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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=CrushLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story of Thelma and Louise, itDuring location filming for his 1970's Louise we meet first, through her narration. Shesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's a seventeen year old, telling us leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, with woman on the sight edge of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companya reservoir. She lives at home with her motherThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, complete with hare-lipbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and abusive step-father, and is working at one he enlists the help of those factories until she sees a paradise in fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their midst – the ever-sunnydays off filming, sexy uncovering more possible murders and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wife. Impulsively, she asks seemingly, a link to be their maid – and indeed moves into death during the couple's large, messy homeSecond World War. But little does she know what lurks in is there really a link between the shadows in that building, behind deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence Block0008517061|title=Sinner ManDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Everybody has to start somewhereFormer Metropolitan Police detective, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence BlockJake Johnson, you may no longer be able to find the beginninghas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. His first crime publication came There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and went her daughter Diana, as moving in the early 60s together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and fifty years later he did relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not have a copy as this is the book had been published under an alias with a different title unknown to him. future she wants for herself and her daughter? In 2016 that book has surfaced For the moment they’re enjoying life in the form of ''Sinner Man'' present and has all putting the hallmarks of future on the veteran crime writer's early books; murder, dubious characters and a bit of pulp naughtinessback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1786482126|title=Ink and BoneThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a very powerful and gifted psychicdoorway. There was no skull. Sensitive to the unseenWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the deadDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. VisitedIt's difficult as Ruth knows, botheredbut Nelson doesn't, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowone night they spent together some three months ago. But life is Her condition will be obvious before long, not that simple and studying for your degree least because Ruth is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying prone to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possiblesudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton0008551324|title=Pushing Up Daisies The Devil You Know (Agatha RaisinD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be a haven of peace and tranquility, but itIt's surprising how often unusual for anyone from the reverse proves Hardie family to be approach the casepolice. The villagers of Carsley are up Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in arms because Lord Bellington has said that prison and he's going prepared to sell off tell the allotments police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for a new housing developmenther death. When This person, he turns up deadpromises, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry - someone big and there's no shortage 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 suspects eitherhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Lord BellingtonNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's son, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and her detective agency to discover anyone who murdered his fatherworks with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong0008405026|title= BetrayalsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Liv TaylorIt's sixteen years since nine-Jones has come year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a long way since she discovered halt. Now, her parents were not mother, Helena, and her biological parents – that her biological parents were father are dead in fact convicted serials killerstheir bed. But while she Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's coming to an understanding something about her fae heritage, the strange visions positioning of the bodies that are makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a part of complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that, shethe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's not yet ready to make the choice that destiny would have her makeboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah0571379877|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised Edward Jevons is a house party at her home in Clonakiltyworking-class young man, Ireland. It was mainly family, plus the two partners from the firm of solicitors who look after her affairsobsessed with his upper-class friends, but there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard Robert and the Belgian detective, Hercule PoirotStanza. They werenRobert't certain why they'd been invited, but Athie Playford, author of the popular childrens a theatre director. He's detective novelsalso self-obsessed, ''Shrimp Seddon''demanding, had a shock in store for the assembled company handsome and entitled and particularly uses Edward to run errands for her two children, Harry him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and Claudiahe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. SheMost men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'd changed her will, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything s not like most men: Edward is left to her secretary, Joseph Scotcherstumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael R LaneJo Callaghan|title=The Gem ConnectionLeave No Trace

