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|summary=Any fan During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a long running series will dread woman on the book that falls off the cliffedge of a reservoir. This is the story that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent of previous outings that The police seem happy to assign it may as well not exist. With 24 titles already written an accidental death, but something about Lucas Davenport, the ''Prey'' series by John Sandford is overdue thiswhole thing bothers Lowe, but will ''Gathering Prey'' be and he enlists the moment that the maverick cop Davenport becomes help of a shadow of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Erle Stanley Gardner|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we beginfellow actor, I must confessJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore They travel across the country during their days off filming, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives uncovering more possible murders and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good as the lastseemingly, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit a link to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening death during the Knife SlippedSecond World War. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me But is there really a link between the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is a marvel. responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts0008517061|title=Mercy KillingDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved 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 the local amateur dramatic society his vet girlfriend, Livia and when it was decided that they her daughter Diana, as moving in together would stage ''Annie'' mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and involve children from a local school relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophile. A local widow with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: future she terminated the relationship wants for herself and her daughter? For the amdrams told him that he was no longer a member. It was bad enough, but deserved - then someone else took moment they’re enjoying life in the law into their own hands present and decided that putting the world would be a better place without Albie Woodville in it. He was brutally murderedfuture on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1786482126|title= Night SchoolThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back Builders were demolishing an old house in time. Reacher is still an US Army MP. Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'In apartments - when they discovered the morning they gave Reacher bones of a child beneath a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to schooldoorway.'' The medal There was no skull. Was this a Legion of Merit. ritual killing or murder? Not his firstInevitably, probably not his last, just another bauble to recognise what he'd done for his country and a plea for him not to talk about itDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The It'its difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' in this case was some police workt, in the Balkans, and that she is pregnant with his child as a couple result of shootingsthe one night they spent together some three months ago. ''Two weeks Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of his lifesickness. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0008551324|title=Rather be the The DevilYou Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=It's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderedunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. She was beautiful, a bright light Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and promiscuous - and she was strangled in Edinburghhe's Caledonian Hotel on prepared to tell the police where the night that body of a famous rock star missing person is buried and his entourage were staying therewho was responsible for her death. Her killer was never found: it's been preying on John Rebus' mind This person, he promises, is someone big and it comes into conversation on will be worth the night that Rebus police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Callyto get an early parole date. ItNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's better than thinking about his health: het think so and she's got COPD even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and thereanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about ithappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley0008405026|title= ShootA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all She was never found and the optimism of there being more investigation ground to come has the poignancy of beinga halt. Now, her mother, if not the last of a short lineHelena, certainly one of a fewand her father are dead in their bed. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't Initially, it looks like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. Hestraightforward murder/suicide but there's been sacked by one New York newspaper something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is writing now a weekly column for anothercomplex double murder. I donKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much s disappearance: others (such as a rule…which explains why ShepherdDerwent's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the bookboss, you'll see what I meanUna Burt) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffare less convinced. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante0571379877|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Coming to the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CIDEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, only thereRobert and Stanza. Robert's some resistancea theatre director. ItHe's never ''quite'' saidalso self-obsessed, demanding, but you have a suspicion that it might come down handsome and entitled and uses Edward to the fact that she's a womanrun errands for him. But being female has its advantages when a decoy is needed to entrap a man who Edward has been attacking women in love with Stanza since their university days - and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coathe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. She is attacked and only just rescued Most men in time, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a fright. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is he also responsible for left to stumble upon the rape two of them kissing in a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>dark passageway.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Anita NairJo Callaghan|title= Chain of Custody|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After the success of ''A Cut-like Wound'' published in the UK in 2014, ''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) police, called in when an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home in a prestigious and well-guarded gated community. However, that is the prologue jumping ahead of the story – as is the current vogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Christobel Kent|title=The Loving HusbandLeave No Trace

