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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=CrimeThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime__NOTOC__|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCreryhenleyA|title=Tooth and ClawUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the looseEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deathshe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. Carl Whittley His wife, Laura, has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter been trying to persuade him to death retire - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's planning not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his next murder alreadycase, secreted away in it's the shed at the bottom thought of the garden of the house money he shares with his invalid father. Carl could make that convinces him that this is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, there's only him to take care miscarriage of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, justice that he reallyshould put right. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan David Jahn 1529934753|title=Acts of ViolenceThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from work. All she wanted was For a hot bath after a hard daylittle while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's work. From this point most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour to opening of his retrospective at the nextRoyal Academy. Still, all of whom are absorbed he arrived in their own dilemmas. There is the draftee nick of time, complete with a sick motherhis two wives and six children, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband one of cheating and otherswhom filmed what happened. We are shown what these characters were doing Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that evening, and how these events drag through to but it was fortunate that there was a record of the morningprotest. We are shown how in Lexi Williams, an intern at the midst RA, grabbed a spray can of their own interesting, poignant blue paint from under a chair and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed proceeded to spray Bruce in the courtyard onto which all their windows lookface, through which windows they witness whilst shouting ''Stop the attackWar''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and how these people did nothingSir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0008551375|title=Core of EvilWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Leanne Wilson through an aromatic cup 's body was found at the bottom of teaa Scottish mountain, flavoured with Christmas rosesseemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'"There are all kinds d looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of horrible things in the Christmas rosean unpleasant relationship," but it looked like she said, watching to see whether Daisy could still hear was living herbest life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalis All were experienced climbers, which I've also used before, but there's saporin properly equipped for what they were doing and protoanemonin as wellsensible people. It None of the 's what a very nasty cocktail."stupid thing to do' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky - and graphically effluent - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on a new town, a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimexplanations applied. Daisy has problems with her memory - the identities go back so far that sometimes she can barely remember who They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is she is now, let alone all the whos shecertain there's been before, and most certainly not a killer on the who with whom she beganloose. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish0008643660|title=Dead of WinterThe Burial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan is picture-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and snugly in some of the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandexcavations are being televised. Louis Kincaid needs There's even a little serenity in his life hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come homethe landowner. Life has not been easy for KincaidIt's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. A troubledJake Jackson, unhappy child of mixed racea former police detective, passed around various institutions and foster homes, Louis figures that if is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he is going 's inevitably drawn in to put some integrity back into investigate. Reading the worldletters, he it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will need to wear a badge to do itbe violence and even the local police are keen that Jake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope1529425905|title=Fear A Voice in the CotswoldsNight (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is There's a house sitter by profession. When people go away new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she moves into their homes 's young, ambitious, and looks after their animals ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and the property. This time itfamily values, but as far as she's winter concerned, she has two main problems, and shethey's spending a month in the Cotswold village re both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of HampnettNigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. It wouldnHe't be a job for all of us but Thea delights in getting s married to know the local people Diane and the areahas twin sons. In the past sheManagement's also been involved with opinion of him is that he thinks too highly of himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the police wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in solving various cases but fact, it looks as though could be said that might have come to an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledhe's never really left it. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – He lives in shell suits and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps tracksuits, always in the snow which lead to a body in a nearby fieldvivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if Wainwright feels that she's imagined it allwould be best shut of both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1529077745|title=Spade and Archer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Sam Spade decides, bravely, to set up his one-man detective agency. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entails. Many locals, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, it's evident that Sam is a man of few words. He has the mannerisms of a cat - stealthy, quick on his feet. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Richard Jay Parker|title=Stop MeAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Spam EA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh -Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most one of us will have had the care workers who was due to deal with them. Fortunately, we can hit work a shift the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they camenight before but who had never turned up. D I certainly prefer not Vera Stanhope is called in to torture my friends by sending such rubbish oninvestigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I don'tfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually Some people believe that Chloe was a matter of life and responsible for the death, rather than just claiming but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>Josh.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1529428289|title=Blood BornA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimBecause of various property transactions, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to people were searching for the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothersgrave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close They dated back to death World War II and faces a battle against time it fell to save her. In Bruno, the panicChief of Police for St Denis, Anya fails to take note discover the identities of an important clue which might help tell the bodies and establish whether it really was suicide or not a cleverly staged murdercrime had been committed. Worse still As if this isn't enough to worry about, in trying to save the girlDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and not just the case falls apart. She blames herself for local autumn rains that have caused the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there is news of problem: various dams upstream on another attack. A pair of sisters river have been stabbed had to release water and raped resulting in St Denis faces the death possibility of one, while the other clings to lifea devastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 152919640X|title=The Brutal TellingSuspect|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morningThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, in the village of Three PinesJessica Holby, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephonewas murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. There is a body in the bistro He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and Olivier is stunnedhis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but thereShe's no sign seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a weaponbusy, no obvious reason for the killing live television studio - and no clues as Brooks served a ragout to the identity of the victimHolby. Meanwhile, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and Agent Isabelle Lacosteshe was dead within minutes. They've been to Three Pines before, but It was soon clear that this time the village is in chaoswas no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mike CareyB0CYV674G2|title=The Naming of the Beasts Swanton Morley (Felix CastorJohn Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Felix Castor is a talented exorcist living It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in London, with zombies, ghosts mud and blood - and succubi for friendscarrying a knife, and comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the odd humanman. His best friend, Rafi, has A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been taken over by a demon called Asmodeusstabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, for which Felix feels slightly responsiblecoincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. As such, You would think he needs to get Rafi back to normal - 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the problem is that Asmodeus has words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other ideas . He's sleep- basically to kill everyone who has anything deprived to do with Rafi. Felix himself is probably on the list, point of falling asleep at work but before he worries about himself, he needs to do something about his closest friends - namely Pen, his landlady, Juliet, a succubus (a demonic female spirit) and Sue, Juliet's lover. At the same time, there are horrible things determined to keep going on in a central London gym, and Castor must do something about it before people start to die. Can - probably because he solve all his problems without losing can't get any of his loved ones? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841496553</amazonuk>sleep at home.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C J Box Stuart Douglas|title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=23.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Three Weeks to Say Goodbye'Floggit and Leggit' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a hard-working, regular guy (more woman on the edge of that in a minute though)reservoir. Nine months previously The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he and his wife Melissa had adopted enlists the help of a baby girl, Angelinafellow actor, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency John Le Breton to say that there has been a mistake on help him investigate matters further. They travel across the forms country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants , seemingly, a link to take death during the baby backSecond World War. Even worse news But is that there really a link between the boy's father deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to responsible before more people lose their daughter.