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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author= Christopher FowlerAnn Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley
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|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a new set of overlordsPrivate Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. For reasons that were explored in the previous couple of outings they have been transferred to the City Of London Police. The Met are still the big players in the areaUnfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. City of London Police only police the old city, the square mileHis wife, the financial district in other wordsLaura, that has very little in the way of street crime, because nobeen trying to persuade him to retire -one lives there anymore and the ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people who work there aredo', by and large, either too rich '' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to need persuade him to stealtake his case, or too smart to have to do so on it's the thought of the streetsmoney he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Stephen KingRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=Mr MercedesWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Bill Hodges is Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a retired copScottish mountain, spiralling down into seemingly the result of a seemingly inescapable depressiontragic accident. Stuck at home each day watching dreadful American daytime TVShe'd looked so happy, toying with the idea of shooting himselftoo, it is only with the sudden arrival when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of a letter claiming to be from someone who committed an unsolved multiple murder, one of Hodges’ old casesunpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that he finds a new interest five other women had died in similar circumstances in staying alivethe last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. Is this actually None of the murderer? 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. Why They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is he crawling out of certain there's a killer on the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444788647</amazonuk>loose.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson0008643660|title=The Detective's SecretBurial Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=Two A group of archaeologists are uncovering a Roman site close to Little Sky: it'hurricanes' link this storys idyllic and some of the excavations are being televised. There was 's even a hoard of Roman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the one in October 1987 which wasnlandowner. It't going to happens perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. Jake Jackson, but did and as it happened a man lay dyingformer police detective, locked inside an old water tower is trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but he's inevitably drawn in west Londonto investigate. He had no identificationReading the letters, no one of his description was registered as missing it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the body was never claimedlocal police are keen that Jake should be involved. When }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425905|title=A Voice in the body was discovered there was Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=There's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, and ruthless. She talks a singlegood talk about work/life balance and family values, but as far as she's concerned, she has two main problems, and they're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, black glove on his backBaliol educated and always immaculately dressed. In October 2103 there was the St JudeHe's stormmarried to Diane and has twin sons. Late one night on 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 Piccadilly line wet end'. Ryan Wilkins comes from a man seemed to jump beneath an oncoming traintrailer park - in fact, it could be said that he's never really left it. Jack Harmon saw what happened He lives in shell suits and tracksuits, always in vivid colours. Previous management was sure adamant that it was suicide, but the manhe should ''never''s brother was convinced be given responsibility. Wainwright feels that it was murdershe would be best shut of both of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857709</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Carson1529077745|title=Orkney TwilightThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5
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|summary=18-year-old Sam Coyle's dad Jim is an undercover policeman. When he suggests that they take A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a trip to Orkney, somewhere they've enjoyed holidays man in the pastpark near Rosebank, Sam doesn't have to think about it, especially as she can take a friendcare home for troubled teens. However for Jim it seems The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to be work a working holiday, leaving Sam and her journalist student companion Tom to their own devicesshift the night before but who had never turned up. Eventually they realise D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the same person murder - but her only clue is cropping up again and againthe disappearance of one of the residents, as if stalking themfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Who Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the watcher and what does he want? Until now her fathergirl's doom and gloom speeches have seemed a million miles from Sam's experience but now.diary makes it clear that she adored Josh.She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784080942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna Leon1529428289|title=Falling A Grave in Lovethe Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|summary=Flavia PetrelliBecause of various property transactions, who will be remembered by regular readers of people were searching for the Commissario Guido Brunetti series as one grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of the suspects in the first case, ''Death at La Fenice'', has returned to Venice to sing the lead in ''Tosca''bones. But this time They dated back to World War II and it's Petrelli who feels that she is a victim and for fell to Bruno, the strangest Chief of reasons: she's being inundated with gifts. It began in other cities - the yellow roses thrownPolice for St Denis, in abundance, on to discover the stage, but this time there are even more rosesidentities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. Her dressing room is filled with them and thereAs if this isn's even a massive bouquet inside t enough to worry about, the locked apartment building where she's stayingDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It was Brunetti who proved her innocence the last time and it's to him not just the local autumn rains that she turns with this latest have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023582</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=D A Mishani and Todd Hasak-Lowy (Translator)152919640X|title=A Possibility of Violence: An Inspector Avraham Avraham Novel (Inspector Avraham 2)The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary= Someone leaves a bomb outside a childrenThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's nursery in Tel Avivonly one suspect. This time itHe's a fakecelebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Next time? She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Police Inspector Avraham Avraham wants to find the bomber before next time Everything seemed as normal - as normal as then it may not they can be pretencein a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Meanwhile Chaim Sara has a special interest in the bomb as one of his two sons attends the nurseryHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. But is It was soon clear that the only reason he's interested?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780876556</amazonuk>this was no accident.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth DugdallB0CYV674G2|title=Humber Boy BSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5