|summary=In When a man is found crucified on the beginning it was simple. C J Kavanaugh, formerly top of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed to prove that a man was having an adulterous affair. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs who'd been unable to prove that he was being unfaithful to his wifehill in Nuneaton, but CJ was determined DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be the one who got case alongside her sidekick, the proofAI detective Lock. Luck was on his side, but not, it would seem, on FahrlettiIt'stheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. In the meantime Clinton Windell ''knew'' But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that luck was on his side: he'd brought home twenty million dollars draws a lot of uncut gemsunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The board hadn't believed that he could do it Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and , potentially, out of a large part of his pleasure was that he was proving them wrong.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1035021803|title= Dragon GamesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of It''Dragon Games'' ties it s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the international bestseller English country village where she grew up. She''The Art s back now because of Hearing Heartbeatsa request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'' – Sendkers former mentor and Carole's first offering in English translationclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. I'm hoping that the final edition that hits the market will have Arthur was the confidence to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' reason why Freya had not been back to which this is the direct sequelvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. My hope is because Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the step between man or pursue the first two Burmese books and the modern China mystery ones is a significant oneprofession she loved. Many readers will love both, but I think After the less lyricalsplit, more prosaicshe worked in a cafe, dare I say more political approach met and married James (on the rebound from the love of the Chinese stories has a wider readershipher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. It is a readership Sendker deserves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1398524085|title= In at the DeathHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconistCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, a fan of romantic fictionsons Niall, Paul and Ollie and a wearer of pinceher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -nez. Not a natural crimestrangely -fighting celebrityher husband, you might thinkAlec, but in In at the Death his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and something of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on Greg, find the trail body of a murderer Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the city of Bridgtonriver. The death of a local GP in It was an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp, but easy assumption for the police to make that doesn’t explain why Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the doctor had a gun in his bagguilt. As the detectives The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closetson with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1529900360|title=Turning BlueThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=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 just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a particularly harsh winterwhile. DI Jim Brindle from the elite detective unitFinally, Cold Storageit was Robin, was sent to investigate and he could have been helped by Roddy MaceDelaware's partner, a local journalistwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Only Brindle, She knew that the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with involvement was something that the writerman she loved needed. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging careerThe next case did look simple, though. Well it's more than flagging: he left London Two lovers were murdered in disgrace, so it's the two men living on swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the outskirts of life who are trying independently heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to trap the an extremely rich man they believe is responsible for Melanieand it's disappearance and that man is Steven Rutter, another loner, near destitute and living high on not the moors, who knows all the hiding placesItalian. He knows the secrets But which of them was the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)178763681X|title=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34

|summary=All the ladies of OChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn'Brian Fashion House are trying t really want to do is to present their works in the best but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of lights to the best of Milanese getting both men and European society, but they're not going women to find a dead person on their premises much helpdo what he wanted. Cristiana lives in Casa OPaul ''somehow''Brian, on got the top floor of impression that he'd be at the building where everything key school to her company happensassist Paul, and who had a broken arm, but itdidn's on her bed t turn out that she finds way. The teaching - and the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot to herproblems - are all his own. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking she'd seen some people she really didnThe one thing he hadn't want expected was for someone to see back in her lifeturn up dead. Unfortunately, in he was the audience below? And person who here might not actually discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be who they first appear? It'll be a tough case for Inspector de Vincenzi, that's for surethe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1529421284|title=Auntie Poldi and Laying Out the Sicilian LionsBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with It was one of those flash downpours that the intention of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this British weather often delivers in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialheatwave. Once thereIn a gully, new friends, family already resident on a human skeleton came to the island surface and forensic testing proved the corpse of body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a young manknown drug user and had learning disabilities, his face blown off by so it could have been a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaningsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. For a while she Geary was a suspecttownie, but that (so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and her wig) to two other deaths which were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate not considered suspicious at the casetime. Assisting him Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (or having him assist her) came naturally that's cold cases to Poldi you and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concernedme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell1529425867|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas QuaidLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy QuaidIn Oxford, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and imprisonment as occupational hazards always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and on the rare occasion he was nabbedfather of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, hebarely educated (reading's not ''really''d raise his hands thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'come quiet''re being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Turns out thatWell, you's re not what his nickname meant at all. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot The two men are just different sides of people didn't knowthe same policing coin. Even those who thought they knew him Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk> Sometimes it's problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons1529431735|title= Silent ScreamThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'Silent Screamreturn all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, Dsaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live.I Kim Stone It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is called abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to investigate the body of a woman found dead watery grave in the bath boot of a house that has been set on firestolen Ford Sierra. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, Is it becomes clear that this isn't going to be an isolated case and they are in a race against the clock warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to find out who could be next on the killer's hit list and why. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Ames0861541774|title=You Were Never Really HereA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54

|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''He came up with a plans close friend and former colleague, a solutionDanny Maik, has taken a way short holiday in Singapore to livemeet up with an old ally, which Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was to get very small and very quiet facing a man armed with a knife - and leave no wake. So he had to be pure. He had to be holy. He had to be containedkilled a Ghurka.'' He is JoeInitially, an ex-Marine, ex-FBI, who has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive father, with the help of he faced a hammer. Having left one charge of his own hammers behind in a hotel room, only manslaughter but evidence came to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader in a dark and grim place, light that suggested that he moves on might have planned to murder the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter of a Senatorman. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to Now he could be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt|title= The Man Who Wasn't There|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become facing the mixed metaphor du jourdeath penalty. It's hard Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to say where it started, the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö help as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it in any interference from another police force could provoke a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits diplomatic incident and Americans though the term really hit home when wouldn''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the bookst help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1521129886|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian family-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all of them are legal. Splashed across the gossip columns of every newspaper and magazine in America the 4 brothers and their sister are a group of gorgeous beings to be reckoned with. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them to travel, unseen, through the shadows; a power which they use to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHad It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=T F Muir|title=Blood Torment (DCI Andy Gilchrist)Keith Redfern

