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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tim WeaverStuart Douglas|title=I Am Missing: David Raker Missing Persons|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigator, specialising in missing persons cases. Over the course of his work, he's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this one. A man, Richard Kite, has approached him for help, but explains that his request is quite unusual. You see, Richard Kite isn't trying to locate a missing person. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously, Richard is now suffering from dissociative amnesia, which means that he can't remember anything about his life. He's not even sure that his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news and press coverage of his case, and without a National Insurance number, he is basically 'off the grid,' unable to get a job, pay tax or own a home. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover the truth. But the truth can be a dangerous thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lynda La Plante|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)Dress Rehearsal

|summary=Jane TennisonDuring 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 fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: she's back at Bow Street waiting for her first postingreservoir. She'd like the Flying SquadThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but she's not got something about the experiencewhole thing bothers Lowe, norand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, it has John Le Breton to be said, the necessary physical attributes. This is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampanthelp him investigate matters further. It was also London just after They travel across the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and 75 and no one believes that it's going , seemingly, a link to be over any time soondeath during the Second World War. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up in But is there really a link between the latest incident in which a bomb killed five people - and she's one of only two deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people who got a good look at the bomber.lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis0008517061|title=The Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a travelling puppet showFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. We'll follow There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the story future of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the biography life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of the reclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to compromise: does Jake give more away than he has to up his off-grid and is unwilling relaxing life to discuss the one thing which the public will want move in with Livia or does Livia move to know Little Sky despite her reservations about: his wife's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous book. whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest For the moment they’re enjoying life in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended present and he was seemingly putting the future on his way to one of these talks when he disappearedthe back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1786482126|title= Murder in Saint-GermainThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth Builders were demolishing an old house in series from Norwich - the bestsite was going to hold seventy-selling Cara Blackfive 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, it is in fact my first outing Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the deft Parisienne detectiveDCI Harry Nelson. And so, if I It'm honests difficult as Ruth knows, I wasnbut Nelson doesn't sure what to expect. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author that she is pregnant with so well established his child as a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those result of us coming late to the party? one night they spent together some three months ago. After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easilyHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Three Days and a LifeNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasnIt't got s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the best of situationspolice. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of Neither side likes or has any respect for the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time onother. HeBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's built prepared to tell the police where the body of a treehouse all by himselfmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and decided it was solely to woo will be worth the girl next door that police doing what he loves, but she's rejected itwants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his best company, the dog from the other house next door, was injured in a hit and run, sentence and shot to be put out of its miseryget an early parole date. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouseNot much to ask, heis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's visited by his very friendly t think so and adorable neighbour, the dogshe's sixeven prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -year-old owner, make certain that DS Max Craigie and Antoineanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's swung some of the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweephappening. As the title suggests, there will be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh0008405026|title=Leopard at A Stranger in the DoorFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 It's sixteen years since nine-year -old Rachel Fullsmith returns home Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to Kenya after being away at school in England and finds a lot can change in 6 yearshalt. Of course she realises Now, her mother's death would alter things but she's not prepared for , Helena, and her father's live-are dead in 'companion' Sara nor Saratheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old roomsomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Michael the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is now a man with his own ideascomplex double murder. Meanwhile Kerrigan is convinced that the unrest between the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blowexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)0571379877|title= Can You Hear Me?The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti Edward Jevons is sixteen and troubled. His mundanely stable, loving and ordered life is rocked by the murder of a working-class young boy and the disappearance of a young womanman, who vanishes into the woods. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship obsessed with his increasingly erratic upper-class friends, Robert and unpredictable father, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts of senseless violenceStanza. Into this steps Anna, the mother of Elia Robert's friend, a woman bowed under the strain of life and haunted by her choicestheatre director. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia He's certainty that something is desperately wrong in his home. Drawnalso self-obsessed, seemingly inevitablydemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to the mysteriously sensual run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and sad Anna, Elia he's drunkenly confided how he feels the ground start to shift under his feet, Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to feel the wind whipping his face from stumble upon the cliff edge two of adolescence and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodthem kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)Jo Callaghan|title=The King of FoolsLeave No Trace

