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|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really a detective. HeDuring location filming for his 1970's just a normal bloke - though that might depend on your definition of sitcom 'normalFloggit and Leggit' - who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats and leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a collection woman on the edge of vinyl in a house that happens reservoir. The police seem happy to be adjacent to the ''Abbey''assign it as an accidental death, a posh rehab place notorious for but something about the celebrities it treats. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing peoplewhole thing bothers Lowe, even if and he does search for rare records. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his enlists the help in tracing a missing child of a 1960's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mysteryfellow actor, he says noJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. That is They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, until he a link to death during the Second World War. But is told that there really a link between the job would also involve tracing a rare single. deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Robinson0008517061|title=Sleeping Death in the Grounda Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=It was the sort of display which would have been better in black and white and without a sound trackFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, but what happened has settled into his rustic life at the Red Wedding, as it would come to be known, was noisy, brutal and fatalLittle Sky. A sniper on There’s perhaps a distant hillside began shooting at little uncertainty about the wedding party: three peoplefuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, including the bride died immediately. Another twoLivia and her daughter Diana, including the bridegroom as moving in together would die soon afterwards. Terry Gilchrist saw the shooter disappearing over the hillside, but the armed response officers were unwilling to take mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his word for it when they finally arrived off-grid and it was a further three-quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for the paramedics relaxing life to come move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the scene. future she wants for herself and her daughter? It would be this delay which made For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the headlines before too longback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1786482126|title=Suspicion The Janus Stone (Inspector Barlach 2Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=Inspector Barlach is dying. We did know that, more or less, from [[The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the first book]] site was going to feature him, but ithold seventy-five 'luxury's confirmed here by us opening on him in apartments - when they discovered the bones of a clinic bed, with child beneath a year left to livedoorway. But his doctor is helping him in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his lifeThere was no skull. When his doctor blanches at the sight of Was this a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at workritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, a story slowly starts to emergebut Nelson doesn't, one that may prove to be she is pregnant with his child as a wicked conspiracy to keep result of the Nazi alive and still practicing, under someone else's nameone night they spent together some three months ago. BarlachHer condition will be obvious before long, clearly well suited not least because Ruth is prone to go under cover as someone needing to go under the knife, works up a plan to check whether his suspicion is correctsudden bouts of sickness. What's the worst that could happen after all? – even were he to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake0008551324|title=Forever and a DeathThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=A lot of time and effort goes into It's unusual for anyone from the average movie, but this is at least double in Hardie family to approach the case of Bondpolice. Each one Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is part struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a decade's long institution missing person is buried and must excelwho was responsible for her death. With this in mind there This person, he promises, is a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themes, wannabe-Bond stories someone big and wannabe-Bond actors. For every successful ''Garbage'' Bond theme, there are numerous other indie bands that never made it will be worth the cutpolice doing what he wants. Donald E Westlake was a successful thriller writer in his own right, but once And what he jumped aboard wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the good ship Bond remainder of his work never cut itsentence and to get an early parole date. The result was this adaptation of his failed Bond scriptNot much to ask, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passingis it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk> 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 DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= L F Robertson0008405026|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 and sadness, she takes on one final case, determined it will be her last. Marion 'Andy' Hardy is sweet, polite, good-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 A Stranger in the clock. She can't save his innocence, but maybe she ''can'' save his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Nora Roberts|title=The ObsessionJane Casey

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasnIt't always lived theres sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Actually her name hasn't always been Naomi CarsonShe was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Naomi's life had to start again whenNow, her mother, aged 11Helena, she sneakily followed and her father into the woods to see if he was hiding her birthday presentare dead in their bed. That night she saw Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something no child… no person... should seeabout the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. As What looked as though it was going to be an adult she's open-and-shut case is now putting her life back together and even coping with the advances of Xander Keaton but danger still lurksa complex double murder. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find sheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's the targetboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse0571379877|title= The Woman in the WoodKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process to the art of gardening: 'A seed of Edward Jevons is a plot drops into my headworking-class young man, I plant it obsessed with a few chapters, spend a great deal of time thinking it throughhis upper-class friends, Robert and once the green shoots come through, I water it with careStanza. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grown Robert's a theatre director. He' Certainly she carefully cultivates her characterss also self-obsessed, demanding, meticulously researches the locations handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for her books and is an expert at creating a fast paced plot him. Edward has been in love with heart in the mouth moments. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds Stanza since their university days - and draw on inner hidden strengths he's drunkenly confided how he feels to triumph over adversityRobert. Invariably her well-crafted novels, whether they be historical fiction, family sagas Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or crime stories are captivating best sellers. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I tell Edward that a relationship had high expectations for her latest novel. Whilst it delivered on some levels, it regrettably didnbegun between them but he't leave me s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in disbelief at the denouementa dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin WalkerJo Callaghan|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationLeave No Trace

