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|summary=2014: 50 years since William GilbeyDuring location filming for his 1970's father Herbert was hanged for murdersitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. This anniversary is different from those in the past in that The police seem happy to assign it's given William as an accidental death, but something about the impetus to go whole thing bothers Lowe, and find out more about two mystifying parts he enlists the help of his father's historya fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Firstly They travel across the oddity of the murder: why randomly kill two women in the street in daylight? Secondlycountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, when William was a childseemingly, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera link to death during the Second World War II. There's nothing in But is there really a link between the history books so did this actually happendeaths? This And will they manage to uncover who is definitely a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himself.responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford0008517061|title=Gathering PreyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Any fan Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a long running series will dread the book that falls lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off the cliff. This is the story that just -grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not make sense, or this is so reminiscent of previous outings that it may as well not exist. the future she wants for herself and her daughter? With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, For the moment they’re enjoying life in the ''Prey'' series by John Sandford is overdue this, but will ''Gathering Prey'' be present and putting the moment that future on the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>back burner.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner1786482126|title= The Knife SlippedJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confessBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Confess that I am Was this a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, private detectives and femme fatales Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with a sense of wonder but also scepticismDCI Harry Nelson. It''Surely''s difficult as Ruth knows, I think ''this one canbut Nelson doesn't be , that she is pregnant with his child as good as the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening result of the Knife Slippedone night they spent together some three months ago. I was wrong Her condition will be obvious before long, wonderfully wrong. This book for me not least because Ruth is the essence prone to sudden bouts of the hardboiled noir genre and Esickness.S. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts0008551324|title=Mercy KillingThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided that they would stage ''AnnieIt'' and involve children s unusual for anyone from a local school the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophileHardie family to approach the police. A local widow with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: she terminated Neither side likes or has any respect for the relationship other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the amdrams told him that he body of a missing person is buried and who was no longer a memberresponsible for her death. It was bad enoughThis person, he promises, but deserved - then is someone else took the law into their own hands big and decided that it will be worth the world would police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be a better place without Albie Woodville in transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it. ? He was brutally murderedThe 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 anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child0008405026|title= Night SchoolA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 4.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in timeIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Reacher is still an US Army MP. ''In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, She was never found and in the afternoon they sent him back investigation ground to school.'' The medal was a Legion of Merithalt. Not his firstNow, probably not his lasther mother, Helena, just another bauble to recognise what he'd done for his country and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a plea for him not to talk straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about itthe positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The 'What looked as though it' in this case was some police work, in the Balkans, going to be an open-and -shut case is now a couple of shootingscomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'Two weeks of his life. Four rounds expendeds boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0571379877|title=Rather be the DevilThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=It's forty years since Maria Turquand was murdered. She was beautifulEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, a bright light and promiscuous obsessed with his upper- class friends, Robert and she was strangled in EdinburghStanza. Robert's Caledonian Hotel on the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying theretheatre director. Her killer was never found: itHe's been preying on John Rebus' mind also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and it comes into conversation on the night that Rebus entitled and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Callyuses Edward to run errands for him. ItEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's better than thinking about his health: drunkenly confided how hefeels to Robert. Most men in Robert's got COPD and thereposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about itnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kieran CrowleyJo Callaghan|title= ShootLeave No Trace|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of When a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result man is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all found crucified on the optimism top of there being more a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to come has the poignancy of beingcase alongside her sidekick, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewAI detective Lock. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnIt't like his s their first name and prefers just "Shepherd" live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there isa second body found crucified a few days later, technically, Kat is suddenly struggling with a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper potential serial killer and is writing a weekly column for anothervery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. I don't know much about journalismWill they be able to solve the case in time, 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 or will Kat find herself taken off the bookcase and, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front pagepotentially, seat out of your pants stuff. a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1035021803|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Coming It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the end English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CIDbeloved aunt, only there's some resistanceCarole. ItFreya's never former mentor and Carole''quite'' saids close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, but you have a suspicion that it might come down to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the fact that village: Arthur, she's a womanfeels, let her down badly. But being female Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has its advantages when a decoy is needed not felt able to entrap a be near the man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking or pursue the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coatprofession she loved. She is attacked and only just rescued After the split, she worked in timea cafe, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip met and a fright. It seems as though this is married James (on the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for rebound from the rape love of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair1398524085|title= Chain of CustodyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After the success of ''A Cut-like Wound'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband' s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. published in the UK in 2014Her children, ''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) policesons Niall, called in when an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home in a prestigious Paul and Ollie and wellher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -guarded gated communitystrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. HoweverShortly afterwards, that is Etty and Greg, find the prologue jumping ahead body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the story – as is river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the current vogueguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1529900360|title=The Loving HusbandGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she 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 rebound from help of a lengthy stint at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablepsychologist only worked for a while. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where FranFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's best friend is standingpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding and a move to an isolated farmhouse in She knew that the Fens, Fran feels sure involvement was something that her new role as home-maker and mother, so very different from the London party-girl man she used to beloved needed. The next case did look simple, is the right one for herthough. So when Fran wakes Two lovers were murdered in the middle swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the night heir to find Nathanan Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's side of not the bed completely cold, she goes to look for himItalian. Finding him bloodied and very much dead But which of them was most definitely not part of the bargain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 178763681X|title=The StorykillerKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=3.54

