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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Burgauer1786482126|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the BayouThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=A sudden death Builders were demolishing an old house in New OrleansNorwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five ' red light district, luxury' apartments - when they discovered the invention bones of a more effective US military landing craft with child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a big futureritual killing or murder? Inevitably, a crime family Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with links back to occupied Sicily and two Germans lurking suspiciously in AmericaDCI Harry Nelson. It's southern states. All these are connected anddifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as World War II hots up across a fortnight in 1942, result of the links become more one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious as well as more dangerousbefore long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Death Going DownNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=In a strange time, in It's unusual for anyone from the years after World War Two, Buenos Aires is a strange city – peopled by her native residents, and many who fled Hardie family to approach the European theatre of warpolice. And Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in a building that houses some of prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the more strange examples body of those people on six levels of large apartments, something strange happens – one of them struggles home the worse a missing person is buried and who was responsible for drink late one night and finds the lift descend to fetch him to his door, but carrying a blonde woman's corpseher death. A resident doctor soon turns up tooThis person, he promises, is someone big and the pair kicks into action it will be worth the police investigation into her presence, which soon seems doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to point serve the remainder of his sentence and to suicideget an early parole date. This not being in a genre called suicide mysteryNot much to ask, however, we know differently – but will certainly have is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to wait to piece do the whole story togetherother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke0008405026|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer A Stranger in the Family (Under Suspicion 4Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen It's sixteen years ago, Casey Carter went to prison for the murder of her fiancée Hunter Raleigh. The evidence seemed indisputable; her fingerprints were on the gun that killed him and since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her skin tested positive for gunshot residuebed one summer night. She'd been known to be argumentative was never found and passionate, qualities that earned her the nickname ''Crazy Casey'' thanks investigation ground to a tell-all book by an ex-boyfriendhalt. Even Now, her family seemed to suspect mother, Helena, and her guiltfather are dead in their bed. But now Casey is out Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of prison the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and determined to prove her innocenceboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Who better What looked as though it was going to help her than Laurie Moran be an open-and the ''Under Suspicion'' team? After hearing her -shut case, Laurie promises to give her is now a fair hearing on her TV show and reinvestigate complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the circumstances of Hunterexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's deathboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Farrington0571379877|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=2014: 50 years since William GilbeyEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's father Herbert was hanged for murdera theatre director. This anniversary is different from those in the past in that itHe's given William the impetus also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to go run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and find out more about two mystifying parts of his fatherhe's historydrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Firstly the oddity of the murder: why randomly kill two women Most men in the street in daylight? Secondly, when William was Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a child, Herbert relationship had told him a story about a meeting begun between Winston Churchill and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War II. Therethem but he's nothing in the history books so did this actually happen? This not like most men: Edward is definitely a good time left to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving stumble upon the two of them kissing in a sentence for murder himselfdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John SandfordJo Callaghan|title=Gathering PreyLeave No Trace

|summary=Any fan When a man is found crucified on the top of a long running series will dread hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the book that falls off case alongside her sidekick, the cliffAI detective Lock. This It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is the story that just does not make sensea second body found crucified a few days later, or Kat is so reminiscent suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of previous outings that it may as well not existunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, Will they be able to solve the ''Prey'' series by John Sandford is overdue thiscase in time, but or will ''Gathering Prey'' be Kat find herself taken off the moment that the maverick cop Davenport becomes case and, potentially, out of a shadow of his former selfcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner1035021803|title= The Knife SlippedAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confessIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Confess that I am She's back now because of a hardboiled noir addictrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Therefore Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, I approach each grisly tale of murderArthur Crockleford, private detectives is dead and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticismthe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. ''Surely'' Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, I think ''this one can't she has not felt able to be as good as near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the lastsplit, it must have flawsshe worked in a cafe, poor characters met and lack married James (on the rebound from the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiecelove 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'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening the Knife Slippeds fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I was wrong Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, wonderfully wrongEtty. This book for me are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the essence body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the hardboiled noir genre river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Ethen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt.S 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. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1529900360|title=Mercy KillingThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided that they would stage 'It hadn'Anniet been Lt Milo Sturgis'' and involve children from a local school the news was broken s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was a convicted paedophilereluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. A local widow with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: she terminated the relationship His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the amdrams told him that he was no longer help of a psychologist only worked for a memberwhile. It Finally, it was bad enoughRobin, but deserved - then someone else took Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the law into their own hands and decided involvement was something that the world would be man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a better place without Albie Woodville remote property in itBel Air. He was brutally murderedthe heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child178763681X|title= Night SchoolKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in timeBelgravia. Reacher is still an US Army MP. He didn''In the morning they gave Reacher t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a medal, way of getting both men and in the afternoon they sent him back women to schooldo what he wanted. Paul '' The medal was a Legion of Merit. Not his first, probably not his last, just another bauble to recognise what somehow'' got the impression that he'd done for his country and be at the school to assist Paul, who had a plea for him not to talk about broken arm, but itdidn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'it' in this case t expected was some police workfor someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, in he was the person who discovered the Balkans, body and a couple of shootingseveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect. ''Two weeks of his life. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1529421284|title=Rather be Laying Out the DevilBones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=It's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderedone of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She was beautifulIn a gully, a bright light and promiscuous - human skeleton came to the surface and she was strangled in Edinburgh's Caledonian Hotel on forensic testing proved the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying therebody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Her killer was never found: itHe's d been preying on John Rebus' mind a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it comes into conversation could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the night that Rebus suicide of Holly Gilbert and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Callytime. It's better than thinking about his health: heLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's got COPD cold cases to you and there's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about itme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley1529425867|title= ShootLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In Oxford, there are two D I make something Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of a habit Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of being late to discover good writersRyan, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usnot. The result is that what is billed as He''an Fs not any of those things.X. Shepherd mystery He'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of beings white, if not the last of originated from a short linetrailer park, certainly one barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of a fewshell suits and trackies. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnThey't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnistre usually in lime green or acid yellow. He You might wonder if you's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing re being introduced to a weekly column police procedural written for anotherlaughs. I don't know much about journalismWell, but Iyou'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherdre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffproblematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1529431735|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Coming to It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, only theremore surprising. He's some resistanced been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's never ''quite'' saidhad a letter from his ex-wife, but you have a suspicion that it might come down to the fact saying that she's a womanill and hasn't long to live. But being female has its advantages It's hard to feel any sympathy when a decoy Hopkins is needed abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking watery grave in the local park area dressed up like boot of a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coatstolen Ford Sierra. She is attacked and only just rescued in time, but suffers nothing worse than Is it a cut lip and warning from a fright. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for the rape of Spanish gang or a young girlproblem closer to home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair0861541774|title= Chain A Nye of CustodyPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After the success of DCI Domenic Jejeune''A Cut-like Wound'' published in the UK in 2014s close friend and former colleague, ''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) policeDanny Maik, called has taken a short holiday in when Singapore to meet up with an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a prestigious street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and well-guarded gated communityhe killed a Ghurka. HoweverInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that is suggested that he might have planned to murder the prologue jumping ahead of man. Now he could be facing the story – death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as is the current vogueany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1521129886|title=The Loving HusbandThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the rebound from a lengthy stint at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablepoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where Frana baby and they's best friend is standingre both delighted. But Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when this she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is followed approached by a hasty wedding and a move to an isolated farmhouse old friend whose brother-in the Fens-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Fran feels sure that her new role as home-maker and motherLucy, so very different from the London party-girl she used who's struggling to be, make ends meet and her son is the right one for hernot thriving. So when Fran wakes Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the middle of coroner have accepted that the night to find Nathandeath was suicide, but Stuart's side of the bed completely cold, she goes prepared to pay Greg to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of find out what happened on the bargainnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter B0CK3MYJ56|title=The StorykillerResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=3.54

