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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Thomas MullenStuart Douglas|title= Darktown|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta, Georgia. The Deep South. This is country that fought to keep the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion of segregation as the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system of governance of all her people. That's a history that today's southerners are variously proud or ashamed of, or choose to ignore, or hope to forget, or continue to strive against. Variously, because people are also individuals and we all hold to our own view of what is right. For many of us, what is ''right'' is sometimes hard to draw the lines around…but what is ''wrong'' is much more clear-cut. Divisions based on skin colour, or race, or creed are wrong. No two ways about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Susanna Beard|title= Dare to Remember|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Lisa Fulbrook's best friend is dead – the victim of a brutal attack who fell to her death from her own apartment window. Lisa was there, she too was a victim of the attack that killed her best friend, and she is left with the physical and emotional scars to prove it. Traumatised by the events, Lisa flees to a country village to help settle her frightened mind. But what happened that night still torments her; she is plagued by vicious flashbacks and questions surrounding why she and her best friend Ali were targeted, because the one thing Lisa does know is that she can't remember what really happened that fateful night. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Harry Brett|title= Time To Win|rating= 3|genre= Crime|summary= I have no idea what Great Yarmouth has ever done to Harry Brett, but, boy, is he getting his own back! Now personally, I don't much like the town, and I know it has its seedy side, like most places, but I can't believe it's quite this bad. According to Brett, the weather's as dreary as the down'n'outs, the streets are grim, Lowe and the people worse. He makes the point that noLe Breton Mysteries -one comes to Yarmouth for their summer holidays anymore…if that wasn't true before this book, it's likely to be so afterwards. If a place could sue for defamation of character, Death at the town would want to. The opening shot is of Richard Goodwin going down into the murky waters of the Yare out back of his office. Goodwin was not a good person... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147215262X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gregory Mcdonald|title=SnatchDress Rehearsal
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|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's not often that you get two books for sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the price edge of one, but if you are going to see this anywhere it will likely be in a reissuereservoir. Taking The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the back catalogue of an author whole thing bothers Lowe, and compiling a larger book consisting he enlists the help of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already havefellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Hard Case Crime have done this with two books by ''Fletch'' author Gregory McdonaldThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. Surely two books that centre on kidnapping by But is there really a link between the same author would be similar enough deaths? And will they manage to be placed togetheruncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives? Think again.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>1803368209
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)0008517061|title=The PledgeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|summary=In what sounds like rural SwitzerlandFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, a girl has been murdered and left for anyone to see in a forestsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The police come, and soon find out who the villagers already think is the sole suspect – There’s perhaps a man known for illegal liaisons with young girls. They have, in fact, to put a compelling case against lynch mob rule just to get him back for investigation. He does confess, after a lengthy process – and then hangs himself. But little uncertainty about the leader future of the investigation, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to a different job elsewhere, is determined to follow up on the promise he made to the girl's parents, to make the guilty person face justice. It's a promise, however, with far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Federico Axat|title= Kill the Next One|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat's ''Kill the Next One'', you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with one of those machismo riddled tales where a middle-aged man with a mysterious past is forced to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around the edges of the page. The novel opens life with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed to his temple. He has the perfect lifevet girlfriend, including a beautiful wife Livia and two adoring childrenher daughter Diana, but has discovered that he is also as moving in possession together would mean a lot of an untreatable tumour buried deep within compromise: does Jake give up his brain which is slowly killing him. However, right before he decides to take the shot off-grid and end his relaxing life, there is a knock on his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of the law. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Val McDermid|title=Out of Bounds|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car and ended up move in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection with Livia or does Livia move to an unsolved murder from years before his birth. On the face of it, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforward, but it's Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie this is an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but in this case it looks as though the ''law'' itself might prove to be an insurmountable barrier. She's drawn to another case too - one which future she really has no business investigating - wants for herself and one which has its roots her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in a terrorist bombing two decades earlier. Like the case of present and putting the future on the teenage joyrider ''nothing'' is quite as it seemsback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1786482126|title=Evil Games The Janus Stone (D I Kim StoneDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|summary=When Ruth saw Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the man who had raped her coming out bones of a local pub she was traumatisedchild beneath a doorway. He'd served his time (albeit it was rather short) and now he There was free - and she was frightenedno skull. The rapist was murdered and DI Kim Stone and her team were called upon to solve the Was this a ritual killing - and quicklyor murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. There It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'was'' a little bit of a feeling t, that the man had got what was coming to him and didn't deserve she is pregnant with his child as a lot result of sympathy, but professionalism won the dayone night they spent together some three months ago. Then more revenge killings came to light and it was Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happeningsudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly0008551324|title=The Trophy ChildDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
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|summary=WeIt've all encountered pushy mothers - s unusual for anyone from the ones who seem determined not Hardie family to let their children have a moment's peace between all approach the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged police. Neither side likes or has any respect for themthe other. Karen Bloom But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a different class thoughmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Her sonThis person, Ewanhe promises, was something of a disappointment, but she's not going is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to allow that be transferred to happen an open prison to her daughter, serve the talented Bronteremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. There's not a moment Not much to spare between the music lessonsask, dance classes and extra school work - sometimes they have to eat on the hoof from one lesson to another. is it? The rest of the family can see the cost to Bronte new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the family as a whole, but Karen will not listen, will not change her ways. Then one day Bronte disappearsother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford0008405026|title=Extreme PreyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
