Douglas Kemp
The Honourable Life of Thomas Chayne
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Thomas Chayne is the eponymous narrator of this story, set in England in the troublesome first half of the 17th century. He is ...Read Review
A Shadow on the Lens
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Thomas Bexley is a forensic photographer (one of the first in the country) working for the Metropolitan Police. It is June 1904, and he ...Read Review
The Darker Arts
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Edinburgh 1889. In the fifth in the Scotland-based series, detective inspectors Adolphus McGray and Ian Frey are summoned to investigate the mysterious deaths of ...Read Review
Murder at the Ashmolean (Museum Mysteries)
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This is the third in the series in which Daniel Wilson and his partner (in both the professional and romantic meanings), Abigail Fenton, ...Read Review
The Archipelago of Another Life
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The novel takes the form of a story within a story, as Pavel Gartsev relates the bizarre world of the reservist Red Army ...Read Review
Blueprint
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Weimar in 1921, and Luise Schilling has moved from her comfortable family home in Berlin to study architecture at the Bauhaus art centre, led ...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 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