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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1786482126|title=The Furthest StationJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - spectres scaring commuters on a particular part of the Metropolitan Line, for example site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they call for PC Peter Grant discovered the bones of the Special Assessment Unita child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, also known Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as The Folly. Stray river godsRuth knows, missing Victorian childrenbut Nelson doesn't, fleeting 18th century dispatch ridersthat she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, they are all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The Follynot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Stokes0008551324|title= The Happy EndingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. HeIt's a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to have a fall approach the police. Neither side likes or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's managing well enough at homeprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Mentally he's all thereThis person, even if he does have these conversations with his wifepromises, who's been dead is someone big and it will be worth the last 6 years. There's a point when 'police doing ok' stops being quite so ok, a point when there's clearly no purpose leftwhat he wants. No-one comes, even the paramedics seem And what he wants is to be transferred to have shunted you an open prison to serve the bottom remainder of the list, his sentence and wellto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's all becoming just a bit too undignified. To be honest, when he found even prepared to do the morphine Bettyother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd been stock-piling against the day her own illness got too much for her but never used as it turned out, Harry was on the point of using it himselfs happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0008405026|title=These Darkening DaysA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Somewhere in his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold of the knife It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was a mistake, but he liked knives never found and had quite a collection until they were all taken away after the accident which had left him, well, not quite as he ought investigation ground to bea halt. The problem with this knife was that it was beside the woman who was lying in the ginnellNow, one leg twisted under her rather strangely mother, Helena, and with blood coursing down her facefather are dead in their bed. Tony thought Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about ringing the police but dismissed positioning of the idea quicklybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She What looked as though it was still alive going to be an open- just and- so an ambulance might have been shut case is now a good ideacomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going to catch him, so he dropped the knife down a drain and disappearedUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith0571379877|title=Portrait of a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Adrian Gray was not Edward Jevons is a particularly pleasant working-class young man, but that was no reason why he should meet obsessed with his death at the hands of one of his own children as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars in 1931upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. None of the six children were fond of their father He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and several had cause uses Edward to wish run errands for him dead. Richard was the eldest Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and was married he's drunkenly confided how he feels to LauraRobert. He was Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a politician and keen to advance himself - and to get a title other than the knighthood which he already relationship had - begun between them but such endeavours cost money which he ''didn't'' have. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting s not like most men: Edward is left to blackmail him and was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him out stumble upon the two of the messthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue GraftonJo Callaghan|title=Y is for YesterdayLeave No Trace

|summary= My very first crime fiction book was When a Kinsey Millhone story, and I man is found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from crucified on the top of a crime avoider hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to a crime lover! the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Since that It's their first storylive case together, I have having previously been committed to the alphabet mysteriesvery successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, so it I felt both excited Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a little sad very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be holding able to solve the penultimate story case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the series in my hands!case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow1035021803|title= Look For HerThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and instantly became a local celebritythe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. For decades Arthur was the town of Lilling tried reason why Freya had not been back to solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance untilvillage: Arthur, almost twenty years latershe feels, let her body was discovereddown badly. Annalise's body was badly decomposed and there was lack of DNA available Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the only trace on man or pursue the profession she loved. After the body was found split, she worked in her skirt a cafe, met and does not match anyone married James (on record. The chances the rebound from the love of finding her killer were extremely low life, who was murdered) and Freya and the murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seenJames have now divorced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte1398524085|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I Charlotte Salter was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from establishedexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, wellEtty. are all worried but -regarded author Daisy Waughstrangely - her husband, Alec, writing under a pseudonymis not. But Shortly afterwards, as a self-confessed chicklit fanEtty and Greg, whofind the body of Greg's never read a crime novel beforefather, Duncan Ackerley, I wasnin the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't sure if I was going to like it.stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened..turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White1529900360|title= From The ShadowsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= IIt hadn'm a bit oldt 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-fashioned and therefore not a great fan of stories that can-shut cases which didn't keep their timeline straightneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. I'll go with a prologue – even if Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the beginning swimming pool of a story – but switching between 'now' and 'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else failsremote property in Bel Air. That, however, He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' married to an extremely rich man and I admit, whether I like it or 's not, it does more or less workthe Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Angela MarsonsOrlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a field tripheatwave. In a gully, but a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be honest Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a lot simple case of the students didnmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none of them would go into forensicsconvinced. There Geary was more excitement when the skull a townie, so what was discovered but at that point he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the students were quickly escorted from the scene suicide of Holly Gilbert and D I Kim Stone came on site to begin her investigation. