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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1035043092|title=All That I Have|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of a firm of provincial solicitors but thankfully this Castle Freeman is a man very skilled in writing about the law rather than practicing it. In his latest novel Freeman tells an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing and his practical yet low-key approach to maintaining order in rural Vermont. Not for Wing the gung ho approach to fighting crime. He doesn't wear a uniform, he drives a battered old car rather than the standard issue sheriff's wagon and his gun, so ubiquitous in US law enforcement, is safely tucked away in his bottom drawer. Everyone in the area knows the sheriff and by and large they respect him and his slightly unorthodox way of doing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Daniel Suarez|title=DaemonAnn Cleeves|rating=45
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|summary=As I can't have been the internet grows and technology advancesonly person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, itBook 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's seems there is nothing you canbeen seven years since we heard from him, but he't do. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent s now living with Willow Reeves and cars are more automated than evertheir young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact Willow's also his boss, and play against each other in huge arenas. Thanks to social networkingshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the internet can be addictive andbody of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, yesin the aftermath of a storm, Ishe can't resist getting involved. He'm aware d been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of the irony in writing that herea pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken BruenhenleyA|title=The Killing of the TinkersUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
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|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. HeUnfortunately, his daughter's been lying low 'over the water' in London, licking defence against a murder charge drained his woundssavings. Jack (I'm slightly surprised that Bruen didn't give him a more Irish name) is a middle-agedHis wife, washed-upLaura, disgraced exhas been trying to persuade him to retire -cop''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. As if that wasnThat's what 'ordinary people do't bad enough, he also has a lot of very bad habits. '' He acknowledges however that 's not been entirely up front about the new world is designed for non-smokersstate of their savings.When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it' He also admits quite freely and openly s the thought of the money he could make that 'An alcoholic has dreams to rival convinces him that this is a miscarriage of any Vietnam vetjustice that he really should put right.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Zeltserman1529934753|title=Killer|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Here at the Bookbag, we've been very impressed with Dave Zeltserman's work thus far. He uses a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to the heart of the story. His story telling is very straightforward, not weighing down the story with too much style, but sticking to the substance and delivering a hard-hitting work every time. With ''Killer'', he has done the same again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Protest|author=Stephen Hunter|title=I, SniperRob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=You donFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country't often find novels or films based on s most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the art opening of his retrospective at the sniperRoyal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Hiding out for hours motionless and then killing someone unseen from hundreds Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of yards away doesn't make for as interesting the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a story as spray can of blue paint from under a face chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face shoot out, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. But with It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'I, Sniperblue-face'attacks, Stephen Hunter has managed to combine the art of the sniper but this was different. The can had been laced with the art of the crime thriller in a decent readcyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey0008551375|title=The MissingWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah FinchLeanne Wilson's twelve year old brother Charlie says to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soonbody was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'' Sixteen years laterd looked so happy, too, his family are still waiting to find when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what happened they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to himdo' explanations applied. Now in her twenties, Sarah They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charliecertain there's disappearance has slid into alcoholisma killer on the loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett0008643660|title=The Godfather of KathmanduBurial Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son A group of archaeologists are uncovering a brothel madam and an American GI, but Roman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the latter rather than the former which is likely to hold up his promotion in the Thai police force, where he's a detectiveexcavations are being televised. HeThere's also even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the part owner of a brothel where his mother, Nong, is finders and the madam in chargelandowner. It's no problem for his bossperfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, Colonel Vikorna former police detective, who has is trying to lead a few illegal interests of his own. Hesimpler life at Little Sky but he's currently inevitably drawn in competition with the head of to investigate. Reading the army, General Zinnaletters, it's difficult to see who can raise avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchai's Kathmandu-based guru has for salelocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson1529425905|title=The SpireA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers the body of There's a black fellow studentnew Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, Angela Hallambitious, at the foot of the spire in the centre of the college he attendsand ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family values, he little suspects that his best friend will be charged with the murder. Nowbut as far as she's concerned, sixteen years latershe has two main problems, Darrow and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is backof Nigerian descent, at the invitation of his mentor Baliol educated and now college provost, Lionel Farr, always immaculately dressed. He's married to become president Diane and has twin sons. Management's opinion of the college in order to rebuild its reputation after a case him is that he thinks too highly of embezzlement has left himself and his last boss felt that he needed more experience at what