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|summary=In October 1987During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the morning after the great storm, Tania Mills left home to visit edge of a friend and was never seen againreservoir. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins from The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the Met's Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened to whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the fifteen-year-old girl. It's not all she has to do though - there are still current cases which have to be responded to immediately: somehow she has help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to fit it all togetherhelp him investigate matters further. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal with a case of domestic violence: They travel across the husband is vicious country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and volatile, but outwardly charming and seemingly, a link to death during the wife ultimately too frightened to do anything but put up with his outburstsSecond World War. Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism But is there really a link between them: the deaths? And will they be able manage to work togetheruncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate London0008517061|title=Death Messagein a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=In October 1987Former Metropolitan Police detective, on the morning after the great stormJake Johnson, Tania Mills left home to visit a friend and was never seen again. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the Met's Homicide Command has to look settled into new information which might reveal what happened to the fifteen-year-old girlhis rustic life at Little Sky. It's not all she has to do though There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- there are still current cases which have grid and relaxing life to be responded move in with Livia or does Livia move to immediately: somehow Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she has to fit it all together. wants for herself and her daughter? Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal with a case of domestic violence: For the moment they’re enjoying life in the husband is vicious and volatile, but outwardly charming present and putting the future on the wife ultimately too frightened to do anything but put up with his outburstsback burner. Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism between them: will they be able to work together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero1786482126|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out of ninetyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five diverse comic strip stories, 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the publication bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksa ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mindIt's difficult as Ruth knows, and of course with her Williebut Nelson doesn't, this that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the last-but-one chance for you to do sonight they spent together some three months ago. And if you have any interest in quick little action talesHer condition will be obvious before long, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford0008551324|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary=In It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan police. Neither side likes or has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesany respect for the other. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at CambridgeBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Addenbrooke's Hospital prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who hosts a popular medical television programmewas responsible for her death. This person, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servanthe promises, Aurorais someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. According And what he wants is to be transferred to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient open prison to serve the remainder of his at the hospitalsentence and to get an early parole date. George agrees Not much to look into the theftask, assuming is it will be a relatively easy ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and straightforward case – little does he know, heshe's about even prepared to enter a world of deceit do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and dysfunctionanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick0008405026|title=Well of A Stranger in the Winds Family (DCI DaleyMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45

|summary=It's not sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a happy time for DCI Jim Daleyhalt. The woman he loved is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with LizNow, her mother, his ex wifeHelena, and his young son is deteriorating by the dayher father are dead in their bed. HeInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's finding solace in something about the bottom positioning of a glass, whilst the man who used to do bodies that all too often, his friend makes DS Brian Scott Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is off alcohol completely and has found exercisenow a complex double murder. ThereKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's a new officer in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and whilst she might look young, itdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's unlikely that she got to that position without having a core of steelboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)0571379877|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenario: Edward Jevons is a policeman hears someone screaming working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and runs to Stanza. Robert's a house on a particular streettheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, number 13demanding, from where the noise is emanatinghandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. When Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he peeps through the letterbox 's drunkenly confided how he discovers a dead man feels to Robert. Most men in the hallway with Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a knife in his throat. He goes relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to fetch help, but stumble upon returning, finds that the street does not have two of them kissing in a number 13 and that the body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished..dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Irvine WelshJo Callaghan|title= The Blade ArtistLeave No Trace|rating= 54|genre= Crime |summary=So. In When a man is found crucified on the interest top of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbiehill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the notoriously violentcase alongside her sidekick, terrifying protector/tormentor of the Trainspotting gangAI detective Lock. