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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kieran CrowleyStuart Douglas|title= ShootLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= I make something During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a habit woman on the edge of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usa reservoir. The result is that what is billed police seem happy to assign it as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has accidental death, but something about the poignancy of beingwhole thing bothers Lowe, if not and he enlists the last help of a short linefellow actor, certainly one of a fewJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technicallyseemingly, a columnistlink to death during the Second World War. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and But is writing there really a weekly column for another. link between the deaths? I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him And will they manage to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante0008517061|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Coming to Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the end future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she daughter Diana, as moving in together would like mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to work move in CID, only there's some resistance. It's never ''quite'' said, but you have a suspicion that it might come down with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the fact that future she's a woman. But being female has its advantages when a decoy is needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds wants for herself walking the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coat. her daughter? She is attacked and only just rescued For the moment they’re enjoying life in time, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip the present and a fright. It seems as though this is putting the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for future on the rape of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>back burner.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair1786482126|title= Chain of CustodyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the success of site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'A Cutapartments -like Wound'' when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? published in the UK in 2014Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) policet, called in when an affluent lawyer that she is found dead at pregnant with his home in child as a prestigious and well-guarded gated communityresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. HoweverHer condition will be obvious before long, that not least because Ruth is the prologue jumping ahead prone to sudden bouts of the story – as is the current voguesickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent0008551324|title=The Loving HusbandDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on It's unusual for anyone from the rebound from a lengthy stint at Hardie family to approach the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablepolice. 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 standingNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But when this Davie Hardie is followed by a hasty wedding struggling in prison and a move he's prepared to an isolated farmhouse in tell the police where the Fens, Fran feels sure that body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her new role as home-maker and motherdeath. This person, so very different from the London party-girl she used to behe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the right one for herpolice doing what he wants. So when Fran wakes in And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the middle remainder of the night his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to find Nathanask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's side of even prepared to do the bed completely cold, she goes to look for other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with himis kept well away from what's happening. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of the bargain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 0008405026|title=The StorykillerA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5

|summary=The first rule of Super Injunctions is that you donIt't talk about Super Injunctionss sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. These powerful legalese prevent the likes of you, me She was never found and the papers talking about certain storiesinvestigation ground to a halt. The richNow, her mother, Helena, powerful and meaningless use them to stop the type of tittle tattle that fuels a million conversations at work, but what do you do if you her father are not richdead in their bed. Initially, powerful or meaningless enough to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called it looks like a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379<straightforward murder/amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian McEwan|title=Nutshell|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=Meet Trudysuicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Successfully living in a large What looked as though it was going to be an open-and valuable London home, she -shut case is heavily pregnant, and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claude, now a nasty, brutish and short typecomplex double murder. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made Kerrigan is convinced that decision, including our narrator. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is the child sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's pregnant withdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>

{{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 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>

{{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?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers0861541774|title=Turning BlueA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|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>

{{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

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario GiordanoB0CK3MYJ56|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|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>

{{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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons1448309743|title= Silent ScreamThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim Stone is called to investigate the body village of a woman found dead in Cronchie on the bath West coast of Scotland, five members of a house that has been set on firewealthy family are found murdered. As The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone and her team start to investigate : myth says that if the suspicious circumstancesstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be s an isolated case and they are easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in a race against the clock to find out who could be next on the killer's hit list and whyshadow' him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Ames1529077699|title=You Were Never Really HereThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5

