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[[Category:New Reviews|Crime]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= David StokesStuart Douglas|title= The Happy Ending|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= Harry Pigeon is 97 years old. He's a bit shakey on his pins, can't move far without his walking frame, has been known to have a fall or two – so makes sure he has his panic button with him – but still he's managing well enough at home. Mentally he's all there, even if he does have these conversations with his wife, who's been dead the last 6 years. There's a point when 'doing ok' stops being quite so ok, a point when there's clearly no purpose left. No-one comes, even the paramedics seem to have shunted you to the bottom of the list, Lowe and well, it's all becoming just a bit too undignified. To be honest, when he found the morphine Betty'd been stockLe Breton Mysteries -piling against Death at the day her own illness got too much for her but never used as it turned out, Harry was on the point of using it himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033264</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benjamin Myers|title=These Darkening DaysDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=Somewhere in During location filming for his brain Tony Garner knew that getting hold 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the knife was edge of a mistakereservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he liked knives and had quite enlists the help of a collection until they were all taken away after the accident which had left him, wellfellow actor, not quite as he ought John Le Breton to behelp him investigate matters further. The problem with this knife was that it was beside the woman who was lying in They travel across the ginnellcountry during their days off filming, one leg twisted under her rather strangely uncovering more possible murders and with blood coursing down her face, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. Tony thought about ringing But is there really a link between the police but dismissed the idea quickly. deaths? She was still alive - just - so an ambulance might have been a good idea, but Tony had an instinct for when trouble was going And will they manage to catch him, so he dropped the knife down a drain and disappeared.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191135602X</amazonuk>1803368209

