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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Castle 1035043092|title=Raging Heat The Killing Stones (Castle) (Nikki Heat 6Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5
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|summary=Fans of I can't have been the television series ''Castle'' will come only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to this book ready-prepared for what’s going start a new life onOrkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but for those unawarehe's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, in the series there is a character called Richard Castle who is an authordaughter of his former partner. He observes a homicide detective, Kate BeckettWillow's also his boss, in her work and then writes a novel, she ''Heat Waveshould'', based be on her charactermaternity leave, changing Kate’s name to Nikki Heat and his own to Jameson Rook. After but when the book was written (in the television series) it was actually published in real life. Being body of a fan of ''Castle'' I immediately bought it and read it. To be honestpopular islander, Archie Stout, I is found that the concept messed with my head too much! I kept thinking about who was who, within in the bookaftermath of a storm, translating Nikki’s name to Kate’s, and Rook’s to Castle, and it all became very confusing because even though Kate and Castle are she can'realt resist getting involved. He' they are, d been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of course, fictional characters too! I didn’t read any more Nikki Heat books after that first one, until this one. It’s a pair - which had been stolen from a little while since I watched the TV series, and somehow coming at it fresh made a big difference and I thoroughly enjoyed it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783295333</amazonuk>museum.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath StaincliffehenleyA|title= Half the World Away|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Newly graduated Lori Maddox spends the year after University travelling, and visits China – working as a private English tutor. Back in Manchester, her estranged parents follow her adventures on her blog, “Lori in the Orient”. When all communication stops and silence persists, the parents report her missing, and learning that there is little they can do from Manchester, set out to China in order to search for their daughter. Flying to Chengdu, they have no knowledge of the country, customs or language, and are forced to turn detective in order to save their daughter…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117972</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewUltimate Obsession|author=Tony Parsons|title=The Slaughter ManDai Henley
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|summary= This is the second novel by Tony ParsonsEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, which features DC Max Wolfeand he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, single parent to his daughter Scout's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, who first appeared inLaura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That'The Murder Bags what 'ordinary people do'. This book is, without a doubt, a huge step '' He's not been entirely up from front about the first in the series – an extremely fast paced, exciting crime novel, with a gripping plot and twisted charactersstate of their savings. There is no guessing which turn the story will When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take as every page throws in another plot twist; it’s impossible to figure out who the killer is. On New Year’s Eve, a rich, well established family living in Highgatehis case, London are brutally murdered and the four-year-old son has been abducted. Now it is up to Max to track down 's the child and figure out who was behind thought of the murdersmoney he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892357</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Mackintosh1529934753|title= I Let You GoThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary= A hit 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 runsix children, one of whom filmed what happened. A young boy killed Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. A family devastated. How Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a mother ever recover from seeing her child killed right chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in front the face, whilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of her? When there are no leads'blue-face' attacks, how but this was different. The can the police know where to look to bring someone to justice?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751554154</amazonuk>had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margery Allingham0008551375|title=The Crime at Black DudleyWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Black Dudley Leanne Wilson's body was unprepossessing from found at the outside, but imposingbottom of a Scottish mountain, if rather uncared for on seemingly the inside. It was isolated in dreary landscape and the location for result of a house party which George Abbershaw was attendingtragic accident. He hadnShe't particularly wanted to go and was convinced of the necessity only by the fact that the woman he loved would be a part of the partyd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. The host Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an invalid unpleasant relationship, but apparently determined it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that his guests should enjoy themselves and was happy to have them re-enact five other women had died in similar circumstances in the ritual of the Black Dudley Daggerlast year. All the candles were extinguished experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the dagger was passed amongst the guests'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the atmosphere was sinister but the game seemed harmless enough, except that they would shortly discover that their host was deadloose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099593491</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Donoghue0008643660|title=No The Burial Place to Die|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= It starts with A group of archaeologists are uncovering a nightmareRoman site close to Little Sky: it's idyllic and some of the excavations are being televised. Maggie Hungerford wakes out There's even a hoard of oneRoman gold worth millions which will be split between the finders and the landowner. Into anotherIt's perfect until the group begin receiving threatening letters. She Jake Jackson, a former police detective, is awake, trying to lead a simpler life at Little Sky but this isnhe't her beds inevitably drawn in to investigate. This is Reading the letters, it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that