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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guy BoltonStuart Douglas|title=The PicturesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's the spring of 1939: in Hollywood ''The Wizard of Ozsitcom '' is in production at MGM Floggit and itLeggit's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the actors or dead body of a woman on the studioedge of a reservoir. The police department recognises that seem happy to assign it's good for Hollywood that all goes smoothly as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and it's Detective Jonathan Crane's job he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to see that help him investigate matters further. They travel across the crimes country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and misdemeanours of , seemingly, a link to death during the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetSecond World War. The studio rewards him handsomely for this and But is there's perhaps really a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Craine's got it easy and wouldn't know how link between the deaths? And will they manage to investigate a case if it came up and slapped him, but in Craine's mind all that's going to change.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza0008517061|title= The Acid TestDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo is deadFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Murdered in cold blood in There’s perhaps a desolate, dusty field by little uncertainty about the side future of the road. Once the most adored, celebrated dancer at the local strip clubhis life with his vet girlfriend, she had a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded Livia and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to the deaths of various associatesdaughter Diana, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns as moving in ''The Acid Test'', following on from Mendoza's first novel ''Silver Bullets''. I haven't read the first instalment of this series and don't believe that had any impact on this story. Lefty has together would mean a personal connection to the case, forever haunted by the memories lot of compromise: does Jake give up his brief but off-grid and relaxing life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship move in with American agents and his consuming desire Livia or does Livia move to avenge Little Sky despite her death to track down reservations about whether or not this violent is the future she wants for herself and deranged killer. Along her daughter? For the way we learn about moment they’re enjoying life in the growing tensions between Narcos which erupt in explosive levels of violence, meet a host of damaged, humorous present and violent residents of Culiacán and follow Lefty putting the future on a trail of destruction, death and disorderthe back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Farris Smith1786482126|title= Desperation RoadThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Maben is on Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the runbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. For Was this a long while it's not clear whether she's running from something ritual killing or towards somethingmurder? Inevitably, or simply back to where it all started. She's got her small daughter Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her, and they've been walking for a very long timeDCI Harry Nelson. It's hard on the childdifficult as Ruth knows, but itNelson doesn's also clear t, that if it wasn't for she is pregnant with his child as a result of the child Maben would stop runningone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and it's clear that that would not be a good thingleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Savile0008551324|title=Parallel LinesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=Books are full of coincidences, because if they were not, they would be pretty dullIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. The action takes place during an extraordinary timescale of Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the characters – police where the time they were involved in body of a bank robbery, or their loved one missing person is buried and who was murderedresponsible for her death. People are more likely to read this type of book than one about This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the time they picked out their new curtainspolice doing what he wants. For And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the intrigue remainder of his sentence and to happen, links between characters have get an early parole date. Not much to be madeask, but balancing coincidence is tricky. it? Too little and the characters donThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't gel, too much think so and you start she's even prepared to think do the book other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is supernaturalkept well away from what's happening. Did Steven Savile get the balance right in ''Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hilary0008405026|title=Quieter than Killing A Stranger in the Family (D I Marnie Rome 4Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=The attacks all seemed 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 be quite randoma halt. Now, her mother, but the nights were darkHelena, the weather freezing and D I Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake were spending quite a lot of time on the streets of Londonher father are dead in their bed. Then MarnieInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's family home was ransacked and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on something about the order positioning of someone) who knew the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and herboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Normally Commander Welland would have been able to give Marnie a degree of protection - he knew her history all too well - but his cancer had returned and he What looked as though it was going to be away for four monthsan open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. His stand-Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in was nowhere near Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as understanding in this or other mattersDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. Then it was established that a child was missing - had been missing for ten weeks - but no one had reported it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sam Blake0571379877|title= Little BonesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= It was Edward Jevons is a fairly ordinary break inworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. A young artistRobert's home had been given a going overtheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, but it was hard handsome and entitled and uses Edward to see that much had been takenrun errands for him. There were suspicions that it might have Edward has been one of the usual suspects, only the shoes werenin love with Stanza since their university days - and he't as they'd have expected to find them if that was s drunkenly confided how he feels to be the caseRobert. Something else was 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 as you might expect like most men: Edward is left to find it: a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by stumble upon the look two of it, and them kissing in the hem, stitched in there, tiny bones. Human bonesa dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elly GriffithsJo Callaghan|title=The Chalk Pit (Dr Ruth Galloway)Leave No Trace