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from the neighbouring force also arrived 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 other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the other begantime. Stone assumed that it would be her case Lockyer and was shocked and bewildered when she found DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that it was 's cold cases to be run as a joint investigation. She nearly refused: she you and Travis had historyme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1529425867|title=The Word is MurderLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=An attractiveIn Oxford, well-heeled woman enters a classically-minded funeral parlour in Londonthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and makes plans for her own funeralalways exquisitely dressed. Within just a few hoursD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, sheis not. He's had lunch, engaged with business affairs – and been killed in her own homenot any of those things. Could anyone have foreseen the service to have been needed so quickly? ThatHe's the initial premise of this thrillerwhite, this most intriguing mysteryoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you want 're being introduced to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surprisesa police procedural written for laughs. Well, you should not read the book's blurb, or even the authorial biography, and perhaps re not even . The two men are just different sides of the followingsame policing coin. Just go in blind, and wait for Sometimes the surprises – that start, as combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>'s problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1529431735|title= The Night StalkerWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer It's February 1991 and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett are back – but this time not on home turfEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Lewisham He's finest are sent to d been exiled on the country Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for this outinga decade. There The return has come about because he's been had a death down in Somersetletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's not the sort of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad hard to get involved infeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, it looks like a hit-stripped to his underwear and-run on sent to a remote road watery grave in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving boot of a big four-by-four who didn't even know he'd done stolen Ford Sierra. Is it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)0861541774|title= The Long Arm A Nye of the LawPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the DCI Domenic Jejeune'golden age' of crime fictions close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, we think of the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod has taken a short holiday in Singapore to shamemeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, Father Brown Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and so onhe killed a Ghurka. I'll admit to being Initially, he faced a fan charge of all of those, manslaughter but they aren't evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the whole storyman. The other side of Now he could be facing the coin shows the official death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police doing their job force could provoke a diplomatic incident and getting their manwouldn't help Danny at all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1521129886|title=Insidious Intent: They Had It Coming (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10Greg Mason mysteries) |author=Keith Redfern|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheGreg Mason's got less than three weeks just beginning to liveget his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Had Kathryn known that she might It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have made different choicesa baby and they're both delighted. I've a suspicion that Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she might not gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have wasted time being at the wedding, but it was there that she met her killerkilled himself. He said Stuart's concerned about his name was David and he was charmingsister, respectfulLucy, unwilling who's struggling to rush anything as he was still getting over the death of his wifemake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Kathryn was left with the feeling Lucy, he says, is convinced that he was still more than a little bit Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in love with Triciahis nature. They went on a couple of dates The police and then David took her to a cottage in the Dales for coroner have accepted that the weekend. death was suicide, By the end of but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris WhitakerB0CK3MYJ56|title= All The Wicked GirlsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= In It's the small town of Grace, fifteen-year1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missing. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her, He used to have a high-flying job in the incident rocks the entire towncity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop 'Shades of recent crimes; for over Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the course of life experience that backs up this profession? On the yearother hand, five young churchhe has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-attending girls have gone missing from all corners of Briar Countysisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The kidnapper Joyce - and murderer responsible for the disappearance of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcementher parents, Oliver and has so far evaded capturePam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Whilst he roams the streets, no one is safe Greg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1838954481|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing Persons|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over the course of his work, he's seen plenty 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 see, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at 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 life. He's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news and press coverage of his case, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'off the grid,' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Misper|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)Kate London|rating=3.54

|summary=Jane TennisonRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's a fullyno doubt about that. He was the fifteen-fledged detective now after her tenyear-week course at Hendon: she's back old holding the gun and pointing it at Bow Street waiting for her first postingDI Kieran Shaw. She'd like He pulled the Flying Squad, trigger but she's due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not got guilty of both the murder and the experience, nor, it has to be said, manslaughter of the necessary physical attributesofficer. This is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampantAnd so lives must go on. It was also London just after For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 capital and 75 and no one believes that it's going to be over any time soon. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up hoping for a quieter life in the latest incident in which countryside but when a bomb killed five people - and missing teenager is found on her territory she's one of only two people who got drawn into a good look at wider investigation - and back into the bomberorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis1448309743|title=The Mermaid's Scream Devil Stone (Wesley PetersonDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In 1884 the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet showfamily are found murdered. We'll follow The only item missing from the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing home is the biography of Devil Stone: myth says that if the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilandstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's not an easy work as Staniland isnconclusion given that two of them 'discovered't inclined to give more away than he has to and is unwilling to discuss the one thing which the public will want to know about: his wife's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous bookbody. Wilkinson The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is doing his best to drum up interest pulled in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he was seemingly on his way to one of these talks when he disappeared'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1529077699|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 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>}}{{newreview|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=Three Days and a LifeAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the best of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time on. He'It's built a treehouse all by himselfbloody peculiar, and decided isn't it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but sheSir?''s rejected  Well yes, itis. And his best company, Jem Rosco blew into the dog from local pub one evening in the other house next doormiddle of an autumn gale, was injured in stayed for about a hit month and runthen turned up, naked and shot dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to be put out the village of its miseryGreystone, in Devon. In Rosco had the process status of angrily demolishing