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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell1786482126|title= Rhyming Rings|rating=3.5|genre= Crime|summary= David Gemmell is a well-known name. Until his death in 2006 he topped the UK author lists in fantasy and historical fiction…but some will suggest that this previously unpublished manuscript shows that he might have gone in a different direction entirely. He might have opted for a life of crime. Crime fiction that is. I'll come back to that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lesley Thomson|title=The Dog WalkerElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=In January 1987 it Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was only joggers and dog walkers who went on going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the Thames towpath after darkbones of a child beneath a doorway. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left the riverside cottage she shared with her husband and never came homeThere was no skull. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wanderingWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, but Helen's body was never discoveredDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. In 2016 HelenIt's husband, Adam, still wants to know what happened. He has an alibi, albeit a somewhat dubious onedifficult as Ruth knows, but another neighbour was suspected. Steve Lawson couldnNelson doesn't stand the constant suspicion and drowned himself in the Thames: over the years that came to be accepted as an admission of guilt and even one of his children is certain that he was responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malin Persson Giolito|title= Quicksand|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something about Scandinavia, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? This she is the second book pregnant with his child as a result of the same title by northern writers that I've read this year, and we're only into April. For clarity from the outset, this has nothing to do with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on here, but we are back in territory he would probably have been familiar withone night they spent together some three months ago. We're in a Scandinavian courtroom, Swedish to Her condition will be precise – we're about to begin the trial of Maja Norberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= C J Skuse|title= Sweetpea|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=In many ways, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary life. She works at a local paper, lives with her obvious before long term boyfriend, dotes on her dog and not least because Ruth is part of a large group prone to sudden bouts of friends. There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannon, like that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families... and she's in fact a serial killer. She's harmless though... as long as you stay off her listsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)0008551324|title=The Judge and His Hangman Devil You Know (Inspector Barlach 1D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=WeIt're in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Second World Warpolice. A man Neither side likes or has been found on a remote mountain roadany respect for the other. It would appear But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he opened his car door 's prepared to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead. Leading tell the police where the investigation body of a missing person is Inspector Barlach, an elderly buried and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness was responsible for new-fangled ideas of criminologyher death. This person, but he has employed Tschanz to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence promises, is someone big and to share it, and not rely on gut instinctswill be worth the police doing what he wants. Neither particularly want And what he wants is to be out in all weathers sorting transferred to an open prison to serve the crime, but the victim was certainly in the wrong place at the wrong time, for he was a fellow policeman remainder of his sentence and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they aren't sayingto get an early parole date. What had he been up Not much toask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and which way of policing the case will get she's even prepared to do the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath0008405026|title= AmnesiaA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair is in trouble. HeIt's had 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 nasty knock on the head halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and now he can't remember anything about his lifeher father are dead in their bed. In an attempt to recover his memories Initially, he is sent to convalesce in it looks like a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands in the company of his old friendstraightforward murder/suicide but there's niece, Clemence. During their stay, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems to tell something about the story positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her grandmother's boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder years before. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover Kerrigan is convinced that the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearer, explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as does a creeping malevolent ghost from AlastairDerwent's past who wants to make sure the past stays buriedboss, even if that means burying Alastair along with itUna Burt) are less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler0571379877|title= Bryant and May: Wild ChamberThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant and May are back! So the slow decline into old ageEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with a side helping of dementiahis upper-class friends, isnRobert and Stanza. Robert't quite the Reichenbach Falls: s a theatre director. it did give Fowler a cleaner He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and clearer way to have Arthur Bryant return uses Edward to workrun errands for him. A simple 'Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he hasnfeels to Robert. Most men in Robert't been well s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's back now'' and no more need be said about itnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LondonJo Callaghan|title=Death MessageLeave No Trace

|summary=In October 1987, When a man is found crucified on the morning after the great stormtop of a hill in Nuneaton, Tania Mills left home DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to visit a friend and was never seen again. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the Met's Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened to case alongside her sidekick, the fifteen-year-old girlAI detective Lock. It's not all she has to do though - there are still current their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases which have to be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all together. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal 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 domestic violence: the husband is vicious and volatile, but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened unwanted attention to do anything but put up with his outburststheir AI Future Policing project. Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism between them: will Will they be able to work togethersolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1035021803|title=Peter OThe Antique Hunter'Donnell and Enric Badia Romeros Guide to Murder|titleauthor=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseC L Miller

