Monday, January 09, 2017

Favourite Euro Crime Reads of 2016 - Terry

Terry's favourite British/European/translated reads of 2016 happen to all be historicals this year:
Terry Halligan's favourite reads of 2016

1. By Gaslight by Steven Price
A hunt for a mysterious murderer in mid-nineteenth century London by the son of the founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

2. Bretherton: Khaki Or Field Grey? by W F Morris
A very thrilling and historically accurate story about a double agent in World War I originally published in the 1920s.

3. Queen's Accomplice: A Maggie Hope Mystery by Susan Elia MacNeal
An American agent in war-time London enlists the help of the Queen to help stop a German agent leaving.

4. Journey To Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs is sent to Munich to rescue someone from a concentration camp.

5. The Lone Warrior by P F Collard
How his protagonist Jack Lark gets involved in the Indian Mutiny in 1857.

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