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|summary=WeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn've all read t killed the stories in man. A body at the papers: children who killbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, particularly children who kill childrenwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. WeYou would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner've always wondered what went through their minds as they did itwere made for each other. WeHe've also wondered about what happens s sleep-deprived to them once theythe point of falling asleep at work but he're no longer children, when theys determined to keep going - probably because he can've grown up in prison and are then deemed fit to be freed back into real lifet get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910394599</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Torquil MacLeodStuart Douglas|title=Meet Me In MalmoLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|summary=British journalist Ewan Strachan was invited During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to Malmo in Sweden assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to interview film director Mick Roslynhelp him investigate matters further. They'd been friends at University but had drifted aparttravel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. Strachan was holding on But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his job in journalism by rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the skin future of his teethlife with his vet girlfriend, but Roslyn had made it big time Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in Sweden the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was married going to Malin Lovgren, hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the glamorous star bones of his latest filma 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 hadn's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't been easy to persuade , that she is pregnant with his editor to fund the trip, but when Strachan found himself at the door child as a result of Roslyn's home at the appointed time there seemed to be no one therenight they spent together some three months ago. When he tried the door he walked in only Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to find Lovgren dead on the floorsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085716113X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Beard0008551324|title=Acts of the AssassinsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The rebellious cult leader is executed so thatIt's that. Then someone steals unusual for anyone from the body. The police appoint Cassius Gallio Hardie family to investigate but it all goes terribly wrong. He not only fails to find the body, approach the police informant from the initial conviction is killed in a way that mimics suicide. Gallio's career and life both stall until Neither side likes or has any respect for the case other. But Davie Hardie is secretly re-opened struggling in prison and he's deemed prepared to tell the man police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the investigation as police doing what he's already comparatively invisiblewants. It seems straightforward in that Gallio must uncover the truth but the people And what he needs wants is to speak be transferred to are being culled one by one by an open prison to serve the most innovative remainder of his sentence and bloodthirsty meansto get an early parole date. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558395</amazonuk>Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Thomas0008405026|title=Fallout A Stranger in the Family (Tito IhakaMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45
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|summary= Maori Tito Ihaka may be disrespectfulIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, brash and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the sort positioning of police sergeant who ploughs his own furrow but he gets resultsthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He therefore seems the ideal investigating officer when the cold What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case of is now a complex double murder at the party of a political high flier is reopened. However heKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's also given time to investigate something more personaldisappearance: his father, union activist Jimmy Ihakaothers (such as Derwent's boss, may not have died through natural causes after allUna Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524499</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Kornegay0571379877|title=SoilThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
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|summary=Jay Mize Edward Jevons is a scientific working-class young man , obsessed with a particular interest in soil his upper-class friends, Robert and agricultureStanza. He decides he is the one to pioneer Robert's a revolution in farming techniques and uproots his wife and son to set up an experimental farm on a plot of land in the countrytheatre director. Jay is He's also an obsessive man self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and his plans take over, becoming his only focus entitled and causing his family uses Edward to leave run errands for him. Then flooding ruins his crops Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he 's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left at to stumble upon the end two of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds them kissing in a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is releaseddark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donna LeonJo Callaghan|title=By Its CoverLeave No Trace
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|summary=A prestigious library in When a man is found crucified on the heart of Venice discovered that pages had been cut from many top of its most valuable books and that several others were missing. This would normally have been investigated by a specialist department hill in RomeNuneaton, but Commissario Guido Brunetti agreed DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to look into the thefts - partly for personal reasons and partly because it was case alongside her sidekick, the simplest way to move the problem forwardAI detective Lock. The staff at the library were certain that an American researcher was responsibleIt's their first live case together, but having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there were quite is a second body found crucified a few factors which didn't quite add up for Brunetti days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and he decided a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to look at some of their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the other regular attenders at case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the library.case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099591286</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Christopher 1035021803|title=Elementary: The Ghost LineAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
