Douglas Kemp
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 Oblique Place
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The author, who died in 2015 aged just 53, has left a profound literary achievement in this novel, which makes the reader regret her early ...Read Review
The Boy Who Lived with the Dead
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September 1920, and Detective Inspector Albert Lincoln of Scotland Yard is summoned to Great Mabley, a large Cheshire commuter village, to investigate the murder ...Read Review
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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At the title says, this is an account of the lives of the five female victims of Jack the Ripper; it is not ...Read Review
Orphan Boy (The Deerness Series)
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The second in the Deerness series, set in north-east England at the end of the 19th century. The eponymous orphan is Niall McAndrew, ...Read Review
In the Shadow of Wolves
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Eastern Prussia in the bitter winter of 1946. The Soviet Army is in occupation, keen to take their revenge upon the German people. Eva, ...Read Review
Shadowplay
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At an essential level, this novel deals with the Irish writer Bram Stoker, and his relationships with the actress Ellen Terry, and Henry ...Read Review
Surgeons’ Hall
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Jem Flockhart, apothecary, and Will Quartermain return for another slice (the fourth in the series) of Grand Guignol mid-19th-century murder. It is 1851, ...Read Review
House of Glass
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Clara Waterfield grew up in the early years of the 20th century with the rare medical condition of having extraordinarily delicate bones, liable ...Read Review
Katalin Street
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Set in Budapest, Hungary between 1934 and 1960, this is by no means conventional historical fiction. The plot consists of a series of disparate but ...Read Review