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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sam BlakeStuart Douglas|title= Little BonesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= It was a fairly ordinary break in. A young artistDuring location filming for his 1970's home had been given sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a going over, but it was hard to see that much had been takenreservoir. There were suspicions that The police seem happy to assign it might have been one of as an accidental death, but something about the usual suspectswhole thing bothers Lowe, only and he enlists the shoes weren't as they'd have expected help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to find them if that was to be the casehelp him investigate matters further. Something else was not as you might expect to find it: a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by They travel across the look of itcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and in the hem, stitched in thereseemingly, tiny bonesa link to death during the Second World War. Human bones.But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elly Griffiths0008517061|title=The Chalk Pit (Dr Ruth Galloway)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Norwich is - apparently - riddled with tunnelsFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, many dating back to the time when chalk was mined therehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. When bones are discovered in one of There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the tunnels it seems obvious that they've been there for hundreds future of yearshis life with his vet girlfriend, but Dr Ruth GallowayLivia and her daughter Diana, forensic archaeologist, isn't so certain. The colour doesn't look right and she has as moving in together would mean a suspicion that the bones have been boiledlot of compromise: they've also does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not been there that long. this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? DCI Harry Nelson has a murder case on his hands. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson is investigating For the moment they’re enjoying life in the disappearance of a local rough sleeper present and there's not a lot to go putting the future on other than the rumour that she's 'gone underground', but what, exactly, does that mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>back burner.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1786482126|title= DarktownThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta, Georgia. The Deep South. This is country that fought Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to keep hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion bones of segregation as the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system of governance of all her peoplechild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. That's Was this a history that today's southerners are variously proud ritual killing or ashamed of, or choose to ignore, or hope to forget, or continue to strive against. murder? VariouslyInevitably, because people are also individuals and we all hold to our own view of what is rightDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. For many of usIt's difficult as Ruth knows, what is ''right'but Nelson doesn' t, that she is sometimes hard to draw pregnant with his child as a result of the lines around…but what is ''wrong'' is much more clear-cutone night they spent together some three months ago. Divisions based on skin colourHer condition will be obvious before long, or race, or creed are wrongnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. No two ways about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susanna Beard0008551324|title= Dare to RememberThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Lisa FulbrookIt's best friend unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is dead – struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the victim police where the body of a brutal attack missing person is buried and who fell to was responsible for her death from her own apartment window. Lisa was there This person, she too was a victim of the attack that killed her best friendhe promises, is someone big and she it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is left with to be transferred to an open prison to serve the physical remainder of his sentence and emotional scars to prove itget an early parole date. Traumatised by the events Not much to ask, 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 it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and questions surrounding why she and her best friend Ali were targeted, because 's even prepared to do the one other thing Lisa does know that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is that she cankept well away from what't remember what really happened that fateful nights happening. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, ''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harry Brett0008405026|title= Time To WinA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 35|genre= Crime|summary= I have no idea what Great Yarmouth has ever done 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 Harry Bretta halt. Now, buther mother, boyHelena, is he getting his own back! and her father are dead in their bed. Now personallyInitially, I don't much like the town, and I know it has its seedy side, looks like most places, a straightforward murder/suicide but I can't believe itthere's quite this bad. According to Brett, something about the weather's as dreary as positioning of the down'n'outs, the streets are grim, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the people worseher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He makes the point that no-one comes to Yarmouth for their summer holidays anymore…if that wasn't true before this book, What looked as though it's likely was going to be so afterwards. If an open-and-shut case is now a place could sue for defamation of character, the town would want tocomplex double murder. The opening shot Kerrigan is of Richard Goodwin going down into convinced that the murky waters of the Yare out back of his officeexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. Goodwin was not a good person... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147215262X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Mcdonald0571379877|title=SnatchThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet

|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's not often that you get two books for the price of one, but if you are going to see this anywhere it will likely be in a reissuetheatre director. Taking the back catalogue of an author He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already haveuses Edward to run errands for him. Hard Case Crime have done this Edward has been in love with two books by Stanza since their university days - and he''Fletch'' author Gregory Mcdonalds drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Surely two books Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that centre on kidnapping by a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? Think againtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=The PledgeLeave No Trace