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased review It's their first live case together, it does mean you will get having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a passionate one. It few days later, Kat is fair to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist'' suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and my only critique would be a very high profile case that it was over too quicklydraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. For those of you who may not Will they be familiar with Welsh's earlier manifestations have no fearable to solve the case in time, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' or will Kat find herself taken off the case and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, fatherpotentially, husband and elegant thug. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into the world out of a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence and blood.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Ould1035021803|title= The Killing BayAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= Between It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Scando-noir English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the Highlands-and-Islands crimecircumstances seem suspicious, it to say the least. Arthur was only a matter of time until a series featuring a life-weary detective the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. set Even though they were in Greenland, Icelandbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or thereabouts appearedpursue the profession she loved. And here we are After the split, with she worked in a series based in cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the Faroeslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297069</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Bolton1398524085|title=The PicturesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the spring body of 1939: in Hollywood Greg''The Wizard of Oz'' is s father, Duncan Ackerley, in production at MGM and it's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for the actors or the studioriver. The It was an easy assumption for the police department recognises that it's good for Hollywood to make that all goes smoothly Duncan had murdered Charlie and itthen committed suicide when he couldn's Detective Jonathan Crane's job to see that the crimes and misdemeanours of t stand the stars are swept under the proverbial carpetguilt. The studio rewards him handsomely for this and Salter children are not convinced but there's perhaps a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that Craine's got it easy else they can do but get on with their lives and wouldn't know how to investigate a case if it came up and slapped him, but in Craine's mind all that's going to changewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elmer Mendoza1529900360|title= The Acid TestGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo is dead. Murdered in cold blood in a desolate, dusty field by the side of the road. Once the most adored, celebrated dancer at the local strip club, she It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had a collection of rich been badly injured but he felt responsible and powerful admirers but who amongst them even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was deluded reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and dangerous enough to kill her? And what connects her to -shut cases which didn't need the deaths help of various associatesa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''The Acid Test''it was Robin, following on from MendozaDelaware's first novel ''Silver Bullets''partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. I haven't read She knew that the first instalment of this series and don't believe involvement was something that had any impact on this storythe man she loved needed. Lefty has a personal connection to the The next casedid look simple, forever haunted by though. Two lovers were murdered in the memories swimming pool of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents an Italian shoe empire and his consuming desire she is married to avenge her death to track down this violent an extremely rich man and deranged killerit's not the Italian. Along the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos But which erupt in explosive levels of violence, meet a host of damaged, humorous and violent residents of Culiacán and follow Lefty on a trail of destruction, death and disorder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Farris Smith178763681X|title= Desperation RoadKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= Maben is on the runChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. For He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a long while it's not clear whether she's running from something or towards something, or simply back way of getting both men and women to where it all starteddo what he wanted. ShePaul ''somehow''s got her small daughter with herthe impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, and they've been walking for who had a very long time. It's hard on the childbroken arm, but itdidn's also clear t turn out that if it wasnway. 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 child Maben would stop running, body and it's clear everyone knows that the police consider that would not person to be a good thingthe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843449870</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steven Savile1529421284|title=Parallel LinesLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=34.5

|summary=Books are full It was one of coincidences, because if they were not, they would be pretty dull. The action takes place during an extraordinary timescale of the characters – those flash downpours that the time they were involved British weather often delivers in a bank robbery, or their loved one was murderedheatwave. People are more likely In a gully, a human skeleton came to read this type of book than one about the time they picked out their new curtains. For surface and forensic testing proved the intrigue to happen, links between characters have body to be madeLee Geary, but balancing coincidence is trickywho had disappeared nine years earlier. Too little He'd been a known drug user and the characters donhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't gelconvinced. Geary was a townie, too much so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and you start to think two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the book is supernaturaltime. Did Steven Savile get Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the balance right in Major Crimes Review Unit (that''Parallel Lines''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>s cold cases to you and me) investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Hilary1529425867|title=Quieter than Killing Lost and Never Found (A D I Marnie Rome 4Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=The attacks all seemed to be quite randomIn Oxford, but the nights were darkthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. the