|summary=The first rule of Super Injunctions is that you donIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason't talk about Super Injunctionss twenty-eight years old. These powerful legalese prevent He used to have a high-flying job in the likes city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', youmight be thinking. Nice bloke, me and but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the papers talking about certain storiesother hand, he has been asked to look into something. The richJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, powerful and meaningless use them to stop the type of tittle tattle that fuels they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a million conversations tragic accident at workan unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, but Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what do you do if you are not rich, powerful she was doing there - or meaningless enough how she could come to afford fall in front of a Super Injunction? train. Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>Greg's been asked to investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1838954481|title=NutshellThe Misper|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summaryauthor=Meet Trudy. Successfully living in a large and valuable Kate London home, she is heavily pregnant, and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish and short type. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narrator. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is the child she's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jane Isaac|title=Beneath the Ashes|rating=3.54

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the kitchen floor of fifteen-year-old holding the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livinggun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. She'd no memory He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of what had happened the night before, but she jury system he was injured, found not guilty of both the house had been broken into murder and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missing. The police had been called to the farm by manslaughter of the fire brigadeofficer. There'd been And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a fire quieter life in one of the farm's barns and countryside but when they investigated a badly-burned body was discovered. Itmissing teenager is found on her territory she's up to DI Will Jackman to discover who's responsible drawn into a wider investigation - and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey1448309743|title=Shot Through the Heart The Devil Stone (DI Grace Fisher 2DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In many ways it was horrificthe village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, but quite simple. On Christmas day a man with a rifle shot and killed five people: the first was his ex-wife's new partner, members of a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened to be aroundwealthy family are found murdered. He then went to The only item missing from the home is the local churchyard and turned Devil Stone: myth says that if the gun on himselfstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. Six deadThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, no perpetrator on the loose and it looks as though all that needs to be done is to give evidence at the inquest, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at s an easy conclusion given thattwo of them 'discovered' the body. She wants The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to know where Russell Fewell got the gun and the bullets: she's also not convinced about the honesty of the dead policeman and thatshadow's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herohim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529077699|title=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton The Raging Storm (translatorTwo Rivers)|titleauthor=CrushAnn Cleeves

|summary=Everybody has to start somewhere''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence BlockSir?'' Well yes, you may no longer be able to find the beginningit is. His first crime publication came and went Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the early 60s middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and fifty years later he did not have then turned up, naked and dead, in a copy as small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the book village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had been published under an alias with the status of a national treasure: a different title unknown to himrenowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form of I ''nearly'Sinner Man'said ' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writer-round good egg' but as we's early books; murderll find out, dubious characters and he could be more than a little bit of pulp naughtinessclose with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1529427045|title=Ink and BoneThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychic''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Sensitive  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the unseensmall town of Gasskas, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the deadarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the gifts that Mother Nature has sought area to bestowhave vanished without trace. But life is not It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that simple and studying for your degree Svala is testing with five other visitors in a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the room who are all trying to get your attention part Salander played in the loudest and most distracting way possibleher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1787636607|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=It'Allotments' sound as though they should be s a haven of peace and tranquility, but it's surprising how scene replicated all too often in the reverse proves to be early hours of the casemorning. The villagers Drunken revellers spilling out of Carsley clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are up in arms because Lord Bellington has said that he's going lucky and manage to sell off get one of the allotments for a new housing developmentfew taxis available. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one is particularly sorry - and there's no shortage of suspects eitherthe outlying villages. Lord BellingtonThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem's son, Damianparticularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, employs Agatha Raisin 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 detective agency phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to discover who murdered let her use his father.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk> There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1405957174|title= Betrayals|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come a long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are a part of that, she's not yet ready to make A Death at the choice that destiny would have her make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewParty|author=Sophie Hannah|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Amy Stuart

