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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Humfrey Hunter Stuart Douglas|title=The StorykillerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|summary=The first rule of Super Injunctions is that you donDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit't talk about Super Injunctions. These powerful legalese prevent , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the likes dead body of you, me and a woman on the papers talking about certain storiesedge of a reservoir. The richpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, powerful and meaningless use them to stop he enlists the type help of tittle tattle that fuels a million conversations at workfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, but what do you do if you are not richuncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, powerful or meaningless enough a link to afford death during the Second World War. But is there really a Super Injunctionlink between the deaths? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller And will they manage to uncover who specialises in quashing rumoursis responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Ian McEwanStig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=NutshellThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet TrudyIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Successfully living 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 large and valuable London home, she missing person is heavily pregnant, buried and in between two men – she has swapped the homeownerwho was responsible for her death. This person, poet and publisher Johnhe promises, for is someone completely different, namely Claude, a nasty, brutish big and short typeit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorAnd 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. OhNot 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 he himself, our narrator, anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the child sheFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's pregnant withsixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He is She was never found and the investigation ground to a very alert young thinghalt. Now, with nothing else to do but kick here and thereher mother, and practice what you might well call mindfulnessHelena, and listen her father are dead in on Claude their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Trudy, her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as they calmly talk their way though it was going to plotting be an open-and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac0571379877|title=Beneath the AshesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on the kitchen floor of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livingEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. SheHe'd no memory of what had happened the night befores also self-obsessed, but she was injureddemanding, the house had been broken into handsome and entitled and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missing. The police had been called uses Edward to the farm by the fire brigaderun errands for him. There'd Edward has been a fire in one of the farmlove with Stanza since their university days - and he's barns and when they investigated a badly-burned body was discovereddrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It Most men in Robert's up to DI Will Jackman to discover whoposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's responsible - and before whoever it not like most men: Edward is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimleft to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabelle GreyJo Callaghan|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Leave No Trace

|summary=In many ways it was horrific, but quite simple. On Christmas day When a man with is found crucified on the top of a rifle shot and killed five people: hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the first was his ex-wife's new partner, a local policemancase alongside her sidekick, but the other four were simply people who happened to be aroundAI detective Lock. He then went to the local churchyard and turned the gun on himselfIt's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Six deadBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, no perpetrator on the loose Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and it looks as though all a very high profile case that needs draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be done is able to give evidence at solve the inquestcase in time, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at that. She wants to know where Russell Fewell got or will Kat find herself taken off the gun case and the bullets: she's also not convinced about the honesty , potentially, out of the dead policeman and that's an unpopular attitude to have about a local hero.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)1035021803|title=Crush|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=In this story of Thelma and Louise, it's Louise we meet first, through her narration. SheThe Antique Hunter's a seventeen year old, telling us of a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her company. She lives at home with her mother, complete with hare-lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wife. Impulsively, she asks Guide to be their maid – and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy home. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMurder|author=Lawrence Block|title=Sinner ManC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Everybody It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to start somewherethe English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence BlockArthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, you may no longer be able to find say the beginningleast. His first crime publication came and went in Arthur was the early 60s and fifty years later he did reason why Freya had not have a copy as the book had been published under an alias with a different title unknown back to himthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. In 2016 that book Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has surfaced not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the form of ''Sinner Man'' and has all rebound from the hallmarks love of the veteran crime writer's early books; murderher life, dubious characters who was murdered) and Freya and a bit of pulp naughtinessJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1398524085|title=Ink and BoneHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Finlay MontgomeryCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, like Paul and Ollie and her grandmother Eloise before daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is a very powerful and gifted psychicnot. Sensitive to the unseenShortly afterwards, unheard Etty and unknowableGreg, she spends her days among find the dead. Visitedbody of Greg's father, botheredDuncan Ackerley, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage in the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowriver. But life is not It was an easy assumption for the police to make that simple Duncan had murdered Charlie and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the room who guilt. The Salter children are all trying to not convinced but there's little else they can do but get your attention in the loudest on with their lives and most distracting way possiblewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529900360|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=It hadn'Allotmentst been Lt Milo