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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jan-Philipp SendkerStuart Douglas|title= Dragon GamesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Dragon GamesFloggit and Leggit'' ties it to , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the international bestseller ''The Art dead body of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translation. I'm hoping that a woman on the final edition that hits the market will have the confidence to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequel. My hope is because the step between the first two Burmese books and the modern China mystery ones is edge of a significant onereservoir. Many readers will love bothThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but I think something about the less lyricalwhole thing bothers Lowe, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach and he enlists the help of the Chinese stories has a wider readershipfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It is a readership Sendker deserves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis Duncan|title= In at They travel across the Death|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconist, a fan of romantic fictioncountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and a wearer of pince-nez. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, you might thinkseemingly, 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 link to death during the trail of a murderer in the city of BridgtonSecond World War. The death of But is there really a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp, but that doesn’t explain why link between the doctor had a gun in his bag. As the detectives get deaths? And will they manage to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closets.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0008517061|title=Turning BlueDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in a particularly harsh winter. DI Jim Brindle from the elite Former Metropolitan Police detective unit, Cold StorageJake Johnson, was sent to investigate and he could have been helped by Roddy Mace, a local journalisthas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Only Brindle, There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the obsessive compulsivefuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, teetotalLivia and her daughter Diana, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with the writer. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging career. Well it's more than flagging: he left London as moving in disgrace, so it's the two men living on the outskirts together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life who are trying independently to trap move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the man they believe is responsible future she wants for Melanie's disappearance herself and that man is Steven Rutter, another loner, near destitute and living high on her daughter? For the moors, who knows all moment they’re enjoying life in the hiding places. He knows present and putting the secrets of future on the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be knownback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1786482126|title=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston The Janus Stone (translatorDr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=All the ladies of O'Brian Fashion House are trying to do is to present their works Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the best of lights site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the best bones of Milanese and European society, but they're not going to find a dead person on their premises much helpchild beneath a doorway. Cristiana lives in Casa O'Brian, on the top floor of the building where everything key to her company happensThere was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and it's on her bed that she Dr Ruth Galloway finds the corpse – resplendent herself working with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot to herDCI Harry Nelson. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking sheIt'd seen some people she really didns difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't want to see back in her life, in that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the audience below? And who here might not actually be who one night they first appear? spent together some three months ago. It'll Her condition will be a tough case for Inspector de Vincenziobvious before long, that's for surenot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Mario GiordanoNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. 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. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=Auntie Poldi and A Stranger in the Sicilian LionsFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to deathher bed one summer night. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island never found and the corpse of investigation ground to a young manhalt. Now, his face blown off by a shotgunher mother, whom she found on the local beachHelena, intervened to give and her life some meaningfather are dead in their bed. For Initially, it looks like a while she was a suspect, straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that (makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the caseboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally What looked as though it was going to Poldi and before long there was be an investigative open-and personal partnership-shut case is now a complex double murder. At least so far Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Poldi was concernedDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell0571379877|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas QuaidKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, Edward Jevons is a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest and imprisonment as occupational hazards and on the rare occasion he was nabbedworking-class young man, he'd raise obsessed with his hands upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He'come quiet''s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Turns out thatEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's not what his nickname meant at alldrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a lot relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of people didn't know. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friendsthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Angela MarsonsJo Callaghan|title= Silent ScreamLeave No Trace|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim Stone When a man is called to investigate found crucified on the body top of a woman found dead hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the bath of a house that has case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been set on firevery successful with several cold cases. As Stone But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear a very high profile case that this isn't going draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be an isolated able to solve the case and they are in a race against the clock to time, or will Kat find out who could be next on herself taken off the killer's hit list case and why. , potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Ames1035021803|title=You Were Never Really HereThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'He came up with s back now because of a planrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a solutionCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, a way to liveArthur Crockleford, which was to get very small is dead and very quiet and leave no wake. So he had the circumstances seem suspicious, to be puresay the least. He Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to be holythe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He had to be contained.'' He is Joe, an ex-MarineEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, ex-FBI, who she has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive father, with felt able to be near the man or pursue the help of a hammerprofession she loved. Having left one