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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angela MarsonsStuart Douglas|title= Silent Scream|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim Stone is called to investigate the body of a woman found dead in the bath of a house that has been set on fire. As Stone Lowe and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be an isolated case and they are in a race against the clock to find out who could be next on Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the killer's hit list and why. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Ames|title=You Were Never Really HereDress Rehearsal

|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'He came up with a plan, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a solution, woman on the edge of a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wakereservoir. So he had The police seem happy to be pure. He had to be holy. He had to be contained.'' He is Joe, assign it as an ex-Marineaccidental death, ex-FBI, who has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive fathersomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, with and he enlists the help of a hammerfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Having left one of his own hammers behind in a hotel roomThey travel across the country during their days off filming, only to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader in a dark uncovering more possible murders and grim place, he moves on seemingly, a link to death during the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter of a SenatorSecond World War. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to be enoughuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt0008517061|title= The Man Who Wasn't ThereDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 34|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has become the mixed metaphor du joursettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It's hard to say where it started, There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the novels future of Henning Mankell possiblyhis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series as moving in together would mean a lot of novels by Maj Sjöwall compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and Per Wahlöö as being the first relaxing life to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it move in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and much more violent. her daughter? For most Brits the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Americans though putting the term really hit home when ''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found future on the booksback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1786482126|title= Shadow RiderThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre=ParanormalCrime|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian familyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem site was going to have their fingers in many pies, and not all of them are legal. Splashed across hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the gossip columns bones of every newspaper and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned withchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. The family have Was this a secret though; they are Shadow Ridersritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel It's difficult as Ruth knows, unseenbut Nelson doesn't, through that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the shadows; a power which one night they use to serve justice when the legal system failsspent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, allowing them not least because Ruth is prone to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworldsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T F Muir0008551324|title=Blood Torment The Devil You Know (DCI Andy GilchristD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Two-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her motherIt's home some time in unusual for anyone from the early hours of Hardie family to approach the morningpolice. ThereNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's something wrong though prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might have abducted - possibly even murdered - who was responsible for her own childdeath. Then This person, he promises, is someone big and it starts will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to get political when Gilchrist discovers that Davis' father is Dougal Davis, an open prison to serve the former MSP who was forced to resign his seat when he was accused remainder of physically abusing his third wifesentence and to get an early parole date. Even disgraced politicians have some clout Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and thereshe's even prepared to do the added complication of the fact other thing that Davis's first wife went to school Gilchrist's ultimate boss. Just to Hardie demanded - make matters even worse Gilchrist finds certain that he could be working DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with DI Tosh MacIntosh - a man for whom he has no respecthim is kept well away from what's happening. But could there be an answer to the abduction in the form of Sammie Bell, a convicted paedophile who had moved back to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0008405026|title=Secrets of Death A Stranger in the Family (Cooper and FryMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Peak Districtinvestigation ground to a halt. There Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are those who call dead in their bed. Initially, it 'looks like a straightforward murder/suicide tourism', but itthere's frowned on, although it does rather hit something about the nail on the head. There have been an number positioning of suicides in reasonably public, but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what they've done bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and usually from outside the immediate areaher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It's almost What looked as though they've been tutored. But whilst it's against the law was going to ''assist'' someone to commit suicide, what's the legal position about providing information be an open-and support? