Faber & Faber
Nonesuch
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London, 1939. Iris Hawkins is a secretary for stockbrokers Cornellis & Blome, but she’s a would-be financier and the only person at the ...Read Review
The Blitz Sisters
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A very enjoyable story featuring three sisters during World War Two and its immediate aftermath. Each of the chronological sections focuses on one ...Read Review
Venetian Vespers
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Venice, 1899: Evelyn Dolman and Laura Rensselaer, daughter of an American oil tycoon, travel to Venice for their lengthy but delayed honeymoon. In the ...Read Review
The Christmas Clue
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‘Cluedo’ (‘Clue’ in the US) is a family board game requiring logic and deduction to solve a murder in a country mansion, the ...Read Review
Jed Greenleaf
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Jed’s story begins in 1736 with a historical what if. What if Lady Jane Grey had not been executed in 1554 after nine days ...Read Review
Murder at Gulls Nest
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This is the best written historical murder mystery I have read this year. The first in the Nora Breen Investigates series, it is ...Read Review
Munichs
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Germany, February 6th, 1958. Having refuelled at Munich airport on its journey from Serbia to England, a British charter flight crashes on take-off in ...Read Review
The Great Theatre Rescue
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London 1930s. The main character in this story is Charley who, when she was 12 years old, was given her mother’s tap shoes, ...Read Review
The Houdini Inheritance
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Emma Carroll has produced another intriguing and well-researched historical novel. The Houdini Inheritance tells a complex tale well. Set in 1926, and moving from ...Read Review
The Drowned: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery
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County Wicklow, 1950s: in a field near the coast, the reclusive Denton Wymes finds a flashily expensive car with its engine running, the ...Read Review