|summary=Norwich When a man is - apparently - riddled with tunnelsfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, many dating back DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the time when chalk was mined therecase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. When bones are discovered in one of the tunnels it seems obvious that theyIt've s their first live case together, having previously been there for hundreds of years, but Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, isn't so certainvery successful with several cold cases. The colour doesn't look right and she has But when there is a suspicion that the bones have been boiled: they've also not been there that long. DCI Harry Nelson has second body found crucified a murder case on his hands. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson few days later, Kat is investigating the disappearance of suddenly struggling with a local rough sleeper potential serial killer and there's not a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to go on other than their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the rumour that she's 'gone underground'case in time, but whator will Kat find herself taken off the case and, exactlypotentially, does that meanout of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1035021803|title= DarktownThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta, GeorgiaIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. The Deep South. This is country that fought to keep the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion She's back now because of segregation as the United States slowly clawed its way to a humane system of governance of all request for help from her peoplebeloved aunt, Carole. ThatFreya's a history that todayformer mentor and Carole's southerners are variously proud or ashamed ofclose friend, or choose to ignoreArthur Crockleford, or hope to forgetis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, or continue to strive againstsay the least. VariouslyArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, because people are also individuals and we all hold to our own view of what is rightshe feels, let her down badly. For many of usEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, what is ''right'' is sometimes hard she has not felt able to draw be near the man or pursue the lines around…but what is ''wrong'' is much more clear-cutprofession she loved. Divisions based After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on skin colourthe rebound from the love of her life, or race, or creed are wrong. No two ways about thatwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susanna Beard1398524085|title= Dare to RememberHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Lisa FulbrookCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's best friend is dead – the victim of a brutal attack who fell to her death from her own apartment windowfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Lisa was there Her children, she too was a victim of the attack that killed her best friendsons Niall, Paul and she is left with the physical Ollie and emotional scars to prove it. Traumatised by the eventsher daughter, Lisa flees to a country village to help settle her frightened mindEtty. But what happened that night still torments are all worried but - strangely - her; she husband, Alec, is plagued by vicious flashbacks not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and questions surrounding why she and her best friend Ali were targetedGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, because in the river. It was an easy assumption for the one thing Lisa does know is police to make that she canDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't remember stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harry Brett1529900360|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, and the people worse. He makes the point that no-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, 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>}}{{newreviewGhost Orchid|author=Gregory Mcdonald|title=SnatchJonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54

|summary=Ithadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's not often fault that you get two books Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the price help of onea psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, but if you are going to see this anywhere it will likely be 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 reissueremote property in Bel Air. Taking He was the back catalogue of heir to an author Italian shoe empire and compiling a larger book consisting of similar stories she is a great way of reusing stock that you already have. Hard Case Crime have done this with two books by married to an extremely rich man and it''Fletch'' author Gregory Mcdonalds not the Italian. Surely two books that centre on kidnapping by But which of them was the same author would be similar enough to be placed togetherprimary target? Think again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)178763681X|title=The PledgeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerland, Chef Paul Delamare took 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 is the sole suspect – teaching job at a man known for illegal liaisons with young girls. They have, residential cookery school in fact, to put a compelling case against lynch mob rule just to get him back for investigationBelgravia. He does confess, after didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a lengthy process – way of getting both men and then hangs himselfwomen to do what he wanted. But Paul ''somehow'' got the leader of impression that he'd be at the investigationschool to assist Paul, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to who had a different job elsewherebroken arm, is determined 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 follow