of his own hammers behind After the split, she worked in a hotel roomcafe, only to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader in a dark met and grim place, he moves married James (on to the next job on his list – rescuing rebound from the daughter love of a Senatorher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt1398524085|title= The Man Who Wasn't ThereHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 35|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Nordic noir'' has become the mixed metaphor du jours fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's hard to say where it startedHer children, the novels of Henning Mankell possiblysons Niall, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall Paul and Ollie and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime storyher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -telling with social commentaryher husband, Alec, is not. Stieg Larsson took it Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violentthe river. For most Brits It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Americans though the term really hit home then committed suicide when he couldn''t stand the guilt. The Bridge'Salter children are not convinced but there' s little else they can do but get on with their lives and ''The Killing'' hit our screenswonder about what really happened. It was through TV that we found the books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1529900360|title= Shadow RiderThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4|genre=ParanormalCrime|summary=Stefano Ferraro is It 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-and-shut cases which didn't need the head help of Italian family-run mega businessa psychologist only worked for a while. From hotels to racing cars Finally, it was Robin, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many piesDelaware's partner, and not all of them are legalwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Splashed across She knew that the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America involvement was something that the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned withman she loved needed. The family have a secret next case did look simple, though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel, unseen, through Two lovers were murdered in the shadows; swimming pool of a power which they use remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to serve justice when an extremely rich man and it's not the legal system fails, allowing Italian. But which of them to protect their neighbourhood from was the criminal underworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T F Muir178763681X|title=Blood Torment (DCI Andy Gilchrist)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Two-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her mother's home some time Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the early hours of the morningBelgravia. ThereHe didn's something wrong though t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might have abducted - possibly even murdered - her own child. Then it starts to get political when Gilchrist discovers that Davis' father is Dougal Davis, the former MSP who was forced women to resign his seat when do what he was accused of physically abusing his third wifewanted. Even disgraced politicians have some clout and therePaul ''somehow''s the added complication of got the fact impression that Davishe's first wife went d be at the school to school Gilchristassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's ultimate bosst turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. Just to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds that The one thing he could be working with DI Tosh MacIntosh - a man hadn't expected was for whom he has no respectsomeone to turn up dead. But could there be an answer to Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the abduction in body and everyone knows that the form of Sammie Bell, a convicted paedophile who had moved back police consider that person to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>be the prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Stephen BoothKate 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 been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it 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 suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Secrets Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Death 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 (Cooper reading's not ''really'' his thing) and Fry)his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a 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

|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Peak Districtmore surprising. There are those who call it He'suicide tourism', but it's frowned d been exiled on, although it does rather hit the nail on the headCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. There have been an number of suicides in reasonably public, but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what theyThe return has come about because he've done and usually s had a letter from outside the immediate area. Ithis ex-wife, saying that she's almost as though theyill and hasn've been tutoredt long to live. But whilst itIt's against the law hard to ''assist'' someone feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to commit suicide, what's the legal position about providing information his underwear and support? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues sent to a watery grave in E Division have to try and find some connection between the people who have diedboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. But in what might almost be another world - the city of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that Is it a warning from a key witness in Spanish gang or a case she's involved with has vanished.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0861541774|title=The Murder Road (Cooper and Fry)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=The locals will tell you that thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's only one road into close friend and out of Shawhead and over the years they've become accustomed former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to being cut off by snow or floodsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The road passes under Maik was involved in a railway line street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and one day in early February Mac Kelsey's curtain-sider jammed under the bridgehe killed a Ghurka. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered the obstruction as she tried Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to return home light that suggested that he might have planned to Shawhead, but there was no driver in murder the man. Now he could be facing the cabdeath penalty. There ''was'Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn' a lot of blood thought help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1521129886|title=Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Two young racing drivers come Greg Mason's just beginning to the Perigord region to hunt for clues get his confidence as an investigator to the whereabouts of the missing Bugatti Type 57c Atlanticpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Only four were made It's a good job too because Greg and three are accounted for - but stories would Joyce will soon have it that a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the missing car morning sickness. Greg is somewhere approached by an old friend whose brother-in the Perigord-law appears to have killed himself. ItStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's more than seventy years since the car was last seen struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that was in war time Gil would never have killed himself - but itsimply wasn's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37,000,000 for one of t in his nature. The police and the cars. One of coroner have accepted that the young racing drivers has local connections and another is in a relationship with Annettedeath was suicide, a magistrate. The race but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the car is not going to be kindnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul CornellB0CK3MYJ56|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy Crime|summary=The Great DetecitveIt's ghost has walked Londonthe 1990s and Greg Mason's streets for an age, given shape by peopletwenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's memoriesnow set himself up as a private investigator. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chestShades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. But whatNice bloke, but where's the motivelife experience that backs up this profession? And who 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 - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not been written off as a tragic accident at an optionunmanned level crossing. DI James Quill Joyce - and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sighther parents, theyOliver and Pam Hetherington - can'll pursue a criminial genius t understand what she was doing there - who'll lure them into or how she could come to fall in front of a Sherlockian maze of clues and evidencetrain. The team also have thier own demons to fight. They Greg've s been asked to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apartinvestigate...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1838954481|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=4.5

|summary=When Bob Skinner's wife has a yearning for a particular cake from Marks and Spencer he thinks nothing of taking Ryan Kennedy killed a detour on his way to work, snatching the last one available and heading back to the car. Itpolice officer: there's then no doubt about that the fates start being naughty. Reversing out of his parking space he's hit by a speeding BMW He was the fifteen-year- only old holding the driver doesn't get out to exchange insurance details gun and offer apologiespointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He gets out pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the car murder and legs itthe manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Checking his own car for damage Skinner notices For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the boot of capital and hoping for a quieter life in the beemer countryside but when a missing teenager is slightly open - something which presumably happened found on impact her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and his attempts to close it mean that it opens instead and back into the body orbit of a small child is revealedRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1448309743|title=Little Sister The Devil Stone (Detective Pieter VosDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5

|summary=Late one night, after a talent content In the village of Cronchie on the waterfrontWest coast of Scotland, Kim and Mia Timmers returned to their home to find five members of a scene of utter carnage and their mother, father and sister deadwealthy family are found murdered. It would have hit any eleven-year-old child hard, but The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the dead girl, Little Jostone is removed from Otterburn House, was their triplet and there was a special bond between the three of themdeath will follow. The girls then left the house and apparently murdered the lead singer of The Cupidsonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, a world-famous band, in the belief that he had been responsible for the deaths 's an easy conclusion given that two of their family. Officially there didnthem 'discovered't seem to be any doubt about what had happened to the musicianbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, despite the fact that there were certain points about the murder scene which might have suggested that someone with more worldly experience was responsibleDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1529077699|title=Die of ShameThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=A group of addicts - ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the addictions differ - meet regularly at local pub one evening in the home middle of their therapistan autumn gale, Tony De Silva, himself stayed for about a former addict. On the night we join themmonth and then turned up, Chrisnaked and dead, Robinin a small boat, Heather and Diana are surprised anchored in Scully Cove close to see that there's an extra chair the village of Greystone, in the circleDevon. It changes Rosco had the dynamics status of the groupa national treasure: a renowned adventurer, but round the newcomer is Caroline world sailor and sheall round ''s a large lady - but although she likes her food itcelebrity's painkillers that she's addicted to. ThereI ''nearly''s no obvious reason why Carolinesaid 's arrival should make such a difference to the group all- sheround good egg's keen to fit in - but it does as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and before many weeks have passed one of his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the group is murdered. money for his first boat? It's increasingly obvious that one of How did he finance the group is responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)1529427045|title=Bird The Girl in a Cagethe Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=A man returns ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the flat he grew up in and small town of Gasskas, where his mother died without his knowledge, and finds it too desolate for the time so-far-untapped natural resources of year it is – Christmas Evethe area have sparked a gold rush. Bursting for more life, despite being a solitary character, he goes to a restaurant, and finds a connection with a mother with her daughterThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. They dine, then go to Salander's niece's mother is the cinema, and sit together, and things happen from there – latest woman in a gentle, no-pressure, no-names-no-packdrill waythe area to have vanished without trace. If this isnIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece't a reasonable start to a novella, consider the tag s guardian but it has as quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a noir classic. And consider the fact the strange woman is the spitting image remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the manpart Salander played in her father's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>death.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons1787636607|title=The Hanging ClubTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary= When It's a scene replicated all too often in the three yobbos who kick early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to death a young husband get home. Some are lucky and father are given a perfunctory sentence, DC Wolfe finds it hard manage to hold his true feelings in checkget one of the few taxis available. Confounded by Others squash onto the injustice night bus that will only go as far as one of the British Courts and legal systemoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', DC Wolfe spends a good while soul searching and wondering why he invests so much particularly in the light of his life in fighting crime'the missing women'. For one young woman, finding murderers and bringing them to justice when the integrity final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of the criminal justice system is so sorely lackingher home. Luckily for DC Wolfe he has his bright She had intended to ring someone to come and funny daughter Scout collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to keep him from looking too hard into beg the darkness that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until the videos bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start being posted on the internetwalking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Barnard1405957174|title=The Case of A Death at the Missing BronteParty|author=Amy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary=Superintendent Perry Trethowan was returning to London from Northumberland with his family when their car broke down in From the Yorkshire Dales and they were stranded in a small village for the nightfirst