Douglas Kemp
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle
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London 1763, and brothers Edgar and Benjamin Bowen are to embark upon The Grand Tour to mainland Europe. They are close in age, around ...Read Review
Murder at the Natural History Museum (Museum Mysteries 5)
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London in August 1895, and Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton return in their fifth adventure in the murder mystery series, all of which are ...Read Review
The Blitz Detective
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London’s East End in the early years of the Second World War. German bombing raids are increasing on the packed terraced streets ...Read Review
Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
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Writing a sequel can be a difficult exercise, more than seems obvious from a cursory consideration of the issue; the writer needs to ...Read Review
The Liar’s Dictionary
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Split between the 19th century and present day, this is a delightfully exuberant, playful novel that is difficult to categorise or briefly summarise. ...Read Review
The Canning Town Murder (Blitz Detective)
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Detective Inspector John Jago is back (the second in the series) in another wartime murder investigation in London’s East End. The body ...Read Review
The Light Within Us (The Spindrift Trilogy)
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Cornwall in the early 1890s. The story centres on a small group of young, and bohemian art students. Edith and Benedict Fairchild are ...Read Review
The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero
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March 1945, Lower Austria. Cornelia (Nelli) Deinhardt is a thirteen-year-old girl, whose family, it seems, had been killed in an Allied air raid in ...Read Review
Islands of Mercy
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Bath, 1865 – Clorinda Morrissey, aged 38 and a spinster, has left her home of Dublin to try her fortune in England. After unfulfilling and tedious ...Read Review
The Graves of Whitechapel
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Whitechapel, London in the winter of 1882. Cage (Micajah) Lackmann is a young-ish barrister, charming, handsome and a poet to boot, who ostensibly makes ...Read Review