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Meredith0008517061|title=Portrait of Death in a Murderer: A Christmas Crime StoryLonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|summary=Adrian Gray was not a particularly pleasant manFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, but that was no reason why he should meet has settled into his death rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the hands of one future of his own children life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as they celebrated Christmas at Kings Poplars moving in 1931. None together would mean a lot of the six children were fond of their father compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and several had cause relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to wish him dead. Richard was Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the eldest future she wants for herself and was married to Laura. her daughter? He was a politician and keen to advance himself - For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and to get a title other than putting the knighthood which he already had - but such endeavours cost money which he ''didn't'' have. He'd also been indiscreet with another woman who was attempting to blackmail him and was hoping that his father would advance some funds to get him out of future on the messback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712352457</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Grafton1786482126|title=Y is for YesterdayThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary= Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. My very first crime fiction book There was no skull. Was this a Kinsey Millhone storyritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and I found it so utterly captivating that it converted me from she is pregnant with his child as a crime avoider to a crime lover! result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Since that first storyHer condition will be obvious before long, I have been committed not least because Ruth is prone to the alphabet mysteries, so it I felt both excited and a little sad to be holding the penultimate story in the series in my hands!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447260201</amazonuk>sudden bouts of sickness.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Emily Winslow0008551324|title= Look For HerThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home It's unusual for anyone from school and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades the town of Lilling tried Hardie family to solve approach the mystery of Annalise's disappearance until, almost twenty years later, her body was discoveredpolice. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. AnnaliseBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body was badly decomposed of a missing person is buried and there who was lack of DNA availableresponsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the only trace on police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the body was found in her skirt remainder of his sentence and does not match anyone on recordto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The chances of finding her killer were extremely low new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the murder soon becomes a other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seens happening. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E V Harte0008405026|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was excited to have never found and the chance investigation ground to read the first crime novel from establisheda halt. Now, her mother, well-regarded author Daisy WaughHelena, writing under a pseudonymand her father are dead in their bed. But Initially, as it looks like a self-confessed chicklit fan, whostraightforward murder/suicide but there's never read a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I 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 like it..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.turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil White0571379877|title= From The ShadowsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm Edward Jevons is a bit oldworking-fashioned class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and therefore not a great fan of stories that can't keep their timeline straightStanza. IRobert'll go with s a prologue – even if ittheatre director. He's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at the beginning of a story – but switching between 'now' also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he'a fortnight ago' – just s drunkenly confided how he feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else failsto Robert. That, however, is my only little gripe about Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I s not like it or not, it does more or less workmost men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785760920</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angela MarsonsJo Callaghan|title=Dead Souls (D I Kim Stone)Leave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=It was When a man is found crucified on the top of a field triphill in Nuneaton, but DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to be honest a lot of the students didncase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It't really look all that interested in the excavation and Dr A really rather hoped that none of them would go into forensicss their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. There was more excitement But when the skull was discovered but at there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that point the students were quickly escorted from the scene and D I Kim Stone came on site draws a lot of unwanted attention to begin her investigationtheir AI Future Policing project. Unfortunately D I Tom Travis from Will they be able to solve the neighbouring force also arrived with the same intention: the burial site was right on the border between the two forces and no one was quite certain where one ended and case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the other began. Stone assumed that it would be her case and was shocked and bewildered when she found that it was to be run as , potentially, out of a joint investigation. She nearly refused: she and Travis had history.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786811618</amazonuk>139851120X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz1035021803|title=The Word is Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=An attractive, well-heeled woman enters It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a classically-minded funeral parlour in London, and makes plans request for help from her own funeralbeloved aunt, Carole. Within just a few hours, sheFreya's former mentor and Carole's had lunchclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, engaged with business affairs – is dead and been killed in her own homethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Could anyone have foreseen Arthur was the service reason why Freya had not been back to have been needed so quickly? That's the initial premise of this thrillervillage: Arthur, this most intriguing mysteryshe feels, and if you want to read it – which is something you really should do – with no surpriseslet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, you should she has not read felt able to be near the book's blurb, man or even pursue the authorial biography, and perhaps not even the followingprofession she loved. Just go After the split, she worked in blinda cafe, met and wait for married James (on the rebound from the surprises – that startlove of her life, as it happens, with chapter two…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780896840</amazonuk>who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Clare Donoghue1398524085|title= The Night StalkerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=DI Mike Lockyer Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and his preferred sidekick DS Jane Bennett her daughter, Etty. are back – all worried but this time - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not on home turf. Lewisham's finest are sent to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the country for this outing. Therebody of Greg's been a death down father, Duncan Ackerley, in Somersetthe river. It's not was an easy assumption for the sort of thing you'd expect the regional murder squad police to get involved in, it looks like a hit-make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and-run on a remote road in the Quantocks, probably just some drunk driving a big four-by-four who didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't even know hestand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there'd done its little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447284747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin Edwards (editor)1529900360|title= The Long Arm of the LawGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= When we think of the It hadn'golden aget been Lt Milo Sturgis' of crime fictions fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, we think 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 the brilliant amateur forever putting the official P.C. Plod to shamea psychologist only worked for a while. Miss MarpleFinally, Sherlock Holmesit was Robin, PoirotDelaware's partner, Father Brown and so onwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. I'll admit to being a fan of all of those, but they aren't She knew that the involvement was something that the whole storyman she loved needed. The other side next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the coin shows the official police doing their job heir to an Italian shoe empire and getting their she is married to an extremely rich manand it's not the Italian. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356878</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val McDermid178763681X|title=Insidious Intent: (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 10) Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=When we meet Kathryn McCormick we know that sheChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's got less than three weeks t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to livedo what he wanted. Had Kathryn known Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that she might have made different choices. Ihe've a suspicion that she might not have wasted time being d be at the weddingschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it was there didn't turn out that she met her killerway. He said his name was David The teaching - and he was charming, respectful, unwilling to rush anything as he was still getting over the death of problems - are all his wifeown. Kathryn was left with the feeling that The one thing he hadn't expected was still more than a little bit in love with Triciafor someone to turn up dead. They went on a couple of dates and then David took her to a cottage in Unfortunately, he was the Dales for person who discovered the weekend. By body and everyone knows that the end of police consider that person to be the weekend Kathryn would be dead in her burned-out carprime suspect.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408709325</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Chris Whitaker1529421284|title= All The Wicked GirlsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= In It was one of those flash downpours that the small town of Grace, fifteen-year-old Summer Ryan suddenly goes missingBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. A model student with exceptional musical talent and beloved by all that know her In a gully, a human skeleton came to the incident rocks surface and forensic testing proved the entire townbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. It is even more terrifying set against the backdrop of recent crimes; for over the course of the year He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, five young church-attending girls so it could have gone missing from all corners been a simple case of Briar Countymisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The kidnapper and murderer responsible for Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the disappearance suicide of these girls is nicknamed Bird by law enforcement, Holly Gilbert and has so far evaded captureto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Whilst he roams Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the streets, no one is safeMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785761528</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tim Weaver1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Am Missing: David Raker Missing PersonsWilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary=David Raker is an investigatorIn Oxford, specialising in missing persons casesthere are two D I Wilkins. Over the course Raymond Wilkins is of his workNigerian descent, he's seen plenty of unusual things, but he’s never encountered a case quite like this oneBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. A man D I Ryan Wilkins, Richard Kite, has approached him for helpson of Ryan and father of Ryan, but explains that his request is quite unusualnot. You see, Richard Kite isn He't trying to locate a missing persons not any of those things. He IS the missing person. Found unconscious at the mouth of Southampton Water 10 months previously's white, Richard is now suffering originated from dissociative amnesiaa trailer park, which means that he can't remember anything about his life. Hebarely educated (reading's not even sure that ''really'' his real name is Richard Kite. Richard is frustrated because he cannot move on with thing) and his life. Nobody seems to know who he is, despite news and press coverage wardrobe consists mainly of his case, shell suits and without a National Insurance number, he is basically trackies. They'off the grid,re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you' unable re being introduced to get a jobpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, pay tax or own a homeyou're not. This desperate and confused man needs Raker's help to discover The two men are just different sides of the truthsame policing coin. But Sometimes the truth can be a dangerous thingcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405917849</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynda La Plante1529431735|title=Good Friday (Tennison 3)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54

