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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Grafton|title=Y is for Yesterday|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= My very first crime fiction book was a Kinsey Millhone story, and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from a crime avoider to a crime lover! Since that first story, I have been committed to the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt both excited and a little sad to be holding the penultimate story in the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1786482126|title= Look For Her|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades the town of Lilling tried to solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance until, almost twenty years later, her body was discovered. Annalise's body was badly decomposed and there was lack of DNA available, the only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not match anyone on record. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seen. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= E V Harte|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under a pseudonym. But, as a self-confessed chicklit fan, who's never read a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it....turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Neil White|title= From The Shadows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straight. I'll go with a prologue – even if it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else fails. That, however, is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angela Marsons|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)Elly Griffiths

|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a field trip, but going to be honest a lot of the students didnhold seventy-five 'luxury't really look all that interested in apartments - when they discovered the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none bones of them would go into forensicsa child beneath a doorway. There was more excitement when the no skull was discovered but at that point the students were quickly escorted from the scene and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigation. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from the neighbouring force also arrived Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the same intention: the burial site was right on the border between the two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and the other beganDCI Harry Nelson. Stone assumed It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that it would be her case and was shocked and bewildered when she found that it was to be run is pregnant with his child as a joint investigationresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. She nearly refused: she and Travis had historyHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz0008551324|title=The Word is MurderDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=An attractive, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in London, and makes plans for her own funeral. Within just a few hours, sheIt's had lunch, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own home. Could unusual for anyone have foreseen from the service Hardie family to have been needed so quickly? approach the police. ThatNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the initial premise police where the body of this thrillera missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, this most intriguing mysteryhe promises, is someone big and if you want to read it – which will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is something you really should do – with no surprises, you should not read to be transferred to an open prison to serve the book's blurb, or even the authorial biography, remainder of his sentence and perhaps not even the followingto get an early parole date. Just go in blindNot much to ask, and wait for the surprises – that start, as is it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Clare Donoghue|title= ? The Night Stalker|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turf. Lewishamshe's finest are sent even prepared to do the country for this outing. There's been a death down in Somerset. It's not the sort of other thing you'd expect the regional murder squad to get involved in, it looks like a hitthat Hardie demanded -make certain that DS Max Craigie and-run on a remote road in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four anyone who didnworks with him is kept well away from what't even know he'd done its happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0008405026|title= The Long Arm of A Stranger in the Law|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the 'golden age' of crime fiction, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod to shame. Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown and so on. I'll admit to being a fan of all of those, but they aren't the whole story. The other side of the coin shows the official police doing their job and getting their man. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Val McDermid|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Jane Casey

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheIt's got less than three weeks to livesixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Had Kathryn known that she might have made different choicesShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. I've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being at the weddingNow, her mother, Helena, but it was there that she met and her killerfather are dead in their bed. He said his name was David and he was charmingInitially, respectful, unwilling to rush anything as he was still getting over it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the death positioning of his wife. Kathryn was left with the feeling bodies that he was still more than a little bit in love with Triciamakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. They went on a couple of dates What looked as though it was going to be an open-and then David took her to -shut case is now a cottage in the Dales for the weekendcomplex double murder. By the end of Kerrigan is convinced that the weekend Kathryn would be dead explanation lies in her burned-out carRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker0571379877|title= All The Wicked GirlsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= In the small town of GraceEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, fifteenobsessed with his upper-yearclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know herobsessed, the incident rocks the entire town. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the yeardemanding, five young church-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar County. The kidnapper handsome and entitled and murderer responsible uses Edward to run errands for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and has so far evaded capturehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Whilst Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he roams 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the streets, no one is safetwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim WeaverJo Callaghan|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker When a man is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over found crucified on the course of his work, he's seen plenty top of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You seehill in Nuneaton, Richard Kite isn't trying DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at case alongside her sidekick, the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can't remember anything about his lifeAI detective Lock. He It's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on their first live case together, having previously been very successful with his lifeseveral cold cases. Nobody seems to know who he But when there isa second body found crucified a few days later, despite news Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and press coverage a very high profile case that draws a lot of his unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the casein time, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'or will Kat find herself taken off the gridcase and,' unable to get a jobpotentially, pay tax or own out of a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1035021803|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=Jane TennisonIt's a fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where shegrew up. She's back at Bow Street waiting now because of a request for help from her first postingbeloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's former mentor and Carole'd like s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the Flying Squadcircumstances seem suspicious, but she's to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not got been back to the experiencevillage: Arthur, she feels, norlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it she has not felt able to be saidnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the necessary physical attributesrebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. This Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampantnot. It was also London just after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the extensive IRA bombing campaign body of 1974 and 75 and no one believes that itGreg's going to be over any time soonfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane It was caught up in an easy assumption for the latest incident in which a bomb killed five people - police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and shethen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's one of only two people who got a good look at the bomberlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1529900360|title=The Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet showIt 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. WeHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'll follow t need the story help of John Liptona psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's courtship through excerpts from his journalpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson She knew that the involvement was writing something that the biography man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilanda remote property in Bel Air. It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is unwilling married to discuss the one thing which the public will want to know about: his wifean extremely rich man and it's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous booknot the Italian. Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries But which are well attended and he of them was seemingly on his way to one of these talks when he disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black178763681X|title= Murder in Saint-Germain|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the best-selling Cara Black, it is in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. And so, if I'm honest, I wasn't sure what to expect. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough Knife Skills for those of us coming late to the party? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=Three Days and a LifeOrlando Murrin