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|summary=Tim Collinwood is single It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and sothe investigation ground to a halt. Now, working in Morocco as an advertising creativeher mother, he's free to enjoy all his host country has to offer: the expense accountsHelena, the opulence and the womenher father are dead in their bed. Then Initially, it happens. He gets looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the contract positioning of his life. He just needs to create a PR campaign the bodies that will reassure Morocco that French business has makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her best interests at heartboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The truth may What looked as though it was going to be otherwise but creating the façade an open-and-shut case is what advertising is aboutnow a complex double murder. Perhaps Tim should have noticed Kerrigan is convinced that there are clues from the beginning as to how shady this job is, including needing to work under an assumed identity. However, the secrecy becomes a side issue explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as something more important takes TimDerwent's concentration: survival for him and those around himboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)0571379877|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Strange things are happeningEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, as they are most wont to doobsessed with his upper-class friends, in rural IcelandRobert and Stanza. In Robert's a very remote fjordside community in the NW a passing visitor has left the legacy of a dangerous African virus, which has claimed two livestheatre director. ItHe's becoming national newsalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to the extent that a TV journalist is in touch run errands for updateshim. The community only Edward has two policemen, trying to man been in love with Stanza since their station round the clock between them university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to make sure instant responses are possibleRobert. But one of them has also been asked to look into a mysterious cold case Most men in Robert's position would stay away from the 1950s, when a lady died from poisoning – and Stanza or tell Edward that in a community of only four adults and a baby. – Or was it five and a baby, as a newly-found photograph suggests? Elsewhere, in Reykjavik, a young couple are troubled by an intruder – relationship had begun between them but that wonhe't have any connection s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the other cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= A L GaylinJo Callaghan|title= What Remains of MeLeave No Trace|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= On When a man is found crucified on the hottest night top of the year, June 28, 1980 teenager Kelly Lund walked into a wrap party and shot the directorhill in Nuneaton, John McFadden dead. Two DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the chestcase alongside her sidekick, one to the headAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, dead and centrehaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. She offered no defenceBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, though her attorneys played up her drug use Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the heat but she still got 25-a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to-lifetheir AI Future Policing project. A journalist saw something Will they be able to solve the case in her nervous smile on time, or will Kat find herself taken off the court stepscase and, part potentially, out of her defence mechanism others might have argued, called it the Mona Lisa Death Smile and set about building a demon.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784756180</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1035021803|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5
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|summary=Initially it looked like It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a robbery gone wrongrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, or possibly a carjackArthur Crockleford, only the car was still there is dead and so was the expensive watch and circumstances seem suspicious, to say the jewellryleast. Her wallet hadn't Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been taken eitherback to the village: Arthur, but she'd been killed by a singlefeels, precise stab to the heartlet her down badly. There was no sign of anger: Even though they were in fact there seemed business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be a complete lack emotion and there was nothing to suggest that near the victim had attracted man or pursue the violence - profession she was a caring mother and dedicated social workerloved. D I Kim Stone wasn't alone After the split, she worked in thinking that something didn't add up. Then a local drug addict was found with an identical wound. There's nothing to link cafe, met and married James (on the two cases other than rebound from the wounds love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and Stone's instinctsJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1398524085|title=Lost Girls (D I Kim Stone)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Amy were best friends: they seemed to do everything together Ollie and the trip to the swimming pool was no differenther daughter, Etty. It was are all carefully planned worried but - strangely - they were to stay in the building until one of the parents arrived to pick them upher husband, Alec, is not. OnlyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, it didn't work out like that: find the motherbody of Greg's car was disabled and before father, Duncan Ackerley, in the pick up time both parents had received a text message to say that the girls had been abductedriver. It would get worse too - was an easy assumption for the next communication would tell them police to make that they would have to bid for Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the life of their childguilt. The parents who bid the most would Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their child back. The other would not return. It sounds unbelievable, but it had lives and wonder about what really happened before. One child was released, but not even the body of the other child had been found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1529900360|title=FinisterreThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54
