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A Game of Deceit: A Richard Knox Spy Thriller
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This is a spy thriller set in the 1960s. The book opens with a death on a cargo ship, where an unfortunate crewman ...Read Review
Karolina, or the Torn Curtain (UK) / Karolina and the Torn Curtain (US)
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Cracow, 1895. When Mrs Zofia Turbotyska returns home from the Easter celebrations, she finds to her absolute horror that her maid, Karolina, has handed ...Read Review
The Power Game: The Monsarrat Series
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A boatman is murdered on a remote island off Van Diemen’s Land, in convict-era Australia. The authorities seek to convict a well-known ...Read Review
Edgar Allan Poe and The Empire of the Dead
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This is the third of Street’s Poe and Dupin mysteries, in which Edgar Allan Poe collaborates with his own fictional detective of “...Read Review
Mrs Mohr Goes Missing
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Cracow, 1893: Zofia Turbotyńska, aged 40 and childless, strives to advance herself in local society. She is married to a medical professor, Ignacy, who ...Read Review
The Unmourned: The Monsarrat Series
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As the tagline says, ‘not all murder victims are lamented’ and this is certainly the case here with the unregretted demise of Robert ...Read Review
The Syndicate
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This is a sequel to the author’s 2017 novel The Pictures, reviewed in HNR issue 80. It is the United States in the summer ...Read Review
Edgar Allan Poe and the Jewel of Peru
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Philadelphia, 1844: The City of Brotherly Love is not so loving in 1844 as nativist Americans foment unrest against Irish Catholic immigrants. Despite this, Edgar ...Read Review
The Parentations
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The premise of Kate Mayfield’s multi-period historical fantasy, which takes the reader from the 18th century to the present, centres on an ...Read Review
Back Up
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One by one, in one short week in March 1967, the four members of a British rock band based in Berlin die violent but ...Read Review