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The Devil’s Blaze (Sherlock Holmes in WWII)

By Robert J. Harris - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Fans of Sherlock Holmes will welcome this latest addition to the great detective’s myth. Robert J. Harris sets this novel at the ...Read Review

Of Blood Descended (The Anthony Blanke Mysteries)

By Steven Veerapen - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Located in the familiar territory of the reign of King Henry VIII, this is a notably brave attempt by a new novelist to ...Read Review

Dark Hunter

By Fiona Watson - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

May 1317. Bannockburn has been fought and won by Robert Bruce, who now calls himself King of Scotland. Berwick-upon-Tweed is on the English side ...Read Review

Hex: Darkland Tales

By Jenni Fagan - Published 2022

Genres:

Time-slip

At 12 noon on 4 December 1591, fifteen-year-old Geillis Duncan was hung as a witch in Edinburgh. She was one of over 70 people, mainly women and ...Read Review

Rizzio: Darkland Tales

By Denise Mina - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

March 9th 1566, Edinburgh. Conspirators want to murder Mary Queen of Scots’ suspected lover during a tennis match, but her estranged husband, Darnley, says ...Read Review

The Pavilion in the Clouds

By Alexander McCall Smith - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1938: not quite nine-year-old Bella Ferguson lives on a remote tea plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with her parents Henry and Virginia and her ...Read Review

Hedy’s War (UK) / The Girl from the Channel Islands (US)

By Jenny Lecoat - Published 2020Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

After fleeing from Vienna to Jersey after the Anschluss, Hedy Bercu finds herself trapped and in danger once more when the Germans invade ...Read Review

Castle Macnab: Richard Hannay Returns

By Robert J. Harris - Published 2018

Genres:

Thriller

This is the second in a series of books by Robert J Harris which pay homage to the classic adventure stories of John ...Read Review

Black Camp 21

By Bill Jones - Published 2018

Genres:

Thriller

In the wake of the D-Day landings, thousands of Germans are taken prisoner, including SS officer Max Hartmann. But while Hartmann broods on ...Read Review