there will be violence and even the kind of place no-one local police are keen that Jake should ever wake upbe involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447239342</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alan Bradley1529425905|title=As Chimney Sweepers Come To DustA Voice in the Night (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Flavia de Luce has left BuckshawThere's a new Superintendent in Thames Valley — DCS Wainwright—and she's young, ambitious, the and ruthless. She talks a good talk about work/life balance and family home where values, but as far as she's concerned, she has lived all her life two main problems, and has gone to school in Canada (actuallythey're both called DI Wilkins. Ray Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Baliol educated and always immaculately dressed. He'was sents married to Diane and has twin sons. Management' s opinion of him is more accurate - the decision was none that he thinks too highly of Flavia's making himself and she his last boss felt that shehe needed more experience at what he called 'the wet end'd been banished). On the trip over she was accompanied by Dr Rainsmith and his wife Ryan Wilkins comes from a trailer park - in fact, who were associated with Miss Bodycoteit could be said that he's Female Academy, the school which Flavia would be attendingnever really left it. In factHe lives in shell suits and tracksuits, they delivered her there with scant ceremony late on the night they arrivedalways in vivid colours. Flavia would have settled down to sleep, but first she Previous management was attacked by another pupil and then a dead body fell down the chimneyadamant that he should ''never'' be given responsibility. She already felt quite at home.Wainwright feels that she would be best shut of both of them..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409149439</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Owen Laukkanen1529077745|title=The Stolen OnesDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves
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|genre=Crime
|summary=By book four A man walking his dog in any series things start to go the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of two ways; stagnation or consolidationthe care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. Are these going D I Vera Stanhope is called in to be a collection of books that slowly become investigate the same story over and over again, or will murder - but her only clue is the author distil what made disappearance of one of the first books so good and build upon them for a strongerresidents, richer and varied series? fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Looking at the score Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for ‘‘Stolen Ones’’, it would appear that the future death but Vera thinks this is bright, unlikely as the future is Owen Laukkanengirl'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>178239639X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1529428289|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has a new set Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of overlordsbones. For reasons that were explored in They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the previous couple Chief of outings they have been transferred Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the City Of London Policebodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. The Met are still As if this isn't enough to worry about, the big players in the areaDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. City of London Police only police It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the old city, problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the square milepossibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, the financial district in other wordsJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that has very little there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in the way case of street crimeemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, because live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was noaccident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-one lives there anymore and the people who work there are-shut case. A man, by covered in mud and blood - and largecarrying a knife, either too rich comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to need to stealdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, or too smart which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to have the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to do so on the streetskeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen KingStuart Douglas|title=Mr MercedesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Bill Hodges is During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a retired cop, spiralling down into woman on the edge of a seemingly inescapable depressionreservoir. Stuck at home each day watching dreadful American daytime TVThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, toying with but something about the idea of shooting himselfwhole thing bothers Lowe, it is only with and he enlists the sudden arrival help of a letter claiming fellow actor, John Le Breton to be from someone who committed an unsolved multiple murderhelp him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, one of Hodges’ old casesseemingly, that he finds a new interest in staying alivelink to death during the Second World War. Is this actually But is there really a link between the murdererdeaths? Why And will they manage to uncover who is he crawling out of the woodwork now? And can Hodges stop him from killing againresponsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444788647</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson0008517061|title=The Detective's SecretDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two 'hurricanes' link this storyFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There was There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the one in October 1987 which wasn't going to happenfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, but did Livia and her daughter Diana, as it happened moving in together would mean a man lay dying, locked inside an old water tower in west London. He had no identification, no one lot of compromise: does Jake give up his description was registered as missing 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 body was never claimed. future she wants for herself and her daughter? When For the moment they’re enjoying life in the body was discovered there was a single, black glove on his back. In October 2103 there was present and putting the St Jude's storm. Late one night future on the Piccadilly line a man seemed to jump beneath an oncoming train. Jack Harmon saw what happened and was sure that it was suicide, but the man's brother was convinced that it was