|summary=Having sort of split up with his partner, Jean-Marie When a man is on holiday alone found crucified on the southern French coasttop of a hill in Nuneaton, when he chances DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to meet a married English womanthe case alongside her sidekick, Marjoriethe AI detective Lock. They meet in the most unusual ways – It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with two identical cars parked next to each other, she gets in the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behindseveral cold cases. Lo and behold they find each other at the casinoBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the following day, when she arrives at his hotel a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to hearttheir AI Future Policing project. Jean-Marie sees her Will they be able to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even solve the arrival of his partner and make-up sex can convince him he is not case in love with Marjorie. But finding her again time, or will take him to Edinburgh – Kat find herself taken off the case and into no end , potentially, out of trouble…a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude1035021803|title= Death Makes A ProphetThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Crime Classics back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' I had s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to check say the first publication dateleast. Reading Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the first two pagesvillage: Arthur, she feels, it could easily have been written let her down badly. Even though they were in 1967business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or '87, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017pursue the profession she loved. Given that Bude's witty caper originally came out After the split, she worked in 1947a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, it's slightly criminal that it's taken this long to resurfacewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1398524085|title=Dead in the Dark (Cooper and Fry)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's ten years since Reece Bower was accused of the murder of his wifefiftieth 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 case never came to trial: Annette Bowerbody of Greg's body was never found and although a murder can be prosecuted without a body there father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an added problem here. Annette's father said easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd seen his daughter a couple of days after she'd apparently disappearedt stand the guilt. Had Annette simply left the marriage that was in difficulties or was something more sinister going The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on? Then, a decade later, Reece Bower disappears without trace. His new partner wants some answerswith their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris1529900360|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 34

|summary= A flawed It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediahe 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. There Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's plenty here 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 like, an extremely rich man and plenty it's not tothe Italian. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to which of them was the final page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville178763681X|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=Harry Garrick 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 been a successful businessman until the car accident which cost him way of getting both legs and left him bedridden men and beholden women to his wife for even the most intimate functions, so there was not a do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'lot'got the impression that he' of surprise whend be at the school to assist Paul, six months laterwho had a broken arm, he seemed to have taken but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own life. One sachet of morphine granules, mixed in a pot of yoghurt had given him a good nightThe one thing he hadn's sleept expected was for someone to turn up dead. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets of granulesUnfortunately, if he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the empty packets were anything police consider that person to go bybe the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4. 5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed obvious was one of those flash downpours that the case should British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be closed quickly: Lee Geary, who would dispute had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a finding known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of suicide? misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Even DCI Serena Flanagan Geary was just about convinced: it a townie, so what was just he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that the widow's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Roberta GarrickBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and the local clergymanfather of Ryan, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closeis not. He's not any of those things. Perhaps He's white, originated from a few loose ends needed tidying up before trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)1529431735|title= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating= 54|genre= Crime|summary=Paul McCarthy 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 man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in wanted drug smuggler for a small town, decade. The return has come about because he's had a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by letter from his faithex-wife, in both God saying that she's ill and justicehasn't long to live. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple man It's tenuously ordered life and drags him hard to the edge of the abyss. McCarthy feel any sympathy when Hopkins is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing abducted, stripped to his own soul-searching questions about morality underwear and sent to a watery grave in the nature boot of existencea stolen Ford Sierra. Into this quagmire steps Franck, Is it a private detective with warning from a shadowy agenda, Spanish gang or a raging cocaine habit and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries problem closer to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a wink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis0861541774|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin NovelNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Whilst war is raging in Europe DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and France is occupiedformer colleague, Danny Maik, there's something of has taken a lull short holiday in BritainSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and London is spared the nightly blitzhe killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but no one's under any illusions evidence came to light that suggested that it could start again at any timehe might have planned to murder the man. There's been a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on Now he could be facing the rise and not all of them go as they shoulddeath penalty. A young woman is found dead in a London hotel room Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as the result of any interference from another police force could provoke a botched operation: she has no identification diplomatic incident and no one knows who the father of the baby was, or who performed the operationwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1521129886|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really a detective. HeGreg Mason's just a normal bloke - though that might depend on your definition of 'normal' - who lives with beginning to get his girlfriend Nevada, two cats and a collection of vinyl in a house that happens to be adjacent confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It'Abbey'', s a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a posh rehab place notorious for the celebrities it treats. He doesnbaby and they't solve crimes or trace missing people, even if he does search for rare recordsre both delighted. So Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an odd couple turn up on old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his doorstep requesting his help in tracing a missing child of a 1960sister, Lucy, who's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mysterystruggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucy, he says no. That is, until he is told convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the job would also involve tracing a rare singledeath was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil died. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter RobinsonB0CK3MYJ56|title=Sleeping in the GroundResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|summary=It was 's the sort of display which would 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have been better a high-flying job in black and white and without the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a sound trackprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but what happened at where's the life experience that backs up this profession? On the Red Weddingother hand, as it would come he has been asked to be knownlook into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was noisy, brutal and fatal. A sniper on killed in what's been written off as a distant hillside began shooting tragic accident at the wedding party: three people, including the bride died immediatelyan unmanned level crossing. Another twoJoyce - and her parents, including the bridegroom would die soon afterwards. Terry Gilchrist saw the shooter disappearing over the hillside, but the armed response officers were unwilling to take his word for it when they finally arrived Oliver and it Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was a further threedoing there -quarters of an hour before they gave clearance for the paramedics to or how she could come to the scenefall in front of a train. It would be this delay which made the headlines before too longGreg's been asked to investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444786911</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)1838954481|title=Suspicion (Inspector Barlach 2)The Misper|author=Kate London|rating=34