turn up on dead. Unfortunately, he was the promise he made to person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the girl's parents, police consider that person to make be the guilty person face justiceprime suspect. It's a promise, however, with far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1529421284|title= Kill Laying Out the Next OneBones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|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 It was one of those machismo riddled tales where flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a middle-aged man with gully, a mysterious past is forced human skeleton came 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 surface and forensic testing proved the edges of the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay and his Browning pointed body to his templebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He has the perfect life, including 'd been a beautiful wife known drug user and two adoring childrenhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but has discovered that he is also in possession of an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. However Geary was a townie, right before so what was he decides doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to take the shot suicide of Holly Gilbert and end his 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 two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the imbalances time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the lawMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1529425867|title=Out of BoundsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=When a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car 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 ended up in a coma a routine check father of his DNA revealed a connection to an unsolved murder from years before his birthRyan, is not. On the face He's not any of itthose things. He's white, it looked as though solving the cold case should be straightforwardoriginated from a trailer park, but itbarely educated (reading's not. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at clearing cases which have proved unsolvable but in this case it looks as though the ''lawreally''his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They' itself re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might prove wonder if you're being introduced to be an insurmountable barriera police procedural written for laughs. SheWell, you's drawn to another case too - one which she really has no business investigating - and one which has its roots in a terrorist bombing re not. The two decades earliermen are just different sides of the same policing coin. Like Sometimes the case of the teenage joyrider combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it''nothing'' is quite as it seemss problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529431735|title=Evil Games (D I Kim Stone)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=When Ruth saw It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the man who had raped her coming out of a local pub she was traumatisedmore surprising. He'd served been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his time (albeit it was rather short) and now he was free ex- and wife, saying that she was frightened. The rapist was murdered 's ill and DI Kim Stone and her team were called upon hasn't long to solve the killing - and quicklylive. There It''was'' a little bit of a feeling that the man had got what was coming s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to him his underwear and didn't deserve sent to a lot watery grave in the boot of sympathy, but professionalism won the daya stolen Ford Sierra. Then more revenge killings came to light and Is it was obvious a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly0861541774|title=The Trophy ChildA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=WeDCI Domenic Jejeune've all encountered pushy mothers - the ones who seem determined not s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to let their children have a moment's peace between all the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged for themmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Karen Bloom is Maik was involved in a different class thoughstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Her sonInitially, Ewan, was something he faced a charge of a disappointment, manslaughter but she's not going evidence came to allow light that suggested that he might have planned to happen to her daughter, murder the talented Bronteman. There's not a moment to spare between Now he could be facing the music lessons, dance classes and extra school work - sometimes they have to eat on the hoof from one lesson to anotherdeath penalty. The rest of the family Domenic Jejeune can see the cost to Bronte and do nothing to the family help as any interference from another police force could provoke a whole, but Karen will not listen, will not change her ways. Then one day Bronte disappearsdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sandford1521129886|title=Extreme PreyThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=54|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 Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as many years, is not going an investigator to be the same person that started outpoint where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. Age catches up with us all It's a good job too because Greg and many crime writer Joyce will soon have come up against a baby and they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the problem of retirement; not their own, but that of their charactermorning sickness. Why Greg is a 70 year approached by an old still out chasing criminals friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and shooting things? her son is not thriving. Lucas Davenport is a character who has always been a maverickLucy, doing what he wantssays, therefore quitting is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the police coroner have accepted that the death was never going suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to stop himfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy DickinsonB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Ad ManResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=Tim Collinwood is single and so, working in Morocco as an advertising creative, heIt's free to enjoy all his host country has to offer: the expense accounts, the opulence 1990s and the womenGreg Mason's twenty-eight years old. Then He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it happenswasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? He gets On the contract of his lifeother hand, he has been asked to look into something. He just needs to create Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a PR campaign that will reassure Morocco that French business has her best interests tragic accident at heartan unmanned level crossing. The truth may be otherwise but creating the façade is Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what advertising is about. Perhaps Tim should have noticed that she was doing there are clues from the beginning as to - or how shady this job is, including needing she could come to work under an assumed identityfall in front of a train. However, the secrecy becomes a side issue as something more important takes TimGreg's concentration: survival for him and those around himbeen asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)1838954481|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=3.54