|summary=The body of When a woman was man is found beneath crucified on the ruined Templar chateau top of Commarquea hill in Nuneaton, but what had she been doing there? DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt'd apparently s their first live case together, having previously been climbing the structurevery successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, but using some cheap Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and unsuitable ropea very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Sprayed on Will they be able to solve the wall case in orange paint were the letter ''IFTI''. Had she been intending to write more when she felltime, but if so, where was or will Kat find herself taken off the paint - case and the rope? Her neck had been broken, but was this an accidental fall when doing something stupidpotentially, or had she been pushedout of a career? She carried no identification and her fingerprints weren't known to the French police or Interpol.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson1035021803|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon AnsgarIt's father passes away, he makes the decision twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to return to his home in the Scottish Highlands to take over control English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of his familya request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's estate. He has been gone for many yearsclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, during which time he has pursued a career in to say the army and survived a posting in Afghanistanleast. Having failed Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to succeed at his subsequent attempt at city lifethe village: Arthur, she feels, it seems village life back in Glencul is his only optionlet her down badly. For most people Even though they were in his positionbusiness together as antique hunters, returning home she has not felt able to be near the peaceful life of lordship over man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a castle and village would sound like a dream come true. But Duncul Castle cafe, met and married James (on the village it overlooks are both keeping secrets – a mystery lurks in rebound from the cellars love of Dunculher life, who was murdered) and Freya and some of Glencul's residents would kill for itJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910895067</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Karin FossumNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the 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't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=HellfireThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=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 ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the 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 next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.5 But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the door Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the caravan getting both men and surveyed the scenewomen to do what he wanted. The mother - shePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be in her thirties - and her four-year old son had both been brutally stabbed. There was blood everywhere and at the only clue as school to assist Paul, who had murdered them was a bloody footprintbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. But who would want to kill Bonnie Hayden The teaching - and her son Simon? the problems - are all his own. You see, Bonnie is The one of those people whom you feel is due some luckthing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. As a child she wanted to be a doctorUnfortunately, but when we go back to December 2004 she he was working as a home help and dealing with some of the most difficult invalids in person who discovered the area. Simon's father had left them body and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both of them hating everyone knows that the fact police consider that Simon had person to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to workthe prime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham1529421284|title=Love Like BloodLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary=DI Nicola Tanner's loverIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, Susana human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, was brutally murdered as she entered the hallway of their homewho had disappeared nine years earlier. SheHe'd been driving Nicola's car a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it seemed obvious that this was could have been a simple case of mistaken identity: Nicola misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was working on honour killings and a townie, so what was convinced that many of the cases were contracted he doing out to the same people. Was she getting too closeon Salisbury Plain alone? Tanner wants There are connections to the killers suicide of Holly Gilbert and the go-betweens, but it's not as easy as it might be as there's no obvious route to take: several faiths are involved so it's two other deaths which were not just a case of tracking considered suspicious at the killers down through a family's place of worshiptime. After Susan's death Tanner is angry Lockyer and wants revenge - then she's frustrated when sheDC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's taken off the honour killings cold cases to you and put on compassionate leave. She has a solution though: she calls on the services of D I Tom Thorne who - in policing terms - is everything that she isn'tme) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529425867|title=Sleep Baby Sleep Lost and Never Found (Detective Pieter VossA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary=Annie Schrijver In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is just twenty-two-years old of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and is known as 'the flower girl' in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower marketalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, where she works on her son of Ryan and fatherof Ryan, is not. He's stallnot any of those things. ItHe's almost impossible to believe that shewhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's missing as shenot 's very personable 'really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and always popular with the customerstrackies. When sheThey's found shere usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's barely alive though, tied re being introduced to a stone angel in a graveyard and surrounded by a ring of firepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. In her body there The two men are traces just different sides of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years to the Sleeping Beauty murderssame policing coin. He had his doubts at Sometimes the time as to whether or not everyone involved had been caught: now combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it seems that his doubts have come back to haunt him's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Harper1529431735|title= The DryWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a book takes wanted drug smuggler for a while to get intodecade. Sometimes itThe return has come about because he's quicker than had a