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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Strange things are happeningDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', as they are most wont to do, in rural Iceland. In a very remote fjordside community in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the NW dead body of a passing visitor has left woman on the legacy edge of a dangerous African virus, which has claimed two livesreservoir. It's becoming national newsThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, to and he enlists the extent that help of a TV journalist is in touch for updates. The community only has two policemenfellow actor, trying to man their station round the clock between them John Le Breton to make sure instant responses are possiblehelp him investigate matters further. But one of them has also been asked to look into a mysterious cold case from They travel across the 1950scountry during their days off filming, when a lady died from poisoning – uncovering more possible murders and that in , seemingly, a community of only four adults and a babylink to death during the Second World War. – Or was it five and But is there really a baby, as a newly-found photograph suggestslink between the deaths? Elsewhere, in Reykjavik, a young couple are troubled by an intruder – but that won't have any connection And will they manage to the other cases, surelyuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A L Gaylin0008517061|title= What Remains of MeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= On the hottest night of the yearFormer Metropolitan Police detective, June 28Jake Johnson, 1980 teenager Kelly Lund walked has settled into a wrap party and shot the director, John McFadden deadhis rustic life at Little Sky. Two to There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the chest, one to the headfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, dead Livia and centre. She offered no defenceher daughter Diana, though her attorneys played as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up her drug use his off-grid and the heat but she still got 25-relaxing life to-life. A journalist saw something move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her nervous smile on reservations about whether or not this is the court steps, part of future she wants for herself and her defence mechanism others might have argued, called it daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the Mona Lisa Death Smile present and set about building a demonputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784756180</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1786482126|title=Blood Lines The Janus Stone (D I Kim StoneDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Initially it looked like a robbery gone wrong, or possibly a carjack, only Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the car site was still there and so was the expensive watch and the jewellry. Her wallet hadngoing to hold seventy-five 't been taken either, but sheluxury'd been killed by apartments - when they discovered the bones of a single, precise stab to the heartchild beneath a doorway. There was no sign of anger: in fact there seemed to be skull. Was this a complete lack emotion and there was nothing to suggest that the victim had attracted the violence - she was a caring mother and dedicated social workerritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. D I Kim Stone wasnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't alone in thinking , that something didn't add up. Then she is pregnant with his child as a local drug addict was found with an identical woundresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. There's nothing Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to link the two cases other than the wounds and Stone's instinctssudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons0008551324|title=Lost Girls The Devil You Know (D I Kim StoneS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte and Amy were best friends: they seemed to do everything together and It's unusual for anyone from the trip Hardie family to approach the swimming pool was no differentpolice. It was all carefully planned - they were Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to stay in tell the police where the building until one body of the parents arrived to pick them upa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. OnlyThis person, he promises, is someone big and it didn't work out like that: the mother's car was disabled and before the pick up time both parents had received a text message to say that will be worth the girls had been abductedpolice doing what he wants. It would get worse too - the next communication would tell them that they would have And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to bid for serve the life remainder of their child. The parents who bid the most would his sentence and to get their child backan early parole date. The other would not return. It sounds unbelievableNot much to ask, but is it had happened before. ? One child was released, but not The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even the body of prepared to do the other child had been foundthing 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>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley0008405026|title=FinisterreA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but in 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 lasthalt. Now, her mother, Helena, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation Finisterreand her father are dead in their bed. In America Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the apparent suicide positioning of a scientist working on the atom bomb bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and off the coast of Spain the shipwreck of a German submarine, become catalysts her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as the plans spiral out of control, leading though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a shattering climaxcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'Finisterres disappearance: others (such as Derwent' is a crime thriller packed with grits boss, suspense and styleUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste0571379877|title=Then She Was GoneThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tim Johnson took Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his baby daughter out one day upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in the course of love with Stanza since their walk university days - and he was attacked and the baby was stolen's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But there was Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a problemrelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: only Tim seemed Edward is left to believe that there ''was'' stumble upon the two of them kissing in a baby and the police were convinced that there was an entirely different crime and that Johnson was their only suspect. He went to prison and was largely forgotten aboutdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jim DouglasJo Callaghan|title= Tokyo NightsLeave No Trace|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 and here is where the fun really begins… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916191</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steven Burgauer|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the Bayou|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=A sudden death in New Orleans' red light district, When a man is found crucified on the invention top of a more effective US military landing craft with a big futurehill in Nuneaton, a crime family with links back DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to