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|summary=The Second World War is almost lost It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but in a lasthe felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, desperate roll of the dice the German High command launch Operation FinisterreSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. In America His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the apparent suicide help of a scientist working on the atom bomb and off 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 coast of Spain involvement was something that the shipwreck of a German submarineman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, become catalysts as though. Two lovers were murdered in the plans spiral out swimming pool of control, leading to a shattering climaxremote property in Bel Air. 'Finisterre' He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense married to an extremely rich man and styleit's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste178763681X|title=Then She Was GoneKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tim Johnson Chef Paul Delamare took his baby daughter out one day and a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the course Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of their walk getting both men and women to do what he was attacked and the baby was stolenwanted. But there was a problem: only Tim seemed to believe that there Paul ''somehow'was'got the impression that he' d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a baby broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the police were convinced that there problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was an entirely different crime the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that Johnson was their only person to be the prime suspect. He went to prison and was largely forgotten about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Douglas1529421284|title= Tokyo NightsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Colin McCann, private detective, chronic smoker and dog lover, is charged with solving the mysterious death It was one of those flash downpours that the young and beautiful daughter of British weather often delivers in a wealthy businessmanheatwave. The key facts of this case apparently hinge on In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the testimony of Charlie Davisbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a ne'er do well dreamer with quick fists known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a poetsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's heartt convinced. The only problem is that Charlie Davis has disappeared Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and appears to be unwilling to disclose his part in these tragic eventstwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. After some deliciously violent digging, McCann jets off Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to Tokyo you and here is where the fun really begins… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916191</amazonuk>me) investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Burgauer1529425867|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the BayouLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A sudden death in New Orleans' red light districtIn Oxford, the invention there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of a more effective US military landing craft with a big futureNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, a crime family with links back to occupied Sicily son of Ryan and two Germans lurking suspiciously in Americafather of Ryan, is not. He's southern statesnot any of those things. All these are connected andHe's white, as World War II hots up across originated from a fortnight trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in 1942lime 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 links become more obvious as same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well as more dangerous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk> Sometimes it's problematic.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)1529431735|title=Death Going DownThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=In a strange time, in the years after World War Two, Buenos Aires It's February 1991 and Essex is a strange city – peopled by her native residentsbitingly cold, and many who fled which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the European theatre of warmore surprising. And in a building that houses some of the more strange examples of those people He'd been exiled on six levels of large apartments, something strange happens – one of them struggles home the worse Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for drink late one night and finds the lift descend to fetch him to a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his doorex-wife, but carrying a blonde womansaying that she's corpseill and hasn't long to live. A resident doctor soon turns up tooIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the pair kicks into action the police investigation into her presence, which soon seems to point to suicideboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. This not being in Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a genre called suicide mystery, however, we know differently – but will certainly have problem closer to wait to piece the whole story together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke0861541774|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion 4)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen years agoDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Casey Carter went Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to prison for the murder of her fiancée Hunter Raleighmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The evidence seemed indisputable; her fingerprints were on the gun Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed him and her skin tested positive for gunshot residuea Ghurka. She'd been known Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to be argumentative and passionate, qualities light that suggested that earned her he might have planned to murder the nickname ''Crazy Casey'' thanks to a tell-all book by an ex-boyfriendman. Even her family seemed to suspect her guilt Now he could be facing the death penalty. But now Casey is out of prison and determined to prove her innocence. Who better Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help her than Laurie Moran and the ''Under Suspicion'' team? After hearing her case, Laurie promises to give her as any interference from another police force could provoke a fair hearing on her TV show diplomatic incident and reinvestigate the circumstances of Hunterwouldn's deatht help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115419X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Farrington1521129886|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54
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|summary=2014: 50 years since William GilbeyGreg Mason's father Herbert was hanged for murderjust beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. This anniversary is different from those in the past in that itIt's given William the impetus to go a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and find out more about two mystifying parts of his fatherthey's historyre both delighted. Firstly Joyce will be more delighted about the oddity of baby when she gets past the murder: why randomly kill two women morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in the street in daylight? -law appears to have killed himself. SecondlyStuart's concerned about his sister, when William was a childLucy, Herbert had told him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill who's struggling to make ends meet and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIher son is not thriving. ThereLucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's nothing t in his nature. The police and the history books so did this actually happen? coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, This is definitely a good time but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder himselffind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John SandfordB0CK3MYJ56|title=Gathering PreyResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Any fan of a long running series will dread It's the book that falls off the cliff1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. This is He used to have a high-flying job in the story that just does not make sense, or is city but it wasn't satisfying so reminiscent of previous outings that it may he's now set himself up as well not exista private investigator. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, the 'Shades of Cameron Strike'Prey'' series by John Sandford is overdue this, you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but will ''Gathering Prey'where' be s the moment life experience that backs up this profession? On the maverick cop Davenport becomes other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a shadow tragic accident at an 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 his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner1838954481|title= The Knife SlippedMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 54|genre= Crime |summary= Before we begin, I must confess. Confess Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that I am a hardboiled noir addict. Therefore, I approach each grisly tale of murder, private detectives He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and femme fatales with a sense of wonder but also scepticismpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. ''Surely'', I think ''this one can't be as good as He pulled the last, it must have flaws, poor characters and lack trigger but due to the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening vagaries of the Knife Slipped. I jury system he was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is found not guilty of both the murder and the essence manslaughter of the hardboiled noir genre and Eofficer.S And so lives must go on. Gardner For 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 drawn into a marvelwider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1448309743|title=Mercy KillingThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the local amateur dramatic society and body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when it was decided that they would stage he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn'Anniet it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and involve children from then turned up, naked and dead, in a local school small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the news was broken that he was a convicted paedophilevillage of Greystone, in Devon. A local widow with two young children Rosco had started the status of a tentative relationship with himnational treasure: she terminated a renowned adventurer, round the relationship world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the amdrams told him that money for his first boat? How did he was no longer finance the trip?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529427045|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=''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 membergold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was bad enough, only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but deserved - then someone else took 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's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the law into their own hands morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and decided 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 world would be final stop on the bus leaves her a better place without Albie Woodville in itlong 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. He was brutally murderedThere's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1405957174|title= Night SchoolA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart|rating= 4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in time. Reacher is still an US Army MP. ''In From the morning they gave Reacher a medalfirst page, and in the afternoon they sent him back to schoolwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well.'' The medal was victim - a Legion of Merit. Not his man - is dying when we first, probably not his last, just another bauble meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to recognise what call the ambulance heso desperately needs. What we don'd done for his country and a plea for t know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him not to talk about itdie. The I'it' in this case was some police work, in the Balkans, and d better give you a couple of shootings. little more background so that you can understand what''Two weeks of his life. Four rounds expended. No big deals happening.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Rankin0008530025|title=Rather be Murder in the DevilFamily|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Itwas 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's forty years since Maria Turquand d slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was murderedobviously deliberate. She was beautifulTwenty years later, a bright light no one has been charged with his murder and promiscuous - and she was strangled in Edinburghit's Caledonian Hotel on now the night that subject of ''Infamous'', a famous rock star and his entourage were staying theretrue-crime show. Her killer was never found: it's A group of experts has been preying on John Rebus' mind and it comes into conversation on brought together to review the night that Rebus evidence and his lady friend are dining at to take the Galvin Brasserie at investigation further. More to the Callypoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. ItThere's better than thinking about his health: he's got COPD no dump of the whole box set - and thereno shortage of cliffhangers. It's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about itcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kieran Crowley0241996104|title= ShootComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= I make something Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of a habit of being late to discover good writerstheir murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usMartin receives a life sentence. The result is barrister tells her that what is billed as she's received a 'an F.X. Shepherd mysterysilent sentence'- she' with all the optimism s not been found guilty of there being more anything but will have to come has the poignancy of being, if not live with what happened for the last of a short line, certainly one rest of a fewher life. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnOf course, it't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. Hes made worse because Nancy's been sacked by one New York newspaper rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and is writing a weekly column for anotherthe papers are making the most of it. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one column a week doesnfavourite epithet and ''t pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherdrich bitch'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 stuffmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1529413680|title=Hidden Killers A Chateau Under Siege (Tennison 2A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Coming to One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the end liberation of her probation WPC Jane Tennison knows that she would like to work the town from the English in CID, only there1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some resistancefriends. It's never ''quite'' saidall been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, but you have a suspicion that it might come down to the fact that she's a womanman playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. But being female has its advantages when a decoy Luckily, his doctor is needed to entrap a man who has been attacking women there and Tennison finds herself walking the local park area dressed up like man is whisked away in a prostitute and wearing a blue rabbit-skin coathelicopter. She is attacked A local doctor (and only just rescued in time, friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but suffers nothing worse than - as he's a cut lip and a fright. It seems as though this is senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has been attacking womenstepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, but is he also responsible flying in with some of her father's friends for the rape of a young girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471140547</amazonuk>pre-arranged holiday.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Anita Nair1529196388|title= Chain of CustodyThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= After Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the success of Old Bailey. There''A Cuts just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight -like Wound'and it' published s not too long before Knight appears in the UK in 2014court, charged with Cliveden''Chain of Custody'' sees s murder. Knight was told that the return of Inspector Gowda best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the Bengarulu (rendered throughout in its anglicised version: Bangalore) police, called in when an affluent lawyer is found dead at his home in a prestigious Stag Court Chambers and wellit's Taylor-guarded gated communityCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. HoweverKnight's determined to plead not guilty, that is the prologue jumping ahead of despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the story – as is the current voguecontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190852474X</amazonuk>
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