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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= L F RobertsonStuart Douglas|title= Two Lost Boys|rating= 2|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is a seasoned death row appeals attorney. Overworked, lonely, and feeling like she's drunk her fill of desperation Lowe and sadness, she takes on one final case, determined it will be her last. Marion 'Andy' Hardy is sweet, polite, goodLe Breton Mysteries -natured, and a little slow, but according to the state, he's also a rapist and a murderer. Moodie must untangle his aging case against Death at the clock. She can't save his innocence, but maybe she ''can'' save his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nora Roberts|title=The ObsessionDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasnDuring location filming for his 1970't always lived there. Actually her name hasns sitcom 't always been Naomi Carson. NaomiFloggit and Leggit's life had to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the woods to see if he was hiding her birthday present. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As an adult she's now putting her life back together and even coping with dead body of a woman on the advances edge of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksa reservoir. The past will one day repeat itself police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and this time Naomi will find she's the target.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Lesley Pearse|title= The Woman in the Wood|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process to he enlists the art of gardening: 'A seed help of a plot drops into my headfellow actor, I plant it with a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking it throughJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and once the green shoots come through, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grown.' Certainly she carefully cultivates her charactersseemingly, meticulously researches a link to death during the locations for her books and Second World War. But is an expert at creating there really a fast paced plot with heart in link between the mouth moments. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds and draw on inner hidden strengths deaths? And will they manage to triumph over adversity. Invariably her well-crafted novels, whether they be historical fiction, family sagas or crime stories are captivating best sellers. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I had high expectations for her latest novel. Whilst it delivered on some levels, it regrettably didn't leave me in disbelief at the denouement.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker0008517061|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationDeath 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)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes away, he makes Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the decision site was going to return to his home in hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the Scottish Highlands to take over control bones of his familya child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's estate. He has been gone for many yearsdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, during which time he has pursued that she is pregnant with his child as a career in result of the army and survived a posting in Afghanistanone night they spent together some three months ago. Having failed to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city life Her condition will be obvious before long, it seems village life back in Glencul not least because Ruth is his only option. For most people in his position, returning home prone to the peaceful life sudden bouts of lordship over a castle and village would sound like a dream come truesickness. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karin Fossum0008551324|title=HellfireThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood in It's unusual for anyone from the door of Hardie family to approach the caravan and surveyed police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the sceneother. The mother - she'd be But Davie Hardie is struggling in her thirties - prison and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbed. There was blood everywhere he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and the only clue as to who had murdered them was a bloody footprintresponsible for her death. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden and her son Simon? You seeThis person, he promises, Bonnie is one of those people whom you feel is due some lucksomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. As a child she wanted And what he wants is to be a doctor, but when we go back transferred to an open prison to December 2004 she was working as a home help serve the remainder of his sentence and dealing with some of the most difficult invalids in the areato get an early parole date. SimonNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's father had left them and they were living a hand-even prepared to-mouth existence with both of them hating do the fact other thing that Simon had to be left at nursery so Hardie demanded - make certain that Bonnie could go to workDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Mark BillinghamJane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=Love Like BloodThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=DI Nicola Tanner's loverEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, Susanobsessed with his upper-class friends, was brutally murdered as she entered the hallway of their homeRobert and Stanza. SheRobert'd been driving Nicolas a theatre director. He's car also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and it seemed obvious that this was a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings entitled and was convinced that many of the cases were contracted out uses Edward to the same peoplerun errands for him. Was she getting too close? Tanner wants the killers Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and the go-betweens, but ithe's not as easy as it might be as there's no obvious route drunkenly confided how he feels to take: several faiths are involved so it's not just a case of tracking the killers down through a family's place of worshipRobert. After SusanMost men in Robert's death Tanner is angry and wants revenge - then sheposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's frustrated when she's taken off the honour killings cases and put on compassionate leave. She has a solution thoughnot like most men: she calls on Edward is left to stumble upon the services two of D I Tom Thorne who - them kissing in policing terms - is everything that she isn'ta dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David HewsonJo Callaghan|title=Sleep Baby Sleep (Detective Pieter Voss)Leave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=Annie Schrijver When a man is just twenty-two-years old and is known as 'found crucified on the flower girl' top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower marketcase alongside her sidekick, where she works on her father's stallthe AI detective Lock. It's almost impossible to believe that she's missing as she's their first live case together, having previously been very personable and always popular successful with the customersseveral cold cases. When she's But when there is a second body found she's barely alive thoughcrucified a few days later, tied to Kat is suddenly struggling with a stone angel in potential serial killer and a graveyard and surrounded by very high profile case that draws a ring lot of fireunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. In her body there are traces of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years Will they be able to solve the Sleeping Beauty murders. He had his doubts at the case in time as to whether , or not everyone involved had been caught: now it seems that his doubts have come back to haunt him.will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>139851120X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Harper1035021803|title= The DryAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book takes a while It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to get intothe English country village where she grew up. Sometimes itShe's quicker than thatback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. If Harper hadnFreya's former mentor and Carole't grabbed me in s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the first paragraphvillage: Arthur, she certainly had half-way feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the second page: ''So nothing reacted when deep inside man or pursue the profession she loved. After the housesplit, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the baby started cryingrebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Menczer1398524085|title= An Unlikely AgentHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=LondonCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, 1905Etty. Margaret Trant lives with are all worried but - strangely - her ailinghusband, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's WoodAlec, is not. The pair have fallen on hard times Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, with only Margaretfind the body of Greg's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment pagefather, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interviewDuncan Ackerley, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shopthe river.But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working It was an easy assumption for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is police to track down make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Scorpionsguilt.Margaret The Salter children are not convinced but there's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence little else they can do but get on with their lives and the first stirrings of lovewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)1529900360|title= Block 46 The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to appear at a Cartier event presenting some of her new creationsask for his help on difficult cases. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the talented young artist from attending this prestigious function. When help of a young woman's mutilated body is discovered in psychologist only worked for a Swedish marina near Linnéawhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's holiday homepartner, Alexis' worst fears are confirmedwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. But Linnéa's death is not unique; Two lovers were murdered in fact, she is only the latest in swimming pool of a string of similar gruesome murders that have occurred remote property in both London and FalkenbergBel Air. Up until now, He was the bodies have all belonged heir to young boys, so what has caused the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help an Italian shoe empire and she is married to find justice for her friend, an extremely rich man and stop a serial killer before he strikes againit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee Child178763681X|title= No Middle NameKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There is Chef Paul Delamare took a theory, teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and it has now put itself out women to grassdo what he wanted. This is particularly truePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, some saywho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and I have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genresproblems - are all his own. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply havenThe one thing he hadn't been paying attention. Not even expected was for someone to shorter offerings my by favourite authorsturn up dead. So: big thanks Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by be the name of ''Jack Reacher''prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1529421284|title= The Silence Between BreathsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm always wary It was one of author endorsements, even those from people I rate as writersflash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, but a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He''harrowing d been a known drug user and humanehad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'' quote from Ian Rankin t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the front cover suicide of ''The Silence Between Breaths'' does Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not overstate considered suspicious at the casetime. This is an extremely powerful bookLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath1529425867|title= Lost and Never Found (A Burning in the DarknessD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airportIn Oxford, Michael Kieh there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengersNigerian descent, but circumstance Balliol educated and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crimealways exquisitely dressed. 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 D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injusticenot. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime He's not any of those things. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect He's white, originated from a young witnesstrailer park, sparking memories barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Michaelshell suits and trackies. They's past re usually in Liberialime green or acid yellow. As he fights You might wonder if you're being introduced to prove his innocencea police procedural written for laughs. Well, Michael has to risk anything for you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the sake of love and truthcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Noah Hawley1529431735|title=Before the FallThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the offer from more surprising. He'd been exiled on the wife of Costa del Sol as a media mogul wanted drug smuggler for a short plane ride, not realising it will shape the rest of his lifedecade. The private jet falls out of the sky, making him return has come about because he's had a hero in the way he saved the only other survivorletter from his ex-wife, the mogulsaying that she's small son ill and heir JJhasn't long to live. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises that for some heIt's not so much hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the hero as the murdererboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Are they rightIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura0861541774|title=HereticsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a child émigré short holiday in Singapore to Cuba in 1939meet up with an old ally, looking forward to being joined from Germany by his parentsGuy Trueman. They're on board the St Louis in Havana docks but Maik was involved in a country and street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a time rife man armed with politics a knife - and corruptionhe killed a Ghurka. Initially, the ship is turned back without permitting any he faced a charge of their passengers manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to disembarkmurder the man. Now, nearly 80 years later, Daniel's son wants to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that the Kaminskys had with them on he could be facing the ill-fated shipdeath penalty. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to something that may seem straightforward but they soon realise it will prove to be anything buthelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell1521129886|title= Rhyming RingsThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating=3.54|genre= Crime|summary= David Gemmell is a well-known name. Until Greg Mason's just beginning to get his death in 2006 confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he topped the UK author lists in fantasy charges. It's a good job too because Greg and historical fiction…but some Joyce will suggest that this previously unpublished manuscript shows that he might soon have gone in a different direction entirelybaby and they're both delighted. He might Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have opted for a life of crimekilled himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Crime fiction Lucy, he says, is convinced that isGil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, Ibut Stuart'll come back s prepared to pay Greg to thatfind out what happened on the night Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley ThomsonB0CK3MYJ56|title=The Dog WalkerResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers It's the 1990s and dog walkers who went on Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the Thames towpath after darkcity but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left the riverside cottage she shared with her husband and never came home'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wanderingNice bloke, but Helenwhere's body was never discoveredthe life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked to look into something. In 2016 Joyce and Helen's husbandare half-sisters, Adamor rather, still wants to know they were until Helen was killed in what happened's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. He has an alibiJoyce - and her parents, albeit Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspectedtrain. Steve Lawson couldnGreg't stand the constant suspicion and drowned himself in the Thames: over the years that came s been asked to be accepted as an admission of guilt and even one of his children is certain that he was responsibleinvestigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Malin Persson Giolito1838954481|title= QuicksandThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= Is Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there something 's no doubt about Scandinavia, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? . This is He was the second book with fifteen-year-old holding the same title by northern writers that I've read this year, gun and we're only into Aprilpointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. For clarity from He pulled the outset, this has nothing trigger but due to do with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And so lives must go on here, but we are back in territory he would probably have been familiar with. We're For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a Scandinavian courtroom, Swedish to be precise – wemissing teenager is found on her territory she're about to begin s drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the trial orbit of Maja NorbergRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C J Skuse1448309743|title= SweetpeaThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating= 3.54|genre= Crime|summary=In many waysthe village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary lifefive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. She works at a local paper The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, lives with her long term boyfriend, dotes on her dog and is part of a large group of friendsdeath will follow. There The only suspects are just a few unusual things about Rhiannonknown Satanists but in many ways, like that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families... and she's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in fact a serial killer. Sheto 'shadow's harmless thoughhim... as long as you stay off her list.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1529077699|title=The Judge and His Hangman Raging Storm (Inspector Barlach 1Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=We're in rural'It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, rainySir?'' Well yes, wintery Switzerland soon after the Second World Warit is. A man has been found on a remote mountain road. It would appear he opened his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead. Leading Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the investigation is Inspector Barlach, middle of an elderly and it seems chronically ill policemanautumn gale, who has no fondness stayed for new-fangled ideas of criminologyabout a month and then turned up, but he has employed Tschanz to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to share itthe village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and not rely on gut instinctsall round ''celebrity''. Neither particularly want to be out in I ''nearly'' said 'all weathers sorting the crime, -round good egg' but the victim was certainly in the wrong place at the wrong timeas we'll find out, for he was could be more than a fellow policeman little bit close with money and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they arenhis background isn't sayingexactly an open book. What had Where did he been up to, and which way of policing the case will get to the answers money for his firstboat? How did he finance the trip?