letter from his ex-wife, saying thatshe's ill and hasn't long to live. If Harper hadnIt't grabbed me in the first paragraph, she certainly had half-way down the second page: ''So nothing reacted s hard to feel any sympathy when deep inside the houseHopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the baby started cryingboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jane Menczer0861541774|title= An Unlikely AgentA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=LondonDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailingDanny Maik, irascible mother in has taken a dreary boarding house short holiday in St John's WoodSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from Maik was involved in a ramshackle importstreet brawl -export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement he would later maintain that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After he was facing a gruelling interview, she finds herself in man armed with a new position as a secretary in knife - and he killed a dingy backstreet shopGhurka.But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for Initially, he faced a highly secret branch charge of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as murder the Scorpionsman.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for Now he could be facing the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the first stirrings of lovewouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1521129886|title= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski They Had It Coming (TranslatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor= Block 46 Keith Redfern|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to appear at the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a Cartier event presenting some of her new creationsgood job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and they're both delighted. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must Joyce will be wrong; nothing would have kept more delighted about the baby when she gets past the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionmorning sickness. When a young woman's mutilated body Greg is discovered approached by an old friend whose brother-in a Swedish marina near Linnéa-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's holiday homeconcerned about his sister, Alexis' worst fears are confirmed. But LinnéaLucy, who's death struggling to make ends meet and her son is not unique; in factthriving. Lucy, he says, she is only the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders convinced that Gil would never have occurred killed himself - it simply wasn't in both London his nature. The police and Falkenberg. Up until now, the bodies coroner have all belonged to young boysaccepted that the death was suicide, so what has caused the killer but Stuart's prepared to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help pay Greg to find justice for her friend, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>out what happened on the night Gil died.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lee ChildB0CK3MYJ56|title= No Middle NameResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There is It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that high-flying job in the short storycity but it wasn't satisfying so he's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grassset himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? This is particularly trueOn the other hand, some say, and I have he has been known asked to concur, of the crime and thriller genreslook into something. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved Joyce and own up: I simply havenHelen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what't s been paying attentionwritten off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with Pam Hetherington - can''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite lattert understand what she was doing there -day, American-style, Robin Hood by the name or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg''Jack Reacher''s been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cath Staincliffe1838954481|title= The Silence Between BreathsMisper|author=Kate London|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary= IRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there'm always wary s no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of author endorsements, even those from people I rate as writers, but the ''harrowing jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on the front cover manslaughter of ''The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate the caseofficer. And so lives must go on. This For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is an extremely powerful bookfound on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= A P McGrath1448309743|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 for the sake of love and truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Noah Hawley|title=Before the FallCaro Ramsay

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept In the offer from village of Cronchie on the wife West coast of a media mogul for a short plane rideScotland, not realising it will shape the rest five members of his lifea wealthy family are found murdered. The private jet falls out of only item missing from the sky, making him a hero in home is the way he saved Devil Stone: myth says that if the only other survivorstone is removed from Otterburn House, the mogul's small son and heir JJdeath will follow. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, especially when he realises that for some he's not so much an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the hero as the murdererbody. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leonardo Padura1529077699|title=HereticsThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves

|summary=Daniel Kaminsky ''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it is a child émigré to Cuba in 1939, looking forward to being joined from Germany by his parents. They're on board Jem Rosco blew into the St Louis in Havana docks but local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a country month and then turned up, naked and dead, in a time rife with politics and corruptionsmall boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the ship is turned back without permitting any village of their passengers to disembarkGreystone, in Devon. Now, nearly 80 years later, Daniel's son wants to know how an auction house obtained Rosco had the status of a family heirloomnational treasure: a Rembrandt painting that renowned adventurer, round the Kaminskys had with them on the ill-fated shipworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers to something that may seem straightforward I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but they soon realise it will prove to as we'll find out, he could be anything butmore than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524782</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= David Gemmell1529427045|title= Rhyming RingsThe Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5|genre= Crime|summary= David Gemmell is ''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a well-known namegold rush. Until his death The criminal underworld has not been slow in 2006 he topped coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the UK author lists latest woman in fantasy and historical fiction…but some will suggest the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that this previously unpublished manuscript shows Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that he might have gone Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636607|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's a different direction entirelyscene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. He