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|summary=Once an author diesIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the characters they created are often left alone to live off this initial legacycircumstances seem suspicious, but it is increasingly normal to see past heroes rise again – quite literally in say the likes of [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith|Pride and Prejudice and Zombies]]least. Once out of copyright you can do what you like Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to a character; a character just like Sherlock Holmesthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Not only do we get numerous new books starring Holmes set Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the Victorian era, but there are currently two separate TV shows about modern Sherlockian adventuresprofession she loved. ''Elementary'' is set After the split, she worked in America a cafe, met and is more liberal than most adaptations with married James (on the lore, but can rebound from the tie in novel evoke any memories love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169845</amazonuk>her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Emily WinslowNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the 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 with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Red HouseGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|summary=On the face of it, it seemed quite simple. It was just hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that as you started to unravel what Alex Delaware had happenedbeen badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, what might happen, there seemed Sturgis was reluctant to be more skins that ask for his help on an oniondifficult cases. Maxwell Gant had taken his fiancee to meet his motherHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. He and Imogen were hoping to move to CambridgeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, where Maxwell had applied who nudged Milo into asking for a job with one of help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the college choirsman she loved needed. Imogen had an unusual history - she had been adopted when she was eight after The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the deaths swimming pool of her parents a remote property in a car crashBel Air. She'd managed He was the heir to trace her two elder brothers after the four children had been adopted by different families, but an Italian shoe empire and she was still looking for her younger brother, Sebastian, who was only three at is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the time Italian. But which of them was the accident.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074901895X</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Fulbright178763681X|title=The Khazar CodexKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
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|summary=Hamish Macbeth is still enjoying the relatively easy life of running the two-man station in remote Lochdubh Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the highlands of ScotlandBelgravia. He could maybe do without current side-kick Dick Fraserdidn's eternal presence on site, t really want to but has celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to admit do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the manschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's cooking skills t turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his tendency own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to whip out a stove and frying pan in the remotest of locations do have their advantagesturn up dead. Still Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and all, it's not doing our eternal Sergeant's love-life any favourseveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331096</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Kardos1529421284|title=Before He Finds HerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The newspaper reports at It was one of those flash downpours that the time were unanimous: British weather often delivers in September 1991 Ramsey Miller held a party for all his neighbours and thenheatwave. In a gully, when it ended, killed his wife Allie a human skeleton came to the surface and toddler daughter Megforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, then ran away, remaining a fugitive from justicewho had disappeared nine years earlier. The newspapers were wrong. Meg isnHe't dead but has d been kept hidden by her Uncle Wayne a known drug user and Aunt Kendrahad learning disabilities, had her name changed to Melanie and has led so it could have been a sheltered lifesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. No photosGeary was a townie, no internet, no friends after school, no holidays away from homeso what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. ThatLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's no way to live and now she approaches her 18th birthday, Melanie/Meg wants to end her half-life in order cold cases to live fully you and yet to do that she must risk any form of life. She must find her father before he finds herme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802123198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Watson1529425867|title=Second LifeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Julia lives In Oxford, there are two livesD I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Life 1: the wife D I Ryan Wilkins, son of surgeon Hugh Ryan and adopted parent father of her sister KateRyan, is not. He's son Connornot any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Life 2: Secret erotic dating site surferThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. It seems You might wonder if you're being introduced to a bit extreme but she has good reason as Julia is searching police procedural written for information while posing under an assumed namelaughs. This is Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same site on which Kate hung outpolicing coin. Past tense? Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Yes, Kate's dead and Julia wants to find KateSometimes it's killerproblematic. Be careful what you wish for, Julia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520199</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Thorne1529431735|title=Nothing SacredThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Just over a year ago I described ThorneIt's first book [[East of Innocence by David Thorne|East of Innocence]] as ''Raymond Chandler meets Ray Winstone'February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. I gather that an eight-way auction saw Tiger Aspect securing He'd been exiled on the option rights Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a TV seriesdecade. IThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn'm looking forward t long to itlive. CanIt't help wondering if they roped Winstone in (s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and if I'm up for sent to a cut watery grave in the boot of the agent feesa stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393633</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marcus Dalrymple0861541774|title=Killing Time: True FictionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=English university graduate James Cooper Brown is travelling around the US with his DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend Toby. When Toby returns and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to England on family businessmeet up with an old ally, James decides to visit MexicoGuy Trueman. Soon after arriving Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he's kidnapped by killed a local drug baronGhurka. Elsewhere in the country Monica GonzalesInitially, he faced a doctor, is looking forward to an evening charge of good company and pizza manslaughter but it turns into an evening of other things as she too is takenevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Behind each of Now he could be facing the 402 kidnappings in Mexico during 2003 there is a storydeath penalty. This is the story of James, Monica Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the people fighting for their return; sometimes literallywouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1477428534</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Owen Laukkanen1521129886|title=Kill FeeThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5
