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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John SandfordStuart Douglas|title=Extreme PreyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime |summary=Making During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a long running series evolve organically is woman on the edge of a very tricky business; a character that has been around for 26 booksreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and nearly as many yearshe enlists the help of a fellow actor, is not going John Le Breton to be the same person that started outhelp him investigate matters further. Age catches up with us all and many crime writer have come up against They travel across the problem of retirement; not country during their owndays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, but that of their charactera link to death during the Second World War. Why But is there really a 70 year old still out chasing criminals and shooting thingslink between the deaths? Lucas Davenport And will they manage to uncover who is a character who has always been a maverick, doing what he wants, therefore quitting the police was never going to stop him.responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Dickinson0008517061|title=The Ad ManDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Tim Collinwood is single and soFormer Metropolitan Police detective, working in Morocco as an advertising creativeJake Johnson, he's free to enjoy all has settled into his host country has to offer: rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the expense accountsfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, the opulence Livia and the women. Then it happens. He gets the contract her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life. He just needs to create a PR campaign that will reassure Morocco that French business has move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her best interests at heart. The truth may be otherwise but creating the façade is what advertising is reservations about. Perhaps Tim should have noticed that there are clues from the beginning as to how shady whether or not this job is, including needing to work under an assumed identity. the future she wants for herself and her daughter? However, For the moment they’re enjoying life in the secrecy becomes a side issue as something more important takes Tim's concentration: survival for him present and those around himputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)1786482126|title=Rupture The Janus Stone (Dark IcelandDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=Strange things are happening, as they are most wont to do, in rural Iceland. In a very remote fjordside community Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the NW a passing visitor has left site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the legacy bones of a dangerous African virus, which has claimed two lives. It's becoming national news, to the extent that child beneath a TV journalist is in touch for updatesdoorway. The community only has two policemen, trying to man their station round the clock between them to make sure instant responses are possibleThere was no skull. But one of them has also been asked to look into Was this a mysterious cold case from the 1950sritual killing or murder? Inevitably, when a lady died from poisoning – and that in a community of only four adults and a babyDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. – Or was it five and a baby, It's difficult as a newly-found photograph suggests? ElsewhereRuth knows, in Reykjavik, a young couple are troubled by an intruder – but that wonNelson doesn't have any connection to , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the other casesone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A L Gaylin0008551324|title= What Remains of Me|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= On the hottest night of the year, June 28, 1980 teenager Kelly Lund walked into a wrap party and shot the director, John McFadden dead. Two to the chest, one to the head, dead and centre. She offered no defence, though her attorneys played up her drug use and the heat but she still got 25-to-life. A journalist saw something in her nervous smile on the court steps, part of her defence mechanism others might have argued, called it the Mona Lisa Death Smile and set about building a demon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784756180</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Angela Marsons|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)Neil Lancaster

|summary=Initially it looked like a robbery gone wrong, It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or possibly a carjack, only has any respect for the car was still there other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and so was he's prepared to tell the police where the expensive watch body of a missing person is buried and the jewellrywho was responsible for her death. Her wallet hadn't been taken eitherThis person, but she'd been killed by a singlehe promises, precise stab to is someone big and it will be worth the heartpolice doing what he wants. There was no sign of anger: in fact there seemed And what he wants is to be a complete lack emotion and there was nothing transferred to an open prison to suggest that serve the victim had attracted the violence - she was a caring mother remainder of his sentence and dedicated social workerto get an early parole date. D I Kim Stone wasnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't alone in thinking that something didn't add up. Then a local drug addict was found with an identical wound. Therethink so and she's nothing even prepared to link do the two cases other than the wounds thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and Stoneanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's instinctshappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons0008405026|title=Lost Girls A Stranger in the Family (D I Kim StoneMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Charlotte and Amy were best friends: they seemed to do everything together It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the trip investigation ground to the swimming pool was no differenta halt. It was all carefully planned - they were to stay Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in the building until one of the parents arrived to pick them uptheir bed. OnlyInitially, it didn't work out looks like that: the mothera straightforward murder/suicide but there's car was disabled and before something about the positioning of the pick up time both parents had received a text message to say bodies that the girls had been abductedmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It would get worse too What looked as though it was going to be an open-and- the next communication would tell them that they would have to bid for the life of their childshut case is now a complex double murder. The parents who bid Kerrigan is convinced that the most would get their child back. The other would not return. It sounds unbelievableexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but it had happened beforeUna Burt) are less convinced. One child was released, but not even the body of the other child had been found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley0571379877|title=FinisterreThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=The Second World War Edward Jevons is almost lost but in a lastworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation FinisterreRobert and Stanza. In America the apparent suicide of Robert's a scientist working on the atom bomb and off the coast of Spain the shipwreck of a German submarinetheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, become catalysts as the plans spiral out of controldemanding, leading handsome and entitled and uses Edward to a shattering climaxrun errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'Finisterres drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert' s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense and styledark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Luca VesteJo Callaghan|title=Then She Was GoneLeave No Trace