|summary=Jane TennisonIt's a fully-fledged detective now after her ten-week course at Hendon: sheFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins's back at Bow Street waiting for her first postingreturn all the more surprising. SheHe'd like been exiled on the Flying SquadCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, but saying that she's not got the experience, nor, it has ill and hasn't long to be said, the necessary physical attributes. This is 1976 and male chauvinism was rampantlive. It was also London just after the extensive IRA bombing campaign of 1974 and 75 and no one believes that it's going hard to be over feel any time soon. Passing through Covent Garden station one morning Jane was caught up sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the latest incident in which a bomb killed five people - and she's one boot of only two people who got a good look at the bomberstolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762818</amazonuk> Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ellis0861541774|title=The Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=In 1884 DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a wealthy young woman became infatuated short holiday in Singapore to meet up with the an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man who ran armed with a travelling puppet showknife - and he killed a Ghurka. We'll follow the story Initially, he faced a charge of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the biography of the reclusive novelist Wynn Stanilandman. It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than Now he has to and is unwilling to discuss the one thing which could be facing the public will want to know about: his wife's suicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous bookdeath penalty. Wilkinson is doing his best Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to drum up interest in the forthcoming book: he does talks help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at local libraries which are well attended and he was seemingly on his way to one of these talks when he disappearedall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Black1521129886|title= Murder in Saint-GermainThey Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith Redfern|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have to be honest a baby and say that though this novel may they're both delighted. Joyce will be seventeenth more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in series from the best-selling Cara Blacklaw appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sister, it Lucy, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detectivenot thriving. And so Lucy, if I'm honesthe says, I is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't sure what to expectin his nature. How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain The police and the coroner have accepted that the gusto wedeath was suicide, but Stuart've come s prepared to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late pay Greg to find out what happened on the party? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easilynight Gil died.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616957700</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=B0CK3MYJ56|title=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne Responsibilities (translatorGreg Mason mysteries)|titleauthor=Three Days and a LifeAnn Macarthur

|summary=Christmas week, 1999, It's the 1990s and Antoine hasnGreg Mason't got the best of situationss twenty-eight years old. Some of his friends He used to have parted company with him because of a high-flying job in the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time on. Hecity but it wasn't satisfying so he's built now set himself up as a treehouse all by himselfprivate investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he lovesyou might be thinking. Nice bloke, but shewhere's rejected it. the life experience that backs up this profession? And his best company, the dog from On the other house next doorhand, was injured in a hit and run, and shot he has been asked to be put out of its miserylook into something. In the process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly Joyce and adorable neighbourHelen are half-sisters, the dog's six-year-old owneror rather, and Antoinethey were until Helen was killed in what's swung some of the wood been written off as a tragic accident at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweepan unmanned level crossing. As the title suggestsJoyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there will be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/- or a lifetime how she could come to fall in front of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead train. Greg's been asked to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X</amazonuk>investigate.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McVeigh1838954481|title=Leopard at the DoorThe Misper|author=Kate London|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away at school in England and finds Ryan Kennedy killed a lot can change in 6 yearspolice officer: there's no doubt about that. Of course she realises her mother's death would alter things but she's not prepared for her father's liveHe was the fifteen-year-in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old room. Michael holding the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though gun and now a man with his own ideaspointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Meanwhile He pulled the unrest between trigger but due to the British rulers and vagaries of the local Mau Mau fighters is increasing and about to blow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241247616</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)|title= Can You Hear Me?|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= In 1978, in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen and troubled. His mundanely stable, loving and ordered life is rocked by jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder of a young boy and the disappearance manslaughter of a young woman, who vanishes into the woodsofficer. As Elia struggles to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and unpredictable father, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play hoping for a quieter life in these acts of senseless violence. Into this steps Anna, the mother of Elia's friend, countryside but when a woman bowed under the strain of life and haunted by missing teenager is found on her choices. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Eliaterritory she's certainty that something is desperately wrong in his home. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, to the mysteriously sensual drawn into a wider investigation - and sad Anna, Elia feels back into the ground start to shift under his feet, to feel the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge orbit of adolescence and the unavoidable pull of adulthoodRyan Kennedy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1448309743|title=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie The Devil Stone (translatorDCI Christine Caplan)|titleauthor=The King of FoolsCaro Ramsay