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Barrie0008517061|title=Wasp-WaistedDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Franck Guerin used to be one of the eliteFormer Metropolitan Police detective, dealing with national securityJake Johnson, but after an incident in Corsica which left him badly wounded he's been moved has settled into criminal investigationshis rustic life at Little Sky. His first case proves to be something There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of a problem when a young model is found dead his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a luxury hotel lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in Paris. Worryingly, a stunning photograph of the body with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is delivered to Exposé, a big-circulation scandal sheet, before the body is discovered future she wants for herself and it can only have been taken by the murderer. her daughter? Despite the provenance of For the picture it's difficult not to be moment they’re enjoying life in awe of the skill present and artistry which produced it. All Guerin has to go putting the future on is the ''very'' expensive underwear which the body is wearing – or you might almost say ''modelling''back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251803</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Ferguson 1786482126|title=HustleThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Cons generally come Builders were demolishing an old house in two forms, Norwich - the long con and site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the short conbones of a child beneath a doorway. The long con is more elaborate and has more that can go wrong, takes a lot longer to set up but has correspondingly higher rewards if everything goes rightThere was no skull. This is the art of fleecing Was this a single person out of a lot of money all at onceritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It is this that the BBC TV show ''Hustle'' and Richard Asplin's [[Conman by Richard Asplin|Conman]] are based on. The short con can be something difficult as basic as a rigged game of ''find the lady'Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, which aims to part that she is pregnant with his child as many people from a little bit result of money as quickly as possiblethe one night they spent together some three months ago. The short con may have a lower returnHer condition will be obvious before long, but that return comes a lot quicker and this not least because Ruth is the basis for Will Ferguson's ''Hustle''prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516438</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Asplin 0008551324|title=ConmanThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thanks It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the success of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the BBC TV show other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he''Hustle'', s prepared to tell the police where the art body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the long con seems police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be more popular than I ever recall. I've always liked transferred to an open prison to serve the series, as it shows a battle remainder of wits his sentence and there is so to get an early parole date. Not much that can go wrong the outcome to ask, is in doubt right until the end. it? Until Richard AsplinThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's ''Conman'', I'd not read anything even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with quite the same level of intricacy, although Jeffery Deaverhim is kept well away from what's ''The Vanished Man'' comes closehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184243294X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin 0008405026|title=The ComplaintsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Working in It'The Complaints' is not s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the job for you if personal popularity mattersinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, because they're the cops who investigate other copsand her father are dead in their bed. Inspector Malcolm Fox has been Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there for some time and at 's something about the beginning positioning of the book the Procurator Fiscal is taking on a case against a serving policemanbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Most people think that Glen Heaton What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a good copper who has taken a few shortcuts and done some unorthodox swaps of information just to get the right result when justice might not be served otherwisecomplex double murder. They don't reckon Kerrigan is convinced that hethe explanation lies in Rosalie's bent and theredisappearance: others (such as Derwent's a degree of resentment against Foxboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752889516</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Millar0571379877|title=The Dark Place: A Karl Kane NovelKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Belfast PI Karl Kane Edward Jevons is reluctant to take on the case of a missing teenagerworking-class young man, but obsessed with his secretary/girlfriend pushes him into itupper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. As he looks into it further, it becomes apparent that a number of young women are being murdered in Robert's a peculiarly nasty waytheatre director. The case soon becomes very personal as a friend who seemed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to know something also becomes a victimrun errands for him. Karl finds himself looking for a serial killer who Edward has abducted been in love with Stanza since their university days - and murdered a number of very young women he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in an especially nasty way. It becomes all too clear Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the police do a relationship had begun between them but he's not really care very much. Most of like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the victims are homeless women with a history two of drug problems and them kissing in a life on the wrong side of the lawdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224032</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N J CooperJo Callaghan|title=Leave No EscapeTrace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I've long had an interest When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in psychologyNuneaton, particularly abnormal psychologyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. The mind is a fascinating thingIt's their first live case together, but it has far more spectacular effects when things go wronghaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The same But when there is true of crime thrillersa second body found crucified a few days later, which are Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot more entertaining when things don't work out too well for the policeof unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. So Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a combination of abnormal psychology and crime thriller was always going to appeal to me.