occupied Sicily and two Germans lurking suspiciously in Americathe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's southern statestheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. All these are connected But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and, as World War II hots up across a fortnight very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in 1942time, or will Kat find herself taken off the links become more obvious as well as more dangerous.case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)1035021803|title=Death Going DownThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In a strange time, in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the years after World War Two, Buenos Aires is English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a strange city – peopled by request for help from her native residentsbeloved aunt, and many who fled the European theatre of warCarole. And in a building that houses some of Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the more strange examples of those people on six levels of large apartmentscircumstances seem suspicious, something strange happens – one of them struggles home to say the worse for drink late one night and finds least. Arthur was the lift descend reason why Freya had not been back to fetch him to his doorthe village: Arthur, she feels, but carrying a blonde woman's corpselet her down badly. A resident doctor soon turns up tooEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, and she has not felt able to be near the pair kicks into action man or pursue the police investigation into her presence, which soon seems to point to suicideprofession she loved. This not being After the split, she worked in a genre called suicide mysterycafe, howevermet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, we know differently – but will certainly who was murdered) and Freya and James have to wait to piece the whole story togethernow divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1398524085|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 and passionate, qualities that earned her the nickname ''Crazy Casey'' thanks to a tell-all book by an ex-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'' teamHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? After hearing her case, Laurie promises to give her a fair hearing on her TV show and reinvestigate the circumstances of Hunter's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Farrington|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryNicci French|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=2014: 50 years since William GilbeyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's father Herbert was hanged for murderfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. This anniversary Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is different from those in the past in that it's given William the impetus to go not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out more about two mystifying parts the body of his fatherGreg's history. Firstly the oddity of the murder: why randomly kill two women father, Duncan Ackerley, in the street in daylight? river. Secondly, when William It was a child, Herbert an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill murdered Charlie and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIcommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's nothing in the history books so did this actually happen? This is definitely a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselflittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1529900360|title=Gathering PreyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Any fan 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 help of a long running series will dread psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the book involvement was something that falls off the cliffman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. This is Two lovers were murdered in the story that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent swimming pool of previous outings that it may as well not exista remote property in Bel Air. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, He was the ''Prey'' series by John Sandford heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is overdue this, but will married to an extremely rich man and it''Gathering Prey'' be s not the moment that Italian. But which of them was the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of his former selfprimary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner178763681X|title= The Knife Slipped|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticism. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be 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 the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book Skills for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre and E.S. Gardner is a marvel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Lisa Cutts|title=Mercy KillingOrlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with the local amateur dramatic society Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and when it was decided that they would stage women to do what he wanted. Paul ''Anniesomehow'' and involve children from a local school got the news was broken impression that he was 'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a convicted paedophilebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. A local widow with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: she terminated the relationship The teaching - and the amdrams told him that problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was no longer a memberfor someone to turn up dead. It Unfortunately, he was bad enough, but deserved - then someone else took the law into their own hands person who discovered the body and decided everyone knows that the world would police consider that person to be a better place without Albie Woodville in it. He was brutally murderedthe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529421284|title= Night SchoolLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in timea heatwave. Reacher is still an US Army MP. '' In the morning they gave Reacher a medalgully, a human skeleton came to the surface and in forensic testing proved the afternoon they sent him back body to schoolbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'' The medal was d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a Legion simple case of Meritmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Not his first, probably not his lastGeary was a townie, just another bauble to recognise so what was he'd done for his country doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and a plea for him to two other deaths which were not to talk about itconsidered suspicious at the time. The 'it' in this case was some police work, in the Balkans, Lockyer and a couple DC Gemma Broad of shootings. the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''Two weeks of his life. Four rounds expended. No big deals cold cases to you and me) investigate.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1529425867|title=Rather be the DevilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderednot any of those things. She was beautifulHe's white, originated from a bright light trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and promiscuous - his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and she was strangled trackies. They're usually in Edinburghlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you's Caledonian Hotel on re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying therecombination works brilliantly well. Her killer was never found: Sometimes it's been preying on John Rebusproblematic.