|summary=Having sort In the village of split up with his partner, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone Cronchie on the southern French West coastof Scotland, when he chances to meet five members of a married English woman, Marjoriewealthy family are found murdered. They meet in The only item missing from the home is the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next to each other, she gets in Devil Stone: myth says that if the wrong one by mistakestone is removed from Otterburn House, then leaves her beach bag behinddeath will follow. Lo and behold they find each other at the casinoThe only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, and that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the following day, body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when she arrives at his hotel to reclaim her baghe disappears, they meet heart to heart. Jean-Marie sees her DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even the arrival of his partner and make-up sex can convince 'shadow' him he is not in love with Marjorie. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John Bude1529077699|title= Death Makes A ProphetThe Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime ClassicIt's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' I had to check the first publication date Well yes, it is. Reading Jem Rosco blew into the first two pageslocal pub one evening in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month and then turned up, naked and dead, it could easily have been written in 1967a small boat, or '87anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, or even (possibly as in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a pastiche) in 2017renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. Given that BudeI ''s witty caper originally came nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out in 1947, it's slightly criminal that ithe could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn's taken this long to resurfacet exactly an open book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916</amazonuk> Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Booth1529427045|title=Dead The Girl in the Dark (Cooper and Fry)Eagle's Talons|author=Karin Smirnoff|rating=3.5

|summary=It's ten years since Reece Bower was accused 'Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the murder so-far-untapped natural resources of his wife, but the case never came to trial: Annette Bowerarea have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's body was never found and although a murder can be prosecuted mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without a body there trace. It was an added problem here. Annetteonly with reluctance that Salander became her niece's father said guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that heSvala is a remarkably gifted teenager who'd seen his daughter a couple s unaware of days after she'd apparently disappeared. Had Annette simply left the marriage that was part Salander played in difficulties or was something more sinister going on? Then, a decade later, Reece Bower disappears without traceher father's death. His new partner wants some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751567582</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Charles Harris1787636607|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassTrap|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating= 34.5

|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. ThereIt's plenty here a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to like, get home. Some are lucky and plenty not manage toget one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. But good structure For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and scramjet pace keep this one flying collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the final pagebus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stuart Neville1405957174|title=So Say A Death at the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)Party|author=Amy Stuart

|summary=Harry Garrick had been From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a successful businessman until the car accident which cost man - is dying when we first meet him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden Nadine consciously makes no effort to his wife for even call the most intimate functions, ambulance he so there was not a desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'lot'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what' s happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of surprise whenher stepfather, six months laterLuke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he seemed to have 'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken his own lifewas obviously deliberate. One sachet Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of morphine granules''Infamous'', mixed in a pot true-crime show. A group of yoghurt had given him a good night's sleepexperts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. Garrick appeared More to have crunched ten sachets of granulesthe point, if the empty packets were anything they're going to go do this live on camera, episode byepisode. It seemed obvious that the case should be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding There's no dump of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that the widow, Roberta Garrick, whole box set - and the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closeno shortage of cliffhangers. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784703036</amazonuk>It's compelling viewing.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)0241996104|title= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineComing to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small towntheir murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faith, in both God and justicesentence. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple manbarrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's tenuously ordered life and drags him not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the edge rest of the abyssher life. McCarthy is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother -searching questions about morality and the nature papers are making the most of existenceit. Into this quagmire steps Franck, a private detective with a shadowy agenda, a raging cocaine habit ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries 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''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Ellis1529413680|title=Merlin at War: A DCI Frank Merlin Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|summary=Whilst war One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is raging the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in Europe 1370 and France is occupied, thereBruno's something of a lull in Britain. Hitler needs the Luftwaffe for other duties and London is spared there to see the nightly blitz, but no one's under any illusions that it could start again at any timeshow with some friends. ThereIt's all been a certain relaxation in sexual relationships though and illegal abortions are on very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the rise and not all man playing one of them go as they shouldthe main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the script. A young woman Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is found dead whisked away in a London hotel room helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the result of a botched operation: she man who runs Frenchelon - the military has no identification stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and no one knows another, who the lives in California, is flying in with some of her father of the baby was, or who performed the operation's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0995566704</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529196388|title=The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=The Vinyl Detective is not really Grant Cliveden was a hero: a detectivepoliceman 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. He There's just a normal bloke one man in the frame for his murder - though that might depend on your definition of 'normal' Jimmy Knight - who lives with his girlfriend Nevada, two cats and a collection of vinyl it's not too long before Knight appears in a house court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that happens to be adjacent to the ''Abbey'', a posh rehab place notorious best barrister for the celebrities him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it treats. He doesn't solve crimes or trace missing peoples Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, even if he does search for rare recordsAdam Green, who eventually represent him. So when an odd couple turn up on his doorstep requesting his help in tracing a missing child of a 1960 Knight's female rock star whose own death was shrouded in now somewhat cultish mysterydetermined to plead not guilty, he says no. That is, until he is told that despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the job would also involve tracing a rare singlecontrary. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297697</amazonuk>