Sturgis' sound as though they should be a haven of peace s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and tranquilityeven after Alex recovered, but it's surprising how often the reverse proves Sturgis was reluctant to be the caseask for his help on difficult cases. The villagers of Carsley are up in arms because Lord Bellington has said His assertions that hethere were only open-and-shut cases which didn's going to sell off t need the allotments help of a psychologist only worked for a new housing developmentwhile. When he turns up deadFinally, poisoned by antifreezeit was Robin, no one is particularly sorry - and thereDelaware's no shortage partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of suspects eithera remote property in Bel Air. Lord BellingtonHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's son, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin and her detective agency to discover who murdered his fathernot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong178763681X|title= Betrayals|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv Taylor-Jones has come a long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while she's coming to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are a part of that, she's not yet ready to make the choice that destiny would have her make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Sophie Hannah|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Orlando Murrin

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised Chef Paul Delamare took a house party teaching job at her home a residential cookery school in Clonakilty, IrelandBelgravia. It was mainly family, plus the two partners from the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, He didn't really want to but there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Scotland Yard getting both men and the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirotwomen to do what he wanted. They werenPaul 't certain why they'd been invited, but Athie Playford, author of the popular childrensomehow's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddon'got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a shock in store for the assembled company and particularly for her two childrenbroken arm, Harry but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and Claudiathe problems - are all his own. SheThe one thing he hadn'd changed her willt expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, disinheriting her son he was the person who discovered the body and daughter and leaving everything everyone knows that the police consider that person to her secretary, Joseph Scotcherbe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1529421284|title=The Gem ConnectionLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=In It was one of those flash downpours that the beginning it was simpleBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. C J KavanaughIn a gully, formerly of a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed body to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs whoHe'd been unable to prove that he was being unfaithful to his wifea known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but CJ was determined to be the one who got the proofDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Luck Geary was on his side, but not, it would seema townie, so what was he doing out on Fahrletti's. Salisbury Plain alone? In There are connections to the meantime Clinton Windell ''knew'' that luck was on his side: he'd brought home twenty million dollars suicide of uncut gemsHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. The board hadn't believed that he could do it Lockyer and a large part DC Gemma Broad of his pleasure was the Major Crimes Review Unit (that he was proving them wrong's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1529425867|title= Dragon GamesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of ''Dragon Games'' ties it to the international bestseller ''The Art of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translation. In Oxford, there are two D I'm hoping that the final edition that hits the market will have the confidence to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequelWilkins. My hope Raymond Wilkins is because the step between the first two Burmese books of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and the modern China mystery ones is a significant onealways exquisitely dressed. Many readers will love both, but D I think the less lyricalRyan Wilkins, more prosaicson of Ryan and father of Ryan, dare I say more political approach is not. He's not any of the Chinese stories has a wider readershipthose things. It is a readership Sendker deserves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francis Duncan|title= In at the Death|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconistHe's white, originated from a fan of romantic fictiontrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and a wearer his wardrobe consists mainly of pince-nezshell suits and trackies. Not They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a natural crime-fighting celebritypolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you might think, but in In at the Death his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing and something of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail of a murderer in the city of Bridgton're not. The death two men are just different sides of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor had a gun in his bagsame policing coin. As Sometimes the detectives get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closetscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1529431735|title=Turning BlueThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|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 detective unit, Cold Storage, was sent to investigate 's February 1991 and he could have been helped by Roddy MaceEssex is bitingly cold, a local journalistwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Only Brindle, He'd been exiled on the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with the writerCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging career. Well itThe return has come about because he's more than flagging: he left London in disgracehad a letter from his ex-wife, so itsaying that she's the two men living on the outskirts of life who are trying independently ill and hasn't long to trap the man they believe is responsible for Melanielive. It's disappearance and that man hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Steven Rutterabducted, another loner, near destitute stripped to his underwear and living high on sent to a watery grave in the moors, who knows all the hiding placesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. He knows the secrets of the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)0861541774|title=The Mystery A Nye of the Three OrchidsPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34