might have opted Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a life way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of crimethe few taxis available. Crime fiction Others squash onto the night bus that iswill only go as far as one of the outlying villages. IThe woman all regret the 'taxi problem'll , 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 back and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to thatbeg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473219922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Thomson1405957174|title=The Dog WalkerA Death at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=In January 1987 it was only joggers and dog walkers who went on to From the Thames towpath after dark. Estate agent Helen Honeysett left the riverside cottage she shared with her husband and never came home. A neighbour returned their dog who was found wanderingfirst page, but Helenwe know that Nadine Walsh's body was never discoveredparty will not end well. In 2016 Helen's husband, Adam, still wants to know what happened. He has an alibi, albeit The victim - a somewhat dubious one, but another neighbour was suspected. Steve Lawson couldn't stand the constant suspicion man - is dying when we first meet him and drowned himself in Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the Thames: over the years that came to be accepted as an admission of guilt and even one of his children is certain that ambulance he was responsibleso desperately needs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784972258</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malin Persson Giolito|title= Quicksand|rating= 5|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 I've read this year, and What wedon're only into April. For clarity from t know is who the outset, this has nothing man is or why Nadine prefers to do with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on here, but we are back in territory he would probably have been familiar withhim die. WeI're in d better give you a Scandinavian courtroom, Swedish to be precise – we're about to begin the trial of Maja Norberg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= C J Skuse|title= Sweetpea|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary=In many ways, Rhiannon Lewis lives an ordinary life. She works at a local paper, lives with her long term boyfriend, dotes on her dog and is part of a large group of friends. There are just a few unusual things about Rhiannon, like little more background so that she is obsessed with Slyvanian families... and she's in fact a serial killer. Sheyou can understand what's harmless though... as long as you stay off her listhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008216673</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)0008530025|title=The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1)Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter

|summary=We're It was in ruralDecember 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, rainyLuke Ryder, wintery Switzerland soon after in the Second World Wargarden of their West London home. A man has been found He had an injury on a remote mountain road. It would appear the back of his head which could have happened if he opened 'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him deadface had taken was obviously deliberate. Leading the investigation is Inspector BarlachTwenty years later, an elderly no one has been charged with his murder and it seems chronically ill policeman's now the subject of ''Infamous'', who has no fondness for newa true-fangled ideas crime show. A group of criminology, but he experts has employed Tschanz been brought together to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find review the evidence and to share it, and not rely on gut instinctstake the investigation further. Neither particularly want More to be out in all weathers sorting the crime, but the victim was certainly in the wrong place at the wrong timepoint, for he was a fellow policeman and nobody knows why he was there – or if they 're going to do they aren't sayingthis live on camera, episode by episode. What had he been up to, There's no dump of the whole box set - and which way no shortage of policing the case will get to the answers first?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Michael Ridpath0241996104|title= AmnesiaComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime Thrillers|summary= Alastair is in trouble. HeNancy's had a nasty knock on the head mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and now he can't remember anything about his lifeher step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. In an attempt to recover his memories We first meet Nancy outside the court, he is sent to convalesce in after Martin receives a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands in the company of his old friendlife sentence. The barrister tells her that she's niece, Clemence. During their stay, Clemence uncovers received a strange book which seems 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to tell live with what happened for the story rest of her grandmotherlife. Of course, it's murder years before. Now Alastair made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and Clemence must uncover the truth about who murdered Sophie as outside papers are making the snow grows ever nearer, as does a creeping malevolent ghost from Alastairmost of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch''s past who wants to make sure the past stays buried, even if that means burying Alastair along with itmight not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782397566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler1529413680|title= Bryant and May: Wild ChamberA Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= Bryant 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 May are back! Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. So It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the slow decline into old age, with a side helping man playing one of dementiathe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, isn't quite his doctor is there and the Reichenbach Falls: it did give Fowler man is whisked away in a cleaner and clearer way to have Arthur Bryant return to workhelicopter. A simple ''he hasn't been well local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's back nowa senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father'' and no more need be said about its friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523430</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate London1529196388|title=Death MessageThe Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=In October 1987, on the morning after the great storm, Tania Mills left home to visit Grant Cliveden was a hero: a friend 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 never seen againmurdered in plain sight at the Old Bailey. TwentyThere's just one man in the frame for his murder -seven years later DS Sarah Collins from the MetJimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's Homicide Command has to look into new information which might reveal what happened to murder. Knight was told that the fifteenbest barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-yearCameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-old girlCameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. ItKnight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all she has to do though Taylor- 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 Cameron's recommendations to deal with 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 outburstscontrary. Collins and Griffiths have history and antagonism between them: will they be able to work together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396160</amazonuk>