|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was a man is found crucified on the rebound from top of a lengthy stint at hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the mercy of Nick The UnsuitableAI detective Lock. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where FranIt's best friend is standingtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when this there is followed by a hasty wedding and second body found crucified a move to an isolated farmhouse in the Fensfew days later, Fran feels sure that her new role as home-maker Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and mother, so a very different from the London party-girl she used high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be, is able to solve the right one for her. So when Fran wakes case in the middle of the night to time, or will Kat find Nathan's side of herself taken off the bed completely coldcase and, potentially, she goes to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part out of the bargain.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 1035021803|title=The StorykillerAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|summary=The first rule of Super Injunctions is that you donIt't talk about Super Injunctionss twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. These powerful legalese prevent the likes She's back now because of youa request for help from her beloved aunt, me Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the papers talking about certain storiesleast. The rich, powerful and meaningless use them Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to stop the type of tittle tattle that fuels a million conversations at workvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but what do you do if you are she has not rich, powerful felt able to be near the man or meaningless enough to afford a Super Injunction? pursue the profession she loved. Perhaps you can hire someone called After the split, she worked in a Storykiller cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1398524085|title=NutshellHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet TrudyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Successfully living in a large and valuable London homeHer children, she is heavily pregnantsons Niall, Paul and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowner, poet Ollie and publisher Johnher daughter, for someone completely differentEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, namely ClaudeAlec, a nastyis not. Shortly afterwards, brutish Etty and short typeGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made It was an easy assumption for the police to make that decision, including our narrator. Oh, Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he himself, our narrator, is couldn't stand the child sheguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing little else to they can do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in get on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk with their way to plotting lives and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>wonder about what really happened.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529900360|title=Beneath the AshesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the kitchen floor help of the farmhouse where her boyfriend a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was livingRobin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She'd no memory of what had happened knew that the night before, but she involvement was injured, something that the house had been broken into and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missingman she loved needed.  The police had been called to the farm by the fire brigadenext case did look simple, though. There'd been a fire Two lovers were murdered in one the swimming pool of the farm's barns and when they investigated a badly-burned body remote property in Bel Air. He was discovered. It's up the heir to DI Will Jackman an Italian shoe empire and she is married to discover whoan extremely rich man and it's responsible - and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey178763681X|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=In many ways it was horrific, but quite simple. On Christmas day Chef Paul Delamare took a man with teaching job at a rifle shot and killed five people: the first was his ex-wife's new partner, a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened to be aroundresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He then went didn't really want to the local churchyard but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and turned the gun on himselfwomen to do what he wanted. Six dead, no perpetrator on Paul ''somehow'' got the loose and it looks as though all impression that needs to he'd be done is to give evidence at the inquestschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but DI Grace Fisher canit didn't leave it at turn out thatway. She wants to know where Russell Fewell got the gun The teaching - and the bullets: sheproblems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's also not convinced about t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the honesty of person who discovered the dead policeman body and everyone knows that's an unpopular attitude the police consider that person to have about a local herobe the prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)1529421284|title=CrushLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story It was one of Thelma and Louise, it's Louise we meet first, through her narrationthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She's In a seventeen year oldgully, telling us of a quite awful human skeleton came to the surface and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives inforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, with the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companywho had disappeared nine years earlier. She lives at home with her mother, complete with hare-lip, He'd been a known drug user and abusive step-fatherhad learning disabilities, and is working at one of those factories until she sees so it could have been a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life simple case of an American NATO worker and his wifemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. ImpulsivelyGeary was a townie, she asks so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to be their maid – the suicide of Holly Gilbert and indeed moves into to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the couple's large, messy hometime. But little does she know what lurks in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the shadows in Major Crimes Review Unit (that building, behind their gigantic car 's cold cases to you and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lawrence BlockSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=Sinner ManThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Everybody has to start somewhereIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence Block, you may no longer be able to find which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the beginningmore surprising. His first crime publication came and went in He'd been exiled on the early 60s and fifty years later he did not have Costa del Sol as a copy as the book had been published under an alias with wanted drug smuggler for a different title unknown to himdecade. In 2016 that book The return has surfaced in the form of come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'Sinner Mans ill and hasn'' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writert long to live. It's early books; murderhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, dubious characters stripped to his underwear and sent to a bit watery grave in the boot of pulp naughtinessa stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger0861541774|title=Ink and BoneA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Finlay MontgomeryDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, like her grandmother Eloise before her is Danny Maik, has taken a very powerful