|summary=All the ladies of ODCI Domenic Jejeune'Brian Fashion House are trying s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to do is to present their works meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the best of lights to the best of Milanese a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and European society, but they're not going to find he killed a dead person on their premises much helpGhurka. Cristiana lives in Casa O'BrianInitially, on the top floor he faced a charge of the building where everything key manslaughter but evidence came to her company happens, and it's on her bed light that she finds the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid suggested that bizarrely means a lot he might have planned to hermurder the man. What Now he could it signify? be facing the death penalty. Was she correct in thinking she'd seen some people she really didn't want Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to see back in her life, in the audience below? And who here might not actually be who they first appear? It'll be help as any interference from another police force could provoke a tough case for Inspector de Vincenzi, thatdiplomatic incident and wouldn's for suret help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1521129886|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided Greg Mason's just beginning to move from Bavaria get his confidence as an investigator to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to deathpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She could, of course, It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialbaby and they're both delighted. Once there, new friends, family already resident on Joyce will be more delighted about the island and baby when she gets past the corpse of a young man, morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his face blown off by a shotgunsister, whom she found on the local beachLucy, intervened who's struggling to give make ends meet and her life some meaningson is not thriving. For a while she Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was a suspectsuicide, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle Stuart's prepared to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned pay Greg to investigate find out what happened on the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concernednight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig RussellB0CK3MYJ56|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest and imprisonment as occupational hazards and on the rare occasion he was nabbed, he'd raise his hands and ''come quiet''. Turns out that's not what his nickname meant at all. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot of people didn't know. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author= Angela Marsons|title= Silent ScreamAnn Macarthur|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 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 the killer's hit list and why. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Ames|title=You Were Never Really Here|rating=3.5

|summary=It's the 1990s and Greg Mason'He came up with a plan, a solution, a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wake. So he had to be pures twenty-eight years old. He had used to be holy. He had to be containedhave a 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' He is Joe, an ex-Marine, ex-FBIyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, who has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive father, with where's the help of a hammer. life experience that backs up this profession? Having left one of his own hammers behind in a hotel room, only to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places On the reader in a dark and grim placeother hand, he moves on has been asked to the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter of a Senatorlook into something. But Joyce and Helen are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt|title= The Man Who Wasnhalf-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what't There|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become the mixed metaphor du jours been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. It's hard to say where it started, the novels of Henning Mankell possiblyJoyce - and her parents, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall Oliver and Per Wahlöö as being the first Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it fall in front of a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violenttrain. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when Greg''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the bookss been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1838954481|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>}}{{newreviewMisper|author=T F Muir|title=Blood Torment (DCI Andy Gilchrist)Kate London

|summary=TwoRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her mother's home some time in the early hours of holding the morning. There's something wrong though gun and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might have abducted - possibly even murdered - her own childpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Then it starts He pulled the trigger but due to get political when Gilchrist discovers that Davis' father is Dougal Davis, the former MSP who was forced to resign his seat when vagaries of the jury system he was accused found not guilty of physically abusing his third wife. Even disgraced politicians have some clout both the murder and there's the added complication manslaughter of the fact that Davis's first wife went to school Gilchrist's ultimate bossofficer. Just to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds that he could be working with DI Tosh MacIntosh - a man for whom he has no respectAnd so lives must go on. But could there be an answer to For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the abduction capital and hoping for a quieter life in the form of Sammie Bell, countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a convicted paedophile who had moved wider investigation - and back to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1448309743|title=Secrets of Death The Devil Stone (Cooper and FryDCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit In the Peak Districtvillage of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. There are those who call it 'suicide tourism', but it's frowned on, although it does rather hit The only item missing from the home is the nail on Devil Stone: myth says that if the headstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. There have been an number of suicides The only suspects are known Satanists but in reasonably publicmany ways, but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what they've done and usually from outside the immediate area. Itthat's almost as though theyan easy conclusion given that two of them 've been tutored. But whilst itdiscovered's against the law to ''assist'' someone to commit suicidebody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, what's the legal position about providing information and support? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in E Division have to try and find some connection between the people who have died. But in what might almost be another world - the city of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness in a case she's involved with has vanishedshadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1529077699|title=The Murder Road Raging Storm (Cooper and FryTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=The locals will tell you that there''It's only one road into and out of Shawhead and over the years theyall bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?''ve become accustomed to being cut off by snow or floods Well yes, it is. The road passes under Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a railway line month and then turned up, naked and one day dead, in a small boat, anchored in early February Mac Kelsey's curtain-sider jammed under Scully Cove close to the bridgevillage of Greystone, in Devon. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered Rosco had the obstruction as she tried to return home to Shawheadstatus of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, but there was no driver in round the cabworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. There I ''wasnearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a lot of blood thoughlittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1529427045|title=Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=Two young racing drivers come ''Life has more to the Perigord region to hunt offer than people - prime numbers for clues as example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the whereabouts small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the missing Bugatti Type 57c Atlanticarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Only four were made and three are accounted for - but stories would have it that Salander's niece's mother is the missing car is somewhere latest woman in the Perigordarea to have vanished without trace. Itwas only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's more than seventy years since the car was last seen and that was in war time - guardian but itquickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37,000,000 for one of the cars. One unaware of the young racing drivers has local connections and another is part Salander played in a relationship with Annette, a magistrate. The race to find the car is not going to be kindher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell1787636607|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy Crime|summary=The Great DetecitveIt's ghost has walked London's streets a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for an age, given shape by people's memories. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chestway to get home. But what's Some are lucky and manage to get one of the motive? And who - or what - could kill a ghost? When policing London's supernatural underworld, eliminating few taxis available. Others squash onto the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill and his detectives have learnt this night bus that will only go as far as one of the hard wayoutlying villages. Gifted with The woman all regret the Sight'taxi problem', theyparticularly in the light of 'll pursue a criminial genius - whothe missing women'll lure them into . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a Sherlockian maze long way short of clues her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and evidencecollect her - but her phone's dead. The team also have thier own demons bus had driven off before she had the chance to fightbeg the bus driver to let her use his. They There've been s no option but to Hell start walking - unsuitably clothed and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apartin high-heeled shoes...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quintin Jardine1405957174|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating=4.5

|summary=When Bob SkinnerFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's wife has party will not end well. The victim - a yearning for a particular cake from Marks man - is dying when we first meet him and Spencer he thinks nothing of taking a detour on his way Nadine consciously makes no effort to work, snatching call the last one available and heading back to the carambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's then that t know is who the fates start being naughtyman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. Reversing out of his parking space heI's hit by d better give you a speeding BMW - only the driver doesnlittle more background so that you can understand what't get out to exchange insurance details and offer apologies. He gets out of the car and legs it. Checking his own car 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 the body of a small child is revealeds happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson0008530025|title=Little Sister (Detective Pieter Vos)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=Late one night, after a talent content on the waterfront, Kim and Mia Timmers returned to their home to find a scene of utter carnage and their mother, father and sister dead. It would have hit any elevenwas in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old child hard, but Maura Howard came home and found the dead girlbody of her stepfather, Little JoLuke Ryder, was in the garden of their triplet and there was a special bond between West London home. He had an injury on the three back of themhis head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. The girls then left the house Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and apparently murdered it's now the lead singer subject of The Cupids''Infamous'', a worldtrue-famous band, in crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the belief that he had been responsible for evidence and to take the deaths of their familyinvestigation further. Officially there didnMore to the point, they't seem re going to be any doubt about what had happened to the musiciando this live on camera, despite episode by episode. There's no dump of the fact that there were certain points about the murder scene which might have suggested that someone with more worldly experience was responsiblewhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham0241996104|title=Die of ShameComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=A group One of the main events of addicts - the addictions differ Sarlat tourist season is the re- meet regularly at enactment of the home liberation of their therapist, Tony De Silva, himself a former addict. On the night we join them, Chris, Robin, Heather town from the English in 1370 and Diana are surprised Bruno's there to see that there's an extra chair in the circleshow with some friends. It changes 's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the dynamics man playing one of the groupmain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, but his doctor is there and the newcomer man is Caroline and she's whisked away in a large lady - but although she likes her food it's painkillers that she's addicted tohelicopter. ThereA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's no obvious reason why Caroline's arrival should make such a difference to senior government employee, the group man who runs Frenchelon - she's keen to fit the military has stepped in - but it does . One daughter lives nearby and before many weeks have passed one another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of the group is murdered. Ither father's increasingly obvious that one of the group is responsiblefriends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and David Bellos (translator)1529196388|title=Bird in a CageThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=A man returns Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the flat he grew up Old Bailey. There's just one man in and where the frame for his mother died without his knowledge, murder - Jimmy Knight - and finds it 's not too desolate for the time of year it is – Christmas Eve. Bursting for more life, despite being a solitary characterlong before Knight appears in court, he goes to a restaurant, and finds a connection charged with a mother with her daughterCliveden's murder. They dine, then go to Knight was told that the cinema, best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and sit together, it's Taylor-Cameron and things happen from there – in a gentlehis pupil, no-pressureAdam Green, no-names-no-packdrill waywho eventually represent him. If this isnKnight't a reasonable start s determined to a novellaplead not guilty, consider despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the tag it has as a noir classiccontrary. And consider the fact the strange woman is the spitting image of the man's dead wife…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271996</amazonuk>