|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerland, When a girl has been murdered and left for anyone to see in a forest. The police come, and soon find out who the villagers already think man is found crucified on the sole suspect – top of a man known for illegal liaisons with young girls. They have, hill in factNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to put a compelling the case against lynch mob rule just to get him back for investigationalongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He does confessIt's their first live case together, after a lengthy process – and then hangs himselfhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But the leader of the investigation, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to when there is a second body found crucified a different job elsewherefew days later, Kat is determined suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to follow up on the promise he made their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the girl's parentscase in time, to make or will Kat find herself taken off the guilty person face justice. It's a promisecase and, howeverpotentially, with far-reaching consequences…out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1035021803|title= Kill the Next OneThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= After getting started with It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the opening chapters English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Spanish writera request for help from her beloved aunt, Federico AxatCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole''Kill s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the Next One''circumstances seem suspicious, 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-say the-numbers thrillerleast. The spectre of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping in around Arthur was the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed reason why Freya had not been back to his temple. He has the perfect lifevillage: Arthur, including a beautiful wife and two adoring childrenshe feels, but has discovered that he is also let her down badly. Even though they were in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing him. Howeverbusiness together as antique hunters, right before he decides she has not felt able to take be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the shot and end his lifesplit, there is she worked in a knock cafe, met and married James (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 rebound from the law. Ted, instead love of killing himselfher life, could kill someone who really deserves itwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1398524085|title=Out of BoundsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=When a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car and ended Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection to an unsolved murder from years before his birth. On the face of itHer children, sons Niall, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforwardPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but it- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's notfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is It was an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but in this case it looks as though easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there'laws little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis' itself might prove s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to be an insurmountable barrierask for his help on difficult cases. She's drawn to another case too His assertions that there were only open- one which she really has no business investigating and- and one shut cases which has its roots in didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a terrorist bombing two decades earlierwhile. Like Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the teenage joyrider ''nothing'' heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is quite as married to an extremely rich man and it seems's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Angela MarsonsOrlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Evil Games (D I Kim Stone)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=When Ruth saw It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the man body to be Lee Geary, who had raped her coming out of a local pub she was traumatiseddisappeared nine years earlier. He'd served his time (albeit been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it was rather short) and now he was free - and she was frightened. The rapist was murdered and could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Kim Stone and her team were called upon to solve the killing - and quicklyMatt Lockyer wasn't convinced. There ''Geary was'' a little bit of a feeling that the man had got townie, so what was coming he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to him the suicide of Holly Gilbert and didn't deserve a lot of sympathy, but professionalism won to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the daytime. Then more revenge killings came Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to light you and it was obvious to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happeningme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1529425867|title=The Trophy ChildLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=We've all encountered pushy mothers - the ones who seem determined not to let their children have a moment's peace between all the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged for themIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Karen Bloom Raymond Wilkins is in a different class thoughof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Her D I Ryan Wilkins, son, Ewan, was something of a disappointmentRyan and father of Ryan, but sheis not. He's not going to allow that to happen to her daughter, the talented Bronteany of those things. ThereHe's not white, originated from a moment to spare between the music lessonstrailer park, dance classes barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and extra school work - sometimes they have trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to eat on the hoof from one lesson to anothera police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The rest two men are just different sides of the family can see same policing coin. Sometimes the cost to Bronte and to the family as a whole, but Karen will not listen, will not change her wayscombination works brilliantly well. Then one day Bronte disappearsSometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1529431735|title=Extreme Prey|rating=5|genre=Crime |summary=Making a long running series evolve organically is a very tricky business; a character that has been around for 26 books, and nearly as many years, is not going to be the same person that started out. Age catches up with us all and many crime writer have come up against the problem of retirement; not their own, but that of their character. Why is a 70 year old still out chasing criminals and shooting things? Lucas Davenport is a character who has always been a maverick, doing what he wants, therefore quitting the police was never going to stop him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Winter Visitor|author=Timothy Dickinson|title=The Ad ManJames Henry

|summary=Tim Collinwood It's February 1991 and Essex is single and so, working in Morocco as an advertising creativebitingly cold, hewhich made Bruce Hopkins's free to enjoy return all his host country has to offer: the expense accounts, the opulence and the women. Then it happensmore surprising. He gets 'd been exiled on the contract of his life. He just needs to create Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a PR campaign that will reassure Morocco that French business has her best interests at heartdecade. The truth may be otherwise but creating the façade is what advertising is return has come aboutbecause he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. Perhaps Tim should have noticed that there are clues from the beginning as It's hard to how shady this job feel any sympathy when Hopkins isabducted, including needing stripped to work under an assumed identityhis underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. However, the secrecy becomes Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a side issue as something more important takes Tim's concentration: survival for him and those around him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)0861541774|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54