page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. When they had The victim - a drink in man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the local pub they were joined by a local resident, Miss Edith Wing, who had what might be an extraordinary document in her possessionambulance he so desperately needs. Could this be a lost Bronte novel? The provenance of the manuscript suggested that it could well be genuine, but was it - and Miss wing - What we don't know is who the real thing man is or was it a very clever forgery? why Nadine prefers to have him die. Perry suggested visiting I'd better give you a local expert for an opinion and in doing little more background so sends Miss wing into mortal dangerthat you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bill Beverly0008530025|title= Dodgers|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= Judging a book by its cover can mislead. It can especially mislead if you don't look closely at the cover and are just grabbed by the ''feel'' or ''style'' of the design of the thing. Being misled is not necessarily a bad thing. For reasons best left Murder in the depths of my addled brain, the styling of Dodgers had me thinking 'noir'. I was expecting late fifties, early sixties. If I'd looked closer, I'd have seen that it is much more contemporary than that. Then again…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=John Bude|title=Death on the RivieraCara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Counterfeit currency It was circulating on the French Riviera in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and it was suspected that an Englishman was behind found the crimebody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, so DI Meredith was sent along with acting-Sergeant Strang to trace in the whereabouts garden of Chalky Corbetttheir West London home. It wasn't entirely He had an unpleasant assignment - injury on the warm back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the south of France compared favourably steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with polluted London - his murder and Meredith (whose French was far from fluent) got on well with it's now the local policemansubject of ''Infamous'', Inspector Blampignon a true-crime show. A group of Niceexperts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. It wasnMore to the point, they't long before their interest settled re going to do this live on the Villa Polomacamera, home episode by episode. There's no dump of an eccentric expatriate Englishwoman, Nesta Hedderwick the whole box set - and her band no shortage of bohemian house guestscliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356371</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mark Watson0241996104|title= The Place That Didn't ExistComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 24.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= Sometimes Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a book just leaves you wondering what it was trying to belife sentence. IThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'm afraid Watsonsilent sentence' - she's sixth novel is one not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of thoseher life. I canOf course, it't compare it to his previous work s made worse because INancy've not been there. Or if I have I have forgotten all about s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. I will quickly forget this ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one toofavourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0155C65V0</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shamini Flint1529413680|title=Inspector Singh Investigates: A Frightfully English ExecutionChateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Inspector Singh wasn't ''completely'' insulted when he was told that he was to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in London, despite One of the fact that he was main events of the opinion that this was a job for paperSarlat tourist season is the re-pushers rather than real policemen. He would go. Then Mrs Singh decided that she too would go to London to visit enactment of the legions liberation of unknown relatives who live the town from the English in the metropolis 1370 and Bruno's there to collect yet more essential souvenirssee the show with some friends. Things looked up ''slightly'It' s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when Singh realised that he would be looking at a cold case - , Kerquelin, the five-year-old unsolved murder man playing one of Fatima Daud - along with an Inspector the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the Metscript. Only - Singh wasn't Luckily, his doctor is there to ''solve'' or even ''investigate'' and the case man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (that was forbiddenand friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he was there to consider how it could have been handled differently's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349402728</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1529196388|title=The Bursar's WifeTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=Private investigator George Kocharyan struggles along on the seedy side of Cambridge, following the odd unfaithful spouse or checking up on benefit claimants Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for the Department of Work all that was good and honest and Pensions. This looked up to by just about pays for his invaluable part-time assistant Sandra who knows how to work the office computereveryone, and her teenage son who George occasionally hires to do some of so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the leg workOld Bailey. Into this grubby world walks Sylvia Booker, wife of the bursar at Morley College, overprotective mother, glamorous middle-aged woman. Worried that her daughter has fallen There's just one man in with a bad crowd she hires George to look into it. Then one of the unfaithful wives George had been following turns up dead, and life begins to get complicated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May: Strange Tide|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing frame for Bryant his murder - Jimmy Knight - and May is looking very much like it will be their last. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing's not too long before Knight appears in court, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimercharged with Cliveden'smurder. His condition is worsening almost by Knight was told that the day, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A K Benedict|title=best barrister for him was Jonathan Dark or The Evidence Of Ghosts|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Maria King sits by the Thames mudlarking Taylor- sifting through the washed up treasures Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor- on a regular basis. Only today she finds a ring in a box with 'Marry me Maria' on the lid in braille. Blind from birth Cameron and now blind by choicehis pupil, Adam Green, the words can be for no one else but Ms King. However a greater surprise awaits inside the box: the ring is still on a finger belonging to the last girl who received such a proposaleventually represent him. DI Jonathan Dark is assigned to the case, not realising what heKnight's taken on or the sort of help he'll need determined to call on. The dead are all around him, his plan is plead not to let Maria join them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409144550</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1409144550</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author= Clare Donoghue|title= Trust No One|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= They're an ordinary familyguilty, by modern standards. Richard and wife Nicola have split up, but are on reasonably amicable terms. The kids stay over with their Dad often enough. He makes time for them and their friends. Ok, so fourteen year old Harvey is dyslexic and has been diagnosed as having ADHD. Hedespite all Taylor-Cameron's also got a quick temperrecommendations to the contrary. But he's very protective of his little sister, 12-year-old Olive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284291</amazonuk>