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{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->1786482126<!-- Henley -->|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|-author=Elly Griffiths| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|4.5[[image:1787196607.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787196607/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; textBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -align: left;"|===[[Reckless Obsession by Dai Henley]]=== [[image:4starwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It There was several years since no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Andy FloodHarry Nelson. It's wife had been murdereddifficult as Ruth knows, but heNelson doesn'd not come to terms t, that she is pregnant with ithis child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. His daughters were coping reasonably wellHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because his mother had moved in after Georgina's death and she ran the home and looked after the girlsRuth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. Flood's real problem was that the Met had moved the murder to cold case status}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4. He couldn't believe that they5|genre=Crime|summary=It'd do this when s unusual for anyone from the murder of Hardie family to approach the wife of one of their own was unsolved, but ''police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's'' determined not prepared to give up on tell the police where the case. Each evening when he's finished work he goes into his study body of a missing person is buried and works on the statements from the case, looking who was responsible for any inconsistenciesher death. [[Reckless Obsession by Dai Henley|Full Review]] <!-- Schaffhausen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Schaffhausen_Vanishing This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants.jpg|left|link=https://www And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785657135 Not much to ask, is it?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785657135]]make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"0008405026|===[[The Vanishing Season by Johanna Schaffhausen]]title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Schaffhausen has been garnering a lot of attention for summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her first crime novel having already been crowned a ''First Crime Novel Award Winner'' by the Mystery Writers of Americabed one summer night. My interest therefore She was definitely piqued never found and I was excited the investigation ground to read this booka halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. So Initially, does it live up to all the hype? In looks like a word: yes. I was gripped from straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the outset (forgive positioning of the terrible pun, we are after all dealing with a serial killer who chops off the hands of his victims bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to keep as trophies!) [[The Vanishing Season by Johanna Schaffhausen|Full Review]] <!be an open-and- Parsons -->shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|-}}| style{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet[[image:178089595X.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/178089595X/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalEdward Jevons is a working-align: top; textclass young man, obsessed with his upper-align: left;"|===[[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons]]=== [[image:5starclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] He's also self-obsessed, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] A drone collides with an air ambulancedemanding, the mess falls on a busy shopping centre handsome and entitled and we are barely out of the first chapteruses Edward to run errands for him. DC Max Wolfe Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's latest adventure looks at religion, radicalisation, hate and paranoia. Without drawing breath we immediately jump drunkenly confided how he feels to catching those responsibleRobert. The rest of the book gradually builds Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a web relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of intrigue and them kissing in a virtual soap opera of family issuesdark passageway. [[Girl on Fire by Tony Parsons|Full Review]]}}<!-- Reynolds -->{{Frontpage|-author=Jo Callaghan| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Leave No Trace|rating=4[[image:Reynolds_Fire.jpg|leftgenre=Crime|linksummary=http://wwwWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575090588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Crime It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|Crime]]isbn=139851120X}}What happens when Utopia is achieved? When everyone is linked neurologically {{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to everyone else and people vote on each minor decision so every aspect of life is truly democratic? Everyone knows everything and everyone decides everything so what can possibly go wrong? Except people are dying, melting to be preciseMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 a request for help from her beloved aunt, and no one knows howCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, or whyis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, or who could be nextto say the least. In such a circumstance who can be trusted Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to solve this crime and do so without spreading panic? What if the only people who can be trusted have already village: Arthur, she feels, let you her down once before? [[Elysium Fire by Alastair Reynolds|Full Review]] <!-- Burrows badly. -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Burrows_DovesEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved.jpg|left|link=http://www After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786074273/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=[[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows]]===Crime [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] The body of a senior attaché from the Mexican consulate Charlotte Salter was found in a local bird sanctuary, along with the body of the directorexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It was a strange tableau: the girl impaled on a branch Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the man lying at her feetdaughter, both in a cageEtty. The fact that are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the man is a diplomat isnbody of Greg't immediately evident - he was s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the area under river. It was an assumed name. DCI (and birder enthusiast) Domenic Jejeune is conflicted. The immediate problem is obviously easy assumption for the police to establish who make that Duncan had murdered the man Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the woman - and even thatguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's complicated by the political necessity of not to involving the Mexican consulate, thus tying his hands rather tightly. The thoughts which are running in the back of his mind though are little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about the full-time research position studying birds which the director's death has opened upwhat really happened. Could this be his escape route from the police force? [[A Pitying of Doves by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]}}{{Frontpage<!-- Griffiths -->|isbn=1529900360|-title=The Ghost Orchid| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4[[image:Griffiths_Dark.jpg|left|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784296635/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-align: top; textand-align: left;"|===[[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly Griffiths]]=== [[image:4starshut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Dr Ruth Galloway has got used to being a published author, to being on television, but She knew that the involvement was something that the man she's still flattered when Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli asks for her help with some bones which he's discovered loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in a tiny hilltop village outside Rome, but doesn't know what to make the swimming pool of thema remote property in Bel Air. Ruth succumbs He was the heir to temptation: an Italian shoe empire and she and Angelo have some history (it was just the one night...) is married to an extremely rich man and it's years since she's had a holidaynot the Italian. Even a working holiday has to be an improvement. Castello degli Angeli isn't quite what she But which of them was expecting, but it will make a reasonable break the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for her, her daughter Kate, friend Shona and Shona's son Louis. [[The Dark Angel (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly GriffithsBeginners|Full Review]]author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4<!