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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christobel KentStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The Loving Husbandpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from a lengthy stint Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at the mercy of Nick The UnsuitableLittle Sky. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where Fran's best friend is standing. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding and There’s perhaps a move to an isolated farmhouse in little uncertainty about the Fensfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Fran feels sure that Livia and her new role daughter Diana, as homemoving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-maker grid and mother, so very different from the London party-girl she used relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to be, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the right one future she wants for herself and her. daughter? So when Fran wakes For the moment they’re enjoying life in the middle of present and putting the night to find Nathan's side of the bed completely cold, she goes to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of future on the bargainback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 1786482126|title=The StorykillerJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5
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|summary=The first rule Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of Super Injunctions is that you don't talk about Super Injunctionsa child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. These powerful legalese prevent the likes of youWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, me and the papers talking about certain storiesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The richIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, powerful and meaningless use them to stop the type of tittle tattle that fuels she is pregnant with his child as a million conversations at workresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, but what do you do if you are not rich, powerful or meaningless enough least because Ruth is prone to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>sudden bouts of sickness.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan0008551324|title=NutshellThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|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.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac0571379877|title=Beneath the AshesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isabelle GreyJo Callaghan|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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
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{{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
|genre=Crime
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1398524085|title=Ink and BoneHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529900360|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|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?
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{{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
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1529421284|title=The Gem ConnectionLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{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 In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of my advance copy Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading'Dragon Gamess not '' ties it to the international bestseller really''The Art his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendkershell suits and trackies. They's first offering re usually in English translationlime green or acid yellow. IYou might wonder if you'm hoping that the final edition that hits the market will have the confidence re being introduced to reference ''Whispering Shadowsa police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'' to which this is the direct sequelre not. My hope is because the step between the first The two Burmese books and men are just different sides of the modern China mystery ones is a significant onesame policing coin. Many readers will love both, but I think Sometimes the less lyrical, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach of the Chinese stories has a wider readershipcombination works brilliantly well. It is a readership Sendker deservesSometimes it's problematic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1529431735|title= In at the DeathThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine It's February 1991 and Essex is an elderly retired tobacconistbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a fan of romantic fiction, and wanted drug smuggler for a wearer of pince-nezdecade. Not The return has come about because he's had a natural crimeletter from his ex-fighting celebritywife, you might thinksaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but in In at the Death stripped to his burgeoning reputation as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing underwear and something of sent to a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on watery grave in the trail boot of a murderer in the city of Bridgtonstolen Ford Sierra. The death of Is it a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with warning from a tramp, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor had Spanish gang or a gun in his bag. As the detectives get problem closer to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0861541774|title=Turning BlueA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet involved in a particularly harsh winter. DI Jim Brindle from the elite detective unit, Cold Storage, street brawl - he would later maintain that he was sent to investigate facing a man armed with a knife - and he could have been helped by Roddy Mace, killed a local journalistGhurka. Only BrindleInitially, the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to do with murder the writerman. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging careerNow he could be facing the death penalty. Well it's more than flagging: he left London in disgrace, so it's the two men living on the outskirts of life who are trying independently Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to trap the man they believe is responsible for Melanie's disappearance and that man is Steven Rutter, help as any interference from another loner, near destitute police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and living high on the moors, who knows wouldn't help Danny at all the hiding places. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsKeith Redfern|rating=34
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|summary=All the ladies of OGreg Mason'Brian Fashion House are trying s just beginning to do is get his confidence as an investigator to present their works in the best of lights to the best of Milanese point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and European society, but they're not going both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to find a dead person on their premises much helphave killed himself. Cristiana lives in Casa OStuart'Brians concerned about his sister, on the top floor of the building where everything key to her company happensLucy, and itwho's on her bed that she finds the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot struggling to make ends meet and herson is not thriving. What could Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it signify? Was she correct in thinking she'd seen some people she really didnsimply wasn't want to see back in her lifehis nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, in the audience below? And who here might not actually be who they first appear? It'll be a tough case for Inspector de Vincenzi, thatbut Stuart's for sureprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario GiordanoB0CK3MYJ56|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with It's the intention of drinking herself to death1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. She could, of course, He used to have done this a high-flying job in Germany, the city but she felt that it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a sea view was essentialprivate investigator. Once there'Shades of Cameron Strike', new friendsyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, family already resident on but where's the island and life experience that backs up this profession? On the corpse of a young manother hand, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened he has been asked to give her life some meaninglook into something. For a while she was a suspectJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, but that (and her wig) they were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who until Helen was assigned to investigate the casekilled in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Assisting him (or having him assist Joyce - and her) came naturally to Poldi parents, Oliver and before long Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there was an investigative and personal partnership- or how she could come to fall in front of a train. At least so far as Poldi was concernedGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell1838954481|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas QuaidMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, Ryan Kennedy killed a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and imprisonment as occupational hazards and on pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the rare occasion jury system he was nabbed, he'd raise his hands found not guilty of both the murder and ''come quiet''the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on. Turns out For DI Sarah Collins thatmeans leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's not what his nickname meant at all. Turns out there was drawn into a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot wider investigation - and back into the orbit of people didn't knowRyan Kennedy. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons1448309743|title= Silent Scream|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim The Devil 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(DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Jonathan Ames|title=You Were Never Really HereCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=''He came up with a planIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a solution, a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wakewealthy family are found murdered. So he had to be pure. He had to be holy. He had to be containedThe only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow.'' He is Joe, an ex-Marine, ex-FBI, who has had demons drummed into him by not The only his work suspects are known Satanists but his abusive fatherin many ways, with that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the help of a hammerbody. Having left one of his own hammers behind in a hotel room The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, only to need it DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader in a dark and grim place, he moves on to the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter of a Senator'shadow' him. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt1529077699|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 the mixed metaphor du jour. It's hard 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 as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when ''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found the books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author= Christine Feehan|title= Shadow RiderAnn Cleeves|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>}}{{newreview|author=T F Muir|title=Blood Torment (DCI Andy Gilchrist)|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her mother''It's home some time all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the early hours middle of the morning. There's something wrong though an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might have abducted - possibly even murdered - her own child. Then it starts dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to get political when Gilchrist discovers that Davis' father is Dougal Davis, the former MSP who was forced to resign his seat when he was accused village of physically abusing his third wifeGreystone, in Devon. Even disgraced politicians have some clout and there's Rosco had the added complication status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the fact that Davisworld sailor and all round ''celebrity's first wife went to school Gilchrist's ultimate boss. Just to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds that I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be working more than a little bit close with DI Tosh MacIntosh - a man for whom he has no respectmoney and his background isn't exactly an open book. But could there be an answer to Where did he get the abduction in money for his first boat? How did he finance the form of Sammie Bell, a convicted paedophile who had moved back to his home town just a few weeks agotrip?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1529427045|title=Secrets of Death (Cooper and Fry)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=45
|genre=Crime
|summary=A strange phenomenon ''Life has hit the Peak District. There are those who call it more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'suicide tourism', but it's frowned on, although it does rather hit . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the nail on the head. There have been an number small town of suicides in reasonably publicGasskas, but picturesque place and all where the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what they've done and usually from outside so-far-untapped natural resources of the immediate areahave sparked a gold rush. It's almost as though they've The criminal underworld has not been tutoredslow in coming forward. But whilst itSalander's against the law to ''assist'' someone to commit suicide, whatniece's mother is the legal position about providing information and support? Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues latest woman in E Division have the area to try and find some connection between the people who have diedvanished without trace. But in what might almost be another world - the city of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a key witness remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in a case sheher father's involved with has vanisheddeath.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1787636607|title=The Murder Road (Cooper and Fry)Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The locals will tell you that thereIt's only one road into and a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Shawhead clubs and over the years they've become accustomed looking for a way to being cut off by snow or floodsget home. The road passes under a railway line Some are lucky and manage to get one day of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in early February Mac Kelseythe light of 's curtain-sider jammed under the bridgemissing women'. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered For one young woman, the final stop on the obstruction as she tried bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to return home ring someone to Shawhead, come and collect her - but there was no her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver in the cabto let her use his. There ''was'' a lot of blood thoughs no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1405957174|title=Fatal Pursuit: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationDeath at the Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Two young racing drivers come to From the Perigord region first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to hunt for clues as to the whereabouts of call the missing Bugatti Type 57c Atlanticambulance he so desperately needs. Only four were made and three are accounted for - but stories would have it that What we don't know is who the missing car man is somewhere in the Perigordor why Nadine prefers to have him die. ItI's d better give you a little more than seventy years since the car was last seen and background so that was in war time - but ityou can understand what's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37,000,000 for one of the cars. One of the young racing drivers has local connections and another is in a relationship with Annette, a magistrate. The race to find the car is not going to be kindhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell0008530025|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 Murder in 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 (literally) but now the unit is falling apart...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Quintin Jardine|title=Private Investigations (Bob Skinner)Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When Bob Skinner's wife has a yearning for a particular cake from Marks It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and Spencer he thinks nothing found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of taking a detour their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his way to work, snatching head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the last one available and heading back to steps but the carvicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. ItTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's then that now the fates start being naughty. Reversing out subject of his parking space he's hit by 'Infamous'', a speeding BMW true- only the driver doesn't get out to exchange insurance details and offer apologiescrime show. He gets out A group of experts has been brought together to review the car evidence and legs itto take the investigation further. Checking his own car for damage Skinner notices that More to the boot point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the beemer is slightly open - something which presumably happened on impact whole box set - and his attempts to close it mean that it opens instead and the body no shortage of a small child is revealedcliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472205669</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson0241996104|title=Little Sister (Detective Pieter Vos)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529413680
|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)
|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Late one night, after a talent content on One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the waterfront, Kim English in 1370 and Mia Timmers returned Bruno's there to their home to find a scene of utter carnage and their mother, father and sister deadsee the show with some friends. It would have hit any eleven-year-old child hard, 's all been very carefully choreographed but the dead girlgoes badly wrong when, Little JoKerquelin, was their triplet and there was a special bond between the three man playing one of themthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. The girls then left Luckily, his doctor is there and the house man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and apparently murdered the lead singer friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of The Cupids, survival but - as he's a world-famous bandsenior government employee, in the belief that he had been responsible for man who runs Frenchelon - the deaths of their familymilitary has stepped in. Officially there didn't seem to be any doubt about what had happened to the musicianOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, despite the fact that there were certain points about the murder scene which might have suggested that someone is flying in with more worldly experience was responsiblesome of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293398</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1529196388|title=Die of ShameThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A group of addicts - the addictions differ - meet regularly at the home of their therapist, Tony De Silva, himself Grant Cliveden was a hero: a former addict. On the night we join them, Chris, Robin, Heather policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and Diana are surprised looked up to see that by just about everyone, so there's an extra chair was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the circleOld Bailey. It changes the dynamics of the group, but the newcomer is Caroline and sheThere's a large lady just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - but although she likes her food and it's painkillers that shenot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's addicted tomurder. There's no obvious reason why Caroline's arrival should make such a difference to Knight was told that the group best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor- sheCameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's keen to fit in Taylor- but it does Cameron and before many weeks have passed one of the group is murderedhis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. ItKnight's increasingly obvious that one of determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the group is responsiblecontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704838</amazonuk>
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