Douglas Kemp

Devils In Paradise: Crime Never Sleeps in The City of Angels

By A.D. Price - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

In this novel, A.D. Price casts a sharply evocative eye on Los Angeles in October 1946, a city sunlit but simmering beneath the ...Read Review

Beyond The First

By Craig Edgar - Published 2024

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Stories set during the Great War are plentiful, and it takes something distinctive to justify adding another fictional account of the conflict and ...Read Review

The Spies of Hartlake Hall (Patrick Gallagher, 2)

By R. L. Graham - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the winter of 1917, beneath the labyrinthine corridors of the Admiralty Building in Whitehall, the body of a murdered naval officer is discovered ...Read Review

Ship of Dreams

By Donna Jones Alward - Published 2025

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This novel approaches the familiar tragedy of the Titanic not with melodrama but with the poise of carefully crafted historical fiction. It is ...Read Review

These Wicked Devices

By Matthew Plampin - Published 2025

Genres:

Literary

Rome in the abysmal summer heat of 1650. Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, Princess of San Martino, is the overbearing, scheming and manipulative matriarch sister-in-law of ...Read Review

In the Name of the Reich

By Ian M. Williamson - Published 2025

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Mystery/Crime

London, December 1969. Detective Sergeant John Highsmith works for the Metropolitan Police’s Drug Enforcement Squad with the priority task of curtailing the activities ...Read Review

The Edinburgh Murders

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Edinburgh 1948. Helen Crowther, a welfare officer for a small surgery under the nascent National Health Service, comes across the murdered body of a ...Read Review

The Brampton Witch Murders (The Samuel Pepys Mysteries Book 1)

By Ellis Blackwood - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

England, September 1666, and the diarist and naval officer Samuel Pepys has two immediate and serious problems to contend with. Not only has a ...Read Review

The Ladie Upstairs

By Jessie Elland - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The north-east of England, most likely sometime towards the end of the 19th century. Ropner Hall is a large country house and estate, ...Read Review

The Mystery at Rake Hall (C.S. Lewis Investigates, 1)

By Maureen Paton - Published 2025

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Recent years have seen an inundation of historical mystery fiction that feature real literary characters solving murders and other crimes. Jane Austen, Agatha ...Read Review