|summary=Tim Johnson took his baby daughter out one day and When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the course of case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their walk he was attacked and the baby was stolenfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there was is a problem: only Tim seemed to believe that there ''was'' second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a baby potential serial killer and the police were convinced a very high profile case that there was an entirely different crime and that Johnson was draws a lot of unwanted attention to their only suspectAI Future Policing project. He went Will they be able to prison solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and was largely forgotten about., potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Douglas1035021803|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 poetAntique Hunter's heart. The only problem is that Charlie Davis has disappeared and appears Guide 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>}}{{newreviewMurder|author=Steven Burgauer|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the BayouC L Miller

|summary=A sudden death in New OrleansIt' red light district, s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the invention English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a more effective US military landing craft with a big futurerequest for help from her beloved aunt, a crime family with links back to occupied Sicily Carole. Freya's former mentor and two Germans lurking suspiciously in AmericaCarole's southern statesclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. All these are connected andArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as World War II hots up across antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a fortnight in 1942cafe, met and married James (on the links become more obvious as well as more dangerousrebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)1398524085|title=Death Going DownHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=In a strange timeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, in the years after World War TwoPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Buenos Aires is a strange city – peopled by Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her native residentshusband, and many who fled the European theatre of warAlec, is not. And in a building that houses some of the more strange examples of those people on six levels of large apartmentsShortly afterwards, something strange happens – one of them struggles home the worse for drink late one night Etty and finds Greg, find the lift descend to fetch him to his door, but carrying a blonde womanbody of Greg's corpsefather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. A resident doctor soon turns up too, and the pair kicks into action It was an easy assumption for the police investigation into her presence, which soon seems to point to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicidewhen he couldn't stand the guilt. This The Salter children are not being in a genre called suicide mystery, however, we know differently – convinced but there's little else they can do but will certainly have to wait to piece the whole story togetherget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1529900360|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'' team? 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>}}{{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=Colin Farrington|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryJonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54

|summary=2014: 50 years since William GilbeyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's father Herbert fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was hanged reluctant to ask for murderhis help on difficult cases. This anniversary is different from those in the past in His assertions that itthere were only open-and-shut cases which didn's given William t need the impetus to go and find out more about two mystifying parts help of his fathera psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's historypartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Firstly She knew that the oddity of involvement was something that the murder: why randomly kill two women man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the street swimming pool of a remote property in daylight? Bel Air. Secondly, when William He was a child, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIit's not the Italian. There's nothing in But which of them was the history books so did this actually happenprimary target? This is definitely a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford178763681X|title=Gathering PreyKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Any fan of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a long running series will dread the book that falls off the cliffresidential cookery school in Belgravia. This is the story that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of previous outings that it may as well not existgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, the Paul ''Preysomehow'' series by John Sandford is overdue thisgot the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but will it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'Gathering Prey'' be t expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the moment police consider that person to be the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>prime suspect.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner1529421284|title= The Knife SlippedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess It was one of those flash downpours that I am the British weather often delivers in a hardboiled noir addictheatwave. Therefore In a gully, I approach each grisly tale of murdera human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, private detectives who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and femme fatales with had learning disabilities, so it could have been a sense simple case of wonder misadventure but also scepticismDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. ''Surely'' Geary was a townie, I think ''this one can't be as good as so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the last, it must have flaws, poor characters suicide of Holly Gilbert and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Knife Slippedtime. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is the essence Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the hardboiled noir genre Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and E.S. Gardner is a marvelme) investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>