|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesa request for help from her beloved aunt, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksCarole. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves Freya's former mentor and her great crime-solving mindCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and of course with her Williethe circumstances seem suspicious, this is to say the least. Arthur was the last-but-one chance for you reason why Freya had not been back to do sothe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. And if you have any interest Even though they were in quick little action talesbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or even dated kitschpursue the profession she loved. After the split, for both apply hereshe worked in a cafe, then you should eagerly be met and married James (on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1398524085|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this seriesCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a wellEtty. are all worried but - strangely -known local man to track down some missing valuablesher husband, Alec, is not. Bill Galbraith Shortly afterwards, a world-famous surgeon at CambridgeEtty and Greg, find the body of Greg's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmefather, Duncan Ackerley, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurorathe river. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning It was an important patient of his at easy assumption for the hospital. George agrees police to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and straightforward case – little does he know, then committed suicide when hecouldn'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 to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctionwhat really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick1529900360|title=Well of the Winds (DCI Daley)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's not a happy time fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for DCI Jim Daleyhis help on difficult cases. The woman he loved is dead - His assertions that there are those who blame him for what happened were only open- and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and his young son is deteriorating by -shut cases which didn't need the dayhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. HeFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's finding solace in partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the bottom of a glass, whilst involvement was something that the man who used to do that all too oftenshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and has found exercisethough. There's Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a new officer remote property in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and whilst she might look young, is married to an extremely rich man and it's unlikely that she got to that position without having a core not the Italian. But which of steel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)178763681X|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenario: 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 policeman hears someone screaming way of getting both men and runs women to a house on a particular street, number 13, from where do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the noise is emanating. When impression that he peeps through 'd be at the letterbox he discovers school to assist Paul, who had a dead man in broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the hallway with a knife in problems - are all his throatown. He goes The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to fetch helpturn up dead. Unfortunately, but upon returning, finds that he was the person who discovered the street does not have a number 13 body and everyone knows that the body and police consider that person to be the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished.prime suspect..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Irvine Welsh1529421284|title= The Blade ArtistLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary=SoIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbiegully, a human skeleton came to the notoriously violent, terrifying protector/tormentor of surface and forensic testing proved the Trainspotting gang. Whilst this means you are unlikely body to receive an unbiased reviewbe Lee Geary, it does mean you will get a passionate onewho had disappeared nine years earlier. It is fair to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist' He' d been a known drug user and my only critique would be that had learning disabilities, so it was over too quickly. For those could have been a simple case of you who may not be familiar with Welshmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's earlier manifestations have no feart convinced. Geary was a townie, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, father, husband to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and elegant thug. For those DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into the world of a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence and bloodme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Ould1529425867|title= The Killing Bay|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Between the Scando-noir Lost and the Highlands-and-Islands crime, it was only a matter of time until a series featuring a life-weary detective set in Greenland, Iceland, or thereabouts appeared. And here we are, with a series based in the Faroes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297069</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Guy Bolton|title=The PicturesSimon Mason

|summary=It's the spring In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of 1939: in Hollywood ''The Wizard Ryan and father of Oz'' Ryan, is in production at MGM and itnot. He's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for the actors or the studionot any of those things. The police department recognises that itHe's good for Hollywood that all goes smoothly and itwhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's Detective Jonathan Cranenot 's job to see that the crimes 'really'' his thing) and misdemeanours his wardrobe consists mainly of the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetshell suits and trackies. The studio rewards him handsomely for this and thereThey's perhaps a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Crainere usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's got it easy and wouldn't know how re being introduced to investigate a case if it came up and slapped himpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but in Craineyou's mind all thatre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's going to changeproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza1529431735|title= The Acid TestWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo It's February 1991 and Essex is dead. Murdered in bitingly cold blood in a desolate, dusty field by the side of which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the roadmore surprising. Once He'd been exiled on the most adored, celebrated dancer at the local strip club, she had Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to