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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin WalkerStuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges Investigationpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a 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, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=The body of a woman was found beneath the ruined Templar chateau of CommarqueFormer Metropolitan Police detective, but what had she been doing there? She'd apparently been climbing the structureJake Johnson, but using some cheap and unsuitable ropehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Sprayed on There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the wall in orange paint were the letter ''IFTI''. Had she been intending to write more when she fellfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, but if soLivia and her daughter Diana, where was the paint as moving in 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 reservations about whether or not this is the rope? Her neck had been broken, but was this an accidental fall when doing something stupid, or had future she been pushedwants for herself and her daughter? She carried no identification For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and her fingerprints weren't known to putting the future on the French police or Interpolback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1786482126|title= Errant Blood The Janus Stone (Duncul MysteriesDr Ruth Galloway)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes away, he makes the decision to return to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control of his family's estate. He has been gone for many years, during which time he has pursued a career in the army and survived a posting in Afghanistan. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only option. For most people in his position, returning home to the peaceful life of lordship over a castle and village would sound like a dream come true. But Duncul Castle and the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in the cellars of Duncul, and some of Glencul's residents would kill for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karin Fossum|title=HellfireElly Griffiths

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the door of the caravan and surveyed the scene. The mother site was going to hold seventy- shefive 'luxury'd be in her thirties apartments - and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbedwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was blood everywhere and the only clue as to who had murdered them was a bloody footprintno skull. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden and her son SimonWas this a ritual killing or murder? You seeInevitably, Bonnie is one of those people whom you feel is due some luckDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. As a child she wanted to be a doctorIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but when we go back to December 2004 Nelson doesn't, that she was working is pregnant with his child as a home help and dealing with some result of the most difficult invalids in the areaone night they spent together some three months ago. Simon's father had left them and they were living a hand-Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to-mouth existence with both sudden bouts of them hating the fact that Simon had to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to worksickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham0008551324|title=Love Like BloodThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=DI Nicola TannerIt's lover, Susan, was brutally murdered as she entered unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the hallway of their homepolice. She'd been driving NicolaNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's car prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and it seemed obvious that this who was a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and was convinced that many of it will be worth the cases were contracted out to the same peoplepolice doing what he wants. Was she getting too close? Tanner And what he wants the killers and the go-betweens, but it's not as easy as it might is to be as there's no obvious route transferred to an open prison to take: several faiths are involved so it's not just a case of tracking serve the killers down through a family's place remainder of worshiphis sentence and to get an early parole date. After SusanNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's death Tanner is angry t think so and wants revenge - then she's frustrated when she's taken off even prepared to do the honour killings cases other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and put on compassionate leave. She has a solution though: she calls on the services of D I Tom Thorne anyone who - in policing terms - works with him is everything that she isnkept well away from what'ts happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson0008405026|title=Sleep Baby Sleep A Stranger in the Family (Detective Pieter VossMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=Annie Schrijver is just twentyIt's sixteen years since nine-twoyear-years old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and is known as 'the flower girl' in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower marketinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, where she works on and her father's stallare dead in their bed. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's almost impossible to believe something about the positioning of the bodies that she's missing as she's very personable makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and always popular with the customersher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. When she's found she's barely alive What looked as though, tied it was going to a stone angel in a graveyard be an open-and surrounded by -shut case is now a ring of firecomplex double murder. In her body there are traces of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to Kerrigan is convinced that the Sleeping Beauty murders. He had his doubts at the time explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as to whether or not everyone involved had been caught: now it seems that his doubts have come back to haunt himDerwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Harper0571379877|title= The DryKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes Edward Jevons is a book takes working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a while theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to get intorun errands for him. Sometimes itEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's quicker than thatdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. If Harper hadnMost men in Robert't grabbed me in the first paragraph, she certainly s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had half-way down the second pagebegun between them but he's not like most men: ''So nothing reacted when deep inside Edward is left to stumble upon the house, the baby started cryingtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jane MenczerJo Callaghan|title= An Unlikely AgentLeave No Trace|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger man is found crucified on the tram hands her top of a newspaper open at hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the recruitment pagecase alongside her sidekick, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to the AI detective Lock. It'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interviews their first live case together, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shophaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But all when there is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8second body found crucified a few days later, whose mission Kat is to track down suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and neutralise a ruthless band very high profile case that draws a lot of anarchists known as the Scorpionsunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for Will they be able to solve the reality of true criminalitycase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, couragepotentially, independence and the first stirrings out of love.a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)1035021803|title= Block 46 The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to appear at a Cartier event presenting some of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionEnglish country village where she grew up. When a young woman She's mutilated body is discovered in back now because of a Swedish marina near Linnéarequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's holiday home, Alexis' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéaformer mentor and Carole's death close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not unique; been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in factbusiness together as antique hunters, she is only has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the latest split, she worked in a string of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London cafe, met and Falkenberg. Up until now, married James (on the bodies have all belonged to young boys, so what has caused rebound from the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice for love of her friendlife, who was murdered) and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child1398524085|title= No Middle NameHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theoryCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribesons Niall, which says that the short story's heyday has passed Paul and Ollie and it has now put itself out to grassher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. This is particularly true, some sayShortly afterwards, Etty and I have been known to concurGreg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the crime and thriller genresriver. Tosh! I can only apologise It was an easy assumption for the police to all authors involved make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and own up: I simply haventhen committed suicide when he couldn't been paying attentionstand the guilt. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories wonder about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name of ''Jack Reacher''what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1529900360|title= The Silence Between BreathsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= IIt hadn'm always wary of author endorsements, t been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even those from people I rate as writersafter Alex recovered, but the ''harrowing Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and humane-shut cases which didn'' quote from Ian Rankin on t need the front cover help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware''s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the caseswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. This He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely powerful bookrich man and it's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath178763681X|title= A Burning in the Darkness|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, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crime. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything Knife Skills for the sake of love and truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeginners|author=Noah Hawley|title=Before the FallOrlando 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 ChamberThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant and May In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are back! found murdered. So The only item missing from the slow decline into old age, with a side helping of dementia, isn't quite home is the Reichenbach FallsDevil Stone: it did give Fowler a cleaner and clearer way to have Arthur Bryant return to workmyth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. A simple The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'he hasndiscovered't been well the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when hedisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 's back now'shadow' and no more need be said about ithim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate London1529077699|title=Death MessageThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=In October 1987''It's all bloody peculiar, on isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into the morning after local pub one evening in the great stormmiddle of an autumn gale, Tania Mills left home to visit stayed for about a friend month and was never seen againthen turned up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Twenty-seven years later DS Sarah Collins from Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the Metworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''s Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened to the fifteen-year-old girl. ItI ''nearly'' said 's not all she has to do though - there are still current cases which have to round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all togethermore than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal with a case of domestic violence: the husband is vicious and volatile, but outwardly charming and Where did he get the wife ultimately too frightened to do anything but put up with money for his outbursts. first boat? Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism between them: will they be able to work togetherHow did he finance the trip?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1529427045|title=Peter OThe Girl in the Eagle'Donnell and Enric Badia Romeros Talons|titleauthor=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseKarin Smirnoff|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesGasskas, where the publication so-far-untapped natural resources of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in these fabulous large format paperbackscoming forward. So if you haven’t yet met with Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the sassy brunette area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of course with the part Salander played in her Willie, this is the last-but-one chance for you to do sofather's death. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford1787636607|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime |summary=In It's a scene replicated all too often in the second instalment early hours of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a well-known local man way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to track down some 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 valuableswomen'. Bill Galbraith For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a worldlong way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her -famous surgeon at Cambridgebut her phone's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has dead. The bus had driven off before she had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According the chance to beg the bus driver to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of let her use his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he There's about no option but to enter a world of deceit start walking - unsuitably clothed and dysfunctionin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick1405957174|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Bolton1529196388|title=The PicturesTrial|author=Rob Rinder

|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 best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of the stars are swept under the proverbial carpet. The studio rewards him handsomely for this Stag Court Chambers and thereit's perhaps a little bit of antagonism within LAPD that CraineTaylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's got it easy and wouldn't know how determined to investigate a case if it came up and slapped himplead not guilty, but in Craine's mind despite all thatTaylor-Cameron's going recommendations to changethe contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786070391</amazonuk>