|summary=The first rule of Super Injunctions is that you donChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't talk about Super Injunctionsreally want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. These powerful legalese prevent Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the likes of youschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, me but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the papers talking about certain storiesproblems - are all his own. The richone thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, powerful he was the person who discovered the body and meaningless use them to stop everyone knows that the type of tittle tattle police consider that fuels a million conversations at work, but what do you do if you are not rich, powerful or meaningless enough person to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>be the prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529421284|title=NutshellLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet TrudyIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Successfully living in In a large and valuable London home, she is heavily pregnantgully, a human skeleton came to the surface and in between two men – she has swapped forensic testing proved the homeownerbody to be Lee Geary, poet who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claudehad learning disabilities, so it could have been a nasty, brutish and short typesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Some people cannot work Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorSalisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Oh, Lockyer and he himself, our narrator, is DC Gemma Broad of the child sheMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's pregnant with. He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else cold cases 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>me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529425867|title=Beneath the AshesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on the kitchen floor of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livingIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. She'd no memory Raymond Wilkins is of what had happened the night beforeNigerian descent, but she was injuredBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the house had been broken into son of Ryan and her boyfriendfather of Ryan, Evan Baker, was missingis not. The police had been called to the farm by the fire brigade He's not any of those things. ThereHe'd been s white, originated from a fire in one of the farmtrailer park, barely educated (reading's barns not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and when they investigated trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a badly-burned body was discoveredpolice procedural written for laughs. It Well, you's up to DI Will Jackman to discover whore not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's responsible - and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimproblematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey1529431735|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=In many ways it was horrificIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, but quite simplewhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. On Christmas day He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a man with wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a rifle shot and killed five people: the first was letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's new partner, a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened ill and hasn't long to be aroundlive. He then went It's hard to the local churchyard and turned the gun on himself. Six dead, no perpetrator on the loose and it looks as though all that needs to be done feel any sympathy when Hopkins is to give evidence at the inquestabducted, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at that. She wants stripped to know where Russell Fewell got the gun his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the bullets: she's also not convinced about the honesty boot of the dead policeman and that's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herostolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)0861541774|title=CrushA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story of Thelma DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Louiseformer colleague, Danny Maik, it's Louise we has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet firstup with an old ally, through her narrationGuy Trueman. She's Maik was involved in a seventeen year old, telling us of street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, man armed with the sight of factories a knife - and stench of food processing plants keeping her companyhe killed a Ghurka. She lives at home with her motherInitially, complete with hare-lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one he faced a charge of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifeman. Impulsively, she asks to Now he could be their maid – and indeed moves into facing the couple's large, messy homedeath penalty. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>wouldn't help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence Block1521129886|title=Sinner ManThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=Everybody has Greg Mason's just beginning to start somewhere, but if you are get his confidence as prolific a writer as Lawrence Block, you may no longer be able an investigator to find the beginning. His first crime publication came and went in the early 60s and fifty years later point where he'll warn someone about how much he did not have a copy as the book had been published under an alias with a different title unknown to himcharges. In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form of ''Sinner Man'' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writerIt's early books; murder, dubious characters and a bit of pulp naughtiness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Unger|title=Ink good job too because Greg and Bone|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is Joyce will soon have a very powerful baby and gifted psychicthey're both delighted. Sensitive to Joyce will be more delighted about the unseen, unheard and unknowable, baby when she spends her days among gets past the deadmorning sickness. VisitedGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, botheredLucy, harassed who's struggling to make ends meet and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowson is not thriving. But life Lucy, he says, is not convinced that simple Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to get your attention in find out what happened on the loudest and most distracting way possiblenight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C BeatonB0CK3MYJ56|title=Pushing Up Daisies Responsibilities (Agatha RaisinGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=It'Allotmentss the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he' sound s now set himself up as though they should be a haven private investigator. 'Shades of peace and tranquilityCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but itwhere's surprising how often the reverse proves life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to be the caselook into something. The villagers of Carsley Joyce and Helen are up half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in arms because Lord Bellington has said that hewhat's going to sell been written off the allotments for as a new housing developmenttragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry Joyce - and there's no shortage of suspects either. Lord Bellington's son, Damianher parents, employs Agatha Raisin Oliver and her detective agency to discover who murdered his father.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kelley Armstrong|title= Betrayals|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Liv TaylorPam Hetherington -Jones has come a long way since can't understand what she discovered her parents were not her biological parents – that her biological parents were in fact convicted serials killers. But while was doing there - or how she's coming could come to an understanding about her fae heritage, the strange visions that are fall in front of a part of that, shetrain. 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 the line over the last few years ''Nordic noir'' has become 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 mixed metaphor du jourOld Bailey. ItThere's hard to say where just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it started's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the novels of Henning Mankell possibly, though Mankell himself credited Martin Beck series best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of novels by Maj Sjöwall Stag Court Chambers and Per Wahlöö as being the first to take mix Swedish crime storyit's Taylor-telling with social commentary. Stieg Larsson took it in a different direction with Cameron and his Salander trilogy – much darker and much more violentpupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. For most Brits and Americans though the term really hit home when Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron'The Bridge'' and ''The Killing'' hit our screens. It was through TV that we found s recommendations to the bookscontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780894589</amazonuk>