weather freezing and D I Marnie Rome Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and DS Noah Jake were spending quite a lot father of time on the streets of LondonRyan, is not. Then MarnieHe's family home was ransacked and every indication was that it had been done by someone (or on the order not any of someone) who knew herthose things. Normally Commander Welland would have been able to give Marnie He's white, originated from a degree trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of protection - he knew her history all too well - but his cancer had returned shell suits and he was going to be away for four monthstrackies. His stand-in was nowhere near as understanding They're usually in this lime green or other mattersacid yellow. Then it was established that You might wonder if you're being introduced to a child was missing - had been missing police procedural written for ten weeks - but no one had reported laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147224110X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sam Blake1529431735|title= Little BonesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= It was 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a fairly ordinary break inwanted drug smuggler for a decade. A young artistThe return has come about because he's home had been given a going overletter from his ex-wife, but it was hard to see saying that much had been taken. There were suspicions that it might have been one of the usual suspects, only the shoes werenshe's ill and hasn't as they'd have expected to find them if that was long to be the caselive. Something else was not as you might expect It's hard to find it: a wedding dress, an old heirloom piece by the look of itfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the hem, stitched in there, tiny bonesboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Human bones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178577025X</amazonuk>Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elly Griffiths0861541774|title=The Chalk Pit (Dr Ruth Galloway)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Norwich is - apparently - riddled DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with tunnelsan old ally, many dating back to the time when chalk was mined thereGuy Trueman. When bones are discovered Maik was involved in one of the tunnels it seems obvious a street brawl - he would later maintain that they've been there for hundreds of years, but Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, isn't so certainhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. The colour doesn't look right and she has Initially, he faced a suspicion charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the bones have been boiled: they've also not been there that longman. DCI Harry Nelson has a murder case on his handsNow he could be facing the death penalty. His team has other problems: DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a local rough sleeper diplomatic incident and therewouldn's not a lot to go on other than the rumour that she's 'gone underground', but what, exactly, does that mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784296597</amazonuk>t help Danny at all.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Thomas Mullen1521129886|title= DarktownThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 54|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Atlanta, GeorgiaGreg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. The Deep SouthIt's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. This is country that fought to keep Joyce will be more delighted about the right to own slaves, and would continue fighting every last bastion of segregation as baby when she gets past the United States slowly clawed its way morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to a humane system of governance of all her peoplehave killed himself. ThatStuart's a history that todayconcerned about his sister, Lucy, who's southerners are variously proud or ashamed of, or choose to ignore, or hope to forget, or continue struggling to strive against. Variously, because people are also individuals make ends meet and we all hold to our own view of what her son is rightnot thriving. For many of usLucy, he says, what is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart'right'' is sometimes hard s prepared to pay Greg to draw the lines around…but find out what is ''wrong'' is much more clear-cut. Divisions based happened on skin colour, or race, or creed are wrong. No two ways about thatthe night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142076</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susanna BeardB0CK3MYJ56|title= Dare to RememberResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= Lisa FulbrookIt's best friend is dead – the victim 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of a brutal attack who fell to her death from her own apartment windowCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Lisa was thereNice bloke, she too was a victim of but where's the attack life experience that killed her best friendbacks up this profession? On the other hand, and she is left with the physical and emotional scars he has been asked to prove itlook into something. Traumatised by the events Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, Lisa flees to they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a country village to help settle her frightened mindtragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. But what happened that night still torments her; she is plagued by vicious flashbacks and questions surrounding why she Joyce - and her best friend Ali were targetedparents, because the one thing Lisa does know is that she Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't remember understand what really happened that fateful nightshe was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. How did their assailant know them? Was it planned? More importantly, Greg''why'' were they attacked?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785079115</amazonuk>s been asked to investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Harry Brett1838954481|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>}}{{newreviewMisper|author=Gregory Mcdonald|title=SnatchKate London|rating=3.54

|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's not often no doubt about that you get two books for . He was the fifteen-year-old holding the price of one, but if you are going to see this anywhere gun and pointing it will likely be in a reissueat DI Kieran Shaw. Taking He pulled the back catalogue trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of an author both the murder and compiling a larger book consisting the manslaughter of similar stories is a great way of reusing stock that you already havethe officer. Hard Case Crime have done this with two books by ''Fletch'' author Gregory McdonaldAnd so lives must go on. Surely two books For DI Sarah Collins that centre means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on kidnapping by her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the same author would be similar enough to be placed together? Think againorbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565182X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=The PledgeCaro Ramsay