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised a house From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party at her home in Clonakilty, Irelandwill not end well. It was mainly family, plus the two partners from the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, but there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other The victim - a man - Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirotambulance he so desperately needs. They werenWhat we don't certain know is who the man is or why theyNadine prefers to have him die. I'd been invited, but Athie Playford, author of the popular childrenbetter give you a little more background so that you can understand what's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddon'', had a shock in store for the assembled company and particularly for her two children, Harry and Claudia. She'd changed her will, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything to her secretary, Joseph Scotcherhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane0008530025|title=The Gem ConnectionMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=In It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the beginning it was simple. C J Kavanaughbody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, formerly in the garden of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairtheir West London home. Antonio Fahrletti He had confounded half a dozen PIs whoan injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd been unable to prove that he was being unfaithful to slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his wife, but CJ face had taken was determined to be the one who got the proofobviously deliberate. Luck was on Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his side, but not, murder and it would seem, on Fahrletti's. In now the meantime Clinton Windell subject of ''knewInfamous'' that luck was on his side: he'd , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gemstogether to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. The board hadnMore to the point, they't believed that he could re going to do it this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and a large part no shortage of his pleasure was that he was proving them wrongcliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker0241996104|title= Dragon GamesComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of Nancy''Dragon Games'' ties it to the international bestseller ''The Art s mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's their murder. We first offering in English translationmeet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. I'm hoping that the final edition The barrister tells her that hits the market will have the confidence to reference she's received a 'Whispering Shadowssilent sentence'- she' s not been found guilty of anything but will have to which this is live with what happened for the direct sequelrest of her life. My hope is Of course, it's made worse because the step between the first two Burmese books Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the modern China mystery ones is a significant one. Many readers will love both, but I think papers are making the less lyrical, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach most of the Chinese stories has a wider readershipit. It ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is a readership Sendker deservesone favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1529413680|title= In at the Death|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconist, a fan of romantic fiction, and a wearer of pince-nez. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, you might thinkA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, but in In at the Death his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing and something of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail of a murderer in the city Chief of Bridgton. The death of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor had a gun in his bag. As the detectives get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Benjamin Myers|title=Turning BlueMartin Walker

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet the English in a particularly harsh winter1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. DI Jim Brindle from the elite detective unit, Cold Storage, was sent to investigate and he could have It's all been helped by Roddy Macevery carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, a local journalist. Only BrindleKerquelin, the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with man playing one of the writer. Mace main characters is desperate to revive his flagging careerseriously injured when he departs from the script. Well it's more than flagging: he left London in disgraceLuckily, so it's the two men living on the outskirts of life who are trying independently to trap his doctor is there and the man they believe is responsible for Melaniewhisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's disappearance and that man is Steven Rutter, another lonera senior government employee, near destitute and living high on the moors, man who knows all runs Frenchelon - the hiding placesmilitary has stepped in. He knows the secrets of the local town too One daughter lives nearby and there are those another, who fear that he might tell more than should be knownlives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)1529196388|title=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=All the ladies of O'Brian Fashion House are trying Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to do is to present their works by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the best of lights to the best of Milanese and European society, but they're not going to find a dead person on their premises much helpOld Bailey. Cristiana lives in Casa O'Brian, on the top floor of the building where everything key to her company happens, and itThere's on her bed that she finds the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot to her. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking she'd seen some people she really didn't want to see back in her life, just one man in the audience below? And who here might not actually be who they first appear? It'll be a tough case frame for Inspector de Vincenzi, thathis murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's for sure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not too long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this before Knight appears in Germanycourt, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaningcharged with Cliveden's murder. For a while she Knight was a suspect, but told that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling the best barrister for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Craig Russell|title= The Quiet Death Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Thomas Quaid|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest Stag Court Chambers and imprisonment as occupational hazards it's Taylor-Cameron and on the rare occasion he was nabbedhis pupil, Adam Green, he'd raise his hands and ''come quiet''who eventually represent him. Turns out thatKnight's determined to plead not what his nickname meant at guilty, despite all. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot of people didnTaylor-Cameron't know. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friendss recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>