murderback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781857709</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clare Carson1786482126|title=Orkney TwilightThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=18Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -yearthe site was going to hold seventy-old Sam Coylefive 'luxury's dad Jim is an undercover policemanapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. When he suggests that they take Was this a trip to Orkneyritual killing or murder? Inevitably, somewhere theyDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It've enjoyed holidays in the pasts difficult as Ruth knows, Sam but Nelson doesn't have to think about it, especially that she is pregnant with his child as she can take a friendresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. However for Jim it seems to Her condition will be a working holidayobvious before long, leaving Sam and her journalist student companion Tom not least because Ruth is prone to their own devices. Eventually they realise the same person is cropping up again and again, as if stalking them. Who is the watcher and what does he want? Until now her father's doom and gloom speeches have seemed a million miles from Sam's experience but now..sudden bouts of sickness.?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784080942</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna Leon0008551324|title=Falling in LoveThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Flavia Petrelli, who will be remembered by regular readers of It's unusual for anyone from the Commissario Guido Brunetti series as one of Hardie family to approach the suspects in the first case, ''Death at La Fenice'', police. Neither side likes or has returned to Venice to sing any respect for the lead in ''Tosca''other. But this time itDavie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Petrelli who feels that she prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is a victim buried and who was responsible for the strangest of reasons: she's being inundated with giftsher death. It began in other cities - the yellow roses thrownThis person, in abundancehe promises, on is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the stage, but this time there are even more rosesremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Her dressing room Not much to ask, is filled with them it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and thereshe's even a massive bouquet inside prepared to do the locked apartment building where she's staying. It was Brunetti other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who proved her innocence the last time and itworks with him is kept well away from what's to him that she turns with this latest problemhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023582</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=D A Mishani and Todd Hasak-Lowy (Translator)0008405026|title=A Possibility of Violence: An Inspector Avraham Avraham Novel Stranger in the Family (Inspector Avraham 2Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=Crime
|summary= Someone leaves a bomb outside a childrenIt's nursery 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, and her father are dead in Tel Avivtheir bed. This time Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's a fakesomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Next time? Police Inspector Avraham Avraham wants to find the bomber before next time What looked as then though it may not was going to be pretence. Meanwhile Chaim Sara has an open-and-shut case is now a special interest in the bomb as one of his two sons attends the nurserycomplex double murder. But Kerrigan is convinced that the only reason heexplanation lies in Rosalie's interested?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780876556</amazonuk>disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Ruth DugdallJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. 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 to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Humber Boy BLeave No Trace|rating=54
|genre=Crime
|summary=We've all read When a man is found crucified on the stories top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the papers: children who killcase alongside her sidekick, particularly children who kill childrenthe AI detective Lock. We It've always wondered what went through s their minds as they did itfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. We've also wondered about what happens But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to them once their AI Future Policing project. Will they're no longer childrenbe able to solve the case in time, when they've grown up in prison or will Kat find herself taken off the case and are then deemed fit to be freed back into real life., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910394599</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Torquil MacLeod1035021803|title=Meet Me In MalmoThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=British journalist Ewan Strachan was invited It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to Malmo in Sweden to interview film director Mick Roslynthe English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. TheyFreya'd been friends at University but had drifted aparts former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Strachan Arthur was holding on the reason why Freya had not been back to his job the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in journalism by business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the skin of his teethsplit, but Roslyn had made it big time she worked in Sweden a cafe, met and was married to Malin Lovgren, James (on the rebound from the glamorous star love of his latest filmher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. It hadn}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband't been easy to persuade his editor to fund the trips fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but when Strachan found himself at - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the door body of RoslynGreg's home at father, Duncan Ackerley, in the appointed time there seemed to be no one thereriver. When It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he tried couldn't stand the door he walked in only to find Lovgren dead guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on the floorwith their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085716113X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Beard1529900360|title=Acts of the AssassinsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The rebellious cult leader is executed so thatIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault thatAlex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Then someone steals His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the bodyhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. The police appoint Cassius Gallio to investigate but Finally, it all goes terribly wrongwas Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. He not only fails to find She knew that the involvement was something that the bodyman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the police informant from the initial conviction is killed swimming pool of a remote property in a way that mimics suicideBel Air. Gallio's career He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and life both stall until the case she is secretly re-opened married to an extremely rich man and heit's deemed the man for not the investigation as he's already comparatively invisibleItalian. It seems straightforward in that Gallio must uncover the truth but the people he needs to speak to are being culled one by one by But which of them was the most innovative and bloodthirsty means. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846558395</amazonuk>primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Thomas178763681X|title=Fallout (Tito Ihaka)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary= Maori Tito Ihaka may be disrespectful, brash Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and the sort of police sergeant who ploughs his own furrow but women to do what he gets resultswanted. He therefore seems Paul ''somehow'' got the ideal investigating officer when impression that he'd be at the cold case of school to assist Paul, who had a murder at broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the party of a political high flier is reopenedproblems - are all his own. However The one thing hehadn's also given time t expected was for someone to investigate something more personal: his fatherturn up dead. Unfortunately, union activist Jimmy Ihaka, may not have died through natural causes after allhe was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524499</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Jamie KornegayKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so 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. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=SoilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Jay Mize In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is a scientific man with a particular interest in soil of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and agriculturefather of Ryan, is not. He decides he is the one to pioneer 's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a revolution in farming techniques trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and uproots his wife wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and son trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to set up an experimental farm on a plot police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of land in the countrysame policing coin. Jay is also an obsessive man and his plans take over, becoming his only focus and causing his family to leave him Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Then flooding ruins his crops and he is left at the end of his tether; things only get worse when Jay finds a dead body on his land and his tenuous grip on his sanity is released Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473607035</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donna Leon1529431735|title=By Its CoverThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A prestigious library in It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the heart of Venice discovered that pages had been cut from many of its most valuable books and that several others were missingmore surprising. This would normally have He'd been investigated by exiled on the Costa del Sol as a specialist department in Rome, but Commissario Guido Brunetti agreed to look into the thefts - partly wanted drug smuggler for personal reasons and partly because it was the simplest way to move the problem forwarda decade. The staff at the library were certain return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that an American researcher was responsible, but there were quite a few factors which didnshe's ill and hasn't quite add up for Brunetti long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and he decided sent to look at some a watery grave in the boot of the other regular attenders at the librarya stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099591286</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adam Christopher 0861541774|title=Elementary: The Ghost LineA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54
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|summary=Once an author diesDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, the characters they created are often left alone has taken a short holiday in Singapore to live off this initial legacymeet up with an old ally, but it is increasingly normal to see past heroes rise again – quite literally Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the likes of [[Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahamea street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -Smith|Pride and Prejudice and Zombies]]he killed a Ghurka. Once out Initially, he faced a charge of copyright you can do what you like manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to a character; a character just like Sherlock Holmesmurder the man. Not only do we get numerous new books starring Holmes set in Now he could be facing the Victorian era, but there are currently two separate TV shows about modern Sherlockian adventuresdeath penalty. ''Elementary'' is set in America and is more liberal than most adaptations with the lore, but Domenic Jejeune can the tie in novel evoke do nothing to help as any memories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781169845</amazonuk>interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emily Winslow1521129886|title=The Red HouseThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=On the face of it, it seemed quite simple. It was Greg Mason's just that beginning to get his confidence as you started to unravel what had happened, what might happen, there seemed to be more skins that on an onion. Maxwell Gant had taken his fiancee investigator to meet his motherthe point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. He It's a good job too because Greg and Imogen were hoping to move to Cambridge, where Maxwell had applied for Joyce will soon have a job with one of baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the college choirsmorning sickness. Imogen had Greg is approached by an unusual history old friend whose brother- she had been adopted when she was eight after the deaths of her parents in a car crash-law appears to have killed himself. SheStuart'd managed s concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to trace make ends meet and her two elder brothers after son is not thriving. 