a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the treehouse, heworld sailor and all round ''s visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dogcelebrity's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweep. As the title suggestsI ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, there will he could be more than a very tense few days little bit close with money and nights while his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the guilt amasses with money for his first boat? How did he finance the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1529427045|title=Leopard at The Girl in the DoorEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Kenya after being away at school in England and finds the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a lot can change gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in 6 yearscoming forward. Of course she realises her motherSalander's death would alter things but sheniece's not prepared for mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her fatherniece's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Saraguardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's son Harold sleeping unaware of the part Salander played in Rachelher father's old roomdeath. Michael the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though and now a man with his own ideas. Meanwhile the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)1787636607|title= Can You Hear Me?The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978, in It's a small town scene replicated all too often in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen and troubled. His mundanely stable, loving and ordered life is rocked by the murder early hours of a young boy and the disappearance morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a young woman, who vanishes into the woodsway to get home. As Elia struggles Some are lucky and manage to make sense get one 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 the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of senseless violencethe outlying villages. Into this steps Anna The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the mother light of Elia's friendthe missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a woman bowed under the strain long way short of life her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and haunted by collect her choices. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia- but her phone's certainty that something is desperately wrong in his homedead. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the mysteriously sensual and sad Anna, Elia feels the ground start bus driver to shift under let her use his feet, . There's no option but to feel the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge of adolescence start walking - unsuitably clothed and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)1405957174|title=The King of FoolsA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Having sort of split up with his partnerFrom the first page, Jeanwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man -Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coast, dying when he chances to we first meet a married English woman, Marjorie. They meet in the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to each other, she gets in call the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behindambulance he so desperately needs. Lo and behold they find each other at What we don't know is who the casino, and the following day, when she arrives at his hotel man is or why Nadine prefers to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to hearthave him die. Jean-Marie sees her to be I'd better give you a very unhappily married woman, and not even the arrival of his partner and make-up sex little more background so that you can convince him he is not in love with Marjorieunderstand what's happening. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude0008530025|title= Death Makes A Prophet|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime Classic'' I had to check Murder in the first publication date. Reading the first two pages, it could easily have been written in 1967, or '87, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017. Given that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947, it's slightly criminal that it's taken this long to resurface.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Stephen Booth|title=Dead in the Dark (Cooper and Fry)Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=It's ten years since Reece Bower was accused 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 murder back of his wife, head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the case never came to trial: Annette Bower's body vicious beating his face had taken was never found obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and although a murder can be prosecuted without a body there was an added problem here. Annetteit's father said that henow the subject of ''Infamous''d seen his daughter , a couple true-crime show. A group of days after she'd apparently disappearedexperts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. Had Annette simply left More to the marriage that was in difficulties or was something more sinister point, they're going to do this live on? camera, episode by episode. Then, a decade later, Reece Bower disappears without traceThere's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. His new partner wants some answersIt's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris0241996104|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at modern mediatheir Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. There 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 plenty here not been found guilty of anything but will have to likelive 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 plenty not tothe papers are making the most of it. But good structure ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville1529413680|title=So Say the Fallen A Chateau Under Siege (DCI Serena FlanaganA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Harry Garrick had been a successful businessman until One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the car accident which cost him both legs English in 1370 and left him bedridden and beholden Bruno's there to his wife for even see the most intimate functions, so there was not a show with some friends. It''lot'' of surprise s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, six months laterKerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he seemed to have taken his own lifedeparts from the script. One sachet of morphine granulesLuckily, mixed his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a pot helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of yoghurt had given him a good nightBruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's sleep. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets of granulesa senior government employee, if the empty packets were anything to go byman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. It seemed obvious that the case should be closed quickly: One daughter lives nearby and another, who would dispute lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that the widow, Roberta Garrick, and the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closepre-arranged holiday. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)1529196388|title= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of Cocaine|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small town, a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faith, in both God and justice. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man's tenuously ordered life and drags him to the edge of the abyss. McCarthy is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps Franck, a private detective with a shadowy agenda, a raging cocaine habit and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a wink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrial|author=Mark Ellis|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and France is occupiedlooked up to by just about everyone, so therewas public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's something of a lull just one man in Britain. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe frame for other duties his murder - Jimmy Knight - and London is spared the nightly blitzit's not too long before Knight appears in court, but no onecharged with Cliveden's under any illusions murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it could start again at any time's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. ThereKnight's been a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on the rise and determined to plead not guilty, despite all of them go as they should. A young woman is found dead in a London hotel room as the result of a botched operation: she has no identification and no one knows who the father of the baby was, or who performed Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the operationcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>