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847394221</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Charles1035021803|title=Family LifeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Sweeney family along with wives, girlfriends and children were gathered at It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the family farm for LiamEnglish country village where she grew up. She's birthdayback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. There was just one empty seat at the table Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the family waited for Joe – the only one of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the children who wanted to farm – to return homeleast. It wasn't Joe who arrived though – it Arthur was Inspector Starrett with the news that Joe's body reason why Freya had not been discovered on land by a disused warehouseback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There Even though they were no injuries in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the body split, she worked in a cafe, met and Starrett could only assume that Joe had been married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224040</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mehmet Murat Somer 1398524085|title=The Gigolo MurderHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35
|genre=Crime
|summary=After a break-Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, our unnamed hero (or heroine) has been wallowing in depression sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and selfher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -pity for too longstrangely - her husband, so his friendAlec, Ponpon, drags him out for an evening on the town in Istanbul. While out, he meets Haluk Pekerdem to whom he is immediately attracted, but unfortunately Pekerdem happens to be marriednot. However Shortly afterwards, this meeting involves our hero in a new murder caseEtty and Greg, when Pekerdemfind the body of Greg's brother-father, Duncan Ackerley, in-law is accused of the murder of a gigoloriver. Our hero suspects It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the brother-in-law is guilt. The Salter children are not guilty... convinced but there's little else they can he prove it? And if he is right, then who is the real killer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686946</amazonuk>do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Lovesey 1529900360|title=Skeleton HillThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When the Sealed Knot reIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-enact a Civil War battle on Lansdown Hill near Bath a couple of corpses sneak off for a crafty drink – one of them thoughtfully buried a sixand-pack in shut cases which didn't need the shade help of a fallen tree where he thought it would stay cool, but after unearthing two can he can find no morepsychologist only worked for a while. Further exploration produces a human bone which they agree to rebury – convinced that Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's a relic of the battlepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. One of She knew that the corpses goes missing – his car left at the nearby racecourse – and it turns out involvement was something that the bone is nowhere near as old as they thinkman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, but though. Two lovers were murdered in the head swimming pool of Bath CID still has difficulty a remote property in establishing who Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is buried in that lonely spotmarried to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443338</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee 178763681X|title=BaitKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The close Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'60sd be at the school to assist Paul, the dawn of the who had a broken arm, but it didn'70st turn out that way. San Francisco. Some people say The teaching - and the most influential people problems - are Nixon and all his croniesown. Some people say theyThe one thing he hadn're Charlie Manson and his croniest expected was for someone to turn up dead. Some people call Unfortunately, he was the smog surrounding person who discovered the body and everyone in the Bay Area air pollution, others a drug haze. Doc, knows that the sole proprietor of LSD Investigations, is approached by different people, requesting two jobs of him, which both point police consider that person to be the same bigwig property developer. One of these is from his ex, now with said mogul, another is from a man whose prime interest immediately diessuspect. How will this escalate into a manic mystery, hitting on mysterious yachts taking odd journeys, missing people, Nixon, dead people coming back to life, unusual retreats, and a host more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>022408948X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham 1529421284|title=Bloodline|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Detective Inspector Tom Thorne becomes involved in what initially seems like an ordinary domestic murder. However, slivers of an X-Ray are found in the dead woman's hand, and it is soon discovered that the woman's mother was murdered by the serial killer Raymond Garvey some years before. Other deaths with Laying Out the same modus operandi soon prove that someone is out to murder all the children of Raymond Garvey's... That someone may just be Garvey's bastard son, who believes that the tumour that killed his father meant that Garvey was not responsible for his actions. Can Thorne trace the killer's next victims before he strikes? And how can they trace the killer when his identity is unknown? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408700670</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBones|author=Chris Mooney |title=The Dead RoomKate Webb|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The third It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the Darby McCormick seriesa heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the Dead Room sees surface and forensic testing proved the head of Bostonbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's CSU investigating a horrific home invasion which leads to d been a woman's death known drug user and her son's hospitalisation. As McCormick becomes more deeply involvedhad learning disabilities, she realises that the case is more complicated than she so it could possibly have imagined, with clues leading to people who are supposedly already dead, and suggestions that her father's death in the line been a simple case of duty misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't all that it seemed to beconvinced. Meanwhile Geary was a townie, ex-cop Jamie