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

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with the local amateur dramatic society It's February 1991 and when it was decided that they would stage Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'Annie'' and involve children from d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a local school the news was broken that he was wanted drug smuggler for a convicted paedophiledecade. A local widow with two young children The return has come about because he's had started a tentative relationship with him: letter from his ex-wife, saying that she terminated the relationship 's ill and the amdrams told him that he was no longer a memberhasn't long to live. It was bad enough's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but deserved - then someone else took the law into their own hands stripped to his underwear and decided that sent to a watery grave in the world would be boot of a better place without Albie Woodville in itstolen Ford Sierra. He was brutally murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child0861541774|title= Night SchoolA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4.5

|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in time. Reacher is still an US Army MP. DCI Domenic Jejeune''In the morning they gave Reacher s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a medal, and short holiday in the afternoon they sent him back Singapore to schoolmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman.'' The medal Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a Legion of Meritman armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Not his firstInitially, probably not his last, just another bauble he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to recognise what light that suggested that he'd done for his country and a plea for him not might have planned to talk about itmurder the man. The 'it' in this case was some Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police work, in the Balkans, force could provoke a diplomatic incident and a couple of shootings. 'wouldn'Two weeks of his lifet help Danny at all. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin1521129886|title=Rather be the DevilThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary=ItGreg Mason's forty years since Maria Turquand was murderedjust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She was beautiful, It's a bright light good job too because Greg and promiscuous - Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she was strangled gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in Edinburgh-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's Caledonian Hotel on the night that a famous rock star struggling to make ends meet and his entourage were staying thereher son is not thriving. Her killer was Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never found: have killed himself - itsimply wasn's been preying on John Rebus' mind t in his nature. The police and it comes into conversation on the night coroner have accepted that Rebus and his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Cally. death was suicide, It's better than thinking about his health: he's got COPD and therebut Stuart's something prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about itthe night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran CrowleyB0CK3MYJ56|title= ShootResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a habit of being late to discover good writers, high-flying job in this case getting to Crowley after the city but it wasn't satisfying so he is no longer with us's now set himself up as a private investigator. The result is that what is billed as 'Shades of Cameron Strike'an F, you might be thinking.X. Shepherd mysteryNice bloke, but where'' with all s the optimism of there being more to come has life experience that backs up this profession? On the poignancy of beingother hand, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewhe has been asked to look into something. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name Joyce and prefers just "Shepherd" isHelen are half-sisters, technicallyor rather, a columnist. Hethey were until Helen was killed in what's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing written off as a weekly column for anothertragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. I don't know much about journalismJoyce - and her parents, but I'm guessing one column a week doesnOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapunderstand what she was doing there -washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him or how she could come to turn fall in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffa train. Greg's been asked to investigate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1838954481|title=Hidden Killers (Tennison 2)The Misper|author=Kate London

