Hodder & Stoughton
D is for Death
Genres:
London, 1935. Fleeing an unwelcome arranged marriage, Dora Wildwood takes the milk train to London, where she narrowly escapes abduction by taking refuge in ...Read Review
The Witching Hour (Dandy Gilliver Mystery)
Genres:
The Golden Age of British detective fiction lives on in an eternal 1930s. This is the 16th in Catriona McPherson’s Dandy Gilver ...Read Review
The Wartime Book Club
Genres:
Kate Thompson has set her novel in the Channel Islands, bringing vividly to life the experiences of Jersey residents between 1940 and 1945, when the ...Read Review
The Golden Hour
Genres:
Victorian England had a problem with a new technology which created such an upsurge of pornography that it became accessible even to schoolboys. ...Read Review
Death on the Tiber (Flavia Albia)
Genres:
Death on the Tiber is the latest Flavia Alba novel from Lindsey Davis. Domitian is Emperor of Rome. Gang warfare has erupted following ...Read Review
The Wartime Book Club
Genres:
In June 1940, Churchill judged the English Channel Islands indefensible. After a chaotic evacuation effort, survivors endured five years of increasingly brutal Nazi occupation. ...Read Review
The Storm We Made
Genres:
Malaya, 1935. Cecily’s husband is a minor civil servant who admires the British he kowtows to, but Cecily despises them. When the chance ...Read Review
The Bullet Swallower
Genres:
A woman’s red shawl blows off her grave and into a tree, where it turns into a red bird. A cruel and ...Read Review
War Cry (de Norton trilogy)
Genres:
AdventureBiographical FictionMilitary
The title refers to the second Barons’ War (1264-67). Fifty years earlier, rebel nobles had curbed royal power with the Magna Carta. Now ...Read Review
The White Lie
Genres:
Most historical murder mysteries are simply mysteries set in the past. Others play with history. The White Lie is one of these. The ...Read Review