Russo turns vigilante as she tries so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to avenge her husbandtwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's murdercold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141039876</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis 1529425867|title=Playing With Bones Lost and Never Found (DI Joe PlantagenetA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two teenagers went to a nightclub In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and the following morning the body always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of one Ryan and father of them was found in Singmass Close – a sinister part of Eborby reputed to be haunted by the cruelly-treated children of long-defunct Ragged SchoolRyan, is not. The teenager had been strangled and mutilated – her left big toe cut offHe's not any of those things. By her side there was He's white, originated from a Victorian doll – similarly mutilatedtrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Back They're usually in the nineteen fifties there has been four murders in Singmass Close – young women who were strangled and mutilated and left with a doll by their sidelime green or acid yellow. The killer had never been brought You might wonder if you're being introduced to justicea police procedural written for laughs. HeWell, you'd be likely to be in his seventies by now – was it possible that he was still fit enough to return to his old ways?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749909323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Dawes Green|title=Ravens|rating=4re not.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Shaw and Romeo The two men are two friends, moving across country for a new life, when they stumble upon Nowheresville, GA, and find that one family has just had different sides of the only winning lottery ticket for a $318million jackpotsame policing coin. The family involved is very average - slightly ineffectual father, mother who gets geared up for Sometimes the weekly lottery and descends into a gin fug as a result, girl stuck on Facebook, boy glued to a PSP or somethingcombination works brilliantly well. There are enough gaps within the family for the pair of guys to break in between them, and have them under threat for half the winningsSometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847442889</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leigh Russell1529431735|title=Cut Short (DI Geraldine Steel)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=An au pair took her employerIt's young daughterFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the next-door neighbourmore surprising. He's son and his friend to d been exiled on the park, but the young girl was petulant Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about the inclusion of the second boy and with the wilfulness of because he's had a child who finds herself less than the centre of attention ran off into the bushesletter from his ex-wife, where she knew saying that she must not go's ill and hasn't long to live. In there she used a stick It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to stir up some leaves his underwear and uncovered sent to a watery grave in the body boot of a womanstolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842432710</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elliott J Gorn 0861541774|title=Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number OneA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=John Dillinger was born DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and brought former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up in Indianawith an old ally, Guy Trueman. His childhood Maik was no better and no worse than most but the early part of his adult life was to be blighted by involved in a spell in prison when street brawl - he would later maintain that he was convicted of an attack on facing a man in armed with a botched holdknife -upand he killed a Ghurka. Hoping for leniency Initially, he pleaded guilty faced a charge of manslaughter but was sentenced evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to a lengthy term of imprisonment, whilst murder the man with him pleaded not guilty and when convicted received a shorter sentence. It's easy Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to see where Dillingerhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's contempt for the law was spawnedt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0195304837</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia 1521129886|title=Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia FamilyThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Joaquin Greg Mason'Jacks just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he' Garcia worked for the FBIll warn someone about how much he charges. That might sound rather glamorous but Jack had It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a special claim to famebaby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. He was one of those rare people who always worked undercover – not just for hours or days at a time but sometimes for yearsGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. In ''Making Jack FalconeStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who' he tells the story of how he came s struggling to infiltrate the Mafia in New York make ends meet and was responsible for a string of arrests which crippled the organised crime familiesher son is not thriving. If Lucy, he says, is convinced that doesnGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't sound impressive enough, then just consider in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that Jack Garcia the death was a Cuban-born American and he went undercover as an Italian amongst Italianssuicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Brownlee B0CK3MYJ56|title=BurnResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=I am a great fan of courtroom dramas, which is one of It's the reasons why I enjoy [[:Category:John Grisham|John Grisham]] novels so much 1990s and I pretty much look on him as the master of this genreGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. So, when I discover He used to have a book that claims that high-flying job in the city but itwasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike'better than Grisham or your money back'' I am bound to , you might be interestedthinking. This was Nice bloke, but where's the claim made by life experience that backs up this profession? On the publishers of ''The Tenth Case'' and I had to read it. I do think that Grisham at his best is pretty