|summary=Coming to the end of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work in CID, only Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's some resistance. It's never ''quite'' said, but you have a suspicion no doubt about that it might come down to the fact that she's a woman. But being female has its advantages when a decoy is needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women and Tennison finds herself walking He was the local park area dressed up like a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbitfifteen-year-skin coat. She is attacked old holding the gun and only just rescued in time, but suffers nothing worse than a cut lip and a frightpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It seems as though this is He pulled the man who has been attacking women, trigger but is he also responsible for due to the rape vagaries of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Anita Nair|title= Chain the jury system he was found not guilty of Custody|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After both the murder and the success manslaughter of ''A Cut-like Wound'' the officer. And so lives must go on. published in For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the UK capital and hoping for a quieter life in 2014, ''Chain of Custody'' sees the return of Inspector Gowda of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) police, called in countryside but when an affluent lawyer a missing teenager is found dead at his home in on her territory she's drawn into a prestigious wider investigation - and well-guarded gated community. However, that is back into the prologue jumping ahead orbit of the story – as is the current vogueRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christobel Kent1448309743|title=The Loving HusbandDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|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.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian McEwan1529077699|title=NutshellThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|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?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Isaac1529427045|title=Beneath The Girl in the AshesEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|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''.

The police had been called Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the farm by small town of Gasskas, where the fire brigadeso-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. There'd The criminal underworld has not been a fire slow in one of the farmcoming forward. Salander's barns and when they investigated a badly-burned body was discovered. Itniece's up mother is the latest woman in the area to DI Will Jackman to discover whohave vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's responsible - and before whoever guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who is stalking Nancy makes 's unaware of the part Salander played in her their next victimfather's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Isabelle GreyCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a 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 few 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'. 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 collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=Shot Through A Death at the Heart (DI Grace Fisher 2)Party|author=Amy Stuart

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Frederic Dard Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps 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 now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and Daniel Seton (translator)to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=CrushComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|genre=General Fiction Thrillers|summary=In this story of Thelma Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and Louiseher step-brother, it's Louise we Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet firstNancy outside the court, through her narrationafter Martin receives a life sentence. SheThe barrister tells her that she's received a seventeen year old, telling us 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of a quite awful and smelly satellite town of Paris she lives in, anything but will have to live with what happened for the sight rest of factories and stench of food processing plants keeping her companylife. She lives at home with Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother, complete with hare-lip, and abusive step-father, and is working at one of those factories until she sees a paradise in their midst – the ever-sunny, sexy and sophisticated life papers are making the most of an American NATO worker and his wifeit. Impulsively, she asks to be their maid – ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and indeed moves into the couple's large, messy home'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. But little does she know what lurks in the shadows in that building, behind their gigantic car and their cute porch swing and al-fresco dining – the unhappiness, and even the tragedy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271988</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lawrence Block1529413680|title=Sinner ManA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Everybody has One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to start somewheresee the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, but if you are as prolific a writer as Lawrence BlockKerquelin, you may no longer be able to find the beginningman playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. His first crime publication came Luckily, his doctor is there and went the man is whisked away in the early 60s a helicopter. A local doctor (and fifty years later friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he did not have 's a copy as senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the book had been published under an alias with a different title unknown to himmilitary has stepped in. In 2016 that book has surfaced One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in the form with some of ''Sinner Man'' and has all the hallmarks of the veteran crime writerher father's early books; murder, dubious characters and friends for a bit of pulp naughtinesspre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650017</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Unger1529196388|title=Ink 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 unseen, unheard and unknowable, she spends her days among the dead. Visited, bothered, harassed and sometimes taunted, Finlay does her best to manage the gifts that Mother Nature has sought to bestow. But life is not that simple and studying for your degree is testing with five other visitors in the room who are all trying to get your attention in the loudest and most distracting way possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115047X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Trial|author=M C Beaton|title=Pushing Up Daisies (Agatha Raisin)Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary='Allotments' sound as though they should be Grant Cliveden was a hero: a haven of peace policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and tranquilitylooked up to by just about everyone, but so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's surprising how often the reverse proves to be the case. The villagers of Carsley are up not too long before Knight appears in arms because Lord Bellington has said that hecourt, charged with Cliveden's going to sell off murder. Knight was told that the allotments best barrister for a new housing development. When he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, no one is particularly sorry him was Jonathan Taylor- Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and thereit's no shortage of suspects eitherTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Lord BellingtonKnight's sondetermined to plead not guilty, Damian, employs Agatha Raisin and her detective agency despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to discover who murdered his fatherthe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472117212</amazonuk>