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues in E Division have to try and find some connection between the people who have died-shut case is now a complex double murder. But in what might almost be another world - Kerrigan is convinced that the city of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness explanation lies in a case sheRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's involved with has vanishedboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0571379877|title=The Murder Road (Cooper and Fry)Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=The locals will tell you that thereEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's only one road into also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and out of Shawhead entitled and over the years they've become accustomed uses Edward to being cut off by snow or floodsrun errands for him. The road passes under a railway line Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and one day in early February Mac Kelseyhe's curtain-sider jammed under the bridgedrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered the obstruction as she tried to return home to Shawhead, but there was no driver Most men in the cab. There ''wasRobert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he' s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a lot of blood thoughdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin WalkerJo Callaghan|title=Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationLeave No Trace

|summary=Two young racing drivers come to When a man is found crucified on the Perigord region to hunt for clues as top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the whereabouts of case alongside her sidekick, the missing Bugatti Type 57c Atlantic. Only four were made and three are accounted for - but stories would have it that the missing car is somewhere in the PerigordAI detective Lock. It's more than seventy years since the car was last seen and that was in war time - but it's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37their first live case together,000,000 for one of the carshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. One of the young racing drivers has local connections and another But when there is in a relationship second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with Annette, a magistratepotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The race Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the car is not going to be kind.case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell1035021803|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Fantasy Crime|summary=The Great DetecitveIt's ghost twenty years since Freya Lockwood has walked Londonbeen back to the English country village where she grew up. She's streets back now because of a request for an agehelp from her beloved aunt, given shape by people's memoriesCarole. Now someone Freya's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But whatformer mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworldcircumstances seem suspicious, eliminating to say the least. Arthur was the impossible is reason why Freya had not an optionbeen back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the hard wayprofession she loved. Gifted with After the Sightsplit, they'll pursue she worked in a criminial genius - cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze of clues was murdered) and Freya and evidence. The team also James have thier own demons to fight. They've been to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apartdivorced...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1398524085|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=When Bob SkinnerCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's wife has a yearning for a particular cake from Marks fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Spencer he thinks nothing of taking a detour on his way to workher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, snatching the last one available Etty and heading back to Greg, find the car. Itbody of Greg's then that father, Duncan Ackerley, in the fates start being naughtyriver. Reversing out of his parking space It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he's hit by a speeding BMW - only the driver doesncouldn't get out to exchange insurance details and offer apologies. He gets out of stand the car and legs itguilt. Checking his own car for damage Skinner notices that the boot of the beemer is slightly open - something which presumably happened The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on impact - with their lives and his attempts to close it mean that it opens instead and the body of a small child is revealedwonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529900360|title=Little Sister (Detective Pieter Vos)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Late one night, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after a talent content on the waterfrontAlex recovered, Kim and Mia Timmers returned Sturgis was reluctant to their home to find a scene of utter carnage and their mother, father and sister deadask for his help on difficult cases. It would have hit any elevenHis assertions that there were only open-yearand-old child hardshut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, but the dead girlit was Robin, Little JoDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was their triplet and there was a special bond between something that the three of themman she loved needed. The girls then left the house and apparently next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the lead singer swimming pool of The Cupids, a world-famous band, remote property in the belief that he had been responsible for the deaths of their familyBel Air. Officially there didn't seem He was the heir to be any doubt about what had happened an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the musician, despite the fact that there were certain points about the murder scene Italian. But which might have suggested that someone with more worldly experience of them was responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham178763681X|title=Die of ShameKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=A group of addicts - the addictions differ - meet regularly Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at the home of their therapist, Tony De Silva, himself a former addictresidential cookery school in Belgravia. On the night we join them, Chris, Robin, Heather He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Diana are surprised women to see that there's an extra chair in the circledo what he wanted. It changes Paul ''somehow'' got the dynamics of impression that he'd be at the groupschool to assist Paul, but the newcomer is Caroline and she's who had a large lady - broken arm, but although she likes her food itdidn's painkillers t turn out that sheway. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's addicted t expected was for someone toturn up dead. There's no obvious reason why Caroline's arrival should make such a difference to Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the group - she's keen to fit in - but it does body and before many weeks have passed one of everyone knows that the group is murdered. It's increasingly obvious police consider that one of person to be the group is responsibleprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)1529421284|title=Bird in a CageLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=A man returns to It was one of those flash downpours that the flat he grew up British weather often delivers in and where his mother died without his knowledge, and finds it too desolate for the time of year it is – Christmas Evea heatwave. Bursting for more life, despite being In a solitary charactergully, he goes to a restaurant, and finds a connection with a mother with her daughter. They dine, then go human skeleton came to the cinema, surface and sit together, and things happen from there – in a gentle, no-pressureforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, no-names-no-packdrill waywho had disappeared nine years earlier. If this isnHe't d been a reasonable start to a novellaknown drug user and had learning disabilities, consider the tag so it has as could have been a noir classicsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. And consider Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the fact suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the strange woman is the spitting image time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the manMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>cold cases to you and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons1529425867|title=The Hanging ClubLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary= When the three yobbos who kick to death a young husband 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 are given a perfunctory sentenceof Ryan, DC Wolfe finds it hard to hold his true feelings in checkis not. Confounded by the injustice He's not any of the British Courts and legal systemthose things. He's white, DC Wolfe spends originated from a good while soul searching trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and wondering why he invests so much his wardrobe consists mainly of his life shell suits and trackies. They're usually in fighting crimelime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, finding murderers and bringing them to justice when the integrity you're not. The two men are just different sides of the criminal justice system is so sorely lackingsame policing coin. Luckily for DC Wolfe he has his bright and funny daughter Scout to keep him from looking too hard into the darkness that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until Sometimes the videos start being posted on the internetcombination works brilliantly well. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>Sometimes it's problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Barnard1529431735|title=The Case of the Missing BronteWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54

|summary=Superintendent Perry Trethowan was returning to London from Northumberland with his family when their car broke down in It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Yorkshire Dales and they were stranded in Costa del Sol as a small village wanted drug smuggler for the nighta decade. When they The return has come about because he's had a drink letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the local pub they were joined by boot of a local resident, Miss Edith Wing, who had what might be an extraordinary document in her possessionstolen Ford Sierra. Could this be Is it a lost Bronte novel? The provenance of the manuscript suggested that it could well be genuine, but was it - and Miss wing - the real thing warning from a Spanish gang or was it a very clever forgeryproblem closer to home? Perry suggested visiting a local expert for an opinion and in doing so sends Miss wing into mortal danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bill Beverly0861541774|title= DodgersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Judging DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a book by its cover can misleadshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It can especially mislead if you don't look closely at the cover Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and are just grabbed by the ''feel'' or ''style'' of the design of the thinghe killed a Ghurka. Being misled is not necessarily Initially, he faced a bad thingcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. For reasons best left in Now he could be facing the depths of my addled brain, the styling of Dodgers had me thinking 'noir'death penalty. I was expecting late fifties, early sixties. If I Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'd looked closer, I'd have seen that it is much more contemporary than thatt help Danny at all. Then again…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Bude1521129886|title=Death on the RivieraThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Counterfeit currency was circulating on Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the French Riviera 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 it was suspected that they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an Englishman was behind the crimeold friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, so DI Meredith was sent along with acting-Sergeant Strang who's struggling to trace the whereabouts of Chalky Corbettmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. It Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't entirely an unpleasant assignment - in his nature. The police and the warm of coroner have accepted that the south of France compared favourably with polluted London - and Meredith (whose French death was far from fluent) got on well with the local policemansuicide, Inspector Blampignon of Nice. It wasnbut Stuart't long before their interest settled s prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the Villa Poloma, home of an eccentric expatriate Englishwoman, Nesta Hedderwick and her band of bohemian house guestsnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356371</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark WatsonB0CK3MYJ56|title= The Place That Didn't ExistResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 2.54|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a book just leaves high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you wondering what it was trying might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to belook into something. I'm afraid WatsonJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's sixth novel is one of thosebeen written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. I Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't compare it understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to his previous work because Ifall in front of a train. Greg've not s been there. Or if I have I have forgotten all about it. I will quickly forget this one tooasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0155C65V0</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shamini Flint1838954481|title=Inspector Singh Investigates: A Frightfully English ExecutionThe Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Inspector Singh wasn't Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there''completely'' insulted when he was told s no doubt about that he . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in London, despite the fact that vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the opinion that this was a job for paper-pushers rather than real policemenofficer. He would And so lives must goon. Then Mrs Singh decided For DI Sarah Collins that she too would go to London to visit means leaving the legions of unknown relatives who live capital and hoping for a quieter life in the metropolis and to collect yet more essential souvenirs. Things looked up ''slightlycountryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she'' when Singh realised that he would be looking at s drawn into a cold case wider investigation - and back into the five-year-old unsolved murder orbit of Fatima Daud - along with an Inspector from the Met. Only - Singh wasn't there to ''solve'' or even ''investigate'' the case (that was forbidden) - he was there to consider how it could have been handled differentlyRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402728</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1448309743|title=The Bursar's WifeDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=Private investigator George Kocharyan struggles along In the village of Cronchie on the seedy side West coast of CambridgeScotland, following the odd unfaithful spouse or checking up on benefit claimants for the Department five members of Work and Pensionsa wealthy family are found murdered. This just about pays for his invaluable part-time assistant Sandra who knows how to work The only item missing from the office computer, and her teenage son who George occasionally hires to do some of home is the leg work. Into this grubby world walks Sylvia Booker, wife of Devil Stone: myth says that if the bursar at Morley Collegestone is removed from Otterburn House, overprotective motherdeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, glamorous middle-aged woman. Worried that her daughter has fallen in with a bad crowd she hires George to look into it. Then one 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the unfaithful wives George had been following turns up deadbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, and life begins DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to get complicated'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650033</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1529077699|title= Bryant and May: Strange TideThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is looking very much like it will be their last. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuingJem 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, which are likely anchored in Scully Cove close to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer'sthe village of Greystone, in Devon. His condition is worsening almost by Rosco had the daystatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, memory lapses are morphing into fullround the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-scale hallucinationsround good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A K Benedict1529427045|title=Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of GhostsGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Maria King sits by ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the Thames mudlarking small town of Gasskas, where the so- sifting through far-untapped natural resources of the washed up treasures - on area have sparked a regular basisgold rush. Only today she finds a ring The criminal underworld has not been slow in a box with coming forward. Salander'Marry me Marias niece' on s mother is the lid latest woman in braillethe area to have vanished without trace. Blind from birth and now blind by choice, the words can be for no one else It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but Ms King. However a greater surprise awaits inside the box: the ring it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is still on a finger belonging to the last girl remarkably gifted teenager who received such a proposal. DI Jonathan Dark is assigned to the case, not realising what he's taken on or unaware of the sort of help hepart Salander played in her father'll need to call ons death. The dead are all around him, his plan is not to let Maria join them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1409144550</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1787636607|title= Trust No OneThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= TheyIt're an ordinary family, by modern standardss a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Richard Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and wife Nicola have split up, but looking for a way to get home. Some are on reasonably amicable termslucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. The kids stay over with their Dad often enoughOthers squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. He makes time for them and their friendsThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. OkFor one young woman, so fourteen year old Harvey is dyslexic and has been diagnosed as having ADHDthe final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. HeShe had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's also got a quick temperdead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. But heThere's very protective of his little sister, 12no option but to start walking -yearunsuitably clothed and in high-old Oliveheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284291</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin Bates1405957174|title=Thin Ice (Officer Gunnhildur)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=GunnhildurFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's family life is a bit complicatedparty will not end well. Her son Gisli The victim - a man - is now the father of two children, only they're not dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the