and gifted psychicshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Sensitive to the unseen, unheard Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and unknowable, she spends her days among the deadhe killed a Ghurka. VisitedInitially, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to manage the gifts light that suggested that Mother Nature has sought he might have planned to bestowmurder the man. But life is not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in Now he could be facing the room who are all trying death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to get your attention in the loudest help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and most distracting way possiblewouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1521129886|title=Pushing Up Daisies They Had It Coming (Agatha RaisinGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Greg Mason'Allotmentss just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It' sound as though they should be s a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a haven of peace baby and tranquility, but itthey's surprising how often re both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the reverse proves to be baby when she gets past the casemorning sickness. The villagers of Carsley are up Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in arms because Lord Bellington has said that he-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's going struggling to sell off the allotments for a new housing developmentmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. When Lucy, he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreezesays, no one is particularly sorry convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - and thereit simply wasn's no shortage of suspects eithert in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Lord Bellingtonbut Stuart's son, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin and her detective agency prepared to pay Greg to discover who murdered his fatherfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley ArmstrongB0CK3MYJ56|title= BetrayalsResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= ParanormalCrime|summary= Liv TaylorIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-Jones has come eight years old. He used to have a long way since she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were high-flying job in fact convicted serials killersthe city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. But while she'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's coming to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a part of thattragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how shecould come to fall in front of a train. Greg's not yet ready been asked to make the choice that destiny would have her makeinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie Hannah1838954481|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised Ryan Kennedy killed a house party police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at her home in Clonakilty, IrelandDI Kieran Shaw. It was mainly family, plus He pulled the two partners from trigger but due to the firm vagaries of solicitors who look after her affairs, but there are two extra guests who were the jury system he was found not expecting to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool guilty of Scotland Yard both the murder and the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirotmanslaughter of the officer. They weren't certain why they'd been invited, but Athie Playford, author of And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the popular children's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddon'', had capital and hoping for a shock quieter life in store for the assembled company and particularly for countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her two children, Harry and Claudia. Sheterritory she'd changed her will, disinheriting her son s drawn into a wider investigation - and daughter and leaving everything to her secretary, Joseph Scotcherback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1448309743|title=The Gem ConnectionDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=In the beginning it was simple. C J Kavanaughvillage of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, formerly five members of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making a living as Private Investigator was employed to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairwealthy family are found murdered. Antonio Fahrletti had confounded half a dozen PIs who'd been unable to prove The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that he was being unfaithful to his wifeif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, but CJ was determined to be the one who got the proofdeath will follow. Luck was on his side, The only suspects are known Satanists but notin many ways, it would seem, on Fahrlettithat's. In the meantime Clinton Windell an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered'knew'' that luck was on his side: the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when hedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gems. The board hadnshadow't believed that he could do it and a large part of his pleasure was that he was proving them wronghim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1529077699|title= Dragon GamesThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of ''Dragon GamesIt's all bloody peculiar, isn' ties t it to the international bestseller , Sir?''The Art of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translation Well yes, it is. I'm hoping that Jem Rosco blew into the final edition that hits local pub one evening in the market will have the confidence middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequelvillage of Greystone, in Devon. My hope is because Rosco had the step between status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the first two Burmese books world sailor and the modern China mystery ones is a significant oneall round ''celebrity''. Many readers will love both, I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but I think the less lyrical, more prosaicas we'll find out, dare I say he could be more political approach of the Chinese stories has than a wider readershiplittle bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. It is a readership Sendker deserves. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1529427045|title= In at the Death|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconist, a fan of romantic fiction, and a wearer of pince-nez. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, 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. The death 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 Girl in his bag. As the detectives get to work there are skeletons to be found lurking in a few closets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewEagle's Talons|author=Benjamin Myers|title=Turning BlueKarin Smirnoff|rating=45