|summary=''He came up with a planIt's all bloody peculiar, a solutionisn't it, a way to liveSir?'' Well yes, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wakeit is. So he had to be pure. He had to be holy. He had to be contained.'' He is JoeJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, an ex-Marinestayed for about a month and then turned up, ex-FBInaked and dead, who has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive fatherin a small boat, with anchored in Scully Cove close to the help village of a hammerGreystone, in Devon. Having left one Rosco had the status of his own hammers behind in a hotel roomnational treasure: a renowned adventurer, only to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places round the reader in a dark world sailor and grim placeall round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he moves on to the next job on could be more than a little bit close with money and his list – rescuing the daughter of a Senatorbackground isn't exactly an open book. But are that holy lack of wake and Where did he get the money for his consummate survival skills actually going to be enoughfirst boat? How did he finance the trip?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt1529427045|title= The Man Who WasnGirl in the Eagle't Theres Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 35|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along the line over the last few years ''Nordic noirLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'' . Lisbeth Salander has become the mixed metaphor du jour. It's hard headed north to say where it started, the novels small town of Henning Mankell possiblyGasskas, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series where the so-far-untapped natural resources of novels by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentaryarea have sparked a gold rush. Stieg Larsson took it The criminal underworld has not been slow in a different direction with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violentcoming forward. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when Salander's niece'The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screenss mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was through TV only with reluctance that we found Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the bookspart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christine Feehan1787636607|title= Shadow RiderThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre=ParanormalCrime|summary=Stefano Ferraro is It's a scene replicated all too often in the head early hours of Italian family-run mega businessthe morning. From hotels Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to racing cars, the Ferraros seem get home. Some are lucky and manage to have their fingers in many pies, and not all get one of them are legalthe few taxis available. Splashed across Others squash onto the gossip columns night bus that will only go as far as one of every newspaper and magazine the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in America the 4 brothers and their sister are light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a group long way short of gorgeous beings her home. She had intended to ring someone to be reckoned withcome and collect her - but her phone's dead. The family have a secret though; they are Shadow Riders. They have supernatural powers which allow them bus had driven off before she had the chance to travel, unseen, through beg the shadows; a power which they bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to serve justice when the legal system fails, allowing them to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworldstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=T F Muir1405957174|title=Blood Torment (DCI Andy Gilchrist)A Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Two-year-old Katie Davis was abducted from her motherFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's home some time in the early hours of the morningparty will not end well. There's something wrong though and DCI Andy Gilchrist suspects that Andrea Davis might have abducted The victim - possibly even murdered a man - her own childis dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. Then it starts to get political when Gilchrist discovers that DavisWhat we don' father t know is Dougal Davis, who the former MSP who was forced man is or why Nadine prefers to resign his seat when he was accused of physically abusing his third wifehave him die. Even disgraced politicians have some clout and thereI's the added complication of the fact d better give you a little more background so that Davis's first wife went to school Gilchristyou can understand what's ultimate bosshappening. Just to make matters even worse Gilchrist finds that he could be working with DI Tosh MacIntosh - a man for whom he has no respect. But could there be an answer to the abduction in the form of Sammie Bell, a convicted paedophile who had moved back to his home town just a few weeks ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472121163</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0008530025|title=Secrets of Death (Cooper and Fry)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=A strange phenomenon has hit It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the Peak District. There are those who call it 'suicide tourism'body of her stepfather, but it's frowned onLuke Ryder, although it does rather hit in the nail garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head. There which could have been an number of suicides in reasonably public, happened if he'd slipped down the steps but picturesque place and all the victims seems to be remarkably competent at what they've done and usually from outside the immediate areavicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. It's almost as though they've Twenty years later, no one has been tutored. But whilst charged with his murder and it's against now the law to subject of ''assistInfamous'' someone , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to commit suicide, what's review the legal position about providing information evidence and support? to take the investigation further. Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his colleagues in E Division have More to try and find some connection between the people who have diedpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. But in what might almost be another world There's no dump of the whole box set - the city and no shortage of Nottingham - Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds that a key witness in a case shecliffhangers. It's involved with has vanishedcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559989</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth0241996104|title=The Murder Road (Cooper and Fry)Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The locals will tell you that thereNancy's only one road into mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and out her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of Shawhead and over their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the years they've become accustomed to being cut off by snow or floodscourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. The road passes under barrister tells her that she's received a railway line and one day in early February Mac Kelsey'silent sentence' - she's curtain-sider jammed under not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the bridgerest of her life. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the obstruction as she tried to return home to Shawhead, but there was no driver in papers are making the cabmost of it. There ''wasFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' a lot of blood thoughis one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)

|summary=Two young racing drivers come to One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the Perigord region to hunt for clues as to re-enactment of the whereabouts liberation of the missing Bugatti Type 57c Atlantic. Only four were made and three are accounted for - but stories would have it that town from the missing car is somewhere English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the Perigordshow with some friends. It's more than seventy years since all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the car was last seen man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and that was the man is whisked away in war time a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - but itas he's worth finding: a Californian museum paid $37senior government employee,000,000 for one of the carsman who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One of the young racing drivers has local connections daughter lives nearby and another , who lives in California, is flying in a relationship with Annette, some of her father's friends for a magistrate. The race to find the car is not going to be kindpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294578</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Cornell1529196388|title= Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Fantasy Crime|summary=The Great DetecitveGrant 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 Old Bailey. There's ghost has walked Londonjust one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's streets for an agenot too long before Knight appears in court, given shape by peoplecharged with Cliveden's memoriesmurder. Now someone's put a ceremonial dagger throug his chest. But what's Knight was told that the motive? And who best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor- or what - could kill a ghost? When policing LondonCameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's supernatural underworld, eliminating the impossible is not an option. DI James Quill Taylor-Cameron and his detectives have learnt this the hard way. Gifted with the Sightpupil, Adam Green, they'll pursue a criminial genius - whoeventually represent him. Knight'll lure them into a Sherlockian maze of clues and evidence. The team also have thier own demons s determined to fight. Theyplead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron've been s recommendations to Hell and back (literally) but now the unit is falling apartcontrary...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273265</amazonuk>