he called 'the college in wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer trailer park - in the intervening years). As Darrow digs into what happened with the college financesfact, it could be said that he also begins to look afresh at the trial of his friend and questions if he 's never really was guilty as chargedleft it. He also finds time to start an emerging relationship with the provostlives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never''s troubled, but beautiful, daughterbe given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp1529077745|title=Among ThievesThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=In 1990, some valuable paintings were stolen from A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston body of a man in the United Statespark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The police investigation failed dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to find them and many felt they were lost foreverwork a shift the night before but who had never turned up. But soon D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the paintings and their whereabouts would be impacting on many residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some peoplebelieve that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera 1529428289|title=Dark EntriesA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Jamie MeldonBecause of various property transactions, ex-criminal-defence attorneypeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, now in private practice, leaves his office very late one nightit came with three sets of bones. He's met by the FBI. Very shortly afterwards Jamie Meldon is dead in a dumpster. Mace Perry is working out, trying They dated back to World War II and it fell to stay fitBruno, trying to stay sanethe Chief of Police for St Denis, trying to stay alive long enough to get out jail in a couple discover the identities of days' time. Perry was the bodies and establish whether or not a copcrime had been committed. UnderAs if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River -cover, maverick and darn good normally tranquil - is flowing at her jobrecord levels. Until she ended up stoned It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on meth, busted for robbery, convicted another river have had to release water and sent downSt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706134</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fred Vargas152919640X|title=The Chalk Circle ManSuspect|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste AdamsbergThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. An unlikely police commissaire, He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that hemust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an acquired taste for his colleaguesEpiPen in case of emergencies. Short, ungainly, seemingly thinking about the most obtuse things Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in his pursuit of the trutha busy, live television studio - and endlessly doodling, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes Brooks served a surprisingly perceptive ability ragout to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to solvebe found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean RowdenB0CYV674G2|title=More Deaths Than OneSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Constable Thomas 'Thorny' Deepbriar has a broken leg after his involvement It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a case and so is taken by his wifeknife, Mary, to recuperate in comes into the seaside town where police station shouting that he worked as a policeman during hasn't killed the warman. He expects to be bored - A body at the most interesting thing on the horizon is bottom of a case of missing gnomes. Then freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left the force in a haze of suspicion's been stabbed to death. Shortly afterwardsDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, a body is found on which coincided with the beachbirth of his daughter Samantha. Even stranger is that You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the dead man is someone that Thorny words 'perverse' and his colleague thought had died during 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the war. It seems that things are not as they seem. Can Thorny point of falling asleep at work out what is but he's determined to keep going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>- probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GraftonStuart Douglas|title=U is for UndertowLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in LondonDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', and one leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the first books we read was edge of a Sue Grafton alphabet bookreservoir. I had, up The police seem happy to this pointassign it as an accidental death, never read any crime fictionbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, foolishly feeling myself above such booksand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, and so I was dubious about what I'd have John Le Breton to say about it. That book changed my literary lifehelp him investigate matters further. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for all They travel across the other books in the series country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and read them quickly, one by oneseemingly, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into link to death during the world of Agatha Christie which gave me Second World War. But is there really a joyously long reading list. link between the deaths? And so now, years later, I find myself with the latest book in the alphabet series lying in my lap, a happy smile on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black0008517061|title=DishonourDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern livesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant and trying to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is There’s perhaps a boy from little uncertainty about the sink estates. Thinfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, angryLivia and her daughter Diana, rebellious, but with an ability to charm and as moving in together would mean a serious talent for art that gets lost in lot of compromise: does Jake give up his ganstaoff-speak grid and tendency relaxing life to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girls. Hard-working, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful move in with Livia or does Livia move to their families. They're also English teenagers, with a fair dose of what that normally implies. Jack Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is a copper, overlooked the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, moment they’re enjoying life in love with Lily, addicted to the job, always trying to do present and putting the future on the right thing, and not always succeeding. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distractionback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow1786482126|title=Maxwell's RetirementThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Peter Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'Mad Maxluxury' Maxwell has always been something apartments - when they discovered the bones of a dinosaur and even he realises just how far adrift he is when some of his sixth form students start receiving threatening messages on their mobileschild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. He might prefer to make Was this a phone call ritual killing or send a note when the need arisesmurder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but this isnNelson doesn't the way , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problemsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Kessler0008551324|title=MercyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=In some ways, the first line of this novel says it all: 'It's hard unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to sit still when your client approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is scheduled struggling in prison and he's prepared to die in fifteen hourstell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death.' From this moment onThis person, the action comes thick he promises, is someone big and fast, leaving it will be worth the reader with barely police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the breath remainder of his sentence and to murmer 'get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it really probable that all this was left to the last day? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then s even prepared to do the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and twirls that are very satisfactoryanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M R Hall0008405026|title=The DisappearedA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valley. It's now some months later sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and whilst she's settled into the job investigation ground to some extent her relationship with a halt. Now, her officermother, AlisonHelena, is uneven and sheher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's still shaky mentally something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and dependant on pills her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a greater extent than she would care to admitcomplex double murder. SheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's a feisty woman though and determined that shedisappearance: others (such as Derwent's going to do the job properlyboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross0571379877|title=CapturedThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny Edward Jevons is dying a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper- brain cancer is hitting him just as heclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's barely turning fortya theatre director. As a result he compiles a short list of rights to wrongHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and people uses Edward to create closure withrun errands for him. One, his exEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -wife, might not be easy, two concern a misguided sense of a guilt of old. The fourth turns out and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be a missing womanRobert. The journey he takes Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that redemptive exercise a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is not for left to stumble upon the squeamishtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin CotterillJo Callaghan|title=The Merry MisogynistLeave No Trace|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun When a man is now married to Madame Daeng and despite found crucified on the fact that they have a combined age top of going on for a hundred and forty they're behaving like hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the newly-weds they areAI detective Lock. Even being the reluctant coroner for the Republic of Laos can't dampen SiriIt's enthusiasm for lifetheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. WellBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, it can't until he makes the gruesome discovery Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts lot of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding unwanted attention to their bodies to treesAI Future Policing project. What he does Will they be able to his victims leaves solve the morgue staff sickened. There's a determination to case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man responsible case and bring him to justice., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1035021803|title=A Hard DeathThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayess twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She' bestseller s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Precious Bloods former mentor and Carole' so I was a fresh readers close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, so to speaksay the least. His writing biography on Arthur was the inside cover of reason why Freya had not been back to the book is impressivevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. My expectations Even though they were highin business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. All After the ingredients are split, she worked in place for a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Florida. Broodingcafe, enigmaticmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, awe-inspiring who was murdered) and Freya and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutesJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1398524085|title=Curse of the Pogo StickHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usualnever turned up. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant)Her children, sons Niall, communist (even more reluctantly) Paul and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge Ollie and the Justice Departmenther daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Nurse Dtui (pregnant Shortly afterwards, Etty and marriedGreg, although not in find the usual order body of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who mightGreg's father, or might not be a helpDuncan Ackerley, but probably not in the way that you might expectriver. As if It was an easy assumption for the police to make that wasnDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's a geriatric hit-person little else they can do but get on the loose with their lives and Siri is kidnappedwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1529900360|title=Bad Penny BluesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London It 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 the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiesdifficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'Bad Penny Blues' is t need the story help of the hunt a psychologist only worked for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the west of involvement was something that the cityman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, at though. Two lovers were murdered in the time swimming pool of a melting pot of immigrants from remote property in Bel Air. He was the Caribbean heir to an Italian shoe empire and Ireland, bohemian artists she is married to an extremely rich man and media types, and even peersit's not the Italian. Carnaby Street But which of them was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Fyfield178763681X|title=Cold to the TouchKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=There's something obsessive about Jessica HurlyChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a cold, dark London morning, she's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts has rejected her way of getting both men and it seems that her mother wants nothing women to do with herwhat he wanted. Jess is a talented chef but shePaul ''somehow''s short of work – got the occasion when she emptied a tureen of soup over impression that he'd be at the host at school to assist Paul, who had a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delighted. Sarah senses her vulnerabilitybroken arm, but itdidn's Jess who organises t turn out that way. The teaching - and the let of problems - are all his own. The one of her motherthing he hadn's cottages in t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the sea-side town where she grew up so police consider that Sarah can have a long break from person to be the flat where she still smells a recent fireprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1529421284|title=Bloody WomenLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading ''Bloody Women''It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, I hadn't heard of a human skeleton came to the author Helen Fitzgerald surface and by forensic testing proved the title body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and blurbhad learning disabilities, I expected so it could have been a standard crime-thriller novel. But early on, I realised this simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't the caseconvinced. The novel Geary was a kind townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of black comedy Holly Gilbert and written with wit to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and humour, despite DC Gemma Broad of the theme of murder Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and violenceme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1529425867|title=The Bodies Left BehindLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional livesalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, they brought an old colonial house in the woods by Lake Mondac in Wisconsinson of Ryan and father of Ryan, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal is not. He's not any of a lifetimethose things. But on their first evening in the place He's white, originated from a series trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outshell suits and trackies. They know they are 're usually in real trouble when lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their windowpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. Another enters The two men are just different sides of the building and same policing coin. Sometimes the only hope they have is that someone will take notice of Stevencombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's phone call to the police, cut off by the intruders after he is able to get out only one word – Thisproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529431735|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The BrideWinter Visitor|ratingauthor=3|genre=Crime|summary=Private investigator Agatha Raisin is not a happy woman. She is concerned with the rate at which her body is ageing; even worse, her ex-husband, James, is getting married to a much younger woman and Agatha has been invited to the wedding. She goes, with plenty of friends in tow and looks forward to the whole thing being over as soon as possible. She sees James just before the wedding, when he makes it clear that he has changed his mind and wants to pull out of the wedding. Then the bride is killed, by a bullet through the window, and James and Agatha are the primary suspects. Can they prove their innocence while finding out who the real perpetrator is?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299531</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Janes|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train Robbery|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart, one in the south-east and the other in the north-east. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each other, but years later a link between them was hinted at though never proved beyond doubt. The author has investigated the connection and come up with a riveting book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752449451</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|title=The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=[[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]], the first of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of thrillers, was a fine stand-alone novel. The second in the series, [[The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland (translator)|The Girl Who Played With Fire]], continues the adventures of Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's finely crafted anti-hero. If you haven't read this second volume yet I advise you to stop reading this review now. I'm about to spoil the ending for you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906694168</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nigel McCrery|title=Tooth and ClawHenry
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|summary=Another serial killer It's February 1991 and Essex is on the loosebitingly cold, and yet again which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the police have failed to connect more surprising. He'd been exiled on the deaths. Carl Whittley has just tortured Costa del Sol as a glamorous TV presenter to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at wanted drug smuggler for a railway stationdecade. He The return has come about because he's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with had a letter from his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely ex- with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologistwife, theresaying that she's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just ill and hasn't long to bear it, really. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ryan David Jahn |title=Acts of Violence|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Kat Marino is stabbed on her way home from worklive. All she wanted was a hot bath after a hard dayIt's work. From this point the novel skips nimbly from one neighbour hard to the next, all of whom are absorbed in their own dilemmas. There feel any sympathy when Hopkins is the draftee with a sick motherabducted, the nurse who thinks she has run over a baby, the woman who suspects her husband of cheating stripped to his underwear and others. We are shown what these characters were doing that evening, and how these events drag through sent to the morning. We are shown how a watery grave in the midst boot of their own interesting, poignant and dangerous concerns a woman is stabbed in the courtyard onto which all their windows look, through which windows they witness the attack, and how these people did nothingstolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230743595</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery0861541774|title=Core A Nye of EvilPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|summary=Violet Chambers becomes Daisy Wilson through an aromatic cup of tea, flavoured with Christmas roses. DCI Domenic Jejeune'"There are all kinds of horrible things in the Christmas roses close friend and former colleague," she saidDanny Maik, watching has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see whether Daisy could still hear her. "Helleborin and hellebrin are both like digitalismeet up with an old ally, which I've also used before, but there's saporin and protoanemonin as wellGuy Trueman. It's Maik was involved in a very nasty cocktail."' And now Daisy has met her rather sticky street brawl - and graphically effluent he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - end, and Violet has become Daisy, Daisy sets her sights on he killed a new townGhurka. Initially, he faced a new identity and, most importantly, a new victimcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Daisy has problems with her memory - Now he could be facing the identities go back so far that sometimes she death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can barely remember who is she is now, let alone do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the whos she's been before, and most certainly not the who with whom she began. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243843</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Parrish1521129886|title=Dead of WinterThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