|summary=Strange things are happeningDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, as they are most wont has taken a short holiday in Singapore to domeet up with an old ally, in rural IcelandGuy Trueman. In Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a very remote fjordside community in the NW man armed with a passing visitor has left the legacy of knife - and he killed a dangerous African virus, which has claimed two livesGhurka. It's becoming national newsInitially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the extent that a TV journalist is in touch for updatesman. The community only has two policemen, trying to man their station round Now he could be facing the clock between them to make sure instant responses are possibledeath penalty. But one of them has also been asked Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to look into a mysterious cold case help as any interference from the 1950s, when another police force could provoke a lady died from poisoning – and that in a community of only four adults diplomatic incident 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 – but that wonwouldn't have any connection to the other cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A L Gaylin1521129886|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>}}{{newreviewThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Angela Marsons|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)Keith Redfern|rating=4.5

|summary=Initially it looked like Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a robbery gone wrong, or possibly good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a carjack, only the car was still there baby and so was they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the expensive watch and baby when she gets past the jewellrymorning sickness. Her wallet hadnGreg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart't been taken eithers concerned about his sister, Lucy, but shewho'd been killed by a single, precise stab s struggling to the heartmake ends meet and her son is not thriving. There was no sign of anger: in fact there seemed to be a complete lack emotion and there was nothing to suggest Lucy, he says, is convinced that the victim had attracted the violence Gil would never have killed himself - she was a caring mother and dedicated social worker. D I Kim Stone it simply wasn't alone in thinking his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that something didn't add up. Then a local drug addict the death was found with an identical wound. suicide, Therebut Stuart's nothing prepared to pay Greg to link find out what happened on the two cases other than the wounds and Stone's instinctsnight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela MarsonsB0CK3MYJ56|title=Lost Girls Responsibilities (D I Kim StoneGreg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=54

|summary=Charlotte It's the 1990s and Amy were best friends: they seemed to do everything together and the trip to the swimming pool was no differentGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. It was all carefully planned He used to have a high- they were to stay flying job in the building until one of the parents arrived to pick them up. Only, city but it didnwasn't work out like that: the mothersatisfying so he's car was disabled and before the pick now set himself up time both parents had received as a text message to say private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the girls had other hand, he has been abductedasked to look into something. It would get worse too Joyce and Helen are half- the next communication would tell them that sisters, or rather, they would have to bid for the life of their childwere until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. The Joyce - and her parents who bid the most would get their child back. The other would not return. It sounds unbelievable, but it had happened beforeOliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. One child was released, but not even the body of the other child had Greg's been foundasked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1838954481|title=FinisterreThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=54

|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but in Ryan Kennedy killed a last, desperate roll of police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the dice fifteen-year-old holding the German High command launch Operation Finisterregun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. In America He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the apparent suicide jury system he was found not guilty of a scientist working on both the atom bomb murder and off the coast manslaughter of Spain the shipwreck of officer. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a German submarine, become catalysts as quieter life in the plans spiral out of control, leading to countryside but when a shattering climax. missing teenager is found on her territory she'Finisterre' is s drawn into a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense wider investigation - and styleback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste1448309743|title=Then She Was GoneThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay

|summary=Tim Johnson took his baby daughter out one day and in In the course village of their walk he was attacked and Cronchie on the baby was stolenWest coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. But there was a problemThe 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 Tim seemed to believe suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that there 's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'wasdiscovered'' a baby and the police were convinced that there was an entirely different crime and that Johnson was their only suspectbody. He went The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to prison and was largely forgotten about'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Douglas1529077699|title= Tokyo NightsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary= Colin McCann''It's all bloody peculiar, private detectiveisn't it, chronic smoker and dog loverSir?'' Well yes, it is charged with solving . Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the mysterious death middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the young and beautiful daughter village of a wealthy businessmanGreystone, in Devon. The key facts Rosco had the status of this case apparently hinge on a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the testimony of Charlie Davisworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a ne'er do well dreamer little bit close with quick fists money and a poethis background isn's heartt exactly an open book. The only problem is that Charlie Davis has disappeared and appears to be unwilling to disclose Where did he get the money for his part in these tragic events. After some deliciously violent digging, McCann jets off to Tokyo and here is where first boat? How did he finance the fun really begins… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905916191</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Burgauer1529427045|title=Nazi Saboteurs on The Girl in the BayouEagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=A sudden death in New Orleans' red light district'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the invention so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a more effective US military landing craft with a big future, a crime family with links back to occupied Sicily and two Germans lurking suspiciously gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in Americacoming forward. Salander's southern statesniece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. All these are connected and, as World War II hots up across It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a fortnight remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in 1942, the links become more obvious as well as more dangerousher father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)1787636607|title=Death Going DownThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=34.5