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in a particularly harsh winter''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. DI Jim Brindle from  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the elite detective unitsmall town of Gasskas, Cold Storage, was sent to investigate and he could where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have been helped by Roddy Mace, sparked a local journalistgold rush. Only Brindle, the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing to do with the writerThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Mace is desperate to revive his flagging career. Well itSalander's more than flagging: he left London in disgrace, so itniece's mother is the two men living on latest woman in the outskirts of life who are trying independently area to trap the man they believe is responsible for Melaniehave vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's disappearance and guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that man Svala is Steven Rutter, another loner, near destitute and living high on the moors, a remarkably gifted teenager who knows all the hiding places. He knows the secrets 's unaware of the local town too and there are those who fear that he might tell more than should be knownpart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)1787636607|title=The Mystery of the Three OrchidsTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=All the ladies of OIt'Brian Fashion House are trying to do is to present their works s a scene replicated all too often in the best early hours of lights to the best morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of Milanese clubs and European society, but they're not going looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to find a dead person on their premises much helpget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. Cristiana lives The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in Casa Othe light of 'Brianthe missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the top floor bus leaves her a long way short of the building where everything key her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her company happens, and it- but her phone's on her bed that dead. The bus had driven off before she finds had the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearby, an orchid that bizarrely means a lot chance to beg the bus driver to let heruse his. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking sheThere'd seen some people she really didn't want s no option but to see back start walking - unsuitably clothed and in her life, 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, that's for surehigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mario Giordano1405957174|title=Auntie Poldi and A Death at the Sicilian LionsParty|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with From the intention of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germanyfirst page, but she felt we know that a sea view was essentialNadine Walsh's party will not end well. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of The victim - a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while she was a suspect, but that (- is dying when we first meet him and her wig) were Nadine consciously makes no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned effort to investigate call the caseambulance he so desperately needs. Assisting him (What we don't know is who the man is or having why Nadine prefers to have him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnershipdie. At least I'd better give you a little more background so far as Poldi was concernedthat you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell0008530025|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas QuaidMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy QuaidIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest and imprisonment as occupational hazards and Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the rare occasion back of his head which could have happened if he 'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was nabbedobviously deliberate. Twenty years later, he'd raise no one has been charged with his hands murder and it's now the subject of 'come quiet'Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Turns out thatThere's not what his nickname meant at allno dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot of people didnIt't knows compelling viewing. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Angela Marsons0241996104|title= Silent ScreamComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= In ''Silent Scream'Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, Dhas been convicted of their murder.I Kim Stone is called to investigate We first meet Nancy outside the body of court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a woman 'silent sentence' - she's not been found dead in guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the bath rest of a house that has been set on fireher life. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances Of course, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be an isolated case s made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and they the papers are in a race against making the clock to find out who could be next on the killermost of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter''s hit list is one favourite epithet and why''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Ames1529413680|title=You Were Never Really HereA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It'He came up with a plans all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, a solutionKerquelin, a way to live, which was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wake. So the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he had to be pure. He had to be holydeparts from the script. He had to be contained.'' He is Joe, an ex-Marine, ex-FBILuckily, who has had demons drummed into him by not only his work but his abusive father, with doctor is there and the help of man is whisked away in a hammerhelicopter. Having left one A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his own hammers behind in chances of survival but - as he's a hotel roomsenior government employee, only to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in a dark . One daughter lives nearby and grim placeanother, he moves on to the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a Senatorpre-arranged holiday. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt1529196388|title= The Man Who Wasn't ThereTrial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary= Somewhere along 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 line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become the mixed metaphor du jourOld Bailey. ItThere's hard to say where it started, just one man in the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series of novels by Maj Sjöwall frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime story-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it 's not too long before Knight appears in a different direction court, charged with his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violent. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when Cliveden''The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screenss murder. It Knight was through TV told that we found the books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christine Feehan|title= Shadow Rider|rating= 4|genre=Paranormal|summary=Stefano Ferraro is the head of Italian familybest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-run mega business. From hotels to racing cars, the Ferraros seem to have their fingers in many pies, and not all Cameron of them are legal. Splashed across the gossip columns of every newspaper Stag Court Chambers and magazine in America the 4 brothers it's Taylor-Cameron 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 travelhis pupil, unseenAdam Green, through the shadows; a power which they use who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to serve justice when the legal system failsplead not guilty, allowing them despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to protect their neighbourhood from the criminal underworldcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349410356</amazonuk>