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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair BurkeStuart Douglas|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion 4)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen years ago, Casey Carter went to prison for the murder of her fiancée Hunter Raleigh. The evidence seemed indisputable; her fingerprints were on the gun that killed him and her skin tested positive for gunshot residue. She'd been known to be argumentative Lowe and passionate, qualities that earned her the nickname ''Crazy Casey'' thanks to a tell-all book by an exLe Breton Mysteries -boyfriend. Even her family seemed to suspect her guilt. But now Casey is out of prison and determined to prove her innocence. Who better to help her than Laurie Moran and the ''Under Suspicion'' team? After hearing her case, Laurie promises to give her a fair hearing on her TV show and reinvestigate Death at the circumstances of Hunter's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Farrington|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryDress Rehearsal

|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. It's better than thinking about his health: Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's got COPD and there's something on his lung which drunkenly confided how he calls Hank Marvinfeels to Robert. Think about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, Most men in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – relationship had begun between them but he doesn't s not like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" most men: Edward is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. 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 left to stumble upon the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn two of them kissing in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffa dark passageway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lynda La PlanteJo Callaghan|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)Leave No Trace

|summary=Coming When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the end of case alongside her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CIDsidekick, only there's some resistancethe AI detective Lock. It's never ''quite'' saidtheir first live case together, but you have a suspicion that it might come down to the fact that she's a womanhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But being female has its advantages when there is a second body found crucified a decoy few days later, Kat is needed to entrap suddenly struggling with a man who has been attacking women potential serial killer and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing very high profile case that draws a blue rabbit-skin coatlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. She is attacked and only just rescued Will they be able to solve the case in time, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip or will Kat find herself taken off the case and a fright. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for the rape potentially, out of a young girlcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair1035021803|title= Chain of CustodyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= After It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the success 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'A Cut-like Wound'' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. published in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the UK village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in 2014business together as antique hunters, ''Chain of Custody'' sees she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the return of Inspector Gowda of profession she loved. After the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) policesplit, called in when an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home she worked in a prestigious cafe, met and well-guarded gated community. However, that is married James (on the rebound from the prologue jumping ahead love of the story – as is the current vogueher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Christobel KentNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the 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 guilt. 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|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 beginningpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. His first crime publication came It's a good job too because Greg and went in the early 60s and fifty years later he did not Joyce will soon have a copy as baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the book had been published under morning sickness. Greg is approached by an alias with a different title unknown old friend whose brother-in-law appears to himhave killed himself. In 2016 that book has surfaced in the form of Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who'Sinner Man's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn' t in his nature. The police and has all the hallmarks of coroner have accepted that the veteran crime writerdeath was suicide, but Stuart's early books; murder, dubious characters and a bit of pulp naughtinessprepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa UngerB0CK3MYJ56|title=Ink and BoneResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful It's the 1990s and gifted psychicGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Sensitive He used to have a high-flying job in the unseencity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', unheard and unknowableyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, she spends her days among but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the deadother hand, he has been asked to look into something. VisitedJoyce and Helen are half-sisters, botheredor rather, harassed they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and sometimes tauntedher parents, Finlay does her best Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowfall in front of a train. But life is not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying Greg's been asked to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possibleinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1838954481|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)The Misper|author=Kate London

|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be Ryan Kennedy killed a haven of peace and tranquility, but itpolice officer: there's surprising how often no doubt about that. He was the reverse proves to be fifteen-year-old holding the casegun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. The villagers He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of Carsley are up in arms because Lord Bellington has said that the jury system he's going to sell off was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the allotments for a new housing developmentofficer. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry - and there's no shortage of suspects eitherAnd so lives must go on. Lord BellingtonFor DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's son, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin drawn into a wider investigation - and her detective agency to discover who murdered his fatherback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1448309743|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>}}{{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Sophie Hannah|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Caro Ramsay