the deaths of various associates, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''decade. The Acid Test'return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, following on from Mendozasaying that she's first novel ''Silver Bullets''. I haven't read the first instalment of this series ill and donhasn't believe that had any impact on this storylong to live. Lefty has a personal connection It's hard to the casefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, forever haunted by the memories of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections stripped to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents underwear and his consuming desire sent to avenge her death to track down this violent and deranged killer. Along a watery grave in the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos which erupt in explosive levels boot of violence, meet a host of damaged, humorous and violent residents of Culiacán and follow Lefty on stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a trail of destruction, death and disorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Farris Smith0861541774|title= Desperation RoadA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Maben is on the run. For a long while itDCI Domenic Jejeune's not clear whether she's running from something or towards somethingclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, or simply back has taken a short holiday in Singapore to where it all startedmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She's got her small daughter Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with her, a knife - and they've been walking for he killed a very long timeGhurka. It's hard on the childInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but it's also clear evidence came to light that suggested that if it wasn't for he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the child Maben would stop running, death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and itwouldn's clear that that would not be a good thingt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Savile1521129886|title=Parallel LinesThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54

|summary=Books are full of coincidences, Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because if Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they were not, they would 're both delighted. Joyce will be pretty dullmore delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. The action takes place during Greg is approached by an extraordinary timescale of the characters – the time they were involved old friend whose brother-in a bank robbery, or their loved one was murdered-law appears to have killed himself. People are more likely Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to read this type of book than one about the time they picked out their new curtainsmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. For the intrigue to happenLucy, links between characters have to be madehe says, but balancing coincidence is trickyconvinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. Too little The police and the characters doncoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart't gel, too much and you start s prepared to pay Greg to think find out what happened on the book is supernaturalnight Gil died. Did Steven Savile get the balance right in ''Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah HilaryB0CK3MYJ56|title=Quieter than Killing Responsibilities (D I Marnie Rome 4Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=The attacks all seemed It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be quite randomthinking. Nice bloke, but where's the nights were darklife experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. the weather freezing Joyce and D I Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were spending quite a lot of time on the streets of London. Then Marnieuntil Helen was killed in what's family home was ransacked and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on the order of someone) who knew herwritten off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Normally Commander Welland would have been able to give Marnie a degree of protection Joyce - he knew and her history all too well parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - but his cancer had returned and he can't understand what she was going doing there - or how she could come to be away for four months. His stand-fall in was nowhere near as understanding in this or other mattersfront of a train. Then it was established that a child was missing - had Greg's been missing for ten weeks - but no one had reported itasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sam Blake1838954481|title= Little BonesThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= It was Ryan Kennedy killed a fairly ordinary break in. A young artistpolice officer: there's home had been given a going over, but it was hard to see no doubt about that much had been taken. There were suspicions that He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it might have been one at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the usual suspects, only murder and the shoes weren't as they'd have expected to find them if that was to be manslaughter of the caseofficer. And so lives must go on. Something else was not as you might expect to find it: For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by quieter life in the look of it, countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and in back into the hem, stitched in there, tiny bones. Human bonesorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elly Griffiths1448309743|title=The Chalk Pit Devil Stone (Dr Ruth GallowayDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Norwich is - apparently - riddled with tunnels, many dating back to In the time when chalk was mined there. When bones are discovered in one village of Cronchie on the tunnels it seems obvious that they've been there for hundreds West coast of yearsScotland, but Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, isn't so certainfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The colour doesn't look right and she has a suspicion that only item missing from the home is the bones have been boiledDevil Stone: they've also not been there myth says that longif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. DCI Harry Nelson has a murder case on his hands. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a local rough sleeper and thereThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's not a lot to go on other than the rumour an easy conclusion given that shetwo of them 's discovered'gone underground', the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but whatwhen he disappears, exactly, does that mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1529077699|title= DarktownThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, Georgia. The Deep Southit is. This is country that fought to keep Jem Rosco blew into the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion of segregation as local pub one evening in the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system middle of governance of all her people. That's an autumn gale, stayed for about a history that today's southerners are variously proud or ashamed ofmonth and then turned up, naked and dead, or choose to ignorein a small boat, or hope anchored in Scully Cove close to forgetthe village of Greystone, or continue to strive againstin Devon. VariouslyRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, because people are also individuals round the world sailor and we all hold to our own view of what is rightround ''celebrity''. For many of us, what is I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg'rightbut as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn' is sometimes hard to draw t exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the lines around…but what is Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''wrongLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'' is much more clear. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-cutuntapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Divisions based on skin colour, or race, or creed are wrongSalander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. No two ways about It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious thatSvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susanna Beard1787636607|title= Dare to RememberThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Lisa FulbrookIt's best friend is dead – a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the victim morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a brutal attack who fell way to her death from her own apartment windowget home. Lisa was there, she too was a victim Some are lucky and manage to get one of the attack few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that killed her best friendwill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', and she is left with particularly in the light of 'the physical and emotional scars to prove itmissing women'. Traumatised by For one young woman, the events, Lisa flees final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to a country village ring someone to help settle come and collect her - but her frightened mindphone's dead. But what happened that night still torments her; The bus had driven off before she is plagued by vicious flashbacks and questions surrounding why she and had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her best friend Ali were targeted, because the one thing Lisa does know is that she canuse his. There't remember what really happened that fateful nights no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harry Brett1405957174|title= Time To WinA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary= I have no idea what Great Yarmouth has ever done to Harry Brett, but, boy, is he getting his own back! Now personally, I don't much like From the townfirst page, and I we know it has its seedy side, like most places, but I can't believe itthat Nadine Walsh's quite this badparty will not end well. According to Brett, the weather's as dreary as the down'n'outs, the streets are grim, The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and the people worse. He Nadine consciously makes the point that no-one comes effort to Yarmouth for their summer holidays anymore…if that wasn't true before this book, it's likely to be call the ambulance he so afterwardsdesperately needs. If a place could sue for defamation of character, What we don't know is who the town would want man is or why Nadine prefers tohave him die. The opening shot is of Richard Goodwin going down into the murky waters of the Yare out back of his office. Goodwin was not I'd better give you a good personlittle more background so that you can understand what's happening... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147215262X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Mcdonald0008530025|title=SnatchMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=It's not often was in December 2003 that you get two books for fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the price body of oneher stepfather, Luke Ryder, but if you are going to see this anywhere it will likely be in a reissuethe garden of their West London home. Taking He had an injury on the back catalogue of an author and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already his head which could havehappened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Hard Case Crime have done this Twenty years later, no one has been charged with two books by his murder and it's now the subject of ''FletchInfamous'' author Gregory Mcdonald, a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. Surely two books that centre More to the point, they're going to do this live on kidnapping camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. Think againIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and Joel Agee step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=The PledgeMartin Walker

|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerland, a girl has been murdered One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and left for anyone Bruno's there to see in a forestthe show with some friends. The police comeIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, and soon find out who the villagers already think man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the sole suspect – a man known for illegal liaisons with young girlsscript. They haveLuckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in fact, to put a compelling case against lynch mob rule just to get him back for investigationhelicopter. He does confess, after a lengthy process – A local doctor (and then hangs himself. But the leader friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of the investigation, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to a different job elsewhere, is determined to follow up on the promise survival but - as he made to the girl's parentsa senior government employee, to make the guilty person face justiceman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. ItOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a promise, however, with farpre-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>arranged holiday.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1529196388|title= Kill the Next One|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat's ''Kill the Next One'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middle-aged man with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect life, including a beautiful wife and two adoring children, but has discovered that he is also in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. However, right before he decides to take the shot and end his life, there is a knock on his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of the law. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrial|author=Val McDermid|title=Out of BoundsRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=When Grant Cliveden was a teenage joyrider crashed hero: a stolen car policeman who stood for all that was good and ended honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection to an unsolved murder from years before his birthplain sight at the Old Bailey. On There's just one man in the face of it, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforward, but frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but too long before Knight appears in this case it looks as though the court, charged with Cliveden''law'' itself might prove to be an insurmountable barriers murder. SheKnight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's drawn to another case too - one which she really has no business investigating Taylor- Cameron and one which has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades earlierhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Like the case of the teenage joyrider Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'nothing'' is quite as it seemss recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>