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath1529427045|title= AmnesiaThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating= 45|genre= Crime |summary= Alastair is in trouble. He's had a nasty knock on the head and now he can't remember anything about his lifeLife has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. In an attempt  Lisbeth Salander has headed north to recover his memoriesthe small town of Gasskas, he is sent to convalesce in where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a remote cottage gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the Scottish Highlands latest woman in the company of his old friendarea to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's niece, Clemence. During their stay, Clemence uncovers guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a strange book which seems to tell the story of her grandmotherremarkably gifted teenager who's murder years before. Now Alastair and Clemence must uncover unaware of the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside the snow grows ever nearer, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairpart Salander played in her father's past who wants to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with itdeath. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1787636607|title= Bryant and May: Wild ChamberThe Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and May looking for a way to get home. Some are back! lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. So Others squash onto the slow decline into old agenight bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', with a side helping particularly in the light of dementia, isn't quite the Reichenbach Falls: missing women'. it did give Fowler For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a cleaner long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and clearer way collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to have Arthur Bryant return beg the bus driver to worklet her use his. A simple There''he hasn't been well s no option but he's back now'' to start walking - unsuitably clothed and no more need be said about itin high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate London1405957174|title=A Death Messageat the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=In October 1987, on From the morning after the great stormfirst page, Tania Mills left home to visit a friend and was never seen againwe know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. TwentyThe victim - a man -seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the Met's Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the fifteen-year-old girlambulance he so desperately needs. ItWhat we don's not all she has t know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to do though - there are still current cases which have to be responded to immediately: somehow she has to fit it all togetherhim die. Meanwhile DC Lizzie Griffiths has to deal with I'd better give you a case of domestic violence: the husband is vicious and volatile, but outwardly charming and the wife ultimately too frightened to do anything but put up with his outburstslittle more background so that you can understand what's happening. 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 Romero0008530025|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty BlaiseMurder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic Novels Crime|summary=Out It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesher stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the publication garden of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbackstheir West London home. So He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if you haven’t yet met with he'd slipped down the steps but the sassy brunette vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with her curves his murder and her great it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime-solving mind, show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and of course with her Willieto take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this is live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the lastwhole box set -but-one chance for you to do soand no shortage of cliffhangers. 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>It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E G Rodford0241996104|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary=In the second instalment of this seriesNancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesconvicted of their murder. Bill Galbraith We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a world-famous surgeon at Cambridgelife sentence. The barrister tells her that she's Addenbrookereceived a 'silent sentence' - she's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his not been found guilty of anything but will have to live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient with what happened for the rest of his at the hospitalher life. George agrees to look into the theft Of course, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of deceit it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and dysfunction''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Denzil Meyrick1529413680|title=Well A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of the Winds (DCI DaleyPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=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 Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's not a happy time for DCI Jim Daleyall 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. The woman he loved Luckily, his doctor is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and his young son the man is deteriorating by the daywhisked away in a helicopter. HeA local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's finding solace in the bottom of a glasssenior government employee, whilst the man who used to do that all too often, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and runs Frenchelon - the military has found exercisestepped in. There's a new officer One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and whilst she might look youngCalifornia, itis flying in with some of her father's unlikely that she got to that position without having friends for a core of steelpre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973724</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards (editor)1529196388|title= Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Consider the following scenarioGrant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman hears someone screaming who stood for all that was good and honest and runs looked up to a house on a particular streetby just about everyone, number 13, from where so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the noise is emanatingOld Bailey. When he peeps through the letterbox he discovers a dead There's just one man in the hallway frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with a knife in his throatCliveden's murder. He goes to fetch help, but upon returning, finds Knight was told that the street does not have a number 13 best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and that the body it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished..contrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356738</amazonuk>