|summary=In what sounds like rural Switzerlandthe village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a girl has been wealthy family are found murdered and left for anyone to see in a forest. The police come, and soon find out who only item missing from the villagers already think home is the sole suspect – a man known for illegal liaisons with young girlsDevil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. They have, The only suspects are known Satanists but in factmany ways, 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 the leader that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the investigation, even while walking across the airstrip to the plane waiting to take him to a different job elsewherebody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is determined pulled in to follow up on the promise he made to the girl's parents, to make the guilty person face justiceshadow' him. It's a promise, however, with far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273395</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Federico Axat1529077699|title= Kill the Next OneThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= After getting started with the opening chapters of Spanish writer, Federico Axat''It's all bloody peculiar, isn''Kill the Next Onet it, Sir?'' Well yes, you might be forgiven for thinking you are stuck with it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of those machismo riddled tales where an autumn gale, stayed for about a middle-aged man with month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a mysterious past is forced small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to shoot or blunder his way through a by-the-numbers thriller. The spectre village of Lee Child's successful Jack Reacher series creeping Greystone, in around Devon. Rosco had the edges status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the page. The novel opens with Ted McKay world sailor and his Browning pointed to his templeall round ''celebrity''. He has the perfect life I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, including he could be more than a beautiful wife little bit close with money and two adoring children, but has discovered that he is also in possession of his background isn't exactly an untreatable tumour buried deep within his brain which is slowly killing himopen book. However, right before Where did he decides to take get the shot and end his life, there is a knock on money for his door. Standing behind it is a man named Justin Lynch who tells Ted that first boat? How did he represents an all-knowing organisation that turns would-be suicides into opportunities to correct the imbalances of finance the law. Ted, instead of killing himself, could kill someone who really deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911231065</amazonuk>trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid1529427045|title=Out of BoundsThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=When a teenage joyrider crashed a stolen car and ended up in a coma a routine check of his DNA revealed a connection ''Life has more to an unsolved murder from years before his birthoffer than people - prime numbers for example''. On  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the face small town of itGasskas, it looked as though solving where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the cold case should be straightforward, but it's not. Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at clearing cases which area have proved unsolvable but in this case it looks as though the ''law'' itself might prove to be an insurmountable barriersparked a gold rush. She's drawn to another case too - one which she really The criminal underworld has no business investigating - and one which has its roots not been slow in a terrorist bombing two decades earliercoming forward. Like the case of the teenage joyrider ''nothingSalander's niece' s mother is quite as it seems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751561436</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angela Marsons|title=Evil Games (D I Kim Stone)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=When Ruth saw the man who had raped her coming out of a local pub she was traumatised. He'd served his time (albeit it was rather short) and now he was free - and she was frightened. The rapist was murdered and DI Kim Stone and her team were called upon latest woman in the area to solve the killing - and quicklyhave vanished without trace. There ''It was'' a little bit of a feeling only with reluctance that the man had got what was coming to him and didnSalander became her niece't deserve a lot of sympathy, s guardian but professionalism won the day. Then more revenge killings came to light and it was quickly becomes obvious to Stone that there was something sinister behind what was happeningSvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762141</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paula Daly1787636607|title=The Trophy ChildTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard

|summary=WeIt've s a scene replicated all encountered pushy mothers - too often in the ones who seem determined not to let their children have a moment's peace between all early hours of the extra-curricular activities which they have arranged for themmorning. Karen Bloom is in a different class though. Her son, Ewan, was something Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a disappointment, but she's not going way to allow that to happen to her daughter, the talented Bronteget home. There's not a moment to spare between the music lessons, dance classes Some are lucky and extra school work - sometimes they have manage to eat on the hoof from get one lesson to another. The rest of the family can see the cost to Bronte and to the family as a whole, but Karen will not listen, will not change her waysfew taxis available. Then one day Bronte disappears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593075218</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Sandford|title=Extreme Prey|rating=5|genre=Crime |summary=Making a long running series evolve organically is a very tricky business; a character Others squash onto the night bus that has been around for 26 books, and nearly will only go as far as many years, is not going to be one of the same person that started outoutlying villages. Age catches up with us The woman all and many crime writer have come up against regret the 'taxi problem ', particularly in the light of retirement; not their own'the missing women'. For one young woman, but that the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of their characterher home. Why is a 70 year old still out chasing criminals She had intended to ring someone to come and shooting things? 