Ann Northfield
The Betel Nut Tree Mystery (Crown Colony)
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Chen Su Lin is a secretarial assistant to Chief Inspector LeFroy in this 1930s murder mystery set in Singapore. She is drawn into ...Read Review
Major Tom’s War
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The story begins with disparate characters and countries. The Tom of the title is in India but on his way back to a ...Read Review
Conrad Monk and the Great Heathen Army
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Following in the tradition of unreliable and unpleasant narrators such as Flashman, the main character, the Conrad of the title, is a thoroughly ...Read Review
Pleasing Mr Pepys
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Deb Willett is employed in the household of the diarist Samuel Pepys as a companion for his wife. She is there to help ...Read Review
The House of Shadows (UK) / Into the Darkness (US)
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This is the third part of the De Witt family saga, the previous two installments being The Storms of War and The Edge ...Read Review
Viceroys: The Creation of the British
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Author of the bestselling This Sceptred Isle, Christopher Lee has now turned his attention to the British in India looking at the country ...Read Review
Sacred Music
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At a time of huge divisions and distrust between Protestantism and Catholicism, Francis Trenowith, heir to an earldom, falls in love with the ...Read Review
The Butcher’s Daughter
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Agnes Peppin, the butcher’s daughter of the title, has been caught in the age-old way of young women. Forced to leave behind ...Read Review
The Cornish Dressmaker
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It is 1796, and Elowyn Liddicot is young, independently minded and attractive, as is usual with heroines. When the novel opens, she is engaged ...Read Review
The Jewel Garden
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The title refers to a type of Spiritualist belief in the novel about death and acts as a motif running through as a ...Read Review