|summary=Inspector Barlach is dyingRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. We did know that, more or less, from [[The Judge He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1) by Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)|pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the first book]] to feature him, trigger but it's confirmed here by us opening on him in a clinic bed, with a year left due to livethe vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. But his doctor is helping him in other ways – sustaining his policing career as much as his lifeAnd so lives must go on. When his doctor blanches at the sight of a magazine photograph featuring a Nazi camp doctor at work, a story slowly starts to emerge, one For DI Sarah Collins that may prove to be a wicked conspiracy to keep means leaving the Nazi alive capital and still practicing, under someone else's name. Barlach, clearly well suited to go under cover as someone needing to go under hoping for a quieter life in the knife, works up countryside but when a plan to check whether his suspicion missing teenager is correct. Whatfound on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the worst that could happen after all? – even were he to regret his decision, it would never be for long…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782273409</amazonuk>orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Donald E Westlake1448309743|title=Forever and a DeathThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=34

|summary=A lot In the village of time and effort goes into Cronchie on the average movieWest coast of Scotland, but this is at least double in the case five members of Bonda wealthy family are found murdered. Each one The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is part of a decade's long institution and must excelremoved from Otterburn House, death will follow. With this The only suspects are known Satanists but in mind there is a sea of discarded wannabe-Bond themesmany ways, wannabe-Bond stories and wannabe-Bond actors. For every successful that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'Garbagediscovered'' Bond theme, there are numerous other indie bands that never made the cutbody. Donald E Westlake was a successful thriller writer in his own right, The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but once when he jumped aboard the good ship Bond his work never cut itdisappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' him. The result was this adaptation of his failed Bond script, but did Barbara Broccoli have justification for passing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654233</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= L F Robertson1529077699|title= The Raging Storm (Two Lost BoysRivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 24.5|genre= Crime|summary=Janet Moodie is a seasoned death row appeals attorney. Overworked, lonely, and feeling like she''It's drunk her fill of desperation and sadnessall bloody peculiar, she takes on one final caseisn't it, determined it will be her last. Marion Sir?'Andy' Hardy  Well yes, it is sweet. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, politestayed for about a month and then turned up, good-naturednaked and dead, and in a little slowsmall boat, but according anchored in Scully Cove close to the statevillage of Greystone, he's also in Devon. Rosco had the status of a rapist and national treasure: a murderer. Moodie must untangle his aging case against renowned adventurer, round the clockworld sailor and all round ''celebrity''. She can I ''nearly't save his innocence, but maybe she 'said 'canall-round good egg'but as we' save ll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his lifebackground isn't exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785652788</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nora Roberts1529427045|title=The ObsessionGirl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff

|summary=Naomi Carson lives in New York but she hasn't always lived there'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 gold rush. Actually her name hasn't always The criminal underworld has not been Naomi Carsonslow in coming forward. NaomiSalander's life had to start again when, aged 11, she sneakily followed her father into niece's mother is the latest woman in the woods area to see if he have vanished without trace. It was hiding only with reluctance that Salander became her birthday present. That night she saw something no child… no person... should see. As an adult sheniece's now putting her life back together and even coping with the advances of Xander Keaton guardian but danger still lurks. The past will one day repeat itself and this time Naomi will find sheit quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the targetpart Salander played in her father's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349407789</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lesley Pearse1787636607|title= The Woman in the WoodTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5|genre= Crime|summary=Lesley Pearse compares her writing process to It's a scene replicated all too often in the art early hours of gardening: 'A seed the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a plot drops into my head, I plant it with a way to get home. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few chapterstaxis 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', spend a great deal particularly in the light of time thinking it through, and once 'the green shoots come through, I water it with care. Hopefully several months later something beautiful has grownmissing women'.' Certainly she carefully cultivates her characters For one young woman, meticulously researches the locations for final stop on the bus leaves her books and is an expert at creating a fast paced plot with heart in the mouth momentslong way short of her home. She delivers staggering surprises as her brave protagonists battle terrifying odds had intended to ring someone to come and draw on inner hidden strengths to triumph over adversity. Invariably collect her well-crafted novels, whether they be historical fiction, family sagas or crime stories are captivating best sellersbut her phone's dead. Consequently as an avid Lesley Pearse fan I The bus had driven off before she had high expectations for the chance to beg the bus driver to let her latest noveluse his. Whilst it delivered on some levels, it regrettably didn There't leave me s no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in disbelief at the denouementhigh-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405921056</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Walker1405957174|title=The Templars' Last Secret: A Bruno Courreges InvestigationDeath at the Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=The body of a woman was found beneath From the ruined Templar chateau of Commarquefirst page, but what had she been doing there? Shewe know that Nadine Walsh'd apparently been climbing the structure, but using some cheap and unsuitable ropes party will not end well. Sprayed on the wall in orange paint were the letter ''IFTI''. Had she been intending to write more The victim - a man - is dying when she fell, but if so, where was the paint - we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the rope? Her neck had been broken, but was this an accidental fall when doing something stupid, or had she been pushed? ambulance he so desperately needs. She carried no identification and her fingerprints werenWhat we don't known to know is who the French police man is or Interpolwhy Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784294659</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= C F Peterson0008530025|title= Errant Blood (Duncul Mysteries)|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= When Eamon Ansgar's father passes away, he makes the decision to return to his home Murder 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>}}{{newreviewFamily|author=Karin Fossum|title=HellfireCara Hunter

|summary=In July 2005 Inspector Konrad Sejer stood It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the door body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the caravan and surveyed the scenegarden of their West London home. The mother - sheHe had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd be in her thirties - and her four-year old son slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had both been brutally stabbedtaken was obviously deliberate. There was blood everywhere Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the only clue as to who had murdered them was subject of ''Infamous'', a bloody footprinttrue-crime show. But who would want A group of experts has been brought together to kill Bonnie Hayden review the evidence and her son Simon? You see, Bonnie is one of those people whom you feel is due some luckto take the investigation further. As a child she wanted More to be a doctorthe point, but when we go back they're going to December 2004 she was working as a home help do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and dealing with some no shortage of the most difficult invalids in the areacliffhangers. SimonIt's father had left them and they were living a hand-to-mouth existence with both of them hating the fact that Simon had to be left at nursery so that Bonnie could go to workcompelling viewing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784700347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Billingham0241996104|title=Love Like BloodComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry

|summary=DI Nicola TannerOne 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 lover, Susan, was brutally murdered as she entered there to see the hallway of their homeshow with some friends. SheIt'd s all been driving Nicola's car and it seemed obvious that this was a case of mistaken identity: Nicola was working on honour killings and was convinced that many very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the cases were contracted out to main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the same peoplescript. Was she getting too close? Tanner wants the killers and the go-betweensLuckily, but it's not as easy as it might be as his doctor is there's no obvious route to take: several faiths are involved so it's not just a case of tracking and the killers down through man is whisked away in a family's place of worshiphelicopter. After Susan's death Tanner is angry A local doctor (and wants revenge friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - then sheas he's frustrated when she's taken off a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the honour killings cases and put on compassionate leavemilitary has stepped in. She has a solution though: she calls on the services of D I Tom Thorne One daughter lives nearby and another, who - lives in policing terms - California, is everything that she isnflying in with some of her father'ts friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751566888</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hewson1529196388|title=Sleep Baby Sleep (Detective Pieter Voss)The Trial|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=Annie Schrijver is Grant 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 plain sight at the Old Bailey. There's just twentyone man in the frame for his murder -twoJimmy Knight -years old and is known as 'the flower girlit' s not too long before Knight appears in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower marketcourt, where she works on her fathercharged with Cliveden's stallmurder. It's almost impossible to believe Knight was told that shethe best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's missing as she's very personable Taylor-Cameron and always popular with the customershis pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. When sheKnight's found shedetermined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's barely alive though, tied to a stone angel in a graveyard and surrounded by a ring of fire. In her body there are traces of a drug which takes Detective Pieter Voss back four years recommendations to the Sleeping Beauty murders. He had his doubts at the time as to whether or not everyone involved had been caught: now it seems that his doubts have come back to haunt himcontrary.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447293436</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author= Jane Harper|title= The Dry|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= Sometimes a book takes a while Move on to get into. Sometimes it's quicker than that. If Harper hadn't grabbed me in the first paragraph, she certainly had half-way down the second page: ''So nothing reacted when deep inside the house, the baby started crying.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349142114</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Menczer|title= An Unlikely Agent|rating= 4|genre= [[Newest 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 on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for 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 and the first stirrings of love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973805</amazonuk>}}Reviews]]