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. Lucas Davenport is a character who has always been a maverick, doing what he wants, therefore quitting the police was never going There's no option but to stop himstart walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160211</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy Dickinson1405957174|title=The Ad ManA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Tim Collinwood is single and soFrom the first page, working in Morocco as an advertising creative, hewe know that Nadine Walsh's free to enjoy all his host country has to offer: the expense accounts, the opulence and the womenparty will not end well. Then it happens. He gets The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the contract of his life. He just ambulance he so desperately needs to create a PR campaign that will reassure Morocco that French business has her best interests at heart. The truth may be otherwise but creating the façade is what advertising What we don't know is about. Perhaps Tim should have noticed that there are clues from who the beginning as to how shady this job man is, including needing or why Nadine prefers to work under an assumed identityhave him die. However, the secrecy becomes I'd better give you a side issue as something little more important takes Timbackground so that you can understand what's concentration: survival for him and those around himhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>152463462X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ragnar Jonasson and Quentin Bates (translator)0008530025|title=Rupture (Dark Iceland)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5

|summary=Strange things are happeningIt was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, as they are most wont to doLuke Ryder, in rural Icelandthe garden of their West London home. In a very remote fjordside community in He had an injury on the NW a passing visitor has left the legacy back of a dangerous African virus, his head which has claimed two livescould have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. ItTwenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's becoming national newsnow the subject of ''Infamous'', to the extent that a TV journalist is in touch for updatestrue-crime show. The community only A group of experts has two policemen, trying been brought together to man their station round review the clock between them evidence and to make sure instant responses are possibletake the investigation further. But one of them has also been asked More to look into a mysterious cold case from the 1950spoint, they're going to do this live on camera, when a lady died from poisoning – episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and that in a community no shortage of only four adults and a babycliffhangers. – 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 wonIt't have any connection to the other cases, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633577</amazonuk>s compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A L Gaylin0241996104|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-Coming 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>}}{{newreviewFind You|author=Angela Marsons|title=Blood Lines (D I Kim Stone)Jane Corry

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Initially it looked like a robbery gone wrongNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, or possibly a carjackMartin, only has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the car was still there and so was the expensive watch and the jewellrycourt, after Martin receives a life sentence. Her wallet hadnThe barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence't been taken either, but - she'd s not been killed by a single, precise stab found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the heartrest of her life. There was no sign of anger: in fact there seemed to be a complete lack emotion and there was nothing to suggest that the victim had attracted the violence Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she was a caring inherited five million pounds from her mother - and dedicated social workerthe papers are making the most of it. D I Kim Stone wasn't alone in thinking that something didn't add up. Then a local drug addict was found with an identical wound. ThereFarmhouse slaughter daughter''s nothing to link the two cases other than the wounds is one favourite epithet and Stone's instincts'rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01MCXO4DK</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Marsons1529413680|title=Lost Girls A Chateau Under Siege (D I Kim StoneA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54

|summary=Charlotte One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Amy were best friends: they seemed Bruno's there to do everything together and see the trip to the swimming pool was no differentshow with some friends. It was 's all been very carefully planned - they were to stay in choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the building until man playing one of the parents arrived to pick them upmain characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. OnlyLuckily, it didn't work out like that: the mother's car was disabled his doctor is there and before the pick up time both parents had received man is whisked away in a text message to say that the girls had been abductedhelicopter. It would get worse too A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the next communication would tell them that they would have to bid for the life of their child. The parents man who bid runs Frenchelon - the most would get their child backmilitary has stepped in. The other would not return. It sounds unbelievableOne daughter lives nearby and another, but it had happened before. One child was releasedwho lives in California, but not even the body is flying in with some of the other child had been foundher father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B017XZ6AJY</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham Hurley1529196388|title=FinisterreThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=The Second World War is almost lost but in Grant Cliveden was a hero: a lastpoliceman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, desperate roll of so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the dice Old Bailey. There's just one man in the German High command launch Operation Finisterreframe for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. In America Knight was told that the apparent suicide best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of a scientist working on the atom bomb Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and off the coast of Spain the shipwreck of a German submarinehis pupil, become catalysts as the plans spiral out of controlAdam Green, leading to a shattering climaxwho eventually represent him. Knight'Finisterres determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron' is a crime thriller packed with grit, suspense and styles recommendations to the contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784977810</amazonuk>