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The Devil’s Blaze (Sherlock Holmes in WWII)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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