-- Burrows -->|-| style|genre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Crime[[image:Burrows_Siege.jpg|left|linksummary=http://wwwChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia.amazon 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.co.uk/dp/1780748434/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag 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 -21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows]]=== [[image:3are all his own.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is new The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to Saltmarsh, but his reputation has come before himturn up dead. Success in a high profile case has made him Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the poster boy for body and everyone knows that the policeconsider that person to be the prime suspect. There's a snag though: Jejeune isn't ''actually'' that keen on }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the jobBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd much rather be out birdwatchingbeen a known drug user and had learning disabilities, but that doesnso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't bring in an income and there's a simple factconvinced. Jejeune is ''very'' Geary was a very good detectivetownie, with insights which few other people possess. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There's one advantage are connections to the job too: Saltmarsh is situated in North Norfolk, suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the UK's premier birding country but sometimes Jejeunetime. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's mind is more on the birds than the jobcold cases to you and me) investigate. [[A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows|Full Review]]}}<!-- Durrenmatt -->{{Frontpage|-| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|1529425867[[image:Durrenmatt_Justice.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1782273875?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1782273875]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)]]=== [[image:2.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It's 1957, and we're somewhere in Switzerland, and there's just one case on everyone's lips – the simple fact that a politician has gone into the crowded room of one of those 'the place to go' restaurants, and point blank shot a professor everyone there must have known, and ferried a British companion to the airport in his chauffeur-driven Rolls before handing himself in to face the murder rap. Of course he's found guilty, even if the gun involved has managed to disappear. He's certainly of much interest, not only to our narrator, a young lawyer called Spaet – even if he rarely gets to frequent such establishments with such people, he is eager to know more, especially once he is actually tasked by the man in hand to look into things a second time. But what's this, where he opens his testimony about the affair with the conclusion, that he himself will need to turn killer to redress the balance? [[The Execution of Justice by Friedrich Durrenmatt and John E Woods (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Giordano -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Giordano Fruits.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1473661919?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1473661919]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] How to describe this book - well for starters it's unlike anything I've ever read before. It's chaotic, mad, funny, fast-paced, confusing but once you get into it it's really good fun and totally enjoyable. [[Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord by Mario Giordano|Full Review]] <!-- Ellis -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ellis_Dark.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/147366277X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=147366277X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing children. There's a link back to her childhood here, as she might not have been missing but she was certainly lost. Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a bit of pretense but there was no protection. All that should be in the past, although Elsa is still self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she would have hoped for some personal time with him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that of 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Tudor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Tudor Chalk.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718187431?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0718187431]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]] ''The Chalk Man'' follows a group of friends haunted by an eerily terrifying spectre, conjured during one fateful summer. By the time the new term begins, friendships will be fractured, and a girl will be dead. But who is the killer; is it The Chalk Man, whose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, or someone much closer to home? Thirty years later, Ed has tried to forget about that summer, about all the poisoned, sinister memories of The Chalk Man. However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the fever dream nightmare of the summer of 1986, populated by fairs, ra-ra skirts and death. Driven deeper into the mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the reader cannot help but wonder; who is The Chalk Man, and will he ever let Ed go? [[The Chalk Man by C J Tudor|Full Review]] <!-- Mendoza -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Mendoza Name.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0857052632?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0857052632]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Okay, so call me a traditionalist but I enjoy picking up a book and instantly recognising the genre to which the book belongs and from here making an immediate, if not altogether accurate, assumption about whether I am likely to enjoy said book. Quite often it is not until we are fully immersed in a story we start to recognise and appreciate the style and tone of the writer and decide whether we are want to continue the story to completion. This surely is the process by which us mere reading mortals decide whether or not we enjoyed a book? Well, after reading ''Name of the Dog'' I have to be honest and say I did not know what to make of it on initial inspection. Nor have I settled my state of flux wherein I am trying to decide whether or not I really did enjoy Mendoza's tale of corruption and crime in Cartel run Mexico. [[Name of the Dog by Elmer Mendoza|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records departmentLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |} {{newreview|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Buried SecretsSimon Mason

