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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=Death Going DownElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=In a strange time, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the years after World War Two, Buenos Aires is a strange city – peopled by her native residents, and many who fled site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the European theatre bones of wara child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. And in Was this a building that houses some of the more strange examples of those people on six levels of large apartmentsritual killing or murder? Inevitably, something strange happens – one of them struggles home the worse for drink late one night and Dr Ruth Galloway finds the lift descend to fetch him to his doorherself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but carrying a blonde womanNelson doesn's corpse. A resident doctor soon turns up toot, and that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the pair kicks into action the police investigation into her presence, which soon seems to point to suicideone night they spent together some three months ago. This Her condition will be obvious before long, not being in a genre called suicide mystery, however, we know differently – but will certainly have least because Ruth is prone to wait to piece the whole story togethersudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke0008551324|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer Devil You Know (Under Suspicion 4D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen years ago, Casey Carter went It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison for and he's prepared to tell the police where the murder body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her fiancée Hunter Raleighdeath. The evidence seemed indisputable; her fingerprints were on This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the gun that killed him and her skin tested positive for gunshot residuepolice doing what he wants. She'd been known And what he wants is to be argumentative and passionate, qualities that earned her the nickname ''Crazy Casey'' thanks transferred to a tell-all book by an ex-boyfriend. Even her family seemed open prison to suspect her guilt. But now Casey is out serve the remainder of prison his sentence and determined to prove her innocenceget an early parole date. Who better Not much to help her than Laurie Moran ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and the she''Under Suspicion'' team? After hearing her case, Laurie promises s even prepared to give her a fair hearing on her TV show do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and reinvestigate the circumstances of Hunteranyone who works with him is kept well away from what's deathhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Farrington0008405026|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5

|summary=2014: 50 It's sixteen years since William Gilbey's father Herbert nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was hanged for murdernever found and the investigation ground to a halt. This anniversary is different from those Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in the past in that their bed. Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's given William the impetus to go and find out more something about two mystifying parts of his father's history. Firstly the oddity positioning of the murder: why randomly kill two women in the street in daylight? bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Secondly, when William What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a child, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIcomplex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's nothing in the history books so did this actually happen? This is definitely a good time to investigateboss, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselfUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford0571379877|title=Gathering PreyThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Any fan of Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a long running series will dread the book that falls off the clifftheatre director. This is the story that just does not make senseHe's also self-obsessed, demanding, or is so reminiscent of previous outings that it may as well not existhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, the 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'Preys position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'' series by John Sandford s not like most men: Edward is overdue this, but will ''Gathering Prey'' be left to stumble upon the moment that the maverick cop Davenport becomes two of them kissing in a shadow of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>dark passageway.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Erle Stanley GardnerJo Callaghan|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good as the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Mercy KillingLeave No Trace

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with When a man is found crucified on the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided that they would stage ''Annie'' and involve children from top of a local school hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophileAI detective Lock. A local widow It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with two young children had started several cold cases. But when there is a tentative relationship second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with him: she terminated the relationship a potential serial killer and the amdrams told him a very high profile case that he was no longer draws a memberlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. It was bad enoughWill they be able to solve the case in time, but deserved - then someone else took or will Kat find herself taken off the law into their own hands case and decided that the world would be , potentially, out of a better place without Albie Woodville in it. He was brutally murdered.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1035021803|title= Night SchoolThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back in timeto the English country village where she grew up. Reacher is still an US Army MP She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'In the morning they gave Reacher a medals close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and in the afternoon they sent him back circumstances seem suspicious, to schoolsay the least.'' The medal Arthur was a Legion of Meritthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Not his firstEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, probably she has not his last, just another bauble felt able to recognise what he'd done for his country and a plea for him not to talk about itbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The 'it' in this case was some police workAfter the split, she worked in the Balkansa cafe, met and a couple of shootings. ''Two weeks married James (on the rebound from the love of his her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1398524085|title=Rather be the DevilHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderedfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was beautifulHer children, sons Niall, a bright light Paul and Ollie and promiscuous her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and she was strangled in EdinburghGreg, find the body of Greg's Caledonian Hotel on father, Duncan Ackerley, in the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying thereriver. Her killer It was never found: it's been preying on John Rebus' mind and it comes into conversation on an easy assumption for the night police to make that Rebus Duncan had murdered Charlie and his lady friend are dining at then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Galvin Brasserie at the Callyguilt. It's better than thinking about his health: he's got COPD and The Salter children are not convinced but there's something little else they can do but get on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think with their lives and wonder about itwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley1529900360|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Coming It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the end help of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, a psychologist only there's some resistanceworked for a while. ItFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's never ''quite'' saidpartner, but you have a suspicion who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that it might come down to the fact involvement was something that the man she's a woman. But being female has its advantages when a decoy is loved needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coat. She is attacked and only just rescued in timeThe next case did look simple, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and a frightthough. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for Two lovers were murdered in the rape swimming pool of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Nair|title= Chain of Custody|rating= 4remote property in Bel Air.5|genre= Crime|summary= After the success of ''A Cut-like Wound'' published in He was the UK in 2014, ''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) police, called in when heir to an affluent lawyer Italian shoe empire and she is found dead at his home in a prestigious married to an extremely rich man and well-guarded gated communityit's not the Italian. However, that is the prologue jumping ahead But which of them was the story – as is the current vogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent178763681X|title=The Loving HusbandKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from Chef Paul Delamare took a lengthy stint teaching job at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablea residential cookery school in Belgravia. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel He didn't really want to that particular fire particularly from where Fran's best friend is standing. But when this is followed by but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a hasty wedding way of getting both men and a move women to an isolated farmhouse in do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the Fensschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, Fran feels sure but it didn't turn out that her new role as homeway. The teaching -maker and mother, so very different from the London partyproblems -girl she used to be, is the right are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for hersomeone to turn up dead. So when Fran wakes in Unfortunately, he was the middle of person who discovered the night to find Nathan's side of body and everyone knows that the bed completely cold, she goes police consider that person to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of be the bargainprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 1529421284|title=The StorykillerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=The first rule It was one of Super Injunctions is those flash downpours that you don't talk about Super Injunctionsthe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. These powerful legalese prevent In a gully, a human skeleton came to the likes of you, me surface and forensic testing proved the papers talking about certain storiesbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The richHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, powerful and meaningless use them to stop the type so it could have been a simple case of tittle tattle that fuels misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a million conversations at worktownie, but so what do you do if you 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 rich, powerful or meaningless enough considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529425867|title=NutshellLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet TrudyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Successfully living in a large and valuable London home, she Raymond Wilkins is heavily pregnantof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowneralways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, poet son of Ryan and publisher Johnfather of Ryan, for someone completely different, namely Claudeis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a nastytrailer park, brutish barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and short typehis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is the child sheYou might wonder if you's pregnant withre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. He is a very alert young thingWell, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might 're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>. Sometimes it's problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529431735|title=Beneath the AshesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the kitchen floor of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livingmore surprising. SheHe'd no memory of what had happened the night before, but she was injured, the house had been broken into and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missing. The police had been called to exiled on the farm by the fire brigadeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ThereThe return has come about because he'd been s had a fire in one of the farmletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's barns ill and when they investigated a badly-burned body was discoveredhasn't long to live. It's up hard to DI Will Jackman feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to discover who's responsible - his underwear and before whoever sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey0861541774|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=In many ways it was horrificDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, but quite simpleGuy Trueman. On Christmas day Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a rifle shot knife - and he killed five people: the first was his ex-wife's new partnera Ghurka. Initially, he faced a local policeman, charge of manslaughter but the other four were simply people who happened evidence came to be around. He then went light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the local churchyard and turned the gun on himselfman. Six dead, no perpetrator on the loose and it looks as though all that needs to Now he could be done is to give evidence at facing the inquest, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at thatdeath penalty. She wants Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to know where Russell Fewell got the gun help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the bullets: shewouldn's also not convinced about the honesty of the dead policeman and that's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herot help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=CrushKeith Redfern|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story of Thelma and Louise, itGreg Mason's Louise we meet first, through her narrationjust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. SheIt's a seventeen year old, telling us of good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a quite awful baby and smelly satellite town of Paris they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she lives in, with gets past the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companymorning sickness. She lives at home with her mother, complete with hare-lip, and abusive stepGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifelaw appears to have killed himself. ImpulsivelyStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, she asks who's struggling to be their maid – make ends meet and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy homeher son is not thriving. But little does she know what lurks Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the shadows in coroner have accepted that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappinessdeath was suicide, and even but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence BlockB0CK3MYJ56|title=Sinner ManResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=Everybody has It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to start somewhere, have a high-flying job in the city but if you are it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as prolific a writer as Lawrence Blockprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you may no longer might be able to find thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the beginning. life experience that backs up this profession? His first crime publication came and went in On the early 60s and fifty years later other hand, he did not have a copy as the book had has been published under an alias with a different title unknown asked to himlook into something. In 2016 that book has surfaced Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in the form of ''Sinner Man'' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writerwhat's early books; murder, dubious characters and been written off as a bit of pulp naughtinesstragic accident at an unmanned level crossing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Unger|title=Ink Joyce - and Bone|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychic. Sensitive to the unseenparents, unheard Oliver and unknowable, Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she spends her days among the dead. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best could come to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowfall in front of a train. But life is not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying Greg's been asked to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possibleinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1838954481|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)The Misper|author=Kate London

|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be Ryan Kennedy killed a haven of peace and tranquility, but itpolice officer: there's surprising how often no doubt about that. He was the reverse proves to be fifteen-year-old holding the casegun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The villagers He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of Carsley are up in arms because Lord Bellington has said that the jury system he's going to sell off was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the allotments for a new housing developmentofficer. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry - and there's no shortage of suspects eitherAnd so lives must go on. Lord BellingtonFor DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's son, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin drawn into a wider investigation - and her detective agency to discover who murdered his fatherback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1448309743|title= Betrayals|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come a long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are a part of that, she's not yet ready to make the choice that destiny would have her make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Sophie Hannah|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Caro Ramsay