unbeatable although not all that other hand, he writes lives up has been asked to expectationslook into something. So could this book beat Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at least matchan unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what Grisham does? Read on.she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830308X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve Mosby 1838954481|title=Still BleedingThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Alex Connor has been trying to negate the memory of his wifeRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's suicide by running awayno doubt about that. He's left all his friends behind was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and has barely been in touch with them for yearsthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. But now For DI Sarah, one of his closest friends, has been murdered Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the prime suspect countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her partner, Alexterritory she's brother James. For Alex, this is drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the one thing that could call him home, as Sarah was the one who told him to confront death, not run from itorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409110095</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denise Mina1448309743|title=Still Midnight|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=On a quiet Sunday evening in the suburbs of Glasgow an old man is kidnapped from an unassuming house. The kidnappers are incompetent – they don't seem entirely certain who it is they're after and one of them fires his gun, badly injuring a teenage girl. As they leave, taking the old man with them, they demand a ransom of two million pounds. Have they got the right house and if so, why do they think that there's so much money to be had there? DS Alex Morrow is certain that this is going to be her case – after all, she was promised – but it goes to her arch rival, DS Grant Bannerman and she is to work under his command.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409100529</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Tony Black |title=GuttedCaro Ramsay|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=There's always a risk in taking on a new author, even in a genre that suggests you should enjoy the book. The quotes on the backs of books are usually unanimous in their praise and can't be relied upon to be an accurate judge of the quality between the covers. But when an author is compared to others you already know are great writers, this does raise the expectation level a little. This is not always a good thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090528</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Quintin Jardine |title=Inhuman Remains|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Primavera Blackstone wants to keep a low profile. After an apparent attempt on her life by her ex-husband, she is still feeling fragile, even though Mr Blackstone is now dead. Living in Spain with her seven year old son, Tom, she thinks she is safe from prying eyes, but then her Aunt Adrienne comes to visit and all hell lets lose. Adrienne asks Prim to find her son, Prim's cousin, Frank, who has been out of contact for some time and who she suspects is in some kind of trouble. Prim eventually tracks Frank down, or rather, Frank finds her, but by then Adrienne is in the hands of his enemies, the perpetrators of a massive commercial fraud. Can Prim help Frank to safety, find Adrienne and solve the mystery, all without putting her son's life in danger?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755348990</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carol O'Connell |title=Bone by Bone|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Twenty years ago two teenage boys went into In the woods outside village of Cronchie on the northern Californian town West coast of Coventry but only one Scotland, five members of them came homea wealthy family are found murdered. The other was sent away by his father, Judge Hobbs and he's only just returned item missing from the home because he believes is the Devil Stone: myth says that his father might be dyingif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. During the first night thereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's a thump as a human jawbone – complete with teeth – lands on an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the front porchbody. Josh Hobbs The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is coming home – bone by bonepulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075535298X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Castillo1529077699|title=Sworn to SilenceThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Called out yet again in the freezing cold of an Ohio winter night to deal with stray cows in the road''It's all bloody peculiar, Officer T.J. Banksisn't it, newcomer to the Painters Mill police department, is not a happy man. Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Gardner1529427045|title=The NeighbourGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the UK, when people used to be able to afford it, people might form a career in taking run-down houses, doing them up and selling them on for a profit. If very lucky (or particularly weird, as was more often the case) they might get a second career doing the same thing on TV. But over in LA, where the process is known as ''flipping'', they do things much better. There, a group of policemen's wives have formed a group with a well-known mystery author. She writes a murder book set in the house the others are working on, and when both hit the markets together the profit is exemplary. Or so it is until someone starts bringing real life death Life has more to the houses offer than people - prime numbers for the very women in the group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749079789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K O Dahl|title=The Last Fix|rating=4|genre=Crime |summary=Katrine Bratterud didn't really want to go to the party, but it was given by the people from her drug rehabilitation centre and she felt under an obligation as the social workers had done so much to help her. It wasnexample't going to be easy though – the other guests would be drinking heavily whilst she had to remain clean and to make matters worse she'd been physically attacked that day at the travel agency where she worked.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571232949</amazonuk>}}
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