|summary=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 Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated 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 never know what goes on in might wonder if you're being introduced to a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the ideal lifemore surprising. He 'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a beautiful letter from his ex-wife and a house , saying that had a mortgage which was smaller than most peopleshe's credit card billill and hasn't long to live. On It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the other handboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, there weren't that many people who had has taken a good word short holiday in Singapore to say about him and when he meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a leg knife - and with only he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he 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 few hours diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1521129886|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to live, people were 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 worried delighted about the extra work than saddenedbaby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. When Stuart's concerned about his wifesister, Lucy, who's battered body 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 death was found suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in their kitchenthe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the idea life experience that it backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answertrain. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838954481|title=The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4|genre=Crime|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1471153142</amazonuk>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 DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gladys Mitchell1448309743|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan and his wife Deborah at their new In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home in is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the Cotswoldsstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Mrs Bradley is a well-The only suspects are known psychiatrist Satanists but shein many ways, that's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers an easy conclusion given that two of observationthem 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. She soon comes Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to hear the story village of a local ghostGreystone, that in Devon. Rosco had the status of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be seen slung over more than a little bit close with money and his background isn'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 gate leading Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to Groaning Spinney: 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 ghost will play area have sparked a part gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in what coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is about the latest woman in the area to happenhave vanished without trace. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become 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=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the local squire with early hours of the acquisition morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of his property clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some manage to get one of the locals few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as they visit far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of 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 had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to give festive wishesstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marjorie Orr1405957174|title=By A Death at the Light of a LieParty|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friendFrom the first page, Erica, was killed in we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a hitman -is dying when we first meet him and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldnNadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. What we don't understand know is who the man is or why she should Nadine prefers to have been in Hammersmithhim die. SheI'd left her getting into better give you a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martinlittle more background so that you can understand what's Lane and she was on her way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way. The police didn't seem likely to pursue the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going to leave her friend unavengedhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 25/10 -->Frontpage|authorisbn=Suzanne Elizabeth Reed0008530025|title=Marty's MasterMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=Margaret It was nervous about going for in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the walk around the lake on body of her ownstepfather, convinced until Luke Ryder, in the very last moment that her husband would relent and go with hergarden of their West London home. She made it to He had an injury on the Blue Forge Club House where her friend Laura worked behind the bar, relieved that sheback of his head which could have happened if he'd managed to leave slipped down the steps but the drunken man who vicious beating his face had taken was Martyobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's master and some other suspiciousnow the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-looking men behind hercrime show. Laura looked uneasy: her dead sister's widower, Avel, had remarried A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and his new wifeto take the investigation further. More to the point, Elenathey're going to do this live on camera, was in the clubhouse with Avelepisode by episode. There's children no dump of the whole box set - three teenage girls and a boy who was little more than a toddlerno shortage of cliffhangers. Elena didn't look in the least pleased to be there and despite AvelIt's promises to pick them up, he was nowhere to be seencompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524683361</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= George Mann0241996104|title= WychwoodComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=ThirtyNancy's mother and step-something Elspeth Reeves has lost her job father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and left her partnerstep-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. Much as she prefers London We first meet Nancy outside the court, she decides to retreat to her childhood home in an Oxfordshire village for after Martin receives a short time to lick life sentence. The barrister tells her wounds, but that she arrives to find the neighbouring part of the Wychwood is 's received a crime scene. Even broken'silent sentence' -hearted journalists canshe't afford s not been found guilty of anything but will have to pass up live with what happened for the chance rest of a story, particularly if they know they need to drum up some freelance work soon, so Elspeth can't resist sticking her nose inlife. With her childhood friend Peter the detective sergeant on the case there Of course, it's an extra interest in it for Elspeth, and once shemade worse because Nancy's spotted the connection between the ritualised murder rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the local myth about papers are making the Carrion King, Peter most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and Elspeth pool their resources to try and uncover a serial killer''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783294094</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= M C Beaton1529413680|title= Agatha Raisin and the Witches' TreeA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary=For those One of you not familiar with Agatha Raisin she the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is essentially a shortthe re-tempered private investigator enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in her early 50s 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with an alcoholsome friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, doughnut Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man obsessionis whisked away in a helicopter. Much like TV A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's Midsomer Murdersa senior government employee, the small Cotswold village where Agatha man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives has an astonishingly high crime rate nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with enough murders to sustain 28 books so farsome of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117220</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Aaronovitch1529196388|title=The Furthest StationTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When local police find something weird - spectres scaring commuters on Grant Cliveden was a hero: a particular part of policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the Metropolitan Lineframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for example him was Jonathan Taylor- they call for PC Peter Grant Cameron of the Special Assessment UnitStag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, also known as The Follywho eventually represent him. Stray river gods, missing Victorian children, fleeting 18th century dispatch riders Knight's determined to plead not guilty, they are despite all in a day’s (or a night’s) work for The FollyTaylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473222427</amazonuk>