he's only afterwards hoping that the true consequences hit himhis nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, along with some other consequences that are and will be open back from a trip to conjectureGermany before long. For James went to see what the year continental brewers were doing and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is 1666 and London perhaps enjoying himself a little bit ''too'' much or is about going to face bring back a disaster that will German bride but he'd like the business to be discussed and theorised over for centuries… Fire!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910400467</amazonuk>ship-shape before his nephew returns.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Hodgson0241433568|title=A Death at Fountains Abbey (Thomas Hawkins 3)Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi

|summary=John Aislabie thinks that Thomas Hawkins has arrived at AislabieIt's country mansion to investigate murder threats1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. ThatIt's part of it but Thomasunbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he' main reason is s going to carry out have a command from Queen Caroline connected rest and then he wants to the recent South Sea Bubble scandaltalk to Megan and Henry about something serious. The command was phrased nicely enough, but the sinister intent was clearOnly it never gets that far: Tomwhen Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's failure or refusal means loss no one else in the house, so one of Kitty, them must be the person he loves most in the worldkiller. Those murder threats are a little concerning though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473615097</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Mazzola1473682401|title=The UnseeingTurning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=54

|summary=1837: Sarah Gale is found guilty Those who were with us at the end of aiding [[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 abetting James Greenwood in Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the murder charms of HannahLavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, his fiancéeEdward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. ItThere are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they's particularly gruesome as the body was brutally dismembered re staying with Dandy and left in various locations around LondonHugh. Bound for the gallows Dandy and fearing for the future of her young son Georgedetective partner, Sarah petitions for mercy from the Home Office and, as a resultAlec Osborne, had not taken up the Home Secretary appoints barrister Edmund Fleetwood chance to re-investigate look into a problem at the case. Edmund approaches Cramond ferry when it with an open mind was offered to them twice before, but nothing prepares him for what he'll discover and not just in suddenly the possibility of being out of the professional realmhouse at Gilverton seems irresistible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472234731</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= William SuttonSeishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)|title= Lawless and the Flowers of SinThe Honjin Murders|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Much of this To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make the book centres on, as we are accustomed one to in tales of Victorian London, dastardly deeds done on a foggy nightread; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'. Indeed the fog runs thick through this novel For those who need more, draping here is the seedy events extra background – we're in a soupy broth rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of vice. Our hero, Lawless, rather ironicallyan esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the whole affair is that most rare of birdsreally not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an honest detectiveuncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, although the celebrations have gone ahead as we learn heplanned, himself, is not without his vicesonly for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. What becomes clear however is that he is something with a man missing parts of a social crusader when his eyes are opened to fingers being in the misery neighbourhood, and degradation faced by 'fallen' women. At its heart, the Flowers some mysterious use of Sin is a detective story, with Lawless given an impossible task to complete alongside solving a seemingly impossible crime. Along traditional musical instrument at the way he meets a rag tag bunch time of misfits who helpthe crime, hurt and hinder our hero. There is romance and intrigue along the way as well as this case has a sensational public trial, murder and episodes lot of mayhemthe peculiar about it. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785650114</amazonuk>1782275002

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cecilia EkbackB07XLM3SM6|title=In Murder at the Month of the Midnight SunDolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=54

|summary=1856Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, Blackasen Villageleaving her daughter, Sweden: Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A Lapp sits surrounded by three great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead bodies – the vicar, a constable and one othermainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. The murders coincide Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the arrival of Magnus Lille, a geologist sent by the Swedish government Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to map the mountain that gives the village its namelook after her sister who was ill. Magnus doesn't realise what he's walking into as up till now he thought his main problem She was his sister-reluctant to leave Kitty incharge -law, brought with him at his wife's fatherand Kitty could not understand why. She'salways coped with the mix of holidaymakers, (boating people and the Minister for Statenaval college on the edge of town before - and she's), insistencedone every job in the hotel. The events that will take place will cause them both sleepless nights And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and a real chance that neither will live '' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to go hometake charge of security at the hotel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444789937</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susanna Gregory0349423067|title=A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Chronicle of Matthew BartholomewBody on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=Chancellor Tynkell was kindlyFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King's Cross, but ineffectual and everyone was stunned by his murder, not least because arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it happened very publicly - on top of the church towercarried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929, in a high wind with a lot one of people watching. Then the murderer disappeared. Some people saw a black cloak being blown along to porters who was unloading the marshes outside Cambridge and swore that it was boxes discovered the devil's workbody of a man, but physician Matthew Bartholomew stripped naked and Brother Michael knew better and were determined to prove itwith no means of identification. These are not Bartholomew's only problems though: Scotland Yard hit a 'barber surgeon' (free shave or haircut with every treatment) recently arrived from Nottingham is causing problems rather than curing illnesses. His sister is struggling to get her husband's tomb built by dead end and called on the mason she commissioned to do services of Kate Shackleton in the work: like builders everywhere throughout hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the ages he keeps moving from job to job and never finishing anylead they needed. Then Brother Michael is offered a Bishopric - in Rochester.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549797</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Bonnie MacBird|title= Art in the BloodKate immediately found herself hamstrung: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical) |summary= It's the winter of 1888 and Sherlock Holmes is languishing. After Commander Woodhead remembered her as a devastating result concerning the mysterious Ripper investigation, Holmes can find no solace child and falls back in could not come to his troublesome relationship terms with cocaine. Not even his good friend Doctor Watson can cheer him – the fact that is until an encoded letter arrives from Paris from she was now a young French cabaret star who claims her son has vanishedwoman experienced in dealing with murder. Intrigued, Holmes explores the case only He was reluctant to uncover that the disappearance of a young boy is only give her all the tip of information which the icebergpolice held. Journeying to Paris and then to the Lancashire countryside, Holmes and Watson become involved in a dangerous investigation, concerning a prized stolen statue, child slavery, and murder – but who is the culprit behind it all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000812969X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=CC Humphreys1472127110|title=FireIndian Summer: a Mirabelle Bevan Mystery|author=Sara Sheridan