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a house party at her home in Clonakilty, Irelandwealthy family are found murdered. It was mainly family, plus The only item missing from the two partners from home is the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, but there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard and Devil Stone: myth says that if the Belgian detectivestone is removed from Otterburn House, Hercule Poirotdeath will follow. They weren't certain why they'd been invited, The only suspects are known Satanists but Athie Playfordin many ways, author of the popular childrenthat's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddonan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered', had a shock in store for the assembled company and particularly for her two children, Harry and Claudiabody. She'd changed her will The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to her secretary, Joseph Scotcher'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1529077699|title=The Gem ConnectionRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=In the beginning ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it was simpleis. C J KavanaughJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, formerly of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making in a living as Private Investigator was employed small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairthe village of Greystone, in Devon. Antonio Fahrletti Rosco had confounded half the status of a national treasure: a dozen PIs who'd been unable to prove that he was being unfaithful to his wiferenowned adventurer, but CJ was determined to be round the one who got the proofworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Luck was on his side, but not, it would seem, on FahrlettiI ''nearly's. In the meantime Clinton Windell 'said 'knewall-round good egg'but as we' that luck was on ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his side: hebackground isn'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gemst exactly an open book. The board hadn't believed that Where did he could do it and a large part of get the money for his pleasure was that first boat? How did he was proving them wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1529427045|title= Dragon GamesThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of ''Dragon GamesLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'' ties it . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the international bestseller ''The Art small town of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translation. I'm hoping that Gasskas, where the final edition that hits so-far-untapped natural resources of the market will area have the confidence to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequelsparked a gold rush. My hope is because the step between the first two Burmese books and the modern China mystery ones is a significant oneThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Many readers will love both, but I think Salander's niece's mother is the less lyrical, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach of latest woman in the Chinese stories has a wider readershiparea to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a readership Sendker deservesremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1787636607|title= In at the DeathThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconist, It's a fan scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of romantic fiction, clubs and looking for a wearer way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of pince-nezthe few taxis available. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, you might think, but in In at Others squash onto the Death his burgeoning reputation night bus that will only go as far as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing and something one of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail of a murderer outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the city light of Bridgton'the missing women'. The death of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp For one young woman, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had a gun in his bagintended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. As The bus had driven off before she had the detectives get chance to beg the bus driver to work there are skeletons let her use his. There's no option but to be found lurking start walking - unsuitably clothed and in a few closetshigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1405957174|title=Turning BlueA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in a particularly harsh winter. DI Jim Brindle from From the elite detective unitfirst page, Cold Storage, was sent to investigate and he could have been helped by Roddy Mace, a local journalistwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Only Brindle, the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to do with call the writerambulance he so desperately needs. Mace What we don't know is who the man is desperate or why Nadine prefers to revive his flagging careerhave him die. Well itI's d better give you a little more than flagging: he left London in disgrace, background so it's the two men living on the outskirts of life who are trying independently to trap the man they believe is responsible for Melaniethat you can understand what's disappearance and that man is Steven Rutter, another loner, near destitute and living high on the moors, who knows all the hiding places. He knows the secrets of the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be knownhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)0008530025|title=The Mystery of Murder in the Three OrchidsFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=All It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the ladies back of Ohis head which could have happened if he'Brian Fashion House are trying d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to do is review the evidence and to present their works in take the best of lights investigation further. More to the best of Milanese and European societypoint, but they're not going to find a dead person do this live on their premises much helpcamera, episode by episode. Cristiana lives in Casa OThere'Brian, on s no dump of the top floor whole box set - and no shortage of the building where everything key cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to her company happens, and itFind You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's on mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her bed that she finds step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearbycourt, an orchid that bizarrely means after Martin receives a lot to herlife sentence. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking The barrister tells her that she'd seen some people s received a 'silent sentence' - she really didn't want s not been found guilty of anything but will have to see back in live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, in it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the audience below? most of it. And who here ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not actually be who they first appear? It'll be a tough case for Inspector de Vincenzi, that's for sureprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1529413680|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from Bavaria the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to Sicily see the show with the intention of drinking herself to deathsome friends. She couldIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Once Luckily, his doctor is there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by is whisked away in a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaninghelicopter. For a while she was a suspect, but that A local doctor (and her wigfriend of Bruno) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who was assigned to investigate runs Frenchelon - the casemilitary has stepped in. Assisting him (or having him assist One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concernedfather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell1529196388|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas QuaidTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, Grant Cliveden was a hero: a professional burglar policeman who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest stood for all that was good and imprisonment as occupational hazards honest and on the rare occasion looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was nabbed, hemurdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There'd raise s just one man in the frame for his hands murder - Jimmy Knight - and it''come quiet''. Turns out thats not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's not what his nickname meant at allmurder. Turns out there Knight was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid told that a lot the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of people didnStag Court Chambers and it't know. Even those s Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who thought they knew eventually represent him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Angela Marsons|title= Silent Scream|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In Knight''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim Stone is called s determined to investigate the body of a woman found dead in the bath of a house that has been set on fire. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstancesplead not guilty, it becomes clear that this isndespite all Taylor-Cameron't going to be an isolated case and they are in a race against the clock s recommendations to find out who could be next on the killer's hit list and whycontrary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>