Catherine Turnbull

A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements

10 March, 2021

At the centre of the intrigue in each of Rory Clements’ World War II espionage novels sit true historical events. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde’s task is to step in and save the world from the iron glove of Nazi tyranny. One false move and…

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The Captive by Deborah O’Connor

By Catherine Turnbull

12 January, 2021

If you knew that if you pressed charges against the man who had murdered your loved one, you would be forced to host the prisoner in your home, would you do it? Or would you refuse to go ahead with the conviction? That’s the dilemma…

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The Dead of Winter

By Catherine Turnbull

12 January, 2021

Nicola Upson continues her series featuring Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey and embraces the tradition of the classic country estate mystery in this thrilling homage to the genre. The Dead of Winter is a festive whodunit set in December 1938, as storm clouds of…

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The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

By Catherine Turnbull

30 December, 2020

Christmas is approaching but there is little good cheer in the bitterly cold air in Haworth, Yorkshire, in December 1845. The literary geniuses turned sleuths Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are about to investigate their second sinister case and it has a grim gothic chill to…

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Catherine Turnbull: Top five books of 2020

By Catherine Turnbull

17 December, 2020

It’s not been the best year and travelling to more challenging past eras through the portal of modern historical crime novels and thrillers has been a welcome holiday from 2020. My selection includes books set in War World II, the dark and dangerous world of 19th century…

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The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson

By Catherine Turnbull

11 December, 2020

Back during the Golden Age of mystery writing the festive whodunit was a tradition. One of the many characters in The Dead of Winter curls up with Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Christmas as he is trapped with others on an island cut off from the…

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All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

By Catherine Turnbull

3 November, 2020

Like this book’s author, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is revisiting Paris – a place that haunts him with shadows of the past – from his home near Montréal in Canada. He’s in the City of Light with his wife Reine-Marie, son and daughter, and their spouses…

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To Cook a Bear

By Catherine Turnbull

26 October, 2020

This beguiling book by Mikael Niemi is a mash up of genres with historical crime, coming-of-age and literary novel tropes that manages to be reflective and page-turning. In Sweden in 1852 real life revivalist Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, and Jussi, a runaway Sami boy, turn detective and use…

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A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements

The Captive by Deborah O’Connor

The Dead of Winter

The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

Catherine Turnbull: Top five books of 2020

The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson

All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

To Cook a Bear

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