|summary=In It's a strange time, scene replicated all too often in the years after World War Two, Buenos Aires is early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a strange city – peopled by her native residents, way to get home. Some are lucky and many who fled manage to get one of the European theatre of warfew taxis available. And in a building Others squash onto the night bus that houses some will only go as far as one of the more strange examples of those people on six levels of large apartmentsoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', something strange happens – one particularly in the light of them struggles home 'the worse for drink late missing women'. For one night and finds young woman, the final stop on the lift descend bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to fetch him ring someone to his door, come and collect her - but carrying a blonde womanher phone's corpsedead. A resident doctor soon turns up too, and The bus had driven off before she had the pair kicks into action chance to beg the police investigation into bus driver to let her presence, which soon seems to point to suicideuse his. This not being in a genre called suicide mystery, however, we know differently – There's no option but will certainly have to wait to piece the whole story togetherstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1405957174|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer (Under Suspicion 4)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen years ago, Casey Carter went to prison for A Death at 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>}}{{newreviewParty|author=Colin Farrington|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryAmy Stuart|rating=3.54

|summary=2014: 50 years since William Gilbey's father Herbert was hanged for murder. This anniversary is different from those in From the past in first page, we know that it's given William the impetus to go and find out more about two mystifying parts of his fatherNadine Walsh's historyparty will not end well. Firstly the oddity of the murder: why randomly kill two women in the street in daylight? Secondly, The victim - a man - is dying when William was a child, Herbert had told we first meet him a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IINadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needs. ThereWhat we don's nothing in t know is who the history books so did this actually happen? This man is definitely a good time or why Nadine prefers to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving have him die. I'd better give you a sentence for murder himselflittle more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford0008530025|title=Gathering PreyMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5

|summary=Any fan It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of a long running series will dread her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the book that falls off the cliffgarden of their West London home. This is He had an injury on the story that just does not make sense, or is so reminiscent back of previous outings that it may as well not existhis head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. With 24 titles already written about Lucas DavenportTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''PreyInfamous'' series by John Sandford is overdue , a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do thislive on camera, but will episode by episode. There''Gathering Prey'' be the moment that s no dump of the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow whole box set - and no shortage of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Erle Stanley Gardner0241996104|title= The Knife SlippedComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= Before we beginNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, I must confess. Confess that I am a hardboiled noir addict. ThereforeMartin, I approach each grisly tale has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, private detectives and femme fatales with after Martin receives a sense of wonder but also scepticismlife sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'Surelysilent sentence'- she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, I think it's made worse because Nancy'this one can't be as good as s rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the last, most of it must have flaws, poor characters and lack the necessary grit to be a true hardboiled noir masterpiece?. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' so you can imagine my trepidation when opening the Knife Slipped. I was wrong, wonderfully wrong. This book for me is the essence of the hardboiled noir genre one favourite epithet and E.S. Gardner ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is a marvelundoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299274</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Cutts1529413680|title=Mercy KillingA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Albie Woodville was involved with One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the local amateur dramatic society English in 1370 and when it was decided that they would stage ''AnnieBruno's there to see the show with some friends. It' s all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and involve children from a local school the news was broken that he was man is whisked away in a convicted paedophilehelicopter. A local widow with two young children had started a tentative relationship with him: she terminated the relationship doctor (and the amdrams told him that friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he was no longer 's a member. It was bad enoughsenior government employee, but deserved the man who runs Frenchelon - then someone else took the law into their own hands and decided that the world would be a better place without Albie Woodville military has stepped in it. He was brutally murderedOne daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147115310X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1529196388|title= Night School|rating= 4.5|genre=Crime|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in time. Reacher is still an US Army MP. ''In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school.'' The medal was a Legion of Merit. Not his first, probably not his last, just another bauble to recognise what he'd done for his country and a plea for him not to talk about it. The 'it' in this case was some police work, in the Balkans, and a couple of shootings. ''Two weeks of his life. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTrial|author=Ian Rankin|title=Rather be the DevilRob Rinder

|summary=It's forty years since Maria Turquand Grant Cliveden was murdered. She a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was beautiful, a bright light good and promiscuous - honest and she looked up to by just about everyone, so there was strangled public uproar when he was murdered in Edinburgh's Caledonian Hotel on plain sight at the night that a famous rock star and his entourage were staying thereOld Bailey. Her killer was never found: itThere's been preying on John Rebus' mind and it comes into conversation on just one man in the night that Rebus and frame for his lady friend are dining at the Galvin Brasserie at the Cally. It's better than thinking about his health: he's got COPD murder - Jimmy Knight - and thereit's something on his lung which he calls Hank Marvin. Think about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140915940X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writersnot too long before Knight appears in court, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer charged with usCliveden's murder. The result is Knight was told that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnStag Court Chambers and it't like s Taylor-Cameron and his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" ispupil, technicallyAdam Green, a columnistwho eventually represent him. He Knight's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalismdetermined to plead not guilty, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherddespite all Taylor-Cameron's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read recommendations to the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuffcontrary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>