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't got the best really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses getting both men and women to let him waste his time ondo what he wanted. HePaul ''somehow''s built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo got the girl next door impression that he loves, but she's rejected it. And his best company, d be at the dog from the other house next doorschool to assist Paul, was injured in who had a hit and runbroken arm, and shot to be put but it didn't turn out of its miserythat way. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly The teaching - and adorable neighbour, the dog's sixproblems -year-old owner, and Antoineare all his own. The one thing he hadn's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweept expected was for someone to turn up dead. As the title suggestsUnfortunately, there will be a very tense few days and nights while he was the guilt amasses with person who discovered the lad – body and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead everyone knows that the police consider that person to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>be the prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1529421284|title=Leopard at Laying Out the DoorBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to Kenya after being away at school in England the surface and finds a lot can change in 6 forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine yearsearlier. Of course she realises her motherHe's death would alter things d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but she's not prepared for her father's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in RachelDI Matt Lockyer wasn's old roomt convinced. Michael Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though suicide of Holly Gilbert and now a man with his own ideasto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and about to blowme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529425867|title= Elena Varvello Lost and Alex Valente Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor= Can You Hear Me?Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978Oxford, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is sixteen of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and troubledalways exquisitely dressed. His mundanely stable D I Ryan Wilkins, loving and ordered life is rocked by the murder son of a young boy Ryan and the disappearance father of a young womanRyan, who vanishes into the woodsis not. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic and unpredictable father, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts He's not any of senseless violencethose things. Into this steps Anna, the mother of Elia He's friendwhite, originated from a woman bowed under the strain trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of life shell suits and haunted by her choicestrackies. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia They's certainty that something is desperately wrong re usually in his homelime green or acid yellow. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, You might wonder if you're being introduced to the mysteriously sensual and sad Annaa police procedural written for laughs. Well, Elia feels you're not. The two men are just different sides of the ground start to shift under his feet, to feel same policing coin. Sometimes the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge of adolescence and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)1529431735|title=The King of FoolsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Having sort of split up with his partnerIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the southern French coast, when he chances to meet Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a married English woman, Marjoriedecade. They meet in the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next to each otherThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she gets in the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behind's ill and hasn't long to live. Lo and behold they find each other at the casino, and the following day, It's hard to feel any sympathy when she arrives at his hotel to reclaim her bagHopkins is abducted, they meet heart stripped to heart. Jean-Marie sees her his underwear and sent to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even watery grave in the arrival boot of his partner and make-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjoriea stolen Ford Sierra. But finding her again will take him Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude0861541774|title= Death Makes A ProphetNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this DCI Domenic Jejeune''Crime Classic'' I had s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to check the first publication datemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Reading the first two pages, it could easily have been written Maik was involved in 1967, or '87, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Given Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal suggested that ithe might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's taken this long to resurfacet help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Stephen BoothKeith Redfern|rating=4|titlegenre=Crime|summary=Dead 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 Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in -law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her 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 Dark death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Cooper and FryGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54

|summary=It's ten the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years since Reece Bower was accused of old. He used to have a high-flying job in the murder of his wife, city but the case never came to trial: Annette Bowerit wasn't satisfying so he's body was never found and although now set himself up as a murder can private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be prosecuted without a body there was an added problem herethinking. AnnetteNice bloke, but where's father said the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, hehas been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what'd seen his daughter s been written off as a couple of days after she'd apparently disappearedtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Had Annette simply left the marriage that Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? Then, front of a decade later, Reece Bower disappears without tracetrain. His new partner wants some answersGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris1838954481|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 34