|summary=Puritan/former Roundhead Pitman Life has changed dramatically for Mirabelle, our favourite fifties sleuth, since the war, and former highwayman/Cavalier Captain William Coke have formed a deep respect not always for each otherthe better. Their When she first mission settled in Brighton she was to track down the Fifth Monarchistsalone, an organisation out to avenge those who were found guilty rudderless and hanged secretly grieving for signing Charles I's death warrant. That was thenJack, during the Great Plaguelover who died before he could leave his wife. A mere year laterAs time went by she found in herself an ability to solve crimes, the Plague has lessened but the Fifth Monarchists are backmade friends including an ebullient and determined young woman called Vesta who refused to let a little thing like racial prejudice stop her doing what she wanted, taking Pitman's and Coke's interventions personally. We therefore find our heroes defending themselves, their families, even found consolation in the monarch, and, on top arms of that, a new disaster is about to hit the capitalrather charming policeman. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780891458</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1912374439|title=The Courier|author= Indrek Hargla Kjell Ola Dahl and Christopher Moseley Don Bartlett (translator)|title= Apothecary Melchior and the Ghost of Rataskaevu Street|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=In fifteenth century Tallinn religion and superstition sit side by sideNazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. In For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the midst of Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this is scientifically-minded apothecary Melchior Wakenstedevolume, known for his curiositywhich splits its time between one of war, logical thinkingwhen a young woman sees her father arrested, and ability their store condemned as Jewish and rushes to her best friend to solve murdershelp – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. There are rumours of In this timeline, a ghost a few doors down from Melchior on Rataskaevu Streetmaverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he's not lived together with their baby as ready a young family, except he was thought by all to believe have died in it as some of his neighbours. When several people die after saying they'd seen the ghost, Melchior can't resist looking for the connection between them and trying to discover the truth behind the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0720618452</amazonuk>War…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Donnelly1786075431|title=These Shallow GravesMrs Mohr Goes Missing|author=Maryla Szymiczkova and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)

|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one Meet Zofia. A socially climbing wife of my all-time favourite booksa 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'A Gathering Light''s life could certainly be better – cholera is nearing the 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, so I although she was very excited rich enough to read keep private lodgings and staff in her latest novel and see how it comparedcharitable home. Like I say ''was'', for she has vanished. Only due to Zofia's help does she get found, dead and in a place the near-lame woman could never reach by herself. 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?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786893762|title=Things in Jars|author=Jess Kidd|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=A Gathering Lightchild 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 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 the bizarre 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 the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''These Shallow Gravesfast'' thing for a lady to do!) is a historical novel mixed with a murder mystery at its heart nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven-foot-tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world-famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a feisty heroine who challenges soft spot for the standards of the daydetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lloyd Shepherd0349414327|title=The Detective and the Devil A Snapshot of Murder (Charles Horton 4Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5

|summary=1855: Only Even detectives need a few years after break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the notorious Highways Murderer left his mark on London's dockslocal Photographic Society proposed an outing, Constable Charles Horton is called back Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the area. The disturbing murder deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a clerk museum and his family bears her parents will be there for the trademark of the serial killer but Horton's sure he's already dead; Horton saw him dieevent. At this point the hunt for What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a devil incarnate begins, taking Horton momentous event and his wife Abigail having the opportunity to the other side take photographs of the world and the darker side of an untouchable Victorian institution: The East India Companysetting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471136124</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1471136124</amazonus> Or could it?