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It' mind s February 1991 and it comes into conversation Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the night that Rebus and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the CallyCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. ItThe return has come about because he's better than thinking about had a letter from his health: heex-wife, saying that she's got COPD ill and therehasn't long to live. It's something on hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his lung which he calls Hank Marvinunderwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Think about Is it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley0861541774|title= ShootA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a habit of being late to discover good writers, short holiday in this case getting Singapore to Crowley after he is no longer meet up with usan old ally, Guy Trueman. The result is Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' he was facing a man armed 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 knife - and he killed a fewGhurka. F.X. Shepherd – Initially, he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, faced a columnistcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another Now he could be facing the death penalty. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a week doesndiplomatic incident and wouldn'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 stuffhelp Danny at all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1521129886|title=Hidden Killers They Had It Coming (Tennison 2Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Coming Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, only therepoint where he's some resistancell warn someone about how much he charges. It's never ''quite'' said, but you a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a suspicion that it might come down to the fact that shebaby and they's a womanre both delighted. But being female has its advantages Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when a decoy is needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking she gets past the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coatmorning sickness. She Greg is attacked and only just rescued approached by an old friend whose brother-in time-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip who's struggling to make ends meet and a frighther son is not thriving. It seems as though this Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the man who has been attacking womencoroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but is he also responsible for Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the rape of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>night Gil died.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita NairB0CK3MYJ56|title= Chain of CustodyResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After It's the success of '1990s and Greg Mason'A Cuts twenty-like Wound'' eight years old. published He used to have a high-flying job in the UK in 2014, city but it wasn't satisfying so he'Chain s now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of CustodyCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where' sees s the return of Inspector Gowda of life experience that backs up this profession? On the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) policeother hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, called they were until Helen was killed in when what's been written off as a tragic accident at an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a prestigious and well-guarded gated communitytrain. However, that is the prologue jumping ahead of the story – as is the current vogueGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1838954481|title=The Loving HusbandMisper|author=Kate London
|rating=4
|genre=Crime |summary= When Fran met Nathan everyone assumed she was on the rebound from Ryan Kennedy killed a lengthy stint at the mercy of Nick The Unsuitable. I imagine falling pregnant within those first few heady months may have added fuel to that particular fire particularly from where Franpolice officer: there's best friend is standingno doubt about that. But when this is followed by a hasty wedding and a move to an isolated farmhouse in He was the Fens, Fran feels sure that her new role as homefifteen-year-maker old holding the gun and mother, so very different from pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the London party-girl she used trigger but due to be, is the right one for her. So when Fran wakes in vagaries of the middle jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the night to find Nathan's side manslaughter of the bed completely cold, she goes to look for himofficer. And so lives must go on. Finding him bloodied For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and very much dead was most definitely not part hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of the bargainRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751562416</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Humfrey Hunter 1448309743|title=The StorykillerDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The first rule of Super Injunctions only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that you don't talk about Super Injunctions. These powerful legalese prevent if the likes of youstone is removed from Otterburn House, me and the papers talking about certain storiesdeath will follow. The richonly suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, powerful and meaningless use that's an easy conclusion given that two of them to stop 'discovered' the type of tittle tattle that fuels a million conversations at work, body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but what do you do if you are not richwhen he disappears, powerful or meaningless enough DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to afford a Super Injunction? Perhaps you can hire someone called a Storykiller who specialises in quashing rumours|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909269379</amazonuk>'shadow' him.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529077699|title=NutshellThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=Meet Trudy''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Successfully living Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a large month and valuable London homethen turned up, she is heavily pregnantnaked and dead, in a small boat, and anchored in between two men – she has swapped Scully Cove close to the homeowner, poet and publisher John, for someone completely different, namely Claudevillage of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a nastyrenowned adventurer, brutish round the world sailor and short typeall round ''celebrity''. Some people cannot work I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out why on earth she has made that decision, including our narratorhe could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Oh, and Where did he himself, our narrator, is get the child she's pregnant with. money for his first boat? He is a very alert young thing, with nothing else to do but kick here and there, and practice what you might well call mindfulness, and listen in on Claude and Trudy, as they calmly talk their way to plotting and carrying out murder…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911214330</amazonuk>How did he finance the trip?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529427045|title=Beneath The Girl in the AshesEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nancy Faraday woke up on the kitchen floor of the farmhouse where her boyfriend was living. She'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'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''.
Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The police had criminal underworld has not been called to slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the farm by latest woman in the fire brigadearea to have vanished without trace. ThereIt was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'd been s a fire scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the farmfew taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women's barns . For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and when they investigated a badlycollect her -burned body was discovered. Itbut her phone's up dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to DI Will Jackman beg the bus driver to discover wholet her use his. There's responsible no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and before whoever it is who is stalking Nancy makes her their next victimin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabelle Grey1405957174|title=Shot Through A Death at the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Party|author=Amy Stuart
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=In many ways it was horrificFrom the first page, but quite simplewe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. On Christmas day The victim - a man with a rifle shot - is dying when we first meet him and killed five people: the first was his ex-wife's new partner, a local policeman, but the other four were simply people who happened to be around. He then went Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the local churchyard and turned the gun on himselfambulance he so desperately needs. Six dead, no perpetrator on What we don't know is who the loose and it looks as though all that needs to be done man is or why Nadine prefers to give evidence at the inquest, but DI Grace Fisher can't leave it at thathave him die. She wants to know where Russell Fewell got the gun and the bullets: sheI's also not convinced about the honesty of the dead policeman and d better give you a little more background so thatyou can understand what's an unpopular attitude to have about a local herohappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786480018</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frederic Dard and Daniel Seton (translator)0008530025|title=CrushMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everybody has to start somewhereIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence BlockLuke Ryder, you may no longer be able to find in the beginninggarden of their West London home. His first crime publication came and went in He had an injury on the early 60s and fifty years later back of his head which could have happened if he did not have a copy as 'd slipped down the steps but the book vicious beating his face had been published under an alias with a different title unknown to himtaken was obviously deliberate. In 2016 that book Twenty years later, no one has surfaced in been charged with his murder and it's now the form subject of ''Sinner ManInfamous'' , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and has all to take the hallmarks of investigation further. More to the veteran crime writerpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's early books; murder, dubious characters no dump of the whole box set - and a bit no shortage of pulp naughtinesscliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger0241996104|title=Ink and BoneComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary= Finlay MontgomeryNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, like her grandmother Eloise before her is has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a very powerful and gifted psychiclife sentence. Sensitive 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 unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends rest of her days among the deadlife. VisitedOf course, bothered, harassed it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestowpapers are making the most of it. But life ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not that simple and studying for your degree be printed but is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possibleundoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M C Beaton1529413680|title=Pushing Up Daisies A Chateau Under Siege (Agatha RaisinA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=Crime
|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be a haven One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of peace the town from the English in 1370 and tranquility, but itBruno's surprising how often the reverse proves there to be see the caseshow with some friends. The villagers It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of Carsley are up in arms because Lord Bellington has said that the main characters is seriously injured when he's going to sell off departs from the allotments for a new housing developmentscript. When he turns up deadLuckily, poisoned by antifreeze, no one his doctor is there and the man is particularly sorry whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - and thereas he's no shortage of suspects eithera senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. Lord Bellington's sonOne daughter lives nearby and another, Damianwho lives in California, employs Agatha Raisin and is flying in with some of her detective agency to discover who murdered his father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kelley Armstrong1529196388|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 Trial|author=Sophie Hannah|title=Closed Casket: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery Rob Rinder|rating=4.5
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|summary=Lady Athelinda Playford had organised Grant Cliveden was a house party at her home in Clonakilty, Ireland. It hero: a policeman who stood for all that was mainly familygood and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, plus the two partners from the firm of solicitors who look after her affairs, but so there are two extra guests who were not expecting to see each other - Inspector Edward Catchpool of Scotland Yard and was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Belgian detective, Hercule PoirotOld Bailey. They werenThere't certain why they'd been invited, but Athie Playford, author of s just one man in the popular childrenframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's detective novelsnot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it'Shrimp Seddon''s Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, had a shock in store for the assembled company and particularly for her two childrenAdam Green, Harry and Claudiawho eventually represent him. SheKnight'd changed her wills determined to plead not guilty, disinheriting her son and daughter and leaving everything despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to her secretary, Joseph Scotcherthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000813409X</amazonuk>
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