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|summary=The internet has had one of Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the most profound effects on humanity since 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 invention of baby when she gets past the printing pressmorning sickness. A world full of knowledge Greg is at your fingertips and you can access anything from your homeapproached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Want Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to order food? make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Easy! Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, How about learning how but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to make a fake ID? It’s all find out what happened on the net if you know where to look! Want someone killed by a professional for a reasonable fee? This may be depressingly easier than you thinknight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396012</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joakim ZanderB0CK3MYJ56|title=The SwimmerResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason'On s twenty-eight years old. He used to have a remote Swedish island, a little girl, Klara, grows high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up without as a fatherprivate investigator. Now'Shades of Cameron Strike', twenty years lateryou might be thinking. Nice bloke, she discovers a secret: a secret but where's the life experience that powerful men will kill backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to keep hiddenlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what' The Swimmer begins in 1980, with s been written off as a bombing in Damascustragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a tragedy that can be felt across decadestrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781859175</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Allan Collins 1838954481|title=Quarry's ChoiceThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=If you are fed up with reading books about Ryan Kennedy killed a hit man with a heart, why not try one of the police officer: there''Quarry'' series? s no doubt about that. This is a man who is hired to kill He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and does not think too much about it; pointing it's just a jobat DI Kieran Shaw. Usually Quarry arrives in a town, makes a hit He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and gets out immediately, but there is something about the world manslaughter of the Dixie Mafia that is making him stay a little longerofficer. And so lives must go on. Is it For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the blackmail, capital and hoping for a quieter life in the attractive young women, or countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the sense orbit of revenge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783290846</amazonuk>Ryan Kennedy.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony J Quinn1448309743|title=Border AngelsThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Lena Novak knew all about border countryIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. She was an illegal immigrant The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Croatia and whilst she wasn't having to cope with landminesOtterburn House, bears and wolves, the Irish border had its own problemsdeath will follow. She had worked The only suspects are known Satanists but in the farmhouse brothel for many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two months when she met Jack Fowler but her plan to escape left bare footprints in of them 'discovered' the snow and more than one dead body. The investigating officer was Inspector Celcius Daly and it wasn't long before Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he found himself disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in the unprofessional situation of working with a prostitute and a hitmanto 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082600</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harri Nykanen and Kristian London (translator)1529077699|title=Behind God's Back The Raging Storm (Ariel Kafka SeriesTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ariel Kafka, as the only Jewish detective in Helsinki''It's violent crime unitall bloody peculiar, has special insight into the Jewish Community. It goes without saying but isn't it also provides Ari with a steady flow of cases. Therefore when a local company director and Jewish congregation member is murdered, Ariel Sir?'' Well yes, it is first choice of investigator. Unfortunately Jem Rosco blew into the victim happens to be local pub one evening in the man who could have become Ariel's father-middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in-law a couple of decades before but Ari feels enough removed by time not small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to disqualify himself from the casevillage of Greystone, in Devon. Gradually as Rosco had the web status of clues is carefully teased outa national treasure: a renowned adventurer, more worrying connections are discoveredround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. The Mossad I ''maynearly'' be involved said 'all-round good egg' but then so may Arias we's brother Eli.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524421</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Shelley Harris|title=Vigilante|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jenny Pepper is a forty-something wife and mother who is stuck wondering where her life has gone. Privately, Jenny is jealous of her husbandll find out, he has a wonderful creative career that people can’t wait to hear could be more about, while Jenny’s work as a mother and her job at a charity bookshop seems to put than a stopper on conversation. Jenny envies her daughter, little bit close with her youthful figure money and a whole life stretched out in front of herhis background isn't exactly an open book. When tidying up one night, Jenny discovers her husband’s secret and just like that her life changes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297864610</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Connolly1529427045|title=The Wolf Girl in Winter (Charlie Parker Thriller)the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Private investigator Charlie Parker is surprised when Jude, a bum he's befriended and worked with in the past, is found hanged in a basement. It looks like suicide but Jude 'Life has been looking more to offer than people - prime numbers for his daughter Annie to rekindle their family relationship and example''. Lisbeth Salander has just raised over $100 headed north to help find her. Odd time for suicide? It becomes an even odder prospect when Annie herself goes missing after heading for the small Maine town of ProsperousGasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. Charlie decides to drop The criminal underworld has not been slow in on coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the good citizens of latest woman in the small town and starts poking beneath the respectable veneerarea to have vanished without trace. It doesn’t take him long was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but there it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a downside: this investigation may have a body count that includes Charlieremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444755366</amazonuk>
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