traditional year or two apart, but just a few weeks and there are - as you might have gathered - two mothers involvedambulance he so desperately needs. HeWhat we don's now living not with t know is who the one that Gunna might man is or why Nadine prefers to have expected but doing his best to maintain contact with the other, and his other son, of coursehim die. At work, two small-time crooks have robbed ReykjavikI's most infamous drug dealer of d better give you a couple of hundred thousand euros, but couldn't get away as their getaway driver failed to turn up. Two women - mother and daughter - have disappeared along with the motherlittle more background so that you can understand what's car and a thief has died in suspicious circumstanceshappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147212149X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Thorne0008530025|title= Promises of BloodMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I love getting It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in on the ground floorgarden of their West London home. Thanks to this very website I was one He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the first in this country to read steps but the ''Twilight'' series and vicious beating his face had taken was smitten from the startobviously deliberate. We'll ignore the films, the books are worth a look! In a completely different genreTwenty years later, but no less a lucky fluke one has been charged with his murder and it was through here that I stumbled across [[East of Innocence by David Thorne]] and put in an old-fashioned baggsy for whatever followed. On reading 's now the second subject of the series [[Nothing Sacred by David Thorne]] I commented that I hoped that in the next outing Connell would see ''him up againstInfamous'', or siding with, some kicka true-ass-don't-take-it femalecrime show.'' ''So far his women do tend A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to be 'birds or victims' ''take the investigation further. I'm pleased More to say hethe point, they's moving in the right direction… women are central re going to do this story one way and anotherlive on camera, episode by episode. For the first time heThere's given us female characters who (despite their plotno dump of the whole box set -device roles, which is varied and not always predictable) are stronger than they look – strong in a number no shortage of different ways – he hasn't simply opted for my "kick-ass" option, hecliffhangers. It's more subtle than thatcompelling viewing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782395911</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Augusto De Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)0241996104|title=The Murdered BankerComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=Inspector De Vincenzi is working against the clock. A body was found in his old school-friend Giannetto AurigiNancy's apartment in the early hours of this morning mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and the investigating magistrate wants to take over as quickly as possible. The trouble isher step-brother, Aurigi owed the dead man moneyMartin, has been acting strangelyconvicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, and isnafter Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she't trying s not been found guilty of anything but will have to defend himselflive with what happened for the rest of her life. Unless De Vincenzi finds strong evidence to the contrary today Of course, the investigating magistrate will see it as an open 's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and shut case, and that will be the end papers are making the most of Aurigiit. But none of the evidence seems to add up ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271708</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ruth Ware1529413680|title= In a DarkA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Dark Wood|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Nora Shaw hasn't seen her friend Clare since Nora left school ten years ago and didn't look back. Now working as a crime writer and living in London, she is naturally surprised when she receives an invitation to Clare's hen party – a weekend in a woodland cottage in the Northumberland country. Curious as to why Clare would invite her after all these years Nora reluctantly agrees to come, but as the weekend unfolds something goes very wrong and old secrets are slowly revealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099598248</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewChief of Police Novel)|author=Mary Higgins Clark|title=Death Wears a Beauty MaskMartin Walker

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=In 1972, Mary Higgins Clark began writing a novella entitled One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno''Death Wears a Beauty Masks there to see the show with some friends. It'' She struggled with s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the story and put it aside, where it lay forgotton for several decades. When man playing one of the author rediscovered main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the manuscript amongst some old filesscript. Luckily, she decided that she liked it his doctor is there and was ready to complete the longman is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but -awaited ending. 'as he'Death Wears s a Beauty Mask'' joins some of her other workssenior government employee, both old the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and newanother, who lives in California, is flying in an entertaining collection with some of short stories full of mystery and suspenseher father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143228</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1529196388|title= City of the LostThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Detective Casey Duncan has Grant Cliveden was a hero: a dark pastpoliceman 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 frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's about to catch up not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with herCliveden's murder. When her Knight was told that the best friend Diana is attacked by an abusive exbarrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, the two women realise they have to disappearAdam Green, fastwho eventually represent him. And they need sanctuary. Diana Knight's heard of a hidden town thatdetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's so remote it's almost impossible recommendations to reachthe contrary. A town that desperately needs a new detective.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562521</amazonuk>