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This week’s topic is Dynamic Duos. I decided to concentrate on some detective duos who feature in one of my favourite genres – historical crime fiction. Links from the titles will take you to my review.
- Physician Nicholas Shelby and tavern owner Bianca Merton in S.W Perry’s series set in Elizabethan London published by Corvus – The Angel’s Mark, The Serpent’s Mark, The Saracen’s Mark and The Heretic’s Mark
- Doctor Will Raven and housemaid Sarah Fisher in Ambrose Parry’s series set in 19th century Edinburgh published by Canongate – The Way of All Flesh, The Art of Dying and A Corruption of Blood
- Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote and Sergeant Catchpoll in Sarah Hawkswood’s series set in 12th century Worcestershire published by Allison & Busby – Servant of Death, Ordeal by Fire, Marked to Die, Hostage to Fortune, Vale of Tears, Faithful Unto Death, River of Sins, Blood Runs Thicker and Wolf at the Door
- Barrister Arthur Skelton and his clerk Edgar Hobbes in David Stafford’s series published by Allison & Busby – Skelton’s Guide to Domestic Poisons and Skelton’s Guide to Suitcase Murders
- Amateur detectives Anna Drake and Shilly in Katharine Stansfield’s series set in 1840s Cornwall published by Allison & Busby – Falling Creatures, The Magpie Tree and The Mermaid’s Call
- Clerk to the King’s Justices Aelred Barling and his messenger Hugo Stanton in E.M. Powell’s series set in 12th century England published by Thomas & Mercer – The King’s Justice, The Monastery Murders and The Canterbury Murders
- Personal detective Sidney Grice and his ward March Middleton in M.R.C. Kasasian’s series set in 19th century London published by Head of Zeus – The Mangle Street Murders, The Curse of the House of Foskett, Death Descends on Saturn Villa, The Secrets of Gaslight Lane and Dark Dawn over Steep House
- Lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak in C.J. Sansom’s series set in Tudor England published by – Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation and Tombland
- Cambridge historian Ernest Drabble and newspaper reporter Sir Percival Harris in Alec Marsh’s series set in the 1930s published by Headline – Rule Britannia, Enemy of the Raj, Ghosts of the West
- Slightly cheating because they’re a trio, lady ‘detectors’ Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë in Bella Ellis’s series set in 1840s Yorkshire – The Vanished Bride, The Diabolical Bones and The Red Monarch
On What Cathy Read Next last week