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 four children had been adopted by different familiesdeath was suicide, but she was still looking for her younger brother, Sebastian, who was only three at the time of Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the accidentnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074901895X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham FulbrightB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Khazar CodexResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's a brutal introduction the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to the story as have a man is killed high-flying job in the way that they did city but it in those days: two trees were pulled to the ground and the man lashed between them and then the trees were released. But thatwasn't satisfying so he's only the background to the story which is now set in the here and now and most himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of it is in The KembleCameron Strike', a rather rundown theatreyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, which is presenting a revival of Tom Stoppardbut where's ''Arcadia''. the life experience that backs up this profession? On the opening night there's apparently a fireother hand, but whilst most of the hostages he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are shepherded out of the theatre a group of seven members of the audiencehalf-sisters, or rather, two cast members and the prime ministerthey were until Helen was killed in what's son, Nigel Hastings, are taken hostagebeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The 'terroristsJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can' (for t understand what else can you call people who take others hostage?) represent New METRO, she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a group of activists who are campaigning for disused underground stations train. Greg's been asked to be converted for use by the homelessinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784621277</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Kurt Unsworth 1838954481|title=The Devil's Detective Misper|author=Kate London|rating=2.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=There are some obvious things in life (Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and death), pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but one due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the most clear is that Hell will be Hellishmanslaughter of the officer. This is a place that sinners And so lives must go to be punishedon. However, For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for every Dante’s Inferno, there a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a depiction of hell that is not so bad. Who really wants to read something depressing about wider investigation - and back into the desolation orbit of souls, apart from those pesky 14th Century types? According to ''The Devil’s Detective'', people in the 21st Century do tooRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009195651X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1448309743|title=Death of A LiarThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Hamish Macbeth is still enjoying In the relatively easy life village of running Cronchie on the two-man station in remote Lochdubh in the highlands West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. He could maybe do without current side-kick Dick Fraser's eternal presence on siteThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but has to admit in many ways, that the man's cooking skills and his tendency to whip out a stove and frying pan in an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the remotest of locations do have their advantagesbody. Still and all The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, itDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's not doing our eternal Sergeantshadow's love-life any favourshim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780331096</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Kardos1529077699|title=Before He Finds HerThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The newspaper reports at ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the time were unanimous: local pub one evening in September 1991 Ramsey Miller held the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a party for all his neighbours month and thenturned up, when it endednaked and dead, killed his wife Allie and toddler daughter Megin a small boat, then ran awayanchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, remaining a fugitive from justice. The newspapers were wrongin Devon. Meg isn't dead but has been kept hidden by her Uncle Wayne and Aunt Kendra, Rosco had her name changed to Melanie and has led the status of a national treasure: a sheltered life. No photosrenowned adventurer, no internet, no friends after school, no holidays away from homeround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. ThatI ''s no way to live and now she approaches her 18th birthdaynearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, Melanie/Meg wants to end her half-life in order to live fully he could be more than a little bit close with money and yet to do that she must risk any form of lifehis background isn't exactly an open book. She must find her father before Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finds her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802123198</amazonuk>finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S J Watson1529427045|title=Second Life|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Julia lives two lives. Life 1: The Girl in the wife of surgeon Hugh and adopted parent of her sister KateEagle's son Connor. Life 2: Secret erotic dating site surfer. It seems a bit extreme but she has good reason as Julia is searching for information while posing under an assumed name. This is the same site on which Kate hung out. Past tense? Yes, Kate's dead and Julia wants to find Kate's killer. Be careful what you wish for, Julia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857520199</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTalons|author=David Thorne|title=Nothing SacredKarin Smirnoff|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Just over a year ago I described Thorne's first book [[East of Innocence by David Thorne|East of Innocence]] as ''Raymond Chandler meets Ray WinstoneLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. I gather that an eight Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-way auction saw Tiger Aspect securing untapped natural resources of the option rights for area have sparked a TV seriesgold rush. I'm looking The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward to it. CanSalander's niece't help wondering if they roped Winstone s mother is the latest woman in (and if Ithe area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece'm up for s guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a cut remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the agent fees?)part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782393633</amazonuk>
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