|summary=Two-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her motherGreg Mason's home some time in just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the early hours of the morningpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. ThereIt's something wrong though a good job too because Greg and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might Joyce will soon have abducted - possibly even murdered - her own childa baby and they're both delighted. Then it starts to get political Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when Gilchrist discovers that Davis' father she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is Dougal Davis, the former MSP who was forced approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to resign his seat when he was accused of physically abusing his third wifehave killed himself. Even disgraced politicians have some clout and thereStuart's the added complication of the fact that Davisconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's first wife went struggling to school Gilchrist's ultimate bossmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. Just to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds Lucy, he says, is convinced that he could be working with DI Tosh MacIntosh Gil would never have killed himself - a man for whom he has no respectit simply wasn't in his nature. But could there be an answer to The police and the abduction in coroner have accepted that the form of Sammie Belldeath was suicide, a convicted paedophile who had moved back but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>find out what happened on the night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen BoothB0CK3MYJ56|title=Secrets of Death Responsibilities (Cooper and FryGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit It's the Peak District. There are those who call it 'suicide tourism', but it1990s and Greg Mason's frowned on, although it does rather hit the nail on the headtwenty-eight years old. There He used to have been an number of suicides a high-flying job in reasonably public, the city but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what theyit wasn've done and usually from outside the immediate area. Itt satisfying so he's almost now set himself up as though they've been tutoreda private investigator. But whilst it's against the law to Shades of Cameron Strike''assist'' someone to commit suicide, whatyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the legal position about providing information and supportlife experience that backs up this profession? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues in E Division have On the other hand, he has been asked to try and find some connection between the people who have diedlook into something. But Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what might almost be another world 's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - the city of Nottingham can't understand what she was doing there - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness or how she could come to fall in front of a case shetrain. Greg's involved with has vanishedbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1838954481|title=The Murder Road (Cooper and Fry)Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=The locals will tell you that Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's only one road into and out of Shawhead and over the years they've become accustomed to being cut off by snow or floodsno doubt about that. The road passes under a railway line and one day in early February Mac Kelsey's curtainHe was the fifteen-year-sider jammed under old holding the bridgegun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered He pulled the obstruction as she tried trigger but due to return home to Shawhead, but there the vagaries of the jury system he was no driver in found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the cabofficer. And so lives must go on. There ''was'For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she' s drawn into a lot wider investigation - and back into the orbit of blood thoughRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1448309743|title=Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Two young racing drivers come to In the Perigord region to hunt for clues as to village of Cronchie on the whereabouts West coast of the missing Bugatti Type 57c AtlanticScotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Only four were made and three are accounted for - but stories would have it The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the missing car stone is somewhere in the Perigordremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's more than seventy years since the car was last seen and an easy conclusion given that was in war time - but ittwo of them 'discovered's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37,000,000 for one of the carsbody. One of the young racing drivers has local connections and another The Senior Investigating Office is in a relationship with AnnetteDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, a magistrate. The race to find the car DCI Christine Caplan is not going pulled in to be kind'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell1529077699|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy |summary=The Great Detecitve's ghost has walked London's streets for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sight, they'll pursue a criminial genius - who'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze of clues and evidence. The team also have thier own demons to fight. They've been to Hell and back Raging Storm (literallyTwo Rivers) but now the unit is falling apart...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Quintin Jardine|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)Ann Cleeves

|summary=When Bob Skinner''It's wife has a yearning all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a particular cake from Marks month and then turned up, naked and Spencer he thinks nothing of taking dead, in a detour on his way to worksmall boat, snatching the last one available and heading back anchored in Scully Cove close to the carvillage of Greystone, in Devon. ItRosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''s then that the fates start being naughty. Reversing I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out of his parking space , he's hit by could be more than a speeding BMW - only the driver doesnlittle bit close with money and his background isn't get out to exchange insurance details and offer apologiesexactly an open book. He gets out of Where did he get the car and legs it. Checking his own car money for damage Skinner notices that the boot of the beemer is slightly open - something which presumably happened on impact - and his attempts to close it mean that it opens instead and first boat? How did he finance the body of a small child is revealed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529427045|title=Little Sister (Detective Pieter Vos)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=4.5