|summary=Strange things are happening, as they are most wont to do, in rural IcelandRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. In a very remote fjordside community in He was the NW a passing visitor has left fifteen-year-old holding the legacy of a dangerous African virus, which has claimed two livesgun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. It's becoming national news, He pulled the trigger but due to the extent that a TV journalist is in touch for updates. The community only has two policemen, trying to man their station round vagaries of the clock between them to make sure instant responses are possible. But one jury system he was found not guilty of them has also been asked to look into a mysterious cold case from both the 1950s, when a lady died from poisoning – murder and that in a community the manslaughter of only four adults and a babythe officer. And so lives must go on. – Or was it five For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a baby, as quieter life in the countryside but when a newly-missing teenager is found photograph suggests? Elsewhere, in Reykjavik, on her territory she's drawn into a young couple are troubled by an intruder – but that won't have any connection to wider investigation - and back into the other cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A L Gaylin1448309743|title= What Remains of MeThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= On In the hottest night village of Cronchie on the yearWest coast of Scotland, June 28, 1980 teenager Kelly Lund walked into five members of a wrap party and shot the director, John McFadden deadwealthy family are found murdered. Two to The only item missing from the home is the chest, one to Devil Stone: myth says that if the headstone is removed from Otterburn House, dead and centredeath will follow. She offered no defence, though her attorneys played up her drug use and the heat The only suspects are known Satanists but she still got 25-to-life. A journalist saw something in her nervous smile on the court stepsmany ways, part that's an easy conclusion given that two of her defence mechanism others might have arguedthem 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, called it the Mona Lisa Death Smile and set about building a demonDCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784756180</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529077699|title=Blood Lines The Raging Storm (D I Kim StoneTwo Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=Initially ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it looked like a robbery gone wrong, or possibly a carjackSir?'' Well yes, only it is. Jem Rosco blew into the car was still there local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and so was the expensive watch then turned up, naked and the jewellry. Her wallet hadn't been taken eitherdead, but she'd been killed by in a singlesmall boat, precise stab anchored in Scully Cove close to the heartvillage of Greystone, in Devon. There was no sign Rosco had the status of angera national treasure: in fact there seemed to be a complete lack emotion and there was nothing to suggest that renowned adventurer, round the victim had attracted the violence - she was a caring mother world sailor and dedicated social workerall round ''celebrity''. D I Kim Stone wasn't alone in thinking that something didn't add up. Then nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a local drug addict was found little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an identical woundopen book. There's nothing to link Where did he get the two cases other than money for his first boat? How did he finance the wounds and Stone's instincts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529427045|title=Lost Girls (D I Kim Stone)The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=Charlotte and Amy were best friends: they seemed ''Life has more to do everything together and the trip to the swimming pool was no differentoffer than people - prime numbers for example''. It was all carefully planned - they were  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to stay in the building until one small town of the parents arrived to pick them up. OnlyGasskas, it didn't work out like that: where the mother's car was disabled and before the pick up time both parents had received a text message to say that the girls had been abducted. It would get worse too so-far- untapped natural resources of the next communication would tell them that they would area have to bid for the life of their childsparked a gold rush. The parents who bid the most would get their child backcriminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. The other would not returnSalander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It sounds unbelievable, was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it had happened before. One child was released, but not even the body quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the other child had been foundpart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1787636607|title=FinisterreThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5

