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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jim Stuart Douglas|title= Tokyo Nights|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Colin McCann, private detective, chronic smoker and dog lover, is charged with solving the mysterious death of the young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy businessman. The key facts of this case apparently hinge on the testimony of Charlie Davis, a ne'er do well dreamer with quick fists and a poet's heart. The only problem is that Charlie Davis has disappeared and appears to be unwilling to disclose his part in these tragic events. After some deliciously violent digging, McCann jets off to Tokyo Lowe and here is where the fun really begins… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916191</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steven Burgauer|title=Nazi Saboteurs on Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the BayouDress Rehearsal

|summary=A sudden death in New OrleansDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit' red light district, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the invention dead body of a more effective US military landing craft with woman on the edge of a big futurereservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a crime family with links back fellow actor, John Le Breton to occupied Sicily and two Germans lurking suspiciously in America's southern stateshelp him investigate matters further. All these are connected They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, as seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War II hots up across . But is there really a fortnight in 1942, link between the links become deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more obvious as well as more dangerous.people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)0008517061|title=Death Going Downin a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=3.54

|summary=In a strange timeFormer Metropolitan Police detective, in the years after World War TwoJake Johnson, Buenos Aires is a strange city – peopled by her native residents, and many who fled the European theatre of warhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. And in There’s perhaps a building that houses some of little uncertainty about the more strange examples future of those people on six levels of large apartmentshis life with his vet girlfriend, something strange happens – one of them struggles home the worse for drink late one night Livia and finds the lift descend to fetch him to his doorher daughter Diana, but carrying as moving in together would mean a blonde woman's corpse. A resident doctor soon turns lot of compromise: does Jake give up too, his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the pair kicks into action the police investigation into future she wants for herself and her presence, which soon seems to point to suicide. daughter? This not being For the moment they’re enjoying life in a genre called suicide mystery, however, we know differently – but will certainly have to wait to piece the whole story togetherpresent and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1786482126|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer Janus Stone (Under Suspicion 4Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|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 Builders were on demolishing an old house in Norwich - the gun that killed him and her skin tested positive for gunshot residue. She'd been known site was going to be argumentative and passionate, qualities that earned her the nickname hold seventy-five 'luxury'Crazy Casey'' thanks to apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a tell-all book by an ex-boyfrienddoorway. Even her family seemed to suspect her guilt There was no skull. But now Casey is out of prison and determined to prove her innocence Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Who better to help her than Laurie Moran and the ''Under Suspicion It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' team? After hearing her caset, Laurie promises to give her that she is pregnant with his child as a fair hearing on her TV show and reinvestigate result of the circumstances one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Hunter's deathsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Farrington0008551324|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=2014: 50 years since William GilbeyIt's father Herbert unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was hanged responsible for murderher death. This anniversary person, he promises, is different from those in the past in that someone big and it's given William will be worth the impetus police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to go and find out more about two mystifying parts be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his father's historysentence and to get an early parole date. Firstly the oddity of the murder: why randomly kill two women in the street in daylightNot much to ask, is it? Secondly, when William was a child, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War II. Thereshe's nothing in even prepared to do the history books so did this actually happen? This other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is definitely a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released kept well away from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselfwhat's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford0008405026|title=Gathering PreyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Any fan of It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a long running series will dread the book that falls off the cliffhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. This is Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the story that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent positioning of previous outings the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it may as well not existwas going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'Prey'' series by John Sandford is overdue thiss boss, but will ''Gathering Prey'' be the moment that the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>Una Burt) are less convinced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner0571379877|title= The Knife SlippedKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am Edward Jevons is a hardboiled noir addict. Thereforeworking-class young man, I approach each grisly tale of murderobsessed with his upper-class friends, private detectives Robert and femme fatales with Stanza. Robert's a sense of wonder but also scepticismtheatre director. He''Surely''s also self-obsessed, I think ''this one can't be as good as the lastdemanding, it must have flaws, poor characters handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and lack the necessary grit he's drunkenly confided how he feels to be Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?relationship had begun between them but he'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the essence two of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is them kissing in a marveldark passageway. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa CuttsJo Callaghan|title=Mercy KillingLeave No Trace