|summary=Late one night, after a talent content on the waterfront, Kim and Mia Timmers returned ''Life has more to their home offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to find a scene the small town of utter carnage and their motherGasskas, father and sister dead. It would have hit any elevenwhere the so-yearfar-old child hard, but untapped natural resources of the dead girl, Little Jo, was their triplet and there was area have sparked a special bond between the three of themgold rush. The girls then left criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the house and apparently murdered the lead singer of The Cupids, a world-famous band, latest woman in the belief that he had been responsible for the deaths of their familyarea to have vanished without trace. Officially there didnIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece't seem to be any doubt about what had happened to the musician, despite the fact s guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that there were certain points about Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the murder scene which might have suggested that someone with more worldly experience was responsiblepart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1787636607|title=Die of ShameThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=A group It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of addicts - the addictions differ - meet regularly at the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home . Some are lucky and manage to get one of their therapist, Tony De Silva, himself a former addictthe few taxis available. On Others squash onto the night we join them, Chris, Robin, Heather and Diana are surprised to see bus that there's an extra chair in will only go as far as one of the circleoutlying villages. It changes The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the dynamics light of 'the groupmissing women'. For one young woman, but the newcomer is Caroline final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and she's a large lady collect her - but although she likes her food itphone's painkillers that dead. The bus had driven off before she's addicted had the chance to beg the bus driver tolet her use his. There's no obvious reason why Caroline's arrival should make such a difference option but to the group start walking - she's keen to fit unsuitably clothed and in high- but it does and before many weeks have passed one of the group is murdered. It's increasingly obvious that one of the group is responsibleheeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)1405957174|title=Bird in a CageA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=54

|summary=A man returns to From the flat he grew up in and where his mother died without his knowledgefirst page, and finds it too desolate for the time of year it is – Christmas Evewe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Bursting for more life, despite being The victim - a solitary character, he goes to a restaurant, man - is dying when we first meet him and finds a connection with a mother with her daughter. They dine, then go Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the cinema, and sit together, and things happen from there – in a gentle, no-pressure, no-names-no-packdrill wayambulance he so desperately needs. If this isnWhat we don't a reasonable start know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to a novella, consider the tag it has as a noir classichave him die. And consider the fact the strange woman is the spitting image of the manI'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Parsons0008530025|title=The Hanging ClubMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary= When It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the three yobbos who kick to death a young husband and father are given a perfunctory sentencebody of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, DC Wolfe finds it hard to hold his true feelings in checkthe garden of their West London home. Confounded by He had an injury on the injustice back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the British Courts and legal systemvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, DC Wolfe spends a good while soul searching and wondering why he invests so much of no one has been charged with his life in fighting crime, finding murderers murder and bringing them to justice when it's now the integrity subject of the criminal justice system is so sorely lacking''Infamous'', a true-crime show. Luckily for DC Wolfe he A group of experts has his bright been brought together to review the evidence and funny daughter Scout to keep him from looking too hard into take the darkness that DC Wolfe knows lives inside every dutiful cop; until investigation further. More to the videos start being posted point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the internetwhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1780892373</amazonuk>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 life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robert Barnard1529413680|title=The Case A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of the Missing BrontePolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=Superintendent Perry Trethowan was returning to London One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from Northumberland with his family when their car broke down the English in the Yorkshire Dales 1370 and they were stranded in a small village for Bruno's there to see the nightshow with some friends. When they had a drink in the local pub they were joined by a local residentIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Miss Edith WingKerquelin, who had what might be an extraordinary document in her possessionthe man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Could this be Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a lost Bronte novel? helicopter. The provenance A local doctor (and friend of the manuscript suggested that it could well be genuine, Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but was it - and Miss wing as he's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the real thing or was it a very clever forgery? military has stepped in. Perry suggested visiting a local expert for an opinion One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in doing so sends Miss wing into mortal dangerCalifornia, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813209</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bill Beverly1529196388|title= DodgersThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Judging Grant Cliveden was a hero: a book policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by its cover can misleadjust about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. It can especially mislead if you donThere't look closely at s just one man in the cover frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and are just grabbed by the it''feel'' or ''style'' of the design of the thing. Being misled is s not necessarily a bad thing. For reasons best left too long before Knight appears in the depths of my addled braincourt, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the styling best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Dodgers had me thinking Stag Court Chambers and it'noir'. I was expecting late fiftiess Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, early sixtieswho eventually represent him. If I Knight'd looked closers determined to plead not guilty, Idespite all Taylor-Cameron'd have seen that it is much more contemporary than thats recommendations to the contrary. Then again…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843448572</amazonuk>