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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]]==Crime==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Rozan1035043092|title=Trail of BloodThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=Lydia Chin takes on 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 case helping another private investigator, Joel Pilarskylife on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, to find missing jewellery which belonged to an Austrian Jewish refugee in wartime Shanghai – she has been hired for her ability to operate in New York Citybut he's Chinese communitynow living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. She is quickly drawn into Rosalie Gilder Willow's storyalso his boss, told through letters written to her motherand she ''should'' be on maternity leave, and but when Joel the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is shot dead found, in the next dayaftermath of a storm, being fired by the client doesnshe can't stop her wanting to find out moreresist getting involved. She is glad when her old associate Bill Smith, who has He'd been out battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of touch for a while, returns to help her. This detective story linking past and present is compulsive readingpair - which had been stolen from a museum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936365</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Craig RobertsonhenleyA|title=RandomUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=3.54
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|summary=A man is planning his first murder Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he's should be doing it with some carequite well financially. We'll gradually realise that heUnfortunately, his daughter's been making preparations for some time but the oddest thing is that this defence against a murder must be completely randomcharge drained his savings. He mustnHis wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''t be diverted from his chosen system even if the person who is selected is someone he would rather not killmaybe go travelling or go on cruises. ItThat's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not a whodunit – for been entirely up front about the killer tells us the story as state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it progresses – or even a 'why did s the thought of the money he do it' as even could make that convinces him that will become obvious, but the suspense this is in whether or not a miscarriage of justice that he will get caughtreally should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377297</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1529934753|title=A Room Swept WhiteThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder
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|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's a classic Agatha Christie style hook most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the start of this storyRoyal Academy. TV producer Fliss Benson receives a card with no message other than sixteen numbers arranged Still, he arrived in four rows the nick of four. On the same day Fliss takes over work on a documentary about cot death mothers time, complete with his two wives and miscarriages six children, one of justicewhom filmed what happened. SimultaneouslyBeing an influencer, one you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the mothers is found dead at her house with an identical numbered card in her pocketprotest. Work out what Lexi Williams, an intern at the numbers mean RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and you will find proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the killerWar''. But as this is a typically densely plotted Sophie Hannah story you will have It seemed to note every detail in every be part of the book to reach the right conclusionan ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The plot has more twists than a spiral staircase, though there are clues that could help you, including one rather cheeky feature - if you can spot it. Sadlyhad been laced with cyanide, I didn't until I and Sir Max Bruce was writing this review…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980621</amazonuk>dead.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Stratford0008551375|title=Double JeopardyWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=24.5
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|summary=Celebrating her release from 18 months under cover busting Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a drugs gangtragic accident. She'd looked so happy, Detective Sergeant Julie Cooper meets too, when she posted her cherished Aunt Jo for dinnerintentions on Facebook. Just across from the restaurant 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 a dark alleythe last year. All were experienced climbers, a man stands watchingproperly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. As None of the two women leave the restaurant, 'what a motorcycle rounds the corner – not travelling at excess speed or in any other way destined stupid thing to attract attention – shots ring outdo' explanations applied. Two bodies hit They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the groundloose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089651</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
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|summary=In 1992, 15 year old Norma Jean Judd disappeared from her home. Eighteen years later A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to the day, her twin brother BryanLittle Sky: it's body is found in idyllic and some of the hospital incinerator where he workedexcavations are being televised. There is no evidence to suggest accident or suicide, 's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. It's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, a former police quickly treat it as detective, is trying to lead a murder. They not only need to find out who did it, simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in to work out investigate. Reading the link between Bryanletters, it's murder and difficult to avoid the disappearance conclusion that there will be violence and presumed death of his twin sister. The investigation takes them into even the family and a nearby hostel for homeless menlocal police are keen that Jake should be involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141035986</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorothy Koomson1529425905|title=The Ice Cream GirlsA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poppy There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and Serenafamily values, labelled but as far as she'The Ice Cream Girls' by a rapacious presss concerned, she has two main problems, have their young lives shattered by the man and they shared, a teacher in a position 're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of trustNigerian descent, who controlled them in the worst possible waysBaliol educated and always immaculately dressed. The girls are trapped as victims because neither He's married to Diane and has twin sons. Management's 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 assertiveness or maturity to handle the situationwet end'. Chance intervenes to escalate an inevitable situationRyan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's never really left it. Now twenty years onHe lives in shell suits and tracksuits, the traumatic events have profoundly affected the emotional stability always in vivid colours. Previous management was adamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of each girl, though their lives have taken almost diametrically opposed coursesthem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo Nesbo and Don Bartlett (translator)1529077745|title=The Snowman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's Norway, and it's a snowy and dark November. Women are disappearing, and/or being found horrifically killed. The police have little to go on, but with the help of flashbacks across cases the police could never hope to connect, we can see hints of a clever, but misogynistic man who seems to be the culprit, and on a mission against marital infidelity. But what could be the connection with all those crimes and the American presidential elections? And why - and how - might the police, the victims, and the reader, all come to be so terrified of a good old Scandinavian snowman?