Historical crime fiction

An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

21 August, 2020

On the night of 11 August 1956, less than a mile from his home in East Hampton, artist Jackson Pollock crashed his green, convertible Oldsmobile 88 into a tree. The 44-year-old Pollock and a female passenger were killed instantly. Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress, survived the…

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The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor

By Vicki Weisfeld

14 August, 2020

Ben Pastor’s political thrillers take you inside the Third Reich with her protagonist, Wehrmacht colonel Baron Martin von Bora. Bora served in the Abwehr (German military intelligence) until that unit was disbanded in favour of the SS, Gestapo and other agencies. The Abwehr connection taints…

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Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

By DeathBecomesHer

3 August, 2020

Ooh, I love a book title with a clever pun, and Max Tomlinson’s Tie Die has the added bonus of immediately giving the reader some idea of the era in which it is set. Have you guessed yet? This mystery novel opens in the 1960s…

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Tell Me How it Ends by VB Grey

By DeathBecomesHer

15 July, 2020

England in the early 1950s must have been a pretty grey and dismal place to live. The country was still recovering from World War II, and rationing didn’t end until 1954. No wonder, then, that the 1960s were ‘swinging’ as a new sense of freedom…

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When We Fall

By Catherine Turnbull

8 July, 2020

Two women and an airman with ice blue eyes are in jeopardy, and at the heart of this smart World War II thriller by Carolyn Kirby. Vee Katchatourian is a pilot ferrying new aircraft to RAF airfields in England when she meets Polish-born flier Stefan…

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Deep as Death by Katja Ivar

By Vicki Weisfeld

29 June, 2020

In this second book by Katja Ivar featuring investigator Hella Mauzer, it’s February 1953 in Helsinki, Finland, and someone believes that this cold, dark, snowy period is a propitious time to continue a nasty habit of murdering prostitutes. In the region there’s no shortage of…

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Copy Boy by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

By DeathBecomesHer

25 June, 2020

Welcome to San Francisco in the 1930s. In the midst of the Great Depression it’s seen as a place of opportunity, and Jane Hopper is determined to grasp whatever chance comes her way and hold onto it, tight. Prepare to be drawn into the decidedly…

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Interview: Paul D Marks

By DeathBecomesHer

16 June, 2020

The noir-ish detective novel The Blues Don’t Care, set in Los Angeles in the midst of World War II, is the opener for a new series featuring reluctant private eye Bobby Saxon. But author Paul D Marks is anything but a newcomer – he’s the…

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An Accidental Corpse by Helen A Harrison

The Night of Shooting Stars by Ben Pastor

Tie Die by Max Tomlinson

Tell Me How it Ends by VB Grey

When We Fall

Deep as Death by Katja Ivar

Copy Boy by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

Interview: Paul D Marks

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