John Murray
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
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This sixth Oscar Wilde mystery is set largely during Wilde’s infamous period of imprisonment between 1895-1897, after he was sentenced to hard ...Read Review
The Heretics
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This is the fifth novel in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. For the uninitiated, John Shakespeare is Will Shakespeare’s fictional elder brother who ...Read Review
Kingdom
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1163 Jerusalem. As the book opens, John of Tatewic is accused of fighting on the side of the Saracens against his Christian brethren. Pardoned ...Read Review
The Venetian Contract
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The novel begins in Constantinople and focuses on the character of Feyra. She is (of course) beautiful, intelligent, and has been trained as ...Read Review
Hunter’s Rage
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1643: This is year three of the English Civil War, and the third book in Michael Arnold’s ‘Stryker’ series. It is very similar ...Read Review
The Newgate Jig
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Set in the same era and very much in the same style as her earlier novel, Walking in Pimlico, which I reviewed and ...Read Review
Icelight
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This book is a cracking political thriller. Set in 1946 blitzed London, Icelight has fast action, resilient characters and sparkling period feeling. The hero, ...Read Review
Fate
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In 1717, on his 17th birthday, Lord Francis Damory discovers a book linking him to his great-great grandfather, Tobias, an alchemist who may yet ...Read Review
Traitor
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This is the fourth in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. John is Will’s older brother and an ‘intelligencer’ in the Queen’s service. ...Read Review
Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders
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If the first four novels of Gyles Brandreth’s series of Victorian murder mysteries had never existed to whet our appetites for another ...Read Review