|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at modern mediaDI Kieran Shaw. There's plenty here He pulled the trigger but due to like, the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and plenty not tothe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. But good structure For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and scramjet pace keep this one flying to hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the final pageorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville1448309743|title=So Say the Fallen The Devil Stone (DCI Serena FlanaganChristine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Harry Garrick had been a successful businessman until In the car accident which cost him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden to his wife for even village of Cronchie on the most intimate functions, so there was not a ''lot'' of surprise when, six months later, he seemed to have taken his own life. One sachet West coast of morphine granulesScotland, mixed in a pot five members of yoghurt had given him a good night's sleepwealthy family are found murdered. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets of granules, if The only item missing from the empty packets were anything to go by. It seemed obvious that home is the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convincedDevil Stone: it was just myth says that if the widowstone is removed from Otterburn House, Roberta Garrickdeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the local clergymanbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closeDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529077699|title= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineAnn Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is a man . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of simple pleasures; Sheriff in an autumn gale, stayed for about a small townmonth and then turned up, a good husband father naked and neighbourdead, he moves through life buoyed by his faithin a small boat, anchored in both God and justice. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man's tenuously ordered life and drags him Scully Cove close to the edge village of the abyssGreystone, in Devon. McCarthy is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and Rosco had the nature status of existence. Into this quagmire steps Franck, a private detective with national treasure: a shadowy agendarenowned adventurer, a raging cocaine habit round the world sailor and a twisted sense of moralityall round ''celebrity''. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crime I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, Franck acts as he could be more than a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality little bit close with money and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a winkbackground isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Mark EllisKarin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area 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 remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe and France is occupied, thereIt's something of a lull scene replicated all too often in Britainthe early hours of the morning. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for other duties a way to get home. Some are lucky and London is spared manage to get one of the nightly blitz, but no few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one's under any illusions that it could start again at any timeof the outlying villages. ThereThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem's been a certain relaxation , particularly in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on the rise and not all light of them go as they should'the missing women'. A For one young woman is found dead in , the final stop on the bus leaves her a London hotel room as the result long way short of a botched operation: her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she has had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no identification option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and no one knows who the father of the baby was, or who performed the operationin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1405957174|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not really a detectiveend well. He's just The victim - a normal bloke man - though that might depend on your definition of 'normal' - who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats is dying when we first meet him and a collection of vinyl in a house that happens to be adjacent Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ''Abbey'', a posh rehab place notorious for the celebrities it treatsambulance he so desperately needs. He doesn What we don't solve crimes know is who the man is or trace missing people, even if he does search for rare recordswhy Nadine prefers to have him die. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help in tracing I'd better give you a missing child of a 1960little more background so that you can understand what's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mystery, he says no. That is, until he is told that the job would also involve tracing a rare singlehappening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson0008530025|title=Sleeping Murder in the GroundFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=It was the sort of display which would have been better in black December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and white and without a sound track, but what happened at found the Red Wedding, as it would come to be knownbody of her stepfather, was noisyLuke Ryder, brutal and fatalin the garden of their West London home. A sniper He had an injury on a distant hillside began shooting at the wedding party: three people, including back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the bride died immediately. Another two, including steps but the bridegroom would die soon afterwardsvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Terry Gilchrist saw the shooter disappearing over the hillsideTwenty years later, but the armed response officers were unwilling to take no one has been charged with his word for it when they finally arrived murder and it was 's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a further threetrue-quarters crime show. A group of an hour before they gave clearance for experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the paramedics investigation further. More to come the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the scenewhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too long's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</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 (translator)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=Suspicion A Chateau Under Siege (Inspector Barlach 2A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34

|summary=Inspector Barlach One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is dyingthe re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. We did know thatIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, more or lessKerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from [[The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|the first book]] to feature him, but it's confirmed here by us opening on him in a clinic bed, with a year left to livescript. But Luckily, his doctor is helping him there and the man is whisked away in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his lifea helicopter. When A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his doctor blanches at the sight chances of survival but - as he's a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at worksenior government employee, a story slowly starts to emerge, one that may prove to be a wicked conspiracy to keep the Nazi alive and still practicing, under someone else's nameman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. BarlachOne daughter lives nearby and another, clearly well suited to go under cover as someone needing to go under the knifewho lives in California, works up a plan to check whether his suspicion is correct. Whatflying in with some of her father's the worst that could happen after all? – even were he to regret his decision, it would never be friends for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>a pre-arranged holiday.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1529196388|title=Forever and a DeathThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=A lot of time Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and effort goes into the average movielooked up to by just about everyone, but this is so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at least double in the case of BondOld Bailey. Each one is part of a decadeThere's long institution and must excel. With this just one man in mind there is a sea of discarded wannabethe frame for his murder -Bond themes, wannabeJimmy Knight -Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actors. For every successful it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden'Garbage'' Bond theme, there are numerous other indie bands s murder. Knight was told that never made the cut. Donald E Westlake best barrister for him was a successful thriller writer in Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his own rightpupil, but once he jumped aboard the good ship Bond his work never cut itAdam Green, who eventually represent him. The result was this adaptation of his failed Bond scriptKnight's determined to plead not guilty, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.