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with When a man is found crucified on the local amateur dramatic society and when it was decided that they would stage ''Annie'' and involve children from top of a local school hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophileAI detective Lock. A local widow It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with two young children had started several cold cases. But when there is a tentative relationship second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with him: she terminated the relationship a potential serial killer and the amdrams told him a very high profile case that he was no longer draws a memberlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. It was bad enoughWill they be able to solve the case in time, but deserved - then someone else took or will Kat find herself taken off the law into their own hands case and decided that the world would be , potentially, out of a better place without Albie Woodville in it. He was brutally murdered.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1035021803|title= Night SchoolThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back in timeto the English country village where she grew up. Reacher is still an US Army MP She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole'In the morning they gave Reacher a medals close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and in the afternoon they sent him back circumstances seem suspicious, to schoolsay the least.'' The medal Arthur was a Legion of Meritthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Not his firstEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, probably she has not his last, just another bauble felt able to recognise what he'd done for his country and a plea for him not to talk about itbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. The 'it' in this case was some police workAfter the split, she worked in the Balkansa cafe, met and a couple of shootings. ''Two weeks married James (on the rebound from the love of his her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1398524085|title=Rather be the DevilHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderedfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was beautifulHer children, sons Niall, a bright light Paul and promiscuous - Ollie and she was strangled in Edinburgh's Caledonian Hotel on the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying thereher daughter, Etty. Her killer was never found: it's been preying on John Rebus' mind and it comes into conversation on the night that Rebus and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Callyall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. It's better than thinking about his health: he's got COPD Shortly afterwards, Etty and thereGreg, find the body of Greg's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. 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 writersfather, Duncan Ackerley, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usthe river. The result is that what is billed as ''It was an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all easy assumption for the optimism of there being more police to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he doesncouldn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columniststand the guilt. He The Salter children are not convinced but there's been sacked by one New York newspaper little else they can do but get on with their lives and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much wonder about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffreally happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1529900360|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Coming 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 end help of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, a psychologist only there's some resistanceworked for a while. ItFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's never ''quite'' saidpartner, but you have a suspicion who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that it might come down to the fact involvement was something that the man she's a woman. But being female has its advantages when a decoy is loved needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coat. She is attacked and only just rescued in timeThe next case did look simple, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and a frightthough. It seems as though this is the man who has been attacking women, but is he also responsible for Two lovers were murdered in the rape swimming pool of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Nair|title= Chain of Custody|rating= 4remote property in Bel Air.5|genre= Crime|summary= After the success of ''A Cut-like Wound'' published in He was 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 heir to an affluent lawyer Italian shoe empire and she is found dead at his home in a prestigious married to an extremely rich man and well-guarded gated communityit's not the Italian. However, that is the prologue jumping ahead But which of them was the story – as is the current vogue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent178763681X|title=The Loving HusbandKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from Chef Paul Delamare took a lengthy stint teaching job at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitablea residential cookery school in Belgravia. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel He didn't really want to that particular fire particularly from where Fran's best friend is standing. But when this is followed by but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a hasty wedding way of getting both men and a move women to an isolated farmhouse in do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the Fensschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, Fran feels sure but it didn't turn out that her new role as homeway. The teaching -maker and mother, so very different from the London partyproblems -girl she used to be, is the right are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for hersomeone to turn up dead. So when Fran wakes in Unfortunately, he was the middle of person who discovered the night to find Nathan's side of body and everyone knows that the bed completely cold, she goes police consider that person to look for him. Finding him bloodied and very much dead was most definitely not part of be the bargainprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 1529421284|title=The StorykillerLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=The first rule It was one of Super Injunctions is those flash downpours that you don't talk about Super Injunctionsthe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. These powerful legalese prevent In a gully, a human skeleton came to the likes of you, me surface and forensic testing proved the papers talking about certain storiesbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The richHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, powerful and meaningless use them to stop the type so it could have been a simple case of tittle tattle that fuels misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a million conversations at worktownie, but so what do you do if you was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not rich, powerful or meaningless enough considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529425867|title=NutshellLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet TrudyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Successfully living in a large and valuable London home, she Raymond Wilkins is heavily pregnantof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and in between two men – she has swapped the homeowneralways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, poet son of Ryan and publisher Johnfather of Ryan, for someone completely different, namely Claudeis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a nastytrailer park, brutish barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and short typehis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Some people cannot work out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Oh, and he himself, our narrator, is the child sheYou might wonder if you's pregnant withre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. He is a very alert young thingWell, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might 're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly 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>. Sometimes it's problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529431735|title=Beneath the AshesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54

|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the kitchen floor of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was livingmore surprising. SheHe'd no memory of what had happened the night before, but she was injured, the house had been broken into and her boyfriend, Evan Baker, was missing. The police had been called to exiled on the farm by the fire brigadeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ThereThe return has come about because he'd been s had a fire in one of the farmletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's barns ill and when they investigated a badly-burned body was discoveredhasn't long to live. It's up hard to DI Will Jackman feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to discover who's responsible - his underwear and before whoever sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey0861541774|title=Shot Through the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=In many ways it was horrificDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, but quite simpleGuy Trueman. On Christmas day Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a rifle shot knife - and he killed five people: the first was his ex-wife's new partnera Ghurka. Initially, he faced a local policeman, charge of manslaughter but the other four were simply people who happened evidence came to be around. He then went light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the local churchyard and turned the gun on himselfman. Six dead, no perpetrator on the loose and it looks as though all that needs to Now he could be done is to give evidence at facing the inquest, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at thatdeath penalty. She wants Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to know where Russell Fewell got the gun help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the bullets: shewouldn's also not convinced about the honesty of the dead policeman and that's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herot help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton They Had It Coming (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=CrushKeith Redfern|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction Crime|summary=In this story of Thelma and Louise, itGreg Mason's Louise we meet first, through her narrationjust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. SheIt's a seventeen year old, telling us of good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a quite awful baby and smelly satellite town of Paris they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she lives in, with gets past the sight of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companymorning sickness. She lives at home with her mother, complete with hare-lip, and abusive stepGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life of an American NATO worker and his wifelaw appears to have killed himself. ImpulsivelyStuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, she asks who's struggling to be their maid – make ends meet and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy homeher son is not thriving. But little does she know what lurks Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the shadows in coroner have accepted that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappinessdeath was suicide, and even but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence BlockB0CK3MYJ56|title=Sinner ManResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=Everybody has It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to start somewhere, have a high-flying job in the city but if you are it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as prolific a writer as Lawrence Blockprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you may no longer might be able to find thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the beginning. life experience that backs up this profession? His first crime publication came and went in On the early 60s and fifty years later other hand, he did not have a copy as the book had has been published under an alias with a different title unknown asked to himlook into something. In 2016 that book has surfaced Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in the form of ''Sinner Man'' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writerwhat's early books; murder, dubious characters and been written off as a bit of pulp naughtinesstragic accident at an unmanned level crossing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Unger|title=Ink Joyce - and Bone|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Finlay Montgomery, like her grandmother Eloise before her is a very powerful and gifted psychic. Sensitive to the unseenparents, unheard Oliver and unknowable, Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she spends her days among the dead. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best 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>