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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= C F PetersonStuart Douglas|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries)- Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon AnsgarDuring location filming for his 1970's father passes awaysitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', he makes the decision to return to his home in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the Scottish Highlands to take over control dead body of his family's estate. He has been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued a career in woman on the army and survived edge of a posting in Afghanistanreservoir. Having failed The police seem happy to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city lifeassign it as an accidental death, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option. For most people in his positionbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, returning home to and he enlists the peaceful life help of lordship over a castle fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and village would sound like , seemingly, a dream come truelink to death during the Second World War. But Duncul Castle and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – is there really a mystery lurks in link between the cellars of Duncul, and some of Glencul's residents would kill for it.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum0008517061|title=HellfireDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood in Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the door future of the caravan his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and surveyed the scene. The mother - she'd be her daughter Diana, as moving in her thirties together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbed. There was blood everywhere and reservations about whether or not this is the only clue as to who had murdered them was a bloody footprint. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden future she wants for herself and her son Simondaughter? You see, Bonnie is one of those people whom you feel is due some luck. As a child she wanted to be a doctor, but when we go back to December 2004 she was working as a home help and dealing with some of For the most difficult invalids moment they’re enjoying life in the area. Simon's father had left them present and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both of them hating putting the future on the fact that Simon had to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to workback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1786482126|title=Love Like BloodThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|summary=DI Nicola TannerBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 's lover, Susan, was brutally murdered as she entered luxury' apartments - when they discovered the hallway bones of their homea child beneath a doorway. She'd been driving Nicola's car and it seemed obvious that this There was a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings and was convinced that many of the cases were contracted out to the same peopleno skull. Was she getting too closethis a ritual killing or murder? Tanner wants the killers and the go-betweensInevitably, but itDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's not difficult as easy Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as it might be as there's no obvious route to take: several faiths are involved so it's not just a case result of tracking the killers down through a family's place of worshipone night they spent together some three months ago. After Susan's death Tanner Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is angry and wants revenge - then she's frustrated when she's taken off the honour killings cases and put on compassionate leave. She has a solution though: she calls on the services prone to sudden bouts of D I Tom Thorne who - in policing terms - is everything that she isn'tsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson0008551324|title=Sleep Baby Sleep The Devil You Know (Detective Pieter VossD S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years old and is known as It's unusual for anyone from the flower girl' in Hardie family to approach the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market, where she works on her father's stallpolice. ItNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's almost impossible prepared to believe that she's tell the police where the body of a missing as she's very personable person is buried and always popular with the customerswho was responsible for her death. When she's found she's barely alive thoughThis person, he promises, tied to a stone angel in a graveyard is someone big and surrounded by a ring of fireit will be worth the police doing what he wants. In her body there are traces And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years his sentence and to the Sleeping Beauty murdersget an early parole date. He had his doubts at the time as Not much to whether or not everyone involved had been caught: now ask, is it seems ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that his doubts have come back to haunt DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with himis kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Harper0008405026|title= The DryA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes 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 a book takes a while to get intohalt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Sometimes Initially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's quicker than something about the positioning of the bodies thatmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. If Harper hadn't grabbed me in the first paragraph, she certainly had halfWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-and-way down shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the second pageexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent''So nothing reacted when deep inside the houses boss, the baby started cryingUna Burt) are less convinced.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Menczer0571379877|title= An Unlikely AgentThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=LondonEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, 1905. Margaret Trant lives obsessed with her ailinghis upper-class friends, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St JohnRobert and Stanza. Robert's Wooda theatre director. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret He's meagre salary from a ramshackle importalso self-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment pageobsessed, demanding, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'s drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself Most men in a new Robert's position as would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is relationship had begun between them but he's not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission like most men: Edward is left to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for stumble upon the reality two of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers them kissing in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of lovea dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Jo Callaghan|title= Block 46 Leave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at When a Cartier event presenting some man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept sidekick, the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionAI detective Lock. When a young woman's mutilated body is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéa It's holiday hometheir first live case together, Alexis' worst fears are confirmedhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But Linnéa's death when there is not unique; in facta second body found crucified a few days later, she Kat is only the latest in suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a string lot of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London and Falkenbergunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Up until now, Will they be able to solve the bodies have all belonged to young boyscase in time, so what has caused the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help to will Kat find justice for her friendherself taken off the case and, potentially, and stop out of a serial killer before he strikes againcareer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1035021803|title= No Middle NameThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theory, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short storyEnglish country village where she grew up. She's heyday has passed and it has back now put itself out to grassbecause of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. This is particularly trueFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, some sayArthur Crockleford, is dead and I have been known the circumstances seem suspicious, to concur, of say the crime and thriller genresleast. Tosh! I can only apologise Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to all authors involved and own upthe village: I simply haven't been paying attentionArthur, she feels, let her down badly. Not even Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to shorter offerings my by favourite authorsbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : After the split, she worked in a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-daycafe, American-style, Robin Hood by met and married James (on the rebound from the name love of ''Jack Reacher''her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1398524085|title= The Silence Between BreathsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= ICharlotte Salter was expected at her husband'm always wary of author endorsementss fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, even those from people I rate as writersPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but the ''harrowing - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on Greg, find the front cover body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate t stand the caseguilt. This is an extremely powerful bookThe 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath1529900360|title= A Burning in the DarknessThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengers, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but circumstance he felt responsible and evidence point even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his guilt in a terrible crimehelp on difficult cases. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey assertions that pitches love against revenge. When there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a mysterious woman confides psychologist only worked for a dark secretwhile. Finally, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injusticeit was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness The next case did look simple, sparking memories though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of Michael's past a remote property in LiberiaBel Air. As he fights He was the heir to prove his innocence, Michael has an Italian shoe empire and she is married to risk anything for an extremely rich man and it's not the sake Italian. But which of love and truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Hawley178763681X|title=Before the FallKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was 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 accept do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the offer from impression that he'd be at the wife of a media mogul for school to assist Paul, who had a short plane ridebroken arm, not realising but it will shape didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the rest of problems - are all his lifeown. The private jet falls out of the sky, making him a hero in the way one thing he saved the only other survivor, the mogulhadn's small son and heir JJt expected was for someone to turn up dead. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many waysUnfortunately, especially when he realises was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that for some he's not so much the hero as police consider that person to be the murdererprime suspect. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura1529421284|title=HereticsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a child émigré human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to Cuba in 1939be Lee Geary, looking forward to being joined from Germany by his parentswho had disappeared nine years earlier. TheyHe're on board the St Louis in Havana docks but in d been a country known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a time rife with politics and corruption, the ship is turned back without permitting any simple case of their passengers to disembarkmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. NowGeary was a townie, nearly 80 years later, Daniel's son wants so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that the Kaminskys had with them on suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the ill-fated shiptime. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers to something Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that may seem straightforward but they soon realise it will prove 's cold cases to be anything butyou and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell1529425867|title= Rhyming RingsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre= Crime|summary= David Gemmell In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a well-known name. Until trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his death in 2006 he topped the UK author lists in fantasy wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and historical fiction…but some will suggest that this previously unpublished manuscript shows that he might have gone trackies. They're usually in a different direction entirelylime green or acid yellow. He You might have opted wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for a life laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of crimethe same policing coin. Crime fiction that isSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. ISometimes it'll come back to thats problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1529431735|title=The Dog WalkerWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers It's February 1991 and dog walkers who went on to Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Thames towpath after darkmore surprising. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left He'd been exiled on the riverside cottage she shared with her husband and never came homeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wanderingThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, but Helensaying that she's body was never discoveredill and hasn't long to live. In 2016 HelenIt's husbandhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Adam, still wants stripped to his underwear and sent to know what happened. He has an alibi, albeit a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspected. Steve Lawson couldn't stand the constant suspicion and drowned himself watery grave in the Thames: over the years that came to be accepted as an admission boot of guilt and even one of his children is certain that he was responsiblea stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malin Persson Giolito0861541774|title= QuicksandA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= Is there something about Scandinavia, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? This is the second book with the same title by northern writers that IDCI Domenic Jejeune've read this years close friend and former colleague, and we're only into April. For clarity from the outsetDanny Maik, this has nothing taken a short holiday in Singapore to do meet up with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on herean old ally, but we are back Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in territory a street brawl - he would probably have been familiar later maintain that he was facing a man armed witha knife - and he killed a Ghurka. We're in Initially, he faced a Scandinavian courtroom, Swedish charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be precise – wefacing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn're about to begin the trial of Maja Norbergt help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Skuse1521129886|title= SweetpeaThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=In many ways, Rhiannon Lewis lives Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an ordinary lifeinvestigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. She works at It's a local paper, lives with her long term boyfriend, dotes on her dog good job too because Greg and is part of Joyce will soon have a large group of friendsbaby and they're both delighted. There are just a few unusual things Joyce will be more delighted about Rhiannon, like that the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is obsessed with Slyvanian familiesapproached by an old 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 her son is not thriving.. and she Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn's t in fact a serial killerhis nature. SheThe police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's harmless though.prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died.. as long as you stay off her list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Judge and His Hangman Responsibilities (Inspector Barlach 1Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating=4.5

|summary=WeIt're in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after s the Second World War1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. A man has been found on 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 remote mountain roadprivate investigator. It would appear he opened his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? Leading On the investigation is Inspector Barlachother hand, an elderly and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness for new-fangled ideas of criminology, but he has employed Tschanz been asked to do his leglook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence and to share itsisters, and not rely on gut instincts. Neither particularly want to be out in all weathers sorting the crimeor rather, but the victim they were until Helen was certainly killed in the wrong place what's been written off as a tragic accident at the wrong timean unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, for he was a fellow policeman Oliver and nobody knows why he Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there – - or if they do they aren't sayinghow she could come to fall in front of a train. What had he Greg's been up asked to, and which way of policing the case will get to the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath1838954481|title= AmnesiaThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair is in troubleRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He's had a nasty knock on was the fifteen-year-old holding the head gun and now he can't remember anything about his lifepointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. In an attempt He pulled the trigger but due to recover his memories, the vagaries of the jury system he is sent to convalesce in a remote cottage in was found not guilty of both the Scottish Highlands in murder and the company manslaughter of his old friend's niece, Clemence. During their stay, Clemence uncovers a strange book which seems to tell the story of her grandmother's murder years beforeofficer. Now Alastair and Clemence And so lives must uncover go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside capital and hoping for a quieter life in the snow grows ever nearer, as does countryside but when a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairmissing teenager is found on her territory she's past who wants to make sure drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with itorbit of Ryan Kennedy. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1448309743|title= Bryant and May: Wild Chamber|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant and May are back! So the slow decline into old age, with a side helping of dementia, isn't quite the Reichenbach Falls: it did give Fowler a cleaner and clearer way to have Arthur Bryant return to work. A simple ''he hasn't been well but he's back now'' and no more need be said about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Kate London|title=Death MessageCaro Ramsay

|summary=In October 1987, the village of Cronchie on the morning after the great stormWest coast of Scotland, Tania Mills left home to visit five members of a friend and was never seen againwealthy family are found murdered. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins The only item missing from the Met's Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened to home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the fifteen-year-old girlstone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. ItThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's not all she has to do though - there are still current cases which have to be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all together. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal with a case an easy conclusion given that two of domestic violence: them 'discovered' the husband body. The Senior Investigating Office is vicious and volatileDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to do anything but put up with his outbursts'shadow' him. 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 Romero1529077699|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesan 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 publication village of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented Greystone, in these fabulous large format paperbacksDevon. So if you haven’t yet met with Rosco had the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and status of course with her Williea national treasure: a renowned adventurer, this is round the lastworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but-one chance for you to do soas we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, Where did he get the money for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1529427045|title= The SurgeonGirl in the Eagle's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary=In ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the second instalment small town of this seriesGasskas, Private Investigator George Kocharyan where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesslow in coming forward. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge Salander's Addenbrookeniece's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-mother is the latest woman in domestic servant, Aurora. According the area to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospitalhave vanished without trace. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it will be quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, heremarkably gifted teenager who's about to enter a world unaware of deceit and dysfunctionthe part Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Denzil MeyrickCatherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1405957174|title=Well of A Death at the Winds (DCI Daley)Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=ItFrom the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not a happy time for DCI Jim Daleyend well. The woman he loved victim - a man - is dead - there are those who blame dying when we first meet him for what happened - and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and his young son is deteriorating by Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the dayambulance he so desperately needs. HeWhat we don's finding solace in the bottom of a glass, whilst t know is who the man who used is or why Nadine prefers to do that all too often, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and has found exercisehave him die. ThereI's d better give you a new officer in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and whilst she might look young, itlittle more background so that you can understand what's unlikely that she got to that position without having a core of steelhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)0008530025|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs to a house on a particular streetbody of her stepfather, number 13Luke Ryder, from where in the noise is emanatinggarden of their West London home. When He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he peeps through 'd slipped down the letterbox he discovers a dead man in steps but the hallway vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a knife in his throattrue-crime show. He goes A group of experts has been brought together to fetch help, but upon returning, finds that review the street does not have a number 13 evidence and that to take the body and investigation further. More to the room he saw have both mysteriously vanishedpoint, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Irvine Welsh0241996104|title= The Blade ArtistComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary=So. In the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine WelshNancy's work mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbieher step-brother, the notoriously violentMartin, terrifying protector/tormentor has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the Trainspotting gang. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased reviewcourt, it does mean you will get after Martin receives a passionate onelife sentence. It is fair to say The barrister tells her that I loved she's received a 'The Blade Artistsilent sentence'- she' and my only critique would be that it was over too quickly. For those s not been found guilty of you who may not be familiar anything but will have to live with Welshwhat happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's earlier manifestations have no fear, you can pick up made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''The Blade ArtistFarmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, father, husband and elegant thug. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll 'rich bitch'' might not be instantly drawn back into the world of a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence and bloodprinted but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Ould1529413680|title= The Killing BayA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Between One of the main events of the ScandoSarlat tourist season is the re-noir enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the Highlands-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-Islands crime, it was only the man is whisked away in a matter helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of time until Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a series featuring a lifesenior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon -weary detective the military has stepped in. set One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in Greenland, Iceland, or thereabouts appeared. And here we areCalifornia, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a series based in the Faroespre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297069</amazonuk>

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|summary=It's the spring of 1939Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in Hollywood ''The Wizard of Oz'' is in production plain sight at MGM and it's important that nothing interrupts shooting or causes bad publicity for the actors or the studioOld Bailey. The police department recognises that itThere's good just one man in the frame for Hollywood that all goes smoothly his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's Detective Jonathan Cranenot too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's job to see murder. Knight was told that the crimes and misdemeanours of the stars are swept under the proverbial carpet. The studio rewards best barrister for him handsomely for this and there's perhaps a little bit was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of antagonism within LAPD that Craine's got it easy Stag Court Chambers 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 change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elmer Mendoza|title= The Acid Test|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Mayra Cabral de Melo is dead. Murdered in cold blood in a desolateTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, dusty field by the side of the road. Once the most adoredAdam Green, celebrated dancer at the local strip club, she had a collection of rich and powerful admirers but who amongst them was deluded and dangerous enough eventually represent him. Knight's determined to kill her? And what connects her to the deaths of various associatesplead not guilty, arms dealers and Narco kingpins? Lefty Mendieta returns in ''The Acid Test'', following on from Mendozadespite all Taylor-Cameron'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 a personal connection to the case, forever haunted by the memories of his brief but life changing night with Mayra and uses his connections to the powerful criminal underworld, his tense relationship with American agents and his consuming desire to avenge her death recommendations to track down this violent and deranged killer. Along the way we learn about the growing tensions between Narcos 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 disordercontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052616</amazonuk>