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|summary=Loon Lake, Michigan Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is pictureapproached by an old friend whose brother-postcard pretty – an idyll that sits serenely and snugly in the midst of a pine-peppered winter wonderlandlaw appears to have killed himself. Louis Kincaid needs a little serenity in Stuart's concerned about his life sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and on arrival in Loon Lake he feels almost as if he has come home. Life has her son is not been easy for Kincaidthriving. A troubledLucy, unhappy child of mixed racehe says, passed around various institutions is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and foster homes, Louis figures the coroner have accepted that if he is going to put some integrity back into the worlddeath was suicide, he will need but Stuart's prepared to wear a badge pay Greg to do itfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847391346</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca TopeB0CK3MYJ56|title=Fear in the CotswoldsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time itIt's winter the 1990s and sheGreg Mason's spending twenty-eight years old. He used to have a month high-flying job in the Cotswold village of Hampnett. It wouldncity but it wasn't be satisfying so he's now set himself up as a job for all private investigator. 'Shades of us Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but Thea delights in getting to know where's the local people and life experience that backs up this profession? On the areaother hand, he has been asked to look into something. In the past sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks written off as though that might have come to a tragic accident at an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbledunmanned level crossing. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and a foolish one Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - when or how she finds footsteps in the snow which lead could come to a body fall in front of a nearby fieldtrain. When the police finally arrive the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if sheGreg's imagined it allbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Gores1838954481|title=Spade and ArcherThe Misper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
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|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 Ryan Kennedy killed a result police officer: there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, it's evident no doubt about that Sam is a man of few words. He has was the mannerisms of a cat fifteen-year- stealthy, quick on his feetold holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He's also a compulsive chain-smoker, pulled the trigger but then again, most people were. In that era, holding a cigarette due to the vagaries of the jury system he was an elegant, almost essential accessoryfound not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. How times have changed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Jay Parker|title=Stop Me|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most of us will have had to deal with themAnd so lives must go on. Fortunately, we can hit For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the delete button capital and forget about them as quickly as they came. I certainly prefer not to torture my friends by sending such rubbish hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed to become if I donher territory she't. But I wonder how many of us would react if s drawn into a spam Ewider investigation -Mail actually was a matter and back into the orbit of life and death, rather than just claiming to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1448309743|title=Blood BornThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victim, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to In the courthouse village of Cronchie on the day she West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at Devil Stone: myth says that if the house she finds Giverny close to stone is removed from Otterburn House, death and faces a battle against time to save herwill follow. In the panic The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, Anya fails to take note that's an easy conclusion given that two of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse still, in trying to save the girlthem 'discovered's life, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and the case falls apartbody. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed and raped resulting pulled in the death of one, while the other clings to life'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louise Penny 1529077699|title=The Brutal TellingRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Early one morning, in the village of Three Pines, the local restaurateur is woken by the ringing of the telephone. There is a body in the bistro and Olivier is stunned. The man has been bludgeoned to death, but there''It's no sign of a weaponall bloody peculiar, no obvious reason for the killing and no clues as to the identity of the victim. Meanwhileisn't it, in Montreal, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec is called into investigate, along with his colleagues, Inspector Beauvoir and Agent Isabelle Lacoste. TheySir?''ve been to Three Pines before, but this time the village is in chaos.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755341031</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Box 1529427045|title=Three Weeks to Say GoodbyeThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=2.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Three Weeks Life has more to Say Goodbye'' is narrated by Jack McMcGuane, who describes himself as a hardoffer than people -working, regular guy (more of that in a minute though). Nine months previously, he and his wife Melissa had adopted a baby girl, Angelina, when their world is shattered by a telephone call from the adoption agency to say that there has been a mistake on the forms and the teenage biological father had not signed his consent and now wants to take the baby back. Even worse news is that the boyprime numbers for example's father is an influential federal judge. They have, you've guessed it, three weeks to say goodbye to their daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848872917</amazonuk>}}
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