|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a house party at her home in Clonakilty, Irelandwealthy family are found murdered. It was mainly family, plus The only item missing from the two partners from home is the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, but there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard and Devil Stone: myth says that if the Belgian detectivestone is removed from Otterburn House, Hercule Poirotdeath will follow. They weren't certain why they'd been invited, The only suspects are known Satanists but Athie Playfordin many ways, author of the popular childrenthat's detective novels, ''Shrimp Seddonan easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered', had a shock in store for the assembled company and particularly for her two children, Harry and Claudiabody. She'd changed her will The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to her secretary, Joseph Scotcher'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael R Lane1529077699|title=The Gem ConnectionRaging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=In the beginning ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it was simpleis. C J KavanaughJem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, formerly of the Drugs Enforcement Agency but now making in a living as Private Investigator was employed small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to prove that a man was having an adulterous affairthe village of Greystone, in Devon. Antonio Fahrletti Rosco had confounded half the status of a national treasure: a dozen PIs who'd been unable to prove that he was being unfaithful to his wiferenowned adventurer, but CJ was determined to be round the one who got the proofworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Luck was on his side, but not, it would seem, on FahrlettiI ''nearly's. In the meantime Clinton Windell 'said 'knewall-round good egg'but as we' that luck was on ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his side: hebackground isn'd brought home twenty million dollars of uncut gemst exactly an open book. The board hadn't believed that Where did he could do it and a large part of get the money for his pleasure was that first boat? How did he was proving them wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1634913566</amazonuk>finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jan-Philipp Sendker1529427045|title= Dragon GamesThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 45|genre= Crime|summary= The putative cover of my advance copy of ''Dragon GamesLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example'' ties it . Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the international bestseller ''The Art small town of Hearing Heartbeats'' – Sendker's first offering in English translation. I'm hoping that Gasskas, where the final edition that hits so-far-untapped natural resources of the market will area have the confidence to reference ''Whispering Shadows'' to which this is the direct sequelsparked a gold rush. My hope is because the step between the first two Burmese books and the modern China mystery ones is a significant oneThe criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Many readers will love both, but I think Salander's niece's mother is the less lyrical, more prosaic, dare I say more political approach of latest woman in the Chinese stories has a wider readershiparea to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a readership Sendker deservesremarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973546</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francis Duncan1787636607|title= In at the DeathThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Mordecai Tremaine is an elderly retired tobacconist, It's a fan scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of romantic fiction, clubs and looking for a wearer way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of pince-nezthe few taxis available. Not a natural crime-fighting celebrity, you might think, but in In at Others squash onto the Death his burgeoning reputation night bus that will only go as far as an amateur sleuth is both a blessing and something one of a burden as he accompanies his good friend Inspector Boyce on the trail of a murderer outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the city light of Bridgton'the missing women'. The death of a local GP in an abandoned house looks like an unfortunate encounter with a tramp For one young woman, but that doesn’t explain why the doctor final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had a gun in his bagintended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. As The bus had driven off before she had the detectives get chance to beg the bus driver to work there are skeletons let her use his. There's no option but to be found lurking start walking - unsuitably clothed and in a few closetshigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704830</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin Myers1405957174|title=Turning BlueA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=It was just before Christmas when Melanie Muncy went missing from an isolated Yorkshire hamlet in a particularly harsh winter. DI Jim Brindle from From the elite detective unitfirst page, Cold Storage, was sent to investigate and he could have been helped by Roddy Mace, a local journalistwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. Only Brindle, the obsessive compulsive, teetotal, vegetarian loner wants nothing The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to do with call the writerambulance he so desperately needs. Mace What we don't know is who the man is desperate or why Nadine prefers to revive his flagging careerhave him die. Well itI's d better give you a little more than flagging: he left London in disgrace, background so it's the two men living on the outskirts of life who are trying independently to trap the man they believe is responsible for Melaniethat you can understand what's disappearance and that man is Steven Rutter, another loner, near destitute and living high on the moors, who knows 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 knownhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911356003</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Augusto de Angelis and Jill Foulston (translator)0008530025|title=The Mystery of Murder in the Three OrchidsFamily|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=All It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the ladies body of O'Brian Fashion House are trying to do is to present their works her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the best garden of lights to the best of Milanese and European society, but they're not going to find a dead person on their premises much helpWest London home. Cristiana lives in Casa O'Brian, He had an injury on the top floor back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the building where everything key to her company happenssteps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's on her bed that she finds now the corpse – resplendent with an orchid perched nearbysubject of ''Infamous'', an orchid that bizarrely means a lot true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to herreview the evidence and to take the investigation further. What could it signify? Was she correct in thinking sheMore to the point, they'd seen some people she really didn't want re going to see back in her lifedo this live on camera, in episode by episode. There's no dump of the audience below? And who here might not actually be who they first appear? whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It'll be a tough case for Inspector de Vincenzi, that's for surecompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271724</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find You|author=Mario GiordanoJane Corry|rating=4.5|titlegenre=Thrillers|summary=Auntie Poldi Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the Sicilian Lionspapers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from Bavaria the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to Sicily see the show with the intention of drinking herself to deathsome friends. She couldIt's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Once Luckily, his doctor is there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by is whisked away in a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaninghelicopter. For a while she was a suspect, but that A local doctor (and her wigfriend of Bruno) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man who was assigned to investigate runs Frenchelon - the casemilitary has stepped in. Assisting him (or having him assist One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concernedfather's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Craig Russell1529196388|title= The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Everybody liked quiet Tommy Quaid, a professional burglar who like Norman Stanley Fletcher saw arrest and imprisonment as occupational hazards and on the rare occasion he was nabbed, he'd raise his hands and ''come quiet''. Turns out that's not what his nickname meant at all. Turns out there was a lot about Quiet Tommy Quaid that a lot of people didn't know. Even those who thought they knew him well, who thought they were his friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178087488X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrial|author= Angela Marsons|title= Silent ScreamRob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In ''Silent Scream'', D.I Kim Stone is called to investigate the body of a woman found dead in the bath of a house that has been set on fire. As Stone and her team start to investigate the suspicious circumstances, it becomes clear that this isn't going to be an isolated case and they are in a race against the clock to find out who could be next on the killer's hit list and why. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785770527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Ames|title=You Were Never Really Here|rating=3.5

|summary=''He came up with Grant Cliveden was a plan, hero: a solution, a way policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to liveby just about everyone, which so there was to get very small and very quiet and leave no wake. So public uproar when he had to be pure. He had to be holywas murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. He had to be contained.There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it' He is Joes not too long before Knight appears in court, an excharged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-MarineCameron and his pupil, ex-FBIAdam Green, who has had demons drummed into eventually represent him by not only his work but his abusive father, with the help of a hammer. Having left one of his own hammers behind in a hotel room, only Knight's determined to need it in an introductory scuffle which really places the reader in a dark and grim placeplead not guilty, he moves on despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the next job on his list – rescuing the daughter of a Senatorcontrary. But are that holy lack of wake and his consummate survival skills actually going to be enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272453</amazonuk>