Douglas Kemp
The Story Collector
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There are three main narrative strands to this novel: a German baker, Katerina, in London’s East End in 1915 who develops a skill ...Read Review
Murder at the Louvre (Museum Mysteries, 10)
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The tenth in the Museum Detectives series sees the married pair of private sleuths Daniel and Abigail Wilson in Paris. It is July 1899, ...Read Review
The Fraud
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It is pleasant to have a historical novel written primarily about a historical novelist. Zadie Smith has made her first foray into historical ...Read Review
Murder at Holly House (A Frank Grasby Mystery, 1)
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The novel of found manuscripts and associated papers can give a pleasant frisson of anticipation to the reader of historical and mystery fiction, ...Read Review
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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While browsing the Oxford University Press archives, academic Sarah Ogilvie came across the hitherto unknown black notebook of James Murray. Murray was the ...Read Review
Murder on the Celtic (Ocean Liner Mysteries, 8)
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1910. Here we are for the eighth episode for the ocean detectives George Porter Dillman and his wife Genevieve, known professionally by her original ...Read Review
Murder at the Tower of London (Museum Mysteries 9)
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London in the summer of 1899, and George and Abigail Fenton embark upon their ninth investigation in the Museum Detectives series. After their success ...Read Review
The Missing Mummies (Jesperson and Lane, 3)
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London in the summer of 1894. Jasper Jesperson and Aphrodite Lane return for their third adventure, after a publishing hiatus of six years. The ...Read Review
The Enchanters
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California in the hot summer of 1962. A character from Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy, Freddie Otash, is resuscitated. He is a former cop, ...Read Review
The Future Future
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It is quite a challenge to succinctly summarise a novel that does not have much of a plot. Literary? Yes, Clever? well, that’...Read Review