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846553482</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Catherine Aird|title=Past TenseAnn Cleeves|rating=34.5
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|summary=Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after a funeral, not least because she had never met A man walking his dog in the deceased and was unaware that her husband was early morning discovered the next body of kin. He was working a man in South America and not expected the park near Rosebank, a care home for sometimetroubled teens. Josephine Short has obviously been The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a feisty character thoughshift the night before but who had never turned up. Despite being unmarried she had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) and amassed a considerable fortuneD I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Her grandson Joe Some people believe that Chloe was flying home from Lasserta responsible for the funeraldeath 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 Josh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007648</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken Bruen1529428289|title=The GuardsA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A woman makes an unlikely choice by asking Jack Taylor to investigate Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the apparent suicide of her teenage daughter in Galway. Jack is ex Irish police (Garda) grave but also a known alcoholic when they found it, it came with nothing much else in his lifethree sets of bones. His approach They dated back to investigation is haphazard - he doesn't really have a method beyond asking direct questions World War II andit fell to Bruno, if necessarythe Chief of Police for St Denis, using his fists. Predictably, there is more to discover the suicide case than first meets identities of the eye bodies and Jackestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, aided by his unsavoury friend, Sutton, uncover some very disturbing secrets and the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels of corruption within the city. It''The Guards'' is s not your conventional crime thriller; it's darker just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and has St Denis faces the possibility of a grim realismdevastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224105</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman152919640X|title=All That I HaveThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=As the internet grows The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and technology advances, it's seems that there is nothing you can't dos only one suspect. Recent innovations mean you can operate appliances in your own home from another continent He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and cars are more automated than everhis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Huge online games allow users worldwide to interact She's seriously allergic and play against each other carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in huge arenasa busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Thanks Her EpiPen was nowhere to social networking, the internet can be addictive found and, yes, I'm aware of the irony in writing she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that herethis was no accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249612</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ken BruenB0CYV674G2|title=The Killing of the TinkersSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=Jack Taylor returns to his native Ireland with his tail between his legsIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. He's been lying low 'over the water' A man, covered in Londonmud and blood - and carrying a knife, licking his wounds. Jack (I'm slightly surprised comes into the police station shouting that Bruen didnhe hasn't give him killed the man. A body at the bottom of a more Irish name) is a middlefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -aged, washed-up, disgraced ex-cophe's been stabbed to death. As if that wasn't bad enoughDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, he also has a lot which coincided with the birth of very bad habitshis daughter Samantha. He acknowledges however that You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the new world is designed words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for non-smokerseach other.' He also admits quite freely and openly that 'An alcoholic has dreams s sleep-deprived to rival that the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any Vietnam vetsleep at home.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863224113</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave ZeltsermanStuart Douglas|title=KillerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
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|summary=Here at the Bookbag, weDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 've been very impressed with Dave ZeltsermanFloggit and Leggit's work thus far. He uses , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a wonderful noirish narrative that takes you straight to woman on the heart edge of the storya reservoir. His story telling is very straightforwardThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, not weighing down but something about the story with too much stylewhole thing bothers Lowe, but sticking and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the substance country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and delivering , seemingly, a hard-hitting work every timelink to death during the Second World War. With ''Killer'', he has done But is there really a link between the same again.