|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but It's a scene replicated all too often in a last, desperate roll the early hours of the dice the German High command launch Operation Finisterremorning. In America the apparent suicide Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a scientist working on way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the atom bomb and off few taxis available. Others squash onto the coast night bus that will only go as far as one of Spain the shipwreck of a German submarineoutlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', become catalysts as particularly in the plans spiral out light of control'the missing women'. For one young woman, leading to the final stop on the bus leaves her a shattering climaxlong way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone'Finisterres dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There' is a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and stylein high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Veste1405957174|title=Then She Was GoneA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Tim Johnson took his baby daughter out one day From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and in Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the course of their walk ambulance he was attacked and so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the baby was stolenman is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. But there was I'd better give you a problem: only Tim seemed to believe little more background so that there ''wasyou can understand what'' a baby and the police were convinced that there was an entirely different crime and that Johnson was their only suspect. He went to prison and was largely forgotten abouts happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114139X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jim Douglas0008530025|title= Tokyo Nights|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary= Colin McCann, private detective, chronic smoker and dog lover, is charged with solving the mysterious death of the young and beautiful daughter of a wealthy businessman. The key facts of this case apparently hinge on the testimony of Charlie Davis, a ne'er do well dreamer with quick fists and a poet's heart. The only problem is that Charlie Davis has disappeared and appears to be unwilling to disclose his part Murder 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>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Steven Burgauer|title=Nazi Saboteurs on the BayouCara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=A sudden death It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in New Orleansthe garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he' red light districtd 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 invention subject of a more effective US military landing craft with a big future''Infamous'', a true-crime family with links back show. A group of experts has been brought together to occupied Sicily review the evidence and two Germans lurking suspiciously in America's southern statesto take the investigation further. All these are connected andMore to the point, as World War II hots up across a fortnight in 1942they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the links become more obvious as well as more dangerouswhole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0692808124</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Angelica Bosco and Lucy Greaves (translator)0241996104|title=Death Going DownComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=In a strange timeNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, in has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the years court, after World War Two, Buenos Aires is Martin receives a strange city – peopled by her native residents, and many who fled the European theatre of warlife sentence. And in The barrister tells her that she's received a building that houses some 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the more strange examples rest of those people on six levels of large apartmentsher life. Of course, something strange happens – one of them struggles home the it's made worse for drink late one night and finds the lift descend to fetch him to his door, but carrying a blonde womanbecause Nancy's corpse. A resident doctor soon turns up too, rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the pair kicks into action papers are making the police investigation into her presence, which soon seems to point to suicidemost of it. This ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not being in a genre called suicide mystery, however, we know differently – be printed but will certainly have to wait to piece the whole story togetheris undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782272232</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke1529413680|title= The Sleeping Beauty Killer A Chateau Under Siege (Under Suspicion 4)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Fifteen years agoA Bruno, Casey Carter went to prison for the murder Chief 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>}}{{newreviewPolice Novel)|author=Colin Farrington|title=Mr Churchill's Driver: A Murderer's StoryMartin Walker|rating=3.54

|summary=2014: 50 years since William Gilbey's father Herbert was hanged for murder. This anniversary One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is different the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from those in the past English in that it1370 and Bruno's given William there to see the impetus to go and find out more about two mystifying parts of his fathershow with some friends. It's history. Firstly all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the oddity man playing one of the murder: why randomly kill two women in main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the street in daylight? script. SecondlyLuckily, when William was a child, Herbert had told him his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a story about a meeting between Winston Churchill and then Irish Teasoch Eamon De Valera during World War IIhelicopter. ThereA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's nothing a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in the history books so did this actually happen? . This One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is definitely a good time to investigate, especially as William has just been released from prison after serving flying in with some of her father's friends for a sentence for murder himselfpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785893645</amazonuk>

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|summary=Any fan of Grant Cliveden was a hero: a long running series will dread the book policeman who stood for all that falls off 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 cliffOld Bailey. This is There's just one man in the story that just does frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not make sensetoo long before Knight appears in court, or is so reminiscent charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of previous outings that Stag Court Chambers and it may as well not exist's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. With 24 titles already written about Lucas Davenport, the Knight''Prey'' series by John Sandford is overdue thiss determined to plead not guilty, but will ''Gathering Preydespite all Taylor-Cameron'' be s recommendations to the moment that the maverick cop Davenport becomes a shadow of his former self?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471154262</amazonuk>contrary.