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184668644X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Hunter0008517061|title=I, SniperDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=You don't often find novels or films based on Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the art future of the sniper. Hiding out for hours motionless his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and then killing someone unseen from hundreds of yards away doesn't make for her daughter Diana, as interesting moving in together would mean a story as a face lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to face shoot out. But move in with 'I, Sniper', Stephen Hunter has managed Livia or does Livia move to combine Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the art of future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the sniper with present and putting the art of future on the crime thriller in a decent readback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377777</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Casey1786482126|title=The MissingJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah Finch's twelve year Builders were demolishing an old brother Charlie says house in Norwich - the site was going to her hold seventy-five 'luxury'Tell mum I'll be back soonapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' Sixteen years latert, that she is pregnant with his family are still waiting to find out what happened to himchild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Now in her twenties Her condition will be obvious before long, Sarah not least because Ruth is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholismprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Burdett0008551324|title=The Godfather of KathmanduDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Sonchai Jitpleecheep is half 'farang' the son of a brothel madam and an American GI, but itIt's unusual for anyone from the latter rather than the former which is likely Hardie family to hold up his promotion in approach the Thai police force, where he's a detective. HeNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's also prepared to tell the police where the part owner body of a brothel where his mothermissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Nonghe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the madam in chargepolice doing what he wants. It's no problem for his boss, Colonel Vikorn, who has a few illegal interests And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his ownsentence and to get an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's currently in competition with even prepared to do the head of the army, General Zinna, to see other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who can raise the finance for a forty million dollar shipment of heroin which Sonchaiworks with him is kept well away from what's Kathmandu-based guru has for salehappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593055462</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard North Patterson0008405026|title=The SpireA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=When student Mark Darrow discovers It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the body of investigation ground to a black fellow student, Angela Hall, at the foot of the spire in the centre of the college he attends, he little suspects that his best friend will be charged with the murderhalt. Now, sixteen years laterher mother, Darrow is backHelena, at the invitation of his mentor and now college provost, Lionel Farr, to become president of the college her father are dead in order to rebuild its reputation after a case of embezzlement has left the college in a precarious position (conveniently, Darrow has become an ace financial fraud lawyer in the intervening years)their bed. As Darrow digs into what happened with the college finances Initially, he also begins to look afresh at it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the trial positioning of his friend the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and questions if he really her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was guilty as charged. He also finds time going to start be an emerging relationship with open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the provostexplanation lies in Rosalie's troubleddisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but beautiful, daughterUna Burt) are less convinced. Is the real killer still at large and are the two crimes connected?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230705650</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hosp0571379877|title=Among ThievesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
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|summary=In 1990Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, some valuable paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in the United Statesobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. The police investigation failed He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to find them run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and many felt they were lost foreverhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But soon the paintings and their whereabouts Most men in Robert's position would be impacting on many peoplestay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's lives…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230707238</amazonuk>not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'Edera Jo Callaghan|title=Dark EntriesLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Jean-Baptiste AdamsbergWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. An unlikely police commissaire, heIt's an acquired taste for his colleaguestheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. ShortBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, ungainly, seemingly thinking about Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the most obtuse things case in his pursuit of time, or will Kat find herself taken off the truthcase and, and endlessly doodlingpotentially, but beneath his deathly slow speech and unexpected diversions into his childhood comes out of a surprisingly perceptive ability to find the culprit in whatever crime he is forced to solve.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099488973</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Rowden1035021803|title=More Deaths Than OneThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Constable Thomas It'Thornys twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She' Deepbriar has s back now because of a broken leg after his involvement in a case request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and so Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is taken by his wife, Marydead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to recuperate in say the least. Arthur was the seaside town where he worked as a policeman during reason why Freya had not been back to the warvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He expects Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be bored - near the most interesting thing on man or pursue the horizon is a case of missing gnomesprofession she loved. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left After the force split, she worked in a haze of suspicion. Shortly afterwardscafe, a body is found met and married James (on the beach. Even stranger is that rebound from the dead man is someone that Thorny love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and his colleague thought had died during the war. It seems that things are not as they seemJames have now divorced. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1398524085|title=U is for UndertowHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Several years ago I joined a funny little book group in London, and one of the first books we read Charlotte Salter was a Sue Grafton alphabet bookexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I hadHer children, up to this pointsons Niall, never read any crime fiction, foolishly feeling myself above such booksPaul and Ollie and her daughter, and so I was dubious about what I'd have to say about itEtty. That book changed my literary life. I devoured it. I couldn't get enough! I immediately searched for are all the other books in the series and read them quicklyworried but - strangely - her husband, one by oneAlec, swiftly followed by a delicious plunge into the world of Agatha Christie which gave me a joyously long reading listis not. And so nowShortly afterwards, years laterEtty and Greg, I find myself with the latest book body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the alphabet series lying in my lap, a happy smile river. 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 guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on my face as I found I read voraciously once again!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023070932X</amazonuk>with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1529900360|title=DishonourThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine is heavily pregnant It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and trying even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get her own law firm up ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and running (having been sacked from her previous job -shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from the sink estateswhile. ThinFinally, angryit was Robin, rebelliousDelaware's partner, but with an ability to charm and a serious talent who nudged Milo into asking for art help again. She knew that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girlsthe involvement was something that the man she loved needed. Hard-working, sober, appropriately dressedThe next case did look simple, dutiful to their familiesthough. They're also English teenagers, with Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a fair dose of what that normally impliesremote property in Bel Air. Jack is a copper, overlooked for He was the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, in love with Lily, addicted heir to the job, always trying an Italian shoe empire and she is married to do the right thing, an extremely rich man and it's not always succeedingthe Italian. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily to distraction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Trow178763681X|title=Maxwell's Retirement|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Peter 'Mad Max' Maxwell has always been something 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 mobiles. He might prefer to make a phone call or send a note when the need arises, but this isn't the way of the younger generation and Maxwell discovers that he's going to have to climb a steep learning curve if he's to help his students through the problem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007664</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=David Kessler|title=Mercy|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=In some ways, the first line of this novel says it all: 'It's hard to sit still when your client is scheduled to die in fifteen hours.' From this moment on, the action comes thick and fast, leaving the reader with barely the breath to murmer 'is it really probable that all this was left to the last day?' However, if you suspend your disbelief, then the author does deliver blockbuster plot twists and twirls that are very satisfactory. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561829</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M R Hall|title=The DisappearedOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=We first met Jenny Cooper Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in [[The Coroner by M R Hall|The Coroner]] when she Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had just taken over as Coroner for Severn Valleya way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. ItPaul ''somehow's now some months later and whilst she's settled into got the impression that he'd be at the job school to some extent her relationship with her officerassist Paul, Alisonwho had a broken arm, is uneven but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and shethe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's still shaky mentally and dependant on pills to a greater extent than she would care t expected was for someone to admitturn up dead. She's a feisty woman though Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and determined everyone knows that she's going the police consider that person to do be the job properlyprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230709850</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Cross1529421284|title=CapturedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Kenny is dying - brain cancer is hitting him just as he's barely turning fortyIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. As In a result he compiles gully, a short list of rights human skeleton came to wrong, the surface and people forensic testing proved the body to create closure withbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. OneHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, his ex-wife, might not be easy, two concern so it could have been a misguided sense simple case of a guilt of oldmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The fourth turns Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to be a missing womanthe suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The journey he takes in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that redemptive exercise is not for the squeamish's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847373976</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill1529425867|title=The Merry MisogynistLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is now married to Madame Daeng of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and despite the fact that they have father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a combined age trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of going on for a hundred shell suits and forty theytrackies. They're behaving like the newly-weds they areusually in lime green or acid yellow. Even You might wonder if you're being the reluctant coroner introduced to a police procedural written for the Republic of Laos can't dampen Siri's enthusiasm for lifelaughs. Well, it canyou't until he makes the gruesome discovery that a man is wooing and wedding girls in various parts re not. The two men are just different sides of the country and then murdering them on honeymoon and binding their bodies to treessame policing coin. What he does to his victims leaves Sometimes the morgue staff sickenedcombination works brilliantly well. ThereSometimes it's a determination to find the man responsible and bring him to justiceproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160082</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Hayes 1529431735|title=A Hard DeathThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|summary=I havenIt't read Jonathan Hayess February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on return all the inside cover of the book is impressivemore surprising. My expectations were high. All He'd been exiled on the ingredients are in place Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a good thrillerdecade. The location is The Everglades in Floridareturn has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. BroodingIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, enigmatic, awe-inspiring stripped to his underwear and where we all seem sent to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out a watery grave in the boot of the swampy waters every five minutesa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Cotterill0861541774|title=Curse A Nye of the Pogo StickPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to control his reactions meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally a street brawl - he would later maintain that he forgot himself and was more insolent than usual. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on facing a road trip man armed with the judge a knife - and the Justice Departmenthe killed a Ghurka. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and marriedInitially, although not in the usual order he faced a charge of events) is left manslaughter but evidence came to run light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not man. Now he could be a help, but probably not in facing the way that you might expectdeath penalty. As if that wasnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnappedhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cathi Unsworth 1521129886|title=Bad Penny BluesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixtiespoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Bad Penny Bluess a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they' is re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the story of baby when she gets past the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the west of the city-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean who's struggling to make ends meet and Irelandher son is not thriving. Lucy, bohemian artists and media typeshe says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and even peers. Carnaby Street the coroner have accepted that the death was just becoming suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilitiesnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances FyfieldB0CK3MYJ56|title=Cold to the TouchResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=ThereIt's something obsessive about Jessica Hurlythe 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. When Sarah Fortune encounters her on He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a coldprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', dark London morningyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, shebut where's distraught because the man who fills all her thoughts life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has rejected her and it seems that her mother wants nothing been asked to do with herlook into something. Jess is a talented chef but sheJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's short of work – the occasion when she emptied been written off as a tureen of soup over the host tragic accident at a dinner party did not enhance her reputation even if all the other guests were secretly delightedan unmanned level crossing. Sarah senses Joyce - and her vulnerabilityparents, but itOliver and Pam Hetherington - can's Jess who organises the let t understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of one of her mothera train. Greg's cottages in the sea-side town where she grew up so that Sarah can have a long break from the flat where she still smells a recent firebeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847441092</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Fitzgerald1838954481|title=Bloody WomenThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Before reading Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''Bloody Women'', I hadn't heard s no doubt about that. He 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 author Helen Fitzgerald murder and by the title manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and blurb, I expected hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a standard crime-thriller novel. But early missing teenager is found on, I realised this wasnher territory she't the case. The novel was s drawn into a kind of black comedy and written with wit wider investigation - and humour, despite back into the theme orbit of murder and violenceRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846971330</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeffery Deaver1448309743|title=The Bodies Left BehindDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When lawyer Emma Feldman and her husband Steven decided to buy a holiday home to give them In the opportunity for much needed breaks from their hectic professional lives, they brought an old colonial house in village of Cronchie on the woods by Lake Mondac in WisconsinWest coast of Scotland, on foreclosure – it seemed like the deal five members of a lifetimewealthy family are found murdered. But on their first evening in The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the placestone is removed from Otterburn House, a series of strange snapping noises outside begin to freak the couple outdeath will follow. They know they The only suspects are known Satanists but in real trouble when a man with shotgun and stocking mask appears at their window. Another enters the building and the only hope they have is many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that someone will take notice two of Steventhem 'discovered's phone call to the policebody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, cut off by the intruders after he DCI Christine Caplan is able pulled in to get out only one word – This'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994037</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529077699|title=Agatha Raisin: There Goes The Bride|rating=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>}} {{newreviewRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Diane Janes|title=Edwardian Murder: Ightham & the Morpeth Train RobberyAnn Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two murders took place in Edwardian England less than two years apart''It's all bloody peculiar, one in the south-east and the other in the north-east. At first glance they seemed to have nothing to do with each otherisn't it, 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>}}Sir?''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel McCrery1529427045|title=Tooth and ClawThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Another serial killer is on the loose, and yet again the police have failed to connect the deaths. Carl Whittley ''Life has just tortured a glamorous TV presenter more to death - leaving a singularly gruesome tableau offer than people - and blown a hapless commuter to smithereens at a railway station. Heprime numbers for example's planning his next murder already, secreted away in the shed at the bottom of the garden of the house he shares with his invalid father. Carl is embittered and lonely - with his mother living away and pursuing a career as a forensic psychologist, there's only him to take care of his severely disabled father: to change the colostomy bag, to cook, to clean, to, well, just to bear it, really. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847248071</amazonuk>}}
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